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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Mainly a musical
Yes this is mainly a musical movie and a great one, the dramatic plot being a pretext but well conceived and acted. Joaquin Phoenix (the Joker) is a great actor and performs an excellent part in a complicated one. The plot is about his double personality as Arthur Fleck. In custody at Arkham State Hospital awaiting trial for the crimes he committed before and as the Joker, a great comedian who has lots of fans who even want that he becomes free. We will then follow his trial where he dismisses his lady lawyer and also simultaneously his love affair with Harleen "Lee" another patient at the Hospital. This has several dramatic events including a severe bomb explsion thet destroys thr court room and kills and injuries several people. This is an excellent movie including visual tchnique and acting perfrormance.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
A ghost story
Though an attractive one. The story is rather poor but images save the movie with dramatic explosions in scenes with people, the characters' action and the ghosts amusing themselves and living together with living people or being familiar with everyone but sometimes also suffering. The plot story reposes itself in the events that follow the Detz family tragedy. Its three generations return home to Winter River and have to face the mischievous ghost Beetlejuice when he wickedly appears after his name is said three times. This movie is indeed full of action that keeps you interested and attentive. All he actors and actresses do an excellent job.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Documentary style
This is a curious movie with practically no acting performers but showing with realist scenes, images and talks the real life of a black community in Alabama Hale County. It's vivid and lively and we can see how that people lives and talks and fights and suffers drama or enjoy something like playing basketball for instance. It is a pleasant movie to watch since it disposes us well with these people's lives like if we were living with them indeed. It's seldom that we see a movie of this kind looking like a documentary with no plot or special action. It disposes us well and it is very well directed and edited.
Jeanne du Barry (2023)
True history
Good recorded events of the past and real faithful reproduction of 18th century French Court. The entire life of Jeanne Du Barry, a girl socially low who has a strong will to rise in social life for which she uses her splendid charms on which she is very rich. When very young she begins to be interned in a religious convent from which she was expelled for her readings didn't please the nuns. Later she becomes the Count Du Barry's lover and he wants to introduce her to the King Louis XV. And he organizes a meeting for that purpose. She and the King fall in love with each other and she becomes his official favourite. Maïwenn as Jeanne and Johnny Depp as the King do excellent jobs.
Al-murashahat al-muthalia (2019)
Life in Saudi Arabia
Like it's told in this excelent movie in terms of direction, images and scenery and the actresses performances.
This is the short story (but meaningful) of Maryam, a young doctor in a small town clinic who decides to run the risk of running for her local city elections despite being a woman who in Saudi Arabia is far for an advantage due to the general opposition men do to women. That opposition (somewhat disguised) is even also from her own family (father and younger sister).
However she behaves courageously and faces all the opposition, showing no fear at all. This movie shows an aspect ol life in Saudi Arabia mainly in what refers to women.
One Life (2023)
This is a true story
I mean it happened indeed in real life and it is a great realistic movie with Anthony Hopkins doing an excellent role as Nicholas Winton who ln 1938 went to Prague and rescued 669 children most of them Jewish from the Nazis who were about to invade Czechoslovakia, acting to lead them to Uk safely. Later on he began to suffer of psychological guilt, feeling that he should have rescued more children and was guilty of not having done it. At the end of the movie, however, a TV show introduced him to several adults who were surviving children he had saved and this has put an end to his grief that had tormented him for about 50 years. This was well shown in the movie including repeated past scenes of the 1938 events.
The Souvenir (2019)
Romantic
Romantic but also realistic. Julie is a young film student who is trying to make a film telling the story of a young boy and his mother in Sunderland. It is not very easy and she is worrying about what her professors will think of that. Meanwhile she goes to class and attends parties with her film school friends. She meets Anthony who works for the government and from then on her life is complicated since she fells in love with him and they begin to live together. That does not go well since Anthony has a troubling and mysterious behaviour going in and out very often till Julie discovers that he is consuming heroin. At a certain time he becomes overdosed and dies. She returns to school and her film after having lost her former innocence. All this is well shown and performed by all the cast.
Priscilla (2023)
real story
This movie is based on a book written by Priscilla, a former wife of the famous rock and roll famous star Elvis Presley. This means that the story is real. If it is true or not in every detail we don't know and it is not very interesting. The teen age girl, Priscilla, and Elvis fell in love with each nother and we don't know exactly how their first meeting happened. Then they got married but their mariage was not very happy since Elvis was often absent due to his acting career. And Priscilla was still a student and her work was also not very well performed. This is not a bad movie but not a good one either. So so.
Amelia's Children (2023)
Too dark
This movie is rather uninteresting. Too dark images even in extremely violent scenes where it is difficult to understand who is beating whom. The story is simple though a bit confusing. Edward was kidnapped while a baby (we don't know by whom and whereto). Now he appears as adult and with a strong wish to search for his biological parents and family. He lives now in USA and has an American girlfrend, Ryley who helps him in his search. He begins by subjecting is DNA to investigation and we don't exactly how, he finds who his lost mother and twin brother are and where they live. He goes to meet them at their home. But instead of meeting friendly surroundings he soon finds himself seeing a monstrous secret that acts violently against him and Ryley. A movie with several lacks in its story.
Ferrari (2023)
Men and machines
A brilliant movie telling us the story of Enzo Ferrari a real ex-racecar driver that now (1957 summer) is changed into a famous car company entrepreneur facing bankruptcy. This splendid movie is based in true real events happening in Italy at that time. Ferrari's company was set up by him and his wife Laura (Penelope Cruz, an excellent character). Therefore he tries to save things by entering a great race, the Mille Miglia, that runs 1.000 miles across Italy, putting well known drivers there. However his private life is not going well since he has a bad relationship with is wife Laura among other reasons because of an adulterous case he has with the beautiful Lina (Shailene Woodley). The most amazing aspect of this movie is the womdeful filmimg of the car races.
Hancock (2008)
The superhero story
John Hancock is a superhero with superpowers (he can even fly) who uses them to protect people against crime, to fight criminaks and saving lives. But he becomes alcoholic and clumsy and while doing these good actions he also damages and destroys property which makes people to hate him. He saves PR expert Ray Embrey of being hit by an oncoming train and some odd friendship is born betwenn them since Ray tries to make him a good hero again. Ray introduces him to his wife and his son Aaron who is Hancock's fan. An odd relationship starts also between Hancock and Mary, Ray's wife, who is discovered to be also a superwoman who had lived with Hancock many centuries ago. But she dislikes his behaviour and their relationship is broken with everything turning to normal and she returning to her husband Ray. This movie is full of fighting and violent scenes technically very good.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Poor story indeed
This is supposed to be a sci-fi story but it is too poor even for that for lack of useful imagination. So simple as this:
AN unidentified space object is approaching Earth at a terribly high speed threatening too strike awfully against it at the New York area. But the object slows down and it shows itself as a large sphere that brings an alien being and a huge robot with extraordinary power. The alien being reveals itself with a human-like form. The authorities try to fight the threat since the alien being whose name is Klaatu tells that he has come to save the Earth of destruction by extrateterrestrial powers. Dr. Helen Benson is a scientist that is summoned by the military to help them to understand the threat and fight it. But it happens that Dr. Benson and Klaatu quickly sympathize with each other and she helps him to evade persecution and convinces him to save mankind since what is planned is to save the Earth but killing human mankind. That is the whole story told even with poor Images and talking scenes.
Bait (2000)
Too complicated
Too full of dramatic troubles and problems. Not a good movie but not a bad one either since it keeps you entertained for the whole time of the casting. The small-time thief Alvin Sanders gets himself in a lot of troubles and vexations since the time on which he gets himself jailed for stealing some prawns from a restaurant and is put in a cell with John Jaster a high-tech criminal thief whose team had stolen $42.000.000 of gold from the Federal Reserve. Since Jaster had a bad heart condition and is afraid to die he uses Alvin to find the whereabouts of the gold that is hidden somewhere. This puts Alvin into a lot of troubles and fights even violent.. This keeps you arrentive and entertained through the whole movie time.
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Too complicated
Too complicated. Everything begins when in 1920 oil is found in the Osage Nation land in Oklahoma. The situation is a bit mysterious when the Osage people begin to be murdered one after one by the whites of course. This despite the fact that there are important interracial marriages when some white men marry Osage girls. Murders happen also in these mixed families although by personal motives based on material wealth greed. The parts are greatly performed by excellent actors and actresses such as Leonardo DiCaprio as Ernest Burkhart, Lily Gladstone as Moliie Burkhart and Robert De Niro as William Hale. Mollie and Ernest fell in love with each other and get married. Mollie is an Osage and Ernest a white man. A excellent movie to be seen.
Life (2017)
It entertains
This is not exactly what we would call a good movie, just an entertainment one. Just because its story doesn't offer itself more. One of its aspects is however good: the visual scenes, effeects and images of the space ship interior with all its gadgets, machines, appliances and instruments. The movie story and plot is very simple and can be summed up like that: a scientist space ship with a six member crew travels in the space near Mars when it meets a living creature that invades the ship and attacks its crew kiling even four of them. That creature begins to be a small cell but it keeps growing and growing till it becomes a strange monster full of aggressive tentacles. The whole movie projection is the fight of the crew with that being until only two survivors remain in the end coming back to Earth. It keeps you entertained around two hours or so.
Coup de chance (2023)
How is infidelity?
I appreciate Woody Allen's movies. He always tells stories about common ordinary people to whom unpredictable things (but sometimes also usual) happen. This is the case in this movie where Fanny and Jean live a happy marriage, loving each other deeply till thr moment when Fanny unpredictably meets Alain. An old high school fellow starting a love relatiomship after a short friendship one. This turns out into drama even a violent one when Jean knows Fanny's infidelity and arranges a plan to get Alain secretly killed. When Fanny's mother suspects it and tries to investigate it, Jean also plans to kill her himself but ends up by being killed by mistake by a hunter in a forest. This is a well made movie in every aspect but the story is not particularly interesting.
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Some rehearsal
And some problems because the theatre rehearsal woman director wants the young actress Madeline to have a great performance. The whole movie is the story of a theatre rehearsal where the actors and actresses talk to each other about their lives and problems. The young Madeline brings psychologically her personal troubles to her rehearsal performance mainly those who derive from her relationship with her mother. She performs this very well being adnired by the director and by the other performers. This is well shown in all the scenes by the performers' talent, chiefly by the young Madeline's character.
Palombella rossa (1989)
Almost meaningless movie
And a bit full one. Michele, a Communist party member and a water-polo player has lost his memory due to a car accident. But strangely indeed he goes on playing water-polo while the other players and the trainer coach try to animate him and lead him to remember scenes of his past. And this is all along the movie. Michele has a strange behaviour and speech, talking often of the communist party and what commuism means and wants in society. There are also a few scenes of Michele when he was a child, a rebel one. It ends "tragically" (!!!!!!) when Michele fails a penalty in a water-polo game that would have given victory to his team. A poor plot as a matter of fact. And we don't even understand what is the relationship between the movie title, "Little red dove" and the movie content.
Alien (1979)
Unintersting movie
Because pratically it has no valuable plot. Only the sequence of a series of sometimes violent scenes caused by the sudden presence of a strange living unknown creature that must be chased and killed or expelled. This occurs in a spaceship where its crew is turning home And that is all about this movie along its projection. The positive thing is only the real conception of the apaceship interior with all its apparatus, tools appliances, machines and buttons. At a certain moment the scientist member of the crew reveals himself of being a robot for the surprise of the others. It ends by the death of all the crew nenbers except one that manages herself to get away before the final explosion and destruction of the spaceship. And that is all.
Bones and All (2022)
Inadmissible
Cannibalism is a crime that cannot be justified of disguised by any romantic relationships. And the characters of this movie are all or almost all cannibals and some of them even kill people and eat them.. It doesn't matter if they have problems physical or psychological. Therefore a movie about cannibals has no interest at all despite the the fact that some of them have another problems or even fall in love with one another. The story is about a young girl that leaves her home after being abandoned by her father and travels along USA looking for her mother she practically never had met. In the course of this she meets a young man who is a disenfranchised drifter and they fall in love with each other. After a fight in which he was badly wound he asks her to eat him after he dies. Incredible movie.
Barbie (2023)
Cute movie
This is the story of old doll Barbie (since many years ago but presented here as a young beautiful woman). She is suffering a crisis about herself and her existence and wants to go to the real world to have it solved. We see nice images from the real world and the Barbie's world and see several other Barbie doll types all along the movie. This story develops itself by a lot of conflicts mainly because at a certain time her lover Ken betrays her and tries to be the leader of Barbie's world which makes Barbie and her allies to fight him and his followers till the end in several intricate scenes till he is defeated and Barbie becomes a real woman with the help of Ruth, her creator. Not a particularly good movie in terms of story but technically excellent.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Terrific movie
But well presented in an almost permanent hurricane of violent fighting, chase and explosions. The last battle is terrific indeed. The story can be summed like that: The main problem is a deadly virus crated by the terrorist group Eteon which can be very dangerous for the world and mankind. Of course it is necessary to take the virus off Eteon's hands. It begins by Hattie Shaw, a MI6 agent seizing the virus during a fight with Eneon's agents and injecting it in her right hand. After that the movie develops itself in the chase Eteon's agents move to Hattie to get the virus back. Then she is helped by her brother Desmond and Luke Hobbs, a friend. The three fly to Samoa, Hobbs birthday home where his family still lives and all ends in a fierce battle when Eteon's agents invade Samoa to be defeated by the tree with the help of Samoans. A not particularly good movie but that keeps your attention till the end.
My Friend Dahmer (2017)
Youth life
And behaviour. This movie tells the story of Jeff Dahmer as a high school student in his relationship with colleagues. It is based on Jeff's real biography since he existed a a real person, a serial killer who has killed lots of youngsters, dismembered them and even cooked and ate parts of their bodies. The movie doesn't show anything of this, only the strange behaviour of a young student maybe cruel to animals, killing them and -- as he himself told -- dissolving them in acid. I hope that during the film shooting no animals, either fishes or cats, were really killed since this is totally forbidden in cinema. All the young actors and actresses do a good job but the story is uninteresting.
Elemental (2023)
Too many explosions
But a good animation movie anyway. The main theme is the opposition and contradiction between fire and water here shaped as human beings. The two main characters are Ember a fire girl whose hair is in flames and Wade a water boy whose body is full or running water. Besides their natural opposition and even hate they end up by falling in love with each other,overcoming tenderly that bad relationship. The movie is full of expressive characters despite their fire and water shapes and forms. It is very original and pleasant to look at. Even if one doesn't like animation movies will appreciate this one.
La corrispondenza (2016)
Deep love story
A deep love relationship develops itself between Ed Phoerum, a professor and astronomer and Amy Ryan, a young student and movie actress, despite the fact that not only she is much younger than him but also they are apart and at some distance from each other, seldom meeting physically. But he sends her videos with passionate messages. He suffers a sudden death (he was very ill) which does not impede their relationship going ahead like if he was still alive because he had a plan consisting of having written many messages to her and made some videos that without her knowledge he has given to people he knew with the charge of giving them to her at periodic dates coinciding with some important events of her life . This combines her anguish with the pleasure she has on reading his messages (in letter form) and watching his videos and led her to look for those people to get information and take the letters and videos. A quite strange story but well told, directed, acted and filmed.