After a while, I decided to come back for some movie watching, actor by actor.
I started with one of my favorite actresses, Jennifer Aniston.
I know her since the beginning of Friends, and boy she rocked.
I watched a couple of movies from a few years ago, I'll come to that later.
Now, as for the movie:
It doesn't suck. It's good. I like movies with not so many actors. It's easier to go deep into the story, to go inside the personality of each person.
There are also more connecting moments in the movie, that gives you time to breathe, watch the surroundings, and think of what's going on, and why it is going on.
That said, this movie is a typical example of dull lives, and how can people overcome that dullness, irrespective of wether they work hard or not, they are rich or not, they are silly or not. It is well worth seeing.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Dances with Wolves (1991)
I never watched this movie until tonight.
WoW, it was for sure the best thing Kevin Costner ever did.
Amazing picture, amazing movie in deed.
WoW, it was for sure the best thing Kevin Costner ever did.
Amazing picture, amazing movie in deed.
Monday, July 27, 2009
The silence of the lambs (1991)
Dr. Hannibal Lecter, I presume.
Jodie Foster in her early days, the woman is truly beautiful.
The human mind is so complex, one wonders how one can study it.
But study it we can, and analize it.
I do it many times, on me, and others. And it's thrilling to discover the same patterns over and over again.
The picture tells about it, how a psychopat can steadily achieve better results than plain vanilla detectives, just because a psycho is trained to think the way others think.
Jodie Foster in her early days, the woman is truly beautiful.
The human mind is so complex, one wonders how one can study it.
But study it we can, and analize it.
I do it many times, on me, and others. And it's thrilling to discover the same patterns over and over again.
The picture tells about it, how a psychopat can steadily achieve better results than plain vanilla detectives, just because a psycho is trained to think the way others think.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Driving Miss Daisy (1990)
Today I reviewed this picture, and something came out, something I remember of the first view... the SOUNDTRACK.
Why so ? Now I know, of course. It's from Hans Zimmer !
The picture is also pretty good, Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman do great.
Dan Aykroyd is a fat son, doing a funny role.
Overall, the lack of prejudice prevails on Miss Daisy, although it surrounds them in a very light way.
I have a dream, said Martin.
Why so ? Now I know, of course. It's from Hans Zimmer !
The picture is also pretty good, Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman do great.
Dan Aykroyd is a fat son, doing a funny role.
Overall, the lack of prejudice prevails on Miss Daisy, although it surrounds them in a very light way.
I have a dream, said Martin.
Crash (2005)
I had seen a Crash movie in the 90's.. I remember some dudes fucking by a window, looking down at a highway, it was a movie about adrenaline rush while crashing vehicles.
The movie was bad enough that I wanted to leave, but I managed to stay until the end.
Well... 10 years later, another Crash, this one about the different races mangling in L.A.
And what a movie. Not a single story, but half a dozen of them, apparently independent, but interacting troughout the movie.
It's well worth seeing, very nice indeed.
It gives no answer to the racial problem, but it points a few ways, and me too:
Faith + Understanding + Comprehension = Key. FUCK !
The movie was bad enough that I wanted to leave, but I managed to stay until the end.
Well... 10 years later, another Crash, this one about the different races mangling in L.A.
And what a movie. Not a single story, but half a dozen of them, apparently independent, but interacting troughout the movie.
It's well worth seeing, very nice indeed.
It gives no answer to the racial problem, but it points a few ways, and me too:
Faith + Understanding + Comprehension = Key. FUCK !
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Unforgiven (1992)
Today I saw Unforgiven, a picture by Clint Eastwood, with him, Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman. Oh god, how time quickly passes by, I was ending my school years back then, and they were so much younger, although acting like old unwise men.
The movie itself teaches one sole thing, resumed in a sentence at the end.
Deserve got nothing to do with it.
Luck has.
Yep.
Irrespective of what you do your whole life, of the good or evil you practice, you have no right to say you deserve something, or that you don't, or that you deserve it more than someone, or less.
Only luck, the Principle of Heisenberg for dummies, can act on your life, and turn it upside down, with a hearbeat.
A brutal picture, but a good one, nonetheless.
The movie itself teaches one sole thing, resumed in a sentence at the end.
Deserve got nothing to do with it.
Luck has.
Yep.
Irrespective of what you do your whole life, of the good or evil you practice, you have no right to say you deserve something, or that you don't, or that you deserve it more than someone, or less.
Only luck, the Principle of Heisenberg for dummies, can act on your life, and turn it upside down, with a hearbeat.
A brutal picture, but a good one, nonetheless.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Shakespeare in Love (1999)
Yon light is not daylight, I know it, I.
It is some meteor that the sun exhales.
These are my all time favorite words from Shakespeare, Romet and Juliet Act 3, Scene 5.
It's amazing that a movie was created that actually contains these words, or the first sentence, at least.
I had forgotten all about this movie until I recently structured my mind to watch the major award winning movies in the last 30 years.
It is a stunning performance by Gwyneth Paltrow. I would have liked to see Ralph Fiennes or Kenneth Branagh as William, I think that would have just be the cherry on top of the cake, but his brother Joseph did fine.
It's a comedy with a sour flavour, the end is quite dramatic, just like a Shakespearean play.
The Da Vinci Code (2006) [NO OSCAR]
Nothing like watching a movie that I'd sware I'd seen (but hadn't).
I've read the book when it first launched, because it came up in exactly the same moment I was studying the Catarism, all that was going on in Southern France in the XI,XII,XIIIth century when a few ppl discovered that women, when treated equally, chould share the burden of men, and turn societies in wonderful ways of living. For that, they were mostly destroyed. With them, was the Graal.
The Knights of the Temple of course, came to play, since they found the Graal in Jerusalem, whatever it was. Portugal and Spain had also major roles in this.
It was a nice movie to watch, although nowadays I don't remember the book so well anymore.
Great photography (although Angels and Demons excelled), Tom Hanks does great, the french actress not so much, until we find that the director wanted exactly that, to show, not a strong woman, but a feeble one. The final at the Louvre is excellent, although it comes too easy and too fast. May be Dan wanted that.
Anyway, a must see.
I've been in Paris in December, at night, walking around the pyramid, and it's just marvelous.
The shown churches are flabbergasting, as well as the statues, that for the most part, as I know of, are true, although.... filmed in other Templar churches !
I've read the book when it first launched, because it came up in exactly the same moment I was studying the Catarism, all that was going on in Southern France in the XI,XII,XIIIth century when a few ppl discovered that women, when treated equally, chould share the burden of men, and turn societies in wonderful ways of living. For that, they were mostly destroyed. With them, was the Graal.
The Knights of the Temple of course, came to play, since they found the Graal in Jerusalem, whatever it was. Portugal and Spain had also major roles in this.
It was a nice movie to watch, although nowadays I don't remember the book so well anymore.
Great photography (although Angels and Demons excelled), Tom Hanks does great, the french actress not so much, until we find that the director wanted exactly that, to show, not a strong woman, but a feeble one. The final at the Louvre is excellent, although it comes too easy and too fast. May be Dan wanted that.
Anyway, a must see.
I've been in Paris in December, at night, walking around the pyramid, and it's just marvelous.
The shown churches are flabbergasting, as well as the statues, that for the most part, as I know of, are true, although.... filmed in other Templar churches !
Van Helsing (2004) [NO OSCAR]
Well, I kinda liked the movie. Never saw it due to my lazyness, until last night.
The story is a cockup, lots of mixed stories. It has some a nice similarity with Dark Omen, a PC from the Warhammer series I played 10 years ago and still do, ocasionaly.
The best part of the movie are the special effects from ILM, namely the valkyries, and of course the main actress, Kate Beckinsale.
Hugh Jackman is a bit of a too-nice-guy for a vampire hunter, but he did well.
I also found funny that Dracula's aid was the same actor the served as the Mummy aid.
The story is a cockup, lots of mixed stories. It has some a nice similarity with Dark Omen, a PC from the Warhammer series I played 10 years ago and still do, ocasionaly.
The best part of the movie are the special effects from ILM, namely the valkyries, and of course the main actress, Kate Beckinsale.
Hugh Jackman is a bit of a too-nice-guy for a vampire hunter, but he did well.
I also found funny that Dracula's aid was the same actor the served as the Mummy aid.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Oscar for best movie in 2007, a movie about the US that looks so far away from our pseudo-civillized Europe, at least that of the town halls we know. May be in the suburban areas, in our ghettos, what's going on might be similar to all that free violence, the greed, the lust for money, the guns, drugs, the desillusion of lives.
As a movie I hated it. As a portrait of the border areas between USA and Mexico, and of it's social state of things, I loved it, specially the fact that it does not have an happy ending. The ending is open, as is reality. Will it get worse ? Can it get any worse than this ?
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
After a warm bath, with the wife away from home and the kid sleeping, I've decided to watch Slumdog Millionaire.
Summary: Great movie.
It shows India as it is in the XXIth century, a mix of underhuman conditions with oportunism and shocking richness, where it is possible for anyone to survive, but very hard for someone to succeed. I believe the movie was shot in Mumbay prior to the terrorist attack, although it shows the clash between muslims and hindus.
Nice story, nice production, very good shots and stills, and as a bonus, the fact that the Frieda Pinto, the main actress, has portuguese blood, although, from what I've read online, she doesn't quite acknowledge it.
Her face cannot hide it, I know some portuguese women with exactly that kind of face.
She's successful now, being the official face for L'Oreal..or some other perfume thingie.
I've seen the show a few times in the portuguese TV, and it amazed me how little people know these days, in general.
I do not consider myself a very cultural person, but my knowledge is almost always enough to get me to the final of such shows. May be I should run for millionaire.
Based on this, a funny quiz for you:
What was England in 1650 ?
a) a Kingdom
b) a Republic
c) an Anarchy
d) an Oligarchy
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The Departed (2006)
Leonardo di Caprio showing he's got more than Titanic expressions.
I don't like Jack Nicholson, never liked him, but in this movie, he shines.
And last but not least, I knew Matt Damon for "7 feet underground", or whatever it's called, but he's a first class actor. The babe is also going great.
Great plot, open until the very end, showing, once again, the USA as it seems to be depicted by so many, a profusion of gunship, illegal business, loose money, greed.
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