{"id":11144,"date":"2011-01-27T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=11144"},"modified":"2018-02-20T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T05:25:33","slug":"sundance-journal-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/sundance-journal-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance Journal: The Good with the Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My fourth day at Sundance was my most extensive movie day. I saw five films. I&#8217;ve come to find out that five movies in a day is my limit. Any more than that, they all start to just blend together. It&#8217;s harder to judge and critique when you&#8217;re seeing that many movies in a day. The films have no time to resonate with you before you head into another screening.<\/p>\n<h6><!--more--><\/h6>\n<p>The five movies I saw were &#8216;Being Elmo: A Puppeteer&#8217;s Journey&#8217;, &#8216;Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times&#8217;, &#8216;Vampire&#8217;, &#8216;The Troll Hunter&#8217;, and &#8216;I Melt With You&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This entire day was filled with press screenings, so I don&#8217;t have many interesting stories from premieres or filmmakers. It was a pretty hectic day, though. The minute I came out of one screening, I had to go get right in line for another one.<\/p>\n<p>This is the tent they keep us caged in like cattle:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/press-tent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/press-tent.jpg\" title=\"Sundance Press Tent\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/press-tent.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/press-tent-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Celebrity Sightings<\/h5>\n<p>No sightings today. I did see tons of &#8220;famous&#8221; movie bloggers, but I see them every day up at the festival.<\/p>\n<h5>Capsule Movie Reviews<\/h5>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/sundance.slated.com\/2011\/films\/beingelmoapuppeteersjourney_sundance2011\">Being Elmo<\/a>&#8216; \u2013 This is a very touching and moving documentary about Kevin Clash, the voice and hands behind Elmo. Man, I seriously loved this movie. Amid the depressing pictures at the festival, this one put a smile on my face. Just watching a man achieve his dream is simply amazing. It&#8217;s a wonderful little documentary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/sundance.slated.com\/2011\/films\/pageoneayearinsidetheinewyorktimesi_sundance2011\">Page One<\/a>&#8216; \u2013 This is a documentary about what a year inside <em>The New York Times<\/em> is like. It chronicles the changing of our media, and tries its best to explain why the <em>Times<\/em> is still around while other major newspapers across the country are folding under bankruptcy. It&#8217;s a fascinating documentary if you&#8217;re interested in what our media is becoming and how technology is changing it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/sundance.slated.com\/2011\/films\/vampire_sundance2011\">Vampire<\/a>&#8216; \u2013 What a pile of dreck this is. Ugh. It&#8217;s such a pretentious slog to get through. The movie raises the issue of suicide, but mostly in my own mind. It&#8217;s about a serial killer who preys on young women who are about to commit suicide. He drains their blood, because they don&#8217;t care anyway, and drinks it. I hated, hated, hated this movie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/sundance.slated.com\/2011\/films\/thetrollhunter_sundance2011\">The Troll Hunter<\/a>&#8216; \u2013 Like &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/1476\/cloverfield.html\">Cloverfield<\/a>&#8216; but with trolls, &#8216;The Troll Hunter&#8217; is kind of fun. It&#8217;s neither amazing nor boring. It lies somewhere in between, about just average. A good 10 \u2013 15 minutes of blurry camera footage while people run from trolls could be cut out, though.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/sundance.slated.com\/2011\/films\/imeltwithyou_sundance2011\">I Melt with You<\/a>&#8216; \u2013 Starring Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, and Thomas Jane. Good cast, right? Seems like it. Seems like this would be a good movie. WRONG! This is the worst movie at the festival. It&#8217;s stunningly awful. It&#8217;s two full hours of moronic characters doing drugs and drinking alcohol, and feeling sorry for themselves. 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