Thursday, January 24, 2008

How To Make A Ghostbusters Proton Pack



Anche in questo caso si ripresenta la stessa questione di American Gangster , visto la sera prima di Lussuria . Nel momento in cui vado al cinema a vedere un film che è stato premiato con il Leone d'oro a Venezia, mi creo delle aspettative abbastanza elevate. Tra l'altro, visto che comunque verrò malgiudicato per questo post, preciso subito che a me Ang Lee piace, in alcuni casi anche parecchio. This time, however, did not have it done.
During the occupation of China by Japan, Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei) is being drawn into the ranks of the resistance by the friends of the opera house company. Then pretends to be Mrs. Mak to hit Mr. Yee (Tony Leung), a man at the top of the collaborationist government. To gain the trust of its goal, the young actress takes advantage of the irresistible attraction that Mr. Yee feels for her, but ending up hopelessly involved in the consequences of his actions.
erotic drama with shades and historical-political reality in Lust is not in full any of the above premises. As drama it lacks the passion necessary so that even the sex scenes, as explicit (or perhaps because of it) seem to turn just for the sake of doing so. The historical context is well then leave them out, without any deeper than two corpses thrown into the ground. Mahjong will also be a good game, but after ten scenes of ladies who spend their time playing, it begins to simmer. It must be said, however, that Ang Lee knows his job done, as in the past has done much, much better, and that's why the bottom Lust remains a successful movie in half, that accuracy is half of the acting of Tony Leung. For the rest of little else and diluted in a long time, with the risk of boring the viewer, che pochi giorni dopo si dimenticherà ciò che ha visto.

Voto: 6 / 10

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Art And Science Bedside

American Gangster

Nel momento in cui si decide di pubblicizzare un film presentandolo come "epico, ai livelli de Il padrino", chiunque si rende conto che si sta già cercando di ingannarlo. Insomma, un film potrà anche essere bello, anche molto bello, ma paragonarlo con uno dei film che ha fatto la storia del cinema non gioverà certo alla sua immagine, senza contare che si corre il rischio di deludere inevitabilmente le aspettative (esagerate) degli spettatori. Quindi tu, che hai ideato la campagna promozionale di American Gangster , sei pregato di cambiare lavoro.
Nella New York dei primi 70, after being for years the right arm of a boss in Harlem, Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) decides to set up his own criminal organization, relying on the selling of pure heroin, imported directly from Bangkok by air traffic of 'U.S. Army. Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) is a narcotics cop, corrupt ostracized by colleagues and abandoned by his frustrated wife. The first is a man of "strong principles", the other is an immoral, there are two trains running in opposite directions, and that will come into conflict with no possibility of mediation.
Ridley Scott returns to a genre most congenial to him after the misstep of A Good Year, continuing to run with his favorite actor Russell Crowe. The great Australian actor's interpretation, supported the other as good Denzel Washington, but not enough to make American Gangster the masterpiece that the director wanted. In other words, was bitten off a little more chew. As regards the form, I think the story of two parallel stories is a bit 'too cumbersome, while the content of the film I would say that some potentially explosive issues such as the spread of heroin could be addressed with more depth, or at least a eye a bit 'more critical. What he shot Scott, a far cry from the masterpieces of Coppola, Scorsese and Lumet is a solid film, well done, but that certainly will not enter into history. In fact, Lucas is not Corleone, and Roberts is not Serpico. Promotional campaign aside, we expected something more.

Rating: 7 / 10

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Size Of Tragus Piercing

Paranoid Park

Welcome to the second episode, after Atonement, the series "if I had seen before, it entered the charts at the end of year." Too bad that, due to the closure of a film club that could lead to Vicenza hardest to find all the movies, things come around here with a month late. Unless you are satisfied with De Sica, but it is not my case and I hope it is not even yours.
Alex (Gabe Nevins) is a teenage skater who wanders without ideals and without suction in an empty city. The only times when you feel alive are those who pass on his table, especially after discovering that Paranoid Park is the title of the film. One night, unintentionally causes the death of a guard monitoring and will then have to deal with their guilt.
The description of the plot is certainly simplistic, but in fact what makes Paranoid Park a great film is not so much what happens, but as it is told. The training of the protagonist, including the disadvantaged family and guilt, between the "girlfriend" and the pervasive sense of belonging a una comunità che tale non è, procede senza colpi di scena, in maniera quasi apatica, e viene seguito dal regista con un freddo distacco che rispecchia in fondo l'atteggiamento di Alex nei confronti del mondo che gli sta intorno. Gus Van Sant, dopo il passo indietro di Last Days , torna ad avanzare sul proprio cammino artistico con un'opera fatta di pochi ma intelligenti dialoghi e di immagini ispirate e ispiranti. La narrazione a incastro, che poteva appesantire lo svolgimento del racconto, riesce invece a risultare naturale come la brillante recitazione del protagonista Gabe Nevins, alla sua prima interpretazione. La poesia di alcune scene rende giustizia al premio ricevuto a Cannes dal regista, che conferma (come se ce ne fosse bisogno) their talent.

Rating: 8 / 10

Friday, January 11, 2008

12v Battery For Pop Up Camper

I Am Legend


Not having seen the two previous film adaptations of the homonymous book by Richard Matheson, I have not read, and Avedo not even seen the first film directed by Francis Lawrence , Constantine, the expectations for this movie I was sufficiently high and free from any kind of injury. Actually the contrary, the presence of Will Smith and his performance from one-man-show made me hope to see a work more than adequate.
Three years after the outbreak of an epidemic that has wiped out almost the entire population of the Earth and turned the remainder into a sort of undead that wander in the darkness, Robert Neville (Will Smith) is the last man left on the planet. Accompanied by his dog Sam, the survivor spends his days trying to find a cure to degenerative disease of the "zombies" and pulling out as it can to meet their physical and psychological needs.
The fascinating history of the last man on earth is well known to all and is easy for Lawrence to maintain a high level of attention of the viewer inserting the description of the unusual life of the protagonist with more action scenes in which it must deal with the beings around him. Although these were not made very well on screen, and you wonder why computer use graphic when just a good makeup artist, give moments of tension is not indifferent, and some jump on the chair is made without batting an eyelid. However, despite yet another confirmation of the quality of Smith as an actor, the rest of the film leaves something 'to be desired. Will the dialogues, since they are only a few could be written in a somewhat 'deeper will be the plot, just after the mid-film comedians to crack, will be the aforementioned villains , that ultimately are little more than mediocre, but what comes out at the end is a movie that can thrill and that certainly looks happy, but that probably would have said something more. Luckily, there is Will Smith.

Rating: 7 / 10

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

What Happens At Deworm

Rescue Dawn


Since I found out that he went out, I waited with anxiety and trepidation that Rescue Dawn was released in Italy. Months have passed but has not yet seen anything on the horizon, which is why I am committed to recover at least a vision in the original language (which I'm glad I did), though it continues to ask the reason for this ignorance. In the end, although I'm not a marketing expert, I believe that it is not just a movie unsaleable. Another of the many mysteries of the Italian distribution.
Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) is a German-born American pilot during the war in Vietnam is sent to accomplish a secret mission over Laos. Shot down by enemy machine guns, was captured, tortured and incarcerated in a prison camp of the Pathet Lao. Together with five other fellow detainees, including the soldier Dwaine Martin (Steve Zahn), Dieter organizes a lucky escape she can tear to which they would face certain death.
Taking the story (really happened) of his own documentary I want to fly the small Dieter , dated 1997, Werner Herzog directing a war movie after all that is not strictly military issue but should be seen as an introspective film about the psychological condition the prison and its various aspects. Rescue Dawn è un film quasi sempre sussurrato, basato principalmente sulla capacità attoriale sovrumana di Christian Bale e sulle doti, fin'ora nascoste, di Steve Zahn. Anche Jeremy Davies, che interpreta un altro prigioniero del campo, lascia esterrefatti con la sua abilità. L'effetto di realisimo poi è stato ottenuto dal dimagrimento esagerato a cui si sono sottoposti gli attori, che hanno perso rispettivamente 25 kg, 18 kg e 15 kg. Mi auguro che Bale abbia un dietologo, perché se continua così si rischia di giocarselo, e per il cinema contemporaneo sarebbe una perdita inimmaginabile.

Voto: 8 / 10

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Derivative Interview Question




Per la serie "se l'avessi visto prima, sarebbe entrato in the ranking of year-end "is the second film by Joe Wright, who has been very successful around the world after the Venice Film Festival, but that I had not yet had occasion to see. Another film that contributes to the glory of Keria Knightley, actress so beautiful (and in some cases fairly good), but starts a bit 'to simmer with the attitude "Prezzemolina.
In a summer day in 1935, the thirteen year old Briony Tallis reads a letter sent Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) to his sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and confused by what he has read and seen the same evening, the boy accused of raping his cousin fifteen. Their paths diverge, Robbie goes to prison and then ends enlisted in France, Cecilia becomes a nurse severing all contact with family, Briony decides to follow the path of his sister, although there is no longer a link to unite them. What will become of their destinies, so divided as united by a tragic error of childhood and so difficult to reconcile?
Joe Wright, a young British director in his second film after Pride and Prejudice, choose another adaptation from a famous book (though I have not yet, read). This time the film look better and it leaves a film more mature and successful, thanks to a subject more interesting and I think a wiser use of the medium, as evidenced by the beautiful and everywhere the plan in order set on the beach at Dunkirk. Even the choice of telling certain facts twice, to provide different versions of the narratives of those who lived them, is a welcome choice, though not particularly original. To support the evidence of Wright, however, attention should be fine and with a cast, especially in the case of James McAvoy, a discovery for me. It should be noted, finally, the beautiful Italian Dario Marianelli soundtrack, which accompanies the film without being intrusive.

Rating: 8 / 10