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Classificone Atonement Bee Movie 2007

1. Letters from Iwo Jima

2. Ratatouille

3. The Lives of Others

4. Zodiac

5. I'm Not There

6. Promises

7. Hot Fuzz

8. The Bourne Ultimatum - The Return of the Jackal

9. An Inconvenient Truth

10. My Brother is an Only Child

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I was taught to not judge a book by its cover, and it is a maxim that I try to follow as far as possible, but sometimes I think we can abandon their prejudices. Bee Movie falls quietly in one of these cases. The wordplay of the title already says enough, as the production house leaves little room for hope to see a good movie, but once again I wanted to have confirmation of my ideas and, once again, I had . I was hoping for an unexpected surprise, but I was more than disappointed.
Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) is a bee who graduates choose not to enter into the rhythm of the monotonous life of a hive and out to discover the world. After meeting with the lovely Vanessa Bloome (Renée Zellweger), a woman with whom Barry holds a special friendship Apesco breaking the rule that prohibits talking to humans, the protagonist discovers that the bee humans steal honey bees and therefore a lawsuit intent to all producers of honey. Won the case, honey bees are compensated and they stop producing it again, causing the decay of all the flowers in the world. Once again, Barry is to fix things.
If the plot seems rambling, well, you're right. Indeed Bee Movie is a film that basically does not go to parry nowhere, turning in on itself and on a number of developed plots and subplots in a rough and approximate. It is not that yet another "box" that departs from DreamWorks branded good premise but ends up wasting quite wrong to concentrate on. It seems that in the original language is better, grazie al doppiaggio di Jerry Seinfeld (talentuoso comico americano), ma di tutto questo non c'è traccia nella versione italiana. Almeno c'è da baciarsi le mani per non essere stati costretti a subirsi il doppiaggio di qualche personaggio televisivo italiano.

Voto: 4 / 10

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The Book of Secrets The Golden Compass


Come scrivevo qualche post fa, da piccolo io sono cresciuto a pane e Indiana Jones. Lo scrivo per spiegare (o giustificare, fate voi) la mia passione per le avventure che si spostano da un luogo all'altro, con la bella di turno e l'aiutante un po' imbranato. Tre anni fa infatti il primo film della serie National Treasure , da noi Il mistero dei Templari , mi had sufficiently amused, despite its implausibility and sconclusionatezza that pushed the cinema to see this sequel shabby.
After the success due to the discovery of the treasure of the Templars, the life of Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) has suffered a setback. After being dumped by his girlfriend Abigail (Diane Kruger), the coup de grace comes from an illustrious stranger (Ed Harris) who declares to the world that the great-grandfather of the protagonist was part of the conspiracy that cost the life of Abraham Lincoln. To redeem the reputation of the anus, Gates brings together the old team and goes in search of another treasure in a position to prove the innocence of his family.
As is often followed for of blockbuster and was as well provided by the good kekkoz , the writers can not invent anything new, and then proceed to write the plot of the new film is the accumulation and exaggerating few qualities of the original film. It The Book of Secrets fact, the director and screenwriters have ended up exacerbating the "style" of the film, suggesting mysteries improbable gags are predictable and boring dialogues. Even the stellar cast of the film manages to hold on a show too long and too little fun. Even the lovely Diane Kruger looks less attractive in this production, not to mention of course the passing of Queen Elizabeth II by Helen Mirren in artificial mother Nicolas Cage's big baby: unforgivable.

Rating: 4 / 10

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About a decade ago, at Christmas time, my father gave me The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. Since then I've always remembered as a pleasant and very intelligent book, for which I feel still a mixture of affection and nostalgia. The debate between film and books is as old as the same except for some fine art and eighth occasion often resolves in favor on paper. I do not believe to be a fundamentalist thing, but this film is yet another disappointment of loyal readers and hopeful.
Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is a student at Jordan College, Oxford. Like every human being is constantly accompanied by her daemon, an animal that represents the embodiment of his soul, in his case Pantalaimon. Niece of Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig), followed by Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman) as his protégé before discovering the evil nature and helped to escape to the North from the tribe of Gyptians. Aided by these and polar the bear Iorek Byrnison, will try to put an end to the disappearances of children and senior Gobblers.
First part of the trilogy His Dark Materials , The Golden Compass The story begins abruptly leaving the viewer in suspense, but without the certainty that the rest of the work is completed. In fact, Chris Weitz, orphaned brother Paul, he wrote and directed an adaptation that leaves much to be desired. It will blame the mandatory reduction of the plot, will be guilty of a lack of talent, will be the fault of the pressure exerted by the controversy filocristiane (the story has many negative similarities between the Magisterium, philosophical and religious organization that controls the world in which the story takes , and the Church), the fact is that the end result is far from what one might expect. Given the rich source material was lawful to require something more, but is denied. The actors give the impression of being there just to bring home the "bread" and little else. Peter Jackson is definitely on another planet.

Rating: 5 / 10

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year I had to undo the damage of two years ago, when I went to see A History Of Violence in the lounge and waited out the stupid on DVD . Plus I did not see a movie at the cinema for a month and a half (except for Nightmare Before Christmas, but also does not hurt every now and then a novelty), it was time to remedy and to do great. What better Cronenberg's new film, praised by critics as the long-awaited formal and informal.
Anna (Naomi Watts) is a midwife of Trafalgar Hospital London and when a 14 year old Russian-born dies before his eyes, giving birth to a girl, trying to translate the diary of the girl at least to locate relatives. The book, however, turns out to be a Pandora's box riskier than expected, catapulting the young doctor in the ruthless world of Russian Mafia, in particular with the boss Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and the driver Nikolai (Viggo Mortensen). After
A History Of Violence David Cronenberg directed a second time a huge Viggo Mortensen in a movie to remember and revise, where style dry and cool Canadian film is a tearful eye on the inevitable violence of this world. Immigration, organized crime, racism, abortion are just some of the issues addressed by Cronenberg, but it directs the target with particular attention to the issue of identity and, as noted above, and violence. The characters are immersed in a world without names, in which a person's story is told by his tattoos and its origins.
There is much more to say about this film (and in fact nothing to prevent a review of this post), but it's worth, I'm not good enough with the keyboard. The solution therefore is the most obvious: go see it.

Rating: 8 / 10

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Nightmare Before Christmas


I remember like it was yesterday the day when I went to see Nightmare Before Christmas for the first time. It was 1993 and my father and I were at the cinema course, a room which is now unfortunately become a colony for sewer rats. After 14 years I returned to the cinema and although many things have changed (this time I went with friends in a multiplex, and omit any nostalgic drift), the emotions that the inhabitants of the land of Halloween are capable of arousing the same as when I was a child.
Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King and is the leader of the monsters who every year deal with the terrors of Halloween, but he grew up in dissatisfaction and a sense of inadequacy due to the monotony of their work. The solution is revealed to him when they accidentally end up in the city of Christmas and decides to bring the party Dicembrino among his fellow citizens. Things do not go according to plan, but the heroic Jack will manage, and in its way, to organize a special Christmas for everyone.
Tim Burton, creator and producer (and a true deus ex machina to the transaction) and Henry Selick, director, lead a fairy tale on the screen darker and sweeter than the history of animation, a real masterpiece in which technical and feelings blend with a synergy rarely replicated (if not the same in Burton 2005 or master of the house Pixar). It 'amazing how after so many years and so many visions (for me at least a year, at Christmas time) Nightmare Before Christmas is still able to excite the audience with his beautiful songs and characters enthralling. The perfect stop motion animation , the irresistible music, the vivid colors, large and small are brilliant are just a few aspects of a film should be seen at least once in their lifetime. In my case, it even managed to make me appreciate Renato Zero (Voiced by Jack Skellington in the singing of the Italian version)

Rating: 10 / 10

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The Bourne Ultimatum - The Return of the Jackal


The cinematic adventures inspired by the books by Robert Ludlum come finally to the third (and in theory last) chapter. At this point, fans of action cinema should already begin to feel nostalgia for a trilogy that brought new life to a genre that seemed to be permanently channeled to a scripted destiny. To the world of gadgets and exotic locations ultrateconologici, the Bourne series it opposes a more credible, more real, in which the protagonist is a special man, but at the same time characterized by a number of weaknesses that make it closer to the viewer. Perhaps it was this one of the basic ingredients of his success, of course, the quality of the combined fund artistic production.
Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is always closer to the discovery of his own identity after years of research and revenge. But if Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) is willing to lend a hand or at least try to bring it back safe and sound all'internod ell'Agenzia, the vice-director Noah Vosen (David Sthrathairn) does not think the same way and look at all ways to eliminate the Eyewitness Project Treadstone and Blackbriar. In Turin, London, Moscow and Tangiers, the final battle will take place in New York, taking the tram when it stopped at the end of The Bourne Supremacy . Screenwriter Tony Gilroy
precisely the narrative resumes in anticipation of the end of the film Previous (whose screenplay was always his) and ricollegandocisi with the progress of events toward the end of this. An unusual plot, but it fits perfectly with the frantic director Paul Greengrass, but never chaotic, even took him back to the adventures of Bourne, who manages masterfully to keep up the adrenaline level of the viewer for the almost two hours film. The final approval and then goes to the cast, both veterans like Damon Allen and the "newbies" as Sthrathairn and Finney, a selection of players, perhaps not known to the general public (except for Damon) but able to bring to the screen a series of interpretations truly worthy of note.

Rating: 8 / 10