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Blair Witch (2016)
This was fun
I watched this at a Saturday mid-morning matinée, with maybe 2 other people in the back of the audience seats. Brought me back to my childhood matinees, complete with 1,000+ seats cinemas and chicle vendors for the interactive scary movies where someone would be saying "...don't go in there.."; because this movie is the ultimate in that department. Just with the premise of the little brother going on this search to "find closure" where, ostensibly, there would be infelicities, and friends who,for reasons unknown, went along. I was not impressed by the many jump scares, but by a detail that, even as I was watching didn't stand logic, but it was the crown of exasperation. A drone had been lost earlier, landing God knows where, and sometime in the very dark night, one of the heroines sees it stuck in the branches of a tree. After what you could with confidence, describe somewhere in the spectrum of having had a sub-optimal walk in the woods, to a seriously malignant day, she decides to climb the tree to get it. Maybe saving a few bucks was in her mind when she did it. I was sitting there seeing the absurdity of the situation and absolutely scared.
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (1999)
Do not start exploring the García Márquez world with this one
If you have never read any of the author's books and wanted a taste of them before reading any and what you did was to watch this movie, you probably will stop one fourth or so into the movie wondering what the hell? Should you wish to discourage someone from ever reading any of the books, show them this film. Admittedly it would be a challenge to put the Buendías on the screen -and it would be amusing to see it done with Hollywood megabucks- but it would have juice and entice curiosity -this one doesn't. This movie can only be appreciated and liked -not enjoyed- after becoming familiar with the author's wider work. There's a movie version of a story by García Márquez (Yo solo vine a hablar por teléfono)with a memorable nurse Ratched on steroids in it, María de mi corazón, which I'd say you can start with. Then you can try this one.
Les Misérables (2012)
Tried to like it to no avail
The picture quality is good. That's why a 5. I walked out of the theater on the day it came out in 10 minutes. Recitative and a bad song compelled me. The opening with the prisoners pulling whatever they were pulling, had music that came straight out of an early Popeye sketch -one of the first. So now, months later, I get the DVD thinking that some control in viewing might help -after all, this thing is so well liked that maybe it was just not my day. No. No. I know that comparing the book with a movie is unfair, so, just one detail: Cossette is in the dark carrying a bucket heavy as herself and the burden suddenly becomes light. This, in the book takes more than a page to tell -Mr. Hugo, no brevity anywhere. For me that image was one of the strongest in the book. The movie ruined it to an idiotic trivialization. Someone could use the visual strength of this movie, with modest effort improve on the music, and give us "The Toilers of the Sea". A 15 minute recitative on a reef while dealing with a giant octopus could be fun.