Looking past the camp elements (and Taylor's always horrific acting) there's some truly funny and
even poignant moments.
Not exact matches
With the 3D walk itself being worth price of admission, more so in vertigo - inducing IMAX, and
poignant final
moments that especially resonated with the New York Film Fest crowd, Zemeckis has crafted a spectacle to be sure
even if the rest of the film will likely not stand the same test of time that the 2008 documentary has.
Smith is also a more seasoned director and editor, and
even manages to put in a few
poignant moments of drama within the framework of this otherwise ribald comedy.
The
evening's most
poignant moment came his reminiscing about Anthony Minghella while working on Truly, Madly Deeply.
Annette Benning and Billy Crudrup are so naturalistic, making both the comedic
moments — of which there are many — and the more
poignant beats
even more palpable.
Even if the plotting of the relationships never quite deviates from the cliché, the actors still sell their characters and situations, whether it be for laughs or a
moment of
poignant reflection, and the end result is a movie that delivers just enough choice, novel situations and funny
moments to get a solid recommendation.
In one of the most
poignant and powerful
moments in the book, one of the interrogators remembers the way in which his father explained life in North Korea: «
Even if we walked this path side by side, he said, we must act alone on the outside, while on the inside, we would be holding hands.»
The tone is, admittedly, all over the place,
poignant one
moment, puerile the next, and the size of the cast also means that no character thread is properly developed, but
even the likes of BioWare or CD Projekt could take lessons from the range and dexterity of this game's writing.
The album includes wild and reckless
moments resembling demonic deliverances,
poignant songwriting, and
even tender ballads, seemingly abandoning genre altogether.
The
evening closed with
poignant moments, one involving the words of Alex Schachter, one of the students who died.