transmet451 Reviews

The Plague (1992)

loved the book, and actually liked the movie.

[8/10 · 10 June 2001]

People seem awfully hard on this movie, and I don't quite understand why.

It must suffer in comparison with the book. Granted no filmmaker could possibly match Camus brilliance, but this is a pretty solid movie. One thing that disappointed me was the descision to remove the story from the time period. The time setting is integral to the allegory. All in all, though, a good reconstruction.

American Beauty (1999)

Fight Club Light

[2/10 · 7 June 2001]

this movie was the biggest waste of time I have ever experienced. I want to track down sam mendes and alan ball down so I can demand those two hours of my life back. I appreciated the issues it raised by the film such as the loss of identity, the emasculation of men by society, and the hollowness of materialism, but those issues were raised and handled much better by Fight Club. Fight Club had two things that American Beauty just didnt 1) a more definite message (namelessness, materialism, emasculation = discontent -> violent antisocial behavior.) 2) Edge. As for the idea that beauty canbe found in anything, the film would have been more aptly named American