Friday, January 29, 2016
GRANDMA
http://dl.free.fr/getfile.pl?file=/xqYSYnYb
REVIEWED
Grandma is not a comedy just because Lily Tomlin is in the lead. Its a family story comprising of people who tend or trying to be funny. It has side stars appearing very briefly like John Choo and that guy from paper towns.
Its about the mission of getting her granddaughter for an abortion. It all happened in one day. The plot "thickens" as Grandma dont have enough money and she does not communicate with Sage(Gran daughter) mother. In this "journey" a few things happened along the way. The film is short at 1hr 18m. If it had been longer it would feel more draggy than it is.
Grandma's life is really complicated. First shes a lesbian who's partner passed away. But before that she was married but had an abortion. Her daughter is adopted. And the daughter went to the sperm bank and gave birth to her "granddaughter". So biologically, the granddaughter is not related to her.
This film strive on good acting LT got herself nominated recent awards. But I was impressed with Sam Elliot who eventhough appeared briefly gave a superb performance as the man who had married 4 times but can never get over that he married a lesbian for his 1st marriage.
The plot is not heavy and you'll get by it and perhaps understand that no matter what gender its all about Love.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
HYENA ROAD
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REVIEWED
This film is a Canadian film about Canadian soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. Hyena Road is a road the Canadian are trying to complete leading to the inner part of the country. In so doing, they face many challenges.
Non of the actors are known to me but they give quite a convincing acting. Canadian uniforms are similiar to US Marines. And if you just glance at them you think they are the other. But their firepower, from the movie, is not bad at all. One way to reaffirm that the war does not belong to the Yankees alone.
The film is good for a war movie. No doubt about it. The actions looks real and not over the top stuff types. The Afghans are not all branded as bad. They too are the victims of the Mujahidin. During the film, in the narration was about Alexander the Great and how he himself had enormous issues with Afghanistan. So did the Russian. That shows how difficult is Afghanistan.
This film has the suspense and the story line. You dont mind that you dont see familiar Hollywood faces in this one. My small complain is too much technical terms when they were communicating on the intercom. Techie like coordinates need not be spelt out. Of course that is critical for the people involved but for the audience, who give a damn. One aspect of the film you should respect is that when you dont know English you dont know the languange. Fullstop. No surprise of suddenly a talking Afghan talking English. Not even subtitles here. Dont worry you understand what they are saying as you have an abled translator at hand.
Like mentioned above. Its a good movie with natural action and "feel" of war. Watching this, unlike any Hollywood take of war movies, you dont feel that the Canadians are the heroes or nobody can beat the shit out of 'em stuff. Its a war where everybody loose.
REGRESSION
The title of the film is a term in Psychology. Knowing it will spoil you as you can pretty guess how the film going to end. This film is based on actual events. So what happened in the film could had happened.
Ethan Hawke being a policeman gave a good performance as the confused cop. Emma Watson actually played somebody younger than her age and was convincing as a out of town gal. I wish her screen time could be longer so that her character can be revealed more. Which can be more interesting. Instead it concentrated more on Bruce (EH's) more.
Cant figure out what the film going to be - a police or a horror movie ? In the end I was not satisfied of getting both. The film is not that bad but I hope it could have been better. Like some movies by the time the movie ends, I learned one or two things about Psychology. Bravo ! To me, the film did not have a proper closure just leaving us to end it ourselves.
About the set, the film supposed to happen in 1990. But why are the cars seen looks like the 70's ? Then dont tell me in the 90's nobody is using hand phones yet ?
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