Bartleboom

DeRank : 35,89
DeAge™ : 7610 days • Here since 9 august 2005
Lorenzo Lotto Ritratto di giovane uomo
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At times, I almost overlooked this new Debaserian purchase, which, as far as I can tell, is achieving considerable success. To be honest, it reminds me too much of an old user who loved to scatter the breadcrumbs of his multiple nicknames' existences, so that they would end up being consumed by anyone who was good-hearted enough to believe him. A talented one, in my opinion often very talented, in almost all his manifestations. But these are just similarities, nothing more. Welcome - albeit belatedly - serenella.
Ilya Naishuller Hardcore!
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I agree with those who say that this was more or less a "mandatory step." If we add Oculus and a few other psychobiotechnological gadgets to Hardcore, we realize that the path to well-executed virtual reality and the "clips" from Strage Days by Bigelow isn’t that long after all. The problem is that as a film it only works halfway: there are a handful of really cool scenes (in my memory and personal taste, I’d say the best is definitely the van chase), but the whole series of gimmicks to make the protagonist "move" is cloying and - unbelievable and almost paradoxical - the dialogue parts end up sounding almost superfluous... In other words: screw the plot, just show me the blonde once in a while and then let me have the beatdowns.
Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro Narcos
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No comment?!?!? I'm baffled... In any case, my judgment on this series I wrote in a comment a few days ago: I didn't like it. Apart from Wagner's strong performance (very impressive) and a couple of other actors, to which I would add Murphy's wife who annoys me, the rest is a product that leaves no marks and, in fact, in its central part bores to death. The first episodes promise well, but then it all takes a politically uninteresting turn, handled very roughly, superficially. I don't think I'll watch the second season.
Church of Misery Houses Of The Unholy
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Ahhhhh how many memories! By the way, just a few weeks ago the excellent Caraglione/DarkHaem/Carbonized/Axio m/Lola (and who knows how many others) brilliantly passed the last exam of his master's degree in nothingology. And to think it’s only been SEVEN YEARS since he was writing on this page!! Now he just needs a couple more years for his thesis and he’ll find himself unemployed in a buzzwing!
Dan Trachtenberg 10 Cloverfield Lane
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As far as I'm concerned, a huge missed opportunity. The premise was intriguing, the direction is good, Goodman, I don’t want to overstate, but he might just deliver his best performance ever (and it’s incredible how he uses his physicality to come across not as a jolly Santa in civvies, but as an unbeatable molok), I would marry Winstead yesterday... too bad that the writing showed no willingness to take risks. The screenplay feels almost listless, leaving out too many pieces, settling for banal and autopilot dialogues. And the ending doesn't even work as a spectacle. I read on, I can't remember which site, the script of the original ending, and it seemed to me moooooooolto more intriguing! Really a shame...
Children of Bodom In Your Face
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In fact, a couple of those you rightly called "panther-like riffs" (or something like that: I’d have to scroll up to go back to the review and I can't be bothered) are actually quite nice. But the sounds, for heaven's sake, are something that immediately expels your small intestine... Surely it's also my fault for not keeping up with the times and having my ear unaccustomed to certain sonorities, but at a certain point it seems like instead of a snare drum there’s the fiber cement roof of my aunt's house. But then will Laiho ever manage to prove he’s more than 15 years old, or will he still look like he just found an effective cure for acne in 2070? And who are these people still able to find someone to sign contracts with them? And why in the metal world is there no one capable of shooting a video that’s even slightly less embarrassing than that of a first communion where you shit your pants in church? Who knows.
Dinosaur Jr. Glive A Glimpse of what yer not
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Written even more randomly than usual. Disrespectfully more randomly than usual.
Charlie Kaufman Anomalisa
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As far as I'm concerned, a little gem of a film. The narrative device where all the characters, except for the protagonists, share the same voice is an incredibly effective intuition in its simplicity. There are many gems scattered throughout the duration of the film (e.g., the scene in the "toy" store, but also the long sex scene - it's very right to highlight its "humanity") and the nightmare sequence, which, although a bit cliché, is practically a short film within the movie that might alone be worth the price of admission. Beautiful and (oh) bitterly so, the ending. And you do a great job discussing it.
Gore Verbinski Rango
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I remember seeing it downloaded, in a quite shady version for video and audio. So I forcibly skip everything related to the technical department, but I trust it (I seem to recall that the western/desert atmosphere and the related play of lights were rendered masterfully: stuff that really made you feel "thirsty" just watching it). As for the rest: I don't know if I'm remembering it wrong or if, much more simply (and more probably), I don't understand a damn thing about films. However, I do clearly remember watching it with my girlfriend and a couple of friends, and the credits found all four of us soundly asleep in very uncomfortable positions. And I also remember that the protagonist evoked the same likability as a mythical being born from the sinful union of Pieraccioni and Giovanardì...
Stephen King Cose Preziose
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I hadn't read a King book in about ten years. Then I found this one in the airport bookstore (by the way, a very similar dynamic to that in the book!!!). It's cute, but in my opinion, it falls a bit short of the true masterpieces of the King. The premise is quite intriguing, but the narrative formula is the classic one of the author’s ensemble novels, and I don't know about you, but I can usually tell after three lines whether he's telling something truly interesting or relevant to the development of the story, or if I'm faced with yet another, overly lengthy and sometimes completely unnecessary ellipsis, where to talk about someone, he starts detailing the dog of the grandmother of the neighbor of his ex-wife. The novel seemed really unnecessarily long to me: it has a nice climax for the first 400 pages, wisely used to set up the mechanism of the "pranks," but then it suffers a very noticeable drop in narrative tension, and I really struggled to keep going.