Indiana Jones 4

Well, what can you say about this movie? Like almost all recent Spielberg movies, Its only to see in theaters. I mean, if you see it this in your house, it will not be such a good experience. This is bad, since with the older Indiana Jones movies, it doesn't matter if we see them on the theater or on our TV screen, it's the same: cool entertainment. But I'm dispersing about this movie. With this I wanted to say it's a nice experience, like seeing Transformers or War of the Worlds: very nice on the theater screen, but I never want to see them again outside of it... So probably I will skip Indiana Jones 4 when its on TV on a Sunday afternoon.
Now about the movie itself, I though it was a weak plot. Yeah, with all Indiana Jones we have something esoteric happening, like the Ark of the Covenant releasing electricity, or some indian guy removing the heart with his bare hands, or a Crusader with 700 years old... Yeah, they all have these unreal stuff, but come on, it's like, 2% of the movie, not 20%. And I'm not including the nuclear explosion. In fact, that was the part I mostly liked in the film, since it had that cheesy connection to the Ark of the Covenant from the first movie. When I saw the warehouse in the theater, I almost though 'they want the ark...'. But returning to the subject, Aliens??? come on... surely Lucas could come up with something better... I mean, Indiana Jones is a arqeologist right. I know there exist lot's of speculation in people about aliens and the South American ancient cultures, but that's it, speculation. Surely they could come up with something different. The Indiana Jones I was expecting to see would have more to do with facts than fantasy.
Now, the rest of the film is very forced and predictable. Who had not though, when Shia LaBeouf refers to his mother, in Marion from the first movie? And the part when she says it was his son, come on, that was so predictable. I was really hoping for that not to happen, not that Shia LaBeouf wouldn't be a good successor, but due to the cliché!!! About the action, the movie has lots of action, and very viewable, but extremely unrealistic. Yeah, jumping from a plane in a rubber boat and surviving is not very realistic, or the several snakes scenes done in the first movie, but in this film, almost all the action is impossible. In a jungle, with almost no roads, have a sword fight on top of a vehicle going 50 km/h... And the shocks, crashes, etc. It's totally unrealistic. If the other movies where like that, this would not be negative... But the fighting scenes in the other movies are realistic. Even the famous scene with Harrison Ford going under the truck... It was filmed, there where no effects, and he had rib injures after that. This in fact is a problem of CGI, and particularly of the latest Spielberg/Lucas films (taking out the Munich). They have so much CGI available and they put it in almost every tough scene (...otherwise it would be difficult to shoot), that somewhere they've stopped asking: Is this possible? Could this really happen? Is this bullshit? (the other day I've made a post about Shoot'em Up with Clive Owen... this is the perfect example of a movie where they put the impossible and try to pass it like real).
To end, I heard there will be an Indiana Jones 5, which will also be the first double sequel to another well known set of films: Indiana Jones meets Starwars: the raiders of the lost Lightsaber. Oh yeah, now you will be able to see Indiana learning the way's of the force with Yoda.

Clive Owen at his best

This is a great movie! For those who may have seen just a bit, it sure sounds strange. I mean, who would see this if not an Rambo fan or something like that?... If you think that, you've got it totally wrong!

This is a kind of parody to the shooter's films where the main guy is impermeable to bullets and pain, but with a little important thing: it doesn't try to cover itself up as something different. Instead, you get totally impossible action and shots, in a way that becomes really good. The clichés are all so well mixed up, yet served so raw, that it becomes one of the best movies I've saw lately. The carrot becomes some kind of substitute for Popey's spinaches, the bullet proof baby, the no-belt accident to enter the other car and kill everyone inside, and all for the sake of fun! See this.

The 300...

Hello. I'm surprised, the last time I came here, it was 200... now it's 100 more. People really have nothing better to do. Nevertheless here it goes, the last great movie I've saw, and probably all of you know it by now. It was the winner of this year's Golden Bear award, from the Berlin festival: Tropa de Elite. For those who have seen City of God and have like it, of this harsh reality from Brazil, now you can see the other side, the police forces people and what they have to endure. Difficult to say if the worse comes from their enemies or their institution...


The film follows the officers that belong to BOPE, the brazillian SWAT team in Rio de Janeiro. One wants to get out due to his first son birth, the other is divided between two worlds (policeman and junkie college students)... Well and You can easily find a trailer in YouTube, but you should expect some strong images (not gore, strong!). If your distaste of police brutality is high, then expect to be shocked. In fact, form what I browsed in the web, both the director and some actors saw the film as a critics to police excess, but the publics opinion became very favorable to the movie and those controversial police acts. In fact I believe in the end, this movie was (or will be) kind of beneficial to BOPE, a bit like when a movie in the 70's about the MOSSAD was released, and in the following years the applications to the Isralie secret agency were very high (or at least is what you're told in Victor Ostrovsky excellent book). In my opinion, this film is even better than No Country for Old Men, so go and see it.

The Thirteenth Floor

Sabiam que existem muitos edifícios que não têm um 13º andar, existindo 14 andares ou mais? Bem, eu também não sabia, mas saindo das merdas supersticiosas, vi o que posso descrever como um dos melhores filmes dos últimos tempos. Fiquei a saber que foi nomeado para o Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, tendo no final sido escolhido o Matrix...



Bem, depois de o ver, preferia que tivesse sido este. Porquê? É ficção científica sim senhor, logo não é real... mas ao menos nao vemos poderes sobre humanos. E entra num tópico muito interessante, envolvendo o mundo em que nós vivemos, a capacidade de criar consciência artificial (ou neste caso, múltiplas consciências), e também um aspecto filosófico de como a nossa vida pode tornar-se desinteressante face a um conhecimento de que esta não é nada mais do que apenas isso. Obviamente que o cluster deles parece um tanto ao quanto pequeno para sequer conseguir uma milésima da simulação que pretendiam fazer... mas, lol.

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Do you know there are lot's of buildings with no 13th floor, but with more than 14th floors? Well, me neither, but cutting all the supersticious bullshit, I've saw what I can describe as one of the best movies I've lately seen. It was nominated for an Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, losing to The Matrix in the end.

Well, after seing it, I would prefer that it would have been this one. Why? It's sci-fi, there fore it's not realistic, but at least you don't get super human powers! And it enters in a very interesting topic, envolving our world, the capacity to create artificial consciensness (in this case multiple), and also a filosofical concept on how our life can become unninteresting if it's known that is nothing more than that. Obviously, the cluster that appears in the movie it's kind of small to achieve even a 1/1000 of the simulation they pretended to do, but... lol.

Shortbus

Que dizer deste filme. Eu não fazia a minima ideia para o que ia. So no cinema e que vi o poster, mas mesmo ai nem lhe prestei atenção. Começa o filme, a sala quase cheia, e a experiência é simples: destruição do socialmente correcto. Até pensei que me tinha enganado e que o King agora fosse o substituto dos antigos cinemas porno na Av. da Liberdade... mas não. No entanto, à medida que o filme decorre, não existem outros 'grandes momentos' de choque. Depois das cenas iniciais é verdade que seria difícil, mas principalmente, é o facto de o objectivo do filme não ser o de mostrar o sexo, mas mostrar o que existe para além do sexo.
Obviamente que nisto é pena ter de levar com quase 70% de cenas porno gay, no total das cenas de sexo, e não quero ofender ninguém mas não tenho interesse em as estar a ver. Mas que melhor que o sexo porno gay para chocar uma sociedade, que vive constantemente mergulhada num sexo implícito nas várias publicidades que se encontram, bem como nos novos meios de comunicação. Os tempos das revistas já vão longe!
Retornando ao assunto principal, o filme tenta mostrar o que há para além do sexo, e as cenas que chocam sexualmente acabam por ser pornográficas e não eróticas, pois não existe aquele mostrar do sexo onde ele é algo meio tabu, algo proibido num ambiente sedutor. Pelo contrário o sexo e mostrado sem a sedução mas de forma banal, sendo por isso banalizado ao longo do filme, e devido a isso saí de lá sem sentir que vim de um filme pornográfico. Não faz sentido?! Isso e porque falta dizer que, ao mesmo tempo que o sexo é banalizado, apercebe-se da importância de outros sentimentos. Achei que este filme tenta transmitir que, sme esses sentimentos, o sexo seria banal e ai mais valia ir às casas de alterne. Bem, se clahar para uns a diferença entre ter sexo com alguém que se conhece e numa casa de prostituição é apenas monetária... Espero que não seja o caso de quem está a ler isto! Mas estou a desviar-me do assunto.
Existe uma segunda razão para ver este filme: eu não sabia para o que ia, e presumo que muita gente na sala também não. Bem, pelo menos não estavam a espera de algo tão porno, lol. E foi fixe a sensação inicial que tive de me sentir retraído, porque estava naquela sala com a sociedade a ver que eu estava naquela sala (os outros espectadores), naquelas cenas iniciais. Digo isto porque nessa altura pensei "isto e um filme porno", e presumo que muita gente na sala tenha pensado no mesmo. E passado pouco tempo não senti necessidade em estar estranho com a situação porque as outras pessoas que estavam lá, estavam a experimentar a mesma sensação de anti-tabu. Isto e divertido porque é uma espécie de comunhão com o resto do pessoal que foi ver o filme. Ainda me vai aparecer alguém a frente e dizer "Olha lá, tu não foste ver um filme.. shortbus, ao King?". Obviamente que esta sensação de tabu foi muito soft (senão nem estava a escrever este post), por isso não pensem "este gajo tem complexos". Tudo o que falei foi sobre a diferença de ver cenas porno sós ou num grupo grande de pessoas que nunca vimos. Obviamente que há pessoas que nem sequer tiveram qualquer mínima sensação de tabu, mas pelo menos algumas tiveram e eu tive uma sensação de empatia por essas, lol.
Recomendo porque é um filme divertido, que choca (o que é bom) e é sempre bom desobedecer ao socialmente correcto! Aqui fica um link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A17772843.