I watched this movie in Germany, yesterday. Fortunately, they showed the original English version. I had very high expectations and they weren't reached...they were surpassed! The Dark Knight is Christopher Nolan's best movie and number one of my favourite movies. Good dialogues, better action and best joker ever! Yes, Heath Ledger did the performance of his lifetime. This joker is so realistic, scary, funny and crazy that it's just unbelievable. He's a paranoid villain, a messenger of anarchy who prays chaos. All in one and Heath mastered it perfectly. Of course, all actors are great in this movie and so the visually stunning pictures compared with perfect background music and the clever plot (as expected from the director of prestige and memento) with Heath's performance makes it to an unforgettable movie, to a modern MASTERPIECE.
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99 Francs
(2007)
Reality meets fiction
29 July 2008
Yesterday, I saw this movie in a sneak preview of a German cinema. In Germany this film is called 39,90 like the title of a book from Frédéric Beigbeder that is also an impeachment against the advertising industry. 99 francs is a funny, cruel and "sloping style" satire. It provides an funny and terrifying real insight into the world of advertisement. Coevally, this film is something like a personality profile of a man that is a victim the world he created. A unreal, pseudo-world, in which you can get everything for money.Nothing in 99 francs is subtle, like advertising isn't subtle. Advertising is mostly one: No, not annoying. It's repetition. The repetition of itself and - in content - of references in movies, literature and art. And so it's logical that this movies refers to all different culture historical things to charge consumerism. So there are allusions to "A Space Odyssey" or "Fight Club". I think you have to see this movie to make up your own mind because it's really hard to describe this visually stunning movie because feels like a roller coaster with lots of loops.
300
(2006)
They gave their last breath to defend it!
28 July 2008
This movie is a great and almost perfect conversion of Frank Miller's comic book. You should keep in mind that this movie is neither a documentary nor a historical disquisition about the battle of thermopylae. It's just a bloody ACTION MOVIE with lots of special effects. The battles are visually stunning, grandiose staged, well-choreographed and breath-taking. You can admire the fights in slow- and fast motion and with good background sounds. Gerard Butler's (Leonidas) performance was incredible, nobody fits better in the role of Leonidas! Of course there are not many dialogues in which he's involved but then, at last, when he screams "THIS IS WHERE WE HOLD'EM. THIS IS WHERE WE FIGHT AND THIS IS WHERE THEY DIE!" you will know why he's the perfect Leonidas. This movie is also full of symbols: The arrow's will blot out the sun, armies cause the earth to tremble, soldiers are moving like gazelles...In my opinion this is movie is pure entertainment and the new benchmark of bloody action movies. The cinema... THIS IS WHERE THEY FIGHT. THIS IS WHERE WE WATCH THEM.
The Prestige
(2006)
Wizard of Oz is nothing compared to Christopher Nolan
28 July 2008
The prestige is about two rivaling magicians in London during the turn of the century. Nolan accomplished a unique, not to say magical movie. From the actors and their performances to the dialogs to the background music...everything is presented in a magical way. Every great movie consists of three acts. The first act is called The Pledge: The movie shows you something ordinary, but of course it isn't. The second act is called The Turn: The movie makes his ordinary something do something extraordinary. Now, if you're looking for the secret
you won't find it. That's why there's a third act, called The Prestige. This is the part with the twists and turns, where lives hang in balance, and you see something shocking you've never seen before. You have just seen The Prestige! :)
Earth
(2007)
more than a documentary
28 July 2008
I saw this movie with my family and it was great! This film is more than just a documentary (that offers not more than cold facts) with long mono/-duologue's and lots of charts...The complete "power" of this movie comes from the impressive pictures being filmed under water, in the air or the Arctic.With watching this movie you can learn more about our planet than with just reading a book, it shows that WE are embedded in the circular flow of life. This movie is not only for "environmental fanatics" although people that want to look a good movie with a message should watch it. This movie taught me that we are not only living on the earth...we live with and through the earth and all plants and animals grow and die with us.
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