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Gotham (2014)
Gohome
I just saw "Gotham" being advertised in the Warner Bros. South American network, and I couldn't help myself but laugh at the way these characters talk. Every single line I've heard them saying, most of them merely trivial and average, were delivered in a cheesy/self-important manner that absolutely crashed any intentions I may have had of watching the series. If you intend to add mystery, sex-appeal, or sophistication to a story, squeeze your brain to create a plot that can combine all those elements and make it work in a credible way, not just make the actors recite every stupid line as if they were having phone sex. Finally, can we move on from the "Batman" stuff already? Yeah, even if he doesn't show up in this. And what about "Superman"? We have the TV Series, the Tim Burton stuff, the Nolan films, the Cristopher Reeve films, the Smallville show, the new Zack Snyder/Affleck crap... how much more do we need???? Admit you ran out of ideas and go home, I'll be grateful even if I'm the only one.
24: Day 3: 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. (2003)
So far not so intriguing.
In my consideration, up to this point Season 3 lacks some of the intrigue and kind of hidden stuff that kept me guessing in the previous seasons. In the first one, for instance, I was very excited to find out who the real mole in CTU was, and whether if Palmer would survive the threat or not, and in the second one, whether if the bomb was going to go off or not, and who were really behind the attack, and why. Here, you know from almost the first minute who wants to spread the virus and who's carrying it, the mole in CTU (seriously, another one?) is revealed in the second episode and he doesn't seem to be much of a deep character, unlike Nina, so things doesn't have much surprise here. Jack becoming a drug addict sure was a shock but I don't know if it's worth a 24-episode storyline anyway. Kim and her daddy issues and boyfriend issues got old already, and Palmer's girlfriend storyline doesn't attract me that much either, and the President's disbelief when someone tries to show him the truth about the women in his life is growing a little tired for me too. A president should be a little more bright than he is, and most of all considering the things he's been through already. It's not bad, but I hope it gets better.
Star Trek: Return to Tomorrow (1968)
The idea is fine but I don't totally buy the execution.
It isn't the first time in the series when a self-called "super intelligent" civilization end up wishing nothing but human contact, even if that means giving up on all their original intentions and supposed skills. No, it is not just love. If Sargon loves his wife and vice versa, they'd love each other as energy contained in a receptacle, as minds contained in androids bodies or in any other place. But in their human bodies they can "feel", which means kissing and touching each other, which is the way of depicting sex in 60's television. In the beginning, Sargon threatens the crew telling them that if they let him perish, human race would have to perish also. Apparently, the writer forgot he wrote that line, because from then on the man is nicer than bread, and claims he'd like to teach humankind great technological advances and how to avoid committing the same mistakes they made. Well, I actually would have love to see some of those advances came true and how the crew would deal with these superior minds they brought back to life and who were now transforming everything as they pleased. But, instead, they ended up depicting them as humans who only wanted to express their love physically... which is fine, but it's a theme that has already been explored repeatedly in this series, and I was hoping more sci-fi here than cheesy romance. Kirk kissing all chicks around is fun, but it gets kinda tiresome the 100th time. Spock playing evil is fun to watch. Anyway, I think the idea of the episode is interesting, but they could have made much more of it, instead of repeating the same formula over and over.
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Elia Kazan is a genius.
The master of geniuses, I would say. He managed to make this 2 hours 3 minutes long picture about dumb characters repeating the same lines over and over with variations a success, gaining thousands of teenage fans all over the world, fascinated with the winning theme of "true love", that magically turns any stinker like this into something "beautiful, transcendental, the best movie of all time". Well, this is not my kind of movie, I'm just a guy that was practically forced to watch this turkey, so I want to have fun now reviewing it and making you upset. Now, here's basically how these characters act or what are able to say for 2 hours:
. Deanie: "I love Bud. Oh, how I love Bud. I'd do anything for Bud. Except having sex with him. I miss Bud. Oh, by the way, did I mention I love Bud? Well, here I go again!! I love Bud!!". For 2 hours. Yeah, I get it girl.
. Bud (or Warren Beatty):"I wanna get laid. Should I call a hooker? Deanie doesn't let me. Dad, I don't wanna go to Yale. I just wanna have sex. Is it so hard to understand? Oh the hell with it, I'M WARREN MACHO BEATTY AND I DEMAND TO HAVE SEX IN THIS MOVIE!!!". Sure you do.
. Deanie's mother: Puritan warp level 10, Mister Sulu.
. Deanie's father: He doesn't say much. I was supposed to love him at the end. I was too busy rolling my eyes.
. Bud's father: "I love money. Oh, how I love money. I'm gonna make a millionaire out of you, son. SHE LOOKS JUST THE SAME, SHE LOOKS JUST THE SAME!!! Go to Yale. Call a hooker. Eat your breakfast. Win your football". Alright, shut up man.
. Bud's mother: I don't remember. She loved everybody, I think.
. Bud's sister: Drunk, rebel, slutty girl stereotype. Meh.
. Bud's dog: He didn't have any. But thinking about it, Bud is more like a dog's name actually. Here Bud, catch the ball, Bud. Oh, yeah, definitely.
Anyway, I thought for a picture to be the best movie of all time at least Bette Davis, Orson Welles, or even Brando had to be on it. But no, it seems like these guys beat them all. OK, to each his own.
Le concert (2009)
Excruciating to watch
First of all, I'm very familiar with classical music because it's played all the time at home, so I guess I wasn't impressed or felt emotional at all by Tchaikovsky's music, like other reviewers were, since I've listened and watched the whole Violin Concerto many times before. Because of that, I was expecting some more from this movie besides the music, something that entertained me, or at least interested me. The top reviewer of this movie said it was worthy of paying a ticket just for the opening credits. THE OPENING CREDITS. Bravo. The problem is after that comes a 2-hours long (an editor, somewhere?) colossal bore about some orchestra conductor who was fired for defending Jewish musicians (same Jewish that are later completely ridiculized with the same old boring clichés I'm very sick of), and now works as a janitor in the same theatre where he used to conduct. Right, unbelievable. Any normal person would never come back to work at the place where he was humiliated that way, and much less to clean the floor. Dignity, anyone? Then he cheats the Bolshoi and reunite his old orchestra (they haven't played in 30 years) to cheat on the French making them believe they're the famous Bolshoi Theather Orchestra instead of a group of gypsies, and perform a concert in Paris. Everyone says this is a very funny movie. Well, I didn't laugh once, for the simple reason I'm not a racist, and that I've seen this dusty clichés in at least another 350 movies. Nobody in Paris notices they're not the Bolshoi Orchestra, even when they doesn't act or look like professional musicians, they go get drunk and play in the subway instead of rehearsing, in fact they didn't rehearse at all, AND A FAMOUS Paris THEATRE LETS THEM PLAY ANYWAY WITHOUT EVEN CHECKING WHO THEY ARE! Haha yeah I know, I should suspend my disbelief because it's a farce. Sure, and it's a very cheap one too. You suspend it, I didn't. They play awfully the first notes of the Concerto, and then, when the blonde violinist I was supposed to cry for when I couldn't care less about starts to play, the magically got it right and play it beautifully. Terrific. But of course, I'm just insensitive. You can go and laugh and cry and stay at the edge of your seat for 2 beautiful hours. Cry when the director tells you to cry, even when there's nothing to cry for, and believe that all those implausible situations might be real hilarious facts. Thank God I'm not another puppet. Goodbye.
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Only if you're interested...
This movie might be entertaining if you're interested in the mentalism/psychology apparent antagonism, in lousy card tricks, or once again in how a handsome actor in the 40's enjoyed dealing with multiple women, but if you're not (like me) Nightmare Alley is simply that, a nightmare. It's never ending talking (hey, Witness for the Prosecution is too, but heaven knows it's infinitely more clever and entertaining than this), all about alcohol, tarot, dead people, and a "code" you don't even care about, and the worst thing is that some scenes containing the exact same dialogue are repeated two, three or even four times through the film... Tedious and dated. Tyrone Power, well of course he gives a nice performance, but I've seen him in at least four better movies (Witness, Razor's Edge, Zorro, Black Swan) so his acting couldn't save this mess. As for the women, I saw nothing special in their performances. Joan Blondell was a feisty joy to behold?? To me she was more like a scarecrow, but whatever. I couldn't stand two hours of Nightmare, so I don't know how it ends, I can only imagine it: Stan ends up drunk and broke. Saw it from miles away. Oh, and about that Geek, that everybody seem to find as a deep and wonderful character, maybe I saw a different movie, cause he just appeared a few seconds trying to get booze. Yeah, everybody drinks and smokes in the good old 40's. Of course, they did in the 30's too, but then the movies weren't called "film noir" yet, and for god's sake, they were indescribably much better. 1/10.
Vozvrashchenie (2003)
It's not you, it's me.
God knows I've tried to share or understand the success of the "new wave" arts (music, movies) but now I've confirmed they're way out of my league. I felt it while watching the french movie Caché (Hidden) (2005), and with this Russian picture I've experienced an even worst headache. This kind of movies encourages the viewer to imagine everything... the character's past, present, future, their personalities, their purposes, the end, basically, they want me to be Sherlock Holmes. Sassy... but the difference is that the good Sherlock got his vital energy from discovering the truth, while I couldn't care less. I don't know who on earth this father is, why he came back home, who is he running away from, why is taking his kids with him to go digging (for what?) on a a desert island, ergo I don't care about him. And for the kids, right, they could be the best child actors in the world, but their story did nothing to me. They're kids behaving like that, kids, being carried around from the middle of nowhere to the quintessential middle of nowhere by their "beautifully enigmatic" father. And the main reason I don't care is that there is nothing realistic about anything here, so there's nothing I can take out of this, as a son, or as a father values... just some stranger bloke mistreating his kids.. terrific, an example about growing up... sure, how many kids in the real world grow up by carrying their father's dead body around a desert island?? This is just like those paintings everybody says they're wonderful but all I see is a whole lotta nonsense, but it's cool to say you see art on them instead, and that's why this movie has an 8 rating. As another reviewer has pointed out, European pictures wants to make a difference from bloody new Hollywood making these movies for intellectualoids who'll say it's sublime. Well, for me, the cure is worst than the disease. I'm 22 years old, but I feel totally out of place watching this contemporary efforts. You know what movie I really love? Witness for the Prosecution. Of course you won't watch it, it's from 1957. But if you do, you'll have a lot of fun, and you'll learn about how a classy lady looks like. I know, this isn't useful, but that's cause I'm pretty useless too.
In Search of Mozart (2006)
This way, you'll never find him.
First, I apologize in advance for my English. Now, the filmmakers and professional musicians involved in this documentary doesn't seem to be aware of a little detail when they endlessly talk and fantasize: Mozart didn't write the libretto of his operas. He wrote the music. So when they started talking for like 15 minutes about how he took inspiration from the relationship with his own father to write "Idomeneo" (a Greek myth), how a character of "The Abduction from the Seraglio" is named Constanze like his girlfriend, so the story was representing their relationship, and discuss his philosophical thoughts in "The Magic Flute", I didn't know if laugh or cry. That's the most bizarre flaw of many in this documentary, which title is "In Search of Mozart". Well, you'll never gonna find him that way, my dear filmmakers.
Basically, to hide their ignorance about musical facts, what they try to say all the time is: "Look, we've got every single letter Mozart wrote, and we're gonna read it to you in a funny way, even the more intimate ones, so you don't get too bored with all this classical music". Sure, the bad thing is that's all they got. Gossip. In order to "let me know" that he was a common man. They even seem surprised at the fact he didn't have Asperger Syndrome. Right, because to be a gifted person you must have a mental disorder... what a beautiful message. By the way, I don't mind if the man died 200+ years ago, reading ALL his private letters, especially the ones he wrote to his wife about their intimacy, seems totally disrespectful and unnecessary to me. Call me a puritan, I don't care. A cheap move to gain viewers, that's what it is.
What came to my mind next watching this was: Shut up, dear musicians, conductors, opera directors and historians, and enjoy the music. And let me do the same. But no, Mozart's music alone is not enough for this people. They're so smart that they try to pretend they have found a logical explanation to it!!! So, what we've got are endless monologues of musicians explaining that Wolfgang wrote that note because his son just died, the other one because his wife was sick, and the last one because a mosquito bite him in that exact instant. For heaven's sake, how on earth could you know that??. What an ego does this people have, to pretend they can be inside of the genius head, just because they can play his music. And some of them couldn't even play a thing. Pathetic. I don't care about musician's fantasies, I wanted a musical analysis of the music itself, because in the end that's all that matters, and what makes Mozart immortal, the music. And I don't want to feel it anybody's way, I just want to listen to it. So please, shut up.
Finally, Mozart's death is told in a rush, the Requiem is poorly mentioned, as if no one would care about his last work, and so are the death of his father, and the circumstances of his own death. Oh right, the filmmakers were too busy going against the movie "Amadeus" to prove it wrong. Well, at least that movie doesn't claim to be true to facts. This, instead, claims to be a documentary, and as I've mentioned, in my opinion fails miserably. If you watch it, of course you'll enjoy the music, but don't trust everything you hear. Or do. It's up to you, but I hope this helps somehow.
Il gattopardo (1963)
I knew it all along.
Seriously, what spoiler could I possibly write if not a single thing happens in this condemned 3 hours long colossal bore? Oh, pardon me ladies and gentlemen, I meant in this work of art. Sure, I'm not an intellectualoid, and I don't want to pretend I am by giving a 10 to this film in a website either. I just go out, read books, watch TV and been in a museum so, unfortunately, I already knew how aristocrats and rich people lives and behaves before watching this film, and I've also seen big houses, paintings, nice costumes, people smoking cigars, and dancing at a ball before!!! It seems like some reviewers never heard of those things and discovered them all of a sudden from a 1963 movie. Well, good for you, but I wanted a film with a plot, a soul, some depth to fill the nice wrapper for 185 MINUTES (20 would have been more than enough), not just this "moving paintings" that has put me to sleep from the first minute. If you have sleep problems I strongly recommend you to watch this film, is the best cure you'll possibly find in the entire world. Lancaster, Delon, Cardinale.. what a waste of actors and tape. User richieburt has made the perfect review of this, and I agree with it 100 percent. If you're really interested, watch this movie just to learn how rich and boring people lived and still lives. But don't wait for a plot, or an interesting love triangle. You'll have the disappointment of your life. Here's the progression:
Minutes 0 to 4: Opening credits.
Minutes 4 to 10: People praying the same prayer over and over.
Minutes 10 to 25: A man leaving a house.
Minute 25.....another Mass... a dinner... never-ending ball....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Prometheus (2012)
The Horror! The perfect irony.
Before turning it off, the last scene of this movie I've seen was a head exploding. What a perfect metaphor for the horrid decadence of the action film genre. As a viewer, it could be my head exploding after me blowing my brains out, and as a filmmaker, their heads after squeezing'em so hard trying to copy James Cameron, and Spielberg, and mostly Scott himself, and the garbage that comes out of that dead brain is called "Prometheus". Like I've said, I didn't see the whole movie (thank God), but I don't know why I got this strange feeling I've seen it 200 times before. More than 30 years old is the masterpiece "Alien", but it seems like Scott pretends to laugh in my face with this cheap remake, orientated to earn some more money from the people that's too young to have watched the original. The use of terms such as "prequel" and "connections", in order to cheat the audience and come out with both bigger ego and bank account, is worthy of admiration. Bravo, Ridley! I'm nobody, but I'm glad I didn't pay a red cent to watch 45 minutes of your pretentious, huge and impressive lot of nothing. Do you want to know where we come from? Why are we here? We come from our mother's uterus, and we're here to make a living without fooling other people in the process, that's all I care about. Oh, right, the storm effects, the aliens, the exploding heads, the holograms, the old cultures, the alien scientist, the crazy scientist, the do-able science woman, her boyfriend... say hi to them from me. So long and farewell.
The Lookout (2007)
What a great actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is.
This man is without a doubt in the Top 3 of best actors from his generation, and he takes his skills to the next level in this dramatic thriller. This is a movie you gotta be patient with, because the main plot is crafted in a slow pace, in order you get to know first Pratt's current and past life, his feelings and ambitions that led him to do what he did, and his wise blind friend Lewis, played brilliantly by Jeff Daniels. Once the movie gets in it's climax it totally gets your attention and you can feel what Chris feels like if you were him. I think that's one of the best qualities of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the way he makes his characters show every emotion in a such a sincere manner, so you can feel a strong connection with them. Only a few thrillers can really be emotional without recurring to basic clichés, and this one is one of them, because instead of showing tears and guilt it shows you how to overcome your problems and the way others may or not help you do it. For the combination of action and emotion brilliantly performed, this is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time, and Levitt sure deserved much more recognition for this part in my opinion. 10/10.
À bout portant (2010)
The action is well crafted. I didn't see the "great script" critics talk about
I'm not a big fan of these kidnapping and pursuit kind of movies, but I gave this one a chance because I like French movies, and then cause I've read some critics talking about a "great script" that supposedly take the movie to a greater level in the action genre. Well, I'm not a writer, but if that's a wonderful script I bet Hemingway would kill himself again, cause it doesn't have anything that wasn't written in Hollywood before by many action scriptwriters. Anyway, the filmmakers are not to blame for that lie, and the action scenes, which are the ones the movie is centered on, has no flaws in execution or acting. The ending is fair with the story and characters, even when it's a little too hard to believe after all that happened. The main characters acting is correct, but I'll give it a 6 because in the big picture the movie lacks originality and nothing really shocking happens besides the frenetic action. It's a nice movie for popcorn and have a good time, but that's all. I'll recommend you "36" with Auteuil and Depardieu, a policier with a much more complex and credible story.
Aliens (1986)
Hey Jim, what have you done to my Ripley???
I usually like James Cameron movies, more than any Scorsese or Spielberg's actually, but this sequel just hurts me real bad. In Ridley Scott's movie, Ripley was a sexy heroine fighting with no massive weapons, who didn't cry for dead daughters or any of those dumb sentimental clichés that most people love but I don't. She was alone and fought. Even her ship partners didn't care for her. She was a horror survivor. Well, for Mr. Cameron that was all wrong. He thought Scott was portraying Ripley as a heartless and useless person, I assume, so he equipped her with the biggest machine gun out there packed with infinite ammo, so violence lovers can drool just staring at it and she only had to shoot, and he added a little girl to replace a coming-out-of-nowhere-dead-daughter (Bravo!), and wants me to cheer for the girl, cry for the girl, and love the girl while she screams like being possessed by a really high-pitched voice demon. Terrific. Well, I didn't do any of that. Instead I've started to hate her and the movie, and that's what I'm still doing. Along with the little girl, Cameron wants me to cheer for more cute people: the U.S. Army. Cool, let's say some people were living on the dead planet, so we send the Army in order to save them and save the day again for the country. Well, I'm not American, so I can't have any good feelings about their Army, I'm sorry. I'd rather watch "Avatar" anytime, at least Jim wants me to cheer for the right people on that one. Finally, while the Alien in Scott's 1979 masterpiece was a force of nature that nobody could kill, here Cameron introduce us a bunch of useless bugs that can be killed easier than an ant, just for the sake of appreciate all the weaponry and all the shooting. For that I'd rather watch Terminator. I find this sequel appalling, it destroyed the planet built by Mr. Scott, flooding it with the more basic clichés a movie can have. I hate this movie and specially the annoying little girl. Oh, and the end... a shameless rip-off. 1/10 because there's no 0/10.
Amy Winehouse: I Told You I Was Trouble (Live in London) (2007)
The only thing better than this is another Amy's gig.
"I Told you I was Trouble" shows British soul singer Amy Winehouse in great shape. 2007 was a very busy but equally successful year for her, and in this DVD you can see everything that made me and others fall in love with this woman. Every look, move, smile and singing she does here is divine, and her doll dress and shoes makes her look even more lovable. It makes me doubt she's in fact real. Still, this particular concert doesn't show the whole potential of Amy's voice, which she displayed in other shows like Milano and Eurockeennes in 2007 and many of 2004, but as this is the only one released on DVD, I can't help but rate it 10/10 anyway. She performs the most known songs from "Back to Black" and my favorites from "Frank", including Cherry and Pumps, that she really seemed to enjoy performing and gift us her most beautiful smiles while doing it. If you're a fan this is a definitely must have, being the only official DVD around, and if you want to start knowing about this great artist, this won't let you down. 10/10 but vocally it's still not her best show.
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
I really liked this movie, is not the worst Trek. Mr. Nimoy saves the day.
I've watched this movie with my family, and none of us disliked it. It is a lovely and funny story with great friendship moments, such as the campfire scene, and again a brilliant performance by Leonard Nimoy's Spock. He's the glue that hold them together, McCoy needs him to be sarcastic, Kirk gets mad at him at times, but at the end nothing would work right without him. In this movie Nimoy manages to play greatly both sides of Spock, the Vulcan and the Human, and the results are both funny and touching moments. His half-brother, Sybok, doesn't own Khan's wrath or Commander Krug's evilness, but it's an interesting and more human take of a villain. If you're just looking for phaser shots, torpedo's fire and angry Klingons, you can watch any of the other 5 ST movies (I didn't watch any TNG movies and never will) and you'll be enough pleased like I was, but here Shatner focuses more in their friendship and deepest feelings, and I like that for a change. Sure the God storyline and effects could have been way better made, but they had a lot of trouble making this movie, so I'm OK with that. For the ones saying this is the worst Star Trek movie ever made, I'll say The Motion Picture is intolerable, and the new J.J.Abrams take with awful Quinto as Spock and a twisted plot doesn't do great justice to the franchise either. 8/10 for some technical and storyline flaws, but I still liked the film as a whole.
Goodfellas (1990)
"Look, he just killed him for no reason!!! Oh look he just hit that guy's head 200 times, man this movie is great!!!" NO.
WARNING: FULL OF SPOILERS.
Every single person in the world seem to love this movie, but I don't. I don't enjoy watching a guy killing everyone just cause he's a socially inept psycho, the never ending punching, alright, I got it, that's what the Mafia is all about, I already knew it. The deep-inside-good guy who in the end regrets about it all and sells out his partners. Terrific, I didn't see that coming from miles away. Oh, right, and before that, he cheated on his wife with prostitutes. How original is that? Even when it tries to be funny this movie fails miserably. From the great reviews it has achieved, I can see the world thinks it's amazingly original. Well I guess I'm missing it, and I'm happy I do. I want a plot, something that justifies all the blood, not just the "he made me angry". Hahaha, am I supposed to applause and enjoy, right? Yeah, Pesci's character is great, sure. Too bad he got murdered, isn't it?. That's the only part of the movie I've really enjoyed, actually. I would've loved to see him die with even more pain. That would've been great. I'll give the movie 2/10, just because they did shut that annoying dude up anyway. That adds one point. Martin Scorsese is the most overrated director ever, period.
Alien (1979)
Ripley's a perfect horror heroine here.
The main reason that makes this a great movie for me is that is totally focused on the alien story, makes you feel their desperation from being alone with that thing in outer space all through the film, there's no rest for anything else. Plus the effects (for instance, Ash's scene) are great for 1979. But Ripley steals the show, played brilliantly by Sigourney Weaver, here's a character I can feel totally identified with. She reflects my ideal concept of a woman heroine in this movie. Her look, expressions, every move is perfect. None of that happens on Cameron's sequel, when they added a little girl so we can cheer for her and cry, I assume, which I didn't, and Ripley is turned into a sentimental Rambo with big weapons, losing all the enigmatic charm I loved so much here. This is the best movie Ridley Scott has ever made, even when the last scene could have been better for my taste, and surpasses by far Cameron's "Aliens", which is just a very dumb version of Terminator. I highly recommend Alien as a sci-fi horror, along with John Carpenter's The Thing. 8/10.
The Aviator (2004)
Incoherent. Long. Boring. Real Howard Hughes sure was way more interesting.
This Howard Hughes biopic by Scorsese makes no sense at all, and the worst thing is that it lasts for 3 hours. First, the cause of a serious mental disorder like OCD is supposed to be... a soap bath by Hughes' mother when he was a kid. Shocking! Now, am I supposed to cry or feel sorry for him? Maybe I would, but if that's the reason Scorsese wants me to trust, I'd rather laugh. And the bathroom scene? Right, he couldn't touch a simple towel or a door handle, even burns all his clothes, but he has no problem touching woman after woman. Bravo, Marty, germs are way worst than a venereal disease!! HOW COULD I NOT SEE THAT!? And then we go on his love affairs for like an hour and a half, mixed with technical aviation data I couldn't care less about, idem political issues, and DiCaprio staring nastily at a bunch of pieces of meat. Back to romance, Blanchett's portrayal of Katharine Hepburn is laughable. The only thing she could possibly have in common with Kate is her name, and even that's fake. To make things worst, she disappears in the middle of the thing and nobody seems to care. On the other hand, Kathrin Beckinsale is passable as Ava Gardner, but I really couldn't care less for her storyline, and the "easy woman that can't be bought" (Excuse me?) treatment Scorsese gives to her makes me hate this movie even more. Honestly, I didn't finish watching this, and I don't even care about how it ends or if it ends greatly or not. I'd rather read a book about Hughes to get some reliable information about his life. The only good thing about this is the music, and the recreation of the 30-40's America. Just for that, 4/10.