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Trailer: Inception. Christopher Nolan + DiCaprio
By Fernando Mexia - Videos - 28/08/2009
Inception, the mysterious head of production work of the last Batman, Christopher Nolan, introduced his trailer on the few clues that reveal the plot of this story looking like a psychological thriller from "The Cube", "The Matrix" and "Memento" with Leonardo DiCaprio starring. The premiere was not until the summer of 2010. Until then we are left with these images with balance problems. One would think that Cameron's Titanic sinks again ... Read the rest of this entry »
Film Review: Transformers 2
By Fernando Mexia - Movies , featured , headline - 23/06/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a film unfit for over 10 years. That was the taste that left me the sequel to Michael Bay (Armageddon, 1998) after more than two hours of wasted special effects, exciting action to the point of dizziness and a storyline that can be in falling more dreams, as happened to the person who sat next to me (he woke up startled with every noise).
The $ 200 million budget for this project, the most expensive of the year, if my information is correct,, evaporated to convert into a product tape midway between a huge game of mighty robots and a B-movie payroll has Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox , two of the hottest young stars of the moment in Hollywood. Something else is paid, of course.
The story of this sequel back to the beginning of mankind, the evil Decepticons links with the past in an Egyptian archaeological reinvention as an artistic license to shape a shallow script that requires little mental demand of the viewer. The second part of Trasnformers is, as said Bay, "a movie for the summer," with all that goes with that statement sounds like a justification of father to a son who disappoints.
The film gives much prominence to robots, so much so that the performances of the actors are reduced to the moments in which the alien machines are not locked in a fight to the last drop of oil. There are action sequences that last so you can come to forget why they were hitting each other. Of course, apart from the excessive speed which made it very difficult to follow many of the shots, I imagine that in order to give realism robotic fighting in several natural scenes are pretty impressive technical quality.
Upon completion of viewing, in the midst of my perplexity and confusion over what had just seen, I came across a gang of children who had had the privilege of being the first of his college, surely, to see the film. They seemed ecstatic to open eyes wide and grinning from ear to ear. That was when he heard one of them convinced that: "It's the best movie ever" (which translates as: 'is the best movie of all time'). That's when I put aside my journalistic value judgments and thought that instead of crashing, Transformers 2 was to make many millions of dollars in box office.
A journalist colleague told me later that this film was intended for an audience of six years, I would give a little credit would rise to ten. After all this, nobody will miss him as a promotional gift to give a skateboard to the press.
One more thing. I admit that my fondness for John Turturro target me recently when criticizing, but the point of humor that gave the film was appreciated.
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Clarification: When I speak of age, in any case I have the intention of offending the fans of the series or the people you liked the film, just think the movie is meant to impress in every way to children, normally unless the script ask that an adult who has seen many movies. The children fill in the gaps with imagination. That does not mean that you might like more people but it is obvious that the film team cared very little of that history was at the height of both budget.
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Film Review: Watchmen
By Fernando Mexia - Cinema - 05/03/2009
By Fernando Mexia 
"Watchmen" is not Batman or Superman or Spiderman. Although the protagonists are superheroes, there unsolved murders and a threat hanging over the immediate future of the planet, "Watchmen" combines those traditional ingredients of a tape taken from the comic adventures of an unusual form. The dialogues take precedence over the action scenes, the pace is slow to recreate the internal drama of each character and there is no Hollywood Manicheism of the struggle between good and evil.
"Watchmen" is a film of gray areas of human baseness, heroes depressed watching wistfully the past. An interesting argument drawn from a graphic novel of the same name ranked among the top 100 literary works written in English since 1923 by Time Magazine (2005), but it suffers from an excess of footage that weighs heavily on the ability of the average viewer to maintain their attention throughout the film. I do not exaggerate, "Watchmen" exceeds 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Its duration, the slow pace of the plot and the fact that the protagonists are superheroes unknown to a mass audience (Dr. Manhattan, The Comedian ...) are the main enemies that have this over for a big box office, although a good comic book fan base will help "Watchmen" to fill their coffers and try to recover $ 120 million invested in its implementation.
The film humanizes the superhero as in "Hellboy", share the darkness and voice which sometimes results in the narrative of films like "Max Payne" but, despite being science fiction, fantasy worlds away from and integrates the supernatural in routine social and draw as few human heroes of great strength and fighting technique to hide their weakness behind a tight suit, masks and layers.
The director of "300" is behind this story expected to keep away from the success of "The Dark Knight," the latest Batman with Heath Ledger's Joker, and that may disappoint those who go to the movies looking for the usual action, persecutions and impossible situations that end with a happy ending features the stories of superheroes. "Watchmen" is different, is violent, gritty and bittersweet ending, like life itself.
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