Review of Human Nature (2001) by Walter M — 05 Mar 2005

[b][size=2][size=6][color=white]Human Nature[/color][/size].

[/b]When Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette), a nature writer with excessive body hair, meets Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins), an obessvie/compulsive scientist attemption to teach mice table manners, the two begin an unlikely romance. On a hiking trip, the new couple encounters a feral young man (Rhys Ifans) living in the woods and decides to bring him back to the city. Name Puff by Nathan's sexy French assistant, Gabrielle (Miranda Otto), the untamed lad slowly learns about language, culture, and civilization under Nathan's skewed guidance. Meanwhile, Nathan begins to fall for Bagrielle, and the libidos of all parties involved begin to rage, leading to drastic measures.

Charlie Kaufman writes another incredible unique film here, not as good as his others but still amazing. You just got to wonder what goes on in this genuis writers head when he thinks up these movies. If people had to pick one movie by Kaufman that was his worst, this would be it, I doubt alot of people would like this one, but I still found it great. Tim Robbins gives a great performance, a guy I doubted his acting ability until I saw him in [b]Mystic River [/b]. Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans and Miranda Otto also give some good performances. I would recommend watching Charlie Kaufmans other movies before watching this one, for some this movie could steer them away from watching his other amazing works. Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Being John Malkovich and Human nature is probably the best order to watch his movies I think. Or 'Being John Malkovich' first. Anyways GO WATCH KAUFMANS MOVIES NOW!

[b][size=6][color=white]Be Cool[/color][/size].

[/b]John Travolta is back as Chili Palmer in [b][color=white]Be Cool[/color], [/b]a sequel to the comedy smash "Get Shorty". This time, Chilli becomes a different kind of "hit" man - he abandons the movie industry to bring his wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics to the music business. When a friend is offed while they're at lunch, Chili takes the oppurtunity to visit the guy's wife Edie (Uma Thurman), and pitch himself as her new business partner at an independent record label. With a promising young pop-star-in-training as her protege (Christina Millian), Chili has to juggle her faux-urban manager (Vince Vaughn), his gay wanabe-actor bodyguard (The Rock), Russian mobsters, and an eloquent gangsta music producer (Cedric the Entertainer) to save the label and land a hit -- and keep from getting popped himself.

I went to see [b][color=white]Be Cool[/color][/b] without having seen [color=white][b]Get Shorty[/b],[/color] but I still don't think that would have helped the enjoyment out of this movie. From what I saw you don't have to see the orginal to understand the sequel, because I understood it fine. It just well, wasn't that great as it could have been. The actors in this movie don't help the movie out much, Vince Vaughn and The Rock help the movie to be funny, but it wasn't enough. Cedric the Entertainer had a few comedic moments, John Travolta was a good actor in the movie but that doesn't nessicarily make the movie good, Uma Thurman was great as well. What killed the movie is the story, the story is just stupid and sucks. I'm think I will enjoy [b][color=white]Get Shorty[/color][/b] alot more than this based on the reviews I've seen. I have a feeling that this movie is to [b][color=white]Get Shorty[/color][/b] as [b][color=white]The Whole Ten Yards[/color] [/b]is to [b][color=white]The Whole Nine Yards[/color][/b], crap. I would definately not recommend this movie, if you have to see it because of The Rock or any other actor in this movie, wait until the DVD.

[b][size=6][color=white]Requiem For A Dream[/color][/size].

[/b]Darren Aronofsky's frenetic, visionary, unique and disturbing style lies the perfect setting for this story of four people whose intertwined lives are filled with eternally hopeful despair. Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) and Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly) are lovers in Brooklyn with dreams of setting up a small business and spending the rest of their lives in love -- their visions of the American dream. The two are also desperate heroin addicts, a compulsion that darkens their lives and leads harry to repeatedly pawn his mother's television. His mother, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), is addicted to television, which is why she keeps replacing the stolen set. One day she receives a call from her favorite show, the surreal Tappy Tibbons Show, and learns that she has been slected to appear on an upcoming broadcast. When she can't fir into her best red dress, her doctor prescribes her to diet pills (uppers), to which she swiftly and painfully becomes addicted. Harry's cohort, an intelligent hustler named Tyrone (Marlon Wayans), completes the foursome.

Just by watching this movie I have already falling in love with Darren Aronofsky, his style of direction was just extremely different and great. I've gotten to the point where I'm sick of all the new Hollywood movies that come out that are all basically rehashes of older films of the same genre. I've started watching movies by the directors and writers that have unique styles in their scripts and the way they use the camera to portray things. [b][color=white]Requiem For A Dream[/color] [/b]is honestly one of the best movies I've ever seen, its very depressing and well pretty screwed up. Certain people I wouldn't recommend watching this to, I think everyone should see it honestly, but some people just couldn't handle what it covers and how it covers the topics. It definately would make you think twice about doing heroin or any of the major drugs like that. Jennifer Connely I really like her as an actor, and I'm going to look into some of her other movies, mainly I want to see [b][color=white]House of Sand and Fog.[/color][/b] Jared Leto is a great actor as well, he reminds me alot of Jake Gyllenhaal mainly just from [b][color=white]Donnie Darko.[/color][/b] Ellen Burstyn really gave a great performance as well, just being able to act out the situations that she was in, in the movie. Marlon Wayans who I've never been a fan of, just mainly because of the type movies hes done, for example [b][color=white]White Chicks,[/color][/b] but he really shows in this movie that he can be a good actor and well play in some great movies. This movie is really stunning, and wow its just amazing. I highly recommend watching this movie, but just beware of what you're about to watch when you do see it.

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