gianlucatesi Reviews

Idiocracy (2006)

Seen in 2007, seen yesterday, vote improved by two!

[8/10 · 3 February 2017]

I don't know how unconsciously, but this movie shows a degree of precognition comparable with Orwell's "1984"! Ten years ago, the world had its problems, but today it seems that reason has gone mad, crazy decisions are made at the highest level around the world and the dumb reign supreme. Intelligence has little value, when you can win simply yelling your absurdities louder. That's what this movie is about: the carried to excess consequences of this model of (un)thinking. Maybe it's a little gross and even winking to B-Comedy, but definitely funny and enjoyable. Stupid jokes alternate with brilliant ideas in a satisfying way. Can score 10 out of 10 in 2027.

Driven (2001)

Worst race movie ever... or simply worst movie ever?

[1/10 · 3 June 2011]

It's hard to write a review about something so horrible in every single aspect: acting, scripting and, above all, the representation of Indycar races... I guess if at least one in the entire troupe has ever watched a real race in his life! Stupid and unrealistic things keep happening all the time, without logic or respect for the intelligence of the unlucky spectator. I'm not spending any more time reviewing this movie, I only hope that no one wants to see it after these lines. I'm a huge race fan and this movies is insulting and a true shame... Arghh! I've been DRIVEN mad! Not yet ten lines! This movie sucks... really sucks! I got it!

Flyboys (2006)

If you don't care for realism and history, it may please you...

[5/10 · 8 April 2009]

I mean no offense, but the American producers, directors and actors should NEVER try to shot an historical movie. Usually it looks always the same, be it set in World war I, Middle age, Ancient Greece or even in the near future. The Lafayette Esquadrille, a bunch of American pilots that volunteer to fight alongside France in the Great War is an historical fact, but the rebel pilots, the evil German villain, the incredibly permissive French commander, the petty love story, the continuous exaggerations are all cliché. The protagonist, which never flew before,use the aircraft he pilots as his own personal car: he takes off without permission to bring her french girlfriend on an airborne tour and so on. Anyway I must admit it was funny to see aerial fights with biplanes, triplanes and zeppelins, but 1966's "The Blue Max" was far better...

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Lucas simply wanted to make money...

[4/10 · 4 December 2007]

...so he wrote and directed a movie for children, complete with an annoying comic character (Jar Jar Binxs) doing exceedingly stupid things during the whole movie, a lot of visual effects and a very simple story. The young Anakin Skywalker, instead of being a shy boy with a little dark sparkle is haughty and unbearable as the majority of children in the average '80s American comedy. But the worst thing Lucas did, the one that I (and millions of fan) can't forgive, it's the pseudo-scientific explanation of the Force as the result of a symbiotic organism living in the blood cells of the Jedi... No explanation was needed! The Force is simply a mystical power that pervades the universe and that's enough. Shame on you, George!