The movie opened with a scene of a sub-division, isolated, made of squared-lots surrounded by nothing. In a distance, under bright city lights, we found out it was Las Vegas. It made perfect sense(Charley, our protagonist, will remind you it make sense, many times over.) A single mom, Jane (Toni Collette), a real estate agent, […]
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(Updated 01/04/2016)At the beginning, I thought it would be another visual-oriented space futuristic film, like last year’s Gravity(2013), heavy on technical visual effects, and short on dialogues. I was wrong. There were more dialogues and science lessons than anything else: physics, quantum mechanics, singularity, black hole, worm hole… I was glad I watched the whole […]
Wow, it’s Star Trek, it’s Thor, it’s Man of Steel: a 143-minute trailer. Massive destructions! Lois Lane(Amy Adams) was right on, there is a penis-measuring contest out there this spring, summer and fall of 2013, i.e., which film will claim supreme as the one with ultimate destruction power on humble earth. Poor humans, we looked and […]
I know I should not care about a vengeance taken on by a girl of cartel’s parents, but the cleverness and her skills were just amazing to watch. Written by Luc Besson( The Fifth Element (1997), the French Taxi‘s franchise) and by Robert Mark Kamen (Taken’s franchise), you can really see their styles coming through this film. […]
This is what a big blockbuster (didn’t happen on the opening 3.5 days weekend box office results) should be! The first 10 minutes was exhilarating and beautiful (colours: red, orange, white, yellow, vibrant). The next 10 philosophical, then it was back to actions, more thoughts, more actions, it just builds and builds, until it blows:orgasmic, joy, […]
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