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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Are you crazy?
I don't have watch the series, so I'm not able to say if it's good or not. I guess it will be. Though, I can say that...you can not have so discussing scenes, like open dead bodies, or heads etc. Take for example CSI New York, or NCIS. Yes,they will show what they have to show in order not only to "get the point" but also to be seemed realistic,without,however, make you wanna vomiting. A small child, an old lady, or others like me can open the TV at the time that you are showing some of those "lovely"scenes as it happens to me some minutes ago! So, it's not only an If-you-can't- stand-it-don't-watch-it subject... Thank you.
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Not exactly a review... :D
I absolutely LOVE THIS MOVIE!
If there is someone out there who hasn't seen it, don't waste any further time! However, my aim, at this point, is not exactly to comment the movie -you can find loads of reviews either way. I'm right now seeing some scenes of Mamma Mia, for the third time this day, and I'm thinking... one thing that I adore about this movie, and about Meryl Streep in general, is that both Dona and Meryl show me that there is no need to be afraid of growing up. (I first heard for Meryl Streep from Mamma Mia. I was extremely surprised when I learned that she was 59 years old, I thought she was only 40!!)I used, as a 17,5 years old-teenager that I am, to wonder if I'm gonna lose some characteristics of my personality that I adore while becoming older, like energy to jump upside-down all the time and be descriptive and graphic while talking and all these stuff that usually teenagers do. You see, adults in my life are more severe and think a lot before doing something... But both Meryl's interviews and Dona, Tanya, Rosie showed me that you can remain the person you are.
So, it's the most appropriate movie to find your good mood again!
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Watch this!
So... I finally read the book and -at last- I saw the movie!! Well,even though, as usual I preferred the book, I did like the film as well. Very much. Meryl Streep was unbelievable, I just loved every quote that she said. She managed to show the peculiar Sarah's character and to create a very interesting character for Anna, as well. Jeremy Irons was great also. Generally, all the cast played good. However, I didn't like Lynsey Baxter as Ernestina. I think she didn't appear as young as it was supposed too, and that she was saying the lines sooo slowly that it get annoyed after some time. I also didn't like the idea of adding Anna's and Mike's world in the story. I'd rather prefer just to be in Sarah's and Charles' reality. It's true that John Fowles often interrupt the narration to comment something or to compare the two centuries. However, Anna's and Mike's existence didn't touch his comments at all. In the first half of the film their scenes last too little so they are not useful. In the second half their story becomes more interesting but at the end it seemed to me that it was a small and fast-made movie, violently put into J.F's story. In other words, I'd like to see Anna's and Mike's story in a different movie! Additionally, It wasn't justified -to my opinion- Anna's behavior at the end that reminds us Sarah! Yet, I have to admit that I was impressed because Meryl and Jeremy could easily "play themselves" as Anna and Mike. But, I was not seeing Meryl and Iron on the screen, even they were playing two characters so common to their reality, they find their own character's personality -a personality different than theirs. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. In conclusion, I believe that if I hadn't read the book and haven't seen the movie on the laptop (I couldn't find it in a DVD) I'd like it much more! It is a story that you have to learn either from the film, either from the book, they both have their own magic!