Comet (2014)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

To me, this movie is perfection.

hyped garbage

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

I wonder if Jack even existed. Since Dell wanted her to lie to him in his most vulnerable state it was necessary for her to create this big lie about Jack and her being pregnant to make him believe in love and save their future together. She made up the lie in the car on the way to the shooting range, but before she could tell the truth he broke up with her, saying he didn't love her, wondering if he ever did. Don't think she saw any reason to tell about the lie at that time. Time after that she had to stick to the story to have a chance to win him back. To make him realize.

For starters, I was let down 15min into the movie because I found out that the main actor wasn't Keanu Reeves (ok, maybe that's just an emotional argument). Before that, I was wondering why Reeves' character wasn't as good as I expected from him and how he could've fallen into such a lame role.But continuing with the rest of the movie: Photography sucks, everything is on the two bottom thirds of the screen, almost out of frame, which is terribly irritating. They were trying to be artsy, but it wasn't well executed (unlike "Her", which's Photography is also artsy, "hipster", but successfully centers on the appreciation of "the aesthetic"). Some effects were quite fake. Most of the effects were acceptable because that can happen when you lack a large budget or strong CGI tools, however, at some moments I don't know if they were going for "magical"? but it stopped at tacky, like it was edited by a 10-year-old. I saw it as unprofessional. User "Jody Bruchon" covers my points pretty well: "A story should work BECAUSE of the camera work, not IN SPITE of it."Acting and script are unnatural as well: Transitions between ideas in the conversations are totally unnatural and fake. Half of the time Justin Long's acting was —as user "Grasswerks" states it— "garbage", and Emmy Rossum's was "as cute as her face = barely." Hard to enjoy the potential and ideas of the movie when you're cringing because of all of these things.But there are also good things this work: I like some dialogues, the concepts behind it are very well stated, quotable, which is the reason this movie is saved from being reviewed less than 5 stars. The plot and concept of it being "like a painting, without a beginning or an end" are pleasant. I don't think the ending should be taken that seriously, else you're stuck with that unsatisfying "what type of ambiguity is this?" I didn't have a problem with it and even thought the last 20 min were the most enjoyable of the whole piece.It's a good movie to watch when you have some spare time and you're doing something parallel to watching it (i.e. it doesn't need your full attention; unless you want to suffer from the photography and acting).

Catching up on some DVD viewings,I decided to see what films were about to be removed from Netflix UK. Not having seen her since the double bill of The Day After Tomorrow and The Phantom of the Opera in 2004, (despite being based on a UK show,Shameless has never come out on UK DVD) I was intrigued to spot an indie flick with Emmy Rossum,which led to me looking up at the sky.The plot:Crashing into each other whilst standing in line to watch a meteor shower,Dell and Kimberly collide into a romantic relationship.Over their six years,Dell wonders about what state the romance must be in alternative universes.Unknown to (this version of) Dell,the other Dell's and Kimberly's are seeing their love burnout across the galaxy.View on the film:Experiencing anything but a crumbling relationship behind the scenes, (she would later get married to the writer/director) Emmy Rossum gives an excellent,fragile performance as Kimberly. Initially whirling in with a kooky smile,Rossum pulls it into a fraught state,where the mere sight of Dell makes Kimberly fall more out of love with him. Tripping over his sweet nothings to Kimberly,Justin Long gives a great performance as Dell,who Long keeps from ever feeling he is on stable ground,which pulls his love for Kimberly into an unstable state.Programmed before he created the TV series Mr. Robot,the debut screenplay by writer/director Sam Esmail scatters a snapshot across the screen on the various eras of Dell's and Kimberly's relationship criss-crossing over each other,from the lightly comedic first encounter,to the emotionally raw,bitter downward spiral the romance becomes trapped in. Although the use of parallel universes keeps the romance unsettled,Esmail disappointingly does not use it to give the characters a complexity or depth,but to instead use it as a device to jump back and forth on the various stages of the romance. Inspired by the Cinéma Du Look movement,debuting director Esmail & cinematographer Eric Koretz crack the night sky of Dell and Kimberly's blossoming stage with a wave of ultra-stylised neon reds,blues and yellows,that shimming as Esmail dips from the real to the parallel. Tripping the colours as Dell and Kimberly's romance hits new lows,Esmail keeps the Du Look styling simmering in a warm light blue darting across Dell and Kimberly's romance like a comet.

First of all this movie can be said that is a Romantic Drama without being melodramatic and despite having some dialogues with comic elements, is not a comedy and because it has Cometa by title does not make him a Sci-Fi movie. Having said this, is a delight! A movie with interesting dialogues as a first work of this director and writer, the same that directed and wrote the series Mr. Robot, so acutely in the argument and dialogues of the present day problems. A film about the ephemeral love, about the difficulty of relationships, the unspoken words and that are said can never be unsaid, indecision before the result of infinities choices in the direction of our lives.