Bartleboom

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DeAge™ : 7610 days • Here since 9 august 2005
Christopher Nolan Dunkirk
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I liked it. Aside from the last 20 minutes, which felt a bit like "miiiii!!!! the match starts in half an hour and I still haven't written the ending." Aside from the fact that I don't really understand the point of casting Tom Hardy and showing him unmasked for less than 10 seconds. Aside from the fact that I probably would have rationed Zimmer's cocaine better. Aside from Branagh's character, who I mean, I would have made him less silly and more of a jerk. But above all, aside from the translation and dubbing, because the line "Cos'è?" "La patria" (used to translate "Home") makes a scene that would otherwise have only been cloying unbearable. But really, I enjoyed watching it.
Gabriele Salvatores Il ragazzo invisibile
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I'm watching it right now, so my judgment is partial and "wrong" because it shouldn't be done. But let's put it this way: the photography seems beautiful to me, a bit too monochromatic in some sequences, but still remarkable. The music really sounds cool. The special effects don't seem disgusting either. The problem is everything else: the story seems written by recycling ideas taken from all over the place (movies, comics, video games), it's a big minestrone of quotes and clichés from the genre, from 1940 to just yesterday, that makes anyone with even a slight familiarity with the subject blush (but then shall we talk about the kids in captivity?!? When the cool kid calls the good with numbers "fatty" and the other one replies "I'm not fat, I just have a lazy metabolism," I prayed for a napalm bombing on my roof...). But above all, the acting and the live sound recording are something that takes your breath away for their ugliness. Bentivoglio saves himself in the corner, but everyone else should be parachuted onto a Pacific atoll and forced to tell each other to go f*** themselves until they die of starvation...
Phronesis Parallax
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Beautiful page and even more beautiful mention. Unfortunately, my usual listens and musical tastes are quite far from yours, but I’m glad you made it here!
Frank Darabont Le ali della Libertà
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Anyway, right now on RaiMovie they are screening Il Ragazzo Invisibile by Salvatores. Just to talk about a movie that is truly pure garbage.
Charlie Brooker Black Mirror 4
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As far as I'm concerned, it's a decent season, but nothing more. I'll also analyze individual episodes. S P O I L E R - A - N A S T R O. USS Callister: there are some nice and funny ideas (the marketing lady turned monster who takes breaks really made me snicker), but for the rest, it's mostly a big mess in terms of writing. I dare anyone to find an acceptable logic and coherence in the mechanisms that allow the cookies to escape, what Daly does at the end, and, in general, the episode's ending. The story about the kid is really too contrived and clearly tacked on just to create a minimal amount of empathy. Arkangel starts with a very interesting idea but ends up being one of the most harmless episodes across all four seasons. We're talking about a series where, in the second episode, one was sentenced to watch the girl he fell in love with forced to do porn while high on drugs, and here the most they managed to come up with is her taking a hit from a vape without mom’s permission. Crocodile: painfully slow throughout the first half, but at least it has nice cinematography and is just dark enough. Hang the DJ: it risked being fan service aimed at all those who were blown away by San Junipero, but it redeems itself with a finale that's much more bitter than it seems. Metalhead: cool dogs, cool black-and-white, but there’s really nothing attached to it. Really old stuff, without a single interesting angle. There are at least a dozen films and video games that handle the "robot apocalypse" theme in a more innovative way. Plus, the final scene is so bleak, banal, and careless that it seriously made me want to stop watching the season. Truly the lowest point of the whole series. Black Museum, on the other hand, is a more interesting turn: the mini-story of the Doctor isn't overly original, but it’s entertaining; the monkey story – as has been rightly pointed out – is a bit of a grotesque recycling of the Christmas special. The framing story isn’t groundbreaking, but forcefully brings back an element that, for me, has always represented a plus for Black Mirror: the "eternal sentence," the idea of being trapped forever in a certain situation with no escape. Stuff that, even days after watching, I found myself thinking about with anguish.
Kylie Minogue DANCING
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"The new album 'Golden' will bring Kylie Minogue BACK to the top of the charts" killed me...
Snarky Puppy We Like It Here
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I stumbled upon this by chance, after reading the review currently on the home page about the same "group." The musical proposal is very far from my tastes and listening habits (while, of course, recognizing incredible mastery and technical expertise), but the page is a small forgotten gift that remains unknown to most. It was a beautiful pen, the fasolla.
Simply Red A New Flame
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I know it very well because at the time of its release it was an obsessive-compulsive listen for my older sister. There's no need to say that I hate it viscerally and that it's a listen that's very far from my tastes. But the review is excellent, in some ways a captivating read. Really very good.
Stratovarius Eternal
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They are hopelessly tied to a phase of my adolescence when I wouldn’t have found someone to hook up with even if the survival of the human race depended on the worm dangling from my pubis. Today, as I continue not to hook up because I’m happily married with kids, I can’t help but look at these poor souls with a touch of affection and nostalgia. So, after reading the review, I went on YouTube to listen to the album. Having only half a listen in the bag – and since I don’t think I’ll go much further – I’ll just say that the sounds are downright horrifying. It’s as if there’s a strange space-time bridge connecting 90s power, some 2000s metal sounds, and the tacky 80s electronics, the kind with the guitar-shaped keyboards used by Sandy Marton. Even a piece that’s interesting in some ways, like Lost without a trace, can’t help but oscillate between the super teased Bon Jovi of Livin' on a prayer and those ultra-technical and ultra-fabulous Japanese bands dressed like 18th-century nobility, which panapp liked so much. Especially the keyboards are really invasive: it’s been about 20 years since I’ve listened to a album by Stratostronzi and it seems to me that Johansson hasn’t moved an inch from those damn neoclassical scales from 200 that he was doing in '97, moreover using the exact same "harpsichord" effect that back then produced liters and liters of unused smegma in us poor bespectacled power metal nerds, and today makes him sound like a video game maniac obsessed with emulators and retrogaming... I’m baffled.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana
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What a beautiful page! I dedicated today to this group: in the morning, "Murder of the Universe," and in the afternoon and evening (basically, now) to this. Musically speaking, the first one resonates more with me, it seems more aligned with my usual listening habits, so I appreciated it more on my first listens. Yet, this one has an incredible charm; it sounds almost "multisensorial," with so many sensations and fascinations it inspires.