Seth Carus

Brings back some Less Than Zero themes and sensations. The Great Gatsby and other works of art that invite the observer into the seduction of ego and excess. These themes have found a great modernized format in this movie and it rings out beautifully. Indulged and ashamed of its guilty pleasure...

Its amazing to me that people don't see the value that this show has in actually examining the critical mass of crime and incarceration in our modern age. There has been a lot of very unproductive and emotional arguments used to try to dismantle the prison industrial complex but there hasn't been a willingness to actually discuss the reality of crime and punishment since Focault last published a book on it. Critics hate this because it tells the truth. There are monsters out there and our urge to reason and apply compassion will only make us better prey for the predators out there... Its not inhumane to deal harshly with those who sacrifice their humanity and kill and rape and never build anything of value with the length of the blessing of their life..

This is one of the all time world wide best films ever made and released. Outside of the foreign film category and having already become old enough to be considered obsolete and aged beyond relevance to the current and future motion picture picture culture. this film still stands solid on it's own merits and provides a phenomenal example of a truly masterful execution of the amazing union of the foundation of an amazing script, the delivery of the experience with incredible actors at their best and inspired, photography that is innovative as well as tenderly accomplished. The story is one of the most compelling blend of Shakespearean tragic drama and the Chinese unique personality when telling this kind of story. The Chinese movie genre has often misunderstood their audience and produced movies that cannot do what this movie does. It's a secret artform which created C.T.H.D. and it was my honor to have ever seen this on the screen the day it was released in United States theaters...

Finally, the studios stepped back from the ridiculously grotesque caricature of the Laura Croft character that they used in both prior attempts to translate Tomb Raider onto the silver screen with Angelina Jolie rounding off the weird, over sexualized and unbelievable performance of this oft misunderstood and misrepresented character. Laura would be such an incredible lead to the franchise (as intended and as should be) if the creators would just give her a chance. By now Laura Croft should have easily moved into the spot Indiana Jones has left unoccupied for a long time. The only problem is that the movies have been driven by this schizophrenia of personalities and archetypes which has prevented the whole phenomenon that she began in her video game.debut so many years ago. Back before all the producers and the lifestyle designers got involved and pulled her this way and that, from scholar to stripper and from adventurer to part time visitor to some weird pale imitation of Harry Potter themed silliness. It's a shame. At the start of it all... she was meant for really amazing things. At least this film isn't totally offensive and continuing down that truly bad path as immortalized by her first appearance in motion pictures. I hope she gets one last shot at being allowed to have her story told truthfully some day...

Definitely the best film reproduction of the classic video game series. I am unsure if it is a case of the film's origin stemming from a source material that was flimsy and lacking any real story or substance which wasn't a simply a crude mechanism to support the trite conceit of the myth and the circumstance. There was no original fiction which was crafted to be the context which fused the gameplay and the story into a single supporting context for every element in the game. The story provides a sort of ruling body for every aspect of the game and is the logic by which everything is either rejected and unused or approved of and assimilated into the cohesive end product which it becomes. A million and more units of that end product is produced and fills the shelves from coast to coast and internationally. That is the ideal role of the story and the marriage of game function and the form defined by the story and the game.narritive script. Mortal.Kombat never produced anything like this.