Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2008
Format: Blu Ray
True blood season 1. A popular TV series started in 2008and now through it's third season. I review here only the first season. Based on the novels of Charlain Harris, true Blood was brought on TV by 7 different directors. The series takes place in Louisianna's small town of Bon Temps and follows the life of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a waitress in a bar/restaurant. We follow Sookie after the vampire community makes their "coming out" in the light to become legitimate citizens after a japanse manufacturer commercialise a synthetic blood replacement called True Blood.
This is an exploration in rural america of the social impact of such a large premise. Every aspect is revisited: racism, social unrest, ostracism, vampire blood as a drug, human being killed for food or fun, religious interractions, human and vampire politics and interracial love and sex. This is a very sexualized series which is not for the young ones. We see Sookie who has the special ability to read human minds; falling in love with a vampire who lived through the civil war. As the series progresses we see other fantastic characters (shape shifters, possesed people...) A series with great potential and set in the middle of sweaty,gritty, poor america. Very good series but not for everyone. I also dont consider it very much horror driven but more of a social study.
True blood saison 1. Cette nouvelle populaire série américaine tourne depuis 2008 et est maintenant dans sa troisième année. Sept directeurs différents sont mis à contribution pour mettre sur le petit écran les bouquins de Charlaine Harris. La série se situe dans la Louisianaise rurale et on y voit des personnes très terre-à-terre faisant face à une réalité qui change rapidement. En effet les vampires sont sortis du garde-robe et sont devenus des citoyens normaux grâce à la manufacture de sang artificiel nommé : True Blood. Les humains normaux sont donc aux prises avec divers dilemmes: conflit interracial, meurtre de vampires et d'humains, sang de vampire utilisent comme drogue, politique vampire et humaine, impacts sociaux, amour et sexe interracial....Une série tres sexualisée et pas pour les enfants.
On suit dans cette série la vie de Sookie Stackhouse une jeune fille serveuse dans un resto qui fait la rencontre d'un vampire qui a fait la guerre civile américaine et dont elle tombe en amour. Sookie a aussi un pouvoir distinct de lire dans les esprits des humains, pratique, mais souvent gênant. À mesure que la serine se développe, on découvre que d'autres formes de personnes fantastiques existent (changeur de formes, possession...) Un monde tres riche et ou les multiples personnages sont tres bien développés. Dansl a première saison l'histoire nous met a la recherche d'un tueur en série dans le village: un vampire ou un humain? Une série qui fait réfléchir et qui est tres intéressante; mais pas réellement dans l'horreur pure, mais plutôt dans l'étude sociale. Vivement la deuxième saison.
Great quotes:
Sookie Stackhouse: [to Bill] I always thought as different as we are, some how we could still be together. And now I don't know.
...
Bill Compton: [to Sookie] There is nothing more natural than the act of making love. Who am I to try to change what comes naturally to you?
...
Sookie Stackhouse: [surprised] You're alive?
Bill Compton: Technically, no.
...
Sookie Stackhouse: [to Bill Compton] I almost died last night... again!
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Tara Thornton: [to Lafayette] Giving V to Jason Stackhouse is like givin' ho ho's to a diabetic!
...
Eric Northman: Perhaps I'll grow on you
Sookie Stackhouse: I'd prefer cancer
Link: http://www.hbocanada.com/trueblood/
Rating perso: 8.0/10
lundi 28 février 2011
#176: Salt , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Actio
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Salt. An action packed high energy movie from director Phillip Noyce (Dead calm, Patriot games, Clear and present danger and many TV movies and shorts) For this movie Noyce cast the popular Angelina Jolie in the main role of Evelyne Salt: a CIA agent who's husband is abducted by a group of russian special force. The russians dream of restoring the previous greatness of their country and plan to kill the president and take control of the US nuclear weapons. A more than ambitious plan named Day X. On that day a number of planted agents from over 20 years ago get activated to act on this plan and kill the russian premier for a start. Salt is identified immediately as one of these agents but the through the whole movie she walks the line between being on bad or good side and playing along to save her husband. An action packed movie with a premise remind us a lot of "the Manchurian candidate". Great entertainment and good movie but not a classic.
Salt. Un film de Phillip Noyce (Dead calm, Patriot games, Clear and present danger et plusieurs courts métrages et films pour la TV). Un film d'action solide et tres bien réalisé. Noyce a utilisé les services de Angelina Jolie dans le rôle principal de Evelyne Salt: une agente de la CIA qui est rapidement reconnue comme traîtresse potentielle. Tout ceci est mis en route par l'enlèvement de son mari par un groupe de force spéciale soviétique qui rêve de remettre la Russie au sommet de sa gloire. Le plan ce nomme Jour X et des douzaines d'agents infiltres depuis des douzaines d'années aux coeurs des États-Unis doivent s'activer pour tuer le premier ministre russe et celui des US tout en prenant contrôle des missiles nucléaires américains. Salt est mise en doute des le début et on ne sait si elle joue le jeu en tant qu'agent infiltre pour sauver son mari ou si elle est vraiment agent double. Un tres bon film d'action qui saura divertir.
Great quotes:
Evelyn Salt: What is your name?
Vassily Orlov: My name is Vassily Orlov. Today, a Russian agent will travel to New York city to kill the President. This agent is KA-12.
Evelyn Salt: The KA program is a myth.
Vassily Orlov: Don't you want to know the name?
Evelyn Salt: You're good. You can tell the rest of your story to one of my colleagues.
Vassily Orlov: Salt.
Evelyn Salt: Yes?
Vassily Orlov: The name of the agent is Evelyn Salt.
Evelyn Salt: My name is Evelyn Salt.
Vassily Orlov: Then you are a Russian spy.
...
Peabody: How many more like you are there?
Evelyn Salt: Like me? None. Like him? More than you or I can handle alone.
Link: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/salt/
Rating perso: 7.0/10
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Salt. An action packed high energy movie from director Phillip Noyce (Dead calm, Patriot games, Clear and present danger and many TV movies and shorts) For this movie Noyce cast the popular Angelina Jolie in the main role of Evelyne Salt: a CIA agent who's husband is abducted by a group of russian special force. The russians dream of restoring the previous greatness of their country and plan to kill the president and take control of the US nuclear weapons. A more than ambitious plan named Day X. On that day a number of planted agents from over 20 years ago get activated to act on this plan and kill the russian premier for a start. Salt is identified immediately as one of these agents but the through the whole movie she walks the line between being on bad or good side and playing along to save her husband. An action packed movie with a premise remind us a lot of "the Manchurian candidate". Great entertainment and good movie but not a classic.
Salt. Un film de Phillip Noyce (Dead calm, Patriot games, Clear and present danger et plusieurs courts métrages et films pour la TV). Un film d'action solide et tres bien réalisé. Noyce a utilisé les services de Angelina Jolie dans le rôle principal de Evelyne Salt: une agente de la CIA qui est rapidement reconnue comme traîtresse potentielle. Tout ceci est mis en route par l'enlèvement de son mari par un groupe de force spéciale soviétique qui rêve de remettre la Russie au sommet de sa gloire. Le plan ce nomme Jour X et des douzaines d'agents infiltres depuis des douzaines d'années aux coeurs des États-Unis doivent s'activer pour tuer le premier ministre russe et celui des US tout en prenant contrôle des missiles nucléaires américains. Salt est mise en doute des le début et on ne sait si elle joue le jeu en tant qu'agent infiltre pour sauver son mari ou si elle est vraiment agent double. Un tres bon film d'action qui saura divertir.
Great quotes:
Evelyn Salt: What is your name?
Vassily Orlov: My name is Vassily Orlov. Today, a Russian agent will travel to New York city to kill the President. This agent is KA-12.
Evelyn Salt: The KA program is a myth.
Vassily Orlov: Don't you want to know the name?
Evelyn Salt: You're good. You can tell the rest of your story to one of my colleagues.
Vassily Orlov: Salt.
Evelyn Salt: Yes?
Vassily Orlov: The name of the agent is Evelyn Salt.
Evelyn Salt: My name is Evelyn Salt.
Vassily Orlov: Then you are a Russian spy.
...
Peabody: How many more like you are there?
Evelyn Salt: Like me? None. Like him? More than you or I can handle alone.
Link: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/salt/
Rating perso: 7.0/10
dimanche 27 février 2011
#175: La peau blanche , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2004
Format: DVD
La peau blanche (white skin). This is a light horror movie from Quebec which is a pleasnt surprise. I was ticked on to this movie by an american critic who placed highly in his list of best horror movies. I thought this would at least be worthwhile to review even if this movie is not very well known.
The result is very pleasant. This movie was the first full time movie from director Daniel Roby (he also made recently the popular Funkytown). It is a softly played movie about a couple of friends played by Marc Paquet (the white guy who also played in the TV series La galere) and his friend played by (the black guy Frederic Pierre seen in many movies and tv series). The both encounter a couple of girls one night and one the girls (a redhair) attacks the balck friend. This episode past the main character played by Marc falls in love strangely with a red hair girl to which he is strangely fascinated. Turns out this fascination is not so usual and the passion he feels for this girl (played by Marianne Farley) will be put to test as he discovers her family of girls only. One of the sister of his girlfriend ends up being the girl which attacjed his buddy. What is the terrible secret tying this red haired female family together.
A very nice movie not so scary and without any gory scenes. The interest is in the build up of tension in the movie. It is also shot in Montreal which is depicted in a very true sense. I especially loved the themes touched in the movie: black vs white, redhair traits,... which keeps it interesting till the end.
Not a movie which will balst you US style but a movie with lots of sensibility and an interesting plot.
La peau blanche. Un film québécois d'horreur léger du directeur Daniel Roby (qui a fait Funkytown). Ce film n'a pas été tres bien reçu et est peu connu. Je l'ai découvert suivant une critique positive d'un américain. Je ne pouvais pas passer a cote de ce film. Et après l'avoir cherché pendant plusieurs mois, je l'ai trouvé neuf pour 3.95$. Mon meilleur investissement 2011. Ce film a été une surprise plaisante et j'ai bien aimé en général. Les scènes de Montréal nous montrent la ville dans son cadre reel. Également le film touche à plusieurs thèmes raciaux (blacks, roux...) et ceci est très bien joue.
Nos deux principaux acteurs sont blanc et noir et sont colocs. Un est joué par Marc Paquet (la galère TV) et l'autre par Frederic Pierre (souvent vu dans d'autres films ou à la TV). La dynamique copain ici est excellente. Tout va bien jusqu'au moment ou notre personnage principal rencontre une fille rousse avec lequel il tombe follement amoureux (même s’il avoue ne pas aimer les rousses...). La fille, jouée par Mairanne Farley, est certainement étrange. La passion pour cette fille sera mise à rude épreuve lorsqu’il rencontre sa famille qui est composée uniquement de femmes rousses et dont l'une d'elles a agressé son coloc dans le passé. Le reste du film il tentera de percer le terrible secret de cette famille serré. Définitivement un film lent et subtil qui ne vous agressera pas (pas de blast ni de gore) mais qui saura vous charmer si vous lui en donnez la chance.
Great quotes:
Link:
Rating perso: 7.0/10
Annee/Year: 2004
Format: DVD
La peau blanche (white skin). This is a light horror movie from Quebec which is a pleasnt surprise. I was ticked on to this movie by an american critic who placed highly in his list of best horror movies. I thought this would at least be worthwhile to review even if this movie is not very well known.
The result is very pleasant. This movie was the first full time movie from director Daniel Roby (he also made recently the popular Funkytown). It is a softly played movie about a couple of friends played by Marc Paquet (the white guy who also played in the TV series La galere) and his friend played by (the black guy Frederic Pierre seen in many movies and tv series). The both encounter a couple of girls one night and one the girls (a redhair) attacks the balck friend. This episode past the main character played by Marc falls in love strangely with a red hair girl to which he is strangely fascinated. Turns out this fascination is not so usual and the passion he feels for this girl (played by Marianne Farley) will be put to test as he discovers her family of girls only. One of the sister of his girlfriend ends up being the girl which attacjed his buddy. What is the terrible secret tying this red haired female family together.
A very nice movie not so scary and without any gory scenes. The interest is in the build up of tension in the movie. It is also shot in Montreal which is depicted in a very true sense. I especially loved the themes touched in the movie: black vs white, redhair traits,... which keeps it interesting till the end.
Not a movie which will balst you US style but a movie with lots of sensibility and an interesting plot.
La peau blanche. Un film québécois d'horreur léger du directeur Daniel Roby (qui a fait Funkytown). Ce film n'a pas été tres bien reçu et est peu connu. Je l'ai découvert suivant une critique positive d'un américain. Je ne pouvais pas passer a cote de ce film. Et après l'avoir cherché pendant plusieurs mois, je l'ai trouvé neuf pour 3.95$. Mon meilleur investissement 2011. Ce film a été une surprise plaisante et j'ai bien aimé en général. Les scènes de Montréal nous montrent la ville dans son cadre reel. Également le film touche à plusieurs thèmes raciaux (blacks, roux...) et ceci est très bien joue.
Nos deux principaux acteurs sont blanc et noir et sont colocs. Un est joué par Marc Paquet (la galère TV) et l'autre par Frederic Pierre (souvent vu dans d'autres films ou à la TV). La dynamique copain ici est excellente. Tout va bien jusqu'au moment ou notre personnage principal rencontre une fille rousse avec lequel il tombe follement amoureux (même s’il avoue ne pas aimer les rousses...). La fille, jouée par Mairanne Farley, est certainement étrange. La passion pour cette fille sera mise à rude épreuve lorsqu’il rencontre sa famille qui est composée uniquement de femmes rousses et dont l'une d'elles a agressé son coloc dans le passé. Le reste du film il tentera de percer le terrible secret de cette famille serré. Définitivement un film lent et subtil qui ne vous agressera pas (pas de blast ni de gore) mais qui saura vous charmer si vous lui en donnez la chance.
Great quotes:
Link:
Rating perso: 7.0/10
#174: Giallo , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Action/Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2009
Format: DVD
Giallo. Another movie from italian director Dario Argento. This is another thriller not tryuly horror in that sense except for some gory scenes. Argento cast Emmanuelle Seigner in the role of a young woman looking to find her beautiful sister who is a model (Elsa Pataky) after she gets abducted by a ruthless serial killer operating in the city of Torino. Adrien Brody (The village, King Kong, Predators...) plays the role of a US inspector trying to find this killler which happens to be a very ugly person going after young beauties. This is again a thirller racing against the clock of loosing yet more women to the bad guy. The title Giallo means yellow in italian and has to do with the condition of the killer (i wont spoil it here). Not the best movie from Argento but a great thriller and a different light to shine Adrien Brody's skills as an actor.
Giallo. Littéralement "Jaune" en italien. Encore un film de Dario Argento (voir plusieurs revues passées) celui ci est plus un thriller qu'un film d'horreur, mais typique du style Argento avec un peu de gore et un tueur sans pitié. Emmanuelle Seigner jour le rôle ici d'une femme qui essai de sauver sa soeur, qui est un modèle, des griffes d'un tueur en série. Le tueur a un rapport au titre, et il est absolument affreux et il s'en prend seulement à de jolies jeunes filles. Le film se déroule à Torino en Italie et l'inspecteur responsable de l'enquête est joué par Adrien Brody. Un inspecteur au passé lourd et qui est decies à éliminer le tueur à tout prix. Un magnifique thriller tres près du style Argento et avec une trame sonore moins pénible que plusieurs de ces films plus âgés. Pas sa meilleure oeuvre, mais intéressant d'y voir évoluer Brody et certainement un super thriller.
Great quotes:
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107816/maindetails
Rating perso: 6.0/10
Annee/Year: 2009
Format: DVD
Giallo. Another movie from italian director Dario Argento. This is another thriller not tryuly horror in that sense except for some gory scenes. Argento cast Emmanuelle Seigner in the role of a young woman looking to find her beautiful sister who is a model (Elsa Pataky) after she gets abducted by a ruthless serial killer operating in the city of Torino. Adrien Brody (The village, King Kong, Predators...) plays the role of a US inspector trying to find this killler which happens to be a very ugly person going after young beauties. This is again a thirller racing against the clock of loosing yet more women to the bad guy. The title Giallo means yellow in italian and has to do with the condition of the killer (i wont spoil it here). Not the best movie from Argento but a great thriller and a different light to shine Adrien Brody's skills as an actor.
Giallo. Littéralement "Jaune" en italien. Encore un film de Dario Argento (voir plusieurs revues passées) celui ci est plus un thriller qu'un film d'horreur, mais typique du style Argento avec un peu de gore et un tueur sans pitié. Emmanuelle Seigner jour le rôle ici d'une femme qui essai de sauver sa soeur, qui est un modèle, des griffes d'un tueur en série. Le tueur a un rapport au titre, et il est absolument affreux et il s'en prend seulement à de jolies jeunes filles. Le film se déroule à Torino en Italie et l'inspecteur responsable de l'enquête est joué par Adrien Brody. Un inspecteur au passé lourd et qui est decies à éliminer le tueur à tout prix. Un magnifique thriller tres près du style Argento et avec une trame sonore moins pénible que plusieurs de ces films plus âgés. Pas sa meilleure oeuvre, mais intéressant d'y voir évoluer Brody et certainement un super thriller.
Great quotes:
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107816/maindetails
Rating perso: 6.0/10
samedi 26 février 2011
#173: Highlander , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Action/Sci-fi
Annee/Year: 1986
Format: Blu Ray
Highlander. A movie with great success in the eighties but is now showing it's age. From director Russel Mulcahy (who brought us Razorback and lots of TV material since the '90s) Highlander was a two movie franchise accompanied by a poor tv series. Casting Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery
and Clancy Brown as a members of a super race of immortal fighters with special powers. They live among us unknowningly until the time of the GATHERING at which point they meet and fight until they eliminate the others as they absorb their powers (The QUICKENING) in a display of dated special effects. The movie has aged quite a bit although the Blu Ray transfer does it justice. Still quite entertianing but will not catch on with the new generations.
Highlander. Un film qui a eu du succes dans les annees '80 mais qui montre maintenant son age. Le directeur Russel Mulcahy (Razorback et beaucoup de TV depuis les annees '90). Il y a eu deux films highlander et une serie TV pas tres reussie. La distribution incluais Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery et Clancy Brown dans le role d'immortles combattants aux grands pouvoir qui vivent parmi nous en inconnus. Lors du GATHERING ils se rejoignent pour s'eliminer les uns les autres et absorber l'energie du perdant en faisant le QUICKENING un falsh d'effets speciaux un peu vieillots. Ce film a pris de l'age et bien qu'interesant a retrouver pour les plus vieux il est mal recu par les plus jeunes malheureusement.
Great quotes:
Ramirez: [narrating] From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now.
...
Connor MacLeod: Tell me how'd it happen for God's sake.
Ramirez: Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pin holes in the curtain of night, who knows? What I do know is that because you were born different, men will fear you... try to drive you away like the people of your village. [MacLeod turns his back]
Ramirez: You must learn to conceal your special gift and harness it until the time of the gathering.
Connor MacLeod: What gathering?
Ramirez: When only a few of us are left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land... to fight for the prize.
...
Connor MacLeod: I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.
...
Sunda Kastagir: Macleod, it's good to see you again. It seems like a hundred years. Connor MacLeod: It's been a hundred years.
...
Kurgan: At last. The Gathering... [Mini-blades pop open from Kurgan's sword before a knock is heard by his door]
Candy: Hi. I'm Candy.
Kurgan: Of course you are...
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/maindetails
Rating perso: 7.0/10
Annee/Year: 1986
Format: Blu Ray
Highlander. A movie with great success in the eighties but is now showing it's age. From director Russel Mulcahy (who brought us Razorback and lots of TV material since the '90s) Highlander was a two movie franchise accompanied by a poor tv series. Casting Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery
and Clancy Brown as a members of a super race of immortal fighters with special powers. They live among us unknowningly until the time of the GATHERING at which point they meet and fight until they eliminate the others as they absorb their powers (The QUICKENING) in a display of dated special effects. The movie has aged quite a bit although the Blu Ray transfer does it justice. Still quite entertianing but will not catch on with the new generations.
Highlander. Un film qui a eu du succes dans les annees '80 mais qui montre maintenant son age. Le directeur Russel Mulcahy (Razorback et beaucoup de TV depuis les annees '90). Il y a eu deux films highlander et une serie TV pas tres reussie. La distribution incluais Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery et Clancy Brown dans le role d'immortles combattants aux grands pouvoir qui vivent parmi nous en inconnus. Lors du GATHERING ils se rejoignent pour s'eliminer les uns les autres et absorber l'energie du perdant en faisant le QUICKENING un falsh d'effets speciaux un peu vieillots. Ce film a pris de l'age et bien qu'interesant a retrouver pour les plus vieux il est mal recu par les plus jeunes malheureusement.
Great quotes:
Ramirez: [narrating] From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now.
...
Connor MacLeod: Tell me how'd it happen for God's sake.
Ramirez: Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pin holes in the curtain of night, who knows? What I do know is that because you were born different, men will fear you... try to drive you away like the people of your village. [MacLeod turns his back]
Ramirez: You must learn to conceal your special gift and harness it until the time of the gathering.
Connor MacLeod: What gathering?
Ramirez: When only a few of us are left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land... to fight for the prize.
...
Connor MacLeod: I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal.
...
Sunda Kastagir: Macleod, it's good to see you again. It seems like a hundred years. Connor MacLeod: It's been a hundred years.
...
Kurgan: At last. The Gathering... [Mini-blades pop open from Kurgan's sword before a knock is heard by his door]
Candy: Hi. I'm Candy.
Kurgan: Of course you are...
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/maindetails
Rating perso: 7.0/10
#172: Insomnia , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Drama/Drame policier
Annee/Year: 2002
Format: Blu Ray
Insomnia. Few directors have achieved the reputation that Christopher Nolan enjoys today with seven films only under their belt! Nolan who brough us Inception, Dark Night, Batman begins, Memento, the prestige has been enjoying a major round of success only ever getting bigger and better. Insomnia was his third movie and i just had to go back and revisit. Nolan cast Al pacino in the role of the main character: an aging cop with a history who kills by mistake his partner half way through the movie. He tries to hide his deed but only sinks himself deeper into a the hands of the real killer he is after. The baddies' role is played by Robin Williams in the role of a very intelligent writer. An interesting combination with Haillary Swank playing the role of the local cop who is so impressed by Pacino's hero status that she cannot see the truth in front of her.
The story takes place in the Alaskan summer and the 24hrs day light along with his on demons keeps our investigator without sleep for a week. As the movie progresses he has to deal with real fog and his mind being like a fog from the lack of sleep; culminating in halucinations and questionable judgement. A recipe for a tough climb to get his hands on a very wise murderer. The movie is very well realised and Pacino's role is excellent. Williams' role is so different it is interesting but never feels quite in character. Maybe it is just the flash backs from "Mork and Mindy" for me. Not sure.
A solid movie but not the best from Nolan. But a very good police thriller in a great setting.
Insomnia. Peu de directeurs on atteint la reputation de Christopher Nolan avec seulement 7 films sous la ceinture! Nolan qui nous a donne: Inception, Dark Night, Batman begins, Memento, the Prestige a un succes de plus en plus retentissant. Ce film est l'histoire d'un enqueteur de police qui se deplace en Alaska pour elucider un meurtre. Al Pacino qui joue le role pricipal est torture a travers le film par son passe et par le fait qu'il tue par erreur son partenaire au milieu du film. Bien qu'il s'agit d'un accident, il ne le dit pas et fait passer le meurtre sur le dos du tueur qu'ils poursuivent. Ce tueur est un ecrivain tres intelligent joue par Robin Wiliams.
Le film se deroule en Alaska dans des paysage grandiose et l'atmosphere du film devient de plus en plus opressante a mesure que notre policier glisse dans un etat d'esprit diminue a cause du manque de sommeil (soleil de 24hr en ete dans l'Alaska et aussi de ses demons). Un film bien reussi mais pas le meilleur de Nolan. Bien que Williams joue un role excellent on a beaucoup de difficulte a oublire le clown en lui. Quand meme un excellent suspense policier.
Great quotes:
Finch: [over phone] Must be hard to concentrate on this case after 3 days without sleep...!
...
Rachel Clement: I can't judge. There are two kinds of people in Alaska: those who were born here and those who come here to escape something. I wasn't born here.
...
Det. Ellie Burr: A good cop can't sleep because he's missing a piece of the puzzle. And a bad cop can't sleep because his conscience won't let him.
...
Dormer: You shouldn't knock misdemeanors.
Det. Ellie Burr: Oh, but it's small stuff. It gets so boring.
Dormer: It's all about small stuff. You know, small lies, small mistakes. People give themselves away, same in misdemeanors as they do on murder cases. It's just human nature. Aren't you gonna write that down?
...
Finch: You and I share a secret. We know how easy it is to kill someone. That ultimate taboo. It doesn't exist outside our own minds.
Link: http://dontcloseyoureyes.warnerbros.com/
Rating perso: 6.5/10
Annee/Year: 2002
Format: Blu Ray
Insomnia. Few directors have achieved the reputation that Christopher Nolan enjoys today with seven films only under their belt! Nolan who brough us Inception, Dark Night, Batman begins, Memento, the prestige has been enjoying a major round of success only ever getting bigger and better. Insomnia was his third movie and i just had to go back and revisit. Nolan cast Al pacino in the role of the main character: an aging cop with a history who kills by mistake his partner half way through the movie. He tries to hide his deed but only sinks himself deeper into a the hands of the real killer he is after. The baddies' role is played by Robin Williams in the role of a very intelligent writer. An interesting combination with Haillary Swank playing the role of the local cop who is so impressed by Pacino's hero status that she cannot see the truth in front of her.
The story takes place in the Alaskan summer and the 24hrs day light along with his on demons keeps our investigator without sleep for a week. As the movie progresses he has to deal with real fog and his mind being like a fog from the lack of sleep; culminating in halucinations and questionable judgement. A recipe for a tough climb to get his hands on a very wise murderer. The movie is very well realised and Pacino's role is excellent. Williams' role is so different it is interesting but never feels quite in character. Maybe it is just the flash backs from "Mork and Mindy" for me. Not sure.
A solid movie but not the best from Nolan. But a very good police thriller in a great setting.
Insomnia. Peu de directeurs on atteint la reputation de Christopher Nolan avec seulement 7 films sous la ceinture! Nolan qui nous a donne: Inception, Dark Night, Batman begins, Memento, the Prestige a un succes de plus en plus retentissant. Ce film est l'histoire d'un enqueteur de police qui se deplace en Alaska pour elucider un meurtre. Al Pacino qui joue le role pricipal est torture a travers le film par son passe et par le fait qu'il tue par erreur son partenaire au milieu du film. Bien qu'il s'agit d'un accident, il ne le dit pas et fait passer le meurtre sur le dos du tueur qu'ils poursuivent. Ce tueur est un ecrivain tres intelligent joue par Robin Wiliams.
Le film se deroule en Alaska dans des paysage grandiose et l'atmosphere du film devient de plus en plus opressante a mesure que notre policier glisse dans un etat d'esprit diminue a cause du manque de sommeil (soleil de 24hr en ete dans l'Alaska et aussi de ses demons). Un film bien reussi mais pas le meilleur de Nolan. Bien que Williams joue un role excellent on a beaucoup de difficulte a oublire le clown en lui. Quand meme un excellent suspense policier.
Great quotes:
Finch: [over phone] Must be hard to concentrate on this case after 3 days without sleep...!
...
Rachel Clement: I can't judge. There are two kinds of people in Alaska: those who were born here and those who come here to escape something. I wasn't born here.
...
Det. Ellie Burr: A good cop can't sleep because he's missing a piece of the puzzle. And a bad cop can't sleep because his conscience won't let him.
...
Dormer: You shouldn't knock misdemeanors.
Det. Ellie Burr: Oh, but it's small stuff. It gets so boring.
Dormer: It's all about small stuff. You know, small lies, small mistakes. People give themselves away, same in misdemeanors as they do on murder cases. It's just human nature. Aren't you gonna write that down?
...
Finch: You and I share a secret. We know how easy it is to kill someone. That ultimate taboo. It doesn't exist outside our own minds.
Link: http://dontcloseyoureyes.warnerbros.com/
Rating perso: 6.5/10
#171: Devil , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Devil. This movie is written by M Night Shyamalan; which for some reason has made a lot of detractors. Personnally i dont understand why since this writer has a load of great ideas to put on the screen (which is more than we can often say from most of the hollywood crowd). This made the movie very polarizing from the start. Director John Eric Dowdle in his fifth movie (he also directed Quarantine), has done a great job of shooting a movie which mainly occurs inside an elevator car. So you dont like elevators..?....
The story is about five seemingly harmless strangers who get stuck in an elevator and who are killed one by one by an unknown killer as mysterious events take place in and around the elevator. The premise is that the devil himself is part of the five and is playing with his victims who are not so harmless as we learn through the movie. The crunch of the movie which keeps it interesting is the role of the maintenance/security crew trying to help our captives and the police investigator who gets involved as the police is informed of the first murder.
A great thriller with more than one interesting twists which builds a good tension throughout. Not that scary but certainly very entertaining.
Devil. Beaucoup de gens disent ne pas apprecier ce film ni M.Night Shyamalan qui a ecrit son histoire. Je crois qu'il y en a plusieurs qui ont mauvaise foi ou bien qui ont carrement peur des ascenseurs..?... Le directeur John Eric Dowdle dans son 5ieme film (il a aussi dirige Quantaine) nous fait vivre l'aventure de cinq etrangers qui se retrouve pris dans un ascenseur. Un des passager est le diable lui meme et le film nous fait vivre un suspense afin de decouvrir le meurtrier a la 10 petits negres; car ils sont tues dans des circonstance etranges un par un. En meme temps un enqueteur de la police essai de les aider sans succes et il apprend que ces cinq innocents ne le sont pas autant que pense au debut.
Un bon thriller avec un suspense qui croit a mesure que le film evolue et qui nous mene vers quelques moments chocs et rebondissements tres interessants. A voir mais attention plusieurs n'aiment pas quand meme.
Great quotes:
[first lines] Ramirez: [voiceover] When I was a child, my mother would tell me a story about how the Devil roams the Earth. Sometimes, she said, he would take human form so he could punish the damned on Earth before claiming their souls. The ones he chose would be gathered together and tortured as he hid amongst them, pretending to be one of them. I always believed my mother was telling me an old wives' tale.
...
Young Woman: It feels like something *bit* me!
...
Ramirez: Everybody believes in him a little bit, even guys like you who pretend they don't. [Detective Bowden takes out a small folded piece of paper and throws it to Ramirez that reads "Im so sorry"]
Ramirez: What's this?
Detective Bowden: An apology note left at the site of a hit and run. My wife and son were killed out on Bethlaham Pike five years ago, but that's OK, because whoever did it is *sorry*. You can tell by the heartfelt apology on the back of a carwash coupon.
[pause]
Detective Bowden: So no, I don't believe in the Devil. You don't need him, people are bad enough by themselves.
...
Ramirez: You're never going to get these people to see themselves as they really are, 'cause it's the lies that we tell ourselves, they introduce us to him.
Link: http://www.thenightchronicles.com/devil/
Rating perso: 7.5/10
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Devil. This movie is written by M Night Shyamalan; which for some reason has made a lot of detractors. Personnally i dont understand why since this writer has a load of great ideas to put on the screen (which is more than we can often say from most of the hollywood crowd). This made the movie very polarizing from the start. Director John Eric Dowdle in his fifth movie (he also directed Quarantine), has done a great job of shooting a movie which mainly occurs inside an elevator car. So you dont like elevators..?....
The story is about five seemingly harmless strangers who get stuck in an elevator and who are killed one by one by an unknown killer as mysterious events take place in and around the elevator. The premise is that the devil himself is part of the five and is playing with his victims who are not so harmless as we learn through the movie. The crunch of the movie which keeps it interesting is the role of the maintenance/security crew trying to help our captives and the police investigator who gets involved as the police is informed of the first murder.
A great thriller with more than one interesting twists which builds a good tension throughout. Not that scary but certainly very entertaining.
Devil. Beaucoup de gens disent ne pas apprecier ce film ni M.Night Shyamalan qui a ecrit son histoire. Je crois qu'il y en a plusieurs qui ont mauvaise foi ou bien qui ont carrement peur des ascenseurs..?... Le directeur John Eric Dowdle dans son 5ieme film (il a aussi dirige Quantaine) nous fait vivre l'aventure de cinq etrangers qui se retrouve pris dans un ascenseur. Un des passager est le diable lui meme et le film nous fait vivre un suspense afin de decouvrir le meurtrier a la 10 petits negres; car ils sont tues dans des circonstance etranges un par un. En meme temps un enqueteur de la police essai de les aider sans succes et il apprend que ces cinq innocents ne le sont pas autant que pense au debut.
Un bon thriller avec un suspense qui croit a mesure que le film evolue et qui nous mene vers quelques moments chocs et rebondissements tres interessants. A voir mais attention plusieurs n'aiment pas quand meme.
Great quotes:
[first lines] Ramirez: [voiceover] When I was a child, my mother would tell me a story about how the Devil roams the Earth. Sometimes, she said, he would take human form so he could punish the damned on Earth before claiming their souls. The ones he chose would be gathered together and tortured as he hid amongst them, pretending to be one of them. I always believed my mother was telling me an old wives' tale.
...
Young Woman: It feels like something *bit* me!
...
Ramirez: Everybody believes in him a little bit, even guys like you who pretend they don't. [Detective Bowden takes out a small folded piece of paper and throws it to Ramirez that reads "Im so sorry"]
Ramirez: What's this?
Detective Bowden: An apology note left at the site of a hit and run. My wife and son were killed out on Bethlaham Pike five years ago, but that's OK, because whoever did it is *sorry*. You can tell by the heartfelt apology on the back of a carwash coupon.
[pause]
Detective Bowden: So no, I don't believe in the Devil. You don't need him, people are bad enough by themselves.
...
Ramirez: You're never going to get these people to see themselves as they really are, 'cause it's the lies that we tell ourselves, they introduce us to him.
Link: http://www.thenightchronicles.com/devil/
Rating perso: 7.5/10
dimanche 20 février 2011
#170: Supernatural , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur TV series
Annee/Year: Season 1-5
Format: DVD
Supernatural. This is one very well done TV series which is appreciated by the whole family (if your children ar no below 10). Supernatural is the story of two brothers and their adventures ridding the world of demons and other associated evil creatures. Very similar to Buffy the succes of the series is really tied to the play between the two brothers Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki who laos played in the Friday the 13th remake and Jensen Ackles who played in My bloody Valentine). Sam being a bit more sensitive and rebelious as opposed to Dean who is a good boy listening to his father's rules and being very much the macho type. The dynamic between the actors makes the film interesting and very funny at times. Note here that the actors are quite polarizing and some people cant stand these actors (so love it or hate it). Other members of the cast: ever missing Dad played Jeffrey Dean Morgan, a '58 Chevy Impala, Castiel an angel played by Misha Collins, Bobby Singer the red neck demon killer played by Jim Beaver and many more.
The series over the 5 season moves from your run of the mill "let's find the demon and kill it" to a more focused "let's find out what dad has been doing lately". By the end of the first season Dad ends up in hell after selling his soul to the demon to save his son Dean. In season TWO the brothers restore themselves back to health and lick their wounds. Kick ass starts getting louder and the series becomes a bit darker still. Until one of the brother ends up dead. The other brother makes the ultimate sacrifice by selling his soul ot the devil to save him. This type of scenario occurs a couple of times during the 5 seasons and the two brothers often sacrifice their own skin for the other. In the process they open the door to hell, letting hundreds of demons out (amonsgt which are the seven deadly sins).
As the seasons progress, season 4 becomes the darkest for brothers as hope seems to diminish. Lucifer is set free from his prison and angels become dark side in the 5th season which does not make their lives easier. If you think that wasn't enough the brothers are stuck trying to find a way out of the ultimate apocalypse: a showdown between Lucifer and the archangel Gabriel which will bring global destruction on the planet. The kicker is that both of them count on Sam and Dean to relinquish willingly their bodies for to wear for the showdown. hmmmph...hmmmhph...running out of breath. To top it all the four cavaliers of the apocalypse are set free by lucifer and the brothers need to bring them down one by one to steale their power rings and reopen the prison in which Lucifer can be put back. Now the only need a way to throw him back in without setting off the final apocalypse....
As you can see, a lot of imagination is wrapped into this series which is always exciting to watch although a bit dark at times. But the core recipe is the brotherly love and sacrifice made by the brothers despite all odds. Add a bit of humour and occasional self derision and you have a series as solid as the old Buffy the vampire. With great casting and excellent production, much of it's success is again due to good character development and kick ass action.
Great quotes:
Dean Winchester: Ugh, the thought of him driving my car.
Sam Winchester: Oh, come on.
Dean Winchester: It's killing me!
Sam Winchester: Let it go.
...
Sam Winchester: Dean, there's ten times as much lore about angels as there is about anything else we've ever hunted.
Dean Winchester: You know what, there's a ton of lore on unicorns too. In fact, I hear that they ride on silver moonbeams, and that they shoot rainbows out of their ass!
Sam Winchester: Wait, there's no such thing as unicorns?
...
Dean Winchester: Come on man. I know Sam, ok? Better than anyone. He's got more of a conscience than I do. I mean the guy feels guilty searching the internet for porn.
...
Dean Winchester: Damn cops.
Sam Winchester: They were just doing their job.
Dean Winchester: No, they were doing our job, only they don't know it so they suck at it.
...
Sam Winchester: Dude, I'm not enabling your sick habit. You're like one of those lab rats that pushes the pleasure button instead of the food button until it dies.
Dean Winchester: What are you talking about, I eat.
...
Sam Winchester: Well, before we go stabbing things into Cooper, we're gonna wanna make damn sure it's him.
Dean Winchester: You're such a stickler for details, Sammy.
Link: http://supernatural.warnerbros.com/
Rating perso: 8.0/10
Annee/Year: Season 1-5
Format: DVD
Supernatural. This is one very well done TV series which is appreciated by the whole family (if your children ar no below 10). Supernatural is the story of two brothers and their adventures ridding the world of demons and other associated evil creatures. Very similar to Buffy the succes of the series is really tied to the play between the two brothers Sam and Dean (Jared Padalecki who laos played in the Friday the 13th remake and Jensen Ackles who played in My bloody Valentine). Sam being a bit more sensitive and rebelious as opposed to Dean who is a good boy listening to his father's rules and being very much the macho type. The dynamic between the actors makes the film interesting and very funny at times. Note here that the actors are quite polarizing and some people cant stand these actors (so love it or hate it). Other members of the cast: ever missing Dad played Jeffrey Dean Morgan, a '58 Chevy Impala, Castiel an angel played by Misha Collins, Bobby Singer the red neck demon killer played by Jim Beaver and many more.
The series over the 5 season moves from your run of the mill "let's find the demon and kill it" to a more focused "let's find out what dad has been doing lately". By the end of the first season Dad ends up in hell after selling his soul to the demon to save his son Dean. In season TWO the brothers restore themselves back to health and lick their wounds. Kick ass starts getting louder and the series becomes a bit darker still. Until one of the brother ends up dead. The other brother makes the ultimate sacrifice by selling his soul ot the devil to save him. This type of scenario occurs a couple of times during the 5 seasons and the two brothers often sacrifice their own skin for the other. In the process they open the door to hell, letting hundreds of demons out (amonsgt which are the seven deadly sins).
As the seasons progress, season 4 becomes the darkest for brothers as hope seems to diminish. Lucifer is set free from his prison and angels become dark side in the 5th season which does not make their lives easier. If you think that wasn't enough the brothers are stuck trying to find a way out of the ultimate apocalypse: a showdown between Lucifer and the archangel Gabriel which will bring global destruction on the planet. The kicker is that both of them count on Sam and Dean to relinquish willingly their bodies for to wear for the showdown. hmmmph...hmmmhph...running out of breath. To top it all the four cavaliers of the apocalypse are set free by lucifer and the brothers need to bring them down one by one to steale their power rings and reopen the prison in which Lucifer can be put back. Now the only need a way to throw him back in without setting off the final apocalypse....
As you can see, a lot of imagination is wrapped into this series which is always exciting to watch although a bit dark at times. But the core recipe is the brotherly love and sacrifice made by the brothers despite all odds. Add a bit of humour and occasional self derision and you have a series as solid as the old Buffy the vampire. With great casting and excellent production, much of it's success is again due to good character development and kick ass action.
Great quotes:
Dean Winchester: Ugh, the thought of him driving my car.
Sam Winchester: Oh, come on.
Dean Winchester: It's killing me!
Sam Winchester: Let it go.
...
Sam Winchester: Dean, there's ten times as much lore about angels as there is about anything else we've ever hunted.
Dean Winchester: You know what, there's a ton of lore on unicorns too. In fact, I hear that they ride on silver moonbeams, and that they shoot rainbows out of their ass!
Sam Winchester: Wait, there's no such thing as unicorns?
...
Dean Winchester: Come on man. I know Sam, ok? Better than anyone. He's got more of a conscience than I do. I mean the guy feels guilty searching the internet for porn.
...
Dean Winchester: Damn cops.
Sam Winchester: They were just doing their job.
Dean Winchester: No, they were doing our job, only they don't know it so they suck at it.
...
Sam Winchester: Dude, I'm not enabling your sick habit. You're like one of those lab rats that pushes the pleasure button instead of the food button until it dies.
Dean Winchester: What are you talking about, I eat.
...
Sam Winchester: Well, before we go stabbing things into Cooper, we're gonna wanna make damn sure it's him.
Dean Winchester: You're such a stickler for details, Sammy.
Link: http://supernatural.warnerbros.com/
Rating perso: 8.0/10
#169: Commando , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Action
Annee/Year: 1985
Format: Blu Ray
Commando. This is the first over the top mega movie which made Arnold Schwarzenegger after playing in the Conan and Red Sonja movies. From director Mark L. Lester who is best known for his '80s action movies. In Commando Arnold plays the role of a tough sepcial ops veteran named John Matrix who's daughter gets abducted by the baddies from a latin american country. The purpose is to force Matrix to do some dirty deeds for them. Little did theu know him and it will cost them dearly in a debauchery of machine guns and explosions. Pure entertainment which has aged a bit since the '80s.
Schwarzenegger still pops out of the screen though with his inept acting skills but bigger than life charisma. A good memory revisited with barealy acceptable Blu ray tramsfer.
Commando. Un des films déterminants de la carrière de Arnold Schwarzenegger après avoir joués dans Conan et dans Red Sonja. Le directeur de ce film est Mark L. Lester bien connu pour ses films d'action des années '80. Arnold joue ici le rôle de John Matrix un vétéran des opérations spéciales américaines dont la fille est prise en otage par des méchants d'un pays d'Amérique du Sud. Tout ca pour manipuler Matrix à les aider à renverser leur gouvernement. Mal leur en a pris, car Matrix leur bottera le cul dans une orgie de mitraillettes et d'explosions. Du divertissement a l'état pur. Arnold y joue un rôle tres bien adapte, malgré son peu de talent d'acteur il crève l'écran avec son charisme plus grand que nature. Un bon souvenir revisite malgré la qualité tres moyenne du transfert en Blu-ray.
Great quotes:
Diaz: Mellow out man. We can't talk business with you waving guns in people's faces. Your daughter is safe, Colonel. Now whether she stays that way is up to you. My people, they got some business with you. And if you want your kid back, then you gotta co-operate, right?
Matrix: Wrong!
[shoots Diaz between the eyes]
...
Sully: Here's twenty dollars to get some beers in Val Verde. It'll give us all a little more time with your daughter.
Henriques: Heh.
Matrix: You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last.
...
Cindy: Can you tell me what this is all about?
Matrix: Yeah, a guy I trusted for years wants me dead.
Cindy: That's understandable. I've only known you for five minutes and I want you dead, too.
...
Matrix: Don't break radio silence until they see me.
Cindy: How will I know?
Matrix: Because all fucking hell is going to break loose.
...
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/maindetails
Rating perso: 6.5/10
Annee/Year: 1985
Format: Blu Ray
Commando. This is the first over the top mega movie which made Arnold Schwarzenegger after playing in the Conan and Red Sonja movies. From director Mark L. Lester who is best known for his '80s action movies. In Commando Arnold plays the role of a tough sepcial ops veteran named John Matrix who's daughter gets abducted by the baddies from a latin american country. The purpose is to force Matrix to do some dirty deeds for them. Little did theu know him and it will cost them dearly in a debauchery of machine guns and explosions. Pure entertainment which has aged a bit since the '80s.
Schwarzenegger still pops out of the screen though with his inept acting skills but bigger than life charisma. A good memory revisited with barealy acceptable Blu ray tramsfer.
Commando. Un des films déterminants de la carrière de Arnold Schwarzenegger après avoir joués dans Conan et dans Red Sonja. Le directeur de ce film est Mark L. Lester bien connu pour ses films d'action des années '80. Arnold joue ici le rôle de John Matrix un vétéran des opérations spéciales américaines dont la fille est prise en otage par des méchants d'un pays d'Amérique du Sud. Tout ca pour manipuler Matrix à les aider à renverser leur gouvernement. Mal leur en a pris, car Matrix leur bottera le cul dans une orgie de mitraillettes et d'explosions. Du divertissement a l'état pur. Arnold y joue un rôle tres bien adapte, malgré son peu de talent d'acteur il crève l'écran avec son charisme plus grand que nature. Un bon souvenir revisite malgré la qualité tres moyenne du transfert en Blu-ray.
Great quotes:
Diaz: Mellow out man. We can't talk business with you waving guns in people's faces. Your daughter is safe, Colonel. Now whether she stays that way is up to you. My people, they got some business with you. And if you want your kid back, then you gotta co-operate, right?
Matrix: Wrong!
[shoots Diaz between the eyes]
...
Sully: Here's twenty dollars to get some beers in Val Verde. It'll give us all a little more time with your daughter.
Henriques: Heh.
Matrix: You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last.
...
Cindy: Can you tell me what this is all about?
Matrix: Yeah, a guy I trusted for years wants me dead.
Cindy: That's understandable. I've only known you for five minutes and I want you dead, too.
...
Matrix: Don't break radio silence until they see me.
Cindy: How will I know?
Matrix: Because all fucking hell is going to break loose.
...
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/maindetails
Rating perso: 6.5/10
#168: Omen IV: The awakening , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 1991
Format: DVD
Omen IV the awakening. The fourth installment in the Omen series was a film made for TV. Directors Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard (both mostly known for their TV work although DOG directed After darkness and Halloween 5). This is a movie with a very twisted plot necessary to continue on the original three movies. In the third movie the antichrist was slayed by Christ return so how does one continue such a plot situation... Well it turns out that the antichrist had seduced a journalist before the end of the previous movie and this allowed him to perpetuate his fate in an evil girl child with a plot twist to return a boy child antichrist after wards. You are lost? well it is defintely contrived. The young girl named Delia gets adopted by a family of lawyers who slowly find out the truth about their daughter as the body count starts increasing again around the girl. The cycle is restarted.... Interesting movie but far from being as strong as the previous three of the series. The music is definitely weaker as Jonathan Sheffer steps in Goldsmith's shoes.
La malédiction IV. Un film fait pour la télévision et définitivement pas du calibre des trois premiers. Que peut-on faire pour faire revivre une franchise où l'antihéros est éliminé? Bonne question et les directeurs ici on pondu une histoire tordue qui nous ramène l'antéchrist à travers la naissance d'une fille conquise par Damien lors du troisième film. Une fille antéchrist? Presque. Elle prépare le retour de notre antéchrist male en ayant l;embryon de son jumeau dans son corps. Médicalement tres peu probable. Enfin... La série a pu continuer quelques instants grâce à ce souffle. Vraiment pour les mordus seulement ou ceux qui n'auront jamais assez de ce thème. Parlant de thème, la musique n'est pas de Goldsmith cette fois-ci et le film en souffre beaucoup.
Great quotes:
Karen York: You made me a surrogate for Delia's brother, you son of a bitch!
...
Karen York: [Referring to her son, Alexander, revealed as new Antichrist and world leader] That freak will never rule, because I'm gonna kill him!
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102585/maindetails
Rating perso: 5.0/10
Annee/Year: 1991
Format: DVD
Omen IV the awakening. The fourth installment in the Omen series was a film made for TV. Directors Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard (both mostly known for their TV work although DOG directed After darkness and Halloween 5). This is a movie with a very twisted plot necessary to continue on the original three movies. In the third movie the antichrist was slayed by Christ return so how does one continue such a plot situation... Well it turns out that the antichrist had seduced a journalist before the end of the previous movie and this allowed him to perpetuate his fate in an evil girl child with a plot twist to return a boy child antichrist after wards. You are lost? well it is defintely contrived. The young girl named Delia gets adopted by a family of lawyers who slowly find out the truth about their daughter as the body count starts increasing again around the girl. The cycle is restarted.... Interesting movie but far from being as strong as the previous three of the series. The music is definitely weaker as Jonathan Sheffer steps in Goldsmith's shoes.
La malédiction IV. Un film fait pour la télévision et définitivement pas du calibre des trois premiers. Que peut-on faire pour faire revivre une franchise où l'antihéros est éliminé? Bonne question et les directeurs ici on pondu une histoire tordue qui nous ramène l'antéchrist à travers la naissance d'une fille conquise par Damien lors du troisième film. Une fille antéchrist? Presque. Elle prépare le retour de notre antéchrist male en ayant l;embryon de son jumeau dans son corps. Médicalement tres peu probable. Enfin... La série a pu continuer quelques instants grâce à ce souffle. Vraiment pour les mordus seulement ou ceux qui n'auront jamais assez de ce thème. Parlant de thème, la musique n'est pas de Goldsmith cette fois-ci et le film en souffre beaucoup.
Great quotes:
Karen York: You made me a surrogate for Delia's brother, you son of a bitch!
...
Karen York: [Referring to her son, Alexander, revealed as new Antichrist and world leader] That freak will never rule, because I'm gonna kill him!
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102585/maindetails
Rating perso: 5.0/10
#167: Omen III: The final conflict , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 1981
Format: DVD
Omen III The final conflict. The third installment in the Omen series was also successfull but not as cleanly realised nor received as the others. Director Graham Baker (Alien Nation...) casts a very young Sam Neil as antichrist at a ge 32.
Now a successfull industrialist and a politacally astute man, Damien Thorne gets appointed to be the UK ambassador. This is actually part of the prophecy as Damien is planning to prevent the coming of the Christ who was reborn in that country. Damien's plan is to have all the members of his dark army now following him to eliminate all the children born on that day predicted by the convergence of stars. During that time a group of 7 priests attempt to eliminate Damien but that is a very dangerous task. Damien seduces a beautiful red haired journalist who was the last chance to display his true indetity. Then in the ultimate scene makes a face off with the christ child himself. The final scene is a bit of a let down on FX sides from our point of view 30yrs later. This movie had definitely lost much of the magic from the two previous installment. That even though the music from Jerry Goldsmith continues to evolve on the same themes. Entertaining but weaker than the other 2 movies.
La malédiction III. La troisième partie de ce classique nous est apporté par le directeur Graham Baker et met en scène un tres jeune Sam Neil dans le rôle de Damien à 32ans. Devenu un homme d'affaires important et influent sur la politique internationale Damien est nomme par le président des États unis au poste d'ambassadeur américain de Grande-Bretagne. Là il fera la guerre au retour du Christ lui-même qui doit revenir en Angleterre selon les alignements astronomiques. Damien utilisera son armée de fidèles pour tuer tous les enfants nés en ce jour. Après avoir séduit une belle journaliste rousse, qui était le seul espoir de le démasquer, Damien confrontera dans la scène finale le bébé du Chirst lui-même dans une scène peu convaincante nous montrant le retour du Christ lui-même. À voir pour terminer la série, mais définitivement plus faible que les 2 autres films de la série.
Great quotes:
Damien Thorn: Disciples of the Watch; I stand before you; in the name of the one who was cast out from Heaven, but is alive in me.
...
Damien Thorn: He was born last night... I feel his presence. Like a virus, a parasite feeding on my energy; trying to drain me of power. For everyday that he lives and grows, my force will weaken.
...
DeCarlo: Every child still living born between those hours is in mortal danger if, indeed, he has not already been killed.
Kate Reynolds: Are you suggesting they've been murdered?
DeCarlo: No, no, I am not. I'm stating it as a fact.
Kate Reynolds: But who on Earth would do such a thing?
DeCarlo: He is born again. And so is the Antichrist - the son of Satan - as foretold in the Book of Revelation.
Kate Reynolds: I'm sorry, Father. Look, I do respect your faith but I don't share it.
DeCarlo: You are not a practicing Christian.
Kate Reynolds: No, I'm a practicing journalist. And one of the first rules of journalism is to be a doubting Thomas. I need to see evidence with my own two eyes.
DeCarlo: All right, here is your evidence. Check that for yourself.
...
Kate Reynolds: I feel like a moth, flying closer and closer to the flame.
Damien Thorn: Which is the moth, and which is the flame?
...
Damien Thorn: Nazarene, charlatan, what can you offer humanity? Since the hour you vomited forth from the gaping wound of a woman, you have done nothing but drown man's soaring desires in a deluge of sanctimonious morality. You've inflamed the pubertal mind of youth with your repellent dogma of original sin. And now you absolve in denying them the ultimate joy beyond death by destroying me ? But you will fail, Nazarene, as you have always failed. We were both created in man's image, but while you were born of an impotent god, I was concieved of a jackal. Born of Satan, the desolate one. Your pain on the cross was but a splinter compared to the agony of my father. Cast out of heaven, the fallen angel, banished, reviled. I will drive deeper the thorns into your rancid carcass, you profaner of vices. Cursed Nazarene. Satan, I will avenge thy torment, by destroying the Christ forever.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082377/maindetails
Rating perso: 6.0/10
Annee/Year: 1981
Format: DVD
Omen III The final conflict. The third installment in the Omen series was also successfull but not as cleanly realised nor received as the others. Director Graham Baker (Alien Nation...) casts a very young Sam Neil as antichrist at a ge 32.
Now a successfull industrialist and a politacally astute man, Damien Thorne gets appointed to be the UK ambassador. This is actually part of the prophecy as Damien is planning to prevent the coming of the Christ who was reborn in that country. Damien's plan is to have all the members of his dark army now following him to eliminate all the children born on that day predicted by the convergence of stars. During that time a group of 7 priests attempt to eliminate Damien but that is a very dangerous task. Damien seduces a beautiful red haired journalist who was the last chance to display his true indetity. Then in the ultimate scene makes a face off with the christ child himself. The final scene is a bit of a let down on FX sides from our point of view 30yrs later. This movie had definitely lost much of the magic from the two previous installment. That even though the music from Jerry Goldsmith continues to evolve on the same themes. Entertaining but weaker than the other 2 movies.
La malédiction III. La troisième partie de ce classique nous est apporté par le directeur Graham Baker et met en scène un tres jeune Sam Neil dans le rôle de Damien à 32ans. Devenu un homme d'affaires important et influent sur la politique internationale Damien est nomme par le président des États unis au poste d'ambassadeur américain de Grande-Bretagne. Là il fera la guerre au retour du Christ lui-même qui doit revenir en Angleterre selon les alignements astronomiques. Damien utilisera son armée de fidèles pour tuer tous les enfants nés en ce jour. Après avoir séduit une belle journaliste rousse, qui était le seul espoir de le démasquer, Damien confrontera dans la scène finale le bébé du Chirst lui-même dans une scène peu convaincante nous montrant le retour du Christ lui-même. À voir pour terminer la série, mais définitivement plus faible que les 2 autres films de la série.
Great quotes:
Damien Thorn: Disciples of the Watch; I stand before you; in the name of the one who was cast out from Heaven, but is alive in me.
...
Damien Thorn: He was born last night... I feel his presence. Like a virus, a parasite feeding on my energy; trying to drain me of power. For everyday that he lives and grows, my force will weaken.
...
DeCarlo: Every child still living born between those hours is in mortal danger if, indeed, he has not already been killed.
Kate Reynolds: Are you suggesting they've been murdered?
DeCarlo: No, no, I am not. I'm stating it as a fact.
Kate Reynolds: But who on Earth would do such a thing?
DeCarlo: He is born again. And so is the Antichrist - the son of Satan - as foretold in the Book of Revelation.
Kate Reynolds: I'm sorry, Father. Look, I do respect your faith but I don't share it.
DeCarlo: You are not a practicing Christian.
Kate Reynolds: No, I'm a practicing journalist. And one of the first rules of journalism is to be a doubting Thomas. I need to see evidence with my own two eyes.
DeCarlo: All right, here is your evidence. Check that for yourself.
...
Kate Reynolds: I feel like a moth, flying closer and closer to the flame.
Damien Thorn: Which is the moth, and which is the flame?
...
Damien Thorn: Nazarene, charlatan, what can you offer humanity? Since the hour you vomited forth from the gaping wound of a woman, you have done nothing but drown man's soaring desires in a deluge of sanctimonious morality. You've inflamed the pubertal mind of youth with your repellent dogma of original sin. And now you absolve in denying them the ultimate joy beyond death by destroying me ? But you will fail, Nazarene, as you have always failed. We were both created in man's image, but while you were born of an impotent god, I was concieved of a jackal. Born of Satan, the desolate one. Your pain on the cross was but a splinter compared to the agony of my father. Cast out of heaven, the fallen angel, banished, reviled. I will drive deeper the thorns into your rancid carcass, you profaner of vices. Cursed Nazarene. Satan, I will avenge thy torment, by destroying the Christ forever.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082377/maindetails
Rating perso: 6.0/10
#166: Damien: Omen II , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 1978
Format: DVD
Damien: Omen II. The Omen was very successfull and quickly spawned a whole franchise. The second movie was also a success and is in no way weaker than the original. Director Don Taylor (Final countdown, Escape from the planet of the apes...) was brought in this time to share with us the second phase of the story where we find Damien the antichrist at age 12 now and living with his uncle Richard Thorn a rich industrialist (played by William Holden) and his wife (played by Lee Grant). Damien's role is cast to Jonathan Scott-Taylor who plays it very well.
Again the plot is a race between the disciples of Satan who support Damien in every way possible and the truth which his parents need to understand; helped by a number of priests and archeologists who discovered a 2500 yrs old mural with the face of Damien clearly represented as the antichrist. Again a great thriller with a steady suspense build up until the end. This movie is as solid as the original and will leave you with some memorable scenes such as the death of a senior staff member of the Thorn industries during a hockey match on a frozen river and the man having gone under the ice is seen as he is carried by the current. Another memorable scene is when Damien kills his beloved cousin in the woods and though that truly discovers his true nature. Another excellent scene is when the father sees the mural in the train and the art director gets crushed by accidentally between two train cars. Again a true horror classic, well performed and with solid actors.
La malédiction II. Un autre film qui nous a bien hante dans notre jeunesse. L'original a été si bien recu que rapidement le film est devenu une franchise de 4 films. Dans le second le directeur Don Taylor nous fait retrouver Damien a l'âge de 12 ans ou li découvre sa vraie nature. Le film est encore un suspense qui augmente jusqu'à la fin. La trame sonore du 1er est réutilisée, mais a toujours le même impact. Plusieurs scènes mémorables figurent dans ce film: telle la scène ou on homme se noie sous la glace d'une rivière pendant une joute de hockey. Une autre scène nous montre le père adoptif de Damien qui retrouve une murale tres ancienne dans un train qui montre Damien comme étant l'antéchrist et ou un homme périt écrase entre les rames de trains. Et plus... Un autre classique qui aide a perpétué cette série.
Great quotes:
[Damien has just seen the Mark of the Beast on his scalp, indicating he is the Antichrist. He runs out of the Academy building] Damien Thorn: [shouting] Why? Why me?
...
Damien Thorn: I love you, Mark. You're like my brother.
Mark Thorn: No! No!
Damien Thorn: You are my brother. And you mean more to me than...
Mark Thorn: No! The Beast has no brother! Don't call me your brother!
...
Dr. Charles Warren: Richard, I have to ask you something very personal.
Richard Thorn: We're friends.
Dr. Charles Warren: Can you tell what actually happened to your brother in London?
Richard Thorn: Why do you ask that?
Dr. Charles Warren: I've just opened a letter box that was sent from Israel. It belonged to Bugenhagen, they found it near his skeleton.
Richard Thorn: So?
Dr. Charles Warren: Did you know it was Bugenhagen who gave your brother the daggers to kill Damien?
Richard Thorn: What the hell are you talking about?
...
Richard Thorn: Ann, give me the daggers!
Ann Thorn: [stabs him with the daggers] There are your daggers!
Richard Thorn: Ann?
Ann Thorn: I've always belonged to him! [Richard falls dead as Ann lets out a primal scream]
Ann Thorn: Damien!
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077394/maindetails
Rating perso: 7.5/10
Annee/Year: 1978
Format: DVD
Damien: Omen II. The Omen was very successfull and quickly spawned a whole franchise. The second movie was also a success and is in no way weaker than the original. Director Don Taylor (Final countdown, Escape from the planet of the apes...) was brought in this time to share with us the second phase of the story where we find Damien the antichrist at age 12 now and living with his uncle Richard Thorn a rich industrialist (played by William Holden) and his wife (played by Lee Grant). Damien's role is cast to Jonathan Scott-Taylor who plays it very well.
Again the plot is a race between the disciples of Satan who support Damien in every way possible and the truth which his parents need to understand; helped by a number of priests and archeologists who discovered a 2500 yrs old mural with the face of Damien clearly represented as the antichrist. Again a great thriller with a steady suspense build up until the end. This movie is as solid as the original and will leave you with some memorable scenes such as the death of a senior staff member of the Thorn industries during a hockey match on a frozen river and the man having gone under the ice is seen as he is carried by the current. Another memorable scene is when Damien kills his beloved cousin in the woods and though that truly discovers his true nature. Another excellent scene is when the father sees the mural in the train and the art director gets crushed by accidentally between two train cars. Again a true horror classic, well performed and with solid actors.
La malédiction II. Un autre film qui nous a bien hante dans notre jeunesse. L'original a été si bien recu que rapidement le film est devenu une franchise de 4 films. Dans le second le directeur Don Taylor nous fait retrouver Damien a l'âge de 12 ans ou li découvre sa vraie nature. Le film est encore un suspense qui augmente jusqu'à la fin. La trame sonore du 1er est réutilisée, mais a toujours le même impact. Plusieurs scènes mémorables figurent dans ce film: telle la scène ou on homme se noie sous la glace d'une rivière pendant une joute de hockey. Une autre scène nous montre le père adoptif de Damien qui retrouve une murale tres ancienne dans un train qui montre Damien comme étant l'antéchrist et ou un homme périt écrase entre les rames de trains. Et plus... Un autre classique qui aide a perpétué cette série.
Great quotes:
[Damien has just seen the Mark of the Beast on his scalp, indicating he is the Antichrist. He runs out of the Academy building] Damien Thorn: [shouting] Why? Why me?
...
Damien Thorn: I love you, Mark. You're like my brother.
Mark Thorn: No! No!
Damien Thorn: You are my brother. And you mean more to me than...
Mark Thorn: No! The Beast has no brother! Don't call me your brother!
...
Dr. Charles Warren: Richard, I have to ask you something very personal.
Richard Thorn: We're friends.
Dr. Charles Warren: Can you tell what actually happened to your brother in London?
Richard Thorn: Why do you ask that?
Dr. Charles Warren: I've just opened a letter box that was sent from Israel. It belonged to Bugenhagen, they found it near his skeleton.
Richard Thorn: So?
Dr. Charles Warren: Did you know it was Bugenhagen who gave your brother the daggers to kill Damien?
Richard Thorn: What the hell are you talking about?
...
Richard Thorn: Ann, give me the daggers!
Ann Thorn: [stabs him with the daggers] There are your daggers!
Richard Thorn: Ann?
Ann Thorn: I've always belonged to him! [Richard falls dead as Ann lets out a primal scream]
Ann Thorn: Damien!
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077394/maindetails
Rating perso: 7.5/10
vendredi 18 février 2011
#164: Buffy the vampire slayer Season 8 , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2011
Format: Blu ray
Buffy the vampire slayer Season 8. Many can say that they waited a long time to see such a thing. Most of Joss Whedon fans out there who revered Buffy the vampire slayer series for 7 years then Angle for another 5 years; wished the ride would never stop. But like any good things there must be an end. Joss's mind, on the other hand , never does stop. So he committed this story to as a 40 issues comic series under the Dark horse publishing house.
Well no one could leave well enough alone so they setout to create a video motion comic version of season 8 based on 19 episodes. The results are mixed with really good episodes and some not so interesting. Many people did not enjoy the motion comic version so they are many that wont go that far to sooth their need for Buffy. For those who like it they seem quite happy of the result.
The series explores new avenues in the Buffy universe such as Faith (Buffy's sister) being turned into a giant and a centaur... Buffy surprises many by exploring her lesbyan side... and there are some really kick ass moments such as the episodes with Dracula's return with the japanes vampires. Really cool for the big time fans. If you have not seen the 7 previous years dont bother with this one there are too many historical references and the pace is very,very, rapid making it hard to follow for those having difficulties with english. Lots of fun for the fans though. Go Buffy!
Buffy the vampire slayer Season 8. Après des années d'attente Joss Whedon nous ramène Buffy dans une 8e saison. Cette fois cependant la série est de 19 épisodes basés sur une bande dessinée de 4o épisodes de Dark Horse. La série est donc une adaptation BD de Buffy avec les voix de personnes nouvelles. Le rythme est si rapide que c'est tres difficile à suivre (anglais seulement).
Le résultat est partagé et plusieurs ne pourront s'ajuster à ce nouveau média. Pour les autres vous pourrez suivre Buffy et son arme de tueuses aux prises avec des monstres aussi sombre que dans le passé. On y retrouve Xander, Willow et Faith qui est devenue géante (littéralement) et ensuite devient centaure... Buffy elle explore son homosexualité ce qui nous surprend un peu. Par contre elle vivra des aventures toujours aussi captivantes; surtout celle où Dracula est de retour et fait face à une armée de vampires japonais, pendant que Faith joue à Godzilla dans Tokyo. Cool. Nous sommes prêts pour saison 9 maintenant.
Great quotes:
Link:
Rating perso: 7.0/10
Annee/Year: 2011
Format: Blu ray
Buffy the vampire slayer Season 8. Many can say that they waited a long time to see such a thing. Most of Joss Whedon fans out there who revered Buffy the vampire slayer series for 7 years then Angle for another 5 years; wished the ride would never stop. But like any good things there must be an end. Joss's mind, on the other hand , never does stop. So he committed this story to as a 40 issues comic series under the Dark horse publishing house.
Well no one could leave well enough alone so they setout to create a video motion comic version of season 8 based on 19 episodes. The results are mixed with really good episodes and some not so interesting. Many people did not enjoy the motion comic version so they are many that wont go that far to sooth their need for Buffy. For those who like it they seem quite happy of the result.
The series explores new avenues in the Buffy universe such as Faith (Buffy's sister) being turned into a giant and a centaur... Buffy surprises many by exploring her lesbyan side... and there are some really kick ass moments such as the episodes with Dracula's return with the japanes vampires. Really cool for the big time fans. If you have not seen the 7 previous years dont bother with this one there are too many historical references and the pace is very,very, rapid making it hard to follow for those having difficulties with english. Lots of fun for the fans though. Go Buffy!
Buffy the vampire slayer Season 8. Après des années d'attente Joss Whedon nous ramène Buffy dans une 8e saison. Cette fois cependant la série est de 19 épisodes basés sur une bande dessinée de 4o épisodes de Dark Horse. La série est donc une adaptation BD de Buffy avec les voix de personnes nouvelles. Le rythme est si rapide que c'est tres difficile à suivre (anglais seulement).
Le résultat est partagé et plusieurs ne pourront s'ajuster à ce nouveau média. Pour les autres vous pourrez suivre Buffy et son arme de tueuses aux prises avec des monstres aussi sombre que dans le passé. On y retrouve Xander, Willow et Faith qui est devenue géante (littéralement) et ensuite devient centaure... Buffy elle explore son homosexualité ce qui nous surprend un peu. Par contre elle vivra des aventures toujours aussi captivantes; surtout celle où Dracula est de retour et fait face à une armée de vampires japonais, pendant que Faith joue à Godzilla dans Tokyo. Cool. Nous sommes prêts pour saison 9 maintenant.
Great quotes:
Link:
Rating perso: 7.0/10
samedi 12 février 2011
#165: The Omen , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 1976 original and 2006 remake
Format: DVD
The Omen. One of the truly scary movie from my adolescence. Director Richard Donner (Goonies, Lethal weapons, Superman, and lots of TV series) brought us this high suspense horror movie which is memorable. Donner paired up with Jerry Goldsmith who created one of his best scores ever for this film. If there is a strong contribution from all movies from their score this is one where it made a hell of a difference.
The Omen relates the story of an ambassador who finds out that his son fulfills the christian prophecy and should become the anti-christ. The movie is about the difficulties the couple (played by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick) in dealing and accepting the true nature of their son (played by a young Harvey Stephens).
A series of sordid deaths around the couple lead the father to attempt to stop the prophecy by stabbing his young one with 7 daggers of Meggido. After 35 years the movie has aged a bit but a remake done in 2006 does not actually add anything to the original. A well crafted movie which builds a tremendous suspense throughout. Some scenes are truly memorable and will stay with you forever: such as the priest which dies from the point of a church struck by lightning and spearing him to deaf; or from the scene where a 3yrs old Damien bumbs into his mother on his big wheel making her fall from a second story balcony and thus making her loose her second baby. A horror true classic.
Rating perso: 8.0/10 for the original and 7.0 for the remake
Annee/Year: 1976 original and 2006 remake
Format: DVD
The Omen. One of the truly scary movie from my adolescence. Director Richard Donner (Goonies, Lethal weapons, Superman, and lots of TV series) brought us this high suspense horror movie which is memorable. Donner paired up with Jerry Goldsmith who created one of his best scores ever for this film. If there is a strong contribution from all movies from their score this is one where it made a hell of a difference.
The Omen relates the story of an ambassador who finds out that his son fulfills the christian prophecy and should become the anti-christ. The movie is about the difficulties the couple (played by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick) in dealing and accepting the true nature of their son (played by a young Harvey Stephens).
A series of sordid deaths around the couple lead the father to attempt to stop the prophecy by stabbing his young one with 7 daggers of Meggido. After 35 years the movie has aged a bit but a remake done in 2006 does not actually add anything to the original. A well crafted movie which builds a tremendous suspense throughout. Some scenes are truly memorable and will stay with you forever: such as the priest which dies from the point of a church struck by lightning and spearing him to deaf; or from the scene where a 3yrs old Damien bumbs into his mother on his big wheel making her fall from a second story balcony and thus making her loose her second baby. A horror true classic.
La malédiction. Un film qui nous a bien hante dans notre jeunesse. Il demeure encore frais et toujours aussi intéressant après 35ans. Le remake fait en 2006 n'ajoute rien au film et n'a pas de place. Le directeur Richard Donner (Goonies, Lethal weapons, Superman, et plusieurs séries télévisées) a utilisé les services de Jerry Goldsmith qui a créé ici une de ses meilleures bandes sonores. Le film nous est présent en un suspense énorme qui augmente jusqu'à la fin. Le film nous montre l'histoire d'un riche président de compagnie dont le fils naissant meurt et est remplacé par un autre enfant. Cet enfant malheureusement est ne d'une mère chacal et n'est rien de moins que l'antéchrist. Après plusieurs morts sordides autour du bambin le père commence à croire aux prophéties annoncées par la bible et décide d'éliminer son fils avec les 7 dagues de Meggido. Un grand classique de l'horreur souvent oublie.
Great quotes:[first title card] Title card: Rome / June 6th - 6 AM
...
last title card] Title card: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666." Book of Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 18
...
Robert Thorn: What do you know about my son?
Father Brennan: Everything.
Robert Thorn: And what is that?
Father Brennan: I saw its mother.
Robert Thorn: You saw my wife.
Father Brennan: I saw its mother.
Robert Thorn: You are referring to my wife!
Father Brennan: Its *mother*, Mr. Thorn!
Robert Thorn: If this is blackmail, come and say it! What is it your're trying to say?
Father Brennan: Its mother was a Jack... [Father Brennan is interrupted as the door behind him bursts open violently]
Marine: Everything all right, sir?
American secretary: You sounded strange. The door was locked.
...
Young nanny: Look at me, Damien! It's all for you. [she jumbs off a roof, hanging herself]
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075005/maindetailsRating perso: 8.0/10 for the original and 7.0 for the remake
#163: Knight and Day , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Action Comedy/Comedie action
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Knight and Day. Director James Mangold (3:10 Yuma, Walk this line , Girl Interrupted and more) brings us a action comedy with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz as main actors. Recipe for success? Most likely. Cruise plays here the role of a major secret agent who falls for a simple ordinary girl while in the middle of a complez affair where his own bureau believes he has crossed over to the dark side; when in fact he is being set up by one of his more evil colleagues. The couple finds themselves in the middle of grotesque action scenes which definitely keep you entertained. The movie is funny and entertaining certainly but the action is so over the top that one finds suspending disbelief becomes very hard and some scenes become plain silly. Well still a couple of great actors in a hot comedy; enough to keep you entertained during a cold winter evening.
Knight and Day. Une comédie d'action du directeur James Mangold (3:10 Yuma, Walk this line , Girl Interrupted et plus). Ce film met en vedette Tom Cruise et Cameron Diaz un succès assure. Tom incarne ici un agent secret au milieu d'une mission dangereuse où son entourage le pense compromis et où il est en fait pris dans une mise en scène montée par un de ses collègues mal veillant. Au milieu du périple, celui-ci tombe pour une jolie femme qu'il rencontre par hasard et tout le film déboule de là. Certainement drôle et captivant ce film contient beaucoup de scènes d'actions
qui vous tiendront en haleine; mais a un moment donne celle-ci deviennent tellement pousse que cela en est comique. Sans doute est-ce le but; mais le résultat est plutôt amer. Donc drôle et intéressant, mais pas un grand film.
Great quotes:
Milner: [about June's flight bump] Sometimes things happen for a reason.
...
Milner: [from trailer] On the count of 3. Ready? 1... [June runs around madly while she is shot at wildly]
June Havens: Sorry! I panicked!
Milner: What number would you like?
June Havens: Three. Yeah, let's just stick with three. It's good.
Milner: Okay...
...
Milner: [from trailer] Some people are gonna come looking for you now.
June Havens: Why?
Milner: They'll tell you I'm mentally unstable and violent and dangerous and it will all sound very convincing.
June Havens: I'm already convinced.
...
Milner: I've been trained to dismantle a bomb in the pitch black with nothing but a safety pin and a Junior Mint, I think I can get you in and out of some clothes without... looking. I'm not saying that's what I did.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013743/maindetails
Rating perso: 6.5/10
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Knight and Day. Director James Mangold (3:10 Yuma, Walk this line , Girl Interrupted and more) brings us a action comedy with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz as main actors. Recipe for success? Most likely. Cruise plays here the role of a major secret agent who falls for a simple ordinary girl while in the middle of a complez affair where his own bureau believes he has crossed over to the dark side; when in fact he is being set up by one of his more evil colleagues. The couple finds themselves in the middle of grotesque action scenes which definitely keep you entertained. The movie is funny and entertaining certainly but the action is so over the top that one finds suspending disbelief becomes very hard and some scenes become plain silly. Well still a couple of great actors in a hot comedy; enough to keep you entertained during a cold winter evening.
Knight and Day. Une comédie d'action du directeur James Mangold (3:10 Yuma, Walk this line , Girl Interrupted et plus). Ce film met en vedette Tom Cruise et Cameron Diaz un succès assure. Tom incarne ici un agent secret au milieu d'une mission dangereuse où son entourage le pense compromis et où il est en fait pris dans une mise en scène montée par un de ses collègues mal veillant. Au milieu du périple, celui-ci tombe pour une jolie femme qu'il rencontre par hasard et tout le film déboule de là. Certainement drôle et captivant ce film contient beaucoup de scènes d'actions
qui vous tiendront en haleine; mais a un moment donne celle-ci deviennent tellement pousse que cela en est comique. Sans doute est-ce le but; mais le résultat est plutôt amer. Donc drôle et intéressant, mais pas un grand film.
Great quotes:
Milner: [about June's flight bump] Sometimes things happen for a reason.
...
Milner: [from trailer] On the count of 3. Ready? 1... [June runs around madly while she is shot at wildly]
June Havens: Sorry! I panicked!
Milner: What number would you like?
June Havens: Three. Yeah, let's just stick with three. It's good.
Milner: Okay...
...
Milner: [from trailer] Some people are gonna come looking for you now.
June Havens: Why?
Milner: They'll tell you I'm mentally unstable and violent and dangerous and it will all sound very convincing.
June Havens: I'm already convinced.
...
Milner: I've been trained to dismantle a bomb in the pitch black with nothing but a safety pin and a Junior Mint, I think I can get you in and out of some clothes without... looking. I'm not saying that's what I did.
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013743/maindetails
Rating perso: 6.5/10
mardi 8 février 2011
#162: The Strangers , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2008
Format: Blu Ray
The strangers. A first movie for director Bryan Bertino. This is a psychological thriller heavily based on tension more than any actual violence. But the movie plays heavily on your inner paranoia. The story is of a couple which are not sure of themselves and spending a night in the isolated family summer home. Their they are taken hostage by a deranged couple and their daughter; which are all wearing masks and aim at torturing them. The couple is incapable of defending themselves and the movie is a tension builder from the get go till the final scene. An interesting film but not memorable nor particularly marking. The husband role is played by Scott Speedman and the women by Liv Tyler (wow). If you like thrillers this may keep you entertained.
The strangers. Dans le premier film du directeur Bryan Bertino on retrouve un jeune couple incertain joue par Scott Speedman et Liv Tyler (ouh la la). Ceux -ci passent une nuit mémorable dans le chalet familial tres isole. La, ils sont attaques par une couple morbide et leur fille adolescente. Ceux-ci portent des maques et n'ont pour but que de terroriser et tuer notre jeune couple. Les victimes sont incapables de se défendre; en seriez-vous capable? Un thriller psychologique qui saura vous garder en haleine jusqu'à la fin. Ça vaut le coup? Oui si vous aimez le genre ou si vous avez un faible pour Liv...
Great quotes:
Dollface: [standing at front door] Hi.
James Hoyt: Hello. [James tries to turn on the front light but it won't work]
Dollface: Is Tamara here?
James Hoyt: No, you got the wrong house.
Dollface: You sure?
James Hoyt: Yeah. I'm sorry.
Dollface: [after a long pause] See you later.
...
Kristen: Why are you doing this to us?
Dollface: Because you were home.
...
Dollface: [referring to Christian Living pamphlet] Can I have one?
Mormon Boy #1: Are you a sinner?
Dollface: [after long pause] Sometimes.
...
[last lines] Pin-Up Girl: [to Dollface] It'll be easier next time.
Link: http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/the-strangers/
Rating perso: 5.5/10
Annee/Year: 2008
Format: Blu Ray
The strangers. A first movie for director Bryan Bertino. This is a psychological thriller heavily based on tension more than any actual violence. But the movie plays heavily on your inner paranoia. The story is of a couple which are not sure of themselves and spending a night in the isolated family summer home. Their they are taken hostage by a deranged couple and their daughter; which are all wearing masks and aim at torturing them. The couple is incapable of defending themselves and the movie is a tension builder from the get go till the final scene. An interesting film but not memorable nor particularly marking. The husband role is played by Scott Speedman and the women by Liv Tyler (wow). If you like thrillers this may keep you entertained.
The strangers. Dans le premier film du directeur Bryan Bertino on retrouve un jeune couple incertain joue par Scott Speedman et Liv Tyler (ouh la la). Ceux -ci passent une nuit mémorable dans le chalet familial tres isole. La, ils sont attaques par une couple morbide et leur fille adolescente. Ceux-ci portent des maques et n'ont pour but que de terroriser et tuer notre jeune couple. Les victimes sont incapables de se défendre; en seriez-vous capable? Un thriller psychologique qui saura vous garder en haleine jusqu'à la fin. Ça vaut le coup? Oui si vous aimez le genre ou si vous avez un faible pour Liv...
Great quotes:
Dollface: [standing at front door] Hi.
James Hoyt: Hello. [James tries to turn on the front light but it won't work]
Dollface: Is Tamara here?
James Hoyt: No, you got the wrong house.
Dollface: You sure?
James Hoyt: Yeah. I'm sorry.
Dollface: [after a long pause] See you later.
...
Kristen: Why are you doing this to us?
Dollface: Because you were home.
...
Dollface: [referring to Christian Living pamphlet] Can I have one?
Mormon Boy #1: Are you a sinner?
Dollface: [after long pause] Sometimes.
...
[last lines] Pin-Up Girl: [to Dollface] It'll be easier next time.
Link: http://www.universalstudiosentertainment.com/the-strangers/
Rating perso: 5.5/10
lundi 7 février 2011
#161: Shrek forever after , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Comedy/Comedie
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Shrek forever after. The fourth installment in this franchise is brought to use by director Mike Mitchell and is his first one. Shrek always funny and really always bringing a lot of bang for the buck. The same actors play the voices of the main characters: Mike Myers, Eddy Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese and more. Who could ask for more. The scripts have always been solid and entertaining. In this animated feature, we find Shrek bored with his "normal" family life and missing the good old days of being an ogre. He comes across a certain Rumplestiltskin (if you remember the brothers Grimm) who makes his sign a contract where he lives the Ogre life again for a day. This is oviously a trick which makes Shrek disappear from the story books. Unless he can find a solution in 24 hrs.
This is reminding us a lot of the movie A wonderful life which i truly love. But the script does not suit Shrek so much. Feels a lot like the Shrek franchise is running out of steam unfortunately.
Shrek forever after. Ce quatrième épisode de la tres célèbre et réussie franchise Shrek nous est apporte par le directeur Mike Mitchell et constitue son premier essai. Toujours hilarant et très bien ficelé, Shrek nous apporte les voix de plusieurs acteurs reconnus: Mike Myers, Eddy Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews, John Cleese et plus. Comment ne pourrions-nous pas être satisfaits?
Et bien c'est possible. Ce quatrième épisode nous fait vivre un Shrek en manque de la vie d'ogre d'entant. Il fait un pacte avec Rumpletiltskin (de la fable) et se fait disparaître des livres pour toujours. Il a cependant 24heures pour corriger cela. Cette aventure a des échos du film It's a wonderful life mais ça ne réussit pas aussi bien a Shrek. Ce script semble forcé et le film n'est pas aussi convaincant. Vos enfants vont adorer, mais vous aller, vous demander si Shrek la franchise commence, à s'essouffler.
Great quotes:
Shrek: Fiona, I know everything about you, I know you sing so beautifully that birds explode. I know that when you sign your name, you put a heart over the i. I know that when you see a shooting star you cross your fingers on both hands, squinch up your nose, and you make a wish, I know that you don't like the covers wrapped around your feet, and I know that you sleep by candlelight because every time you close your eyes, you're afraid you're going to wake up back in that tower, But most importantly Fiona, I know that the reason that you turn human every day is because you've never been kissed, well, by me.
...
[last lines] Shrek: You know, I always thought I'd rescued you from the Dragon's Keep.
Princess Fiona: You did.
Shrek: No. It was you who rescued me.
...
Shrek: There's a stack of freshly made waffles in the middle of the forest! Don't you find that a wee bit suspicious?
Link: http://www.shrek.com/
Rating perso: 7.5/10
dimanche 6 février 2011
#160: Filiere 13 , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Comedy/Comedie
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Filière 13. Le deuxième film de Patrick Huard (pare les Trois petits cochons) en tant que directeur au grand écran. Ce film a semble pour plusieurs comme un film qui a manqué le tir surtout parce que les gens l'on compare a Bon Cop, Bad cop qui mettait en vedette notre directeur ici. Malgré tout ce film gagne grandement à être connu. Ici on trouve encore in film base sur trois caractères principaux qui sont deux agents de police et leur supérieur. Les trois caractères sont dans la douleur: un pour ses migraines constantes qui le tue (Claude Legault), un pour sa phobie du public bien qu'il soit liaison publique de la police (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge) et le troisième fait une dépression suite au départ de sa femme (Paul Doucet). Les deux policiers après quelques gaffes majeures se retrouvent sur une filature ou ils apprendront a devenir amis. Ils remarqueront les activités douteuses d'un haut place dans leur secteur qui les mèneras a une enquête non officielle qui leur rendras leur confiance a eux même. Un script bien ficelé, une distribution du tonnerre (ces acteurs sont parmi mes préférés aux Québec) et une réalisation solide en font un tres bon film. Définitivement un film mal aime et qui gagne a être vu. À noter la présence de Andre Sauvé comme psychiatre qui est hilarant.
Filiere 13. One of the big Quebec film of last year which was to be a huge box office hit but came up short. The expectations of Patrice Huard as director led most people to believe this was the same BIG comedy as Bon Cop, Bad cop. Well it is not so. This film is a much darker type of comedy but in my book more worthwhile even if not bringing BIG laughs. Casting Claude Legault, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge who are two of Quebec's hottest actors right now; this is not bad at all. The story relatest the tough period two cops and their boss go through. Depression, divorce, phobias and permanent headaches are killing these guys which have lost their confidence. A case they stumble upon will help them rebuild their self-confidence. A very solid film which should be seen by all.
Great quotes:
Link: http://www.filiere13.ca/
Rating perso: 7.0/10
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
Filière 13. Le deuxième film de Patrick Huard (pare les Trois petits cochons) en tant que directeur au grand écran. Ce film a semble pour plusieurs comme un film qui a manqué le tir surtout parce que les gens l'on compare a Bon Cop, Bad cop qui mettait en vedette notre directeur ici. Malgré tout ce film gagne grandement à être connu. Ici on trouve encore in film base sur trois caractères principaux qui sont deux agents de police et leur supérieur. Les trois caractères sont dans la douleur: un pour ses migraines constantes qui le tue (Claude Legault), un pour sa phobie du public bien qu'il soit liaison publique de la police (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge) et le troisième fait une dépression suite au départ de sa femme (Paul Doucet). Les deux policiers après quelques gaffes majeures se retrouvent sur une filature ou ils apprendront a devenir amis. Ils remarqueront les activités douteuses d'un haut place dans leur secteur qui les mèneras a une enquête non officielle qui leur rendras leur confiance a eux même. Un script bien ficelé, une distribution du tonnerre (ces acteurs sont parmi mes préférés aux Québec) et une réalisation solide en font un tres bon film. Définitivement un film mal aime et qui gagne a être vu. À noter la présence de Andre Sauvé comme psychiatre qui est hilarant.
Filiere 13. One of the big Quebec film of last year which was to be a huge box office hit but came up short. The expectations of Patrice Huard as director led most people to believe this was the same BIG comedy as Bon Cop, Bad cop. Well it is not so. This film is a much darker type of comedy but in my book more worthwhile even if not bringing BIG laughs. Casting Claude Legault, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge who are two of Quebec's hottest actors right now; this is not bad at all. The story relatest the tough period two cops and their boss go through. Depression, divorce, phobias and permanent headaches are killing these guys which have lost their confidence. A case they stumble upon will help them rebuild their self-confidence. A very solid film which should be seen by all.
Great quotes:
Link: http://www.filiere13.ca/
Rating perso: 7.0/10
#159: The Karate Kid , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Comedy/Comedie
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
The Karate Kid. Another remake of a sure hit movie; agian with mixed results. The moviewas directed by Harald Zwart (Pink Panther 2, Agent cody banks) not a very experienced director.
His casting was very solid with Jaden Smith, son of Will Smith, in his third movie (The pursuit of hapiness, The day the earth stood still) at least a solid genetic pedigree (...) playing the lead role. The second role was cast by Jackie Chan with a refreshing performance in his case. The story follows the same premise as the first one but is set in China (Beijing to be more precise) which actually adds to the movie. The ingredients are all there so do we have a success? Well not exactly, the ghost of the original movie haunts us through this movie with both actors trying to outdo the original's but without success. The movie always seems like it is a step behind the original on all fronts. Small elements of the story dont work quite as well all the way through. In conclusion a movie to see with your children, yes, but the original cannot be replaced at this point. A for effort but B for result.
The Karate Kid. Unh autre remake qui passe près, mais manque la marque. L'original était difficilement surpassable alors la marche était haute. Le directeur Harald Zwart (Pink Panther 2, Agent cody banks) a peu d'expérience et sans doute manque t'il quelques détails dans son travail. Mais le génie est dans les détails... Il fit une distribution monstre avec Jaden Smith, fils de Will Smith, dans son troisieme film (The pursuit of hapiness, The day the earth stood still) qui joue solidement dans le role pricipal. Jackie Chan est dans le rôle secondaire du prof et il joue ici un rôle plus plat que normalement ce qui est une bonne chose et actuellement rafraîchissant de le voir jouer ainsi. Le film est tourné à Beijing, Chine ce qui nous donne un intérêt supplémentaire au film. Un film succès, une distribution excellent un bon budget un tournage en lieu original: on a tous les éléments pour un succès.....MAIS il manque la magie. Le film ne nous convainc pas comme l'original et plusieurs détails le rendent moins crédible. A pour effort, mais B comme résultat. Quand même un bon film à voir avec vos enfants; mais ils retireront plus de l'original.
Great quotes:
Sherry Parker: Dre, what happened?
Dre Parker: We moved to China! That's what happened!
...
Dre Parker: I thought you were just a maintenance man.
Mr. Han: You think only with your eyes, so you are easy to fool.
...
Dre Parker: You don't know the rules?
Mr. Han: Of course I know the rules. Simple. You hit him, don't let him hit you.
...
Mr. Han: You've already accomplished everything you wanted to. Why do you still want to fight?
Dre Parker: Because win or lose, I don't want to be afraid any more. And I'm still afraid.
...
Mr. Han: Best fights are the ones we avoid.
...
Link: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/thekaratekid/
Rating perso: 6.5/10
Annee/Year: 2010
Format: Blu Ray
The Karate Kid. Another remake of a sure hit movie; agian with mixed results. The moviewas directed by Harald Zwart (Pink Panther 2, Agent cody banks) not a very experienced director.
His casting was very solid with Jaden Smith, son of Will Smith, in his third movie (The pursuit of hapiness, The day the earth stood still) at least a solid genetic pedigree (...) playing the lead role. The second role was cast by Jackie Chan with a refreshing performance in his case. The story follows the same premise as the first one but is set in China (Beijing to be more precise) which actually adds to the movie. The ingredients are all there so do we have a success? Well not exactly, the ghost of the original movie haunts us through this movie with both actors trying to outdo the original's but without success. The movie always seems like it is a step behind the original on all fronts. Small elements of the story dont work quite as well all the way through. In conclusion a movie to see with your children, yes, but the original cannot be replaced at this point. A for effort but B for result.
The Karate Kid. Unh autre remake qui passe près, mais manque la marque. L'original était difficilement surpassable alors la marche était haute. Le directeur Harald Zwart (Pink Panther 2, Agent cody banks) a peu d'expérience et sans doute manque t'il quelques détails dans son travail. Mais le génie est dans les détails... Il fit une distribution monstre avec Jaden Smith, fils de Will Smith, dans son troisieme film (The pursuit of hapiness, The day the earth stood still) qui joue solidement dans le role pricipal. Jackie Chan est dans le rôle secondaire du prof et il joue ici un rôle plus plat que normalement ce qui est une bonne chose et actuellement rafraîchissant de le voir jouer ainsi. Le film est tourné à Beijing, Chine ce qui nous donne un intérêt supplémentaire au film. Un film succès, une distribution excellent un bon budget un tournage en lieu original: on a tous les éléments pour un succès.....MAIS il manque la magie. Le film ne nous convainc pas comme l'original et plusieurs détails le rendent moins crédible. A pour effort, mais B comme résultat. Quand même un bon film à voir avec vos enfants; mais ils retireront plus de l'original.
Great quotes:
Sherry Parker: Dre, what happened?
Dre Parker: We moved to China! That's what happened!
...
Dre Parker: I thought you were just a maintenance man.
Mr. Han: You think only with your eyes, so you are easy to fool.
...
Dre Parker: You don't know the rules?
Mr. Han: Of course I know the rules. Simple. You hit him, don't let him hit you.
...
Mr. Han: You've already accomplished everything you wanted to. Why do you still want to fight?
Dre Parker: Because win or lose, I don't want to be afraid any more. And I'm still afraid.
...
Mr. Han: Best fights are the ones we avoid.
...
Link: http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/thekaratekid/
Rating perso: 6.5/10
mardi 1 février 2011
#158: Friday the 13th (remake) , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir
Genre: Horror/Horreur
Annee/Year: 2009
Format: DVD
Friday the 13th. The old one? nooooo the remake. ...ah. so?
Well lots of folks will have major reservations with this movie as for all remakes. But i may differ from many here, this is better than the original. Ok i said it now.
The original film (see review #6) was given a poor 5/10. This although it generated a slew of imitations in the decades which followed. Well the original kinda sucked. Why make a remake then? Well maybe they could not do much worst with 30 years of slasher experience under the belt. And right that is. Director Marcus Nispel started his career with many video productions for music then he turned his attention to feature length films: first another remake with Texas Chainsaw massacre and second with Pathfinder which i liked. For his second remake Marcus cast some solid actors: Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) and Danielle Palabar (the Crazies remake). But as usual in these movies the star is Jason the serial killer played by Derek Mears (Predators,...). You never see his face but this actors body language is amazing. A very solid Jason performance. The rhythm of the movie is excellent and scares are well presented. The scene of the campfire attack and the scene of the attack on the cottage are very well built. A solid movie retelling the tale in a way that it does not feel so much like a remake but more of a 30yrs later retelling. For this genr a solid film but you have to like slashers.
Friday the 13th le remake... quoi encore un remake...pourquoi? Bonne question. Faire des $$, oui; mais aussi une manière sure de s'assurer du succès grâce à une franchise plus que bien établie. Est -ce que ce film vaut le coup. Eh bien oui. Le film original critique l'an dernier (voir revue #6) lui donne 5/10. Tres pauvre considérant que ce film a lancé un genre au complet.
Le remake du directeur Marcus Nispel (aussi remake du Texas chainsaw massacre et Pathfinder) s'assure encore plus de résultats en ayant une distribution solide: Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) et Danielle Palabar (the Crazies remake)ainsi que Derek Mears (Predators,...) dans le rôle de Jason qui est génial. Bien que le film soit un remake, il redémarre l'histoire Pluto 30ans plus tard et semble donc plus une continuation de l'original qu'un redémarrage a froid. Peu importe, le résultat est tres solide et l'histoire bien contente. Plusieurs scènes sont excellentes telles l'attaque du camp des tentes et la scène de l'attaque du chalet. Si vous êtes amateurs du genre slasher ce film vous plaira. Peut-être n'évolué t'il pas le genre, mais il est moins pas mal plus solide que l'original.
Great quotes:
Pamela Voorhees: Did you know a young boy drowned here? He was my son. And today, is his birthday.
...
Pamela Voorhees: Come here. Come here now.
Camp Counselor: No.
Pamela Voorhees: You're the last one. I've killed all the others. It'll be easier for you than it was for Jason.
Camp Counselor: Why are you doing this?
Pamela Voorhees: You need to be punished for what you did to him.
Camp Counselor: I didn't do anything.
Pamela Voorhees: You let him drown. Jason was my son.
Camp Counselor: I didn't do anything. No. No. No. Please.
Pamela Voorhees: You should have been watching him. Every minute. [Camp Counselor decapitates Pamela. Young Jason approaches the body, picks up a photo-locket]
Pamela Voorhees: Jason. My special, special boy. They must be punished, Jason. For what they did to you. For what they did to me.
Pamela Voorhees: [Young Jason picks up the machete, walks away] Kill for mother.
...
Lawrence: I got business I gotta do this weekend.
Chelsea: What business?
Lawrence: Music. I'm trying to start a label.
Chelsea: Oh, yeah? Like what kind? Like rap?
Lawrence: Why you gotta go racial? Look, don't put me in a box, all right? What, because I'm black I can't listen to Green Day?
Chelsea: You're right, that was dumb. So, what kind of music?
Lawrence: Rap.
...
Chewie: [grabs a hockey stick] Hey. Now, this is a real man's sport. You're even curved to the left, like my penis.
...
Whitney Miller: Jason. Say hi to Mommy...
[stabs Jason with machete]
Whitney Miller: ...in hell.
Link: http://www.fridaythe13thmovie.com/
Rating perso: 7.0/10
Annee/Year: 2009
Format: DVD
Friday the 13th. The old one? nooooo the remake. ...ah. so?
Well lots of folks will have major reservations with this movie as for all remakes. But i may differ from many here, this is better than the original. Ok i said it now.
The original film (see review #6) was given a poor 5/10. This although it generated a slew of imitations in the decades which followed. Well the original kinda sucked. Why make a remake then? Well maybe they could not do much worst with 30 years of slasher experience under the belt. And right that is. Director Marcus Nispel started his career with many video productions for music then he turned his attention to feature length films: first another remake with Texas Chainsaw massacre and second with Pathfinder which i liked. For his second remake Marcus cast some solid actors: Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) and Danielle Palabar (the Crazies remake). But as usual in these movies the star is Jason the serial killer played by Derek Mears (Predators,...). You never see his face but this actors body language is amazing. A very solid Jason performance. The rhythm of the movie is excellent and scares are well presented. The scene of the campfire attack and the scene of the attack on the cottage are very well built. A solid movie retelling the tale in a way that it does not feel so much like a remake but more of a 30yrs later retelling. For this genr a solid film but you have to like slashers.
Friday the 13th le remake... quoi encore un remake...pourquoi? Bonne question. Faire des $$, oui; mais aussi une manière sure de s'assurer du succès grâce à une franchise plus que bien établie. Est -ce que ce film vaut le coup. Eh bien oui. Le film original critique l'an dernier (voir revue #6) lui donne 5/10. Tres pauvre considérant que ce film a lancé un genre au complet.
Le remake du directeur Marcus Nispel (aussi remake du Texas chainsaw massacre et Pathfinder) s'assure encore plus de résultats en ayant une distribution solide: Jared Padalecki (Supernatural) et Danielle Palabar (the Crazies remake)ainsi que Derek Mears (Predators,...) dans le rôle de Jason qui est génial. Bien que le film soit un remake, il redémarre l'histoire Pluto 30ans plus tard et semble donc plus une continuation de l'original qu'un redémarrage a froid. Peu importe, le résultat est tres solide et l'histoire bien contente. Plusieurs scènes sont excellentes telles l'attaque du camp des tentes et la scène de l'attaque du chalet. Si vous êtes amateurs du genre slasher ce film vous plaira. Peut-être n'évolué t'il pas le genre, mais il est moins pas mal plus solide que l'original.
Great quotes:
Pamela Voorhees: Did you know a young boy drowned here? He was my son. And today, is his birthday.
...
Pamela Voorhees: Come here. Come here now.
Camp Counselor: No.
Pamela Voorhees: You're the last one. I've killed all the others. It'll be easier for you than it was for Jason.
Camp Counselor: Why are you doing this?
Pamela Voorhees: You need to be punished for what you did to him.
Camp Counselor: I didn't do anything.
Pamela Voorhees: You let him drown. Jason was my son.
Camp Counselor: I didn't do anything. No. No. No. Please.
Pamela Voorhees: You should have been watching him. Every minute. [Camp Counselor decapitates Pamela. Young Jason approaches the body, picks up a photo-locket]
Pamela Voorhees: Jason. My special, special boy. They must be punished, Jason. For what they did to you. For what they did to me.
Pamela Voorhees: [Young Jason picks up the machete, walks away] Kill for mother.
...
Lawrence: I got business I gotta do this weekend.
Chelsea: What business?
Lawrence: Music. I'm trying to start a label.
Chelsea: Oh, yeah? Like what kind? Like rap?
Lawrence: Why you gotta go racial? Look, don't put me in a box, all right? What, because I'm black I can't listen to Green Day?
Chelsea: You're right, that was dumb. So, what kind of music?
Lawrence: Rap.
...
Chewie: [grabs a hockey stick] Hey. Now, this is a real man's sport. You're even curved to the left, like my penis.
...
Whitney Miller: Jason. Say hi to Mommy...
[stabs Jason with machete]
Whitney Miller: ...in hell.
Link: http://www.fridaythe13thmovie.com/
Rating perso: 7.0/10
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