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Celda 211 (2009)
Decepcionante
Tras haber sido la gran triunfadora de los Goya, tras los grandes comentarios suscitados, no me quedó otra que pasar por la taquilla para verla, rehusando la opción del alquiler o internet en pocos meses. Entré en el cine con la absoluta convicción de que lo que iba a ver me iba a gustar, y me encontré con un inicio bueno, esperanzador, con un buen planteamiento y una idea original, con un tema de fondo siempre atractivo: el carcelario.
Pues no me gustó, y no la recomendaría. Conforme la película avanza se torna oscura, violenta, desagradable con letras mayúsculas, y de forma constante. No pasan 15 segundos sin tacos, sin gritos, sin odio, sin sangre. A quien le guste eso gozará, pero 1 hora de horrores ininterrumpidos se me hizo duro. Personalmente, la violencia o acción bien justificada me parece divertida, pero en este caso el hilo conductor me pareció poco creíble, con un trasfondo incluso yankee, exagerado.
La presencia de la mujer embarazada y el marido para mí fue un lastre demasiado pesado en la película. Esa carga emotiva pasó de ser un complemento al inicio, a lastrar toda la trama. Es decir, Celda 211 resulta en un drama emocional yankee envuelto de brutalidad incesante.
A pesar de pegarme mi última hora incómodo en la butaca, disfruté bastante de la magistral interpretación de Luis Tosar. El personaje de Malamadre destaca por sí sólo. Lo mejor y casi lo único de Celda. Me gustó Carlos Bardem y el ambiente de los presos, buen casting. Sin embargo, el actor protagonista, Alberto Amman, no me pareció creíble durante la película. Mediocre. El mediador del Gobierno o los oficiales carcelarios aún peor.
Mad Men (2007)
Too much quality
Let me tell you I see very, very few TV shows, but that one caught me from the beginning. Just fascinating.
First you find men who are supposed to be mad but you find them not at all. But slowly you start to see the title is not wrong, they are superficially correct and plane characters. Wait only a bit, mad ambitions, mad subtleties, and the mad kind of live we all have now started perhaps those days in the 50's.
Let me tell you about Don, the main man. He's seemingly totally perfect, tall, polite, intelligent, fierce, seductive. He's got the perfect wife, perfect job, perfect house and life. It's fascinating how you can feel his deep sadness underlying every movement, both confidence, talent and a strange bitterness follows wherever he goes.
Wonderful script, nothing is absolutely, nothing ends perfectly, everything rides open and freely, you get shocking scenes, really impressive ones, as well as sentimentally hypnotizing sometimes.
Characters: Cooper is wonderful, Sterling is just wow, Betts is a new icon of conduct and behavior also of perfect beauty, Joanne is excitingly seductive but so subtle you have to raise a smile. Creatives and account men develop accurate mad stories where gossip, ambition and appearances feel comfortable.
I would recommend it, but not everyone is ready. In Mad Men even the air speaks and that's usually a boring language for the most.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Boring
I am really astonished reading all the commentaries and the incredible average mark of the film. This movie is simply deceiving.
When I first saw Batman Begins, I really loved it. From then I began to investigate more about Christohper Nolan and his films. I discovered also that Memento was directed by him, as well as Insomnia with Al Pacino and Robin Williams, highly interesting thriller placed in Alaska.
Back to "Knight", I found it firstly too long. I went with 3 friends and all of them slept the whole last hour.
Secondly, and probably the most important from my point of view, the plot is not surprising and of a quality you wouldn't expect from such an expensive movie.
More, Christian Bale is not the same. In that film Batman as well as Bruce Wayne are poor, somehow sad, definitely not inspiring. Nothing comparable to his performance in Psycho. All the action scenes are the same, batman knocking and slamming with its legs, arms and fists. Where is the intelligence and slyness? The highly praised Heath Ledger is not bad, but the character, this new Jocker is deceiving again. Not fun, not subtle nor ironic, simply violent.
To finish with, this film is too long, unnecessarily complicated, and if you see the images of the trailer, you have seen it all.
The Matrix (1999)
¿Why not the best movie of the 90's?
The Matrix is the first part of an action and science fiction trilogy, probably the best of them, that not only shows a deep and brilliant story through an imaginative, creative, and also breathtaking screenplay that demands more than one view, but excellent photography as well as a superb performance.
The Matrix suggests the next step after Internet, everything is available thorough the mind; all, faster, getting what you and only you are able to admit, there are no limits but yourself, somehow about that lies in the heart of that masterpiece. That suggested power doesn't come alone, we are in a future near 2200 and machines save themselves against humans, which are literally out, projecting their own reality while providing machines their energy by doing it.
I am in love about the characters, I love Morpheus, Trinity, of course Neo, even MR. Smith, such a big love is only possible in masterpiece. Who is Keanu Reeves? And who is Lauren Fishburn, I don't know and I don't mind. And what can be said about action? Simply new, fresh, quick, slow, strong, slight, the same time subtle and brutal, even fine, plenty of sensibility.
I know people able to read this has already seen the movie, I did more than twice. I simply wanted to sign down my pure admiration for that story and demonstrate it here. Thanks to the Wachowski's and you for reading. Watch it again, that's my recommendation.
Babel (2006)
With quality, but too long and sad
This is a good movie, entertaining, with extremely beautiful images and good taste of the director, no doubt. Good performances reflecting babel, the diversity. Disco scene is excellent, especially the music. We can see clearly the "Chaos theory", where something from Japan determines a crazy sequence throughout the world. Message: we are all living under the same roof.
But: It's terribly dramatic, everything seems something that should be thought about. In Morrocco pain is permanent, in Mexico even more, in Japan, very sad. You could cry almost every minute. It is also too long, and it really doesn't show anything new. I love to laugh and learn in cinema, if possible. With that movie both are simply not available.
I recommend that film if you are interested in picture, drama, or to get arguments and think about social conflicts (already seen). Not for the rest.
Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
More than entertaining
I found this film absolutely good in the point of view of the simplicity. It cannot be an easier plot, and I personally adore this. The more simple, the easier you can concentrate on the feelings of characters and put yourself in that true story become nightmare.
But simple doesn't mean good, a good movie need a well managed threat, and in my view this was the case: I couldn't move my eyes out the screen, I suffered in some situations, horribly realistic...
Despite this exciting 1 and half hour, I dislike some details of the screenplay, which allows too much stupidity in some characters that are sometimes too early hopeless whether others desperately foolish.
But recommended
Martín (Hache) (1997)
Feed your brain
When you see four times a film and you discover new contents each time, evidence: this piece is worth-. I see my own evolution with this movie, my opinion growing, I notice concepts I hadn't before.
Martin (Hache) talks about life through incredibly deep characters, specially Martin (father), whose very balanced but also extremely dark side drives spectator into a superior intellectual world, in which you are overwhelmed by messages, looks, behaviors, feelings.
All actors are superb, there is a maximum connection with their characters, you forget you are in front of a TV, flowing in the story like a fish in the water, even understanding both sides of all the great and rich arguments they have. Everything is valuable, don't miss a minute!
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Ridiculous, throwing away the money
Lucky number Slevin is a case of justifying the unjustifiable using "surprising" flashbacks. That film has an obsession trying to surprise the spectator, doesn't matter if there is no connexion with the plot. You are constantly, and all the time, exposed to flashbacks that try explain things of the immediate future, even if they are irrelevant. We can see the surprise factor used in no less than 10 times along the movie, loosing completely the effect.
Otherwise, the screenplay is forced and absurd, all the characters use "cool" sentences every shot, that kind of sentences that worked in the past with little doses, but that loose all effect in the ridiculous story of Lucky number Slevin.
The main character wants to be like similar characters done in the past by Brad Pitt. It is sad to see such a clearly failed aim. Although Josh Harnett is a good actor, he sees himself doing such absurd things like being half naked during the whole first part of the movie, unnecessary, unjustified again.
It deserves also a mention the funny character performed by Bruce Willis (Mr.Goodka), who arrives repeatedly with a ridiculous terrific sound, as he would be Darth Vader, explaining mostly senseless things.
In my point of view there is no main purpose, no connexion, nothing new able to impress us in that movie, we are simply talking about a bad movie that even its good cast and good music can't hide a big problem of intentions.