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08 Cairo International Film Festival :: DAY 3 & 4 - Report

DAY 3

Shoot on Sight has everything you need for a bad drama/thriller. Predictable, cliche, sloppy, bland. I hate it when someone tries to pretend that he understands the situation when he actually has no clue about it at all. The bland acting only made things worse. The only good thing is the cuteness of that guy. But he still barely made the film bearable. The more I think of it, the more I hate it. Yuck! D+

DAY 4

The problem I always had with 'movie festival' is the schedule. My own schedule. Especially with CIFF, where almost every film is those you never heard of. And you couldn't go through and miss nothing. So, it's a very big deal to make sure that what to be decidedly missed is not something you shouldn't.

My choice of the day for today was 'Battle in Seattle'. I was going to skip it. In fact, I thought I was going to 'Après lui'. But it was when I arrived at the box office that I found out it has been some change.

And frankly, what made me 'errr' with the decision to watch this film is the name of Stuart Townsend. Battle in Seattle is his first directorial work. And the reviews have been mixed at best.

Fortunately, 'Battle in Seattle' is worthwhile. The film was made with much of passion. And that helped the film a lot. And I have to say, Townsend's skill in directing or his visionary in film-making is, while hardly original, quite a surprise. Filming in a docudrama style, while failed to achieve the high note of being either, it was pretty powerful. With the strong casts all around, 'Battle in Seattle' is gripping and through-out interesting. B+

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โดย: McMurphy

วันที่: 23 พฤศจิกายน 2551 เวลา:11:52:26 น.

Glad to hear it's good. Anyway, I don't really expect the originality from his first directorial effort (Ben's GBG must be really tough to follow, wasn't it?). But what I expect is his approach for the subject, especially the one that dealt with controversial situation like this.

So I'm quite satisfied with the result (that entirely based on your review haha+). Maybe I'll find an opportunity to check it out for myself.

โดย: BloodyMonday

วันที่: 23 พฤศจิกายน 2551 เวลา:17:15:47 น.

กรี๊ดๆๆ
อยากดู Battle in Seattle ง่าาาา Y Y

เดี๋ยวตามมาอ่านอีก 6 วันที่เหลือ

โดย: nanoguy IP: 125.24.139.160 วันที่: 23 พฤศจิกายน 2551 เวลา:17:24:21 น.

แวะไปอ่านบล็อกที่แล้ว
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Battle in Seattle ก็เคยเล็งๆ ไว้เหมือนกัน

โดย: แค่เพียงรู้สึกสุขใจ

วันที่: 23 พฤศจิกายน 2551 เวลา:23:05:13 น.