Review of Paparazzi (2004) by Ryan M — 19 Jan 2005

Watched a few movies, rented a few, downloaded a few and bought a boxset all in two days.

I'll start with what I rented and downloaded:

I rented [b]Magnolia[/b], [b]Pi[/b], and [b]Paparazzi.

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I downloaded [b]Requiem for a Dream[/b], [b]Battle Royale[/b], [b]Rushmore[/b], and [b]Napoleon Dynomite.[/b].

Now before any of the DVD downloading activites eat me alive, I should state that the only reason I downloaded the first three is you abosolutly can not rent them anywhere you go here, and [b]Napoleon Dynomite [/b]was a case of watching most of it in school and not finishing it. I don't want to rent it just to see the end though.

Anyways, here are my ratings for what I saw so far:

[b].

Requiem for a Dream[/b].

I often heard this was just a 'style over substance' movie, but I actually found it to be more of a 'great style AND substance' movie. It has really good camara work in addition to a great script, charecters and acting.

[b]8/10[/b].

[b]Battle Royale.

[/b]I didn't find it to be an almighty god of films which we should bow down to or anything ::looks around to make sure number8 hasn't come to kill him::, but I still thought it was cool. There are a few parts I didn't really understand, and there are some other issues but it wasn't horrible.

[b]5/10.

Paparazzi.

[/b]I was not the one who rented so this is not my fault. It's so bad it's almost funny.

[b]2/10 [/b](and that is being nice).

I also picked up [b]The Godfather Collection[/b] today.