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I think this movie mostly suffers from being an adaptation. The main problem being that the changes made to the plot and world shift the themes toward something that is a lot less interesting. Namely, it goes from a universal questioning about the nature of identity and the very poetic dawn of a...

I have not seen it yet, but from what I hear, people are unhappy with this adaptation because of the lack of this:

We are leaving the ridiculous to enter the realm of the legendary... Federer just won in Miami beating US youngster Tiafoe, Del Potro, an in form Bautista Agut, Berdych (saving match points!), Kyrgios (in three breakers!) and Nadal in the final with a clean 6-3 6-4. It's the second time in his...

I was in Paris for a few days at the end of last year. It was maybe my 10ish trip there and a few years back I worked in Paris for three months. The two main differences since the last time I have been there a couple years ago? Bags being checked when entering Les Halles (big shopping and...

It's not about being PC or not, it's about conventions that exists and are not the same for all productions. If you take a movie like, say, Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, there is a great work done to create a feeling of realism. You hire mexican actors of mayan decent, you carefully recreate clothing...

In theater, opera and ballet, it has been for a while an established convention that, unless the story requires it, any part can be played by any ethnicity. The logic behind it is that you have a huge repertoire of european and american works spanning centuries with very few parts for...

This is getting a little ridiculous now. In Indian Wells, in the most packed quarter of a draw ever devised for a Master 1000 (Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, Del Potro and with the youngsters Zverev and Kyrgios for good measure), it's Federer who found a way through. Djokovic barely edged past Del...

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Philip Glass and Michael Nyman are my go-to guys, but Alexandre Desplat has his moments also:

I guess you now have to watch Forbidden Planet (apparently a disguised adaptation of The Tempest) and, of course, Prospero's Books! Most clips on youTube are NSFW and some probably even illegal in this day and age, but let me see if I can find something.... there I found one:

It would take some exceptional writing (good or bad) to have the spectators hate the humans with a cast like that!

In the entire history of the C1 there has been 185 matches were a team lead 4-0 in the home match and precisely 0 failed to qualify after the away match... now there is one: the PSG! I think the craziest part is that it's not because the Barca played an amazing match, it's a mix of the PSG...

I have not seen the movie yet, but I read an interview of the director a few weeks back and he mentioned the deliberate effort to have an aesthetic that is not what you would expect for this type of story. I guess a similar idea can be found in Manchester By The Sea's choice of music: the film...

Unlike Adebisi I would posit that this sequel is better in just about every way. Much to my surprise, the whole 'secret society of assassins' stuff that I found to be very lame in the first movie managed to be not only entertaining but a decent engine for the plot and some of its twists. In...

I don't think this movie is great, but Shyamalan managed to control McAvoy to good effect, his scenario works well enough and its core idea is pretty original (not the multiple personality disorder itself, but the story he decides to tell with a character that suffers from it). I was a bit...

Maybe it's because I read in many places that it's slow and too long, but it did not bother me. I feel this movie manages to do something pretty difficult: turn this kind of story into something else than one of the following three crappy scenario 1) It was all a dream! Hahaha that's why it made...

@Campbell1oo4 I could paraphrase but I might as well just quote wikipedia:

On the up side, the making of this film probably* killed less kitten than The Adventures of Milo and Otis! *The allegations that kitten were killed during the filming of Koneko Monogatari (aka Chatran aka The Adventures of Milo and Otis) came from Australia and animal protection groups were...

I have to admit this Zelda game looks pretty cool. I might even buy a Wii U to play it!

Playing once a week with a friend, after playing 40ish hours, we just reached chapter 13, so we will probably take a break until the end of march for the patch but.... this game is a bit like Assassin's Creed. Not the game: the movie. So terribad it's almost poetic. Almost.

For the better part of a decade, the floor level for this kind of productions in korea has been significantly higher than the one of their hollywoodian counterparts. So, as expected, this movie is pretty solid, even if it is nothing extremely original. The same director released at about the...

I wonder if all these substantial planets bunched up in relatively close orbits does not result in some intense and weird tidal/tectonic effects.

@Qhue In that space telescope unfolding.... what is the purpose of the multilayered triangular "base" under the actual telescope?

I find it more mysterious that John Cusack and Adrian Brody find themselves in Dragon Blade (a Jackie Chan vehicle directed by B list HK director Daniel Lee), than Matt Damon finding himself in a chinese blockbuster directed my Zhang Yimou, who has been internationally acclaimed since the early...

My take is that, if you are writing a review, everything that is in the exposition is fair game. That being said, the idea is to give a sense as to what the movie is about and here it seems to me some of the details are not really needed to achieve that. If you are writing a critique though...

@kudos If you did not have a PS3, Last of Us Remastered and Journey should be played too.

To paraphrase the immortal words of Balotelli, Messi proved once again he is a magician by remaining invisible during the 94 minutes of the PSG vs Barca! 4-0 for Paris in Paris, winning just about every duel, conceeding almost no opportunities thanks to a constant collective effort and creating...

La La Land - That movie left me lukewarm. The romantic comedy element of it is underdeveloped. The music is... well... let's just say Hurwitz is not Gershwin nor Bernstein (in all fairness the two songs nominated for an academy award are the one that is good - City of Stars - and the one that...

Some key scenes and shots will be replicated but that's about all. The whole origin story that sounds like the one of Robocop has nothing to do with the original movie. I smell a massive treason brewing.

Cream of the crop of a bunch of movies I saw at a film festival this past week: Her love boils bathwater (Yu o Wakasu Hodo no Atsui Ai): a japanese dramedy about a women with terminal cancer trying to have her family in working order before she dies. To quote the guy that presented the movie...

On my phone, so I'll be brief (for now): what an incredible scenario in this slam and in this final! Federer a break down early in the fifth and winning? Get out of here! What a disgusting lack of respect for the health of the fans! This final could have been one way traffic, but instead we got...

This film is also known as The Strangers. The guy who made this film made two others before that. One I did not see (The Yellow Sea aka The Murderer) and The Chaser which is an extremely good thriller. The Wailing is a well crafted film, but I must say the plot left me a little unsatisfied and I...

Probably one of the strangest AO ever. Top seeds were falling left and right, it looked like we would get some new blood to lift the trophy and when the dust settled, the young blood was spilled and we ended up with Federer vs Nadal and Williams vs Williams in the finals, just like at the All...

I was not aware Walter Hill was still directing movies!

It's supposed to be very good. It's been in my download folder for a couple weeks but I have yet to watch it. Sometime next week probably...

@Tanoomba what's up with the big Batman Returns review without mentioning the amazing music! Some of it is reorchestrations of the Danny Elfman score for the movie, but I believe some of it is original like the crazy circus music that is played during a train level ( I have not played it since...

In strange twist of fate only 2 of the top 8 seeds reached the quarter finals of the men's draw: Wawrinka and Raonic! Having Federer and Nadal out of the top 8 helps, but still! At this rate we'll get Misha Zverev vs David Goffin on Sunday! More likely: a Federer vs Raonic with a Raonic win.... :/