KAMINEY (SCOUNDRELS)
Walked out. Lame gangsters argue and fight between one another and a girl gets knocked up because she didn't want her boyfriend to use a condom. The two stories are supposedly somehow connected.
DR NO
Watchable. Good that nowadays action movie heroes and heroines are young. This 60s movie is full of aged spies seducing middle-aged women. The atomic plot is intriguing enough and Jamaican coast pleasing to watch.
SIN NOMBRE
Watchable. Yet another "City Of God" rip-off. Still, the complex characters compel you to sympathise with them and the action is fast and twisted remaining clear to the viewer.
Tuesday 18 August 2009
Sunday 16 August 2009
SHORTS
Walked out. A film that shows that stupid people wish for silly things and dull people wish for ordinary things. If I had a wishing rock, I would wish for a better script.
IMAGINE THAT
Watchable. The childtalk is annoying. I wasn't that stupid even as a kid. The adult business plot is much better.
BANDSLAM
Walked out. About nerds with bad music tastes.
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
Walked out. Brad Pitt must be really aging if he felt any need for producing this sentimental bore about passing time.
A PERFECT GETAWAY
Watchable. It starts with a serious of bland conversations on the trek. It's only towards the much faster ending that you wish you had listened carefully. All the hints were there.
ALIENS IN THE ATTIC
Watchable. Cheerful family science fiction like in the 80s. Brilliantly acted inventive kids stop an alien invasion. Only the aliens disappoint - they look and talk like Shrek.
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Recommended. Tarantino's best movie. Stunningly acted, stylishly shot and most of all perfectly scripted. Even the slow beginning is compelling and later you get one twist after another. Absolutely superb.
LIFE PARTNER
Watchable. A cheerful family comedy with ingeniously over-the-top characters, including a divorce lawyer breaking people's marriages. Good music. While it never fails to be funny, it doesn't cut the edge. Only tried and tested comedy rules have been applied.
Walked out. A film that shows that stupid people wish for silly things and dull people wish for ordinary things. If I had a wishing rock, I would wish for a better script.
IMAGINE THAT
Watchable. The childtalk is annoying. I wasn't that stupid even as a kid. The adult business plot is much better.
BANDSLAM
Walked out. About nerds with bad music tastes.
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
Walked out. Brad Pitt must be really aging if he felt any need for producing this sentimental bore about passing time.
A PERFECT GETAWAY
Watchable. It starts with a serious of bland conversations on the trek. It's only towards the much faster ending that you wish you had listened carefully. All the hints were there.
ALIENS IN THE ATTIC
Watchable. Cheerful family science fiction like in the 80s. Brilliantly acted inventive kids stop an alien invasion. Only the aliens disappoint - they look and talk like Shrek.
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Recommended. Tarantino's best movie. Stunningly acted, stylishly shot and most of all perfectly scripted. Even the slow beginning is compelling and later you get one twist after another. Absolutely superb.
LIFE PARTNER
Watchable. A cheerful family comedy with ingeniously over-the-top characters, including a divorce lawyer breaking people's marriages. Good music. While it never fails to be funny, it doesn't cut the edge. Only tried and tested comedy rules have been applied.
Friday 14 August 2009
LOVE AAJ KAL
Walked out. A boring guy breaks up with a boring girl (doesn't surprise me) and then their love starts to blossom. There's also another love story thrown in, played by the same insipid pair of actors.
COCO AVANT CHANEL (COCO BEFORE CHANEL)
Watchable. To achieve fame you have to come from a dysfunctional family like I heard from a psychologist on telly. It is certainly true that people from broken families fare better in life. My 3 best friends are living examples: stable relationships, jobs, sometimes really good while I'm out of work and single (coming from a good home obviously). Coco has what it takes. She is pushy but she was also pushed and shoved a lot. An inspiring movie of making your own destiny. Still, some bits were so slow that I drifted away once in a while only to find that when I regained full focus I didn't miss any bit of the plot .
MESRINE:L'INSTINCT DE MORT (MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT)
Walked out. More about a degenerate husband beating his wife, incapable of controlling his anger and misjudging people's life choices rathen than a killer. Mesrine was clearly a psychopath deprived of empathy and looking for the shortest way to his goals but the movie focused on family issues instead.
ADAM
Watchable. I don't find brain disorders particularly fascinating but the love story was moving: a guy with no social skills struggles to understand the world around him and you wonder whether his impediment dooms him to loneliness. Is everyone able to find love?
Walked out. A boring guy breaks up with a boring girl (doesn't surprise me) and then their love starts to blossom. There's also another love story thrown in, played by the same insipid pair of actors.
COCO AVANT CHANEL (COCO BEFORE CHANEL)
Watchable. To achieve fame you have to come from a dysfunctional family like I heard from a psychologist on telly. It is certainly true that people from broken families fare better in life. My 3 best friends are living examples: stable relationships, jobs, sometimes really good while I'm out of work and single (coming from a good home obviously). Coco has what it takes. She is pushy but she was also pushed and shoved a lot. An inspiring movie of making your own destiny. Still, some bits were so slow that I drifted away once in a while only to find that when I regained full focus I didn't miss any bit of the plot .
MESRINE:L'INSTINCT DE MORT (MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT)
Walked out. More about a degenerate husband beating his wife, incapable of controlling his anger and misjudging people's life choices rathen than a killer. Mesrine was clearly a psychopath deprived of empathy and looking for the shortest way to his goals but the movie focused on family issues instead.
ADAM
Watchable. I don't find brain disorders particularly fascinating but the love story was moving: a guy with no social skills struggles to understand the world around him and you wonder whether his impediment dooms him to loneliness. Is everyone able to find love?
Thursday 13 August 2009
Tuesday 11 August 2009
G-FORCE 3D
Watchable. Unlike previous 3D releases this year, the film is mostly 3D indeed. The plot is rubbish but I sympatised with the animals so stayed watching. The music is really good.
THE UGLY TRUTH
Watchable. An involving story, well acted and shot but a bit of other romantic comedies' rip-off ("He's just not that into you" most of all). Great music.
ORPHAN
Watchable. A merciless rip-off of other obsessed-killer stories but with a brilliant twist that immediately makes it more credible. Also a great study of manipulation and invariably futile attempts of defence, very true psychologically. It was all really brutal so afterwards instead of watching "Mesrine: Killer Instinct" I went to see comic-book adaptation
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA
Recommended. I don't know what it's about but it looks spectacular. A feast for the eye and the ear even if not the brain. The shonky plot doesn't distract from mind-blowing CGIs and ideas behind future warfare (e.g. nanomites excreting poison out of the body or electronic fish). Science fiction in the true meaning of the words. With some brilliant lines too (e.g. "Are you spying on me?" "If I were spying on you, you wouldn't know.")
Watchable. Unlike previous 3D releases this year, the film is mostly 3D indeed. The plot is rubbish but I sympatised with the animals so stayed watching. The music is really good.
THE UGLY TRUTH
Watchable. An involving story, well acted and shot but a bit of other romantic comedies' rip-off ("He's just not that into you" most of all). Great music.
ORPHAN
Watchable. A merciless rip-off of other obsessed-killer stories but with a brilliant twist that immediately makes it more credible. Also a great study of manipulation and invariably futile attempts of defence, very true psychologically. It was all really brutal so afterwards instead of watching "Mesrine: Killer Instinct" I went to see comic-book adaptation
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA
Recommended. I don't know what it's about but it looks spectacular. A feast for the eye and the ear even if not the brain. The shonky plot doesn't distract from mind-blowing CGIs and ideas behind future warfare (e.g. nanomites excreting poison out of the body or electronic fish). Science fiction in the true meaning of the words. With some brilliant lines too (e.g. "Are you spying on me?" "If I were spying on you, you wouldn't know.")
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