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Joker (2019)
A timeless master piece.
In terms of directing, it's a spot on. Todd Phillips smoothly guides Joaquin Phenix into an incredible believable madness and takes you along the ride. All supporting actors, no matter how small the role, did also a great job. I loved to see Robert De Niro back into acting, not just making a "Robert De Niro impression". Now let's talk cinematography, well, I honestly think that Lawrence Sher deserves an Oscar, or at least some type of recognition. He just creates the perfect atmosphere: the choice of lens, the color spectrum used, the angles, etc.
I also want to mention that the whole team has done a great job to create a timeless cinematic experience. I think there must be very few teams (acting, directing, producing, sound engineering, etc) in the industry, not just now, who could get together and give us such a master piece.
On paper it might seem a long movie, but just after the first very few minutes you're hooked until the final credits are on the screen.
Go and treat yourself for a real cinematic experience.
Under the Shadow (2016)
Not a horror movie at all
I just watched this movie thinking it was a horror movie, and that's why I rate it with a single star. IT IS NOT a horror.
I've been reading IMDb for many years, I love movies, and most of the time I agree with the votes in here, or at least I can understand them (even if I don't enjoy the movie). And this is the first time I feel that I need to write a review, because there's no way this movie should be getting a 7.0 out of 10, specially when it's listed as a horror movie.
It is actually quite a slow movie, if they just wanted to show you what was it like to live through the war, in less than ten minutes they could've given you the whole message.
The acting is OK, the special effects are non existent, the script is kind of empty, I'm sorry to say this, but it was a complete waste of time.
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Like buying 50 roses for your wife...
Let's say you did something wrong with your wife and she's really upset. Now you have to make it up to her, so she wants you to either spend a lot of money buying her a huge bunch of red roses.... or, she wants you to "suffer" for an evening.
If you go for the first one, you'll just spend some money and your life will be back to normal within five minutes.
If you choose the second option, you'll sit for two hours at the cinema watching this movie. It's the first time in my life that someone woke me up at the cinema. Now, about the move:
- the main actors are just wrong for the character the play. He can't play a dominant role; maybe in a gay relationship in a comedy. And her!!! Why on Earth would they pick a woman with no sex appeal at all. She's plain flat (in terms of personality). The Chemistry between these two might be the same one as between myself and the bus driver from any random route in any city around the world.
- the story: I haven't read the books, but if it's based on them, I'd think that the writers should have an easy enough job. So, maybe they just used Kelly Marcel's name but she actually didn't do any work? I know that she's a real professional, so I don't understand how she got herself involved with a movie with basically no story. Really, nothing happens. We could do a 10 minutes version and nothing important would stay out of it.
- action (that is "sex"): well, let's say that we (men) come to see this movie with our wives/girlfriends thinking that at least we'll get to see some sex on a main theater. That'll be the case only if you're into sex with very young women, so young that you'd need to ask for an ID to make sure you don't get into any trouble. What you find is a man with lots of sexual experience and a woman with zero experience and a body that looks more like that of a 15 years old girl than a woman in her 20s.
So, big NO NO NO NO.
Even my wife was disappointed with the movie.
Guys around the world: go and buy 50 red roses and no cinema ticket!!!