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I paladini - Storia d'armi e d'amori (1983)
Cheesy film but I loved it! *Spoiler inside* - not of the ending, but information about middle and beginning
This movie is really cheesy. It seems to even sort of aim for comedy value with the slightly excessive gore scenes. There's a girl in the movie that keeps getting her dress torn more and more and practically everyone tries to rape her, even a priest and one of her own soldiers along with a group of bandits. In the beginning, the group of bandits try to rape another girl, and a knight comes in and chops off some of their limbs and cripples most of them and rescues the girl. It seems the bandits never learn, because they try again, in their crippled state with missing limbs to try to rape a girl again, and then again they are scared off by a knight. It was hilarious.
Still, the movie had some great fantasy elements. The wacky and bizarre costumes I really liked, even though they weren't realistic at all and kind of cheesy. Reminded me more of superhero knights.
I like the story - sort of a Romeo & Juliet set in the medieval ages.
The music was great. It's one of my favorite soundtracks besides the Neverending Story - very "80s"-like. The scenes and music combined sort of reminded me of video games.
I think it's a very fun movie, even though it's cheesy and doesn't fit out standards or expectations of a good movie at all. It's actually one of my favorites. However, I don't expect too many others to like it. I would recommend giving this a try, however, if you're like me and want to watch all the medieval/medieval fantasy movies you can get your hands on.
Pi (1998)
A Great Movie Despite Conceptual Flaws (No Spoilers)
I rate movies mainly on how entertaining they are to me as I watch the movie, and I couldn't keep my eyes off the TV while watching Pi. I felt the ending was great. I can understand if some people may not agree. However, I don't think the movie is lacking in plot as some people say.
I think the movie was written by more of a philosopher than a mathematician or scientist. There's little rationality behind the concepts. Some mathematical principles are applied in the movie, but are used incorrectly or without complete understanding of the entire picture. To an average, educated adult, the writer will seem a little silly and naive.
I don't think this movie is an intellectual movie. Those people that think the movie is so brilliant in its reasoning are fools, I'm sorry to say. However, I think the movie is very *clever*. Though completely unbelievable, the wrong associations and conclusions the movie makes are very, very clever. :)
The basic plot is centered around one simple concept (and one which is completely unbelievable as I stated earlier), but I thought it was very well presented. The acting is top-notch in my opinion. I really liked the old scientist, Saul.
The entire movie seems to be like a really long music video. The techno music really adds to the intensity. I think someone brilliantly described the movie earlier by stating that it reminded him/her of a Nine-Inch-Nails music video. The scenes reminded me of movies like The Matrix. The movie is repetitious at times in the scenes, but I think everything worked out well.
This is one of my favorite movies so far. I give it a 9/10. However, I don't expect many people to agree with me, since it is a really bizarre movie, dialogue is minimal, concepts are screwy, etc.