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Friday 23 September 2011

The Beach (2000)

Living in a perpetual paradise is a myth, because once we find it we taint it and it ceases to be paradise. The realisation is thousands of years old; what's more interesting is the journey from idealism to realism. With that in mind, I sat down to watch The Beach. It was great for an hour, filled with the graceful, fragile beauty that Danny Boyle is accomplished at, but then I had to wonder did someone creep into my home and change the film to a cheap Apocalypse Now (1979) knock off? Less pop and more Badalamenti, less crap and more drama and it might've succeeded. Boyle is usually better than this.

1 inappropriate homage too far out of 5

1 comment:

Impudent Urinal said...

They also destroyed the filming environment if you need one more reason not to like the movie.
1½ Wtf was with that videogame segment? At least the chick was hot out of 5