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Be Kind Rewind - Michel Gondry

i enjoyed this much more than i expected to. mark kermode's right. it's being mis-sold. the fats waller story is much more important than the remakes.
 
We took the kids to see this yesterday.It's a lovely film.The adverts slightly mis sold it but it's really enjoyable none the less.
 
I thought the film was brilliant, but perhaps not because of the way the reviewers thought.

I thought the concept itself was brilliant - which made it that much more touching. There were some bits that I thought were a little flimsy and they could have made a little bit more of the others. (Turning up in a limo wearing powersuits in a run down inner city precinct?!?!? And NOT getting your head kicked in?!!?)

It did make me want to get some mates together to make my own one...

Why don't we make our own Urban 75 movie?
 
I saw it on Saturday. I liked it. :) It's no Juno, but sweet, quirky and funny. and it almost brought a tear to my eye. senitmental old piggle that I am. :)
 
Just saw it, it did make me cry right at the end. Thought it was lovely and gentle - Eternal Sunshine is one of my favourite films but I missed SoS, will now need to try and find it.
 
Wow, Totally disappointing. The remake idea was interesting but it wasn't nearly enough to keep me interested. The emotional, video shop closing element of the story left me cold.
 
I loved it, it was warm without being schmaltzy and avoided an apple pie happy ending but still kept it uplifting. The swedeing (sp?) was very well observed and humourous.
 
I can't understand how this movie got so many terrible reviews. It got plenty of good ones but Jonathan Ross and Bizarre Magazine amongst others slated it and said it should've been a YouTube short. I think they must've missed something, there's so much more to it than dicking around making stupid films.

Having said that, I love the remakes. The sets and special effects are so crappy yet so ingenious. Who would've thought of photocopying your face to counteract the effects of the negative?! And dangling above the kid's playmat of the city. So great.
 
I love the way it inhabits it's own little parallel world where science is a little warped. Loved the backward writing theme coming in at the end too, very touching. I think it's just a sweet "let's all get together do stuff" kinda community movie, what's wrong with that?
 
DJWrongspeed said:
I think it's just a sweet "let's all get together do stuff" kinda community movie, what's wrong with that?
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I simply didn't believe any of it. Yes, it was sweet, but rarely have I seen a more arbritarily thrown together film. Even fantasy has to adhere to some inner logic, which was completely missing here. The whole plot seems to be there to accommodate sight gags which were only moderately funny. The community rallying together didn't come out of plausible characterisation, we had to simply accept it because we've seen it in many Capra films and their clones and that kind of thing made me wince then.

There are some lovely moments and good ideas in there, I especially liked the idea of the thoroughly inauthentic documentary, but then why were we shown large chunks of the Fats Waller film at the start when that is supposed to be the climax and then we have to watch everything for a second time ? This struck me as downright inept.

On account of his pop promos and shorts Gondry is one of the most imaginative and original directors working, but he doesn't yet have a grasp on how feature length films work and he really should leave the writing to others. The reason Eternal Sunshine worked was more down to Charlie Kaufmann than to Gondy it seems.

Rarely have I been so disappointed by a film I wanted to really like.
 
I watched this tonight. I didn't have massive expectations of it, but I thought it was brilliant. Behind Jack Black playing Jack Black, and the comedy or whatever, it was a film about community. I remember it being reviewed, and the reviewer said he would like to have seen more about the Fats Waller part, and I agree, I think. This is about the power of film to unite, a power that it has lost, and one that is needed in all the places in the world that have lost their sense of community. I was especially pleased to hear reference to rent parties and such like. The shot just before the end, when they are watching their own film inside the shop, panning over the audience itself, was powerful.
 
I must have got a little bit of grit in my eye at the end, still though, thought it was brilliant. No Eternal Sunshine, but still the best thing I've seen in ages.
 
Be Kind Rewind

Cracking film, loses it some what about two thirds of the way throught but still really good. You can tell it is a Gondry a mile of off.
 
I watched this in the cinema on my birthday, I agree, its brilliant.

I think they should have put a bit more focus on the fats waller/rent parties storyline though. Just a bit more. I saw it as a film about community, about how people can be brought together, through jazz and rent parties and cinema and stuff.
 
Was a bit odd seeing Mos Def acting. Don't think I have seen him act before, I know he's in the new hitchikers but I have never seen that sober.
 
Be Kind...Rewind

now I like Jack Black (bit weird but)

I also think Danny Glover can be OK.



but this film sucks so much it could be a dyson...
 
was full of warmth I will grant you but...

I dunno maybe it was just too cultured for me. (mind you jack black and cultured dont normally go togerther)
 
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