Zodiac Blue Ray
Added 3/17/2010
I love this movie and the extras are great. I had the dvd with no extras and not Blue Ray and it was like I was seeing a new movie. You must buy this in Blue Ray if you are interested in this movie. A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Pick Off the Kiddies
Added 3/17/2010
This is a complex film to review, because it is half good and half stink-bomb. There are so many sharp reviews here already--I shudder like wire mesh whenever I encounter a movie that has more than 30 reviews. But this one deserves attention.
Because now I think on it, this movie sucks nearly 80%. And here's why:
1. Jake, my boy, you will never be more than a tiny hair better than Keanu as an actor. Maybe this is the directors' faults, but you've had your chances!
2. Graystoke (just joking, Graysmith), the great but byzantine writer upon whose book this film is based--and who is played by Jakie Boy--was NOT the center of the Zodiac investigation. This movie would have us think that Graysmith nearly solved the damned case alone. All he did was write a book about it as a middle-aged man.
3. WHY is Detective Toschi, autopiloted as usual by Mark Ruffalo, modeled after Peter Falk's Lt. Columbo? Why?? He even yanks a boiled egg out of his raincoat pocket and proceeds to eat it when they are investigating the cab driver Stein murder. Is this supposed to be a comedy or what?
4. Why are fictitious creeps invented for this film as red herrings, when the real case had some enormously frightening and more interesting creeps who would have been loved by the camera? Actually, why is there so much invention and so little accurate fact here? I know it's a movie, but jeez....
5. The soundtrack: what's up with that??
What was great:
1. Reliving the 1970s. Jeez, I missed that. Not.
2. Seeing the crime scenes laid out, which otherwise is difficult to imagine.
3. Seeing the Zodiac's watch.
4. That's about it!
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Overlong and depressingly formulaic
Added 3/8/2010
The Bottom Line:
People say great things about Zodiac but they're apparently talking about a different film than the middling film I saw: after an energetic first half in which the threat of the Zodiac killer keeps the proceedings tense and quick-moving, the film segues into a cliched take on obsession, with all the usual beats in place (even Chloe Sevigny can't do anything with the nagging-wife-who-doesn't-realize-a-man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-go role) and a ending that doesn't conclude the film as much as just let it peter out.
2.5/4
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Great movie an one of the worlds most infamous unsolved criminal.
Added 3/7/2010
Great movie and very accurate as to what really happened, excellent period film of the SF bay area. The film could have been a little more in depth about the Zodiac and the crimes, but overall a great flick.
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Zodiac (Full Screen Edition)
Added 3/6/2010
Robert Graysmith is a cartoonist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle. His quirky ways irritate Paul Avery, a reporter whose drinking gets in the way of doing his job. The two become friends thanks to a shared interest: the Zodiac killer. Graysmith steadily becomes obsessed with the case, as Avery's life spirals into drunken oblivion. Graysmith's amateur sleuthing puts him onto the path of David Toschi, a police inspector who has thus far failed to catch his man; Sherwood Morrill, a handwriting expert; Linda del Buono, a convict who knew one of the Zodiac's victims; and others. Graysmith's job, his wife and his children all become unimportant next to the one thing that really matters: catching the Zodiac. "Zodiac" may frustrate viewers who come to David Fincher's movie expecting a traditional serial killer thriller. Early scenes in this movie are shocking and, compared to the rest of the movie, disorienting, because they offer the only time that we come close to seeing events from the killer's perspective. Parts of "Zodiac" are intensely creepy. All of the actors deliver thrilling performances. I found it to be a great story told in a remarkable way, very entertaining, with great performances, and wonderful direction.
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Zodiac Blue Ray
Added 3/17/2010
I love this movie and the extras are great. I had the dvd with no extras and not Blue Ray and it was like I was seeing a new movie. You must buy this in Blue Ray if you are interested in this movie. A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Pick Off the Kiddies
Added 3/17/2010
This is a complex film to review, because it is half good and half stink-bomb. There are so many sharp reviews here already--I shudder like wire mesh whenever I encounter a movie that has more than 30 reviews. But this one deserves attention.
Because now I think on it, this movie sucks nearly 80%. And here's why:
1. Jake, my boy, you will never be more than a tiny hair better than Keanu as an actor. Maybe this is the directors' faults, but you've had your chances!
2. Graystoke (just joking, Graysmith), the great but byzantine writer upon whose book this film is based--and who is played by Jakie Boy--was NOT the center of the Zodiac investigation. This movie would have us think that Graysmith nearly solved the damned case alone. All he did was write a book about it as a middle-aged man.
3. WHY is Detective Toschi, autopiloted as usual by Mark Ruffalo, modeled after Peter Falk's Lt. Columbo? Why?? He even yanks a boiled egg out of his raincoat pocket and proceeds to eat it when they are investigating the cab driver Stein murder. Is this supposed to be a comedy or what?
4. Why are fictitious creeps invented for this film as red herrings, when the real case had some enormously frightening and more interesting creeps who would have been loved by the camera? Actually, why is there so much invention and so little accurate fact here? I know it's a movie, but jeez....
5. The soundtrack: what's up with that??
What was great:
1. Reliving the 1970s. Jeez, I missed that. Not.
2. Seeing the crime scenes laid out, which otherwise is difficult to imagine.
3. Seeing the Zodiac's watch.
4. That's about it!
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Overlong and depressingly formulaic
Added 3/8/2010
The Bottom Line:
People say great things about Zodiac but they're apparently talking about a different film than the middling film I saw: after an energetic first half in which the threat of the Zodiac killer keeps the proceedings tense and quick-moving, the film segues into a cliched take on obsession, with all the usual beats in place (even Chloe Sevigny can't do anything with the nagging-wife-who-doesn't-realize-a-man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-go role) and a ending that doesn't conclude the film as much as just let it peter out.
2.5/4
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