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Wolfs (2024)
Pure rubbish
Coming from a mediocre director like Jon Watts, this film is bad directed, bad acted, bad written and no sense of humor at all. It is a self indulgence between the duo of Pitt and Clooney.
They put it on tv, because in cinema it only would be two weeks. This is more boring than watching a lemon growing.
They don't have any sense of humor at all. They think they are cool, but instead they are two grandpads making bad jokes without any sense, ridiculous acting. With a chasing scene that is really nonsense.
It is a mixed up of bad idea making it grow as the minutes goes by. It turns to be a poor production by those two great actors doing what they think is funny, but it is not. They should stay away of this kind of rubbish.
3 stars out of 10.
Disco, Ibiza, Locomía (2024)
Silly, not funny, very bad done Spanish cinema
That´s the reason why only a few people in Spain know to work in pictures. It is a disaster. There are authors like, Rodrigo Cortés, Carlos Vermut, Daniel Calparsoro... that are really above this piece of crap.
Don´t waste Your time. I am from Bilbao and I remember in 1988 listening and watching this entertaiment (not music) in TV. I was young, like 8 years old and I found it stupid.
They were a group of people, more interested in costumes than music. It is a shame that they made a picture about this, there is no argument; they do not deserve a biopic.
The way it is directed, is like a bad TV show from Spain; What about that Freddie Mercury??? Hahahah, really bad done, even if they don´t show you the actor that plays his role. It is a man with a mustache, nothing to do wit the great Mercury. The rating of 6 is because of the few votes they have (surely from the crew and friends of the director).
A nonsense, very bad done; It recalls me one of the greatest Avant Garde group of electronica´s album title at the time: THE ART OF NOISE´s "In No Sense? Nonsense!" a really great album; but Locomia has no sense. That is what they are, a nonsense piece of crap. Never should be done. Producers should be ashamed. They try to be funny, but they are silly.
Please, no more cinema of that bad quality, bad directed, acted and a silly screenplay, whith archive footage, that is not; only recreations in 4:1 tv format and only a piece from reality where we can see Concha Velasco in TVE1.
2 stars out of 10.
Descending the Mountain (2021)
A complete mess, not What I spected
As a mycologist, I thought that I was going to see something interesting; also as a consumer of psychedeleic Mushrooms, I thought "wow this is my documentary!". Then I started watching people talkng with the nature, things that I know about fungy, they get together, you don´t understand why?? You don´t understand the editing of the documentary that is acompletely mess. What is it about? Old people taking young people into the psychedelic world.... NO!
It was horrible watching it, not funny, not understandable, not entertaiment, no new information... I was bored by 32 minutes in the film; I though... well It is short, only 78 mnutes, but it looks like 3 hours of nonsense. Don´t waste your time with it.
2 Stars out of 10.
The Abandon (2022)
A Waste of time; better go and and watch "Buried" or "Cube"
This is a very bad mixture between "Cube" and "Buried". I don´t understand why nobody watched this film; only 75 votes, only one critic (now two with mine), and the critic of 10... It is a production of 2022... I don´t Know, but It looks very strange.
Copy of Rodrigo Cortese´s "Buried", with a bigger set like in "Cube", with very poor acting and a screenplay that could be better, but the directing and the acting are so bad that you just want to stop the picture at the very beginnig, somethig like in the first 20 minutes.
I am not gonna tell You anything about the picture, no spoiling; but I warned you! It is a waste of time. And I am sure that it started with the votes of the production friends and families, but now, with ordinary people like us, with nothing to do with the picture, It will go to 4 stars, with a very few days. Yesterday it was 8.1; today with 20 votes more, 7.4... wait two weeks or four, and you will see...
This type of strange products, coming from years away and nobody watching it... I don´t now... be very careful of those movies with such a poor votes and a big rating. Just wait a month before watching it. Then return to see the rating and you wil discover that It is under 5.
1 star out of 10.
Young Woman and the Sea (2024)
Just a Biopic, nothing new, nothing else nothing more
Prepare to be bored in two hours; everything is predictable. The acting is very poor, the cliches are always the same. It is a filmwork that doesn´t bring nothing new.
The directing is poor in that movie, as the actors and actresses. The screenplaying is boring, it doesn´t bring anything new. If you compare the protagonist face with the real person face , you find quickly there is a fictional part, of making a cute woman in the movie when the real one wasn´t. Why is that??? Take note of Charlize Theron in MONSTER; She is a beautiful woman, but the role she played was of an ugly woman and a serial killer. That was a good job.
When it comes to the end, there is always the same, actual footage from the day she did it.
Very very poor movie, more like a tv movie, full of cliches and bad acting. Bad directing, bad screenplaying. Maybe the only thing that we could talk well about is the design of production and the photography. Nothing else, nothing more; those type of biopics really get you bored; You are warned
4 stars out of 10.
Skywalkers: A Love Story (2024)
Nonsense and very dangerous documentary
As a man who´s been treated into psyquatrist and with a counselor, one day my counselor said to me: "Do You know that we treat people that loves money and gambling, an adicction that it´s been new today, also like movile phone in young people or people who climb doing "Solo" climbing or climbing at he most dangerous buldings in the world"? So I said to me: "Well my situation is not so dangerous for me".
I love to climb mountains, but if its not possible because of the weather or bad conditions, y give up, and return.
This documentary shows two people, a couple, that is doing these insane things; They are insane. They need trartment, because you have many many videos in Internet about people doing that kind of stuff and dying. But the documentary shows us like it is a very good reason to continue doing this as a couple, because as they climb the highest buildings in the world, they are more stick one to another, and their love goes on. But What will happen wen she or he dies?
And the sponsors, they should be in jail because of the money that they give to those kind of poor sick young people. They need to be cured, they need to stop it right now, but as an alcoholic or metamphetamine addict or any drug adicction, they are adicted to climb, to adrenalin. If they don´t have anything to climb, They enter in the void and the problem appears. Family should be warning, but they are not. Sponsores should be out of it, but the are not! So They see how They make themselves and others rich but at what price??
Nosense documentary, I wouldn´t recommend it to young people. The thing that the protagonists are doing is very dangerous, and they are sick and need treatment. But at the contrary, this Netflix documentary shows you, two survivors, that maybe They will die tomorrow. Because as a cocaine addicted person needs more cocaine, those ones need more stupid climbing. As a espicialized mountain climber, I know people that because of doing stupid things encounter the death.
That documentary is pretty dangerous, even if they warn in the first minutes of doing those dangerous things.
Life is good, but there are a lot of sick people, the two caracters need help. I hope they find it some day; there is a moment in film when she looks at the news and someone tells her that everybody is dying. But she doesn´t care and see it as a strange thing; obiuosly they need help. And please don´t go into climbing without the appropiate shoes!!!
Very bad done Netflix, 2 stars aout of 10.
The Last Island (1990)
Fun but not very realistic. When do they eat???
If you see the picture and you think about sex it is the last thing you would do in your life if you find yourself in an island as a robinson crusoe.
Then what about the wardrobe, the festivals they make and the ones that don't have beard? And all the food, where did they came from?
Apart from those non realistic ideas, you find a film with well done entertainment, wich I think is the most important. It is not a boring movie. And that's a very good thing those days. Time pasess quickly and it is fun. A production made with little money but the screenplaying is good and the way the director who makes also the screenplay, is a good one. That and a good acting is a thing that absolutely brings the picture to something more, otherwise it would be a boring movie.
6 stars out of 10.
The Primevals (2023)
INCREDIBLY WELL DONE!
Finally we have a Harryhausen´s movie in the 21ts century, in 2024. This is incredeible! The tribute they pay to films like Willis O´ Brian stop motion´s FX in King Kong is fantastic!
Against the CGI, we have animatronics, practical FX, some CGI, but low and a story like Harryhausen´s movies told us. Actors are in a second position in this movie; the really stars are the puppets in stop motion (there is one scene where we can see hundreds of them moving). I never thought we could see again something like this in big screen. The technique of stop motion is incredibly well done. The motion of the puppets and the realism in the mixing with real life caracters is incredibly well done!
The plot and the acting is a little bit hole, I mean we see woodden faces and a poor acting but, what the hell? For a fan of Harryhausen´s movie and a person that is bored with CGI, we have here a great achievement.
This is a movie that Joe Dante, John Landis, Guillermo del Toro, Tarantino and Christopher Nolan would like to see; so if you are one of those crazy people that love the old Sci fi B series or Z series cinema, this is yours! Don´t miss it!
Well done Charles Band, David Allen and company from FULL MOON Features!
7 stars out of 10.
Los Galindos. Toda la verdad (2024)
Quite interesting and very brave
It is a docudrama, very interesting for a case that in Spain is been very famous nside our True Crime history.
A lot of hours of TV shows and interviews with their documentals, were shared all over the countrie´s Televisions. But now one familiar of the deads talk, and tells his truth! When the crime was done, the investigation was terrible; here we see how terrible was the destruction of evidences. Now almost 50 years later we have very important information from a very important man (and it is my opinion), and after those years we know finally wich I think is the truth.
It is a very well done docudrama, with very good directing, with small recreations, more archival footage and an important person who tells his truth and I believe him. It is horrendous that we must have been waiting 49 years to know the terrible truth.
Take notice taht the directing in very professional and the recreations are very very particular with new CGI effects are used in some of them. Well done!
7 Stars out of 10.
Gummo (1997)
A mixture of things without any meaning
Surreal, disconcerting, exaggerated, pretentious and crazy, crazy. A mix of rather improvised comics by Harmony Korine. Putting characters in front of the camera, pretending or not that they are sniffing glue, and a madness after another.
We are lucky enough to see a surreal scene in which Harmony Korine sitting on a sofa next to another black boy with dwarfism tries to do something, exaggerating his altered state by alcohol or some substance, in a very shabby way and trying to get his poor actor, who keeps him company on the couch, to improvise without knowing what to do in an erratic way, hallucinating, sometimes without knowing what to say, trying to get the shoot on one take ok and go. I hope that for the poor guy, there was only one shot, because otherwise it would be to die for.
Clöe Sevigny who plays a girl from the suburbs in which crime, unemployment and the streets are the rules to follow. She also serves as the film's clothing designer. It is the most remarkable thing, since everything else is a bunch of different sequences without any sense, a horrible script and the proof that this kid, at 20 years old at the time, after succeeding in "KIDS" he believes he has the right to continue making films. In "KIDS" she did a good job because the success of that film was the actors themselves who were unknown boys and girls on the streets at that time from New York, so Korine signs the script and it was rather the protagonists who gave it to him. Here the protagonists lack soul, personality and he tries to repeat the same thing done in his debut work as a screenwriter. Direct debut without knowing how to direct, he scripts without knowing how to script and puts together something that is forgettable. A disaster movie. A failed attempt, which shows what Harmony Korine is worth, a kid with no talent.
4 stars out of 10.
La sociedad de la nieve (2023)
What a waste! great opportunity lost
Bayona tells the story in her own way, without delving into the characters, without dwelling on the protagonists, without telling us things that happened as they happened and also inventing many others. I don't want to make spoilers, so I'm going totry to tell where it goes wrong.
Since 1992, when I was 11 years old, I have been an enthusiast of this story, which is one of the most amazing stories, in terms of the strength and survival instinct of the human being. I have three books, a few interviews and various documentaries.
My favorite book is Roberto Canesa's self-help book "I HAD TO SURVIVE". Since then, I have been informing myself from various points of view and various documentaries such as interviews of
different survivors. And it has been from the beginning, at the time of the accident, where it has become a bad copy of ¡Alive! 1993 by Frank Marshall.
It doesn't show the accident in any kind of detail, a pretty crappy CGI, some actors (who, although they resemble the originals in appearance) don´t do a good job, but not because of them, but because of the director. Bad direction of actors. There are things and events that happen that have relevant importance and that they are not told; other things are invented out of nowhere, we cannot empathize with any character: every time someone here speaks, you don't know who he is. The director did not want to tell things as they happened, it is a mistake of respect on his part for the survivors. In Frank Marshall's movie, we empathized with the characters, we cried with them, we were told important things that in this one shine for their
absence, and above all it showed with the practical effects of the time, with better resolution and effectiveness, the moment of the accident.
I know that when I found out it was going to be a Netflix production, I didn't like the idea, but when it was Bayona who was going to tell the story, I thought: "this guy is not up to the task of this incredible story." And it is so! It is a hollow, empty film that tells you what happened (with invented things), but since it doesn´t make you empathize with any character, there is no emotion.
I know the story by heart and the only good thing about it are the photos that are identical, and that it is narrated in Uruguayan, with unknown actors. That is, it is not Americanized. But you don't know who the captain is, for many names of the deceased that he gives you, their age and so on, he doesn't tell you who they are, he doesn't tell you the events in the order in which they occurred and he also invents stupid and empty plots. Totally expendable, very pretentious and doesn´t achieve doing justice to this tremendous story of improvement in every sense. Empty, hollow TV movie, sometimes even boring, although the long film passes quickly. Totally failed. ¡Viven¡ fans, stay away from it!
3 stars out of 10.
No me llame Ternera (2023)
A poor, very poor view, as always
Documentary that is based on a biased reality and a story of the Spanish side versus the Basque side. Jordi Évole is deceitful and tries, in his timid, very timid way, to manipulate the reality experienced in Euskalerria.
As part of those pro-independence citizens who believe in the legitimate freedom of their people, I believe that it is more of the same within the Évole publishing house, a publishing house that plays a somewhat dirty game, speaking only of one part
of the violence exercised in this case by E. T. A. But it does not talk about the violence exerted by the repression of the Basque people through the repression of state forces, state terrorism... its culprits seem to be from his point of view, the only existing victims: those of the Franquist and Unionist sides.
It is a real mistake to tell biased things from a single point of view, with an official story that the Spanish state wants to maintain. Évole's work and his publishing house, are once again,
completely failed for a Basque Country that is growing in gaining independence positions, once we are at peace; Neither he, nor his people realize that his story here is already very tiring.
That E. T. A., It no longer exists and they continue
talking about her, but what about the Franquism that we suffer here?? Nothing is said about that, they can say that because it is not relevant. But that is not the case, what does not interest the Évole team is that the two realities are told as they should make into a documentary. That is why this man seems to me to be a pretensionist and a manipulator, lukewarm and timid, but he is part of the state apparatus that denies Franquism and the suffering and deaths that his 40 years left behind.
You have to tell him also that the police officer he interviewed was at that moment escorting a dictator installed by another in a town that had not voted for him, and that he was executed by the organization. And only Josu Urrutikoetxea refers to this,
Évole doesn't even flinch, for him and his people there will continue to be only one side that they insist on continuing to show, but they don't realize that in Basque Country they are doing to us independentists ,a tremendous favor. Continue with your
pseudodocumentaries telling a biased part of the reality that interests them, because the longer they continue at it, the less we will see them, the stronger we will become and above all we will pay less attention to them, because they are tiresome.
3 stars out of 10.
The Killer (2023)
Very Clever Film
David Fincher here shows off his sobriety when it comes to directing, with Michael Fassbender as the protagonist very correct. He tells us the story of this hitman whose job is going to go wrong (something current in Spain at the time with the situation of
politician Alejo Vidal Cuadras). Of course, from there, if you miss the mark and kill someone you shouldn't, they will come after you. From that moment Fincher is going to tell us in a novelistic way (since it is based on a novel by Alexis
Nolent and Luc Jacamon) the scriptwriter to transfer it to the cinema is the same as Se7en's, Andrew Kevin Walker, who has a career full of ups and downs, but here he gets it right, not as good as in Se7en, but it shows that he is good
scripting True Crime films or crime novels.
So it is divided into prologue, chapters and epilogues, that seem quite short and concise. Very well shot, very entertaining and it gets you hooked from the beginning.
There may be people who don't like this type of cinema, but I´m passionate about the subject of the Sicarios; There are moments in the plot in which you say, wow, where do so many passports come from, flights to escape, guns of every
type, contacts on all continents... and the life of this type of Hitmen who, whether or not they work for intelligence teams, must be like this, even as they always say: "Reality is stranger than fiction." But
Let's look at all those who have been killed and the deaths in strange circumstances of certain people by the KGB, regardless of the country where they are located. Very well shot, and with the presence, although short, of the great Tilda Swinton. It is a movie that those of us who like the genre enjoy quite a bit.
7 Stars out of 10.
Oppenheimer (2023)
A warning for Nolan Fans
A very regular biopic, effective like Nolan's films, with a thunderous soundtrack that sometimes prevents you from hearing the dialogues, a dynamic montage; but that does not serve to tell us the story of this man that already has beeen told us:
we know it by heart. It focuses on the character, the action scenes are conspicuous by the absence of tem; Events like Pearl Harbor are only mentioned, the Hiroshima and Nagashaki bombs are not even displayed in a way that Nolan fans wanted.
It is a movie centered on the protagonist. Boring, it becomes dynamic but does not contribute or tell anything new. It lasts twice as long as the documentary from the same year and tells us a quarter of what happened.
We hardly see images of how The Trinity bomb is set up, it is not explained to us how they reach the conclusion of nuclear fission, some dreams or imaginations of the protagonist appear about the universe, the stars, the fusion of atoms...
It constantly goes from 35 mm to an IMAX that doesn´t benefit anything from its use. It totally lacks action and I can say little more about this, my first horrifying disappointment from Nolan.
I think it's his worst movie.
Simply tell the audience that has not yet seen it: that if they know about the subject, and know it inside out, they are not going to tell them anything new; conversations are going to be intertwined
between actors, shot against shot, jumps in time, a use of black and white and we don't leave the Manhattan project in New Mexico in three hours. It focuses on a tormented character, Cillyan Murphy:
He plays a very good role, and an almost unrecognizable Robert Downey Jr. Is one of the best things in the film. Everything else, nonsense, IMAX without any sense and a Nolan lacking in ideas who has become obsessed with the protagonist and has based himself on a autobiographical novel that is titled: "American Prometheus: "The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer", the title says it all, everything that exceeds the protagonist neither exists nor is expected in the footage.
Horrible, as always overrated.
4 stars out of 10.
75 días (2020)
Very very poor
Badly written, badly acted, poor photography, very poor directing; even makes Antonia San Juan looks like a woden face. They have a lot of story to tell, but instead, they make a boring screenplay, where some actors are dubbed (because director maybe didn´t like their voice). It looks like you are watching amateur acting everytime; something like a cinema student´s first movie. Don´t ruin your time watching this.
I´ve watched a lot of documentaries about it, interviews in different TV shows and different podcasts about it. Here in Spain, it is one of the most important "media TRUE CRIME" case; not at the moment, but yes in 90´s. In Spain crimes prescribe in 20 years, witch it makes boring and redundant talking again and again about it. Everybody knows about the story. There´s been 30 years from that; I think that´s why we want to comment again on it, even if we don´t know nothing new about it. That´s a mistake, becouse you don´t have anything new, and people are starting to get bored about it.
Maybe it is time to tell more stories and forget about taht one. If it would be USA where crimes don´t prescribe it would have sense to e a cold case and investigate more. But here it is CLOSED, lets left it like that please. And if you do something, make it a bit more cinematografically interesting.
1 Star out of 10.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Disney and his way of destroying cinema
We live in a difficult era for cinema, especially in Hollywood. There is no new ideas, they have to come back to the great films of the 80´s to try to sell something. But they don´t do through the ussual channels, They put DISNEY that has a lot of money but puts his own trademark in a non-Disney film. This is terrible, cause the product that we have here is an old Indiana in his 80 years, doing things that he did when he was 40. Incredible but true.
I knew before watching it, that this was going to be a waste of time, but we have to watch it if we want to have an opinion about it. The conclussion is a terrible writting, good directing, but with the CGI mask on Harrison Ford´s face looks really bad. When he is in front of the camera looks really nice and real but when shadows are applied it fails and more in 4K, when he turns his head one way or another, you don´t know who you are looking, it seems very strange to your mind: your mind tells you that this is Harrison Ford in his late 30´s, but You know that he isn´t. This trick is far away happily to be decent, cause the day we start doing films by A. I. this would be to me, the end of cinema. But one day it will come.
Products like that, trying to find more and more money are a completely disastrous way of making cinema. It even ruins the directing of a good director like Mangold, obviously conditioned in his work by Disney, Spielberg and Lucas.
3 stars out of ten.
Les dues vides d'Andrés Rabadán (2008)
Telefilm, very poor
Poor story, strange acting; I´ve seing it in castillian Spanish, don´t know if its original languaje is catalá. But I Think so. I found the story of Rabadan quite interesting and fresh in Spanish Tru crime. Something different, because we are allways talking about Alcasser, Alfredo Galán, Alcasser again and again... It makes me bored.
Here I had the opportunity to find out something different, but here I am watching a Spanish or catalan tv show film type that it is done with very poor taste of cinematography and a smell of a poor TV movie. I don´t want to make Spoliers, but if you find something about True Crime, this is not your cup of tea. Nothing why the way he is, nothing about his personality, nothing about the two lifes that they talk about in the title. Only very poor wrtting, screenplaying, directing and acting. Don´t understand the way of making it; It tastes like some cinema students made this as a final exam.
3 stars out of 10.
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2022)
NECESSARY TO WATCH
A great documentation of recordings that were in old discs, and for this time they bring to digital quality to preserve it.
They bring live to the Nurenberg judgements. They do a necessary job, a real good work, maybe too short, it should be done in chapters, cause the trials were very long. But nevertheless, here we have the voice and the footage of the real things that happened those days. We see and hear the voice of the perpetrators of the most horrific murdes that happened in the western culture.
Very important to watch it cause that was what actually happened, and not to repeat it. That´s why we need to see it again and again till we understand that humanity can repeat it any time. Don´t forget it!
Thanks for bringging the footage in black and white and not in colour, cause the colour makes Nazis appear more important an black and white is the way we should see it
7 stars out of 10.
Eles Transportan a Morte (2021)
Not What I Expected
I am Basque, and when I heard about that film I wanted to whatch it. I waited, and then the moment came.
With an interesting start, Filmed in Tenerife (I love Cannary islands), in Galego (the languaje from Galicia) and the nature that involves the movie as a different character, I though it could be a very good movie for me. I personally love the Islandic cinema and I found that this could be something like that kind of cinema with actors from Galicia and told in their languaje with the hot from the volcanic Island of Tenerife. But I was very wrong.
The movie is slow, with poor cinematography and rare acting. The only great thing was the soundtrack, Camilo Sanabria does a great job as a composer, and also the sound crew from the movie is great, recording the soundscapes that involves the movie. But there are a lot of things missing in that drama. It is boring and I felt like I was watching 2 hours movie, instead of 1h and 15 minutes. You don´t know what they are talking about and you feel loosing interest every minute that passes. Finally you are thankfull that it ends. A complete fail for me.
4 stars out of 10.
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
The 7 Knocks on the door
It has all the ingredients of Shyamalan´s cinema. The mistery, the cruelty, horror and science fiction at the same time. We have 7 different characters, four of them knock on the door 7 times, and those four have each one 7 letters i their names: Leonard, Sabrina, Redmond and Adriane. Too much refference to number 7. I´ve been reading about the film and the importance of number 7 in it, but I haven´t found anything about it. Did someone found something?
Well in the apoclypse there are a lot of refferences to number 7. 7 is the number of God, and the number of perfection. It is also the numbert of entirety. There are 7 deadly sins and other 7 virtues against them (4 cardinal virtues, the four who knock the door, and 3 theological, the ones at the cabin). God has 7 different spirits, represented in the Menorah, with 7 candles. The Heaven is divided in 7 differente levels. So after reading about that I come to a conclusion that the movie has many refferences to The Apocalypse. And here is my input to the movie; maybe someone has also seen it!
I find it quite a good movie, one of Shyamalan´s best. If You love his cinema You will like it. All the characters are pretty good, the actors make a very nice Job, specially Dave Bautista and the child by Kristen Cui; deffinetly Shyamalan knows how to direct children. He does a nice job in the screenplay and creates a great atmosphere with a nice photography and excellent job in soundtrack by the Icelandic music composer Herdís Stefánsdóttir; cellos, violas, double basses and percusion sounding perfect and creating a sound landscape all over the movie that bings us tension, mistery and horror. Really a nice job!
Of course, 7 stars out of 10!
Skinamarink (2022)
Boring, boring, boring....
I have to watch the movie in three days in three different chapters, because I couldn't stand it. It was like a torture. Couldn't hear the dialogs, couldn't understand them, couldn't see anything instead a carpet, some toys, some feet walking... Very poor photography, made with ammateur camera, with ammateur lenses and with very bad taste for filmaking.
It is supposed to scare you, but you start to feel sleepy instead. The children in the movie are passing through the camera, rare noises, very complicated shots, with no sense at all.
I don't find the point of watching this. I had to stop it every half hour, and wait for the next day to watch it again,then wait if something happens; but nothing happens! I feel angry after watching this!
1 star out of 10.
M3GAN (2022)
Horrible! Not coming from horror, just painful to watch
What in the world is that? Very very bad movie. A doll transformed into a terminator or a robot prepared to kill. It is really a nonsense, what were the filmakers thinking?
Lets start with the casting, wich is really awful. The principal character is a girl, very poorly executed role. There is her aunt. A wooden faced actress, very bad directed. When she is supposed to be frightened, she smiles, when she is mad she also smiles, when she is upset she smiles again!! That makes me furious! I can't watch her face . The little girl lose her parents and she is forced to live with her aunt, their relationship is surreal. When the aunt should be upset because of the situation, she is happy like a psycopath, and she smiles all the time! I can't stand it! Just awful.
1 star out of 10.
Infinity Pool (2023)
Dissapointed
That's how I feel, very dissapointed. The cinematography and atmosphere created with the excellent soundtrack, goes to hell with the poor directing. Skarsgard is quite allright but Cronenbergh junior brings us into surrealist and unreal situations.
I was looking foward to watch it, but everything fails. The atmosphere is really good, mixed with superb cinematography and music, but the screenplay is bad executed.
I love his father's cinema, I am a fan of David Cronenbergh's movies. I though that maybe his son will learn how to make it well, but happens the same that happens with Jennifer Lynch. They are supposed to be good directors but they fail on every movie they make. Cronenbergh junior has a very good taste making movies, but it finally fails when bringing a fresh idea. The visuals and atmosphere are very outstanding, but the screenplay is weak and pretentious.
4 stars out of 10.
El pico 2 (1984)
Don't waste Your time
Be careful, this movie is a piece of crap. It is a sequel, due to the good reception of the first one. This time the only thing that brings Eloy de la Iglesia to make it was the money. So the artistic interest of the first one is completely lost in this one.
The story is practically the same: young people really using heroin in front of a camera, but there is something new, the principal character goes to jail.
Appart from that nothing interesting. Drugs, more drugs, sex in between, political issues with Guardia Civil fascists.
Eloy de La Iglesia losses completely his film directing freshness of the first one .
If you are a fan of the first movie "El Pico", don't waste your time with that one. I warn you!
3 stars out of 10.
El pico (1983)
Very good reflection of reallity
I am from Bilbao, Basque Country. I find that movie really a nice and very convincing tale of what was going on those years with GUARDIA CIVIL, Spanish police, the oppression against anything that was basque and the drugs that were used by the spanish police at that time, as a weapon against people. Against the free will of the basque politics.
Oppresion was shown on both sides of the society.
Young people was into heroin, that make them an instrument of the power, they were more interested in substance than in their freedom. And this is an important thing that is displayed into the movie, because that was what actually happened here. Of course, there was something else and it was the spanish goberment using violence and terrorism against the freedom of basque people. But that was going to be another story, told later on.
7 stars out of 10.