Criss779
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OK for starters the movie entertains me lots, but i still think that, between all the silly dialog of this characters and their morality problems resides just a silly movie full of clichés and a beautiful cinematography.
The movie, based on a famous bestseller from the 50s, is full of rape, misogyny, murder, abortion ... a lot of topics for a trashy exploitation movie. This is not exploitation, even if all the topics are included here. The thing is that are so, but really so outdated, that you cant avoid the jiggle.
Still, the performances are very good, the Cinemascope photography is gorgeous, and, at the end, the direction takes for more thank two hours of material like this. So, it's trashy but catchy.
A 7.
The movie, based on a famous bestseller from the 50s, is full of rape, misogyny, murder, abortion ... a lot of topics for a trashy exploitation movie. This is not exploitation, even if all the topics are included here. The thing is that are so, but really so outdated, that you cant avoid the jiggle.
Still, the performances are very good, the Cinemascope photography is gorgeous, and, at the end, the direction takes for more thank two hours of material like this. So, it's trashy but catchy.
A 7.
As simple as it sounds, this is a film version of the Broadway classic with Raul Julia inspired in Fellini's 8 1/2 ... it means that is this, at the same time,a musical remake from Fellini's film.
Daniel Day Lewis is Guido, an existentialist, problematic film director who loves women very much. And, in between, there are musical numbers from his women.
This just don't work. There are songs (Specially BE Italian) that are well staged, but is at least what you must receive from a movie directed by Rob Marshall. And the performances, there are a lot of great acting flesh, but the plot line is treated with contempt (And that is because the original plot, as Fellini's do it, was yet, for me, a little complex).
So, Penelope is just gorgeous and sexy (The best of the movie) and is Sophia Loren in it, but Judi Dench is not Edith Head, Fergie is not Saraghina ... and, the Kate Hudson number is catchy, i know, but that cant make the picture. Though i really like the ending, but, again, that was borrowed from Fellini's original film.
8 1/2 for me, is not Fellini's best work, but is an important, very well made film and i recommend, at least, that before seeing this forgettable musical, you see it's point of inspiration.
Daniel Day Lewis is Guido, an existentialist, problematic film director who loves women very much. And, in between, there are musical numbers from his women.
This just don't work. There are songs (Specially BE Italian) that are well staged, but is at least what you must receive from a movie directed by Rob Marshall. And the performances, there are a lot of great acting flesh, but the plot line is treated with contempt (And that is because the original plot, as Fellini's do it, was yet, for me, a little complex).
So, Penelope is just gorgeous and sexy (The best of the movie) and is Sophia Loren in it, but Judi Dench is not Edith Head, Fergie is not Saraghina ... and, the Kate Hudson number is catchy, i know, but that cant make the picture. Though i really like the ending, but, again, that was borrowed from Fellini's original film.
8 1/2 for me, is not Fellini's best work, but is an important, very well made film and i recommend, at least, that before seeing this forgettable musical, you see it's point of inspiration.
I really want to love this ... and maybe, because i was having so many hopes in this film, the effect on me were of abrupt sadness. Megan Fox is a sexy student girl who is kidnapped by some evil characters, and some changes occurred to the relationship between she and her nerdy friend (Amanda Seyfried).
Definitely, there is material to work on, but not even the clever little notes around pop culture from blogger Diablo Cody, saves the film from ... well, i really don't know yet; but i'm almost convinced that is the rhythm where the story is leading. The climax is not climax at all, i still think that WE WANT to know more about the relationship of this two and, besides, some of the CGI is horrible.
It got it's things - Fox and Seyfreid are great, and actually, opens very good until the first 15 minutes or so. After the poor Jen is kidnapped, the movie is just ruined for me. Is like if i felt that from that moment the spice that got in its introduction just fell apart from the rest of the story.
I cannot really recommend this film.
Definitely, there is material to work on, but not even the clever little notes around pop culture from blogger Diablo Cody, saves the film from ... well, i really don't know yet; but i'm almost convinced that is the rhythm where the story is leading. The climax is not climax at all, i still think that WE WANT to know more about the relationship of this two and, besides, some of the CGI is horrible.
It got it's things - Fox and Seyfreid are great, and actually, opens very good until the first 15 minutes or so. After the poor Jen is kidnapped, the movie is just ruined for me. Is like if i felt that from that moment the spice that got in its introduction just fell apart from the rest of the story.
I cannot really recommend this film.