Posts Tagged revenge
Totum revolutum
By Fernando Mexia - Cinema - 07/10/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
Many films in the pipeline and lack of time, a combination that has led me to write this post. No more condensed and brief reviews are worse. Here's my review of Law Abiding Citizen, Zombieland, The Informant and The Hurt Locker.
Law Abiding Citizen: 
Entertaining film that is halfway to being a great psychological thriller. His reminiscences of Seven, Hannibal Lecter and smack his superlative spirit of revenge are combined with less success than desirable in a web of variable voltage with a cruelty that goes from anguish to laugh, which suggests a standard product " B "with good intentions and big name actors or a failed attempt to awesome movie. I'll take the psychopath played by Gerard Butler and a good time to popcorn and soda.
Zombieland: 
Make no mistake, this is a comedy from start to finish. Its peculiarity is that the subject of ridicule is a society devoured by zombies in the surviving few who deal with the situation as best as possible. I am surprised by the excellent reviews it has received the tape in the U.S. because the film, honest in its staging, no more than a "Scary Movie" of the zombie genre. I'm not saying it is bad in itself, but who is not attached to the issue should not go to movies expecting an unforgettable show. Is fun, but that's it (not recently). Ideal for those wanting to get away from your routine with this smiling cocktail of blood "light." Read the rest of this entry »
Protest song bends to an airline
By Fernando Mexia - society - 09/07/2009
Fernando Mexia, the pen.
Dave Carroll traveled with his band on a United Airlines flight from Nova Scotia to Nebraska in the USA. In a plane change in Chicago saw the ground operators abused the luggage company, among which his acoustic guitar was $ 3,500. He complained to the flight attendants, said to have ignored. On reaching his destination found that the sheath was intact and not disturbed.
He slept in a hotel and the next morning took a bus to begin the tour. It was later discovered that the airlift had broken the neck of his guitar. Then began the operation "claim" an uncertain ending winding road that many have ever happened. In his case, after dizzy and talk to several customer service people receive a reply, negative: United do not would pay to repair the guitar. At that moment was when Carroll amenzó the AU representative for three songs would talk about their experience with the company. The first of these issues, "United Breaks Guitars" (United breaks guitars), debuted on YouTube on July 6 and today (July 8) and has over 200,000 visitors.
Carroll protest song has already become a viral video on the internet and the network may soon transcend and reach the mainstream. For now, the mantra of this unknown country singer has had its effect, and as the daily Los Angeles Times , has been worthwhile. Robin Urbanski, spokeswoman for the company, said the song he "liked" and had contacted Carroll "to make things right."
A happy ending to this client could profit much more pissed off than you think. If your story does break into the press and television would have before him the opportunity he expected his music career. What better promotion on the news around the world ...
As a user abused by the airlines had to echo the battle of the artist with whom I identify. I'm glad that his revenge has been successful. About to me as their own.
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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