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- First reviewDecember 29, 2009
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Delightful Romantic, Comedic "Thriller-Lite"
PostedJanuary 22, 2011
DailyRushes
from New Jersey
We wouldn't have guessed from the trailer or critics' reviews how much we enjoyed "The Tourist." It reminded us of Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly...urbane, slyly witty, and adultly romantic. Its plot was well-crafted to keep you guessing what would happen next...and we were surprised by its final twist. Jolie and Depp knew just how to carry the film. (And in talking about it afterwards, we marveled again at how good an actor Depp is.) Wonderful actors in the secondary roles. And the third star is Venice...oh my! This is the kind of movie where how it's done is what matters, and this was done with a sure touch and high style.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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What Movies Do Best
PostedDecember 29, 2009
DailyRushes
from New Jersey
Think of the astonishment of those who saw Edison's movies of the Paris Exposition of 1900...the crowds on moving sidewalks and the illuminated Eiffel Tower. Or imagine being transported, circa 1902, to imagined planetary kingdoms in the movies of Georges Melies.
Well, Jim Cameron's "Avatar" comes straight from that tradition...developing new technologies to create new experiences of adventure, beauty and imagination...and, fundamentally, new ways to allow us to move through space.
In "Avatar," the 3D and the CGI enable Cameron to create a new world...INTO which we travel...an Edenic world fully conceived, full of wonder, and about which we come to care.
Georges Melies would have approved.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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