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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Should tank in the box office
I believe this movie has terrible flaws. It is pretentious and not particularly well acted; the visual effects are many times terrible, even some of the blue screens look like effects created with back projection. I'm guessing Disney's idea with this film is to compete with Harry Potter or with LOTR, I think they are failing miserably. If they are lucky enough they might recover the 150M they spend in this film, I just hope they don't decide to make the next books into films. As an investing tip, sell all your Disney stock or hope that Pixar's Cars will be as good as all the other Pixar films, if not, you are better off flushing your money down the toilet. Whatever happened to good screenplay writers in Disney? People wonder why the box office slump, well, it is easy, big studios spend 150M creating movies like Narnia. Avoid this movie, you have been warned, if you see it, it would be at your own risk.
Una de dos (2002)
This is what new mexican movies where missing
México's tradition of rural and norteño towns is explored in this fabulous movie. Tiaré Scanda, one of Mexico's best actresses delivers a funny and very alive Constitución (Constitution, yes, that's her character's name) While Erika de la Llave's Gloria is not half bad. The screenplay of this film is very brilliant; one can see the work done between the director and the original book's author (they are both credited for the screenplay). The direction is one of it's most superb assets, every actor in the film (specially Scanda and de la Llave) deliver a excellent performance, very well fitted into the film. Maybe it's only failure is that is has some minor technical flaws, such as some inconsistencies in the sound editing and in the timing of the image. Still, those mistakes are forgettable in the context of this funny and brilliant movie. If you are in the US and want to know a little bit about how Mexican "pueblitos norteños" (northern small little towns) are then go and see Una de Dos, if you are elsewhere, I still promise you a good laughter