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Mortal Kombat: Conquest (1998)
It's Baywatch with action.
If you're a real MK fan, I understand you don´t like. Personaly, I enjoy a silly action series once in a while, so I sat down to watch this (hey, here in Portugal it's either that or Brazilian soap-operas...)
Well, this show replaced the annual summer reprisal of Baywatch, and I can see why! The number of scantily clad, good looking women increased with every episode. The Quan-chi trio has to be referred in that aspect.
Okay, that's the reason I really watch it. But the action isn't half bad, especially some of the women stunts which usually stink. I sincerely hope they make a 2nd series.
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Simply Beautiful
After I saw this movie, I couldn't stop thinking about it in the next days. Exelent directing and casting, especially Winona Ryder and Dyane West. I didn't say Depp because he IS the movie, his Edward touches something deep inside you, because we all know what it is like to be misunderstood and hated for it, but Burton reminds us that we do it to others. Just see the film. And try to think about it.
The House of the Spirits (1993)
It kept me glued to my seat
Before all, I'd like to point out that I have not read the book, so there was no chance I'd be disappointed in that aspect. The major flaw I spotted was historical detail, with several cars, trains, clothes, etc. I think don´t belong at that time.
***Possible spoiler*****
The technical aspect of the film is ok, nothing to brag about. But the acting, I think, was terrific. I don't have no experience in acting, still I can't believe how people can consider this terrible! Maybe they've only seen two movies (ever), and the other one must have been very good indeed!
I specially liked Jeremy Irons, and really understood his character, someone who crawled up the social ladder with very hard work, then fights against those who would take his life's work from him, only he gets so involved in this fight, he doesn't realize reason is no longer at his side, and he ends up a beaten, disappointed man. Irons made this so believable, I sympathized with the character despite his brutality.
After Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder is also wonderful as a romantic young women, who is drawn into the revolutionary ideals by her boyfriend (Banderas, he had an under-developed part, I think), and Glenn Close was also very good. Meryl Streep had an average performance, it was not bad, just not up to the standards of the other actors. Watch out for Miguel Guilherme, a fine Portuguese actor, between so many stars.
In contrast to today's movies, here only the interpretations, only people matter, but at the same time, it is not a pretensious film, too worried trying to be intellectual. The best proof I really liked it, I'm writing a review 7 years later.