Genre: Sci-Fi/Science Fiction
Annee/Year: 2011
Country: US
Format: Cinema
Super 8 is one of this summer's strongest movie. For many the best of the year. Director and writer is JJ Abrams (Star Trek remake, LOST, Cloverfield, Mission Impossible 3) and produced by Spielberg... This is a movie set in 1979 a time at which many grown ups can relate. It makes us relive a bit of our youth in the same way that movies such as "stand by me" and ET did. Not a pure sci-fi film, but more of a comedy with a scifi twist all age groups will love this movie. The child actors used in the movie are not very well known but are excellently casted and directed. The story is the one of a group of friends making a film and accidentaly witnessing a huge train wreck. Out of the wreck escapes am alien abducted by the air force years before. Sounds a bit like ET? Well certainly, our alien gets busy stealing euqipment to build his craft and head home. But this is not ET our alien was vindicated by the army and is not happy on this planet; did i mention he is about 25 feet tall and kills a few of his army fans along the way... The movie is well construcuted and includes a friends group and a love story with one of the girls. One of the important elements of the movie is also the father and son relation being played through the movie. Definitely an entertaining movie playing on many levels quite successfully. If you are all out waiting for a "monster" movie you may end up disappointed as this movie is definitely more about the relations between the teenagers and the adults. If you have not seen it , hurry to the remainin theaters playing it otherwise you will have to wait for the Blu Ray at christmas.
Super 8 est un des succès de cet été. Réalisé et écrit par JJ Abrams (Star Trek remake, LOST, Cloverfield, Mission Impossible 3) et produit par Spielberg ce film est une réussite certainement mal connu. Ce film est du genre `Stand by me`et ET et il vous rammener à l`été 1979 ce qui est toujours attirant pour les plus vieux comme moi. Ce n`est pas un film purement science-fiction mais plutot une comedie avec un twist science fiction. L`histoire suit les aventures d`un groupe de jeunes ados qui font un film super 8 et sont spectateurs d`un énorme déraillement de train duquel émerge un extra terrestre géant qui était captif de l`armée américaine. Ca ressemble à ET? Attendez... Notre ET de 25 pieds commence a colletionner des objets et du métal pour fabriquer un vaisseau et retourner chez lui. Mais la s`arrete la comparaison car notre géant n`est pas si gentil et n`hésite pas a tuer certains des soldats de l`armée qui l `ont capturé. Le film est bien construit et parfaitement réalisé. On suit la relations entre les amis du groupe et leurs familles; une relation amoureuse entre deux jeunes mais surtout la relation entre père et fils. Ce film ne manque pas d`action et fonctionne très bien à plusieurs niveaux. Si vous vous attendez à un film de monstre vous serez décu car le monstre occupe peu de place. Définitivement à ne pas manquer.
Great quotes:
Cary: He's too stoned!
Martin: Oh, drugs are so bad!
...
Dr. Woodward: If you speak of this, you and your parents will be killed.
...
Louis Dainard: I've seen it... nobody believes me...
Joe Lamb: I believe you.
...
Cary: Excuse me, can I have another order of fries? Because my friend here is fat.
Charles: At least I don't need a booster seat.
...
Joe Lamb: She used to look at me... this way, like really look... and I just knew I was there... that I existed.
Link: http://www.super8-movie.com/#/video
Entertainment rating: 8.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 8/10
Artistic rating: 6/10
Reflexion rating: 6/10
Production rating: 9/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 9/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8/10
lundi 8 août 2011
jeudi 4 août 2011
#229: Galapagos the island that changed the world, Movies recommended or seen lately...Les films a voir
Genre: Documentary/Documentaire
Annee/Year: 2007
Country: UK
Format: Blu Ray
Galapagos the island that changed the world. This film from National Geographic and the BBC brings us the same quality and visual quality as the Earth series also from BBC. This is a documentary in three parts which covers all the major aspects of life's diversity on this pristine island of the Pacific. Special sections highlight Charles Darwin's passage on this island and it helped to shape his truly new vision he expressed in the Origins' of species. Great films from undersea, the air and the land show us the rich biodiversity of the island and it multiple ecosystems as well as it's geology (volcanoes). Great for all ages.
Galapagos the island that changed the world est un documentaire sur cette magnifique archipel du Pacifique. Les galapagos font partie des dernières iles presque intacte sur notre planète. La diversité de la vie sur ces îles nous montre la nature dans toute sa splendeur. Le documentaire de National Géographique et de la BBC est en trois partie et une partie y est dédié au passage de Darwin sur ces îles et sur l`impact qu`elles ont eues sur lui et à l`élaboration de son classique `Sur l`origine des espèces`. Un intéressant film sur un sujet qu`on ne se lasse jamais de revisiter, avec des images spectaculaires surtout sur Blu Ray. À voir pour tous.
Great quotes:
Link:
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 5/10
Reflexion rating: 9/10
Production rating: 9/10
Adult factor: 10/10
Wide audience: 10/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8/10
Annee/Year: 2007
Country: UK
Format: Blu Ray
Galapagos the island that changed the world. This film from National Geographic and the BBC brings us the same quality and visual quality as the Earth series also from BBC. This is a documentary in three parts which covers all the major aspects of life's diversity on this pristine island of the Pacific. Special sections highlight Charles Darwin's passage on this island and it helped to shape his truly new vision he expressed in the Origins' of species. Great films from undersea, the air and the land show us the rich biodiversity of the island and it multiple ecosystems as well as it's geology (volcanoes). Great for all ages.
Galapagos the island that changed the world est un documentaire sur cette magnifique archipel du Pacifique. Les galapagos font partie des dernières iles presque intacte sur notre planète. La diversité de la vie sur ces îles nous montre la nature dans toute sa splendeur. Le documentaire de National Géographique et de la BBC est en trois partie et une partie y est dédié au passage de Darwin sur ces îles et sur l`impact qu`elles ont eues sur lui et à l`élaboration de son classique `Sur l`origine des espèces`. Un intéressant film sur un sujet qu`on ne se lasse jamais de revisiter, avec des images spectaculaires surtout sur Blu Ray. À voir pour tous.
Great quotes:
Link:
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 5/10
Reflexion rating: 9/10
Production rating: 9/10
Adult factor: 10/10
Wide audience: 10/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8/10
mercredi 3 août 2011
#228: Martyrs, Movies recommended or seen lately...Les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2008
Country: France/Canada
Format: DVD
Martyrs is definitely not a movie for everyone. But for those who seek the ultimate in sensation this is at the pinnacle. Director Pascal Laugier in his second feature length movie (after Saint-Ange) takes us into a grim vision of the world from the point of view of a young women taken into extreme situations. This movie is amazing first because it has three different phases. Feels like a metamorphose each time and that DID surprise and please me a lot. The beginning finds two young women seeking to take revenge on a couple who abused one of them in her childhood. They stake them out and kill their whole normal seeming family. In phase two of the movie, one of the young girls deals with an imaginary captive in the house and her imaginary side wins as she commits suicide. Intersting duality and ambiguity about the reality and the imaginary part of that woman's psyche. The remaining girl finds another captive woman in the basement and attempts to rescue her. This all ends with the third phase where reality set's in that these abducters are not at all a family but a sect which explore the limits of torture in their victim as they get close to death in order to see the "other side".... very creepy and one of the very well realised horror flicks of the last decade. Only for those with extreme movies taste.
Martyrs est un film qui n'est définitivement pas pour tous. Le directeur, Pascal Laugier, nous fait vivre une aventure aux extrèmes du cinéma dans son deuxième long métrage (après Saint-Ange). Ce film est fascinant car il est composé en trois actes. Dans le premier acte, on vois deux jeunes femmes aux prises avec de sérieux problèmes sociaux qui cherchent à se faire justice. Ils recherchent un couple apparamment normaux qui aurait enlevé l`une d`elle 15 ans plus tôt. Lorsqu`elles retrouve le couple l`heure de la vengeance à sonnée: ils tuent tous les membres de cette famille. Dans le second acte, on voit une des filles aux prises avec sont imaginaires ou elle imagine une fille qu`elle doit liberer dans cette maison. Mais la fille imaginaire ne pense pas ainsi et elle attaque la jeune fille. Ceci nous es montré comme la jeune fille qui se suicide par lacérations. La jeune fille restante décide alors de sauver une femme qui et enfermé dans le sous-sol de cette infame famille. En essayant de l`aider tant bien que mal le troisième acte débute. La surprise qui nous attend est que la famille ne travaillait pas seule mais qu`il s`agissait réellement d`une secte organisé qui revient pour prendre contrôle et capture la jeune fille. Il la torture a mort afin de pouvoir avoir un appercu de ce qu`il y a de l`autre côté de la mort...
Un film très bien réussi avec un casting du tonerre (Morjana Alaoui, Mylene Jampanoui). Plusieurs acteurs québécois y jouent avec un accent Francais (fail). Ce film est un des meilleur film d`horreur des dernières années si vous avez le coeur assez solide. Définitivement un film sous évalué par plusieurs et qui deviendra culte.
Great quotes:
Mademoiselle: Martyrs are exceptional people. They survive pain, they survive total deprivation. They bear all the sins of the earth. They give themselves up. They transcend themselves... they are transfigured.
...
[last lines] Mademoiselle: Keep doubting.
Link: http://www.martyrs-lefilm.com/
Entertainment rating: 7.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 8/10
Artistic rating: 8/10
Reflexion rating: 7/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 1/10
Wide audience: 2/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.5/10
Annee/Year: 2008
Country: France/Canada
Format: DVD
Martyrs is definitely not a movie for everyone. But for those who seek the ultimate in sensation this is at the pinnacle. Director Pascal Laugier in his second feature length movie (after Saint-Ange) takes us into a grim vision of the world from the point of view of a young women taken into extreme situations. This movie is amazing first because it has three different phases. Feels like a metamorphose each time and that DID surprise and please me a lot. The beginning finds two young women seeking to take revenge on a couple who abused one of them in her childhood. They stake them out and kill their whole normal seeming family. In phase two of the movie, one of the young girls deals with an imaginary captive in the house and her imaginary side wins as she commits suicide. Intersting duality and ambiguity about the reality and the imaginary part of that woman's psyche. The remaining girl finds another captive woman in the basement and attempts to rescue her. This all ends with the third phase where reality set's in that these abducters are not at all a family but a sect which explore the limits of torture in their victim as they get close to death in order to see the "other side".... very creepy and one of the very well realised horror flicks of the last decade. Only for those with extreme movies taste.
Martyrs est un film qui n'est définitivement pas pour tous. Le directeur, Pascal Laugier, nous fait vivre une aventure aux extrèmes du cinéma dans son deuxième long métrage (après Saint-Ange). Ce film est fascinant car il est composé en trois actes. Dans le premier acte, on vois deux jeunes femmes aux prises avec de sérieux problèmes sociaux qui cherchent à se faire justice. Ils recherchent un couple apparamment normaux qui aurait enlevé l`une d`elle 15 ans plus tôt. Lorsqu`elles retrouve le couple l`heure de la vengeance à sonnée: ils tuent tous les membres de cette famille. Dans le second acte, on voit une des filles aux prises avec sont imaginaires ou elle imagine une fille qu`elle doit liberer dans cette maison. Mais la fille imaginaire ne pense pas ainsi et elle attaque la jeune fille. Ceci nous es montré comme la jeune fille qui se suicide par lacérations. La jeune fille restante décide alors de sauver une femme qui et enfermé dans le sous-sol de cette infame famille. En essayant de l`aider tant bien que mal le troisième acte débute. La surprise qui nous attend est que la famille ne travaillait pas seule mais qu`il s`agissait réellement d`une secte organisé qui revient pour prendre contrôle et capture la jeune fille. Il la torture a mort afin de pouvoir avoir un appercu de ce qu`il y a de l`autre côté de la mort...
Un film très bien réussi avec un casting du tonerre (Morjana Alaoui, Mylene Jampanoui). Plusieurs acteurs québécois y jouent avec un accent Francais (fail). Ce film est un des meilleur film d`horreur des dernières années si vous avez le coeur assez solide. Définitivement un film sous évalué par plusieurs et qui deviendra culte.
Great quotes:
Mademoiselle: Martyrs are exceptional people. They survive pain, they survive total deprivation. They bear all the sins of the earth. They give themselves up. They transcend themselves... they are transfigured.
...
[last lines] Mademoiselle: Keep doubting.
Link: http://www.martyrs-lefilm.com/
Entertainment rating: 7.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 8/10
Artistic rating: 8/10
Reflexion rating: 7/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 1/10
Wide audience: 2/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.5/10
samedi 16 juillet 2011
#227: Le poil de la bete, Movies recommended or seen lately...Les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2010
Country: Can
Format: DVD
Le poil de la bête is a film from Quebec which I would have made if I was making movies. The mix of history and horror is great and not enough exploited in north america. The story is a bout a band of werewolf taking advantage of the early quebec colony in 1665. A brave coureur des bois embodies a dead priest werewolf slayer to save the lady of his heart.
This is a comedy/horror genre movie with great french actors but a average script. The production is quite good. Unfortunately it has only english subtitles. This movie is way underrated and had so much potential. The sequels originaly planned (before the negative reviews) would have been way better i feel. Maybe we will get the chance of seeing one of them at least.
Le poil de la bête est un film presque génial et le genre de film que j`aurais fait si j`était réalisateur. Ce film est du réalisateur Philippe Gagnon qui nous a aussi apporté la comédie `le 1er juillet`. Mis en place en 1665 au début de la colonie de la nouvelle-france, nous retrouvons notre héros (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge) en coureur des bois qui se sauve de la justice de la vilel de Québec après avoir fait des avances à la belle fille du roi qui était promise à l`intendant Jean Talon. Il tombe par hasard sur le corps d`un prêtre mort dans un champs et il en profite pur lui voler ses vêtements et objets personnel pour ne pas se faire indentifier. Cela fonctionne un temps mais il s`appercoie vite que le prêtre en question était un grand tueur de loup-garou.
Il se retrouve rapidement a défendre la petite localité (et surtout ses convoitées filles du roi) qui sont promise au seigneur local. malheureusement le seigneur (Gilles Renaud) et ses fils forment la bande de loup-garous en question. Beaucoup d`action et de comédie dans ce film en font un fil pas très épeurant mais très divertissant. Le réalisateur parle de faire une trilogie de ce film et je crois que ce serait une excellente idée car ce film a beaucoup de potentiel. Il n`est pas toujours très bien scripté mais je crois que les suites pourraient être encore plus fortes. Noter en passant la présence des acteurs: Michel Barrette, Patrice Robitaille, Antoine Bertrand et plus encore. A voir au moins pour encourager notre cinéma local.
Great quotes:
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517506/
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 6/10
Reflexion rating: 6/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 8/10
Wide audience: 9/10
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Overall personnal rating: 7.5/10
dimanche 10 juillet 2011
#226: Logan's Run, Movies recommended or seen lately...Les films a voir
Genre: Sci-Fi/Science Fiction
Annee/Year: 1976
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Logan's run another '70s SCi-FI classic comes to Blu Ray. Logan's run was directed by Michael Anderson (Doc savage: the man of bronze, Orca, 1984,...) and is a typical '70s future vision on film. The movie is set in 2274 where people seem to live in a perfect world: no disease, everyone is young and beautiful, no one has to work and life is play all the time in a city under a giant dome. Only problem is that there are such people as our main character Logan (Michael York who has played in over 150 movies or TV series from Austin Powers to babylon 5) who is a cop (called sandman) who captures runaways from the caroussel a lottery game in which you get eliminated to prevent population control and aging. But in this idyllic world almost no one asks questions.
One day, our sandman is instrucuted by the master computer, to runaway himself and find the elusive sanctuary which is the mythological place the runaways are supposed to go to. Ensues a giant chase exiting the city dome through it's dirty/maintenance undergrounds. Eventually our sandman and a pretty girl accompanying him (Jenny Agutter) make it outside the dome where life destroyed by a nuclear war long ago has now returned to an almost virgin state. They find the ruins of our modern world there and decide that it is now time to end the tyranny of the dome.
This movie is quite interesting on many levels. Yes it is a good entertaining chase movie but on top of that it will also make you think abouta few interesting anticipation concepts. Gotta see.
Logan's run un film de science-fiction classique des années '70. Réalisé par Michael Anderson, ce film nous présente un monde idéal en 2274. Vivant dans une ville sous un dôme après une guerre nucléaire qui à détruit tout, les gens vivent maintenant dans un monde sans maladies, sans vieillissement et où ils ne travaillent pas et ne se posent pas de questions ou presque. Le soucis est qu`une lotterie nommée le Carroussel promet un future brillant aux vainqueurs mais en fait ils sont éliminés à l`age de trente an afin de controller la population et le vieillissement.
Certains n`accepte pas cette fin et se sauvent. Ces runaway sont alors poursuivis par des policiers spéciaux pour les éliminer. Le héro de notre film ( joué par Michael York) se nomme Logan et est un policier, nommé Sandman, qui est chargé par l`ordinateur central de retrouver le sanctuaire: endroit oû tous les runaway s`échappent. Avec une jolie compase jouée par Jenny Agutter ils s`échappent et sont pursuivis par les agents policier dans une poursuite infernale à travers la cité. Ils finissent par s`échapper du dôme en passant par les sousterrains de maintenance désaffectés et en délabre. Ils atteignent l`extérieur du dôme et comprennent alors que le monde extérieur est revenu presque vierge après tant d`années. Ils décident alors dèn aviser leurs compatriotes et de détruire la tirannie du dôme, si les policiers les laissent le temps de le faire. Très bon films qui se joue à plusieurs niveaux. À voir ou revoir.
Great quotes:
[watching Logan's son, Logan 6, in the nursery]
Francis 7: Do you know who his seed mother was?
Logan: Of course not! I'm curious, not sick!
...
Jessica 6: A friend of mine went on carousel. Now he's gone.
Logan 5: Yes, well, I'm sure he was renewed.
Jessica 6: He was killed.
...
Box: Regular storage procedure. The same as the other food. The other food stopped coming. And they started.
Logan 5: What other food?
Box: Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. And then it stopped coming. And they came instead. So I store them here. I'm ready. And you're ready. It's my job. To freeze you. Protein, plankton...
...
Jessica 6: [seeing the sun for the first time] What is it?
Logan 5: I don't know. Whatever it is, it's warm.
...
Logan: NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! She's seen it!
[Shows the crystal on his palm]
Logan: Well, look! LOOK! LOOK, IT'S CLEAR!
[Crowd laughs]
P.A. System: Lastday, Capricorn 29's. Year of the City: 2274. Carousel begins.
Jessica: No! Don't! Don't go! Listen to him! He's telling the truth!
[More laughter]
Jessica: We've been outside! There's another world outside! We've seen it! [Sandmen grab them]
Logan: Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!
...
Logan 5: There... is... no... sanctuary.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/maindetails
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 9/10
Production rating: 8.5/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 9/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
Annee/Year: 1976
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Logan's run another '70s SCi-FI classic comes to Blu Ray. Logan's run was directed by Michael Anderson (Doc savage: the man of bronze, Orca, 1984,...) and is a typical '70s future vision on film. The movie is set in 2274 where people seem to live in a perfect world: no disease, everyone is young and beautiful, no one has to work and life is play all the time in a city under a giant dome. Only problem is that there are such people as our main character Logan (Michael York who has played in over 150 movies or TV series from Austin Powers to babylon 5) who is a cop (called sandman) who captures runaways from the caroussel a lottery game in which you get eliminated to prevent population control and aging. But in this idyllic world almost no one asks questions.
One day, our sandman is instrucuted by the master computer, to runaway himself and find the elusive sanctuary which is the mythological place the runaways are supposed to go to. Ensues a giant chase exiting the city dome through it's dirty/maintenance undergrounds. Eventually our sandman and a pretty girl accompanying him (Jenny Agutter) make it outside the dome where life destroyed by a nuclear war long ago has now returned to an almost virgin state. They find the ruins of our modern world there and decide that it is now time to end the tyranny of the dome.
This movie is quite interesting on many levels. Yes it is a good entertaining chase movie but on top of that it will also make you think abouta few interesting anticipation concepts. Gotta see.
Logan's run un film de science-fiction classique des années '70. Réalisé par Michael Anderson, ce film nous présente un monde idéal en 2274. Vivant dans une ville sous un dôme après une guerre nucléaire qui à détruit tout, les gens vivent maintenant dans un monde sans maladies, sans vieillissement et où ils ne travaillent pas et ne se posent pas de questions ou presque. Le soucis est qu`une lotterie nommée le Carroussel promet un future brillant aux vainqueurs mais en fait ils sont éliminés à l`age de trente an afin de controller la population et le vieillissement.
Certains n`accepte pas cette fin et se sauvent. Ces runaway sont alors poursuivis par des policiers spéciaux pour les éliminer. Le héro de notre film ( joué par Michael York) se nomme Logan et est un policier, nommé Sandman, qui est chargé par l`ordinateur central de retrouver le sanctuaire: endroit oû tous les runaway s`échappent. Avec une jolie compase jouée par Jenny Agutter ils s`échappent et sont pursuivis par les agents policier dans une poursuite infernale à travers la cité. Ils finissent par s`échapper du dôme en passant par les sousterrains de maintenance désaffectés et en délabre. Ils atteignent l`extérieur du dôme et comprennent alors que le monde extérieur est revenu presque vierge après tant d`années. Ils décident alors dèn aviser leurs compatriotes et de détruire la tirannie du dôme, si les policiers les laissent le temps de le faire. Très bon films qui se joue à plusieurs niveaux. À voir ou revoir.
Great quotes:
[watching Logan's son, Logan 6, in the nursery]
Francis 7: Do you know who his seed mother was?
Logan: Of course not! I'm curious, not sick!
...
Jessica 6: A friend of mine went on carousel. Now he's gone.
Logan 5: Yes, well, I'm sure he was renewed.
Jessica 6: He was killed.
...
Box: Regular storage procedure. The same as the other food. The other food stopped coming. And they started.
Logan 5: What other food?
Box: Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. And then it stopped coming. And they came instead. So I store them here. I'm ready. And you're ready. It's my job. To freeze you. Protein, plankton...
...
Jessica 6: [seeing the sun for the first time] What is it?
Logan 5: I don't know. Whatever it is, it's warm.
...
Logan: NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! She's seen it!
[Shows the crystal on his palm]
Logan: Well, look! LOOK! LOOK, IT'S CLEAR!
[Crowd laughs]
P.A. System: Lastday, Capricorn 29's. Year of the City: 2274. Carousel begins.
Jessica: No! Don't! Don't go! Listen to him! He's telling the truth!
[More laughter]
Jessica: We've been outside! There's another world outside! We've seen it! [Sandmen grab them]
Logan: Life clocks are a lie! Carousel is a lie! THERE IS NO RENEWAL!
...
Logan 5: There... is... no... sanctuary.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/maindetails
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 9/10
Production rating: 8.5/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 9/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
dimanche 3 juillet 2011
#225: Soylent green, Movies recommended or seen lately... Les films a voir
Genre: Sci-Fi/Science-Fiction
Annee/Year: 1973
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Soylent Green, a classic sci-fi movie from the '70s from director Richard Fleischer who brought us over 60 movies (Conan the destroyer, Red Sonja, The jazz signer, Amytiville 3D, Fantastic voyage, Tora, tora, tora and more) is now on Blu Ray. What better time to revisit this great work. Charlton Heston plays the role of detective Thorn a macho street cop from futuristic New-York 2022. In this vision of the future, the world is fed by colored pellets as there is a great challnge to feed everyone due to overcrowding. Some women are back to slavery and are considered part of the furinture for the rich. Due to overpopulation folks are allowed to get medically assisted suicide for those who cant handle it anymore. Thorn is put on the case to investigate the murder of a director from the company Soylent which makes the food pellets eaten by all. At this point he discovers a hidden truth which will be world changing (People are soylent green!). Definitely a movie which will entertain but make you think. The themes touched are all very much headline material close to 40years later. To be seen.
Soylent green (Soleil vert) est un grand classique de la science fiction des années '70. Richard Fleischer le réalisateur qui nous a donné plus de 60 films de années 40 à fin 80 (Conan the destroyer, Red Sonja, The jazz signer, Amytiville 3D, Fantastic voyage, Tora, tora, tora et bien plus), nous offre ici un film qui nous divertis et nous fait réfléchir: de la science-fiction comme je l`aime. Charlton Heston joue ici le rôle de détective Thorn un policier crasseux qui mène ses enquêtes avec des méthodes douteuses mais usuelle pour ce temps. L`action se passe dans le New-York de 2022 où plusieurs femmes sont esclaves et font partie du mobilier des appartements, où l`eau chaude et le savon est un luxe, où la surpopulation produit une dévaluation de la valeur des êtres humains et où la nourriture naturelle est remplacée par des pépites sèches nommée soleil vert ou rouge. Thorn est mis sur l`investigation du meurtre d`un des dirigeants de l`usine de soleil vert pendant laquelle il découvrira un secrêt bien garder sur l`origine du soleil vert. (Le soleil vert est des personnes!). Certainement un film qui vous fera réfléchir et dont les thèmes sont extremement d`actualité. À voir ou revoir!
Great quotes:
[Announcer doing a commercial announcement before Gov. Santini's interview] Richard: ...is brought to you by Soylent red and Soylent yellow, high energy vegetable concentrates, and new, delicious, Soylent green. The miracle food of high-energy plankton gathered from the oceans of the world.
...
Det. Thorn: I know, Sol, you've told me a hundred times before. People were better, the world was better...
Sol: Ah, people were always lousy... But there was a world, once.
[Thorn chuckles]
Sol: I was there, I can prove it! When I was a kid, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Not this... crap!
...
[Shirl tells Thorn that she's getting a new tenant]
Det. Thorn: He'll like you. You're a helluva piece of furniture.
Shirl: Don't talk to me like that. Please.
Det. Thorn: OK.
...
Hatcher: What's the story with the Simonson homicide?
Det. Thorn: It was carefully set up to make it look like he was killed after he caught some punk burglarizing his apartment.
Hatcher: What do you think it was?
Det. Thorn: It was an assassination. A well-planned assassination.
Hatcher: You know this for a fact?
Det. Thorn: Four reasons. One: the alarm system in the building was out of order for the first time in two years. Two: the bodyguard who was supposed to be protecting him was conveniently out shopping. Three: the punk that broke into the apartment didn't take anything. And four: the punk who killed Simonson was no punk because he used a meat hook instead of a gun to make it look like a punk.
Hatcher: Well, if the punk didn't take anything from the apartment, what did you take?
Det. Thorn: Everything I could lay my hands on.
...
Gilbert: [hesitating before killing Simonson] Uh... they told me to uh... to say that they were sorry, but that you had become... unreliable.
Simonson: That's true.
Gilbert: They can't risk, uh... catastrophe, they say.
Simonson: They're right.
Gilbert: Then, uh... this is right?
Simonson: No, not right... Necessary.
Gilbert: To who?
Simonson: To... God.
...
[last lines] Det. Thorn: It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
Hatcher: I promise, Tiger. I promise. I'll tell the exchange.
Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/fullcredits#cast
Entertainment rating: 7.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 10/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 8/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
Annee/Year: 1973
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Soylent Green, a classic sci-fi movie from the '70s from director Richard Fleischer who brought us over 60 movies (Conan the destroyer, Red Sonja, The jazz signer, Amytiville 3D, Fantastic voyage, Tora, tora, tora and more) is now on Blu Ray. What better time to revisit this great work. Charlton Heston plays the role of detective Thorn a macho street cop from futuristic New-York 2022. In this vision of the future, the world is fed by colored pellets as there is a great challnge to feed everyone due to overcrowding. Some women are back to slavery and are considered part of the furinture for the rich. Due to overpopulation folks are allowed to get medically assisted suicide for those who cant handle it anymore. Thorn is put on the case to investigate the murder of a director from the company Soylent which makes the food pellets eaten by all. At this point he discovers a hidden truth which will be world changing (People are soylent green!). Definitely a movie which will entertain but make you think. The themes touched are all very much headline material close to 40years later. To be seen.
Soylent green (Soleil vert) est un grand classique de la science fiction des années '70. Richard Fleischer le réalisateur qui nous a donné plus de 60 films de années 40 à fin 80 (Conan the destroyer, Red Sonja, The jazz signer, Amytiville 3D, Fantastic voyage, Tora, tora, tora et bien plus), nous offre ici un film qui nous divertis et nous fait réfléchir: de la science-fiction comme je l`aime. Charlton Heston joue ici le rôle de détective Thorn un policier crasseux qui mène ses enquêtes avec des méthodes douteuses mais usuelle pour ce temps. L`action se passe dans le New-York de 2022 où plusieurs femmes sont esclaves et font partie du mobilier des appartements, où l`eau chaude et le savon est un luxe, où la surpopulation produit une dévaluation de la valeur des êtres humains et où la nourriture naturelle est remplacée par des pépites sèches nommée soleil vert ou rouge. Thorn est mis sur l`investigation du meurtre d`un des dirigeants de l`usine de soleil vert pendant laquelle il découvrira un secrêt bien garder sur l`origine du soleil vert. (Le soleil vert est des personnes!). Certainement un film qui vous fera réfléchir et dont les thèmes sont extremement d`actualité. À voir ou revoir!
Great quotes:
[Announcer doing a commercial announcement before Gov. Santini's interview] Richard: ...is brought to you by Soylent red and Soylent yellow, high energy vegetable concentrates, and new, delicious, Soylent green. The miracle food of high-energy plankton gathered from the oceans of the world.
...
Det. Thorn: I know, Sol, you've told me a hundred times before. People were better, the world was better...
Sol: Ah, people were always lousy... But there was a world, once.
[Thorn chuckles]
Sol: I was there, I can prove it! When I was a kid, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Not this... crap!
...
[Shirl tells Thorn that she's getting a new tenant]
Det. Thorn: He'll like you. You're a helluva piece of furniture.
Shirl: Don't talk to me like that. Please.
Det. Thorn: OK.
...
Hatcher: What's the story with the Simonson homicide?
Det. Thorn: It was carefully set up to make it look like he was killed after he caught some punk burglarizing his apartment.
Hatcher: What do you think it was?
Det. Thorn: It was an assassination. A well-planned assassination.
Hatcher: You know this for a fact?
Det. Thorn: Four reasons. One: the alarm system in the building was out of order for the first time in two years. Two: the bodyguard who was supposed to be protecting him was conveniently out shopping. Three: the punk that broke into the apartment didn't take anything. And four: the punk who killed Simonson was no punk because he used a meat hook instead of a gun to make it look like a punk.
Hatcher: Well, if the punk didn't take anything from the apartment, what did you take?
Det. Thorn: Everything I could lay my hands on.
...
Gilbert: [hesitating before killing Simonson] Uh... they told me to uh... to say that they were sorry, but that you had become... unreliable.
Simonson: That's true.
Gilbert: They can't risk, uh... catastrophe, they say.
Simonson: They're right.
Gilbert: Then, uh... this is right?
Simonson: No, not right... Necessary.
Gilbert: To who?
Simonson: To... God.
...
[last lines] Det. Thorn: It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
Hatcher: I promise, Tiger. I promise. I'll tell the exchange.
Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/fullcredits#cast
Entertainment rating: 7.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 10/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 8/10
------------------------------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
samedi 2 juillet 2011
#224: Ray, Movies recommended or seen lately... Les films a voir
Genre: Drama/Drame
Annee/Year: 2004
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Ray, after waiting for many years i finally was able to get my hands on the newest iteration of this film in Blu ray format. I wanted to insure the music quality was of the highest order and that is what the Blu ray delivers as well as an excellent image transfer. Director Taylor Hackford (An officer and a gentleman, Against all odds, White nights, Chuck Berry hail hail rock'n roll, Dolores Clairborne, The devil's advocate, Proof of life and more) brings us a very endearing biography on the life of Ray Charles who died on the same year this movie was released. Jamie Foxx plays here the role of his career as a blind mind who is the master of piano. We follow Ray through his career from his humble beginnings where he gets hustled (because he his blind and naive) until he creates his chart toping Rhytm and Soul music hits and back through the hell of heroin addiction. A respectful, sensitive movie which really makes you think it is very close to reality.
EXCELLENT musical interpretation. If you have not seen this film you owe it to yourself to watch it and the new Blu Ray release is very much a good incentive to do so.
Ray, une biographie du musicien extraordinaire Ray Charles réaliseé avec soin par Taylor Hackford (An officer and a gentleman, Against all odds, White nights, Chuck Berry hail hail rock'n roll, Dolores Clairborne, The devil's advocate, Proof of life et plus) qui a déjà fait plusieurs films musicaux. Ce film est une réussite et beaucoup de ceci est dû à Jamie Foxx qui interprète Ray Charles tout au long de sa longue carrière jusqu`à sa mort en 2004 année de publication de ce film. On suit dans ce film la carrière de Ray Charles de ses humbles débuts, où il se fait rouler par ses collègues autant parce qu`il est aveugle que par sa naïveté, jusqu`à la parution de ses plus grands succès Rhythm and Soul des années 60-80. On le suit également à travers ses problèmes familiaux et avec l`emprise de l`héroïne. Un film respectueux et très bien réalisé et surtout avec une trame sonore du tonerre. Si vous n`avez pas vu ce film qu`attendez vous? La sortie en Blu Ray est surement la meilleure excuse possible.
Great quotes:
[first lines] Aretha Robinson: Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothing turn you into no cripple.
...
Quincy Jones: Say, daddy-o, what axe you play?
Ray Charles: Uh, piano. Just blew in from Tampa, Florida. Me and my partner, Gossie McGee, came here, you know, want to fatten up our style. Cop some licks from some more experienced cats, you dig?
Quincy Jones: You know what? Why don't you let me take you inside? You know, show you around.
Ray Charles: All right. Perfect gentleman.
Quincy Jones: Yeah, this is just like my place. So, what's your name?
Ray Charles: Ray Robinson.
Quincy Jones: I'm Quincy Jones.
...
Ray Charles: Don't jive me, man.
...
Fathead Newman: This ain't no weed, Ray. And we ain't snorting no bitch. This is boy! Boy'll make your ass null and void.
Ray Charles: Null and void, just like my life.
...
Milt Shaw: You know, Ray, your contract with Atlantic expires in 4 months.
Ray Charles: Yeah, I know. Ahmet and Jerry sent me my new contract. They're gonna double my royalties.
Milt Shaw: Before we go down that road again I thought I'd check and see what else was out there.
Ray Charles: Now, who told you to do that? Atlantic is family. Just like the Shaw agency.
Milt Shaw: Ray, my job is to find you the best deal out there. Now, I had a very productive meeting with the folks at ABC Paramount and they are very interested.
Ray Charles: No. How interested?
Milt Shaw: How about a 50 thousand dollar advance every year for the first three years? You choose your own music. They'll deduct recording costs and pay you 75 percent. Now, look, Ahmet and Jerry are flying in tomorrow night. Will you at least put them off until I have a chance to talk to the boys at ABC?
Ray Charles: Well, my mama always said there was nothin' wrong with talkin'.
...
Jack Lauderdale: Smell that, Ray? It's the smell of success. We're in LA now. A place where the negro can really spread his wings and fly.
...
Ahmet Ertegun: If you think pennies, Mr. Charles, you get pennies. If you think dollars, you get dollars.
...
Della Bea Robinson: [talking about Ray's drug problem] You have got to stop this now because there is something you love more then me...
Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea...
Della Bea Robinson: ...there is something you love more then me, the children, and every woman you ever slept with.
Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea. You know I love you more then anythin'
Della Bea Robinson: [shouts] It's your music! [starts to cry]
Della Bea Robinson: And if you keep usin' that needle they'll take away your music and put you in *jail!* Is that what you want?
...
Della Bea Robinson: If only your mama was here.
Ray Charles: She's here. She ain't never left.
Link: http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/ray/
Entertainment rating: 8.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 8.5/10
Artistic rating: 8/10
Reflexion rating: 7/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 8/10
Wide audience: 8/10
------------------------------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
Annee/Year: 2004
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Ray, after waiting for many years i finally was able to get my hands on the newest iteration of this film in Blu ray format. I wanted to insure the music quality was of the highest order and that is what the Blu ray delivers as well as an excellent image transfer. Director Taylor Hackford (An officer and a gentleman, Against all odds, White nights, Chuck Berry hail hail rock'n roll, Dolores Clairborne, The devil's advocate, Proof of life and more) brings us a very endearing biography on the life of Ray Charles who died on the same year this movie was released. Jamie Foxx plays here the role of his career as a blind mind who is the master of piano. We follow Ray through his career from his humble beginnings where he gets hustled (because he his blind and naive) until he creates his chart toping Rhytm and Soul music hits and back through the hell of heroin addiction. A respectful, sensitive movie which really makes you think it is very close to reality.
EXCELLENT musical interpretation. If you have not seen this film you owe it to yourself to watch it and the new Blu Ray release is very much a good incentive to do so.
Ray, une biographie du musicien extraordinaire Ray Charles réaliseé avec soin par Taylor Hackford (An officer and a gentleman, Against all odds, White nights, Chuck Berry hail hail rock'n roll, Dolores Clairborne, The devil's advocate, Proof of life et plus) qui a déjà fait plusieurs films musicaux. Ce film est une réussite et beaucoup de ceci est dû à Jamie Foxx qui interprète Ray Charles tout au long de sa longue carrière jusqu`à sa mort en 2004 année de publication de ce film. On suit dans ce film la carrière de Ray Charles de ses humbles débuts, où il se fait rouler par ses collègues autant parce qu`il est aveugle que par sa naïveté, jusqu`à la parution de ses plus grands succès Rhythm and Soul des années 60-80. On le suit également à travers ses problèmes familiaux et avec l`emprise de l`héroïne. Un film respectueux et très bien réalisé et surtout avec une trame sonore du tonerre. Si vous n`avez pas vu ce film qu`attendez vous? La sortie en Blu Ray est surement la meilleure excuse possible.
Great quotes:
[first lines] Aretha Robinson: Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothing turn you into no cripple.
...
Quincy Jones: Say, daddy-o, what axe you play?
Ray Charles: Uh, piano. Just blew in from Tampa, Florida. Me and my partner, Gossie McGee, came here, you know, want to fatten up our style. Cop some licks from some more experienced cats, you dig?
Quincy Jones: You know what? Why don't you let me take you inside? You know, show you around.
Ray Charles: All right. Perfect gentleman.
Quincy Jones: Yeah, this is just like my place. So, what's your name?
Ray Charles: Ray Robinson.
Quincy Jones: I'm Quincy Jones.
...
Ray Charles: Don't jive me, man.
...
Fathead Newman: This ain't no weed, Ray. And we ain't snorting no bitch. This is boy! Boy'll make your ass null and void.
Ray Charles: Null and void, just like my life.
...
Milt Shaw: You know, Ray, your contract with Atlantic expires in 4 months.
Ray Charles: Yeah, I know. Ahmet and Jerry sent me my new contract. They're gonna double my royalties.
Milt Shaw: Before we go down that road again I thought I'd check and see what else was out there.
Ray Charles: Now, who told you to do that? Atlantic is family. Just like the Shaw agency.
Milt Shaw: Ray, my job is to find you the best deal out there. Now, I had a very productive meeting with the folks at ABC Paramount and they are very interested.
Ray Charles: No. How interested?
Milt Shaw: How about a 50 thousand dollar advance every year for the first three years? You choose your own music. They'll deduct recording costs and pay you 75 percent. Now, look, Ahmet and Jerry are flying in tomorrow night. Will you at least put them off until I have a chance to talk to the boys at ABC?
Ray Charles: Well, my mama always said there was nothin' wrong with talkin'.
...
Jack Lauderdale: Smell that, Ray? It's the smell of success. We're in LA now. A place where the negro can really spread his wings and fly.
...
Ahmet Ertegun: If you think pennies, Mr. Charles, you get pennies. If you think dollars, you get dollars.
...
Della Bea Robinson: [talking about Ray's drug problem] You have got to stop this now because there is something you love more then me...
Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea...
Della Bea Robinson: ...there is something you love more then me, the children, and every woman you ever slept with.
Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea. You know I love you more then anythin'
Della Bea Robinson: [shouts] It's your music! [starts to cry]
Della Bea Robinson: And if you keep usin' that needle they'll take away your music and put you in *jail!* Is that what you want?
...
Della Bea Robinson: If only your mama was here.
Ray Charles: She's here. She ain't never left.
Link: http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/ray/
Entertainment rating: 8.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 8.5/10
Artistic rating: 8/10
Reflexion rating: 7/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 8/10
Wide audience: 8/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
jeudi 30 juin 2011
#223: The human centipede, Movies recommended or seen lately... Les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2009
Country: UK/Netherlands
Format: Blu Ray
The human centipede (first sequence). I certainly had a hard time to find this movie despite there being a lot of publicity on the web about it. I had to order it from Amazon in the end. This is one of the latest controversial movies. The sequel promised in the title has laready been banned from UK so is this a publicity stunt or a true horrific movie. Director Tom Six decided that in his third movie he would hit us hard by creating this concept of the human centipede. This means three people surgically attached together from mouth to anus and having to walk on all fours. Most people will stop at this point... For those more intrigued you will find a well built movie with good casting of the vilain doctor Heiter (Dieter Lasser who made multiple german movies and tv series Lexx). The doctor makes this movie on his own and the rest of cast is limited to grunts and crying. This is certainly not a great movie but it does stand on it's own besides movies such as Hostel and more. Only for the toughest viewers.
The human centipede est un des derniers films qui à créé de la controverse. Il m`a été si difficile de le trouver que j`ai dû le faire venir d`Amazon.ca. Le directeur Tom Six à tellement fait de promo sur la suite que l`Angleterre à déjà bannie ce film avant la sortie: pub ou horreur à vous de décider. Tom a créé le concept du centipede humain en imaginant une chaîne de trois personnes chirurgiquement attachées de bouche à anus et devant se déplacer à quatre pattes. La plupart des gens arrêteront de lire ici... Pour ceux qui sont plus curieux, vous découvrirez un film bien ficelé et qui comporte une excellente distribution du méchant docteur Heither (Dieter Lasser qui à fait plusieurs films allemands et la série tv Lexx). Le docteur tient le film à lui seul pendant que le reste des acteurs se limitent à pleurer et gémir. On ne peut qu`être triste au fait que le docteur est tué à la fin du film et ne pourra pas être intégré à la suite. Sûrement pas un grand film, mais il tien sa place à côté de film tel Hostel. Limité aux spectateurs les plus braves.
Great quotes:
Katsuro: God. Are you God? I'm just a puny insect. I cast out my parents, left my child, dismissed their love and led a selfish life. Just like an insect. No, my existence is even lower than insects, but... but dear God... that's how I've lived, and this is my punishment. I want to believe that I'm still a human being... Hey girls! Hey mister! What an insane world we live in.
...
Dr.Heiter: You want to bite me? Bite my boots!
...
Dr.Heiter: Feed Her!
Link: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/human-centipede
Entertainment rating: 7/10
Cast/acting rating: 6.5/10
Artistic rating: 5/10
Reflexion rating: 4/10
Production rating: 7.5/10
Adult factor: 1/10
Wide audience: 1/10
------------------------------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 6.0/10
Annee/Year: 2009
Country: UK/Netherlands
Format: Blu Ray
The human centipede (first sequence). I certainly had a hard time to find this movie despite there being a lot of publicity on the web about it. I had to order it from Amazon in the end. This is one of the latest controversial movies. The sequel promised in the title has laready been banned from UK so is this a publicity stunt or a true horrific movie. Director Tom Six decided that in his third movie he would hit us hard by creating this concept of the human centipede. This means three people surgically attached together from mouth to anus and having to walk on all fours. Most people will stop at this point... For those more intrigued you will find a well built movie with good casting of the vilain doctor Heiter (Dieter Lasser who made multiple german movies and tv series Lexx). The doctor makes this movie on his own and the rest of cast is limited to grunts and crying. This is certainly not a great movie but it does stand on it's own besides movies such as Hostel and more. Only for the toughest viewers.
The human centipede est un des derniers films qui à créé de la controverse. Il m`a été si difficile de le trouver que j`ai dû le faire venir d`Amazon.ca. Le directeur Tom Six à tellement fait de promo sur la suite que l`Angleterre à déjà bannie ce film avant la sortie: pub ou horreur à vous de décider. Tom a créé le concept du centipede humain en imaginant une chaîne de trois personnes chirurgiquement attachées de bouche à anus et devant se déplacer à quatre pattes. La plupart des gens arrêteront de lire ici... Pour ceux qui sont plus curieux, vous découvrirez un film bien ficelé et qui comporte une excellente distribution du méchant docteur Heither (Dieter Lasser qui à fait plusieurs films allemands et la série tv Lexx). Le docteur tient le film à lui seul pendant que le reste des acteurs se limitent à pleurer et gémir. On ne peut qu`être triste au fait que le docteur est tué à la fin du film et ne pourra pas être intégré à la suite. Sûrement pas un grand film, mais il tien sa place à côté de film tel Hostel. Limité aux spectateurs les plus braves.
Great quotes:
Katsuro: God. Are you God? I'm just a puny insect. I cast out my parents, left my child, dismissed their love and led a selfish life. Just like an insect. No, my existence is even lower than insects, but... but dear God... that's how I've lived, and this is my punishment. I want to believe that I'm still a human being... Hey girls! Hey mister! What an insane world we live in.
...
Dr.Heiter: You want to bite me? Bite my boots!
...
Dr.Heiter: Feed Her!
Link: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/human-centipede
Entertainment rating: 7/10
Cast/acting rating: 6.5/10
Artistic rating: 5/10
Reflexion rating: 4/10
Production rating: 7.5/10
Adult factor: 1/10
Wide audience: 1/10
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Overall personnal rating: 6.0/10
#222: Babylon 5 movie collection, Movies recommended or seen lately... Les films a voir
Genre: Sci-Fi/Science-Ficition
Annee/Year: 1993-1999
Country: US
Format: DVD
Babylon 5 the movies. Here is a quick review of the movies which extend the story of one of television's most appreciated science-fiction series.
Babylon 5: The gathering
Directed by Richard Compton. This movie was the first in a series of five movies to extend the storyline of Babylon 5 universe. This first movie is actually the pilot of the Babylon 5 series itself. We find the main characters being presented and the dynamic on the space station is established to set the series. A mysterious Vorlon ambassador is victim of an assasination attempt and the new station's captain Jeffrey Sinclair is suspected. This sets the table for an explosive mix when so many races get confined in a closed space. If you are new to Bab 5 start with this episode. Note Billy Mummy (kid from Lost in Space) in the role of a Membari.
Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
Babylon 5: In the beginning
Directed by Michael Vijar. This excellent movie sets again the stage for the series. This time we relive the bloody war between humans and Menbaris which occurred 10 years before. The war was started by miscommunication at first contact and nearly destroyed the human race as the Membaris were much more advanced. The war came to a sudden end when the Membari discovered that some humans were carrying the souls of reincarnated Membaris. The Babylon 5 station was put in place as a kind of UN to serve to try to create bridges between races and serve peace. A very well built movie narrated by my prepefarate character Londo Mollari (Peter Jurassic) the president of the Centauri republic at the apotheose of his reign.
Overall personnal rating: 9.0/10
Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino. This movie takes place during the foruth sesaon timeframe. The story is about the B5 staff finding a massive artifact in the hyperspace where it appeared to be lost. By bringing it back to the station they play with the risk of unknowingly opening a portal to a another dimension (third space after normal and hyperspace) where delves a very dangerous and violent race. The artifact was built by the ancient races (Vorlons) and lost in hyperspace when they found out how dangerous this discovery was. Interesting but more like an extended episode than a real movie and not so much relevant to the rest of the series story arc.
Overall personnal rating: 7.0/10
Babylon 5: River of souls
Directed by Janet Greek. This movie occurs in the period after the series. A race of creepy individuals named the Soul hunters who are said to reap souls released by the dying, invade the station in an attempt to recover some special dangerous soul containers which were stolen from them and brought to B5 by smugglers. Captain Lochley (Tracy Scoggins who played in Dynasty and The Colbys tv series)has to deal with the situation at same time she is fighting the installation of Holographic virtual brothels on the station. A sometimes funny movie but without the substabce of the previous ones; more like an extended episode. Note great role by Martin Sheen in the role of the soul hunter.
Overall personnal rating: 6.5/10
Babylon 5: A call to Arms
Direted by Michael Vijar. The final movie takes place 5 years after the end of the B5 series. In this one we see the Drakh a race friendly with the Shadows, who were cast off by the alliance, taking arms to attack the humans and the alliance. President Sheridan and his friends fight to the death to fight off the Drakhs using the 2 new battle cruiser developped by the human's and membaris. They succeed in fending off the attack but fail to protect earth from the "planet killer" virus sent by the Drakh.
This puts virus has for goal to completely destroy life on the planet within a couple of years. This sets the table for the expansion series of B5 called B5 Crusade.
Overall personnal rating: 7.0/10
Great quotes:
Ambassador Londo Mollari: [voiceover] I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. It began in the Earth year 2257, with the last of the Babylon stations located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form. A dream of a galaxy without war, where species could live side-by-side in mutual respect. A dream that was endangered as never before by one man on a mission of destruction. Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story.
...
Londo Mollari: I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and shooting at one another. You would have thought sooner or later it'd go out of fashion.
...
Garibaldi: I wonder if they'll ever find that transmitter you slipped in G'kar's drink.
Sinclair: No they won't. Because there is none. If I had put one in, sooner or later, they would have found it. This way, they'll keep looking.
Garibaldi: Are you aware of the tests they'll perform and the things they'll do to him?
Sinclair: Yes. Come on.
Garibaldi: There are some days I love this job.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106336/
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 8.5/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 9/10
Production rating: 7/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 7/10
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Overall personnal rating: 6.5-9.0/10
Annee/Year: 1993-1999
Country: US
Format: DVD
Babylon 5 the movies. Here is a quick review of the movies which extend the story of one of television's most appreciated science-fiction series.
Babylon 5: The gathering
Directed by Richard Compton. This movie was the first in a series of five movies to extend the storyline of Babylon 5 universe. This first movie is actually the pilot of the Babylon 5 series itself. We find the main characters being presented and the dynamic on the space station is established to set the series. A mysterious Vorlon ambassador is victim of an assasination attempt and the new station's captain Jeffrey Sinclair is suspected. This sets the table for an explosive mix when so many races get confined in a closed space. If you are new to Bab 5 start with this episode. Note Billy Mummy (kid from Lost in Space) in the role of a Membari.
Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
Babylon 5: In the beginning
Directed by Michael Vijar. This excellent movie sets again the stage for the series. This time we relive the bloody war between humans and Menbaris which occurred 10 years before. The war was started by miscommunication at first contact and nearly destroyed the human race as the Membaris were much more advanced. The war came to a sudden end when the Membari discovered that some humans were carrying the souls of reincarnated Membaris. The Babylon 5 station was put in place as a kind of UN to serve to try to create bridges between races and serve peace. A very well built movie narrated by my prepefarate character Londo Mollari (Peter Jurassic) the president of the Centauri republic at the apotheose of his reign.
Overall personnal rating: 9.0/10
Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino. This movie takes place during the foruth sesaon timeframe. The story is about the B5 staff finding a massive artifact in the hyperspace where it appeared to be lost. By bringing it back to the station they play with the risk of unknowingly opening a portal to a another dimension (third space after normal and hyperspace) where delves a very dangerous and violent race. The artifact was built by the ancient races (Vorlons) and lost in hyperspace when they found out how dangerous this discovery was. Interesting but more like an extended episode than a real movie and not so much relevant to the rest of the series story arc.
Overall personnal rating: 7.0/10
Babylon 5: River of souls
Directed by Janet Greek. This movie occurs in the period after the series. A race of creepy individuals named the Soul hunters who are said to reap souls released by the dying, invade the station in an attempt to recover some special dangerous soul containers which were stolen from them and brought to B5 by smugglers. Captain Lochley (Tracy Scoggins who played in Dynasty and The Colbys tv series)has to deal with the situation at same time she is fighting the installation of Holographic virtual brothels on the station. A sometimes funny movie but without the substabce of the previous ones; more like an extended episode. Note great role by Martin Sheen in the role of the soul hunter.
Overall personnal rating: 6.5/10
Babylon 5: A call to Arms
Direted by Michael Vijar. The final movie takes place 5 years after the end of the B5 series. In this one we see the Drakh a race friendly with the Shadows, who were cast off by the alliance, taking arms to attack the humans and the alliance. President Sheridan and his friends fight to the death to fight off the Drakhs using the 2 new battle cruiser developped by the human's and membaris. They succeed in fending off the attack but fail to protect earth from the "planet killer" virus sent by the Drakh.
This puts virus has for goal to completely destroy life on the planet within a couple of years. This sets the table for the expansion series of B5 called B5 Crusade.
Overall personnal rating: 7.0/10
Great quotes:
Ambassador Londo Mollari: [voiceover] I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. It began in the Earth year 2257, with the last of the Babylon stations located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form. A dream of a galaxy without war, where species could live side-by-side in mutual respect. A dream that was endangered as never before by one man on a mission of destruction. Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story.
...
Londo Mollari: I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and shooting at one another. You would have thought sooner or later it'd go out of fashion.
...
Garibaldi: I wonder if they'll ever find that transmitter you slipped in G'kar's drink.
Sinclair: No they won't. Because there is none. If I had put one in, sooner or later, they would have found it. This way, they'll keep looking.
Garibaldi: Are you aware of the tests they'll perform and the things they'll do to him?
Sinclair: Yes. Come on.
Garibaldi: There are some days I love this job.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106336/
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 8.5/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 9/10
Production rating: 7/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 7/10
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Overall personnal rating: 6.5-9.0/10
mercredi 29 juin 2011
#221: RED, Movies recommended or seen lately... Les films a voir
Genre: Action/Comedy/Comedie
Annee/Year: 2010
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
RED means Retired Extremely Dangerous from young director Robert Schwentke (who also brought us Flightplan and The time travelers' wife). This action comedy is very well written with excellent dialogues. Lead role of Frank is played by Bruce Willis playing a retired special ops agent who has not lost his edge but is bored in his retirement life. Frank falls for a government pension employee (played by Mary-Louise Parker) who's life is equally boring. Both of them get sucked into a race to save their skin as an older spec ops agent is determined to eliminate his old colleagues. This forces Frank to contact his best buddies (played by Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich) to get even odds to save their retired skins. Great action, witty scripts and great actors make this an excellent entertainment value not to be missed.
RED est un film du jeune réalisateur Robert Schwentke (qui nous a aussi apporté Flightplan et The time travelers' wife). Cette comédie et film d`action à la fois, est vraiment bien fait et le jeu d`acteur y est solide. Le tout est agrémenté d`excellents dialogues. Bruce Willis joue le rôle de Frank un ancien agent des forces spéciales qui est maintenant à la retraite mais qui ne s`y plait pas du tout. Il tombe en amour avec une fonctionnaire qui rêve d`aventures romantiques jouée par Mary-Louise Parker pour qui le rêve devient une réalité lorsqu`un anciens agents des force spéciales décide d`éliminer ses anciens collègues. Frank part a la recherche de ses amis pour se défendre et se donner une chance de survie. Il retrouve les charactères joués par Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman et John Malkovich qui sont absolument parfait. Beaucoup d`action, de superbes textes et de très bons acteurs en font un film très divertissant à ne pas manquer.
Great quotes:
Marvin Boggs: [from trailer ] Why are you trying to kill me?
Frank Moses: Look, why would I be trying to kill you?
Marvin Boggs: Because last time we met, I tried to kill you.
Frank Moses: That was a long time ago.
Marvin Boggs: Some people hold on to things like that.
...
Marvin Boggs: I remember the Secret Service being tougher.
Victoria: Me too.
...
Frank Moses: [to Marvin] Open the pig! Open the pig!
[Marvin unzips the pig, and pulls out a grenade launcher]
...
Businesswoman: That's right, old man!
Marvin Boggs: Old man?
Frank Moses: No respect.
Marvin Boggs: Can I kill her now?
Frank Moses: [nods affirmative]
Marvin Boggs: [steps out from behind shipping container and shoots her oncoming bazooka rocket blowing her up]
Marvin Boggs: Old man my ass!
...
Frank Moses: Watch you back, too.
Joe Matheson: I'm 80 years old. I got stage 4 live cancer. What the hell can they do to me?
Frank Moses: They can still shoot you.
Joe Matheson: Well... I never thought this would happen to me.
Frank Moses: What?
Joe Matheson: Getting old. Well I mean, Vietnam, Afghanistan. The Green Spring Rest Home?
...
Cynthia Wilkes: You just got your ass handed to you by a goddamned retiree!
...
Link: http://www.red-themovie.com/
Entertainment rating: 9/10
Cast/acting rating: 8/10
Artistic rating: 6/10
Reflexion rating: 4/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 8/10
------------------------------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 8/10
Annee/Year: 2010
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
RED means Retired Extremely Dangerous from young director Robert Schwentke (who also brought us Flightplan and The time travelers' wife). This action comedy is very well written with excellent dialogues. Lead role of Frank is played by Bruce Willis playing a retired special ops agent who has not lost his edge but is bored in his retirement life. Frank falls for a government pension employee (played by Mary-Louise Parker) who's life is equally boring. Both of them get sucked into a race to save their skin as an older spec ops agent is determined to eliminate his old colleagues. This forces Frank to contact his best buddies (played by Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich) to get even odds to save their retired skins. Great action, witty scripts and great actors make this an excellent entertainment value not to be missed.
RED est un film du jeune réalisateur Robert Schwentke (qui nous a aussi apporté Flightplan et The time travelers' wife). Cette comédie et film d`action à la fois, est vraiment bien fait et le jeu d`acteur y est solide. Le tout est agrémenté d`excellents dialogues. Bruce Willis joue le rôle de Frank un ancien agent des forces spéciales qui est maintenant à la retraite mais qui ne s`y plait pas du tout. Il tombe en amour avec une fonctionnaire qui rêve d`aventures romantiques jouée par Mary-Louise Parker pour qui le rêve devient une réalité lorsqu`un anciens agents des force spéciales décide d`éliminer ses anciens collègues. Frank part a la recherche de ses amis pour se défendre et se donner une chance de survie. Il retrouve les charactères joués par Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman et John Malkovich qui sont absolument parfait. Beaucoup d`action, de superbes textes et de très bons acteurs en font un film très divertissant à ne pas manquer.
Great quotes:
Marvin Boggs: [from trailer ] Why are you trying to kill me?
Frank Moses: Look, why would I be trying to kill you?
Marvin Boggs: Because last time we met, I tried to kill you.
Frank Moses: That was a long time ago.
Marvin Boggs: Some people hold on to things like that.
...
Marvin Boggs: I remember the Secret Service being tougher.
Victoria: Me too.
...
Frank Moses: [to Marvin] Open the pig! Open the pig!
[Marvin unzips the pig, and pulls out a grenade launcher]
...
Businesswoman: That's right, old man!
Marvin Boggs: Old man?
Frank Moses: No respect.
Marvin Boggs: Can I kill her now?
Frank Moses: [nods affirmative]
Marvin Boggs: [steps out from behind shipping container and shoots her oncoming bazooka rocket blowing her up]
Marvin Boggs: Old man my ass!
...
Frank Moses: Watch you back, too.
Joe Matheson: I'm 80 years old. I got stage 4 live cancer. What the hell can they do to me?
Frank Moses: They can still shoot you.
Joe Matheson: Well... I never thought this would happen to me.
Frank Moses: What?
Joe Matheson: Getting old. Well I mean, Vietnam, Afghanistan. The Green Spring Rest Home?
...
Cynthia Wilkes: You just got your ass handed to you by a goddamned retiree!
...
Link: http://www.red-themovie.com/
Entertainment rating: 9/10
Cast/acting rating: 8/10
Artistic rating: 6/10
Reflexion rating: 4/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 9/10
Wide audience: 8/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8/10
vendredi 24 juin 2011
#220: Existenz, Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Sci-fi/Science-Fiction
Annee/Year: 1999
Country: Canada
Format: DVD
Existenz is a really under rated movie in my book. Directed by David Cronenberg (Shivers,Rabid, The brood, The Fly, Videodrome, Eastern promises, Crash and more) one of the most prolific and respected Canadian director. There are a few movies issued lately about alternate universes (Matrix, Exception...) which are quite succefull. This movie is about the same theme but treated in an interesting quite relevant way: virtual reality video games.
Through cool biotechnology living interface consoles which plug directly into your nervous system through a plug which is installed in your spine the close future people interact in very rich virtual reality games where designers reproduce reality with all senses in it's smallest detail until it becomes hard to know what is reality and what is the game. The movies exploits multi layered realities where the protagonists: Ted Pikul (Jude Law) a marketing trainee who has to assist the most well known game designer of her generation Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) through the world in her latest game environment in order to insure the game is not damaged by a hardware problem. Follows an exciting discovery of the different virtual worlds and their inherent rules. Willem Dafoe plays a secondary role which is very interesting as well. A very beautiful metaphore for current gen video games if there is one. The question is can someone loose his own reality through these alternate universes? A great movie from Cronenberg.
Existenz un film définitivement sous évalué par plusieurs. Le célèbre réalisateur canadien David Cronenberg (Shivers,Rabid, The brood, The Fly, Videodrome, Eastern promises, Crash et plus).
Dernièrement il y a eu plusieurs films avec des couches de réalités alternatives qui ont connus pas mal de succès (Matrix, Inception). Existenz traite ce thème mais sur un ton différent: les jeux vidéos basés sur la réalité virtuelle. Avec une technologie futuriste biotechnologique qui utilise des consoles d`interface vivantes, les personnages de cette époque rapprochée se branche sur des réalités virtuelle à travers des ports de communication qui leur sont installés directement à leur système nerveux par leur colonne vertébrale. Cool. Une fois dans ces mondes virtuels les personnages y visitent et interagissent comme si ils y étaient vraiment mais il sàgit de jeux complètement fait par des designer vedetttes qui y mettent autant de détails que dans la réalité. On peut même accéder à d`autres mondes virtuels pour une approche par couches, concept que ce film exploite pleinement. Nos personnages principaux Ted Pikul (Jude Law) un jeune agent de marketing qui doit assister Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) la plus grande designer de jeux virtuels de son époque à travers l`environnement de sa toute dernière création afin de s`assurer que le jeux n`a pas été compromis par une destrucution partielle de la console sur laquelle il était sauvegardé. S`ensuit une excitante poursuite contre des puissances compétitrices qui veulent le comprettre. Willem Dafoe joue un rôle intéressant dùn personnage nommé Gas que vous n`oublierez pas On y découvre alors les règles qui régissent le jeu. Ce grand film est une métaphore intéressante sur les jeux videos qui envahissent nos vies de plus en plus. Bravo Cronenberg pour un film qui nous stimule et fait réfléchir!
Great quotes:
Allegra: So how does it feel?
Ted: What?
Allegra: Your real life. The one you came back for.
Ted: It feels completely unreal.
Allegra: You're stuck now, aren't ya? You want to go back to the Chinese restaurant because there's nothing happening here. We're safe. It's boring.
Ted: It's worse than that. I'm not sure... I'm not sure here, where we are, is real at all. This feels like a game to me. And you, you're beginning to feel a bit like a game character.
...
Ted: What the fuck are you doing? You killed him. Are you going to kill me next?
Allegra: Pikul, he was only a game character. I didn't like how he was messing with my mind.
Ted: You didn't like that, so you killed him?
Allegra: He's only a game character!
Ted: Allegra, what if we're not in the game anymore?
Allegra: If we're not.
Ted: If we're not then you just killed someone real.
...
Ted: It's none of your business who sent us! We're here and that is all that matters... God, what happened? I didn't mean to say that.
Allegra: It's your character who said it. It's kind of a schizophrenic feeling, isn't it? You'll get used to it. There are things that have to be said to advance the plot and establish the characters, and those things get said whether you want to say them or not. Don't fight it.
...
Ted: Free will is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours.
Allegra: It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.
...
Ted: What was your life like before?
Gas: Before?
Ted: Before it was changed by Allegra Geller.
Gas: I operated a gas station.
Ted: You still operate a gas station, don't you?
Gas: Only on the most pathetic level of reality.
...
Allegra: You have to PLAY the game, to find out WHY you're playing the game.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 8/10
Reflexion rating: 9/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 6/10
Wide audience: 5/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.5/10
Annee/Year: 1999
Country: Canada
Format: DVD
Existenz is a really under rated movie in my book. Directed by David Cronenberg (Shivers,Rabid, The brood, The Fly, Videodrome, Eastern promises, Crash and more) one of the most prolific and respected Canadian director. There are a few movies issued lately about alternate universes (Matrix, Exception...) which are quite succefull. This movie is about the same theme but treated in an interesting quite relevant way: virtual reality video games.
Through cool biotechnology living interface consoles which plug directly into your nervous system through a plug which is installed in your spine the close future people interact in very rich virtual reality games where designers reproduce reality with all senses in it's smallest detail until it becomes hard to know what is reality and what is the game. The movies exploits multi layered realities where the protagonists: Ted Pikul (Jude Law) a marketing trainee who has to assist the most well known game designer of her generation Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) through the world in her latest game environment in order to insure the game is not damaged by a hardware problem. Follows an exciting discovery of the different virtual worlds and their inherent rules. Willem Dafoe plays a secondary role which is very interesting as well. A very beautiful metaphore for current gen video games if there is one. The question is can someone loose his own reality through these alternate universes? A great movie from Cronenberg.
Existenz un film définitivement sous évalué par plusieurs. Le célèbre réalisateur canadien David Cronenberg (Shivers,Rabid, The brood, The Fly, Videodrome, Eastern promises, Crash et plus).
Dernièrement il y a eu plusieurs films avec des couches de réalités alternatives qui ont connus pas mal de succès (Matrix, Inception). Existenz traite ce thème mais sur un ton différent: les jeux vidéos basés sur la réalité virtuelle. Avec une technologie futuriste biotechnologique qui utilise des consoles d`interface vivantes, les personnages de cette époque rapprochée se branche sur des réalités virtuelle à travers des ports de communication qui leur sont installés directement à leur système nerveux par leur colonne vertébrale. Cool. Une fois dans ces mondes virtuels les personnages y visitent et interagissent comme si ils y étaient vraiment mais il sàgit de jeux complètement fait par des designer vedetttes qui y mettent autant de détails que dans la réalité. On peut même accéder à d`autres mondes virtuels pour une approche par couches, concept que ce film exploite pleinement. Nos personnages principaux Ted Pikul (Jude Law) un jeune agent de marketing qui doit assister Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) la plus grande designer de jeux virtuels de son époque à travers l`environnement de sa toute dernière création afin de s`assurer que le jeux n`a pas été compromis par une destrucution partielle de la console sur laquelle il était sauvegardé. S`ensuit une excitante poursuite contre des puissances compétitrices qui veulent le comprettre. Willem Dafoe joue un rôle intéressant dùn personnage nommé Gas que vous n`oublierez pas On y découvre alors les règles qui régissent le jeu. Ce grand film est une métaphore intéressante sur les jeux videos qui envahissent nos vies de plus en plus. Bravo Cronenberg pour un film qui nous stimule et fait réfléchir!
Great quotes:
Allegra: So how does it feel?
Ted: What?
Allegra: Your real life. The one you came back for.
Ted: It feels completely unreal.
Allegra: You're stuck now, aren't ya? You want to go back to the Chinese restaurant because there's nothing happening here. We're safe. It's boring.
Ted: It's worse than that. I'm not sure... I'm not sure here, where we are, is real at all. This feels like a game to me. And you, you're beginning to feel a bit like a game character.
...
Ted: What the fuck are you doing? You killed him. Are you going to kill me next?
Allegra: Pikul, he was only a game character. I didn't like how he was messing with my mind.
Ted: You didn't like that, so you killed him?
Allegra: He's only a game character!
Ted: Allegra, what if we're not in the game anymore?
Allegra: If we're not.
Ted: If we're not then you just killed someone real.
...
Ted: It's none of your business who sent us! We're here and that is all that matters... God, what happened? I didn't mean to say that.
Allegra: It's your character who said it. It's kind of a schizophrenic feeling, isn't it? You'll get used to it. There are things that have to be said to advance the plot and establish the characters, and those things get said whether you want to say them or not. Don't fight it.
...
Ted: Free will is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours.
Allegra: It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.
...
Ted: What was your life like before?
Gas: Before?
Ted: Before it was changed by Allegra Geller.
Gas: I operated a gas station.
Ted: You still operate a gas station, don't you?
Gas: Only on the most pathetic level of reality.
...
Allegra: You have to PLAY the game, to find out WHY you're playing the game.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/
Entertainment rating: 8/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 8/10
Reflexion rating: 9/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 6/10
Wide audience: 5/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.5/10
dimanche 29 mai 2011
#219: Cannibal ferox, Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 1981
Country: Italy
Format: DVD
Cannibal Ferox is not for everyone. This movie is promoted as very violent and actually banned in 31 countries. Hard to find you may need to special order it from an Amazon source. The movie was created by the prolific Italian director Umberto Lenzi (65 movies to his credit between the '60s and the 90's most of which being war/action or horror titles). This is clearly defined as an exploitation genre movie and it's production quality is not great.
The story is that of a group of friends who set out to accompany a young anthopologist who is out to prove that Cannibalism is nothing but a myth. They follow the tracks of rumours of canniballistic tribes in the deep Amazonian forest. Obviously they run into trouble and team up with two other people who are in trouble as well. The situation degenerates from there as the folks they met up with turn out to be be ruthless drug addicts in search for quick money by taking advantage of the locals by killing in mistreating them. That is until the locals decide to get revenge... This movie will take you to the limits of what is publishable on video in terms of violence, rapes and mutilations. I would even say beyond because this was the early '80s and some scenes done to real animals would not be accepted today. Only for explorers of the limits of what can be seen on film.
Cannibal Ferox n'est pas un film pour tous. On fait la promotion de ce film par son extreme violence et par le fait qu'il est banni dans plus de 31 pays (Record Guiness). Umberzo Lenzi en est le realisateur (il a realise plus de 65 film des annees 60 a 90 surout oriente guerre/action et horreur). Ce film est clairement identifie comme un film du genre exploitation et la qualite de la production laisse souvent a desire.
L'histoire est celle d'une anthropologue des US qui se rend en Amazonie afin de prouver que le cannibalisme n'est qu'un mythe. Elle est accompagnee par deux de ses amis et ils se trouvent rapidement perdus dans les trefonds des jungles amazoniennes. La ils rencontrent deux autres individus douteux avec lesquels ils s'allient. Malheureusement ce ne fut pas un bon choix car ils sont des drogues dangeureux qui tuent et exploitent les aborigenes locaux dans leur quete d'argent vite fait. Ceci excalade jusqu'au moment ou les aborigenes decident de se revenger...
Ce film vous emmenera aux limites de ce qui est presentable sur les grand ecrans tel violence, viols, mutilations. Je dirait meme que la violence faites aux animaux pendant le tournage serait maintenant banni entierement. Ce film n'est pas frappant en bout de ligne meme si les effets speciaux y sont fait avec bon effort. A voir seulement par les amateurs de sensations fortes qui explorent les limites des films disponibles sur le marche.
Great quotes:
Rudy: What a wasted vacation.
Gloria Davis: And maybe our lives too.
Rudy: Yeah...
...
Gloria Davis: [Pat runs to eat a piece of meat] No! Stop! It might be Rudy!
...
Gloria Davis: Oh God, please let her die soon. Oh, let her die soon. And let me die soon too, please.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082700/maindetails
Entertainment rating: 6/10
Cast/acting rating: 4/10
Artistic rating: 3/10
Reflexion rating: 6/10
Production rating: 4/10
Adult factor: 1/10
Wide audience: 1/10
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Overall personnal rating: 4/10
Annee/Year: 1981
Country: Italy
Format: DVD
Cannibal Ferox is not for everyone. This movie is promoted as very violent and actually banned in 31 countries. Hard to find you may need to special order it from an Amazon source. The movie was created by the prolific Italian director Umberto Lenzi (65 movies to his credit between the '60s and the 90's most of which being war/action or horror titles). This is clearly defined as an exploitation genre movie and it's production quality is not great.
The story is that of a group of friends who set out to accompany a young anthopologist who is out to prove that Cannibalism is nothing but a myth. They follow the tracks of rumours of canniballistic tribes in the deep Amazonian forest. Obviously they run into trouble and team up with two other people who are in trouble as well. The situation degenerates from there as the folks they met up with turn out to be be ruthless drug addicts in search for quick money by taking advantage of the locals by killing in mistreating them. That is until the locals decide to get revenge... This movie will take you to the limits of what is publishable on video in terms of violence, rapes and mutilations. I would even say beyond because this was the early '80s and some scenes done to real animals would not be accepted today. Only for explorers of the limits of what can be seen on film.
Cannibal Ferox n'est pas un film pour tous. On fait la promotion de ce film par son extreme violence et par le fait qu'il est banni dans plus de 31 pays (Record Guiness). Umberzo Lenzi en est le realisateur (il a realise plus de 65 film des annees 60 a 90 surout oriente guerre/action et horreur). Ce film est clairement identifie comme un film du genre exploitation et la qualite de la production laisse souvent a desire.
L'histoire est celle d'une anthropologue des US qui se rend en Amazonie afin de prouver que le cannibalisme n'est qu'un mythe. Elle est accompagnee par deux de ses amis et ils se trouvent rapidement perdus dans les trefonds des jungles amazoniennes. La ils rencontrent deux autres individus douteux avec lesquels ils s'allient. Malheureusement ce ne fut pas un bon choix car ils sont des drogues dangeureux qui tuent et exploitent les aborigenes locaux dans leur quete d'argent vite fait. Ceci excalade jusqu'au moment ou les aborigenes decident de se revenger...
Ce film vous emmenera aux limites de ce qui est presentable sur les grand ecrans tel violence, viols, mutilations. Je dirait meme que la violence faites aux animaux pendant le tournage serait maintenant banni entierement. Ce film n'est pas frappant en bout de ligne meme si les effets speciaux y sont fait avec bon effort. A voir seulement par les amateurs de sensations fortes qui explorent les limites des films disponibles sur le marche.
Great quotes:
Rudy: What a wasted vacation.
Gloria Davis: And maybe our lives too.
Rudy: Yeah...
...
Gloria Davis: [Pat runs to eat a piece of meat] No! Stop! It might be Rudy!
...
Gloria Davis: Oh God, please let her die soon. Oh, let her die soon. And let me die soon too, please.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082700/maindetails
Entertainment rating: 6/10
Cast/acting rating: 4/10
Artistic rating: 3/10
Reflexion rating: 6/10
Production rating: 4/10
Adult factor: 1/10
Wide audience: 1/10
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Overall personnal rating: 4/10
mercredi 18 mai 2011
#218: Dont be afraid of the dark , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 1973
Country: US
Format: DVD
Don't be afraid of the dark. Director John Newland brought us many TV series and films from the '50s to the 80's. This film is not very well known but this is a movie which truly marked me when i was young. Funny thing is that when i mentioned this film to folks my age they remembered that movie but no one ever knew it's title. People refered to it as "the movie with the little monsters in the chimney" generally followed by a spine tingling sensation. After I discovered some horror maniacs like me on the web site Horreur-web .com i was able to track the movie's title with their help. Obvisouly i secured a copy from Amazon and relived that experience 30 years later to see if it still held some magic.
My wife and I sat and watched the english only movie (too bad) and actually enjoyed reliving this experience. Obviously this movie has aged quite a bit but still plenty of fun to be had. The story is about a young couple who move in a very old house who belonged to the ladie's (played by Kim Darby) grandmother. She is strangely attracted by the study used by her grand-father which contains a condemned fireplace. She opens the fireplace without heeding the warnings of an old man working to renovate the house. This unleashes some unseen demons trapped deep within the firaplace. The demonic creatures live only in hte dark and are of small size.
The husband (played by Jim Hutton) is busy with his work and not very receptive to the complaints from his wife who slowly sinks into a paranoia as she observes more and more strange things occuring in the house. The demons goal is to capture the lady of the house and bring her inside the fireplace so she can become just like them... The movie culminates in a peak of tension which is very well done. Definitely to see for old school horror buffs. And by the way Del Toro is working a remake of this film for this summer....the trailer is horrifying
Don't be afraid of the dark. Le réalisateur John Newland nous a apporté beaucoup de film et d`émissions pour la TV des années 50 aux années 80. Ce film est peut connu mais il m`a marqué dans ma jeunesse. Lorsque j`en parlait aux gens de mon age; ils disaient souvent s`en rapeller mais personne ne se souvenait du titre du film. Tous se souvenait avoir la chienne des petits hommes dansl cheminée cependant. Après avoit découvert le site de Horreur-Web.com j`ai fait appel à l`expertise de ces experts de l`horreur et ils m`ont rapidement trouvé le titre de ce film. Après une rapide commande chez Amazon j`était prêt à revisiter ce titre quelque trente ans plus tard pour voir si la magie était toujours au rendez-vous.
Le film est seulement en anglais et sans sous-titre francais en plus. Triste. Mais cela ne nous a pas arrêté. L`histoire est celle d`un jeune couple qui hérite d`une demeure ancestrale appartenant a feu la grand-mère de la jeune fille, Sally, jouée par Kim Darby. La jeune Sally fait renover la maison afin d`y emmenager mais elle se trouve attirée par une pièce en particulier qui était le bureau de son grand-père disparut plusieurs annéees plus tôt. Sans écouter les avertissement du vieil ouvrier qui refuse de le faire; Sally ouvre la trappe qui bloque le foyer du bureau. En ce faisant elle ne sait pas qu`elle vient de relacher une puissance démoniaque qui s`en prend à elle. Les petites créatures horribles ne sortent que dans le noir pour s`en prendre à elle et pour la tirer dans la cheminéee et en faire une des leurs. Tout au long du film la jeune femme est témoins d`événements de plus en plus insolites qui la lance dans une paranoia extrème. Son mari completement concentré sur son travail ne lui porte que très peu d`attention. La tension du film augment jusqu`à la fin et culmine dans une série de scènes dont vous vous souviendrez longtemps. Définitivement un film à voir pour les amateurs de la vieille école. De plus un remake est en préparation pour cet été du brillant Del Toro et vous pourrez trouver le trailer sur le web qui est assez effrayant merci.
Great quotes:
Creatures: [opening lines] Will she come? Do you think she will come?
First Creature: She will. You know she will.
Second Creature: But when? When?
First Creature: Very soon. It's just a matter of time. Of waiting for a while. All we have to do is bide our time. Bide our time.
[laughs]
Creatures: But it's been so long. So many years. When will she come and set us free-set us free!
First Creature: Patience! Patience! We've all the time in the world.
[laughs]
Creatures: We've all the time in the world. In the world. In the world. To set us free! In the world!
[Maniacal laughter]
...
Sally Farnham: [on a shopping spree] Maybe Alex is right. Maybe I am losing my mind.
Joan Kahn: You know how a husband can tell you've lost your mind?
[laughs and takes her arm]
Joan Kahn: When you stop spending their money! So let's go spend some more of our husbands' money right away.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069992/fullcredits#cast
Entertainment rating: 7/10
Cast/acting rating: 6/10
Artistic rating: 5/10
Reflexion rating: 3/10
Production rating: 7/10
Adult factor: 8/10
Wide audience: 8/10
------------------------------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 8/10
Annee/Year: 1973
Country: US
Format: DVD
Don't be afraid of the dark. Director John Newland brought us many TV series and films from the '50s to the 80's. This film is not very well known but this is a movie which truly marked me when i was young. Funny thing is that when i mentioned this film to folks my age they remembered that movie but no one ever knew it's title. People refered to it as "the movie with the little monsters in the chimney" generally followed by a spine tingling sensation. After I discovered some horror maniacs like me on the web site Horreur-web .com i was able to track the movie's title with their help. Obvisouly i secured a copy from Amazon and relived that experience 30 years later to see if it still held some magic.
My wife and I sat and watched the english only movie (too bad) and actually enjoyed reliving this experience. Obviously this movie has aged quite a bit but still plenty of fun to be had. The story is about a young couple who move in a very old house who belonged to the ladie's (played by Kim Darby) grandmother. She is strangely attracted by the study used by her grand-father which contains a condemned fireplace. She opens the fireplace without heeding the warnings of an old man working to renovate the house. This unleashes some unseen demons trapped deep within the firaplace. The demonic creatures live only in hte dark and are of small size.
The husband (played by Jim Hutton) is busy with his work and not very receptive to the complaints from his wife who slowly sinks into a paranoia as she observes more and more strange things occuring in the house. The demons goal is to capture the lady of the house and bring her inside the fireplace so she can become just like them... The movie culminates in a peak of tension which is very well done. Definitely to see for old school horror buffs. And by the way Del Toro is working a remake of this film for this summer....the trailer is horrifying
Don't be afraid of the dark. Le réalisateur John Newland nous a apporté beaucoup de film et d`émissions pour la TV des années 50 aux années 80. Ce film est peut connu mais il m`a marqué dans ma jeunesse. Lorsque j`en parlait aux gens de mon age; ils disaient souvent s`en rapeller mais personne ne se souvenait du titre du film. Tous se souvenait avoir la chienne des petits hommes dansl cheminée cependant. Après avoit découvert le site de Horreur-Web.com j`ai fait appel à l`expertise de ces experts de l`horreur et ils m`ont rapidement trouvé le titre de ce film. Après une rapide commande chez Amazon j`était prêt à revisiter ce titre quelque trente ans plus tard pour voir si la magie était toujours au rendez-vous.
Le film est seulement en anglais et sans sous-titre francais en plus. Triste. Mais cela ne nous a pas arrêté. L`histoire est celle d`un jeune couple qui hérite d`une demeure ancestrale appartenant a feu la grand-mère de la jeune fille, Sally, jouée par Kim Darby. La jeune Sally fait renover la maison afin d`y emmenager mais elle se trouve attirée par une pièce en particulier qui était le bureau de son grand-père disparut plusieurs annéees plus tôt. Sans écouter les avertissement du vieil ouvrier qui refuse de le faire; Sally ouvre la trappe qui bloque le foyer du bureau. En ce faisant elle ne sait pas qu`elle vient de relacher une puissance démoniaque qui s`en prend à elle. Les petites créatures horribles ne sortent que dans le noir pour s`en prendre à elle et pour la tirer dans la cheminéee et en faire une des leurs. Tout au long du film la jeune femme est témoins d`événements de plus en plus insolites qui la lance dans une paranoia extrème. Son mari completement concentré sur son travail ne lui porte que très peu d`attention. La tension du film augment jusqu`à la fin et culmine dans une série de scènes dont vous vous souviendrez longtemps. Définitivement un film à voir pour les amateurs de la vieille école. De plus un remake est en préparation pour cet été du brillant Del Toro et vous pourrez trouver le trailer sur le web qui est assez effrayant merci.
Great quotes:
Creatures: [opening lines] Will she come? Do you think she will come?
First Creature: She will. You know she will.
Second Creature: But when? When?
First Creature: Very soon. It's just a matter of time. Of waiting for a while. All we have to do is bide our time. Bide our time.
[laughs]
Creatures: But it's been so long. So many years. When will she come and set us free-set us free!
First Creature: Patience! Patience! We've all the time in the world.
[laughs]
Creatures: We've all the time in the world. In the world. In the world. To set us free! In the world!
[Maniacal laughter]
...
Sally Farnham: [on a shopping spree] Maybe Alex is right. Maybe I am losing my mind.
Joan Kahn: You know how a husband can tell you've lost your mind?
[laughs and takes her arm]
Joan Kahn: When you stop spending their money! So let's go spend some more of our husbands' money right away.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069992/fullcredits#cast
Entertainment rating: 7/10
Cast/acting rating: 6/10
Artistic rating: 5/10
Reflexion rating: 3/10
Production rating: 7/10
Adult factor: 8/10
Wide audience: 8/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8/10
dimanche 15 mai 2011
#217: Paranormal Acitivty 2 , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2010
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Paranormal Activity 2. If you liked the first one, you will like the 2nd. If not dont bother obviously. This 2nd film is directed by Tod Willliams who did not do the first movie of the franchise. The story is this time mostly a prequel to the first movie. A couple is increasingly visited by a demonic entity which seems to be bent on getting at their 3yrs old son. The footage is mostly from the many security cameras installed around the house. Again a low budget approach but excelletn tension is established. The couple find out that the grand mother of the wife may have had dealings with the demonic side to insure her financial success in exchange for the first born son; which happens to be this couple's boy...
They take steps to get rid of the demon by chasing him out to her sister. And that is what is observed in the first movie... This second movie ends when all is quiet around the house but the posessed sister enters in the house for the final scene...
Great effect for a low budget movie as good if not better than the first one. Will there be a third, you bet! Will it be better, no chance but you never know.
Paranormal Activity 2, si vous avez aimé le premier film vous adorerez le second. Ce film du réalisateur Tod Willliams (qui n`a pas fait le 1er film) nous remène dans la période précédent le premier film et où un jeune couple se retrouvent visité de plus en plus fréquemment par une présence démoniaque dans leur demeure qui veut s`n prendre a leur jeune fils de 2-3 ans. Le film nous est montré à travers les caméras vidéo de sécurité autour de la demeure. Encore une approche à budget très réduit qui demeure bien efficace.
Le couple découvre que la grand mère dame aurait fait un pacte avec des forces démoniaques afin d`assurer son succès financier. En échange le premier fils né devra être donné en échange. Il s`agit donc de leur fils... Afin de se débarasser du démons le couple interviennent et envoi celui-ci vers la soeur de celle-ci. Le résultat en est décrit dans le premier film. Le second film se termine après les événements du 1er lorsque la soeur possédé par le démon revient à la charge dans le demeure de sa soeur pour la scène finale. Plusieurs scènes sont marquantes sans tomber dans le gore.
Y aurat-il un troisième film dans la franchise? C`est sur. Serat-il réussi? Moins sur...
Great quotes:
Daniel Rey: Hey! Who left the front door open?
Link: http://www.paranormalmovie.com/
Entertainment rating: 9/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 5/10
Reflexion rating: 2/10
Production rating: 7/10
Adult factor: 4/10
Wide audience: 6/10
------------------------------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
Annee/Year: 2010
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Paranormal Activity 2. If you liked the first one, you will like the 2nd. If not dont bother obviously. This 2nd film is directed by Tod Willliams who did not do the first movie of the franchise. The story is this time mostly a prequel to the first movie. A couple is increasingly visited by a demonic entity which seems to be bent on getting at their 3yrs old son. The footage is mostly from the many security cameras installed around the house. Again a low budget approach but excelletn tension is established. The couple find out that the grand mother of the wife may have had dealings with the demonic side to insure her financial success in exchange for the first born son; which happens to be this couple's boy...
They take steps to get rid of the demon by chasing him out to her sister. And that is what is observed in the first movie... This second movie ends when all is quiet around the house but the posessed sister enters in the house for the final scene...
Great effect for a low budget movie as good if not better than the first one. Will there be a third, you bet! Will it be better, no chance but you never know.
Paranormal Activity 2, si vous avez aimé le premier film vous adorerez le second. Ce film du réalisateur Tod Willliams (qui n`a pas fait le 1er film) nous remène dans la période précédent le premier film et où un jeune couple se retrouvent visité de plus en plus fréquemment par une présence démoniaque dans leur demeure qui veut s`n prendre a leur jeune fils de 2-3 ans. Le film nous est montré à travers les caméras vidéo de sécurité autour de la demeure. Encore une approche à budget très réduit qui demeure bien efficace.
Le couple découvre que la grand mère dame aurait fait un pacte avec des forces démoniaques afin d`assurer son succès financier. En échange le premier fils né devra être donné en échange. Il s`agit donc de leur fils... Afin de se débarasser du démons le couple interviennent et envoi celui-ci vers la soeur de celle-ci. Le résultat en est décrit dans le premier film. Le second film se termine après les événements du 1er lorsque la soeur possédé par le démon revient à la charge dans le demeure de sa soeur pour la scène finale. Plusieurs scènes sont marquantes sans tomber dans le gore.
Y aurat-il un troisième film dans la franchise? C`est sur. Serat-il réussi? Moins sur...
Great quotes:
Daniel Rey: Hey! Who left the front door open?
Link: http://www.paranormalmovie.com/
Entertainment rating: 9/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 5/10
Reflexion rating: 2/10
Production rating: 7/10
Adult factor: 4/10
Wide audience: 6/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
vendredi 13 mai 2011
Book #1: The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins; Books to read, les bouquins à lire
Titre/Title: The Selfish Gene
Author/Auteur: Richard Dawkins
Year/année: 1976
Genre: Science, Biology/Biologie
The selfish gene, this book is now a genre classic from what i consider to be one of the most intelligent scientist alive today. It has taken me quite a while to get to this book and to actually complete reading it. This is not an easy read. It is however targeted to a greater public as the public version of the scientific equivalent named `the extended phenotype`.
These two books published the concept of moving the evolution frame of reference from the animal (living being) or species level down to the specific gene level. Dawkins argues that the basic replicator object in nature is the individual genes themselves and not the individual. Thus this takes the evolution concept of Darwin to a more microscopic level. One of his interesting argument is the fact that every living creature starts off every time from a single cell (set of genes) to develop into what is often a complex being.
Great book, decisive theory and very good science. Well written but often very heavy to read.
The selfish gene, ce bouquin à plus de 30ans déjà et est considéré comme classique en son genre. J`ai mis pas mal de temps pour lire ce bouquin mais cela en valait la chandelle. Dawkins est un des hommes que je respecte le plus en notre époque. Il était le rival d`autre de mes biologiste écrivain préféré Stephen Jay Gould. Mais depuis le décès de Gould , Dawkins s`en prend au concept de Dieu... une longue bataille se présente devant lui.
The selfish gene est un bouquin populaire qui est le mirroir du bouquin scientifique pur produit par Dawkins, `the extended phenotype`, dans lequel il présente la théorie qui suit. La vie étant définie comme une suite de réplication; Dawkins nous dit que les réplicateurs fondamentaux sont bien les gènes et non les individus ou les espèces tel que sous entendu par Darwin au siècle dernier. Ceci est bien argumenté et cette théorie est une version améliorée et acceptée de la nouvelle évolution. Un des arguments utilisé par Dawkins est le fait que chaque individu doit être créé à partir d`une seule cellule même si cet être est complexe.
Un livre définitif en son genre et très bien écrit. Par contre il peut être difficile à lire par moment. Définitivement pas une lecture légère.
Entertainment/Divertissement: 5/10
Knowledge/Connaissance: 9/10
Author/Auteur: Richard Dawkins
Year/année: 1976
Genre: Science, Biology/Biologie
The selfish gene, this book is now a genre classic from what i consider to be one of the most intelligent scientist alive today. It has taken me quite a while to get to this book and to actually complete reading it. This is not an easy read. It is however targeted to a greater public as the public version of the scientific equivalent named `the extended phenotype`.
These two books published the concept of moving the evolution frame of reference from the animal (living being) or species level down to the specific gene level. Dawkins argues that the basic replicator object in nature is the individual genes themselves and not the individual. Thus this takes the evolution concept of Darwin to a more microscopic level. One of his interesting argument is the fact that every living creature starts off every time from a single cell (set of genes) to develop into what is often a complex being.
Great book, decisive theory and very good science. Well written but often very heavy to read.
The selfish gene, ce bouquin à plus de 30ans déjà et est considéré comme classique en son genre. J`ai mis pas mal de temps pour lire ce bouquin mais cela en valait la chandelle. Dawkins est un des hommes que je respecte le plus en notre époque. Il était le rival d`autre de mes biologiste écrivain préféré Stephen Jay Gould. Mais depuis le décès de Gould , Dawkins s`en prend au concept de Dieu... une longue bataille se présente devant lui.
The selfish gene est un bouquin populaire qui est le mirroir du bouquin scientifique pur produit par Dawkins, `the extended phenotype`, dans lequel il présente la théorie qui suit. La vie étant définie comme une suite de réplication; Dawkins nous dit que les réplicateurs fondamentaux sont bien les gènes et non les individus ou les espèces tel que sous entendu par Darwin au siècle dernier. Ceci est bien argumenté et cette théorie est une version améliorée et acceptée de la nouvelle évolution. Un des arguments utilisé par Dawkins est le fait que chaque individu doit être créé à partir d`une seule cellule même si cet être est complexe.
Un livre définitif en son genre et très bien écrit. Par contre il peut être difficile à lire par moment. Définitivement pas une lecture légère.
Entertainment/Divertissement: 5/10
Knowledge/Connaissance: 9/10
mercredi 11 mai 2011
#216: Irreversible , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2002
Country: France
Format: DVD
Irreversible. After having played Cleopatre in the Asterix comedy; the same year Monica Belluci (arguably one of the world's most beautiful woman) decided to play one of the main role in the opposite style of movie that is Irreversible.French director Gaspar Noé (who brought us Seul contre tous, Enter the void and many anti Aids short films) brings us a very original, very tough movie. Most people will walk out on this movie before the first 15 mins are over.
This is too bad because there is a pay off to stick with it for a little while. The movie makes more sense as time passes since the movie is edited as a series of 5 mins clips moving backward in time. The movie starts with the end of the story and moves backwards as we discover the storyline. As if this was not enough the beginning of the movie uses a spinning camera effect which makes it very hard to understand what is being shot. This is really used as a metaphore for the mental breakdown occuring at the end of the story.
Dont despair this movie does have a story however. The story is about a young couple (Vince Cassel and Monical Belluci) meeting iwth a friend for a party and the boyfriend being a bit crazy (drugs) making the girlfriend leave the party alone. She crosses the street through a underground tunnel and gets raped by a thug who was beating up a transvestite whore in that location. The rape/beating scene is very brutal and graphic and definitely not for everyone. The two men see her body being carried by the ambulances and the start chasing after the killer for revenge. Overall an interesting and different movie underlining the irreversibility of time and human actions. ONLY for the very strong of heart and those not subject to dizziness.
Irréversible. Un film du réalisateur français Gaspar Noé (Seul contre tous, Enter the void et plusieurs courts métrages conte le SIDA). Ce film met en vedette Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel et une des plus jolie femme du cinéma: Monica Belluci. Qui jouent les rôles d`un jeune couple et de leur ami commun qu`ils rejoignent pour une fête. Après que le petit ami fait le con et prend de la drogue la copine quite seule la boum. Elle emprunte alors un passage sous terrain pour traverser le boulevard du centre ville ou elle croise un bandit qui brutalisent une prostituée travestie. Celui-ci l`attaque, la viole et la bat dans une longue scène très brutale et crue. Les deux copains voient le corps de la copine embarqué à bord d`une ambulance et ils pètent les plombs et se lancent à la poursuite du tueur qu`ils veulent eliminer. L`histoire se termine dans un bar S&M gai nommé Le Rectum et avec une autre scène de meurtre sanglant.
L`histoire bien que difficile n`est pas la raison principale pourquoi la plupart des gens rejetteront ce film... L`histoire y est conté à l`envers par tranche de cinq minutes. Ce qui est original, rend l`histoire plus complexe et rend le film beaucoup plus difficile à suivre. Si ce n`était pas assez, les quinzes premières minutes du film sont tournées avec une caméra qui pivotent en trois D ce qui peut en rendre plusieurs malades et rend l`action très difficile à suivre. Ceci en convaincra plusieurs à quitter la salle ou arrêter le film avant la fin des premiers 15 minutes. Cet effet
n`est pas complètement gratuit car ils est une métaphore pour la folie qui s`installe à la fin de l`histoire. Donc un film ultra violent, très difficile a suivre et qui en rendra plusieurs malades si vous êtes sensibles aux prise de vues erratiques. Malgré tout très original et un message intéressant sur les effets destructeurs du temps et l`irréversibilité du chaos humain.
Great quotes:
Marcus: I want to fuck your ass.
Alex: I thought you were romantic.
...
Philippe: Time destroys everything.
...
Mourad: With a little money, we can help you get revenge. The assailant drew blood. Blood calls for revenge. Vengeance is a human right.
...
Pierre: You're behaving like an animal. Even animals don't seek revenge.
...
Marcus: Off to The Rectum
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/fullcredits#cast
Entertainment rating: 6/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 8/10
Reflexion rating: 7/10
Production rating: 7/10
Adult factor: 0/10
Wide audience: 1/10
------------------------------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 7.5/10
Annee/Year: 2002
Country: France
Format: DVD
Irreversible. After having played Cleopatre in the Asterix comedy; the same year Monica Belluci (arguably one of the world's most beautiful woman) decided to play one of the main role in the opposite style of movie that is Irreversible.French director Gaspar Noé (who brought us Seul contre tous, Enter the void and many anti Aids short films) brings us a very original, very tough movie. Most people will walk out on this movie before the first 15 mins are over.
This is too bad because there is a pay off to stick with it for a little while. The movie makes more sense as time passes since the movie is edited as a series of 5 mins clips moving backward in time. The movie starts with the end of the story and moves backwards as we discover the storyline. As if this was not enough the beginning of the movie uses a spinning camera effect which makes it very hard to understand what is being shot. This is really used as a metaphore for the mental breakdown occuring at the end of the story.
Dont despair this movie does have a story however. The story is about a young couple (Vince Cassel and Monical Belluci) meeting iwth a friend for a party and the boyfriend being a bit crazy (drugs) making the girlfriend leave the party alone. She crosses the street through a underground tunnel and gets raped by a thug who was beating up a transvestite whore in that location. The rape/beating scene is very brutal and graphic and definitely not for everyone. The two men see her body being carried by the ambulances and the start chasing after the killer for revenge. Overall an interesting and different movie underlining the irreversibility of time and human actions. ONLY for the very strong of heart and those not subject to dizziness.
Irréversible. Un film du réalisateur français Gaspar Noé (Seul contre tous, Enter the void et plusieurs courts métrages conte le SIDA). Ce film met en vedette Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel et une des plus jolie femme du cinéma: Monica Belluci. Qui jouent les rôles d`un jeune couple et de leur ami commun qu`ils rejoignent pour une fête. Après que le petit ami fait le con et prend de la drogue la copine quite seule la boum. Elle emprunte alors un passage sous terrain pour traverser le boulevard du centre ville ou elle croise un bandit qui brutalisent une prostituée travestie. Celui-ci l`attaque, la viole et la bat dans une longue scène très brutale et crue. Les deux copains voient le corps de la copine embarqué à bord d`une ambulance et ils pètent les plombs et se lancent à la poursuite du tueur qu`ils veulent eliminer. L`histoire se termine dans un bar S&M gai nommé Le Rectum et avec une autre scène de meurtre sanglant.
L`histoire bien que difficile n`est pas la raison principale pourquoi la plupart des gens rejetteront ce film... L`histoire y est conté à l`envers par tranche de cinq minutes. Ce qui est original, rend l`histoire plus complexe et rend le film beaucoup plus difficile à suivre. Si ce n`était pas assez, les quinzes premières minutes du film sont tournées avec une caméra qui pivotent en trois D ce qui peut en rendre plusieurs malades et rend l`action très difficile à suivre. Ceci en convaincra plusieurs à quitter la salle ou arrêter le film avant la fin des premiers 15 minutes. Cet effet
n`est pas complètement gratuit car ils est une métaphore pour la folie qui s`installe à la fin de l`histoire. Donc un film ultra violent, très difficile a suivre et qui en rendra plusieurs malades si vous êtes sensibles aux prise de vues erratiques. Malgré tout très original et un message intéressant sur les effets destructeurs du temps et l`irréversibilité du chaos humain.
Great quotes:
Marcus: I want to fuck your ass.
Alex: I thought you were romantic.
...
Philippe: Time destroys everything.
...
Mourad: With a little money, we can help you get revenge. The assailant drew blood. Blood calls for revenge. Vengeance is a human right.
...
Pierre: You're behaving like an animal. Even animals don't seek revenge.
...
Marcus: Off to The Rectum
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/fullcredits#cast
Entertainment rating: 6/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 8/10
Reflexion rating: 7/10
Production rating: 7/10
Adult factor: 0/10
Wide audience: 1/10
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Overall personnal rating: 7.5/10
dimanche 8 mai 2011
#215: Taxi Driver , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Drama/Drame
Annee/Year: 1976
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Taxi Driver. What better opportunity to review a classic movie than it's transfer on Blu Ray. This great film from director Martin Scorcese has recently been gloriously trasnfered on blu ray through an extensive restoration project of the highest quality.
After having played in the godfather, Scorcese cast Robert DeNiro in the role of the taxi driver/vietnam veteran Travis Bickle. This sis the story of this nevrotic cabby who descends more and more into paranoia as he observes the vermin inhabiting the New York city around him. He falls in love with a young woman Cybill Shepherd from the upper side but the relation quickly makes a turn for the worst when she figures how illeterate Travis really is. Later on he focuses on trying to free a young prostitute played by Jodie Foster from her pimp played by Harvey Keitel. The attempt does not work and fianlly the movie ends in a blood bath when he takes his anger against the pimp and his group. Strangely the end shows Travis as a hero in the newspaper. Definitely referred to as a classic but not one of my personnal preferate.
Taxi Driver. Si vous n'avez jamais vu ce classique de Martin Scorcese, maintenant est le bon moment. Après une magnifique restauration ce film a été récemment mis sur Blu Ray. Robert De Niro y incarne le rôle d`un vétéran du Viet-nam qui devient chauffeur de taxi à New-York.
La il oberserve la violence et la misère sous tout ses aspects. Travis tombe en amour avec une jolie femme sophistiquée qui le rejette vite lorsqu`elle apprend a quel point il est illettré.
par la suite Travis se met en tête de sauver une jeune prostituée (Jody Foster) de son pimp (Harvey Keitel). Après qu`il s`apercoive qu`elle ne veut pas être sauvée; travis se met en tête d`éliminer son pimp et ses amis dans un bain de sang. On croirais que ce film se ternine mal pour travis mais au cotnraire le film se termine par son éloge comme héros dans les journeaux.
Vu par plusieurs comme vrai classique moderne; ce film n`est pas personnellement un de mes préféré.
Great quotes:
Travis Bickle: Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.
...
Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me
...
Travis Bickle: I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.
...
Travis Bickle: [Travis is trying his guns on the mirror] Huh? Huh?
[Draws]
Travis Bickle: Faster than you, fucking son of a... Saw you coming you fucking... shitheel. [Reholsters]
Travis Bickle: I'm standing here; you make the move. You make the move. It's your move...
[Draws]
Travis Bickle: Don't try it you fuck.
[Reholsters]
Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.
[Draws]
...
Travis Bickle: I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union.
...
Iris: God, you're square.
Travis Bickle: Hey, I'm not square, you're the one that's square. You're full of shit, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those fuckin' creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little pussy for peanuts? For some low-life pimp who stands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one that's square, man. I don't go screwing fuck with a bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from?
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/fullcredits#cast
Entertainment rating: 7/10
Cast/acting rating: 8.5/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 6/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 3/10
Wide audience: 6/10
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Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
Annee/Year: 1976
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Taxi Driver. What better opportunity to review a classic movie than it's transfer on Blu Ray. This great film from director Martin Scorcese has recently been gloriously trasnfered on blu ray through an extensive restoration project of the highest quality.
After having played in the godfather, Scorcese cast Robert DeNiro in the role of the taxi driver/vietnam veteran Travis Bickle. This sis the story of this nevrotic cabby who descends more and more into paranoia as he observes the vermin inhabiting the New York city around him. He falls in love with a young woman Cybill Shepherd from the upper side but the relation quickly makes a turn for the worst when she figures how illeterate Travis really is. Later on he focuses on trying to free a young prostitute played by Jodie Foster from her pimp played by Harvey Keitel. The attempt does not work and fianlly the movie ends in a blood bath when he takes his anger against the pimp and his group. Strangely the end shows Travis as a hero in the newspaper. Definitely referred to as a classic but not one of my personnal preferate.
Taxi Driver. Si vous n'avez jamais vu ce classique de Martin Scorcese, maintenant est le bon moment. Après une magnifique restauration ce film a été récemment mis sur Blu Ray. Robert De Niro y incarne le rôle d`un vétéran du Viet-nam qui devient chauffeur de taxi à New-York.
La il oberserve la violence et la misère sous tout ses aspects. Travis tombe en amour avec une jolie femme sophistiquée qui le rejette vite lorsqu`elle apprend a quel point il est illettré.
par la suite Travis se met en tête de sauver une jeune prostituée (Jody Foster) de son pimp (Harvey Keitel). Après qu`il s`apercoive qu`elle ne veut pas être sauvée; travis se met en tête d`éliminer son pimp et ses amis dans un bain de sang. On croirais que ce film se ternine mal pour travis mais au cotnraire le film se termine par son éloge comme héros dans les journeaux.
Vu par plusieurs comme vrai classique moderne; ce film n`est pas personnellement un de mes préféré.
Great quotes:
Travis Bickle: Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.
...
Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me
...
Travis Bickle: I think someone should just take this city and just... just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.
...
Travis Bickle: [Travis is trying his guns on the mirror] Huh? Huh?
[Draws]
Travis Bickle: Faster than you, fucking son of a... Saw you coming you fucking... shitheel. [Reholsters]
Travis Bickle: I'm standing here; you make the move. You make the move. It's your move...
[Draws]
Travis Bickle: Don't try it you fuck.
[Reholsters]
Travis Bickle: You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? OK.
[Draws]
...
Travis Bickle: I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union.
...
Iris: God, you're square.
Travis Bickle: Hey, I'm not square, you're the one that's square. You're full of shit, man. What are you talking about? You walk out with those fuckin' creeps and low-lifes and degenerates out on the streets and you sell your little pussy for peanuts? For some low-life pimp who stands in the hall? And I'm square? You're the one that's square, man. I don't go screwing fuck with a bunch of killers and junkies like you do. You call that bein' hip? What world are you from?
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/fullcredits#cast
Entertainment rating: 7/10
Cast/acting rating: 8.5/10
Artistic rating: 7/10
Reflexion rating: 6/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 3/10
Wide audience: 6/10
------------------------------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 8.0/10
#214: Faster , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Action
Annee/Year: 2010
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Faster. Director George Tillman jr brings us in his fifth feature lenght movie another revenge movie. This type of movie really gets on my nerve as it is becoming more and more popular. But as your mother has been telling you for years: "ain't nothin good coming out of violence" so kids please put on your judgement hat the right way. Let's not dismiss this movie too quickly however.
Dwayne Johnson is cast in the main role here as a ex-con named "driver" who starts going on a rampage right after completing his 20yrs prison sentence. He systematically kills the member of a gang who eliminated his own gang 20yrs earlier to get the hands on their profit from a bank heist. In the process they eliminated Driver's brother and him and this became personnal... Obviously Driver refused to die and came back in the hospital only to serve 20yrs during which time he was preparaing his pay back.
Billy Bob Thornton plays the role of heroin addict crooked cop who is wise and experience enough to maybe catch up to Driver. Carla Gugino plays the straight cop that has to work with Thornton's character on this assignment. They add a good dynamic to the film.
If this was not enough a cool and very intelligent professional killer is sent after Driver to eliminate him before he accomplishes his goal.
An interesting chase between four parties which makes the story interesting and certainly the action level to the max. Entertaining after all and not a bad story with some level of depth makes this an OK movie.
Faster. Un film d'action du réalisateur George Tillman jr qui dans son 5ieme film nous donne un autre maudit film de vengeance. Ces films sont à la mode ces temps ci et ils m`énervent en général. Celui -ci un peu moins grace a un casting solide et une intrigue un peu plus complexe et surtout avec plus de profondeur.
Dwayne Johnson joue le rôle d`un ex-bandit qui sort de prison après vingt ans. Il se lance dans une folle poursuite pour éliminer les gars qui l`ont descendu lui et son frère. Lui a été plus chanceux et s`en est tiré grace a sa plaque de métal dans le crâne.
Il est pour suivit par un duo de policiers: un sombre et héroinomane incarné par Billy Bob Thornton et l`autre une bonne policière jouée par Carla gugino. En même temps sa tête est mise a pris par une de ses victimes potentielles et un super tueur professionel est mis à ses trousses.
Le résultat est beaucoup d`action et de poursuites entre les quatres groupes. Le facteur divertissant et le profondeur des caractères et de l`histoire rendent se film un peu plus que tolérable.
Great quotes:
Marina: Do you know what hell is? It's not fire and devils. All that stuff they taught you when you was little. We make our heaven and our hell while we're alive, Every time we cause pain, every time we cause suffering.
...
Evangelist: [from trailer] Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?
Driver: I can't. [a gunshot is heard]
...
Cop: I created my own hell.
Driver: And I am the demon who crawled up out of it. [a gunshot is heard]
...
Baphomet's Son: How do you have my dad's phone?
Driver: He asked me to call you. Baphomet's Son: Are you the one who killed him?
Driver: Yes.
Baphomet's Son: I'm gonna find you and I'm gonna kill you.
Driver: You do what you need to do. But you better be sure, cause that's a long, dark road you're headed down.
Link: http://www.fasterthemovie.com/
Entertainment rating: 7.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 4/10
Reflexion rating: 3/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 7/10
Wide audience: 9/10
----------------------------
Overall personnal rating: 6.5/10
Annee/Year: 2010
Country: US
Format: Blu Ray
Faster. Director George Tillman jr brings us in his fifth feature lenght movie another revenge movie. This type of movie really gets on my nerve as it is becoming more and more popular. But as your mother has been telling you for years: "ain't nothin good coming out of violence" so kids please put on your judgement hat the right way. Let's not dismiss this movie too quickly however.
Dwayne Johnson is cast in the main role here as a ex-con named "driver" who starts going on a rampage right after completing his 20yrs prison sentence. He systematically kills the member of a gang who eliminated his own gang 20yrs earlier to get the hands on their profit from a bank heist. In the process they eliminated Driver's brother and him and this became personnal... Obviously Driver refused to die and came back in the hospital only to serve 20yrs during which time he was preparaing his pay back.
Billy Bob Thornton plays the role of heroin addict crooked cop who is wise and experience enough to maybe catch up to Driver. Carla Gugino plays the straight cop that has to work with Thornton's character on this assignment. They add a good dynamic to the film.
If this was not enough a cool and very intelligent professional killer is sent after Driver to eliminate him before he accomplishes his goal.
An interesting chase between four parties which makes the story interesting and certainly the action level to the max. Entertaining after all and not a bad story with some level of depth makes this an OK movie.
Faster. Un film d'action du réalisateur George Tillman jr qui dans son 5ieme film nous donne un autre maudit film de vengeance. Ces films sont à la mode ces temps ci et ils m`énervent en général. Celui -ci un peu moins grace a un casting solide et une intrigue un peu plus complexe et surtout avec plus de profondeur.
Dwayne Johnson joue le rôle d`un ex-bandit qui sort de prison après vingt ans. Il se lance dans une folle poursuite pour éliminer les gars qui l`ont descendu lui et son frère. Lui a été plus chanceux et s`en est tiré grace a sa plaque de métal dans le crâne.
Il est pour suivit par un duo de policiers: un sombre et héroinomane incarné par Billy Bob Thornton et l`autre une bonne policière jouée par Carla gugino. En même temps sa tête est mise a pris par une de ses victimes potentielles et un super tueur professionel est mis à ses trousses.
Le résultat est beaucoup d`action et de poursuites entre les quatres groupes. Le facteur divertissant et le profondeur des caractères et de l`histoire rendent se film un peu plus que tolérable.
Great quotes:
Marina: Do you know what hell is? It's not fire and devils. All that stuff they taught you when you was little. We make our heaven and our hell while we're alive, Every time we cause pain, every time we cause suffering.
...
Evangelist: [from trailer] Can you find it in your heart to forgive me?
Driver: I can't. [a gunshot is heard]
...
Cop: I created my own hell.
Driver: And I am the demon who crawled up out of it. [a gunshot is heard]
...
Baphomet's Son: How do you have my dad's phone?
Driver: He asked me to call you. Baphomet's Son: Are you the one who killed him?
Driver: Yes.
Baphomet's Son: I'm gonna find you and I'm gonna kill you.
Driver: You do what you need to do. But you better be sure, cause that's a long, dark road you're headed down.
Link: http://www.fasterthemovie.com/
Entertainment rating: 7.5/10
Cast/acting rating: 7/10
Artistic rating: 4/10
Reflexion rating: 3/10
Production rating: 8/10
Adult factor: 7/10
Wide audience: 9/10
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Overall personnal rating: 6.5/10
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