Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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GI Joe: Love to grind the crumbs pick

This year, Paramount is thinking big by launching in association with Hasbro cinemas derived two adaptations of toys. We thought we had seen everything but the Hollywood executives continue to conscientiously attérir us every year. If Transformers 2 ultimately prove to be a guilty pleasure epileptic fully advised after several sessions of preparation, what could you expect a decent GI Joe, movie openly pro-American whose name is for satirical Team America ?

simply nothing. If this is the satisfaction of having the talents of Stephen Sommers behind the camera, big screen cinemas absent from Van Helsing in 2003. This project of Universal, who wanted to return to cinema's superstars (werewolves, vampires and others), was ultimately a ride brainless, who lost all his poise in blister special effects ... GI Joe, it's the same thing, with the worst and more.


At the heart of the project, the secret elite GI Joe and Cobra among terrorists, who managed to get hold of missiles with a new order. A team of American soldiers to recover said missile and make lunch for the wicked!

Built around the endive Channing Tatum and Sienna Miller smooth, the film is touting the possible, where even Transformers 2 finally seem subtle. Apparently unaware of the shots in force for years in Hollywood blockbuster as we speak of the writers of it were dark right into the wall with its plot based missiles stolen and, worse, his sub-plot of becoming evil nice love for the handsome leader of the Gentiles (here storyline spoil, it's free!)

the middle of this desert of stupidity, the script tries to sell us that the military band is beautiful and nice, coughed what: But unlike Michael Bay movie, all attempts at humor fall flat miserably. While in terms of building characters, scenarios his later years seem to swear that the choice by the trauma or past the gates started to relax the atmosphere (and here, respectively, children of Snake Eyes and Marlon Wayans in the comedy department), GI Joe penalty on all fronts to provide a nice background. Each attempt to trigger the setter collapses awkwardly laugh. Unable to develop his characters more than the bare minimum, the film uses it as replaceable pawns for us to have a good time. At most, do we hear their respective code names, we see what are their weapons of choice (a must for a toy line into a film) without further ado. Undoubtedly aware of the humiliation that awaits him, Stephen Sommers relies on what he does best: action clanking, generous and sometimes blind driving, judging from what happens on the screen.



Kudos to production designer of the film is given away to their heart, without having the pleasure of seeing all his designs used properly. In this show, you can not put a figure on the number of secret bases, vehicles futuristic battle armor and weapons badass reviewed. As a caravan of strange God sold American entertainment, the film endows even a Paris tram colors RATP for the sake of the cross, forcing damage. The climax of the film, it is this frantic race through Paris, with some wide shots clad special effects to type "It is!". Around the Arc de Triomphe and along the banks of the Seine, the vehicles collide and explode while two morons in mega-armor running around smashing into most things. It's amazing, shot anyhow (although sometimes when it's to ask) and always with a view to demonstrating that there has not yet had enough damage.

Despite pleas, we feel clearly the limit of empty special effects throughout the film. As if Transformers 2 had recovered the entire budget of the summer Paramount GI Joe has to do with a budget therefore clearly not enough to illustrate all the proper places, and drift effects (especially the excesses) of the scenario. Clearly, GI Joe is a movie of the 80s with technology and means for improvement of a blockbuster a few years ago, all mounted together with the insult of a boy of 5 years preparing a end of the world in a sandbox. Those who still taxed Michael Bay big kid can be seen dressed formal mastery of his latest film next to the puree, the fun can not totally clear excuse.

Details and almost trivial chunk of the trailer, the explosion of the Eiffel Tower. It is still shocking to see that in 2009, Americans still do movies where you explode the monuments to lag larigot, just for the pleasure of the plan and the collapse surdécoupé the right word after a few scenes (" The French government is really not happy, you understand). Michael Bay has dropped both of the pyramids, while the suite is prepared with (yet) Roland Emmerich and his end of the world in 2012. But the last time the Tour Eiffel morflé was in Team America (from the creators of South Park ), an affiliation that does not escape GI Joe and recovers to its advantage this Suggest a feature to show uninhibited (as was Van Helsing ) sometimes frustrating given the limited scope given to the story, but definitely rejoicing in these last moments. Because in force to attend the unacceptable, we end up reviewing their requirements down and let everything and anything to block pain within minutes.



Levels actors Christopher Eccleston dismisses everyone. The Dr Who (season 1) facies done here yet sympathetic way to a twisted megalomaniac who wants to blow up Paris to avenge an ancestor offended by the French three centuries ago ... At the announcement of this beautiful replica, it does not see the film in VO to enjoy the Scottish accent of the actor giving it to their heart in the role of McCullen / Destro called back reinforcements in a sequel already announced. Not fooled for a penny, Stephen Sommers is farting all cartridges and carefully places his pawns in the end the argument with a scenario already "thoroughly" prepared.

remains a cast of familiar faces past and say hello to their director, Brendan Fraser cameo in his nemesis The Mummy, Arnold Voosloo (one of the major villains from Cobra). Cast curiosity, we also find Jonathan Pryce President of the United States: even 2012 Roland Emmerich is updated by placing this critical role Danny Glover, actor black America. Dennis Quaid, whom we love but cachetonne mouth for years, poses proudly General Hawk, leader of GI Joe prepared to break everything.
But the surprise comes from elsewhere, since in the role of Cobra found Joseph Gordon-Lewitt, the best thing that ever happened to indie cinema U.S. in recent years. We saw in Mysterious Skin, Brick , and so on of the best, no one expected at the turn for GI Joe. Hidden behind an impenetrable mask, it recognizes the gesture of the boy, happy to play the game here on earth, yet we continue to wonder what could motivate the idea of making this film ...


Awareness: Impossible, leaving GI Joe, still consider Michael Bay as a laborer. Besides Transformers, GI Joe pales: The first hour long film is painful to see, with his plans unframed in every sense, its lack of space management and scenes from which spring everything and anything like a carnival fantasy of military technology.
this puree added constant visual dialogues eventually be frankly staggering funny to force grudging all the cliches of the genre, must be no doubt when Dennis Quaid chanting "Go GI Joe, we go to the base! "end of mission. A good time to do anything overtly wrong.
For it is a long time since the project was seriously considered, due to projos apparently catastrophic release, the film would have been redesigned and reassembled to laugh at himself. From these rumors, it finally knows not the last word but still it is positioning itself in line with the summer blockbuster, GI Joe had everything to prove, and s' comes out piteously, on all fours, holding out the stick to be beaten.


BONUS: Very quickly, Snake Eyes, it's ball (with a final pumped partly The Phantom Menace), Said Tagmahoui like nothing, and it is taken several times during the film to turn to his neighbor to blow him shamelessly: " It is good the redhead. " It is also
GI Joe, a film so horrible sometimes it begins to become very ugly human beings.



Wednesday, August 5, 2009

New Un B L O C K E R S

Transformers 2 - Ski reading schedules and late reflections

It was during a lively debate with Erwan (eminent representative cine Radio Campus Rennes), the need has emerged for itself: it must be reviewed Transformers 2 . Had already cracked a text at that time ( at this address) we will merely some possible readings for the adventure otherwise.


- Graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Michael Bay has yet everything pure strain of California, with his stature and his athletic good looks golden by the sun. And frankly, Michael was probably one of those frat boys , detestable kind of students holed up in guilds macho sporting a wild geek and disgust that some animating idea of the cult of the body. Michael Bay also performs an inexplicable cameo in Mystery Men (1999 - film loser-hero), sitting at the table in a family of beautiful kids wearing symbols of a wave university. Seen bawling space plan, then he disappears into the wildlife film he does not take over (not a producer and screenwriter even less). This is probably frustrated with his education at a university in the East since he sprinkles his filmography declarations of love to young women in California.

Bracket: Michael Bay remains so awesome it turned into a pub in which he parodies itself.






So Transformers 2 becomes homecoming when Sam Witwicky flew to Philadelphia and a university in name unknown. We learn in section IMDb anecdotes of only two universities were used as film locations, but due to the damage imposed by history within the walls of each of them, the respective deans felt that Transformers 2 would not be the ideal pub for their institutions.
No shit.

Four examples for three sequences Peles-meles addressed with this new framework:


Loving the new diversity (and perversity)
- We already had items when things did look just (kind here by myself ), the cast was enriched by a female character. I confused for a moment with the cute computer scientist of the first episode, it is not mail, Isabel Lucas is a new arrival. Interest since the arrival plays a beautiful blonde with clear intentions and exclusively carnal in its first moments. With an eagerness and a scary-in returns from dementia his first scene with Sam, we would also blocked him. Déshinibée completely, he has some stupidly brilliant reactions from Sam, who does not know what to do to get rid of it. His grim scenes perfectly in the end leave a sense of unfinished business with their potential for qualitative teen movie that could have been successful: Megan Fox finally releases them a semblance of acting when she's pissed, and Shia LaBeouf may reply by ideas that will not have time to be exploited because of the pace of the film (among the ideas of dialogue: the dead time of 10 seconds, the guys made excuses boats hand in the bag, the shrieks to divert attention, in short, as springs which operate in the state given the pace of the film)

The beautiful Isabel finally proves to be an evil robot designed to capture through Sat it has many attractions. An effective sequence completes the transfer in metal insatiable creature. The site
io9.com reported that the creation of this sequence alone had asked the engineers working for two months every second of transformation of the beast. That may explain his lack of screen presence, and his second transformation, ellipsée by a cutting plane when she jumped on the car of our fugitives.
remains in the state, the beautiful Isabel Lucas was the best response to the needs of producers scenarios: By exploiting more judicious in his false love triangle, they could have offered a dream typically marked but certainly less implausible than his rollercoaster now stale. Especially since been run through a standard computer character, Michael Bay was an opportunity for fun not guilty. A character who bluntly announced: " was hacked the database for all the rectory bombs in our dorm . The best idea the film, made trivially perfect excuse to frame his actresses like a porn movie (see the last attempt to seduce Alice Sam) and filming scenes student parties like sequence nightclub in Bad Boys 2 (already displayed a scene where Megan Fox - minor at the time - credited as the "Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall )

Gift, an excerpt from interview in which Lucas appears Isable just as pretty.


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Destruction legacies of the past:
track - whose paternity is Erwan: Good brainless frat boy that he was probably Michael Bay has a score to settle with the university. Pretext for the story, Sam, Mikaela and Leo took refuge in an impressive library that finally shattered by repeated attacks of carnivorous robot. As if the remains of knowledge no longer counted, or that Michael was there a perfect layout for its scene of action, the location is simply flattened, annihilated, without hope of being saved. The actors twirl, jump from floor to ceiling, trying to escape the threat. The plan is growing, exploding libraries, books are shredded and the "Shrine" is reduced to a pulp before seeing the result of his action will continue on campus.


is almost as shocking as seeing the Giza Piramides be climbing robots with little concern for preserving these wonders of the world. Shots soon, we also showed the Witwicky family holiday in Paris, being assaulted by a mime and snails forcefully spit out their grumbling. Nothing insulting far Transformers 2 is a movie American tourist clichés as making use of gimmicks passengers. Wait to see how the Egyptians are treated.


Converse teen in a movie robots
- It is within these sequences of destruction that we discover that Sam has panic easily, a trait characterized by an astonishing speed record when he has to s' express. Impossible not to at least a smile when he, on the verge of a nervous breakdown every 20 minutes should summarize the situation to a new entrant in him screaming all he knows in an easily understandable gibberish premium First: mixing analogies and thousands of repetitions (" signs in my head! , "he yells all the time), the comedy is usually based on this stack of successive replicas yelled as effective taglines.
In the sequences of the university, there are also moments posed where trade is becoming almost as entertainment in a film Apatow. replicas burst out and look natural, balanced tit for tat. Even VF is the result of truth and joyful crying, big joke between friends and panic by exhultée the verb.



In addition the dialogue game:
- Relaxed by a cake with herbs, maternal stress accompanying his son becomes abnormally cool and walk on the campus, shouting to anyone who will listen that his little just moved next door (and he dressed up as Spice Boy when he was little). Totally out of control, she fled when her husband wants to catch up, resulting in a moment of improvisation miraculously captured within this structure well established.
note, it goes very fast and this time no plans for cuts to a scene where Shia LaBeouf almost wonders what he does in the plan: Made for both human and not only doubles ghosts that give way to robots endowed with speech, this plan is interesting for its dynamic vaguely approached pure comedy. Sat groping, trying to hold his hands, does not know how to react to his mother dropped on campus, then finally turn its back on stage to pretend to do his shoelaces. A situation of embarrassment brought to its climax when a girl calls Sam to ask him to look after his mother, he pretended not to know.
Within this short sequence made of a plan, we feel much improvisation an actor and any opportunities that might arise from in a different direction of actors and thereafter, it will simply be charged dialogues burst hope to drill a little life behind oiled mechanics of the organization.



Fuck love, live art (of war)
- In this bawdy effects and intrigue to (un) mixing, Michael Bay loses the path to feel it now the winning couple, Shia LaBeouf / Megan Fox, you could feel empathy with, for example, the pair Ben Affleck / Liv Tyler in Armageddon (same director). With the change of time comes change of manners, style: 11 years separate the two films. In Armageddon, Ben and Liv snort in two intimate touching scenes, before marrying in the end credits. Transformers 2 changing, with these players who will meet you on the internet to chat. Along the way we look in dialogues charged with a submachine gun and say "I love you" with difficulty: an event set up like an emotional climax that never works, so that keeps coming to tease way, either by direction or by creatures who parade across the screen. Subsequently, in off-screen, always.


Transformers 2 is a little less stupid than we care to think of it, but it's true that sometimes look ... remains good ideas here and there to deviants, and much hope for the future!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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cinema unexpected output: Up to you, Jennifer Devoldere



With summer comes the hunger drive, but as we are always ready to tempt fate, we go for the French film of the month! A first film that comes out of nowhere, apparent technical output in July, three weeks before the release of the bulldozer Inglourious Basterds . At first sight there is no relationship between these two productions, except that the Tarantino's film shares with you Up actress Melanie Laurent, an opportunity perhaps to boost the numbers a bit of a short film released without big promotion.


The pitch is to love canned: At 26, Chloe lives alone in Paris. Everything seems to be fine. Good work, nice friends, neighbors conciliatory ... It looks just great Love. And only the movies they rent DVDs regularly bring him a glimmer of hope. One day she unwittingly meets an American, Jack, dumped by his girlfriend, who just won a trip to Paris. Chloe will then, by happy random, retrieve the bag for Jack, especially falling in love with its content ...


Punctuated by a catchy song by Kate Nash, the film follows the journey of Melanie Laurent, adorable and playful, which loses its inaccessibility time of a film, to become that neighbor who could reside in the apartment at side. Dreamy, light but incredibly serious when it comes to feelings, she manages to infuse his character (Chloe) I do not know what a particularly original and touching that one can only fall in love.
In this romantic story in Paris who could pitch in disgust from his more a, the potential of artificial scent is quickly removed by the lightness of the company: The film is constructed like a goofy survey that will engage everyone knows that Chloe, to find the owner of the red suitcase and dare talk to him. Between hope she knows just as unreasonable and want to believe it will go a long way to go out of his little bubble and take its first steps outside. Under his features so charming, Chloe is a different character almost reassuring about girls her age can be an adult and still dreaming of Prince Charming, a trap as a blessing.



Until you is a movie title is puzzling, vaguely poetic we do not know why, where one embarks from the crumbling walls of a Paris hotel, an apartment of a young girl a little lost, a film where we go from one continent to another within a plane. A premise and an ease that seems inherent to the genre, and can quickly upset if not for the cool clear of the whole and the belief that emerges. The plot is played on two levels, between Chloe and her daily life that slips slowly, and American Jack on vacation in Paris, where he waits patiently found his suitcase (as such, the U.S. perspective on life hotel in France is pretty hilarious).
Torn between English and French, the film is not confined to his status as romantic comedy, and plays the chronicle of manners from two personalities who are hoping for a little more original than their present situation. A game of musical chairs that is almost cruel to his characters in his last act before reassure us about the future of each. Phew.

Up plunges you into the lives of his characters, even minor, to the point of us to share some nice jokes. The hollow of a sequence, it develops a nice concept: the theory of compatibility with DVD. Three songs, three movies to know if we match. A test that is already not hesitate to get in the evenings without having made that way.
Director Jennifer Devoldere enriches its passage sweet epic pleasing supporting cast, the hotel receptionist odious to the father of Chloe, a little geek, played by the great Jackie Berroyer (to see imperatively: Calvary ). It also crosses the actor Billy Boyd (Pippin in Lord of the Rings ) English dapper great emphasis on playing the best friend of Jack, which makes the film an undeniable bond with his comic interventions always a little "direct".



Detail lolant between good people: Chloe is a real consumer DVD and provides a video club. A video store that customers of Operation Frisson Yannick Dahan may recognize that as these provide a framework for the issue (probably since suspended). Arie Elmaleh, sucks much less than his brother, plays the manager who speaks and reads Mad Movies (almost) good movie genre: are evoked jumble The Grudge , 28 days later and The Descent. References "dark" in a romantic film, it does not take agitates for more on my seat.
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never demonstrative, always waiting and looking at the right time, you Up is the great story of a meeting subject to doubt and confusion to its denouement, too good to be true but yet so clear. Life is not all about lightning strikes, we also learn to know before.


8 / 10 because In the Mood for Love