While there are things I like about this world, like the set designs and inventions, I just have never been able to get invested in the characters. Steve Box and Nick Park co-directed, and co-wrote with others.
Incredibly repellent, but on the bright side it made me appreciate the Y2K New Year's party I went to. Kathryn Bigelow directed, between Point Break and Detroit, which are better but still not good.
Vaguely creepy. David Hare based this on Bernhard Schlink's novel, and it's directed by Stephen Daldry, who also did The Hours and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, quite the track record.
Besides not being a subject I'm interested in, the tonal shifts are odd, like the joke about Rameses's kilt. Still, the animation isn't bad. Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, and Simon Wells co-directed.
Aggressively unfunny and anachronistic, and I pitied poor Kelly Mcdonald as the landlady. But, um, the costumes are nice? I guess technically based on books, adapted by director Etan Cohen.
The direction, by Mike Newell, and production values are pretty good, but there are a lot of unpleasant characters. (I had this issue with the book, which I gave a C+ on a different blog almost nine years ago.)
The Constant Gardener
Focus Features
August 31, 2005
Romance, Crime Drama
DVD D-
Amazingly unbelievable dialogue for an unlikely meet-cute, and then there's a trip to the morgue thrown into the muddled timeline. Based on the John le Carré novel and directed by Fernando Meirelles.