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The plot of the film is not very different from the Universal classics: mad scientist, longed to resurrect the dead, comic character much alike Abbott and Costello, beauty who of course is taken by the «monster» (which is the Wolf Man), the climax with a burning building, while the battle of protagonists with a monster is going on and, of course, a happy ending.
Still, this was better than the last ten minutes of the film, which I spent cursing the filmmakers for shoving a stupid cotton candy, puppy dogs and Christmas happy ending down my throat which was so unconvincing that it was almost offensive.
Writer - director Michael Bregman (son of Martin, who produced both films) keeps things moving briskly on the way to an improbably happy ending.
The film's infinitely more interesting questions do not have to do with John's expedition to emotional health, but its occasional observations regarding gendered expectations and desires, particularly within the confines of middle class «happy endings.»
For some reason, the film, directed by Josh Crook, has a schmaltzy happy ending that's out of step with the rest of the story.
On its way to a climax that ends every plot strand on an unrealistically upbeat and pat note, Happy Tears loses sight of what made the film so engrossing in the first place.
The only thing I disliked was the lack of closure at the end, but it was enough to keep me happy, I just wanted a bit more, even five minutes would've made more sense, but overall, the film was amazing, a must see... Soo under rated.
The roll call of perversions and adolescent sex gags are more creepy than kooky and the sudden shift to triumphant romantic sincerity at the climax rings as false as this film's sappy (sorry, happy) ending.
Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings.
(It's interesting to note — perhaps in the desire not to mar the film's triumphant happy ending — that the filmmakers omit any mention in the written epilogue of his eventual beheading by Elizabeth's successor, King James.)
That's the story — and the promise — embedded in the title of this, the second film from Angelina Jolie as director, and there's nothing in its near 2 1/2 hour running time that allows for the idea that happy endings are impossible and redemption is never far off.
they pair discussed the pleasures and perils of making a mid-budget film, why Jason Bateman deserves a two - minute Oscar (tm), and a new way of thinking of a happy ending.
The happy ending bears no resemblance to the»70s film, in which we see Matthew finally succumb and publicly uncover one of the last surviving humans.
As one of the film's subjects points out, there is no happy ending to all this, even when a resolution of some sort appears to occur.
The final few minutes of the film are an unconvincing wish fulfillment of a happy ending, almost cynically devised given that all these years later, Gordon hasn't changed.
What is fascinating, however, is that Eternal Sunshine's happy ending sits rather uncomfortably at the conclusion of a film that demolishes the thematic core of the genre itself: the idea that these two lovers are made for each other and that they will, as a result, live happily ever after.
The movie doesn't give us a happy ending (as with studio films) or tragic ending (as with indies), but balances on that razor - thin line of honesty and understanding; of things that aren't said and things that don't need to be said.
One thing you should know about the Reader's year - end film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 20end film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 20End) won't be considered until 2018.
A bit of a romance brews slowly between them, but it comes off as artificial, merely contrived as the film draws to the conclusion in the hopes of having happier endings for both of them.
«Happy End» talks back to almost all of 75 - year - old Haneke's previous films, so much so that it feels like a career epilogue.
Steven Soderbergh) A coming out party in 2002 for Clooney as not only director but also actor, Steven Soderbergh's Solaris is a film of substance and a palpable sadness, shirking easy answers (like so many films this year, its ending has been misunderstood as happy) while posing existential questions with a solemn poetry.
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The cover of their The Happy Ending blu - ray is embarrassing — it's a fraction of the film's original movie poster blown up and set off center with the title written in thin blue lettering that's nearly indecipherable.
But it is the film's reconciliation of sympathy for Mary Spencer and fury towards American bourgeois sensibilities that make The Happy Ending so immediate, so invigorating to watch.
Except that the final scene is of her dancing to the eponymous track by Umberto Tozzi and, in itself, provided me with one of my very favorite film moments from 2013 — a perfectly uplifting, joyous ending to a movie that manages to be optimistic without being pat, funny without being scornful and happy without being slight.
Also, I was pleased to see the film show a bit of gumption by avoiding an entirely happy, all's - well - that - ends - well conclusion, but these upsides are not nearly enough to sweeten what is otherwise an inherently flawed film.
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Body count aside, «Hostiles» also features a happy ending, albeit one whose politics are the most problematic of any film this year.
Therefore, when his attention turns on the heroes of the piece, we instantly get scared and knowing the unpredictable nature of this kind of film, we doubt that there will be a happy ending.
Happy End works best as a sort of Haneke Greatest Hits package, recycling and updating multiple themes and concerns from his previous films, in a way that seems deliberately designed to play to his fans.
While the «Dheepan» win surprised many here in Cannes — the film devolves into revenge killings capped by a happy ending — clearly Audiard's brand of straightforward, well - tooled craftsmanship appealed to the Coens and their fellow jurors.
A film that appeals to the pessimist in us, Irréversible may make you think of Memento, but where Memento was about destiny, Irréversible is cynicially hopeful (if there is such a thing), illustrating the human impulse to look to the past for happy endings — Bogey's bogus reassurance that «we'll always have Paris.»
The happy ending most have accused the picture of is actually much in line with the ambiguous open - endings of Kurosawa's best horror films.
While at the Toronto International Film Festival for the North American premiere of Happy End, which opens this week in New York, Haneke sat down with me to talk about his early experiences falling in love with cinema and the films that have shaped his singular aesthetic.
Vanessa Redgrave's special documentary presentation «Sea Sorrow,» and competition films «Jupiter's Moon,» and «Happy End» are joined by the first of today's two competition premieres, «In the Fade» by German director Fatih Akin, starring Diane Kruger.
Unlike many Hollywood films about teachers and students, Monsieur Lazhar resists a happy ending, instead emphasizing the real world consequences of issues like immigration, bureaucracy and death.
Richard Curtis» Love Actually, which strikes me as the British counterpart to this film, played out as an ongoing series of happy endings, the kind every romantic comedy eventually provides.
One film that is sure to draw a lot of attention this year is the most recent film from Michael Haneke, «Happy End.»
Other guests included actors Louis Hofmann, who appeared in Oscar - nominated «Land of Mine,» Stefan Konarske («The Young Karl Marx»), Veronica Ferres, and Franz Rogowski, who appears in «Happy End» and previously starred in hit film «Victoria.»
Way back in January, plenty of laughs and joy arrived in the form of Ass Backwards, a wacky comedy from writers Casey Wilson («Happy Endings») and June Diane Raphael («Burning Love»), who also star in the film as a ditzy, clueless duo reminiscent of Dumb & Dumber and Romy & Michele's High School Reunion.
Far from the dark ambiguity of High Art, Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon is actually about happy endings and reunifications of familial structures — it's not that I didn't enjoy the film, it's that by the end of it, I didn't respect it so much.
Some coming - of - age films may feature happy endings, but Brian De Palma's film depicts a bloody world of shame and unwanted power
Copying the model of many of his previous vehicles with Seth Rogen — who has the supporting role of a baffled script supervisor — Franco plays up the odd - couple bromance between Wiseau and Sestero, which gives him the like - hate - love trajectory an audience can find reassuring, and equips the film with a ready - made happy ending.
Happy Death Day came really close to having a very dark ending, in spite of the film being fairly lighthearted for a horror movie.
Perhaps learning from the excesses of Happy Feet, the creative minds behind this film make every effort to keep the action and tone light and frothy, even when dealing with such serious issues as bee cruelty and the potential end of human civilization without the important floral pollination process that bees provide.
THANKS AGAIN TO OUR GUEST MELANIE LYNSKEY Her new film Happy Christmas (co-starring Anna Kendrick, Joe Swanberg, and Lena Dunham) is currently available OnDemand and iTunes and opens in limited theatrical release at the end of July.
And unlike films typical to the genre of animation (especially those with princesses), The Tale of the Princess Kaguya doesn't tie everything up in a neat happy bow for us at the end.
A film more sure of itself would have dispatched this impediment to happiness with quick dispatch, but the makers of Hitch - a film that overstays its welcome by a good half - hour - seem to be the only filmmakers in Hollywood to not know how to put together a fast happy ending, preferring instead to pile on the false climaxes and unnecessary plot wrinkles.
But by the end of writer - director Ruidger Suchsland's film, opening Friday for a week at the Gene Siskel Film Center, we know all too well what the happy death syndrome means.