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“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since there was a decent cast involved and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. I have to admit that I had actually never heard of the Lyle the Crocodile series before watching this movie but I’m prett” read more
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Notes: It turned out to be a decent watch but, to be honest, not much more than that. Before the movie started, someone mentioned that it was said to be similar with 'Toni Erdmann' and there were definitely some similarities. An interesting thing with this movie was how it displayed that we are all supposed to behave in the public life, constantly fulfilling what the people around us might be expecting. As a result, we do engage very often in some rather vapid and/or tedious conversations because, well, it is expected from us. Well, this movie did display what might happen if we would do whatever we want, whenever we want but, if the end-result was maybe inspiring for 10 mins, it did become rather cringe-inducing fairly quickly though. Eventually, I thought it was also rather difficult to feel a connection with the two main characters. On one hand, the guy was a rather pathetic loser who constantly lied to get the attention of other people (and usually failed at it pretty badly). On the other hand, how should you act if your girlfriend suddenly acted completely different than usual? Concerning the girl, it was rather hard to judge her or what she was going through since we barely saw her before the hypnosis. By the way, concerning the whole hypnosis thing, I have some serious doubts that it would work this way in real life. Someone in our group had an interesting theory though, that everything never happened at all and that Vera experienced the whole thing while she was under the hypnosis (which would explain the countdown at the end meaning that she was finally coming out). I didn't experience the movie this way but this theory did make the whole thing much more coherent.
(May 2024)
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it seemed to have a decent reputation (it is included in the ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’ list, among other things), I was quite eager to check it out. Well, it turned out to be an extremely minimalistic feature, it’s” read more
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a solid cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, I did see the Danish version directed by Susanne Bier but it was a while back and I didn't remember it much. On the other hand, it probably allowed m” read more
“To be honest, I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of Metallica (In fact, I don't even have any of their albums). However, since this documentary seemed to have a solid reputation and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. First of all, even if I have never bee” read more
Notes: It is considered as the first ‘talking’ movie so it was pretty huge when it was released at the time. Well, I was rather surprised by how little dialogue was actually involved in the damned thing after all and they still used intertitles for most of the duration. Basically, the sound was mostly used for the songs performed by Al Jolson. The songs were actually all pretty good by the way. And, yet, during these songs, Jolson did improvise some dialogues and it was basically the first time ever that you had some audible dialogue. Well, I thought that even when you watch this movie almost 100 years later, the effect was still really neat. Concerning the movie itself, well, to be honest, the story is not really strong and you might wonder why it has been remade twice already (the Neil Diamond version has especially a really lame reputation). There was also the issue that Al Jolson was in his 40’s and at least 20 years too old to play this character, even if he was a great performer (it's quite incredible that they made exactly the same mistake with the Neil Diamond remake). There was also the fact that he kept performing with some blackface and, even though it was apparently a common practice at the time, it is still really unsettling to watch it nowadays. The weird thing, at least to me, was that Jolson didn’t sound like a black guy at all when he was singing so I didn’t really see the point of this make-up.
Notes: It is considered as the first ‘talking’ movie so it was pretty huge when it was released at the time. Well, I was rather surprised by how little dialogue was actually involved in the damned thing after all and they still used intertitles for most of the duration. Basically, the sound was mostly used for the songs performed by Al Jolson. The songs were actually all pretty good by the way. And, yet, during these songs, Jolson did improvise some dialogues and it was basically the first time ever that you had some audible dialogue. Well, I thought that even when you watch this movie almost 100 years later, the effect was still really neat. Concerning the movie itself, well, to be honest, the story is not really strong and you might wonder why it has been remade twice already (the Neil Diamond version has especially a really lame reputation). There was also the issue that Al Jolson was in his 40’s and at least 20 years too old to play this character, even if he was a great performer (it's quite incredible that they made exactly the same mistake with the Neil Diamond remake). There was also the fact that he kept performing with some blackface and, even though it was apparently a common practice at the time, it is still really unsettling to watch it nowadays. The weird thing, at least to me, was that Jolson didn’t sound like a black guy at all when he was singing so I didn’t really see the point of this make-up.
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was available on YouTube, I thought I might as well check it out, especially since it had quite an impact. Indeed, it is considered as the first ‘talking’ movie so it was pretty huge when it was released at the time. Well, I was ” read more
