Almost, but not quite there
Since I’m on a few minutes break, I decided to present you a couple of movie ideas that were great but not pushed to the level set by their potential.
They are back
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, they are back!! You wonder who ‘they’ are? Well, can’t blame you since I guess that in my outmost excitement not only have I forgot to write this article on time but also forgot to mention this particular detail. (more…)
Gattaca
The future is bright, or so it seems. The world is free of disease, people live longer and can work harder and with more success in pursuit of a dream. This sound like an ideal, perfect world where the problems of health can be left behind and everyone has a shot at happiness.
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Movies that inspire
Most influential movies
Since the inception of the motion picture, movies have become the preffered form of entertainment. The rather short history of movies has left us, just like in the case of the other arts, with a variety of criteria to appreciate them. We have emotional movies, beautiful films, films that display acting talent and skill, films depicting romance, tragedy, the beauty of fiction or ideals about life in general.
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The Dark Knight
That director Christopher Nolan is a genius, needs not be said. It should be obvious by following his small (but distinguished) trail of movies: Memento, The Prestige, Batman Begins … and now The Dark Knight. Each of these movies has been done not only under his direction but also his screenplay and storyline. To add to this, each of the movie is disturbing on a deep level (”Memento” - the man without short-term memory plays the detective to avenge his wife using his body to store clues … “The Prestige” - two magicians cross out from the realm of illusion when they sacrifice everything for their competition … “Batman Begins” - focuses on the inner fear and turmoil of one of the best known superheroes). (more…)
Amen.
There’s no easy way to talk about a movie like “Amen” for the simple reason that there’s no way to be impartial. The general feeling of the brainwashed public about the events of the second World War is that of unequivocal sympathy towards the Jewish and Gypsy population exterminated by the nazis and of general hatred toward everything labelled as nazi. (more…)
On the gothic movie
As I mentioned in the previous post, the gothic style has spread into most (if not all) arts. Architecture, literature, music … they’ve taken benefit from artists inspired by the dark side of life. The expansion has been so great that now the gothic style is considered to be a sub culture in its own right.
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The Last Unicorn (1982) (draft)
Arguably one of the best fantasy movies of all times, the movie inspired by Peter S Beagle’s original masterpiece is filled with a mature theme that beckons the spectator to question many aspects of life as we know it. (more…)