Jun 17 2008
Tuesday DVD Release: Be Kind Rewind
Since it is Tuesday, we have an excuse to go out and rent or purchase a new movie! I recommend that you go check our Michel Gondry’s new film Be Kind Rewind. For those that don’t know Michel Gondry, he is the director of The Science of Sleep and my favorite Gondry film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Gondry is indeed a film maker that sparks the imagination. In Be Kind Rewind, Gondry pays an homage to films of the past. Back in the day, there was no such thing as CGI. Directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Wells had to rely on different creative ways to take us to where the film supposedly takes place. Now a days, all you have to do is use a computer and you are there. This hardly is creative, it basically is technological genius that can be credited to people that created the program, not the filmmaker. This is a protest against that. The film stars rapper Mos Def, Jack Black, and Danny Glover.
Jerry (Black) and Mike (Mos Def) work at Elroy’s (Glover) movie rental store, Be Kind Rewind. While Be Kind Rewind is endangered of going out of business, Elroy is forced to venture out and learn how the large rental stores are striving. Meanwhile, Jerry and Mike are forced to re-make the entire store’s collection due to Jerry’s accidental episode of erasing all of the movies. The remake of films such as Ghostbusters, Rush Hour 2, and 2001: A Space Odyssey are a huge success.
This is a great homage to classic filmmaking. The films duo of Mos Def and Jack Black are hilarious. I recommend this film to anyone that likes Gondry’s prior films or if you are looking for a film that goes outside the box. This was a great film that you will want to watch again and again.
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