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Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Script was a disappointment but acting, production design and wardrobe were magnificent
Overall, the main reason for the lack of quality of Romeo and Juliet was the script. It kind of ruined the whole thing. The script of the movie was a defiled version of the play, with way-too-obvious comedic entries and other unnecessary stuff that you could see right through. The Downton Abbey writer, Julian Fellowes, completely adulterated the original material, and I haven't even read the play - those changes were truly quite obvious. It felt like he was purposefully trying to attract an audience that wanted to have fun instead of experiencing the tragedy story properly, what it actually is.
They placed too much emphasis on kissing and swords, but mostly the kissing was very exaggerated in amount, although there was no sex (I didn't like this). The swords only went in 10 inches, and the characters all died within 1 minute. I mean, come on, no one dies that quickly of such a blow.
The acting was pretty great, though, especially the male actors'. I found Douglas Booth's performance better than Hailee Steinfeld's, perhaps because it was only her second movie and she might not have been as deeply familiar with the story as Booth. But she was still very good. Damian Lewis, Christian Cooke (Mercutio), and, most surprisingly, Kodi Smit-McPhee (Benvolio) and Ed Westwick (Tybalt) did really great jobs. I really have to stress Douglas Booth's performance, though. He did an incredible job, truly. The tone of his voice, the look in his face, his whole demeanor changed perfectly and seamlessly from scene to scene, emotion to emotion, line to line. Superb.
From a technical point of view, the editing of the "battle" scenes was ridiculously terrible, change of shot every second, from bad shot to worse shot. Pretty awful. Cinematography was actually OK, in all fairness good at some points, but the editing ruined it. And lastly, the sets (and outdoors settings), the costumes, and the hair and makeup were so good. Unimaginably beautiful, perfectly realized, and so gorgeously well-tailored. They made me a bit reminiscent of Anna Karenina, so stunning they were.
Looper (2012)
Looper - quick review
My film critic review: Looper mixes mind-bending time-travel craziness, bloody action, great hilarity and very nicely done drama, all delivered in an astonishingly creative and original way. Extremely well-written, shot, acted and, clearly, directed.
Now the my fan-girl-y part: I knew it was good -- it turned out to be good raised to the 1000, meaning insanely good. Looper is a whole new level of fantastic that I have never experienced. I'm never using the word "amazing" for non-truly amazing things (those that don't match Looper's level of amazing) ever again.
Absolutely go see it.
Inception (2010)
Inception joins everything people love in a film: action, mystery, romance and a little bit of comedy
After seeing Inception 2 times in a row (yesterday and the day before) I can say certainly that this is one of the best films ever made. The cast is amazing and very well chosen, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cottilard. And besides that, the story is obviously incredibly made and the special effects couldn't be better.
The thing with the story is that Christopher Nolan doesn't reveal everything at the same time. He knows how to tell something and show something else and from those two things you can conclude something different. He shows us what the characters see but leaves space for the viewer to think about the matter.
After all, even someone that doesn't necessarily like this type of film, full of mystery and ideas to digest, will have to love something about it. Because everything in Inception is so well made, well created, well thought and well filmed, when you step out the cinema, you're thinking about how much of a genius Christopher Nolan is, or how obvious it is that the whipping-top fell on the table at the end of the film, or how Cobb or Mal are characters that have been created very thoroughly you are surprised someone could do that. There is an incredible amount of little details that can make you love Inception. For me, the idea of putting something in the brain of someone and letting it grow is amazing, and also, the 'paradox' that Arthur talks about in the film had always made me think and rethink about how things can look like something and be a lot different than what they might seem to be.
I have to mention the special effects too. When Ariadne starts manipulating the houses and building bridges from nothing in her dream, I was so surprised by how well the special effects were made that I only thought about the concept of manipulating objects like the character did when I saw Inception for the second time...
There are so many disturbing things about Inception (the idea and the whole film) you kind of have to wait for a minute to not feel overwhelmed by everything. It's a complicated story, but to understand it, you just have to open your mind and let the information flow through your brain.
10/10 You absolutely must see Inception. I think it may be one of the greatest if not THE GREATEST film of the last few years. There is no way it won't win some good Oscars :)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
The work of the director, plus the actors and the presence of the author got to the making of a great film
In my opinion, the book of the film is my least favorite. I don't like that much seeing the love triangle. But the movie is a lot better than I expected. Xavier Samuel did an amazing job with Riley. He has future. I think actors have been getting better from film to film and this one just arrived at the top. Robert Pattinson evolved a lot from Twilight to now and he did one so great job that when I was looking at the screen I couldn't even see Robert, I only saw Edward Cullen. Obviously, makeup and special effects were better too, but the wolves! Oh my god, if they weren't much better! This wasn't any Avatar, clearly, but from what David Slade could do with the book... That director did an amazing job. I think he will win some kind of award some day for a film he will have directed. He really knows how things should work. What to put in the film, what to cut from the book even with the screenwriter having to do some of that work. That was an explendid movie. Blew my mind up from what I was expecting, really. David Slade has much more of a brain than Catherine Hardwicke or Chris Weitz have... And the thing is that Stephenie Meyer actually was present at the shoots most of the time, so I guess that was as important as the director's vision. But really, better than ever!
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
This resumes the opinion of the people who were waiting for the Tim Burton Masterpiece
I saw it yesterday, and believe me, I wasn't sleepy before. By the break, I was so sleepy. I didn't like it very much. I thought it would be funnier and more wonderful. It wasn't. And some people say it was disappointing because of the expectations. Maybe they're right, but still, about the special effects, I didn't thought they were amazing. I mean, in Avatar, at least everything was CGI, in Alice there were people and CGI backgrounds and that was a big of a mess... I really was hoping for the Tim Burton Masterpiece. I know there are people that loved it, just like with Avatar. Actually, my aunt hated Avatar and loved Alice, so that's what I'm trying to tell you people. Some like, others love, others hate. I was hoping for much more, for better quality and the masterpiece. I guess it was funny watching Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway on those outfits anyway...