matyas-faluvegi Reviews

Black Swan (2010)

A-Ma-Zing

[9/10 · 7 July 2014]

I just cannot describe, I just finished watching it and I am disturbed, enchanted and grossed in the same time. It is a pity I cannot show my children, as the passion, with which this film was made is just nails you to your place, and this passion is needed to live your life.

OK OK, I know that cool heart story writers and good photographers put together a piece of cinematographic industrial production, but hell, I say that this was the film I was waiting since Matrix. And I did not watch- simply because it slipped of my radar.

I am late with the review, but not too late.

Go and watch folks, and get filled up with passion for life.

Freejack (1992)

Bad concept, decent film

[4/10 · 29 June 2014]

I ended up to watch this film after hunting for some Robert Sheckley short stories. After the "A Ticket to Tranai" I was into everything from him. The film itself is a low cost B movie, a good craftsman's work, worth to be watched on a Sunday afternoon.

BUT How it Should Have Ended (HISHE :) )

McCandless: I am desperately in love, Julie Redlund. I just adore your brassy hair and round booty.

Julie: But sir, this can be considered a sexual harassment, you are my boss, and anyway, I am still mourning after 15 years my sexy race driver love, Alex Furlong.

McCandless: No problem, Julie, I have a time machine and we can bring him back to life, right now- of course, it has a price.

Julie: I give no head for this, if you mean it, despite Monica did this to our adored ex-president.

McCandless: But Julie, this is my proposal: -We get back your husband (and I don't mark that he will be much younger than you, my dear cougar) I upload partly my mind to him, so we will always have a threesome. Deal?

Julie: You old pervert!

McCandless: After I die, he will get my fortune... Does this look nicer?

Julie: Let's nail this agreement right now, I see that there is a plenty of space on your desk.

The Notebook (2013)

An European answer to P. Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment

[8/10 · 29 June 2014]

The Hungarian film directors are often consumed up in photography and do not care of the story. Thanks God, not here. Agota Kristof's Le Grand Cahier has such a strong storyline that it cannot be destroyed. However attempt to do so can be detected here.

I hope that after a while all directors learn that a book itself is not a script, they can use movie to tell the story, even leaving out some key elements of the book.

Some scenes cry that were shot on the same streets, same interiors.

But this is it, that's why I gave only 8/10, as the film works. It takes you to a journey where you forget your soda and popcorn and step out to the real word afterward a bit changed. You know that it can happen. As in the summary, the circumstances can bring out the evil from everyone. Even 10 year old boys. We know this since the Lord of the Flies, but it is good to be remembered to it from time to time...