I just finished seeing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) – IMDb. SPOILERS AHEAD! Most of the reasoning for me watching the movie had to do with the fact that I used to watch those cartoons when I was a child. I just had to see it. Some feed-back? The original cartoons were friendly and warm. The new ones are cool, but much more aggressive. The music soundtrack is fine. I especially liked the part when the TMNT start singing some tune in an elevator. The pumped muscles are just too much. They get adrenaline and are able to break a cage. To me, this is not logical – how much power can you get? Also, what’s with the big red button with Adrenaline on it? I liked the fact that the characters are much more separated than in the cartoon. They each have an individual style. The weapons are rather silly. The dork turtle is too dorky. It’s rather aggressive in his style. To me, the big problem with the movie is that there’s no finesse. Everything is so abrupt and into your face. It’s too much. I like the scene where, with a stick, a car gets thrown away. Very cool. The 5 minutes countdown is so so so cliché. In order to solve a conflict, the characters insist, rather than find creative solutions. What’s the point of the doctor to tell April he killed her father? Why create an enemy out of blank? April gives some very very stupid evidence to state her news …
I recently saw lots of movies, like: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – IMDb The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – IMDb The Fountain (2006) – IMDb Yves Saint Laurent (2014) – IMDb Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) – IMDb The Giver (2014) – IMDb How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) – IMDb Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) – IMDb Transcendence (2014) – IMDb I got an insight from the last movie I saw. But that’s the problem! Very few insights, considering the number of movies I saw. Let’s take the list again: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – very smart movie, very funny; almost no insights. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – smart & very smart; scary movie; no insights; The Fountain (2006) – not-so-smart, spiritual-wannabe; no insights; Yves Saint Laurent (2014) – a bit dramatic, at times, interesting; no insights; Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) – not funny, not smart, not interesting; no insights; The Giver (2014) – smart, creative ideas; no insights; How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) – very very smart, funny at times, dark; close to insights; I really fought hard to get to these insights, but there’s nothing spectacular; Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) – a bit interesting, at times stupid, most of the times not funny; no insights; Transcendence (2014) – smart-wannabe, not succeeding; dark & sad; no insights. There’s a big list above and the most important insight I got was „No one’s 100% a dick”. Not exactly Christmas, as a quote from James Bond says. (James Bond: [on receiving …
I see this happening more often than not. You take one character, and you give him more power than the adversaries. When James Bond is in prison, there’s always an escape route, even if in real-life, James Bond would probably not escape. It doesn’t matter how smart you are, it’s just difficult to escape. Sometimes, in more recent movies, the bad guys also have lots of power. They dominate, and they almost win. You need to believe this, that if you have some special skills (intelligence, brute force, agility), you can overcome any obstacle. Real life is really not like that. You can be a professional martial arts fighter and get beaten in a club. I like „Gattaca” a lot. One of the reasons for doing so is that it is really really difficult to beat your condition. I also like „The Grey„. In the movie, there are no superheroes. Plain humans. It’s hard to beat your condition. Same for „Le notti di Cabiria” – no super powers. Real, tough, life. I really don’t get into superhero movies. Sure, it would be lovely if life were like this. It generally isn’t. James Bond, in the last movie of the series, has little weapons arsenal, has little powers. He beats others with his intelligence, mostly. In the last Superman movie, the main character is very powerful & all that. But he’s not invincible, based on powers. He still needs brains. You can’t solve all the dilemmas by insisting. In the last Bourne, the bad guy is better than …
I just saw The Hustler (1961) for the second time. I actually saw the main scenes of the movie quite a few times during the past years, I liked reseeing the movie quite a bit. (note!) Spoilers ahead, don’t read the review unless you already saw the movie (note!) Some thoughts? The movie is intensely psychological. On the surface, it’s a movie on fights & winning. But the inner fights, the inner struggles are much deeper and are quite interesting to see. Some conflicts to see: Eddie Felson (Paul Newman), the main character, and his wish to win. Eddie Felson and his wish to beat his condition. Eddie Felson and his wish to never settle for something small. Eddie Felson and his fight with the systems (he is insubordinate, he always fights). Eddie Felson and his fight with being better. Eddie Felson and his fight with its vices (drinking). Eddie Felson and his fight of being the successful capitalist, rather than the unsuccessful socialist (there’s a fight with other people, who prefer people to be equal one to the other; he develops his skills, others want to drag him down). Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason), the already-proved champion, and his fight to always succeed. Minnesota Fats and his fight to be a kind person, nevertheless. Sarah Packard (Piper Laurie), Eddie’s girl, and her fight to have a fulfilled life. Sarah Packard and her fears of the unknown. Sarah Packard and her fears of not being loved. Bert Gordon (George C. Scott), the bad guy, and his fight to succeed. Bert Gordon and his fight to make life more exciting, his appetite for the …
I’ve just seen Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) – IMDb: In the movie, everybody insists: Captain America is a regular guy with big wishes. He insists, he gets superpowers. He has a friend, the winter soldier. He insists. He gets superpowers. Hydra has some problems. They insist. The solve the issue. There’s a fight. At some point, somebody just insists. The good guys win by insisting, the bad guys win by insisting. The movie is so incredibly stupid. The Bond series used to do the same. Did James Bond like gadgets? Let him have the best gadgets. Did he have a car? Let him have the best car. Usually, the villain also had some gadgets, and some cars, but Bond was, generally better. In Skyfall (2012), things changed. He doesn’t get get a big gun, but a small pistol. Old style, very simple, very small. He doesn’t get an advanced gadget. He gets a radio frequency emitter. A small radio, that is. That’s all he gets. You generally know that James Bond is going to use the gadget: Setting up fantastic gadgets and intriguing devices is a cornerstone of the spy genre, and the James Bond franchise in particular. When the buzz-saw watch is issued to James Bond by Q, it seems a bit fantastic, but still congruent with the world Bond inhabits: a world of super-villains, gorgeous female spies, deceptive appearances, and cool gadgets, cars, and weapons. So we have no problem accepting the existence of the watch. And with that set-up accomplished, the …
A poor movie is one in which people insist to solve things: person A tries to a thing, it doesn’t work, it insists, it works. In Frozen, there’s a race from wolves. They don’t succeed at escaping, but they insist, and they escape. They are ready to jump, they don’t quite make it, but they insist and they make it. This happens with other characters in the movies (they ran from a huge snowman, they insist, and it works, one old guy doesn’t get to dance with the queen, he insists, he makes it and the list continues): A good movie is one in which when there is a trouble, the main character finds a creative solution. In The Bourne Ultimatum, the main character (interpreted by Matt Damon) finds creative solutions for escaping situations (at one time, he goes beneath a platform, so that he won’t be seen). In Skyfall, the 007 Agent (Daniel Craig) shows lots of creativity for solving problmes (at one time he climbs a moving elevator): It’s easy to insist. Most problems, though, don’t get solved this way.
I just saw A few good men (1992) for another time (I think I saw this movie more than 5 times, during the past about 20 years or so) and the top scenes more than that.
First, a clip (everybody knows your name):
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is more about freedom than anything else. Most of the times (a huge amount of the time), that freedom is used for evil. There’s this joke:
Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women … and the other ten percent I wasted
– Tug McGraw
M-am uitat acum la vreo 10 trailer-e de filme văzute anterior pe 3lăr. Anterior, acum ceva timp, am văzut mai multe trailer-e comentate pe același site. Intru din când în când pe site. Am mai scris despre ei.
Mai jos, părerea mea despre trailere, la modul general, și 3lăr, la modul specific.
Mi-au păcut, până acum, din motive diverse, următoarele filme:
Se mai adaugă un flim în listă:
Sugestia mea ar fi să vedeți filmul și abia ulterior să reveniți să citiți cele de mai jos (deși nu sunt multe lucruri cele pe care le voi spune). De asemenea, nu vă sugerez să vedeți trailerul decât după ce vedeți, mai întâi, filmul.