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Ben Affleck Argo
Ben Affleck Argo
14 may 13
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Honestly, I don't understand this widespread enthusiasm. It seemed to me to be a decent film, but little more. It starts off very well, tight, serious, with the right cinematography and the right pace. It indulges in a successful Hollywood-style middle section, but at a certain point, I think it risks making the whole thing feel like a farce reminiscent of Ocean's Eleven. Then, however, it just can't help itself, it fails to resist, and it becomes the usual "robba ammerighana." I don’t know, but whenever I hear a line like "I can't guarantee anything, but I ask you to trust me" or "I’m here to save your life," I almost always feel like my credibility goes out the window. I don't consider myself an expert in cinema and I confess I didn't watch many films last year, but if this one even won an Oscar, maybe we’re in a bit of a bad place.
Elio e le Storie Tese L'Album Biango
Elio e le Storie Tese L'Album Biango
13 may 13
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I don't quite appreciate the media overexposure they have enjoyed (or perhaps it's better to say, "enjoys") in recent years. If only because - as often happens in our country - they have gone from being a niche phenomenon to being considered by more or less everyone as "holders of absolute truth" in the music and entertainment field. Honestly, they continue to be moderately likable to me, especially because lately they do nothing to hide their disdain for incompetent musicians and, in general, for those who play poorly: first with Parco Sempione and the rhythm-less bongo player, now with the monophonic song and the composers' obsession with original melody, and finally with the anti-music compilation from Il complesso del primo maggio. Then, for heaven's sake, this can also make them seem arrogant and presumptuous, but I find it quite entertaining overall.
Fede Alvarez La Casa
Fede Alvarez La Casa
13 may 13
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I read the review in a hurry and it seemed really good. I'll read it again later calmly, but for now, I appreciate the clarity of judgment on Within the Woods. Some time ago, a friend of mine, an aspiring (but I think also expiring) cinephile, gave me a speech like: "No, I mean, come on, damn, Evil Dead 2 is cool, Evil Dead 1 is good, but I think the best Raimi shows in Within the Woods because everything is already there and it's just genius." So I rushed home, saddled up my mule, downloaded it, set aside an evening to watch it and... well, I spent about half an hour watching spots of color between yellow and blue on a completely black background chasing each other and burping things like "aaahhhhh," "oh my god!", "grrrrr," "fruuuusccccccc fruuusccccc." Oh yes, sometimes the color spots take a cigarette break and for a couple of minutes only the black background with the typical grayish line in the middle of VHS tapes reused too many times is visible. Nice. Really nice. Everything is already there. Aspiring friend, baffafangoolo, come on...
David Cronenberg Scanners
David Cronenberg Scanners
12 may 13
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It's obvious that a film can appear dated 30 years after its release, but Videodrome offered and still offers some socio-political-media insights and visual intuitions that Scanners simply does not have. On the second point, you didn't get - as usual - the irony of my comment. Aside from the fact that they don't "talk" (at most, they communicate telepathically), that scene is objectively funny: there are all these guys repeating like a mantra "No one can harm us if we stay united," then two extras show up, create a huge mess, throw a guy down the stairs, enter the room with guns drawn, and the scanners don't notice anything and just keep repeating "No one can harm us if we stay united." Equally objectively, the "computer-mind-phone" transition in this film is a narrative stretch as big as a house. The problem isn't the phone-computer connection, but the mind-computer link.
Federica Orsida La nostra storia
Federica Orsida La nostra storia
12 may 13
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All in all, a horrible review. So many big words to express a very simple concept like "A book written by dogs, which might appeal to people used to reading at most some gossip magazines at the hairdresser's." After reading Nes's comment, I also took a leap onto the Orsida website and felt the urge to enroll in elementary school again just to get held back.
David Cronenberg Scanners
David Cronenberg Scanners
11 may 13
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I had to revisit it because, to be honest, in my head this movie was filed under "Damn, that guy's head explodes and then the other guy's eyes explode too." The film is good, you can inevitably feel the weight of the years, but you can already see Cronenberg's holy touch and that's enough. On a plot level, it has more than one flaw, more than one dip in tension, and at least two ridiculous moments that lower the score (the first being the séance with the scanners repeating "No one can harm us," and then you see how that turns out, the second "The data is in the computer, but you're also a computer and so is the phone"), but Ironside is a badass villain and O'Neill is an exaggerated porn-chic milf. 4 for excess.
David Cronenberg Videodrome
David Cronenberg Videodrome
4 may 13
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Review that I consider barely adequate: in several parts it is written in a convoluted manner, too focused on the plot, and practically offers no points for reflection on a film that, 30 years later, still seems very relevant in some ways. It would have been nice, for example, to pause and consider whether (and how) the dystopia of Videodrome has come true in our days. Honestly, I am quite surprised to read so many praises for Crash: I confess I watched it over 10 years ago, but I remember it annoyed me quite a bit. In my personal top 3, I would definitely include this, Inseparabili, and one between Spider and La promessa dell'assassino (which I still find to be extraordinarily beautiful...).
Hayao Miyazaki Rupan Sansei - Kariosutoro no shiro (Lupin III - Il castello di Cagliostro)
Hayao Miyazaki Rupan Sansei - Kariosutoro no shiro (Lupin III - Il castello di Cagliostro)
1 may 13
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Of course, it’s a great film, yet it’s not even among my top 3 favorites by Miyazaki (off the top of my head, I’d say Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and one between Porco Rosso and Totoro). I think the issue mainly lies with Mediaset: basically, I had to endure reruns of the Lupin cartoon for breakfast, lunch, and snack time throughout high school, and eventually, the magic kind of wore off. A nice and well-written review because it talks about the film without unnecessary rambling, which we can find everywhere else.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
19 apr 13
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I've been listening to it for a couple of days, but every time it ends with Mladic, I restart it, so I’ve practically listened to less than half. It seems like a great piece to me; maybe in a week it will start to annoy me, but for now it seems like a great piece.
Jacques Audiard Un sapore di ruggine e ossa
Jacques Audiard Un sapore di ruggine e ossa
17 apr 13
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In the end, I saw it. I can say that I liked it, but considering certain slips into melodrama that - due to my nature and personal tastes - I always find hard to digest. I'm referring to the scene of the first fight (she gets out of the car, he wins), to the one on the balcony where she mimics the orders to the orcas, to the phone call in the hospital. I don't know. I would have pushed Alì's character all the way, as "pure instinct": for 5/6 of the film, Alì has no filters, no social constructs; he's "body", impulses (she talks to him about her feelings, their relationship, and the most he can tell her is that he wants to do 'robba'). And this, if on one hand makes him "animalistic" (like in the fight scenes or his relationship with his son), on the other hand frees him from the prejudices and fears of "normal" people (like the guy trying to hit on Christine after the accident). He is the only one who treats Christine like a "nomale" even after the accident; for him, the handicap is of no importance: he takes her out and goes for a swim, goes to a club and hits on a bimbo in front of her, he calls her "Robocop"... That's why I really didn't appreciate the final redemption-normalization. Four, but too much.
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