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Rãmâi cu mine (2013)
jenibil
Beautifully shot soap opera. Fairly predictable, boilerplate script. The only acting I've seen here is done by Lucian Ifrim, Monica Ciuta, Antonia Ionescu and Cosmina Stratan. Not bad for a soap opera. I give this movie two stars: one for photography and one for the lovely soundtrack by Byron.
OXV: The Manual (2013)
miserable pretentious cinematic failure
This is a horrible movie, with a good trailer. Actually the trailer gives away the main parts of the plot, and you're better off skipping the movie. The dialogue feels forced and unnatural, there are plenty of clever references to historic and scientific figures, but without any real connection to the film. There is no such thing as character development, and the long and boring explanation at the end really just patronizes at you so much it made me want to club baby seals. The movie has horrible pace, and it manages to be overly-complicated, stupid and condescending at the same time through its questionable editing. Had it been a one hour film I may have enjoyed it. A disgusting piece of crap, spare yourself the trouble and see something else.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
the movie that made Ayn Rand roll over in her grave
I've been listening to Atlas Shrugged, the audio-book for the past 4 weeks and I still have a quite a bit left, but so far I've been fascinated by Ayn Rand's colorful narrative, her philosophy and her strong, driven characters so I was thrilled when I learned that somebody made a movie after it.
The first 5 minutes of the movie were great, the image was awesome, the idea of setting the movie in the near future was bold enough and a little tongue-in cheek, given the current economical situation.
The disappointments began when I saw Taylor Schilling, a pretty, blonde actress who didn't have any of the depth necessary to portray Dagny Taggart, but I said I'll let this slip, giving the cast director the benefit of a doubt, hoping they went for a solid, gray-haired, silent and deep actor to play Hank Rearden. Boy was I in for a surprise when I saw Grant Bowler's face. What were they thinking!? I bet the poor guy didn't even go through the trouble of reading the book, otherwise he would have had the common decency to put on a more subtle performance. BIG disappointment. He looks like a comedian and doesn't act the part. I felt like slapping the director for such a poor choice of actors. And if each of them separately puts on a half-decent performance (for a TV sitcom) then together they're just about as subtle and compelling as two dogs in heat casually greeting each other in the park.
This movie is based on a great book but it doesn't convey anything but a butchered version of the story line. The over all acting is ludicrous and the characters lack nuance and depth, and it's so fast-paced that no actual relation can be developed even between the main characters, it gives off the impression that the movie is in a hurry to burn through as many pages of script as possible in a short while but on the bright side some of the shots and computer graphics are well made and the script sticks to the book pretty well, except for the futuristic spin so lazily adapted (2016, and we're still relying almost exclusively on trains). One more thing that this movie lacks, besides vision and common sense is a sense of irony, there just isn't any and the overly-serious of the story makes it even more forgettable and throws the movie into that melting pot of generic Hollywood depictions of great books, that just don't make justice to the original works.