Papillon, Interview with the Assassin, & Japanese Story

Papillon is a little overlong, but watching Steve McQueen makes it pretty worthwhile. That it was basically the A Million Little Pieces of its day doesn't hurt the movie really, but maybe it might have had I thought it was real in the first place. By the way, Bruce Willis is a dick for sticking up for Frey. There is no reason to equate publishing a false memoir with Bill Clinton lying. So can we impeach Frey for being a lying ass? Oh, wait, Oprah already did that. I didn't realize that the guy who directed Patton directed this. I never really knew who directed Patton, but I always assumed it was someone at least a little famous. Don't need much more than George C. Scott. Like you don't need much more than Steve McQueen. Although you also get Dustin Hoffman here, so that isn't too bad.

Interview with the Assassin is a can't-miss premise and a good movie for all but the last 15 minutes or so, when it goes to crap. And by crap, I mean crap. That ending was horrendously bad. I thought it was good until they started messing with the entire reason for the movie. Eh.

Japanese Story is a pretty damn good movie. And I completely didn't see that "twist" coming, and that ending was pretty damn good. Toni Collette makes everything better. I definitely recommend this movie to everyone. Some of the Australian accents were a little tough and Hiromitsu's English was a little halting, but a lot of it doesn't matter at all, because of the facial expressions. And that theme was about the perfect song for the movie.