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How It Ends (2018)
Anti-Climax
It's a fairly good movie with good performances by the cast, but there is no resolution. You never find out what happened and it ends with the protagonist and his wife running from a giant pyroclastic flows.
Is this film a pilot for a series? If so, it might make a good one, and it could answer questions not resolved in the movie.
Free the Nipple (2013)
Massive hypocrisy
To be fair I turned this movie off almost at once. If you want to make a film about women's rights to be legally equal to men, and you title your film after a political movement to show breasts are not offensive, sexual or shameful you don't blur out the women's breasts. By doing so you are sending the exact opposite message. By blurring out the breasts this film is saying that they should stay covered because it might offend someone.
This film is a waste of time and money. It works in direct opposition to women's rights.
If you want to make a film like this you must have the courage to actually free the nipple. Otherwise, don't bother.
Le nom des gens (2010)
Delightful, intelligent comedy
It is the ultimate "opposites attract" love story. Arthur Martin is a perfectly ordinary (15207 other men in France share his name) shy, conservative late-middle aged single man working for the Government. He was raised by boring scientist technophiles who have consistently invested in great ideas that all turn out to be flops.
Baya Benmahmoud is a one of a kind (She is the only person in France named Baya Benmahmoud) young, beautiful, intelligent but scattered brained super-liberal activist raised by her hippy mother and illegal immigrant Algerian father. Her mission in life is to sleep with conservative "fascists" in order to turn them to the proper liberal ideal.
Baya finds Artur and launches her "make love not war" mission. She follows her proved method turning his world up-side-down. But this time, perhaps Baya has finally met her match. Everything changes for Baya when Arthur performs a kindness for her father that turns Baya's world up-side-down.
"If you can't trust the ducks, that is a bad sign."
Emperor (2012)
One of the best
This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It covers a historical event where government officials acted in a wise manner, and in a way that could badly damage their political standing.
At the end of WWII the American people were very angry with Japan and the Japanese government for the sneak attack that killed 2000 Americans, all of the Americans killed in the war and atrocities committed by the Japanese against American POW's. Much of this anger was directed at Emperor Hirohito who was seen as the instigator of the war.
General Douglas MacArthur was placed in charge of the occupation force in Japan and tasked with the job of finding and arresting war criminals. MacArthur knew what the execution of Hirohito would do to the Japanese people and desperately needed an excuse to spare him.
The film follows the efforts of General Bonner Fellers who, under MacArthur's orders was placed in charge of this difficult job. Fellers though has another very personal mission: Discovering the fate of a young Japanese woman he had fallen in love with before the war and tried to protect after being placed in charge of strategic bombing missions against Japan by rerouting them away from where she lived.
Several people share their stories with him of what happened during the war, including his girlfriend's uncle who had served in the military in the war.
It is rare for government officials to act wisely and even more rare for film makers to produce such a fine work as Emperor!
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
JJ Abrams does it again!
Yet again JJ Abrams sullies the name "Star Trek". Gene Roddenberry had a certain view of the future and a vision for Star Trek that he fought like hell to keep in the movies and TV shows. After he died his wife carried that touch as best she could but after she passed there was no one left to fight the fight. People like Abrams could take Star Trek anywhere they wanted. This time he is not even original, stealing story lines from other Star Trek stories. It's like watching season 1 and 2 of TNG!
Into Darkness is defiantly full of action, if that's what you like you might still enjoy this film. But the action and excitement of this film falls just short of making up for the unlikable characters, implausible events (like hiding Enterprise under the sea. Would it not be FAR better to hide it in orbit?) and unoriginal story line.
I would not have so many problems with this film if it wasn't trying to be Star Trek. It is a fairly good action flick (which is why I gave it a 3 instead of a 1) but in taking the Star Trek title, it should at least try to keep within Gene Roddenberry's vision. We owe the man that much at least. Instead Abrams is only out to make as much money as possible using Star Trek. Ironic considering Roddenberry's vision of a non-monetary economy.