The idea seemed very interesting and the first half of the movie was very good. We could.possibly close our eyes on the technical and acting shortcomings there because the story was solid and even beautiful. Its strong romanticism emanated from the sincerity in the writing with the realism in the growing of the physical attraction between the boy and the woman. No need to show anything. It felt real and sweet. Most of all during the dancing scene ending with a starred night. It was beautiful. But then the nightmare begins. The sweet boy turns into a rude lazy frustrating as.....le, losing everything that made him look like a "hero" and the special realationship vanishes into a dustbin. He had something special and that special thing was the cement of the movie. Since it dies, the rest of the movie drags itself painfully to the end where the bottom is reached.with a writing so lazy that it can be asked if the original writer did not quit in the middle and let the scriptwriting to the pizza delivery guy. It's extremely disapponiting. The only question the movie asks is: who is the real victim? But this question could have been more profound if the story had gone further. It also contradicts itself gravely because it was to be understood that the boy could not trick the woman emotionally _ but he does it, by acting like the kind of ass....le she hated. What on Earth was that? The idea was very interesting and the first half was the movie was admirable for its realism and its audacity. But it shoots itself in the foot hafway and ends up like a sordid and destitute fan-fiction. It made me dream for a while.
Reviews
15 Reviews
Cyrano
(2021)
Feminism, diversity politics and French-bashing... Here we go!
9 March 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I had read that Peter Dinklage was reprising the role of Cyrano a few days ago and I wonder if it was the reason why I rewatched the film... "Rewatched the film" _ I say that instead of saying the Depardieu film or the 1990 film because, instinctively, I consider that French movie is the real one and that that one is a mere piece of stain in the history of cinema.
I was very excited because I like this actor even if I never watched Game of Thrones. I watched a german movie with him. It was about a love story of his character with a taxi driver. In this romance movie, he was perfect so I thought he could handle the role of Cyrano very well. The trouble is that you need a good director for that...
And the first minutes of the movie made it clear that we didn't have that... Joe Wright managed to make of Cyrano de Bergerac a platform for neofeminism, diversity politics and French bashing.
1) I didn't know it would be be a musical _ it seems like the music is made to replace the artistic value the movie cannot have in regards of the versification since Cyrano de Bergerac is play that was written in verses. Then we have songs like we can hear it after a few minutes in the movie. And I had to mute it for how horrible it sounded _ but I could read the subtitles and see what Roxanne was saying and how it sounded like neofeminist ideology when she was speaking about her right to love whoever she wants. The Roxanne in the play is a wealthy intellectual, admired for her looks and her intellect. She can stand her ground in front of De Guiche without having to say a word and she can impose herself silently by her mere presence and through her own credibility, like the real Galadriel in the real LOTR. She is nothing like this unsufferable person in this movie that has to whine or play tough to show she's around or she's worth something. The portrayal of De Guiche is horrendous and utterly disrespectful of the play. De Guiche respects Roxanne and his love for her is real. He's a soldier and his sense of nobility is real _ but that does not fit the characterization of a French person in the anglo-saxon psyche. So Joe Wright made of him a loser and a pervert. He had to clearly despise the original play to treat it that way.
2) I am a black person, but when I saw Christian was black I grabbed my head for two minutes. I also grabbed my head when he had his first contact with the Guards Corps. OMG. The portrayal of human relationships is completly dictated by the perspectives of the modern far-left ideology. Joe Wright has taken advantage of the main issue in this movie which is body shaming to make of it a societal platform for the US millenial youth, killing everything around it that does not enter the far-left ideology and rendering the character as vain, plain and empty as people from this political region customaraly are. It takes insufferable liberties with the original story and just like for so many histories, books, plays and original movies, it is a slap on the face of the people who created them. Like usual, the millenals know better... And we also have mixed Hindu-type people.
The mediocrity of this movie appears very soon through these features and how major moments of the play are sacrificed while they serve to introduce characters and personalities. Gender and race swapping profuse and most of all...
3) Like usual the French context and society is depicted with bufoonery, grandiloquence and vanity, which is very american and very false like everytime they make a movie about us. The characters are much more humane in the play and they may sometimes forget the social hierarchy for a while when they're on the same boat. The French nobility is portrayed as pretentious, but no... it is that movie that is highly pretentious and the direction is so horrible that Peter Dinklage's performance is horrible. Indeed the Cyrano he plays puts himself at the same level of futility as the other characters share. That futility is limited to a certain group of people in the original play and it is nowhere a course of action for the main cast. I actually think that this situation originates from the lack of talent and understanding of Joe Wright, his will to adapt it to a LA youth and all the fragile people the US comprises, people knowing so little and seeing the world and France under that caricature. For example, the end of the duel scene made me think like I was watching an anime... The only thing Joe Wright knows is to manipulate the viewers emotions with image and sound _ he does that very well and forces people to like his characters: Roxane looks like she's a rape victim nearly everytime she's on screen. And forcedly, modern movie critics do not go further than that and praise such a movie.
I am extremely disappointed in that Cyrano. I expected a lot of it, and I was ready to believe that maybe once we could have a serious direction in the 2020s, respectful of stories, authors, viewers and cultures. But it's too much to ask _ like usual you'll have the inseparable duet of modern movie making: Feminism and diversity politics. And when it is about France: french_bashing. The french people and society do not exist in the movie: they are a non-credited extra that hardly exists around the main cast, while they are an integral part of the original play.
I utterly dislike this movie, but I'll probably be one of the rare who does; Hopefully, we have our own version to clear ourselves of the experience of watching that one. This movie, like so many other, completly ignores a preexisting feature that had set rules. The Joe Wright version has that pretension to make a better version than the original since it has become another custom of modern Hollywood. Cyrano de Bergerac is another "franchise" sacrificed and rearranged by mediocre people for similarly mediocre ones and built within the absolute certainty that it will be a reference in the history of cinema. This is where lies the arrogance of people who want to make believe we, French people, are like that.
I was very excited because I like this actor even if I never watched Game of Thrones. I watched a german movie with him. It was about a love story of his character with a taxi driver. In this romance movie, he was perfect so I thought he could handle the role of Cyrano very well. The trouble is that you need a good director for that...
And the first minutes of the movie made it clear that we didn't have that... Joe Wright managed to make of Cyrano de Bergerac a platform for neofeminism, diversity politics and French bashing.
1) I didn't know it would be be a musical _ it seems like the music is made to replace the artistic value the movie cannot have in regards of the versification since Cyrano de Bergerac is play that was written in verses. Then we have songs like we can hear it after a few minutes in the movie. And I had to mute it for how horrible it sounded _ but I could read the subtitles and see what Roxanne was saying and how it sounded like neofeminist ideology when she was speaking about her right to love whoever she wants. The Roxanne in the play is a wealthy intellectual, admired for her looks and her intellect. She can stand her ground in front of De Guiche without having to say a word and she can impose herself silently by her mere presence and through her own credibility, like the real Galadriel in the real LOTR. She is nothing like this unsufferable person in this movie that has to whine or play tough to show she's around or she's worth something. The portrayal of De Guiche is horrendous and utterly disrespectful of the play. De Guiche respects Roxanne and his love for her is real. He's a soldier and his sense of nobility is real _ but that does not fit the characterization of a French person in the anglo-saxon psyche. So Joe Wright made of him a loser and a pervert. He had to clearly despise the original play to treat it that way.
2) I am a black person, but when I saw Christian was black I grabbed my head for two minutes. I also grabbed my head when he had his first contact with the Guards Corps. OMG. The portrayal of human relationships is completly dictated by the perspectives of the modern far-left ideology. Joe Wright has taken advantage of the main issue in this movie which is body shaming to make of it a societal platform for the US millenial youth, killing everything around it that does not enter the far-left ideology and rendering the character as vain, plain and empty as people from this political region customaraly are. It takes insufferable liberties with the original story and just like for so many histories, books, plays and original movies, it is a slap on the face of the people who created them. Like usual, the millenals know better... And we also have mixed Hindu-type people.
The mediocrity of this movie appears very soon through these features and how major moments of the play are sacrificed while they serve to introduce characters and personalities. Gender and race swapping profuse and most of all...
3) Like usual the French context and society is depicted with bufoonery, grandiloquence and vanity, which is very american and very false like everytime they make a movie about us. The characters are much more humane in the play and they may sometimes forget the social hierarchy for a while when they're on the same boat. The French nobility is portrayed as pretentious, but no... it is that movie that is highly pretentious and the direction is so horrible that Peter Dinklage's performance is horrible. Indeed the Cyrano he plays puts himself at the same level of futility as the other characters share. That futility is limited to a certain group of people in the original play and it is nowhere a course of action for the main cast. I actually think that this situation originates from the lack of talent and understanding of Joe Wright, his will to adapt it to a LA youth and all the fragile people the US comprises, people knowing so little and seeing the world and France under that caricature. For example, the end of the duel scene made me think like I was watching an anime... The only thing Joe Wright knows is to manipulate the viewers emotions with image and sound _ he does that very well and forces people to like his characters: Roxane looks like she's a rape victim nearly everytime she's on screen. And forcedly, modern movie critics do not go further than that and praise such a movie.
I am extremely disappointed in that Cyrano. I expected a lot of it, and I was ready to believe that maybe once we could have a serious direction in the 2020s, respectful of stories, authors, viewers and cultures. But it's too much to ask _ like usual you'll have the inseparable duet of modern movie making: Feminism and diversity politics. And when it is about France: french_bashing. The french people and society do not exist in the movie: they are a non-credited extra that hardly exists around the main cast, while they are an integral part of the original play.
I utterly dislike this movie, but I'll probably be one of the rare who does; Hopefully, we have our own version to clear ourselves of the experience of watching that one. This movie, like so many other, completly ignores a preexisting feature that had set rules. The Joe Wright version has that pretension to make a better version than the original since it has become another custom of modern Hollywood. Cyrano de Bergerac is another "franchise" sacrificed and rearranged by mediocre people for similarly mediocre ones and built within the absolute certainty that it will be a reference in the history of cinema. This is where lies the arrogance of people who want to make believe we, French people, are like that.
Fishing Naked
(2015)
Not to be taken seriously
28 June 2020
I love this cool little movie. I find it funny. It's a simple comedy where actors were not asked for a lot, but they gave what was needed to make it work. I like how it looks like a teen comedy at the beginning when it turns out to be more mature with that sense of derision that make the idiots look funny rather than pathetic. The film could have been pathetic indeed, but it's not _ it's dynamic. And the final issue of the film that deals with ecology and open-mindedness also works, because nothing was taken too seriously before that, so it flows as lightly as the rest of the movie. The not-to-be-taken-seriously is alos obvious in the special effects which, I guess, any teenager with enough skill can make on his laptop, but their low quality adds to the fun because it makes the whole lot look even more surreal and daring _ and it may even seem like an account of humility.
The Host
(2013)
I loved every second of it
14 February 2020
This movie is beautiful from the beginning to the end. This is its prime interesting. I don't want to speak about the acting, the story or the editing in details. I wouldn't know what to say except it all concurred to make of this movie a beautiful experience I would love to share. I need to see it again and again. Not too often so that I don't feel anything after a while _ I want to relive this moment again and again.
Luna's Revenge
(II) (2017)
Those enerving films with an enerving hero(in) who chains mistakes
13 September 2018
If you can bear these kinds of movies where the main character does every mistake (s)he should not do, enjoy yourself. Otherwise I suggest you don't lose time. It looks like those horror movies where the tension fails to rise because of the stupidity of the hero(in) who does what nobody would have done in the same situation. The decisions and behaviour of the heroin are amazing and often enerving. I can't appreciate her. I don't know if it's because of the script or because it is bad acting, but even when she shows strong emotions I stay cold and unsympathetic, and I'm impatient she comes back to normal.
Cobra Kai
(2018–2025)
I watched the first season in a single night
7 May 2018
I'll go for a 10/10 too as I normally hate series. I never watch them and never care to know anything about what series exist or is shown on TV and in the media. I came across Cobra Kai by pure chance. I clicked on a link that got me to the home page of the series and launched episode 1 by simple curiosity. I never expected to keep watching it as I was expecting my time penalty on LoL to pass and to go back and try to get a character I want for the Aram. I forgot Lol very soon. I got captivated very early, and the hook held. I watched the entire series that same night. I loved it. I yawned once of tiredness, and another time I felt for two seconds like they had lost the control of the series. They hadn't.
Apart from that, there is nothing to say about the series. I loved how they showed the duality in martail arts and how it may help you to find what you need. The vision they gave of Johny Lawrence explains a lot of things.
If I had something that may sound negative to say it is that I am quite skeptical about season 2. But I noticed that many people who had heard about the series before watching it felt the same about season 1. So maybe (and hopefully) I'm mistaken.
Apart from that, there is nothing to say about the series. I loved how they showed the duality in martail arts and how it may help you to find what you need. The vision they gave of Johny Lawrence explains a lot of things.
If I had something that may sound negative to say it is that I am quite skeptical about season 2. But I noticed that many people who had heard about the series before watching it felt the same about season 1. So maybe (and hopefully) I'm mistaken.
Scooby-Doo & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
(2018 Video)
The destruction of Batman's icon is going on
10 January 2018
Batman used to be an icon, a representative of manly qualities and of certain virtues that are idealized by men in general. He would represent what a perfect man is. He is a human being who has raised himself to the level of a super hero due to his phyisical, intellectual and moral qualities, and because he has a mental endurance that has to be exemplified. But... that used to exist in a time where we lived in a society that wanted to transmit to younger generations certain ideals, incarnated by men _ and I insist on that word, men _ like Bruce Wayne. That time has ended now, and what used to define a man is no longer wanted and needs to be reset. You all have noticed the great replacement of male icons by female ones _ they're talking about a female James Bond (don't count me in for that). So waht happens then for the iconic male figures that have lasted a long time and cannot be replaced?
You kill their qualities... You make a mockery of them and you rely on the mediocrity and vulgarity of your audience that will praise the originality and humor of a movie whose jokes are hackneyed and whose script is deprived of any ambition. The more mediocre your movie is, the more successful it is today. Critcs don't mind at all when a franchise is stabbed, betrayed, dragged into the mud, coarsed, spit on, stepped on... That is the reason why critics acclaimed Starwars 8, a film that still hurts in people's throats. They find novelty where it is despise from a director, and renewal when the guy crawled out of complexity by kicking everything forward for someone else.
That is the reason why they are able to acclaim that piece of mud... Batman and Sccoby-Doo! Batman and Scooby-Doo. I can't get used to that.
The demise of Batman's icon started with the anime inspired from the 50's tv series. It was the starting point. Then there was Batman and Harley Quinn... where Batman's qualities are less and less visible. Now we have him team up with the Scooby-Doo gang. Is that movie coming from Hell?
I am very sad of what is happening to Batman, but the erasure of his icon seems to be on the agenda. We may have a totally new Batman for the next generation, a Steve Urkell's twin maybe. Someone who won't be a hero anymore. You saw what they did to Thor without the leastest scruple. In Starwars 8 they turned the charismatic and powerfull figure of General Hux into a comic relief to make room for Captain Phasma's badassness and make her look like the true leader of the First Order. The feminist agenda is carefully, slowly and irrevocably killing every male icon that used to be representative of what young boys should admire.
And they say young boys are growing ruder and ruder...
You kill their qualities... You make a mockery of them and you rely on the mediocrity and vulgarity of your audience that will praise the originality and humor of a movie whose jokes are hackneyed and whose script is deprived of any ambition. The more mediocre your movie is, the more successful it is today. Critcs don't mind at all when a franchise is stabbed, betrayed, dragged into the mud, coarsed, spit on, stepped on... That is the reason why critics acclaimed Starwars 8, a film that still hurts in people's throats. They find novelty where it is despise from a director, and renewal when the guy crawled out of complexity by kicking everything forward for someone else.
That is the reason why they are able to acclaim that piece of mud... Batman and Sccoby-Doo! Batman and Scooby-Doo. I can't get used to that.
The demise of Batman's icon started with the anime inspired from the 50's tv series. It was the starting point. Then there was Batman and Harley Quinn... where Batman's qualities are less and less visible. Now we have him team up with the Scooby-Doo gang. Is that movie coming from Hell?
I am very sad of what is happening to Batman, but the erasure of his icon seems to be on the agenda. We may have a totally new Batman for the next generation, a Steve Urkell's twin maybe. Someone who won't be a hero anymore. You saw what they did to Thor without the leastest scruple. In Starwars 8 they turned the charismatic and powerfull figure of General Hux into a comic relief to make room for Captain Phasma's badassness and make her look like the true leader of the First Order. The feminist agenda is carefully, slowly and irrevocably killing every male icon that used to be representative of what young boys should admire.
And they say young boys are growing ruder and ruder...
That director must never be seen again in Holywood.
8 January 2018
He made of General Hux a comic relief. I couldn't expect something so incredibly wrong, useless and dumb. He made of Luke Skywalker a whiny youknowwhat. How on Earth could one have such an idea? He made of Rei, the second most controversial Starwars character after JarJar Binks a vulgar nobody. He made of Leader Snoke a vulgar nobody. He brought in an Asian actress who's a nobody and that nobody wanted. What does it remain in the end? Nothing... Hopefully there will remain nobody to watch the ninth episode. It will be without me.
Can you realize that newspapers and journalist are restoring the value of the first prequel with beloved JarJar Binks and Hayden Christensen after this film? I totally detest directors who let their ego surpass the power of a myth: that little man made his film and he is happy about it. He kicked everything forward for the next director who surely won't be him, who has to sort himself out of a mess created by a coward and petty director. Episode 7 caused people to be enraged, this one caused people to be despaired. There is nothing, nothing and nothing in this episode. This episode is nothing, it means nothing, and there remains nothing after it.I hope the director is to never be seen again after that.
Can you realize that newspapers and journalist are restoring the value of the first prequel with beloved JarJar Binks and Hayden Christensen after this film? I totally detest directors who let their ego surpass the power of a myth: that little man made his film and he is happy about it. He kicked everything forward for the next director who surely won't be him, who has to sort himself out of a mess created by a coward and petty director. Episode 7 caused people to be enraged, this one caused people to be despaired. There is nothing, nothing and nothing in this episode. This episode is nothing, it means nothing, and there remains nothing after it.I hope the director is to never be seen again after that.
I hope the director is to never be seen again after that.
8 January 2018
He mae of General Hux a comic relief. I couldn't expect something so incredibly wrong, useless and dumb. He made of Luke Skywalker a whiny youknowwhat. How on Earth could one have such an idea? He made of Rei, one of the second most controversial Starwars character after JarJar Binks a vulgar nobody. He made of Leader Snoke a vulgar nobody. He brought in an Asian actress who's a nobody and that nobody wanted. What does it remain in the end? Nothing... Hopefully there will remain nobody for the ninth episode. It will be without me. Can you realize that newspapers and journalist are restoring the value of the first prequel with beloved JarJar Binks and Hayden Christensen after this film? I totally detest directors who let their ego surpass the power of a myth: that little man mae his film an is happy about it. He kicke everything forward for the next director who surely won't be him, who has to sort himself out of a mess created by a coward and petty director. Episode 7 enraged a lot of people, this one brought them desperation. There is nothing, nothing and nothing in this episode. This episoe is nothing, it means nothing, and there remains nothing after it.
Regeneration did not suck like last time did
25 December 2017
This episode was intersting. I don't know if that failure of a Moffat did write it because it did not really seem like he did even if the plot relied like usual on some bursts of pure, disinterrested and, in the end, far-fetched sense of heroism amid a situation where once again the Doctor turns the Universe upside down for one single person. It is a single episode indeed, which may seem independant of the others like every Doctor Who episode does, except those who are divided into parts indeed. I celebrate the departure of that Moffat who made of DW a mockery.
You can see DW's problem these last years in The Last Jedi: there's a difference between being funny and trying to be funny. DW and The Last Jedi were mockeries because the screenwriter or directors had not talent with humor. In this episode, I don't recall any of those multiples slips at handling humor with forced jokes and characters turning ridiculous. The script was simple and went straight to the point, exploring concepts and ideas in the way in a relatively interesting way. The 1st Doctor was played admirably. It was enjoyable to watch, not like the last one with Matt Smith that worked my patience out like so many of Moffat episodes did.
And above all, the regenaration seem was grandiose by its simplicity, its darkness and Capaldi's talent that I'll miss. I'm so soory he had to have someone like Moffat as a screenwriter or director. They respected the audience by not trying to achieve something superb like they did with Matt Smith, where the novelty they inserted felt like a mark of despise and incompetence. They made of this regeneration a proper one and I thank them for thei humility which I felt like a proof of intelligence.
You can see DW's problem these last years in The Last Jedi: there's a difference between being funny and trying to be funny. DW and The Last Jedi were mockeries because the screenwriter or directors had not talent with humor. In this episode, I don't recall any of those multiples slips at handling humor with forced jokes and characters turning ridiculous. The script was simple and went straight to the point, exploring concepts and ideas in the way in a relatively interesting way. The 1st Doctor was played admirably. It was enjoyable to watch, not like the last one with Matt Smith that worked my patience out like so many of Moffat episodes did.
And above all, the regenaration seem was grandiose by its simplicity, its darkness and Capaldi's talent that I'll miss. I'm so soory he had to have someone like Moffat as a screenwriter or director. They respected the audience by not trying to achieve something superb like they did with Matt Smith, where the novelty they inserted felt like a mark of despise and incompetence. They made of this regeneration a proper one and I thank them for thei humility which I felt like a proof of intelligence.
School of Rock
(2003)
So cool.... So funny
7 November 2017
Anybody who didn't like this film is simple a weirdo or needs a counselor. With Mrs Doubtfire, The Adams Family Values, it is one of the funniest film of its time and one of the funniest films ever. I wish I could teach as passionately as Dewey Finn does. There is no mistake anywhere in this film. I'd watch late at night, tired of for the umpteenth time... I won't yawn. And overall... Everybody wants to be a rocker at the end of this film.
The trailer (and skepticism for its heroes) killed this good movie
23 September 2017
The film is good. Very interesting. I'm afraid I saw it in streaming. I even forced myself to, but I realized then it was a bad idea not going to see it in a theater.
It doesn't resemble the other major franchises and has that Besson style which is about giving its movies a certain child spirit. The two heroes, who made it feel like we were going to watch a kids movie, are not childish at all. On the contrary, they act with serious and composure when needed, but can also laugh about themselves and about things around, but what makes it really interesting is that they don't try to be funny every time: they laugh when it's time to. This is relaxing, when the rhythm has a few pauses.
I really hope there will be a second film. I'll go see it this time. I didn't think the thing would be good after that trailer which made it look like a second Avatar (which I slept before). It is not the same thing at all. It has not as boring and full of good feelings.
I thought we would have another womanized male hero. Not at all. Besson seems to have revolted also against that kind of reverse sexism which gives the lead to female characters in any way. It is cool to see it's not the case and it is refreshing for dudes that it's not once again the females who are in the lead like it's the case everywhere else. Both characters are treated evenly, and there is not one of them who clearly dominates the other. This equality between both was enough for certain feminists to slate the movie.
It doesn't resemble the other major franchises and has that Besson style which is about giving its movies a certain child spirit. The two heroes, who made it feel like we were going to watch a kids movie, are not childish at all. On the contrary, they act with serious and composure when needed, but can also laugh about themselves and about things around, but what makes it really interesting is that they don't try to be funny every time: they laugh when it's time to. This is relaxing, when the rhythm has a few pauses.
I really hope there will be a second film. I'll go see it this time. I didn't think the thing would be good after that trailer which made it look like a second Avatar (which I slept before). It is not the same thing at all. It has not as boring and full of good feelings.
I thought we would have another womanized male hero. Not at all. Besson seems to have revolted also against that kind of reverse sexism which gives the lead to female characters in any way. It is cool to see it's not the case and it is refreshing for dudes that it's not once again the females who are in the lead like it's the case everywhere else. Both characters are treated evenly, and there is not one of them who clearly dominates the other. This equality between both was enough for certain feminists to slate the movie.
Batman and Harley Quinn
(2017)
This is not the Batman I know
15 August 2017
This is not the Batman I know. This is not the Batman I want. This is not the Batman I like. This is not the Batman I want to watch. This is not the Batman that made the franchise respectable, the character admired and the audience captivated. The plot lies on a series of deus ex machina while Batman always manages to sort himself out of trouble by his intellect, his strength and the support of his teammates. There is nothing of it in the anime. Batman's cold attitude is caricaturing and makes him look like a fool. The depth of his character is gone. When it is missing, it means that the scripts sucks or that batman is suffering and is under the control of his anger. There the thing clearly sucks and Batman comes down to be a comic character which he is never supposed to be, at least, the Batman of the last franchise. That
Batman resembles the old franchise and it is detestable, as the film slowly shift from the 90s Batman, the tortured and dark one we all know and like for his intelligence and his values, to the 50s Batman, the humoristic one that few people remind of because he has nothing that can be admired. That slow transition from one Batman to another was weird and unexpected. It was like watching Mad Max Fury Road and seeing your hero crumbling, vanishing and slowly disappearing into nothingness, leaving behind a shadow of him that fails at imitating its origin.
And once again, a classic strong male hero is overshadowed by a female hero. That trend is becoming more than a trend, it has come to be randomized, natural. Classic male heroic figures are treated with less and less consideration, while female heroins never stop outrun male figures in term of screen time and excellence. Batman is the ultimate figure of perfection for boys and young men. He has everything a guy could dream having, he is everything the world could dream of a man. And they are killing it to put forward and ambitious psycho, who normally, would never care for the rest of the world. That anime totally betrays the franchise as there is hardly a film with Harley Quinn where the Joker is not mentioned. And he never is in this film.
Those characters are supposed to be much darker than that. They are not. Even if this anime tries and succeeds some times at being funny, it is not what is expected of a Batman movie... I wish that anime much failure.
Batman resembles the old franchise and it is detestable, as the film slowly shift from the 90s Batman, the tortured and dark one we all know and like for his intelligence and his values, to the 50s Batman, the humoristic one that few people remind of because he has nothing that can be admired. That slow transition from one Batman to another was weird and unexpected. It was like watching Mad Max Fury Road and seeing your hero crumbling, vanishing and slowly disappearing into nothingness, leaving behind a shadow of him that fails at imitating its origin.
And once again, a classic strong male hero is overshadowed by a female hero. That trend is becoming more than a trend, it has come to be randomized, natural. Classic male heroic figures are treated with less and less consideration, while female heroins never stop outrun male figures in term of screen time and excellence. Batman is the ultimate figure of perfection for boys and young men. He has everything a guy could dream having, he is everything the world could dream of a man. And they are killing it to put forward and ambitious psycho, who normally, would never care for the rest of the world. That anime totally betrays the franchise as there is hardly a film with Harley Quinn where the Joker is not mentioned. And he never is in this film.
Those characters are supposed to be much darker than that. They are not. Even if this anime tries and succeeds some times at being funny, it is not what is expected of a Batman movie... I wish that anime much failure.
Foxy Lady
(1992)
A good low-budget movie
10 August 2017
It was the first time I watched this film. I can understand it left a mark on people due to the feeling of intensity the directing manages to build in the film. Steve Bond (or Shlomo Goldberg) seems convincing enough to me, amid the cheap light and image quality, as the camera work is not so rarely vivid and powerful. The sensuality switches from heat and cold, embracing both evenly deeply. The actress shines with that fragile and perverse innocence, dear to the 80s and 90s that failed to survive the rise of the macho heroin, whose sensuality is expressed into male features like combat abilities, rather than through her femininity. That femininity she expresses feels like a caress on the cheek. This kind of movies produced during that generation, despite their quality, seem to have kept their ability to portray feelings with a depth that can be as unsettling as it is charming. This Z-series movie is one of those kinds you'll remember.
Alien: Covenant
(2017)
Succession of silly decisions for a scenario.....
25 May 2017
How can a scenario rely on that? I mean, it is nearly like not giving a damn about people. No it clearly is. And this is the reason why I lost respect and consideration for Ridley Scott. Alien Covenant is indeed a cash-grab. The scenario is based on a series of mistakes and bad decisions, erratic behaviors from the characters that enabled the heart of the horror to take place. This is unacceptable unless we are as dumb as sh... The sad thing is that there is a lot of beauty in this film.
And the main character is a unique kind of heroin. Indeed, in action movies, heroins or female characters tend to be very manly and hire a manly posture. In a different manner, they can also display a caricature of female posture with exaggerated charisma and dominatrix behavior. This heroin is none of it. She is simple, charming and brave. Her qualities seem authentic, respectable and she can be identified to. She could have been the first, the inspiration, the model of a new era of female characters who do not have to be a castrator to forge her charisma. That heroin was sweet, without seeming weak. She was adorable.
To me, Ridley Scott ridiculed himself with this film that had the potential to be great. The scenario killed it, because the editing and film making were perfect, acting also. The action scenes were too few also, and only one was vibrant. What a disappointment. This film deserves to fail to teach a lesson to production companies.
And the main character is a unique kind of heroin. Indeed, in action movies, heroins or female characters tend to be very manly and hire a manly posture. In a different manner, they can also display a caricature of female posture with exaggerated charisma and dominatrix behavior. This heroin is none of it. She is simple, charming and brave. Her qualities seem authentic, respectable and she can be identified to. She could have been the first, the inspiration, the model of a new era of female characters who do not have to be a castrator to forge her charisma. That heroin was sweet, without seeming weak. She was adorable.
To me, Ridley Scott ridiculed himself with this film that had the potential to be great. The scenario killed it, because the editing and film making were perfect, acting also. The action scenes were too few also, and only one was vibrant. What a disappointment. This film deserves to fail to teach a lesson to production companies.
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