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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010)
David Yates finally nailed it!
At last the World of Harry Potter comes to real life. You never found this world of Wizards and Witches, the world of J.K. Rowling, as alive as in this movie. It all works out. With this movie J.K. Rowling is now responsible for a real true artwork. David Yates translates the book perfectly into a movie and he does that with a language and style which will make this movie unforgettable.
It is the the perfectly balanced entertainment. Between all threats, all evil there is a lot of love and humor and the Harry Potter-stuff finally becomes the awesome adventure it always could have been. The great thing about it is, that this great adventure, this thrilling story, this wondrous and fantastic world is carried by real characters and the movie takes it's time for them. There is real drama going on.
I don't know how it to watch The Deathly Hallows without knowing the books or movies before it, but I know, that this movie-part was just absolutely satisfying for me. There is no weak point, nothing to complain for me.
To put it in a nutshell: David Yates' directing is marvellous, it's pure energy and pure sensitivity for drama and story.
Perfect :)
Adam Resurrected (2008)
strange and stupid
There you have at least two great actors who really give what they can but there's no director.
These two actors, Goldblum and Dafoe, are all alone in this insane brain sh... Nobody can explain them their purpose and so the audience is lost in this strange story which probably wants to make sense but there is no one who can press any sense and logic out of it.
It probably could have been a movie that is strange and disturbing and which make you think about humor and hope but sadly it's a movie which is strange, embarrassing and stupid.
There should have been a director, who is just as crazy as the story itself. I think Paul Schrader is a too boring person.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Who is the bigger genius?
I'm still not sure how to rate that movie. 8/10, 9/10 or 10/10? Somehow I didn't feel very satisfied at the end. I was missing a little more... i don't know, but there was this certain something that was missing.
BUT! But at the end I came out of the cinema and I asked myself: Who is the bigger genius - David Yates or Bruno Delbonnel? You could discuss for very long how you like the story, but the way the story is told here is absolutely beautiful. David Yates has found a very powerful and very graceful and stylish language of pictures. And with Delbonnel he has found a very visionary artist who painted the most extraordinary pictures for him.
BUT! But that's not all. Yates has proved that he is an actor-director, too. He really was able to push the skills of the actors to the right point. From the three leads over Jim Broadbent till Alan Rickman I was very surprised and I hope we will see a lot more of Bonham Carter next time!
The imagination of the combination of this style of story telling and that, what's gonna happen in the next two movies makes me really nervous! After Half Blood Prince David Yates has to give everything he can or otherwise I will be really easy disappointed.
Brüno (2009)
A must if you can take it!
I'm from Germany and i just came out of the cinema.
First of all I have to say: the dubbing (sadly but true this is standard here in Germany) was terrible. I must watch it again in English, because I expect it to be a lot funnier.
BUT: Although I cried while laughing. Borat is a children's movie against this. I guess Baron Cohen is born without a shame-gen or I don't know. But he definitely is a genius. This movie is totally disturbing but most of all revealing, because it shows a disturbing reality: it shows the disturbed relationship especially of men to their own sexuality and sexuality itself and it reveals the scary nature of a patriarchic dominated society that is feared to lose control and in which people are so anxious to understand and to deal with their so small minds in this big big multifaceted and multicultural beautiful world.
He's gay... okay!
Breaking Bad (2008)
15 Hours of Art
I've never seen anything like this before. These so far two seasons about a man, a father, a husband, a chemical-teacher who gets cancer and start to try out as a drug dealer is a step-by-step-analysis of which consequences this decision can have on your life, family and friends. It's a emotionally roller-coaster ride without big gun shoot-outs or explosions though it shows that many mean things are getting to control your life.
This show doesn't fill every clichéd that is connected to a drug dealer story so it can reach it's sure audience. No! It tries to figure out (and of course it never can be reality, but it's trying to get as close as it can) how to deal with these chliches when they're suddenly entering and ruling your ordinary, normal, average life.
You cannot call this a movie, though you'd like to, because it's the only thing that you can relate to that ever reached such quality. And this is why I don't want to devalue Breaking Bad just to a TV- Series that can be seen randomly on TV. Again: No! It's 15 Hours of high quality. It's 15 Hours of the best thing made out of picture and sound ever made. It's 15 Hours of Art. Art in Directing. Art in Cinematography and especially Art in Writing and Acting.
I love it!
The Reader (2008)
Disturbing, Amazing!
First i thought: what's this? now the academy feels like they have to give the Oscar to Kate Winslet for her next best movie. but this movie is not just a next best movie. Revolutionary Road perhaps could be this, but definitely not The Reader.
movies like this are rare, because it not happens often that a novel adaptation is that genius. and this is special, because this story goes very deep into emotional intentions and human behavior and is beyond from every moral. the characters are written and described very honest and it is a blessing to find a actor on this planet, that is able to give such a realistic and intense portrait. and Kate Winslet really is this blessing. i was blown away by her performance and it even is not just a performance anymore. she brought Hannah Schmitz to life. she lived her character Hannah Schmitz!
of course all other actors are to be mentioned. David Kross and Ralph Fiennes as well.
but there is a director needed, that has the ability to get from actors so much and not every director can do this. but Steven Daldrey has proved in all his movies that he has a talent to get from actors what is more than necessary. he really does what seems impossible: he can create an intensity in this movie that usually only can be created by novels. amazing!
Alexander (2004)
Just boring!
I've watched this movie a week ago. again. i couldn't really remember why i didn't like it after the first time. now i do.
if Oliver Stone asked what i think about it, i would say: "well, Mr. Stone, you are one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. that's for sure! and somehow i can't judge if Alexander is good or bad. i mean i love the big battle at(the end of the) the beginning. but what i know for sure is: it's boring. this movie may be made very thoughtful and with talent and whatever, but it's so god damn boring! i can't help myself, but it's just ultimately boring! and that's for sure! by the way: what's that with all this gay stuff? it doesn't make the movie worse or better (and i'm gay myself!) but what... how... where... why?" The last time i saw Alexander was the second time and definitely the last time, too!
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Nice, but not genius
This film is of good work. it's well played, well directed and even better written. i love Zimmers score.
but at the end this movie is just on of the top of this year. unlike Slumdog Millionaire or The Dark Knight, which will remain forever.
i like Frank Langella. his portrait of Nixon is very well composed and emotionaly authentic. but his emotional depth can never run with Penns portrait of Harvey Milk or with Mickey Rourke, who luckily had the opportunity to play mostly himself.
Martin Sheen was great, too. but as always - i don't know if it are the scripts or he himself - he is not able to give his character real depth or make it a complex, interesting character.
Ron Howard made all out of this movie, that could have been done with it. that's great. but with a dark Knight or a Slumdog Millionaire you can do better. and Nolan and Boyle did!
The Departed (2006)
Scorsese at his best! But what's with Gibson?
Of course this movie is excellent. it contains everything we love on a Scorsese film.
he deserves his Oscar as best director this year, but it's a shame that nobody confronts his great job with Mel Gibsons directing on APOCALYPTO.
when i went out the cinema after DEPARTED i knew i've seen a great movie, but APOCALYPTO is more than just a great movie. it's a milestone in movie history and not "just excellent Hollywood" as Scorsese's DEPARTED.
so, when you talk about Scorsese's great work please don't forget Mel Gibson's work, which is remarkable, too... or in my opinion better!