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Smallville (2001)
The town that God forgot
OK, I'm new on the website and only wrote one review for a Brazilian movie, but I've just watched another commercial for TV series "Smallville" and that kind of pushes me to express my dislike for this show. I originally wanted to rate this with a zero but it's alright, you can use this point to rate the actress who plays Lois Lane, although she sucks she is amazingly good looking. I find this show completely untrue to the hole "Superman universe", it's filled with cheap sensationalism (like a Micheal Bay's movie) just to start. The show was supposed to focus on the character Clark Kent and his growing, but all we see are totally crappy stories with supervillans and hot babes. Imagine what is going to happen to Smallville after Clark decides to move to Metropolis, there won't be any hero left to save the town from every amazingly impossible event (that, for some bizarre reason, happens every weak) and the town will be eventually destroyed. Plus what is wrong with the people from Smallville? Every now and then they almost die and yet they insist one living in that "Godless" place. If Lana were to be real she would have moved from there a long ago as the supervillans (who are truly unoriginal) tend to want to kill her very often. I could go on and on and on about how much I feel this show sucks, there are just too many down-points (believe me I've only mentioned a few cuz I can't believe I'm writing a review for this). When the pilot was on I tough this would be an interesting show, showing us how was Superman growing up and everything. But ,as one figures, they just didn't have enough material to hold the Clark Kent saga for too long, but someone figured out that this show was a "moneymaker". Why stop the show if we're getting rich? No, let's just make it crappy with no storyline and just Superman fighting super villains without his cape and hot babes (that always works). Seriously this show gets on my nerve because of it's popularity. Well whatever, you're free to watch what you want, I'm not watching this s***!
Quanto Vale ou É por Quilo? (2005)
Goes with the formula but works
The only thing that convinced me to see this movie was the fact that I've really enjoyed Sergio Bianchi's "Cronicamente Inviavel". Now days in Brazil it's pretty hard to find a movie that goes outside it's regular routines, such as showing disgrace, misery and poverty. This movie is no different from other recent Brazilian titles that try to deal with such a hard subject in the country. It is a sad true and it should be told but we're missing some great ideas that could be perhaps great movies. It must be brought out that here in South America, Brazil is not even close of doing what it could for the film industry, we have great sources and probably marvelous "wanna-be film makers" that are cast aside because of our bureaucracy, but that is for another discussion. The screen writing is what makes this one special. It compares the way it used to be to the way it is(with great connections and, as said, a great writing work), showing that despite much, things haven't changed at all in some ways; also a great research that the writers did, with a lot of historical facts to the viewer and it still manages to surprise and catch our attention. The direction of the movie is not bad (nor great) and one must look aside to some bad acting sequences, but looking to the movie itself, and the message it's trying to send it's a very good picture and a different way of showing "Brazil" in the screen, even following previous routines. It's a good movie and a must-see when it comes to comparing to recent Brazilian films that are "two-hour soap operas". Forget much technical details and go with the script on this flick.
Maybe we should learn a little bit with our "hermanos" Argentinians(in my opinion the greatest film industry in South America now days).