therealgodfather-1 Reviews

The Birthday (I) (2004)

The best of the eighties

[9/10 · 9 September 2008]

If you love David Lynch's Blue Velvet, DePalma's Body Double, Dante's Blurbs and all the Spielberg (or Amblin) stuff, this is you movie. This is a movie who takes on Norman, a boy on an incredible situation. This movie is well directed, beautifully photographied and it has something captivating inside: it's a journey that has the best of Lynch, DePalma, Spielberg and even the fantastique of Argento. There are a lot of long shots that define the aesthetic of this movie. If you're a lover of the Hudsuckey Proxy, this is a nervous comedy with an extraordinary story that it must be remembered as the Spanish Barton Fink. It's something unpredictable, with a Woody-Allen-like Corey Feldman and all it feels like Shaun Of The Dead.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Worst ending ever!

[5/10 · 22 May 2008]

It doesn't feel like any other Indy movie: this is a Spielberg closer to Catch me if you can than the other movies. It's great and it has plenty of references, from West Side Story to Vertigo, the show feels like very good until that ending. It's so boring, and the marriage of Indy is so awful and sad. That's not our hero because in every other movie there was a Jones girl. Like James Bond. That's it. Not more because the story of the crystal of skull feels like an Indiana exploit like the Zemeckis movie with Douglas or the Pirates of the Carribbean. If the treausre has no sense, the villain (a great performance by Cate Blanchett) isn't cruel enough all feels like a brilliant parody, with great visual work and some memorable action pieces, like the car chase in the jungle.

The actors are great and the director is doing really good. The worst is the script from George Lucas and David Koepp. This isn't a good enough ending to the saga, such a sympathetic epilogue.

Cassandra's Dream (2007)

The worst Allen

[4/10 · 20 September 2007]

Mr. Allen has done better movies, this is an stupid variation of the Match Point-style, but changing the infidelity for the two brothers. Terry is the guilt and Ian is his opposite. The film is funny at moments, but Allen is deceiving. Another clown who wants to be serious. It's stupid because Melinda and Melinda, and the victory of the comedy over the tragedy, was his best movie in years! If you enjoyed Match Point, you probably feel disappointed. The fans of Woody Allen will feel angry too: the genius of our favourite jew is disappearing and maybe the new Woody Allen has a name and it's called Todd Solondz. Much of the dialogue sound stupid and the message it's the same than the brilliant Crimes and misdeamors.

Children of Men (2006)

Cuaron Triumph

[10/10 · 3 July 2007]

This is a great brilliant masterpiece. Slavoj Zizek is in the extras' DVD. It's a fact. Probably, the best sci-fi movie, beating Blade Runner, and the most important movie of 2006 along with Shyamalans' Lady in the water. It has the best performances of the year, too. Clive Owen is the perfect post-Bogart noir hero of the postmodernist sci-fi and Michael Caine does a tender composition a la RAW (Robert Anton Wilson, the lisergic conspiracy-author) of a unforgettable character. Cuaron has a powerful hiperrealistic style and moves the chamera like if he has being playing the Call Of Duty all his life. The book beats up the poor book of the mediocrity lady PD James, and it converses in something more interesting, a dystopia.