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Powder Blue
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.
Release : | 2009 |
Rating : | 6.2 |
Studio : | Blue Snow Productions, Eleven Eleven Films, Spirit Dance Entertainment, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Jessica Biel Eddie Redmayne Forest Whitaker Ray Liotta Patrick Swayze |
Genre : | Drama |
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Powerful
Absolutely the worst movie.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Ugh - I saw all the good actors listed and so I watched this movie. Can I erase my memory? Maybe go to Total Recall and pay to have it removed? I just wanted to know how the little boy got in the coma. Is that too much to ask?? It was really depressing and I guess the only moral to the story is that if you just get through it things might get better if you can make a connection with someone else before you get so depressed you want to shoot yourself in the head. I also could not understand how Ray Liotta's character was deep in snow but The stripper and the mortician - there was no snow. The snow was blue - so that explained the title of the movie but still did not make sense. I just found the movie a little disturbing all-in-all. It was about as shallow as Demi Moore's stripper debut movie and that other awful movie I had managed to forget with the redhead stripper from Head of the Class but she could not act and these people could. I will steer clear of Crash and Magnolia, since others are hinting that this movie is even worse than those. I will only have to conclude for myself that the little boy is in a coma because his coke-head mom crashed the car or dropped him on his head. She didn't deserve to have a dog either.
The film 'Crash' was a hit, as it used multiple characters' individual narratives to intertwine a story which all ties up together. Here, 'Powder Blue' attempts to do the same - with mixed results.First of all, I didn't like it. But it is quite a long film and I persevered. Now, looking back on it, I'm glad I did. It's not as good as Crash and it is kind of overloaded with sentimentality - every scene seems to be trying to get you to cry for each and every character. Perhaps it was nice to see some Hollywood characters feeling as down and miserable as the rest of us? Either way, the performances are pretty good - naturally from Forest Whittaker and Ray Liotta, but also from Jessica Biel (who comes in for more than her fair share of acting criticism these days).It is certainly a slow-burner. Not much happens during the beginning and it takes a while to get going. So, although it doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel in terms of film-making, it's not a bad little piece, but I feel it's one of those films that you have to be well in the mood for to really appreciate. It should probably come with a warning not to watch it if you don't want to be depressed or brought down by one tale of woe after the next.
Los Angeles can be a hard city. It is the backdrop for the intertwined stories of four fractured people: Jack (Ray Liotta), out of jail after 25 years, Rose-Johnny (Jessica Biel), a stripper with a son in a coma, Charlie (Forest Whittaker), a suicidal widower, and Qwerty (Eddie Redmayne), a mortician with shyness issues.With multi-strand stories like this, there are a number of things which govern how effective they are as a movie. Do we care about the people? How well are the story threads tied together? Does it surprise us, or is it predictable? For instance, there are elements of the Rose-Johnny/Jack relationship which are signposted a little too heavily (not good), as opposed to noting that we had two protagonists with money and clear exit routes from life, and two protagonists with strong reasons for living and also a need for money, where the obvious developments don't exactly take place. Here, the majority of this film worked and worked well.For a film which looks at the underside of LA life, this film is beautifully and carefully filmed: the attention to colour shows in every scene.It is unfortunate that this will probably be remembered for the movie in which Jessica Biel gets her kit off, because there is so much more here, not least of which are excellent performances from the whole cast, but especially Biel, whose performance is emotionally raw.I was both engaged, and frequently moved, by this film.
This movie was life changing to say the least. Although at times its a little unbelievable the only two words i could use to describe are emotional and roller coaster.I felt Gareth O'Conner's performance may have let the move down a little bit with his snooty comments and obscene gestures.The movies shocking nature forces one to consider what does it really mean to ones self. In my opinion anyone who has not seen powder Blue is lacking in life.i really felt the scene with the strippers was particularly striking due to its beautiful imagery that spoke novels to me. I feel that the movie also has serious re-watch value it seems that there is always a new angle to ponder the movie from