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Blueberry:
I quite liked the trippy final battle scene. You could put it up there with the top ten most interesting final battles in film (with Bladerunner, Oldboy, There Will Be Blood and others I can't think of just now).
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Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas:
Took the acid, read the book, then watched the film...the scene with the moving casino floor is a classic, as is the "Feed your head!" electric-bath-suicide-mantra.
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Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer:
One of the better book-to-film adaptions.
The ideal way to discover this story is not to know too much about it, read the book first and watch the film shortly thereafter. Spoilers from here-on-in:
The awe generated from the orgiatastic and cannibalistic final scenes are faithfully adapted here. If you felt they were silly in the book then you will find them just as daft in this adaption...I found them inspired and spectacular.
The film is fairly faithful, especially as its source is such an original and "unfilmable" story. I read the book and watched the film in german and found Hoffman's and Whishaw's german voiceovers fairly respectable and close to what I was expecting.
Das Parfum connoisseurs (like me) will scoff at the early death of Madame Gaillard, the short stay in the mountains and the not-quite-as-intentional-and-detached killing of the first girl, as well as Grenouille's little fantasy at the end of the film where he imagines himself in a tender and human embrace with this first victim (readers will know that Grenouille never entertained any want, or empathy, for anyone...making his character the fascinating creation that he is).
Saying that, the film manages to successfully recreate the books' general atmosphere and Grenouille's creepily ephemeral presence on-screen. Many memorable scenes from this adaption include the shocking abandoned baby shot at the beginning and its first sniff and subsequent wail, the hostel kids attempting to smother the babe a bit later on, Hoffman's take on the technique of scent-sniffing via the handkerchief, Richis finding his dead daughter and more besides.
Very, very good film...but could be a bit lost if you watch it without reading the novel first.
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Pi:
A rush...you feel like smoking or drinking something stiff while watching this, which is good.
Nervy, itchy, confusing, hypnotic, interesting, profound, empty, atmospheric, strange, pointed, pointless...
...it's all these things.
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