Camille (2008)

I found this movie as a recommendation on Netflix.com. I have about 500 movies in my online queue and randomly go through it while working at home, cleaning etc. I thought this would be a silly movie with some ridiculous "ghostlike" copies, but wow was I wrong. I'm not a sap and am a hardcore fan of action, thriller and sci-fi but i almost got a little emotional during this movie. James Franco is the ultimate guy's guy and a complete ass most of the time - which makes everything so much more believable and the feelings you feel at the end seem natural as well. I'm not familiar with the actress but her performance was amazing. And because the slow scenes give lots of make out opportunities, it's definitely a date-night movie.

I watched this movie with my girlfriend at her request, since she thought it was time to see a "romantic/comedy" movie, so we gave it a shot. To be honest the first half hour of the move was pretty decent and not bad, however, after an accident, I don't want to give away any spoilers, the plot in my opinion goes downhill. You can start picking up the weak story lines and characters. There are many instances you can go "What the heck"! How could that happen, weren't there other people around?? Any witnesses or that is completely bull. When the story reaches toward the end the plot becomes so cheesy that you have a very hard time believing it and you expect an ending like Sixth Sense, or at least something like that. I understand the ending could resemble "symbolism" or other stuff like that but it was complete disappointment for a movie with a great beginning. I can assure you if you are a mature audience and don't live in some kind of fairy land you will not like this movie, just giving heads up.

What a truly moronic movie, all I can say is the writer must be very fond of magic mushrooms and LSD because this must be the result of one of his 'trips'.You follow the whole movie thinking alright this is very weird but hey I'm sure at the end there will be a perfectly good explanation for all of this... Only to be disappointed to find erm no there's no explanation at all and the twist at the end makes it even more confusing. At the end of the movie you'll probably have the same facial expression as if you were standing in a Que paying for you groceries and the merchant told you, that'll be 11.95 please and proceeded to elbow you in the balls for no apparent reason. There are so many factors in this movie that go unexplained and I think it leaves it to the imagination of the viewer in an entirely bizarre way. Don't get me wrong I like weird movies, 'The Cell' could easily be described as weird and twisted but in my eyes it's a brilliant movie (despite casting J-Lo who I dislike to the maximum even that didn't manage to sway my opinion). This isn't one of those movies, and I think you should take in to consideration the characters of those who praise this movie. I can tell you they are probably the sort of people that would go to an art exhibition, see a splat of pigeon excrement on a white board and say "Oooooh what a masterpiece, the artist has truly found a unique way to portray eternity" when in actual fact all it is, is bird excrement on a board.Keep that last bit in mind when watching this movie, Thanks for reading!

Boy, is this one different movie. It totally bombed on previews and pretty much went straight to DVD, and no one's heard much of it since. A pity, because it's not THAT bad, even if it's entire premise is completely absurd. Bad-boy James Franco marries Sienna Miller, the niece of his parole officer, in order to get of the States. Franco can barely stand Camille ("Sometimes I just want to punch her in the head!"), who is madly in love with her "Tiger", blind to his faults and heartbroken when he leaves her at a gas station on their honeymoon motorcycle trip (she's riding sidecar). But then Camille dies. And becomes "undead"! Yes, that is where the film becomes ridiculous, with Miller walking around undead but actually in the process of dying (she starts to physically decay). I'm confused too. Franco falls in love with Miller, amidst thefts, blue horses and a cross-country chase for Franco, who is mistakenly thought to have murdered his wife. But somehow, amidst all the crazy, inane happenings, "Camille" becomes moving and memorable. Miller's love is so strong that it can't be stopped even in death, and it's really just a different kind of love story. Franco hates the movie (he blasted it in an interview) but he's pretty good in it, as is Miller, who consistently does excellent work but never gets noticed for it (see her wonderful work in "The Edge of Love" for instance). And they have some nice chemistry together. Not a good film by any means, but kind of sweet in it's own odd way.