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The Most Beautiful Day (2015)
A subtle, yet powerful emotional roller-coaster
I had high expectations, when I started watching this short film as I had been looking forward to seeing it for a long time. I was a bit skeptical at first, when realizing the film was in English, while the person, who plays the main character is Estonian (although I should have realized the movie was in English a long time ago). And I have to say, some of the talking bits Sherman (Einar Kuusk) did, were slightly awkward and unnatural. Fortunately though, there were just a few of them and so you could easily look past that awkwardness.
What was really impressive, however, was the production quality of it all. Everything from sets and props to color correction and cinematography. It was just visually really pleasing and when combined with the Hans Zimmer-y soundtrack by Ross Budgen, you got immersed deep into the film really easily.
Apart from a few hiccups in acting or editing in some parts, which were bound to happen on a debut short film such as is this one, it is really one stellar piece.
The Host (2013)
Awful attempt
It was too fast paced, especially the beginning. You didn't develop a connection to the characters.
The whole reason of this book is to show how human relationships change through a long period of time. It's basically impossible to put the book into a 2h movie, they tried to in a way do it for the twilight fangirl teens who read the book for the love story, which to their disappointment wasn't as good as in twilight. So they stuck as much kissing as they possibly could and made it more dramatic, doing so they just left both sides disappointed.
The film has defeated every purpose of the book. It tried it's best to make the most of the few exiting moments and tried it's best to do something but it just ended being a failed attempt. Only from those occasional instances the movie tried to be super emotional and stuff, which didn't lead anywhere. They just we're on their own, not connecting to anything.
Film was bad, book was good.
Even if you look the film as a stand alone piece it's not worth your while.
The ending was nice and just how it was in the book, which was really nice, but the rest was bad.
EDIT - Oh my f*cking god, I can't believe the praising comments. Just to clarify, I didn't see the movie for action, I am not a fangirl, in fact I'm male and I like Meyer's books not for the romance but the way it is written to be captivating. OK, I did expect this movie to be like the book, maybe that's why I didn't like it at all. Maybe I'm not able to see it in a perspective a person who hasn't read the book would. I still don't like the movie, sorry. The acting was quite good but the cutting was too much. It was too short for me. But I understand that this is the best they could do with the timelimit they had. I think the same problem was with the Harry Potter 5th film. A lot of stuff was cut, but there they changed it to make a different sort of story with the stuff they could put in. I don't know anymore if the Host movie is great of awful. I'm confused. I still lean on the nope side, though.