Crazy Korean movie... I would just say "No comments, you have to see it", but it would be the easy way. I tend not to like the easy way.
So, how can I describe this movie? First of all: ASIAN. Nothing like anything you have ever seen in a western movie. SURPRISING, when the plot reaches the highest part, your mouth will start becoming more and more open. TWISTED, this comes together I think with the ASIAN adjective; I have never seen more twisted plots than the ones of Asian movies. Well, this one does not disappoint you. Though it seems quite normal the whole movie (right till the end), when you get to the heart of the matter, is as weird and twisted as you would expect it to be, or even more.
I don't think I need to say more, or I cannot say more... Or is it I should not say more? Because I do not want to spoil the movie.
My rating: just watch it, then we talk.
sábado, 28 de agosto de 2010
jueves, 5 de agosto de 2010
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
Something new... Something old! Though I don't like using that adjective to refer to these movies, as they may be from a couple of years ago... But they are outstanding!
This movie was a recommendation from my beloved father, who used to love cinema and books and who managed to transmit that love to me. I have no doubt it is thanks to him I developed this love and passion for literature and the Seventh Art. It is a pity now he cannot enjoy so much of them, due to his eyes and several body-aches, which do not allow him to be sat for long hours. Anyway, he always comes very happily with me to the cinema anytime I find a movie attractive enough, even when not really good. Is in those moments when he starts remembering about the times when he went to the cinema in his youth, about the movies he watched and how amazing those films where. This is one of those films he remembers and he talks about it with that smile on his face. His eyes turn younger and you can tell, just but looking at them, how much he enjoyed that moment.
Given all this, I decided to watch it. And so I did this morning. I have to admit, even in the 15 inches screen of my computer, the film was really startling, and I started thinking about how it would have been to watch it in a big wide cinema screen. No wonder why Cinema reached the status of Art, why they call it the dream factory. The mix of real war scenes with the shots taken in the studio is extremely well done. The begining, for instance, is just sublime: the way the soldiers move along, the landing, the assault to the mansion. Then the battlefield at night, which must have been pretty astonishing watched inside a dark theater.
But not only from good shots you make a great movie. Dialogues and settings where almost perfect, on the verge of prepaired speech but that seemed natural if considered in the whole of the situation. I never quite understood the need for everything to be as natural as possible, especially in war films, where you expect to find heroes and villains, get confused sometimes between what is good or evil, and just get obliterated by witty responses just in the right moment.
Overwhelmed by high-tech and special effects, we lost our innocence in front of the screen and we don't let ourselves enjoy the simplicity of a good all-time black and white classic.
My rating: I highly recommend this movie to any of you who enjoy war classics and specially to those like me, who still think about cinema as that miracle, that gives life to the greatests of all heroic deeds.
This movie was a recommendation from my beloved father, who used to love cinema and books and who managed to transmit that love to me. I have no doubt it is thanks to him I developed this love and passion for literature and the Seventh Art. It is a pity now he cannot enjoy so much of them, due to his eyes and several body-aches, which do not allow him to be sat for long hours. Anyway, he always comes very happily with me to the cinema anytime I find a movie attractive enough, even when not really good. Is in those moments when he starts remembering about the times when he went to the cinema in his youth, about the movies he watched and how amazing those films where. This is one of those films he remembers and he talks about it with that smile on his face. His eyes turn younger and you can tell, just but looking at them, how much he enjoyed that moment.
Given all this, I decided to watch it. And so I did this morning. I have to admit, even in the 15 inches screen of my computer, the film was really startling, and I started thinking about how it would have been to watch it in a big wide cinema screen. No wonder why Cinema reached the status of Art, why they call it the dream factory. The mix of real war scenes with the shots taken in the studio is extremely well done. The begining, for instance, is just sublime: the way the soldiers move along, the landing, the assault to the mansion. Then the battlefield at night, which must have been pretty astonishing watched inside a dark theater.
But not only from good shots you make a great movie. Dialogues and settings where almost perfect, on the verge of prepaired speech but that seemed natural if considered in the whole of the situation. I never quite understood the need for everything to be as natural as possible, especially in war films, where you expect to find heroes and villains, get confused sometimes between what is good or evil, and just get obliterated by witty responses just in the right moment.
Overwhelmed by high-tech and special effects, we lost our innocence in front of the screen and we don't let ourselves enjoy the simplicity of a good all-time black and white classic.
My rating: I highly recommend this movie to any of you who enjoy war classics and specially to those like me, who still think about cinema as that miracle, that gives life to the greatests of all heroic deeds.
martes, 3 de agosto de 2010
The A Team [prolly spoiler, read at your own peril]
I am not quite sure about this, beginning a blog talking about the "A Team", but as I want to be consistent with my idea, I have to talk about it because I just saw it yesterday. And I am not going to say "somebody dragged me to watch it", because that would be lying. Actually, it was me who dragged my parents!
The film was not that bad. I was expecting something quite different, but at least it was entertaining. The opening maybe was the most dissapointing: no theme song! just some shades of it... And then the story, nothing like the TV series! I was glad they actually shot people (would have been so unrealistic if they didn't), there were even casualties among the bad guys! And the memebers of the A Team got shot and hurt. However, what I didn't like was the fact that they were operating in the Middle East... with CIA involved and all that spy crap.
Maybe I was expecting more something between "Die Hard" and "Rock'n'rolla", if you can figure that out... In my mind it is possible.
My rating: it's a good movie to watch in a boring August evening.
The film was not that bad. I was expecting something quite different, but at least it was entertaining. The opening maybe was the most dissapointing: no theme song! just some shades of it... And then the story, nothing like the TV series! I was glad they actually shot people (would have been so unrealistic if they didn't), there were even casualties among the bad guys! And the memebers of the A Team got shot and hurt. However, what I didn't like was the fact that they were operating in the Middle East... with CIA involved and all that spy crap.
Maybe I was expecting more something between "Die Hard" and "Rock'n'rolla", if you can figure that out... In my mind it is possible.
My rating: it's a good movie to watch in a boring August evening.
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