The Sixth Sense

I honestly have no idea why I haven’t seen this movie before now…haha. I had always heard about it…it’s the movie that brought about the ever famous line “I see dead people” But I, for whatever reason, had always passed it off as a typical horror movie. You know, scary ghosts, spirits all that kinda stuff. But I definitely had NO idea that it would be as good as it was…in comparison to what I expected.
We start off with this child psychologist, played by Bruce Willis, and he is visited by an old patient in his home…The patient is extremely frustrated and claims that he didn’t help him at all. Eventually his anger escalades and he shoots at the doctor. A few months later, Willis has another patient…one that reminds him an awful lot of the other one that he couldn’t help.
Because of that fact, Willis has a special place for this kid, and really wants to help him.
Eventually, after earning the kids trust, the kid tells him that he sees and talks with people who are dead…but don’t always know that they’re dead. He starts helping the kid to actually communicate with these ghosts…and the child ends up helping them, so they stop hurting him.
The acting was very well done. That kid! I love that kid :P After seeing him in Pay It Forward I think he is absolutely adorable. A pretty good crier too.
Bruce Willis was decent too.
The ending was one to definitely remember…and its definitely going to be a movie that I watch again. Similar to a Lost episode…you get to the end of the movie and you try and desperately recall what you’ve just seen…almost searching for ways to prove the ending wrong…or find a slip up.
How they pulled off that ending without me suspecting…I have no idea. I did figure out the “twist” about five/ten minutes ahead of when you typically figure out what’s going on…but it honestly surprised me.
The general plot wasn’t extensive…but it was very entertaining…and it was very well done (:

7/10

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

So…I had heard a ton of good things about this movie…I mean, its really a classic, and I have to say it met my expectations. It didn’t quite surpass them, but it lived up to what I had heard.
Basically, Jack Nicholson’s character, McMurphy, is in jail for statutory rape…and he convinces the jail gaurds that he is mentally ill, mad, and is sent to a mental asylum. While he’s there he creates chaos, stirring shit up, which actually seems to be helping some of the patients advance in their mental health, while driving the nurse insane. :P
Uhmm…so, this is based on the book by Ken Kesey, which I’m looking into reading, especially after I found out that it’s actually narrated by my favourite character in the film, CHIEF!! Haha.
I love that guy man…
The first half of the movie is good. There’s nothing really outstandingly unique or anything…it was funny though, and it set it up good, you get to know everyone, work everything out, see exactly how this mental ward works.
I think the point in the movie where it really picked up, for me anyway, was when McMurphy invited over the girls who brought booze.
The result of that night was Billy finding this weird newfound self-belief after sleeping with one of the girls. When the nurse comes and finds him, his stutter is gone, and he has this air of confidence around him. It’s great, they build him up, he is so happy, you feel happy for him…then the nurse goes and threatens to tell Billy’s mother. Bam, stutter comes back, he’s a fucking emotional wreck all over again. Now, I’m totally sympathizing with this kid, I totally know how it feels to constantly have your stomach dropping because your scared of your fucking mother…maybe not to the extent that he does, but I was definitely feeling terrible for him.
Then, minutes later, he’s found in the office, throat cut, dead. Just like that. Literally two minutes ago he was this confidant guy, totally released from his mother and then he’s dead. Well…fuck. That sucked. They did it really well though, I felt horrible at that moment.
Next scene I liked was when McMurphy came back from receiving a lobotomy and was just, gone. A vegetable. Chief is so excited to see him, he has this big speech…feels as big or strong as a mountain…something like that…only to realize what had happened. He knows the only thing that he can do is to end his suffering…he suffocates McMurphy and then takes off on his own.
I don’t know, I really liked the ending…simply riding into the sunset, sounds cheesy, I know, but its just…crushing.
I randomly just remembered the scene where Mac is trying to teach Chief how to play basketball…and that might be my favourite scene…he’s so…passionate, and you can’t help but feel it with him. This guy is so fucked up…I mean, he’s in jail for statutory rape, he would be what society defines as a ‘bad guy’, but he’s incredibly optimistic. I’m all for Mac’s pep talks (:
“What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.”

8/10

Blue Velvet

I really enjoyed this movie...I’m starting to become a pretty big David Lynch fan. It’s dark, full of dark humour, it was great.
It starts out with the main character, Jeffery, and he finds an ear lying in the middle of a field. Eventually, he gets all wrapped up in the investigation following the discovery of the ear, and discovers some things about his town I’m sure he found surprising and disturbing :)
My favourite character was night club singer, Dorothy. I just felt like she really developed especially compared to the other female role, Sandy, played by Laura Dern. I just really don’t like Laura Dern, I think she’s a terrible actress. For me, she’s never really brought anything that I haven’t seen before, nothing interesting, nothing. Plus, she sucks ass at crying…Like, really. It’s terrible. The first movie I saw her in was Novocaine I think…which may be why I dislike her so much :P
Okay, on to something else I really loved. The scene where the cameras slowly zooming in towards the grass, then it takes us into the dirt and there’s all bugs and shit. Yes, I’m aware I do the scene no justice. I liked the whole introduction into a dirty sketchy kinda world underneath everything else that is seemingly perfect.
I also thought it was really neat. When the main character found the ear in the field and we were taken on this eerie trip like through…into the ear. And I totally didn’t even notice (shame on me) that the camera never came back out…until the very end of the film, when all is well, and we get the same journey except out of the ear.
Something I kind of noticed was that when a scene was kind of portraying innocence, that kinda thing, the dialogue and everything seemed really cheesy, and dumbed down kinda, and when the darkness was added back into the film everything seemed to improve. I don’t know if that was on purpose…I mean, I got the feel that it was, but I could be wrong. I thought it was neat anyway.
The music and sounds were fantastic, and the contrast between the black and white and colours, most notably the red curtains that kept popping up, were incredible.
Would recommend it for sure!
Although, with saying that, there is some nudity/sex/rape etc…just wanna put that out there.

8.5/10