2015 Directed by Cameron Crowe
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Deep Tiki, Sotto il cielo delle Hawaii, 恋上热爱岛
With every subsequent movie, it becomes increasingly clear that Cameron Crowe is only interested in one thing: Finding the least hospitable environment for a romantic comedy, and forcing it to accommodate one. The Seattle grunge scene. The wild world of sports agents. A private zoo. Kentucky. The afterlife. (Though, in the spirit of full disclosure, it’s only fair to mention that Vanilla Sky makes a half-hearted attempt to subvert the genre’s most familiar tropes.) The guy is like a cross between Nora Ephron and Fitzcarraldo, obsessively determined to haul meet-cutes and manic pixie dream girls to unnatural places that have little hope of sustaining them. To that end, Aloha might represent Crowe’s final frontier, and not just because it literally begins in outer space.
Wow, LOL. Okay.
the morning after:
Genuinely mortified. How do you out-white Forrest Gump?? With respect to Get Out, this film is pretty indisputably the century's pioneering horror comedy about race—it is both more horrifying and more revealing. What a bummer. I'm so sad. Everyone involved should be ashamed.
i put this on as i was going to sleep last night just so i could see the part where emma stone walks in with her basic-ass gap catalog flats/capris/button down combo like she's about to interview for an unpaid internship as a wedding planner and bradley cooper says "boy i'm a goner"
*Emma Stone shows up as a pilot*
me: I wish she was Captain Marvel instead of that mess that snapped at Chris Hemsworth
*Emma Stone starts speaking in highly annoying mamner*
me:... nevermind
Also what the fuck was that movie, Netflix offer me one good movie this Easter challenge, huh?
Umm, so I didn't care for ANY of these characters or the American Air force or anything Hawaiian here.
An incredible waste of everyone involved. Made worse by being able to recognize the beats that worked so well in Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire try to be replicated and fall so flat that it makes you wonder if Crowe's earlier movies were as good as you remember.
This movie is insane. Purely ridiculous. A rom com about the militarization of space set against native Hawaiian tribal struggles. Nonsense.
This just worked for me. On an emotional level, I completely fell for it and connected to all the little moments. It's full of moments and situations that feel real even though the story that tries to connect them all might be a bit of a mess. There are all sorts of weird pauses and breaks and cuts that don't feel like "proper" filmmaking, but that just resonated and felt true to humans and how conversations usually are. Sentences not finished, questions not answered, just trailing off, picking up new threads. There is also a lot of lovely body language and acting going on. It's a literal thing with Woody, which is kinda fun, but it's also there in all…
Second watch
Netflix
Romance, Drama, Comedy
RT: 20% - 4.3/10
MC: 4/10
LB: 4.4/10 - 4/10
35mm - 1.85:1
I don't remember anything from my first watch back in 2015-2016. The poor reviews are a bit scary though, despite liking most of Cameron's previous work like "Almost Famous" and "Jerry Maguire". And this does kind of feel like a budget Jerry Maguire. But, while Jerry Maguire managed to work because of the compelling dialogue and engaging characters, this doesn't have either. The characters are pretty surface-level (despite being performed by a pretty great cast) and as a result, you don't feel anything the script wants you to feel. The dialogue is on a technical level fast-paced and sharp but none…
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