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Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
An enjoyable family movie
It's not a bad movie. It's a quite simple movie, it's technically a good movie, with a solid plot that is at most inspired by the book of Verne. I don't find it a defect, because it's simply an entirely different story, for cinema's sake.
Some stuff doesn't quite belong to the story, such as the unnecessary and forgettable stop in Constantinople, trying to recall an original movie of several stops, but not it doesn't succeed in this.
But nonetheless is a quite enjoyable Kung fu/adventure movie for the family. It's definitely much more appreciable for the kids, it's not some iper realistic piece of art. It's a honest movie, that in its simplicity get to the point.
If some kid want to watch it over and over again with you, you could go on a couple of rewatches before it gets tiring. Suggested!
A Walk to Remember (2002)
a must
Apprently an almost iconic romantic comedy for teenagers (but not only for them)
a decently enjoyable movie, for a quiet evening. it is the classic movie about love for teenagers, it has got some cliches and sometimes is a little bit naive.
but they're forgettable flaws, if you do not except too much from this movie. it's a movie that aim to be a light-hearted romantic comedy with its dose of tears she'd.
recommended, it's a movie worth watchcing, but maybe no more than once.
Hagane no renkinjutsushi (2017)
a good idea, a bad realization
The idea of the movie of the movie it's good, unfortunately it suffers from a bad acting and a bad direction.
I'm not interested in judging the plot as good if it's coherent to the manga.
it's impossible to condensate all that story in a couple of hours, so the movie it's going to be a whole different story, somehow based on the manga.
the story that comes out it's kind of a good story, a good idea, a well inspired plot.
but the movie suffers a really bad acting: as bad as in "I'm reciting to the camera my quote from the script".
also the direction is bad, bad shots, bad mounting: as in "staring way too long in unnatural position" and as in "bruising appear all of a sudden from one camera shiftings"
I'm disappointed in the flaws, because the plot was good, it's a gripping movie, also the special effects are good, really, I enjoyed watching this movie, but I eyerolled way too many times.
Goodfellas (1990)
sorry, didn't like it
I watched this movie thrilled, finally I'm going to see this long time celebrated movie!
It didn't catch me, till the last minutes, when you can start to feel the tension and the fear of being killed right in your guts. I didn't enjoyed it, it was greatly acted -I mean Pesci was perfect- and greatly directed, not a flaw in that. But I didn't enjoyed it. I struggled to get to the end of the movie, to get focused, it didn't get me.
I think it was just the story, that I didn't like. I was -and still is- a must-to-see and I'm really glad I've seen it, it's a really well made film. But I'm not going to watch it again, sorry.
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
like hitting full throttle but accidentally hitting a bit of the brake
I really enjoyed this movie. It's a good movie, with a solid story. I like how they adapted the pokemon world, the pokemon battles, without forcing and making "spontaneous", natural. I really loved how it's showed the normality of a world with pokemon, with few scenes, few significant detail to let us understand how it works.
Also the story, it's a good story, with enjoyable ideas, with interesting plot twist.
Detective pikachu is a simple, well written and well done movie. The reason I don't give 10/10 is just some acting. I don't really know Justice Smith and Kathryn Newton as actor, as I haven't seen them on other movie, maybe they're good actors and they've just badly directed. But there is some moment in which they appear really "unnatural", out of the movie. I really perceived them as "fake" thus I didn't like them here.
On the other hand Ryan Reynolds made a good performance on his character, I have to recognize it.
After all a really enjoyable movie, a few step from being a perfect movie, for some few details. It's a same. Nontheless I'll watch it again
The Notebook (2004)
A mild, half-hearted love story
This movie is about a love story. It's not a bad movie, it's just a little bit superficial. It's superficial about the characters' development mainly. We really don't know very much about the main characters themself. They're kind of flat, she like painting (she says and it's barely a things), she's rich while he's pour, hard working boy. And they fell in love. That's the stuff.
I didn't like it very much because of this, it's just a story we see from outside, and for what we see we've got to trust mainly what is said, we can't rely on what we see because we don't see very much, above all for the flashback parts. It may be a form of storytelling but it made me feel excluded, not part of the story, because I didn't feel to know the characters. And I must be honest, I don't blame just the screenplay, I think is also a choice of the director, and the actors are totally underused.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, but is like a story about someone you've heard: it's interesting, you listen to it, but once it's finished your life go on, leaving few traces behind, totally not leaving a mark.
I watched and I kind of enjoyed, I didn't like the choices that were made, but I don't think are "wrong" choices, it's a good movie after all. But I think I'll forget it and I'm pretty sure I won't watch it again.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
a professional fan-fiction
It's true what you heard: it is a really fast movie, but JJ Abrams it's a freaking master and ties everything together and I didn't fell like rushing nor overlapping stuffs.
But, anyway, it's not so much of a good movie still. It seems to be a fan fiction, written by those weird neckbeard, ultra fan of the saga, where unlikely things happen: strange and unlikely relationships, unsaid phrases for scene purposes, wacky details and so on. In my opinion this make the movie also kind of trashy.
But anyway this doesn't describe the whole movie, it isn't just trash. After all it makes kind of sense, it isn't excessively forced and the direction ties everything together managing to keep you stuck to the screen. That's why if this movie appears to be a fan-fiction, anyway it appears to be a professional one.
Also, even though it isn't the most memorable, the special effects are good, a well made movie, with a fine direction, some good photography. Unfortunately some naive chioces such as the overly dramatic close up shots to declare "she's gone" or whatever.
After all, for a multimillionaire of a 40 years old saga, it's barely exceptable movie, a little bit better than Star Wars VII and VIII. But still it's only just.
How I Met Your Mother: The Naked Truth (2011)
Love it
I think I'm musicaholic, but I love how the music played a really good part in this episode.
In a growing of emotion of Barney growing up and ted wanting to fall in love again, we meet an hold friends
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Aged like a good wine
Well as the title says: it did really age awesomely.
It's a damn good story, easy and pleasant though it hasn't got a banal nor obvious plot. Also some detail aged well with the obvious change of moral occurred in forty years, so it's not old stuffs.
The songs and the dances are good, well connected to the story and they are powerful, God if they're powerful. The feelings aroused by Johnny and Babe are really amplified or highlighted by the music, their dances, their movement, and this make the movie somehow really moving.
The act is pretty good, they maybe aren't the best in the world but the give a damn good performance, they are really well directed and the photography is as simple as neat.
I can see why this movie is a cult, I've waited way too much to watch it -and I don't know why-, but I'm totally going to watch it again, sooner or later.
Bleach: Burîchu (2018)
Japanese aestethic at its finest
The movie follows the story of the manga and it does it in a Japanese aesthetic way.
It's also hard to explain, but watching this movie will let you know what I mean.
Many things are exaggerated but in a specific way, not casual. These "exaggerations of the reality" are way more mild than the exaggerations in the manga. Nonetheless they are powerful, unrealistic in their way, totally Japanese and -I must say- they're awesome.
The hairstyle, the way people act and react are totally unrealistic, for example, but really funny, really Japanese, really well-made and, for what I recall, also pretty faithful to the original story.
It's a good adaptation of the manga, not a brainless adaptation, not too different from the original. I loved it, in its simplicity-after all it's always a manga based movie with no great pretense.
If you read the manga, if you're curious about Japanese stuff, if you want to watch a kind-of sci-fi movie or if you're just looking for the next film I highly recommend you this one: you'll be pleased and not disappointed.
Assassin's Creed (2016)
Better spend somewhere else the time
No expectations on this movie, I just wanted to kill a couple hours. At the end I was hoping to kill myself.
Pour story, real bad direction, the action scenes totally sucks. You must have played the games to understand many references and sometimes even what is going on. And you should probably just keep playing the games and not watch this movie. e.g. Why exclaim "the leap of faith!" Just once when the guy jump? It's seriously useless except to tell people "see? It's like the games!"
Many scenes has pointless and enormously naïf references and explanations. I don't know if the guilt of this should fall on the screenwriter or the directions, but it look likes the choice that has been made has been take by some guy who happened to be there and had no idea of how to do his job.
Fassbender and Cotillard could have been a blessing but the direction and the screenplay manage to kill they're performance by making them doing senseless thing, acting like weird (and I mean weird also outside the Creed and Templars' feud).
I seriously can't find one reason to watch this movie, except to watch it in order to understand what a bad movie is.
Pour in every single face it has.
And there are also very few faces.
Ugly faces.
Don't watch it. Please.
Allied (2016)
Loved it, felt it.
Great movie. Great screenplay, great story, great actors, great costumes and effects.
The engine of the movie took a little to start, but when it started was outstanding.
Spies, love and war, well mixed, an explosive combination, I never knew what was going to happen and, most important I was always looking forward to discover it. I totally was catched by it and at the end I admit I was moved and spilled a couple of tears: pretty much an overwhelming history.
Brad and Marillon are outstanding, they really appears as spies used to hide who they are and what they're thinking and doing.
The explosive combination is explosive for the unexpected plot twist. That's too bad, because the fact that I know how it end will spoil the rewatches of this movies, because I will watch it again for sure.
Hope you enjoy too.
Il primo re (2019)
Great movie
As an Italian I'm always a little bit prejudice with italian movies. But. This one is pretty great. Certainly worth to be watched, even twice maybe.
IMO a little bit too dramatical in certain detail, actors' expressions or too long on certain detailed shots. But a part from this little and forgettable stuffs, it is a great movie, with a great plot, great and well played characters. Again: worth to be watched.
Death Note (2017)
A new meaning to "garbage time"
I absolutely love the anime, one of the most perfect story ever told, with drama, thrill and very much else.
I watched this movie expeting very few: I knew it'd be pretty much a bad adaptation, it's very difficult an anime turned into a movie it result to be a good movie.
But however I watched it, without any expetation, just to be as less disappointed as possible.
And I was disappointed as I never was or never I'll be in my all life. First, obviously, it's an all different story and I can't even start explaining what's different because it's pretty much everything. Another user asked himself "why they even bothered to keep the same name?" and I couldn't agree more because the only common point are the title and the book.
And I could stand a different story, even just because there are only a couple of hours of movie, but I can not (and I hope I never will) stand a BAD story. It's pretty stereotyped in many situation and in many characters. I think of Ryuk, really an amazing character in the anime, who become basically a Joker (the Ledger's Joker).
I was also disappointed because this movie is also badly acted and badly directed and so much on. It's basically a B movie.