There’s nothing wrong with unlikeable characters (see “Uncut Gems”), but those unlikeable characters have to be compelling enough that I want to follow them to their journey’s end.
#Jennifer lopez u turn 1997 movie#
Oliver Stone’s town is populated with people that behave oddly, but their personalities don’t hint at a bigger metaphorical picture, they just confuse the storyline, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.Īnother problem I had with this movie was that Penn’s character did nothing to make me care about him. You think the Log Lady is just there just to be weird? No, she represents something, and though you might not fully comprehend what, you get the general sense that she knows something about the trees and the owls who are not what they seem. The thing is, when Lynch approaches weirdness, there’s always a reason for it. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make any sense or further themes.” This movie thrives on weirdness as I mentioned above, the town where Penn is stranded feels akin to Twin Peaks, where the characters are bizarre and what they do is even more so. I think Stone is fine (at best), but his style of filmmaking when it comes to approaching the weird things in life seems to be, “Let’s make this as weird as possible. But there are a lot of other things that drove me bonkers- Jennifer Lopez’s (“The Cell”) acting the action scenes (wherein the camera reeled about like a drunk, refusing to stay still long enough for me to see what was really going on) the sexualizing of incest and some of the odd stylistic choices (occasional black and white shots for no apparent reason random grain added to the film in certain parts music-video style editing) and the fact that Sean Penn ( “The Professor and the Madman”) stars one of the sleaziest and most unlikeable protagonists I’ve seen him play (and he’s played a lot of sleazeballs).Īs a whole, I think I would have enjoyed this film more if it weren’t under the direction of Oliver Stone. There are a lot of things I liked about this movie- the story in general the weird, almost ‘Twin Peaks’ feel of the town and some of the characters the frenetic feeling of some sequences most of the acting.
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I watched this film on a recommendation I didn’t know anything about it going in.
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I’ve never really been a huge fan of Oliver Stone, but there are a few films I can tolerate (“Platoon” is good “Born on the Fourth of July” is decent but it feels really long I actually really enjoy “Natural Born Killers”, but I don’t think it’s a great film). Note: As I sit down to write this review, I’m not sure if I’ll give it a 2.5/5 or a 3/5 it teetered on the edge of decent and bad for so much of it’s runtime that I honestly don’t know what to say about it, so, we’ll see if I’ve decided by the end of this review (writing my thoughts out usually helps to solidify how I feel).