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“Apparently, it was not enough to adapt so many books written by Stephen King, now, they have decided to adapt also the books written by his kids as well. Well, even though it was not bad at all, at least, it was better than 'Mirrors' which was probably the last movie I saw directed by Alexandre Aja.” read more
2016 movies - Personal review and Awards - (36 movies items)
“To be honest. even though I did like 'The Force Awakens', I thought it was slightly disappointing. Indeed, like many others, I thought it was way too similar to 'A New Hope'. However, thanks to this last entry, I finally understood what they tried to achieve with 'The Force Awakens' which was basica” read more
“First of all, let me address the elephant in the room. Of course, the fact that Dax Shepard managed to hook up with someone like Kristen Bell gives hope to many ordinary guys in the world but, let's be serious, it is actually rather sad to see such a cute girl end up with someone rather unattractive” read more
“To be honest, I don't think I really needed, at this point, another version of this classic Shakespeare play. Especially since the previous version I saw (a modern Australian version starring Sam Worthington) was just so weak. Still, since the two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, were play” read more
“For some reasons, it was a movie I wanted to watch for quite some time. To be honest, at first, I thought it was actually quite terrible. Indeed, basically, it was obvious that they went for some modern version of 'Cyrano de Bergerac' switching the sex of the characters. Well, I already didn't lik” read more
“To be honest, I really had no idea what this movie was about but since it seemed to be a decent horror flick, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, the beginning was quite promising. Indeed, Ethan Hawke is a solid actor and I loved the idea of this washed-up writer going to a new” read more
“I already saw this movie but since it was a while back and since it was available on Netflix, I was quite eager to check it out again. Back then, when this movie was released, Pixar and DreamWorks were already taking over the animated market with their CGI productions, Disney was quite struggling wi” read more
Cast : Tom Hanks, Laura Linney, Aaron Eckhart
What was it about?
The story of American pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who heroically landed a troubled aircraft full of passengers on the Hudson River
My two cents:
Since Eastwood had a big box-office success with ‘American Sniper’, he decided to once again tell the story of another American hero. Well, even though ‘American Sniper’ was quite popular, to be honest, I actually didn’t care much for this movie and I thought that this story was actually much more interesting. Still, I didn’t really like the approach they chose to tell this true story. Basically, the tricky thing was that the crash and the rescue altogether didn’t even take an hour so they had to add some stuff to reach a decent running time (eventually, it was still only 96 mins and the shortest film directed by Eastwood). Eventually, they tried to focus on the fact that Sully was, at first, blamed by the NTSB of reckless flying but, even though it might have been true, it didn’t result in something really interesting. Indeed, what the guy did was just simply amazing, he saved everyone for crying out loud and it felt like a waste of time to spend so much time on the NTSB arguing otherwise.
My rating: 6/10
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“Apparently, Clint Eastwood has found a new gimmick as this movie was already his 4th biopic in a row. On top of that, since he had a big box-office success with ‘American Sniper’, he decided to once again tell the story of another American hero. Well, even though ‘American Sniper’ was quit” read more
2016 - Best lists of the year -
“I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. Well, to be honest, I have never been a huge fan of this movie. Indeed, I always had a hard time with Disney's animated features starring some talking animals but, at least, I have to admit it, in t” read more
Notes: Personally, I always had a rather hard time with John Hugues. Indeed, by now, I have seen almost all his directing efforts and none of his movies really impressed me. However, there was one notable exception and it is this flick which was indeed quite amazing. First of all, it was the first movie directed by Hughes that I saw so maybe I wasn’t fed up yet with his directing style. Above all, I thought it was the only movie he made for which I thoroughly enjoyed the tone. Indeed, usually, I think the plots he develops are utterly childish and hardly entertaining. This time, even though there were some fun moments, there were also some rather grim scenes and the balance between those moods was very well done. On top of that, the characters, who are usually terribly underwhelming in his work, were very well written, quite complex and rather fascinating to behold. It has always been said that John Hughes was great at creating some compelling portrayals of teenagers but I rather disagree. In my opinion, his teenagers are usually some underwhelming walking clichés but, in this movie, I have to admit it, he got it right though and gave the right amount of self-righteousness, arrogance and lack of self-esteem and confidence.