soneb Reviews

Children Underground (2001)

Excellent

[10/10 · 26 April 2005]

Well, I had just come back from work at about 2am in the morning. I turn on my TV and switch through the channels, and on SBS I find this amazing documentary about the Romanian 'underground children'.

This documentary really gave an honest (raw) view of the street kids life, which I found to be both fascinating and disturbing.. What I found interesting was the fact that a lot of them (in my view) 'enjoyed' or customised to the street life and really didn't want to be helped. I personally could see their justification for this at the beginning of the documentary as they all had friends, a place to sleep and a type of community. Though near the end, when it showed them a year or so later it made me quite sad to think that a lot of them are really on their own and loosing their grip on reality due to sniffing paint everyday, especially 'Macarena'. I really dread to think where this girl is now, considering that she is probably around the age of 16 or 17.

Anyhow, whether you care about the homeless or not this documentary really is interesting. Highly recommended.

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Why don't these type of movies try to take themselves seriously?

[4/10 · 19 April 2005]

OK, as far as fight sequences and action goes this is not bad. Though I just don't understand why this movie doesn't try to take itself seriously?

What I mean is if you replaced all this cliché' lines and obvious over-acting with a solid story line about vampires, there is no reason (in my opinion) that this wouldn't work.

Take the X-Men movie for example. I loved this movie because even though most of us realise that super-humans are not real, it still showed us the reality of what would be if they were. I really wish blade trinity (not so much the previous blade movies) tried to do this, especially since many people believe or want to believe in vampires.

I personally enjoy a movie a lot more when I can get lost in the illusion of it, rather than being prompted every 10 minutes that it is just another Hollywood action movie.