Year: 2005

Dazed and Confused

Watched “Dazed and Confused” on DVD. I am a bit confused to the point of the film. It just shows a bunch (and I mean a bunch) of students on their last day of high school or something like that. They are just driving around, talking non-sense, smoke pot, drink beer and kiss. The movie starts nowhere and it ends nowhere. Maybe it was done as a historical reference for generations to come, but I doubt the accuracy of it (everyone were driving cars that I am far from affording having a full-time job in a good company).

The film started to get boring after about the second minute. And it never got any better. So, I had to find something to entertain myself. Luckily the film provided something. There were plenty of people and all of them looked unrecognizably young, so I went for a quest of recognizing them. First came Milla Jovovich and Matthew McConaughey. Than Ben Affleck. Than Adam Goldberg and Anthony Rapp. There a few others that I recognized the faces, but couldn’t remember where they played.

Soundtrack, with all the classic rock stars, such as Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath, also helped the time to pass by.

Other than that, the movie provides for a little entertainment and carries no point what-so-ever. 4 out of 10.

Basic

Just watched “Basic” on DVD. This movie anything, but basic. I think that I’ll have to watch it like another five times to get all facts together and understand the thing completely. Or maybe just once will do with some sleep hours beforehand.

Remember me recently complaining about more than half of the films that I watch having a simple story? Well, this film is surely an exception from that. Storyline changes several times during the course of the film. And just when I started to think that it’s getting pretty close to the end and that there were plenty of story changes already, and that this is the final one – ***BOOM*** – and it changed again. And repeat. 3 times. All of these changes are further confused by a pretty fast pace of the movie and a short duration (just one and a half hours for all of them).

There were many familiar actors here, but nothing particularly remarkable about the acting. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Connie Nielsen and others all did a good job, but I don’t see any awards rushing this direction.

Overall a good film with a good bit of entertainment. It could use some action and light over the jungle scenes, but these are pretty standard complains about any “U.S. Marine” movie.

4 out of 5.