Gone Girl is unfortunately far from being one of the best movies directed by David Fincher. Despite its very good rate on imdb, 8.3 with pushed this mediocre movie to an undeserved 128 place in Top 250 of Best Movies of all times, it is not a good movie. I know it's a matter of tastes, but let's put it near other psychological thrillers directed by Fincher, like Fight Club, or Zodiac. As a matter of fact I have never been mad over his movies, I consider him "dark", too dark for my taste. I have … [Read more...]
Silver Linings Playbook
Every Oscar season has to have a movie which is non-political, even a comedy or a drama "unrelated with the current events". I'm only joking, considering that Kathryn Bigellow's movie The Hurt Locker won Best Picture almost unrelated with the artistic views of the moment. Anyway, this year, her Zero Dark Thirty is way better and the critics say it's not standing a chance. Silver Linings Playbook is nominated for Best Picture with great chances to win if it wouldn't be for Argo. I used to be … [Read more...]
The Girl Next Door
Wonderful teenage movie, made in 2004 by Luke Greenfield (nothing quite memorable to this one), after a screenplay by Stuart Blumberg (Thanks for Sharing and The Kids Are All Right, both after this one), David Wagner (Van Wilder), and Brent Goldberg (Van Wilder and Saving Ryan's Privates - I liked the title of this last one, otherwise, I never heard of it as a movie). [all pics otherwise differently credited, are from imdb] Ambitious High School senior Matthew (Emile Hirsch), dreams of … [Read more...]
The Losers
Outstanding and spectacular, this 2010 action movie. The imdb rate shows that, it's a 6.8, which is not bad with such a distribution. I'm sure they have their own fans, but there's no Russell Crow, Robert DeNiro, Jason Statham or Clive Owen on it, these last two seeming to be specialized in "action heroes" roles. We found here Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Clay, a colonel), Zoe Saldana (Aysha), Idris Elba (Roque), Chris Evans (Jensen), Columbus Short (Pooch), Óscar Jaenada (Cougar), Jason Patric … [Read more...]