Change Your Image
xnurfz
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
Didn't get it
I love Paris. I love seeing Paris. So I was interested in seeing this movie. I didn't read up on it before watching and at first I thought this was going to be one of those movies where several story lines come together and you are introduced to the main characters one by one(think of short cuts or love actually as an example). I started of interesting with the guy helping out the passed out woman and I liked the part with the obnoxious young French guys. Then with the awkward Chinese story I started to realize that there was no coherence to this movie. Just a sequence of short movies shot in Paris. I didn't relate to most of it. I was watching it with my girlfriend and we noticed that we were just 'sitting through it'. I didn't get the 'cowboy on a horse' part and I didn't understand the 'Nick Nolte talking to some young French girl in a street' either. I was completely annoyed with the pantomime part. So we turned it off. I guess I just didn't 'get it'.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
10 out of 10 even if it has some flaws
First of all, LOTR is not about making money in the first place, contrary to every other blockbuster movie. The people who made this movie, from the director and the technicians to the actors, wanted to make something great and it shows. The movie is trying to convey Tolkiens world to the big screen in a serious way. Throughout the whole movie I felt that the people that made it were honestly trying to achieve this goal instead of making the largest cashcow in years (and if they do earn a lot of money from it than I feel they deserved it). Two keywords here: trying and conveying. Conveying, according to me that is, is capturing the essence, or spirit from the books on celluloid, that means that some parts must be left out and details should be altered. The movie therefore is an adaption of the books and a great one at it too. In trying to make the best possible movie Peter Jackson didn't succeed all the way, the only thing I missed was some character development. The music, the effects and the actors were great, unfortunately some of them (like Gimli) remain a bit bland, you don't get to know them. But that may still change, rumor has it that the DVD release features extra scenes and of course there will be two more movies in which those characters can still grow, after seeing the 2d and 3d movie your perspective on the characters will have been changed when you rewatch part 1. I give this movie a 10/10 for being a great and sincere movie, I felt good after seeing this and I'm glad that Tolkiens work was not adapted into the standard hollywood formula as to please any limited attention spanned popcorn eating degenerates
Alexander van Aken
Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
Jet Li shows some nice moves, too bad you can't see 'em....
All in all a nice action flick, a dark atmosphere and some nice villains, who obviously must die by the hand of the Jet. What is wrong about this movie is the way it is filmed, you can see Jet Li throwing some moves, but you can't see them right!! What a waste, the camera is too close, the shots are too short, it looks like MTV sometimes. Still this movie outranks the abysmal 'Romeo must die', so you could say Jet Li's non-asian movies are getting better. If you want to see Jet Li doing some nice moves in a western movie, check out Lethal Weapon 4, that movie isn't very good either but at least it allows you to see what Jet Li can do. Hopefully 'the One' will get it right in being a decent action flick directed by someone who knows how to film martial arts scenes.