Decent science fiction film.
We are in the future, in a society where sentiments have been banished (canceled) and human beings (if you can still consider them) live without experiencing emotions.
But a disease (seen as the plague and treated as such) arouses emotions that are now well-suited; the film focuses on Silas (Nicholas Hoult) who finds himself at the first stage of the disease. He falls in love with Nia (Kristen Stewart), who, unlike him, tries to hide the onset of symptoms.
Interesting is the idea of treating feelings as a very serious infectious disease, but it is at times as slow as the spectator, like the protagonists, has to adapt to these new and upsetting sensations. At some point it is likely to become a Romeo and Juliet with a couple of quotes and not just that.
Discreet the finale in which the saying prevails: No one is stronger than love.
In the rest of the cast to be cited by Guy Pearce as Jonas, the one who introduces Silas into a kind of support group like Anonymous Alcoholics, Jacki Weaver is Bess.
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Discreet French romantic comedy.
Diana (the beautiful Virginie Efira), a lawyer who has been divorced for three years but is a partner with ex husband, receives a phone call from Alexandre (Jean Dujardin) who has found her cell phone. She accepts a sort of appointment in the dark (he looks kind and sympathic) but will discover a small physical defect of Alexandre: he is a short man, only 1.36 m high.
It's hard to shrink Jean Dujardin, at times it works pretty well as a visual impression, sometimes it's a bit of trouble to figure it out (no tricks are used).
The film is cute, sometimes smiles, and takes more of a romantic film with Alexandre's physical defect that comes to their love. But love overcomes everything, including prejudices and physical defects. -
Fair comedy with fantasy elements.
Max (Adam Sandler) is a shoemaker in New York, who leads a normal existence even if he is not fully satisfied with his life. He runs a small family shop where he repairs shoes and lives with his elderly mother.
At a certain point he discovers a magical sewing machine (family legacy) that allows him, wearing the shoes of the customers, to dress the clothes of other people.
Initially, Max behaves like a child; use the gift of the machine to get the best possible benefits. From eating in a restaurant without paying, to visit the girl of her dreams. But over time he will begin to develop a little consciousness, he will learn that this "hobby" can also be dangerous and will try to exploit the machine's powers to do good deeds.
Discreet movie, Adam Sandler does not excite me as an actor but is perfect for the role; in the first part you sometimes smile at Max's transformations, in the second a little more action with Max who gets into trouble.
In the cast to quote Steve Buscemi in the role of his friend barber Jimmy, Dustin Hoffman is the father who "abandoned" him, Ellen Barkin is the terrible Elaine Greenawalt. -
I thought it was a huge bullshit and instead the film is passable for an evening of relaxation (without too much effort).
Lieutenant Mitch (Dwayne "The rock" Johnson) is a lifeguard (but do not call him that alone) that with the help of CJ (the wonderful Kelly Rohrbach) and Stephanie (Ilfenesh Hadera) has to choose the new recruits for three places in the team .
Among the candidates there are the swaggering champion of swimming Matt Brody (Zac Efron), the beautiful Summer (Alexandra Daddario) and the shy and a little clumsy Ronnie (Jon Bass). But the team is not only responsible for rescues but also for the protection of the beach and when a new drug comes out of the sand, Mitch and associates will try to find out where they came from.
The initial dislike of Matt Brody and the incidents of the dick (excuse vulgarity but it is a double meaning wanted) of Ronnie are the lowest points of the film but has a good rhythm and smiles often especially for the bickering between Matt and Summer that manages to keep it enough to brake responding to tone. Even during the investigation there is some low point (the scene in the morgue, for example) but all in all I thought worse.
Also some quotes from the original series, with some teasing as for example the protagonists who always seemed to run in slow motion (especially the girls for reasons quite obvious).
In the rest of the cast to quote Priyanka Chopra (Indian actress seen in the series "Quantico) in the role of the rich Victoria Leeds and the cameos of David Hasselhof (nice final bicker with Mitch) and Pamela Anderson (practically useless instead his cameo). -
Another version of the Frankenstein monster, this time seen from the point of view of Igor the assistant of Dr. Frankenstein.
Igor (Daniel Radcliffe) is a deformed clown working in a circus; when the scientist Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) frees him from his imprisonment, Igor becomes his assistant.
To obstruct the two we find a detective from Scotland Yard, Turpin (Andrew Scott), a Catholic who then sees badly (to put it mildly) the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein.
Change the point of view of history, that of Igor that despite a brilliant mind, for his deformity was always seen as a person to be mocked; so it is a sort of redemption on his part that of giving a hand to a doctor even if the latter loses a bit of moral sense in the fury of his experiments.
The film is still interesting despite the story is very well known; chilling the first animal experiment of Victor, there is also space for the love story between Lorelai (Jessica Brown Findlay of "Downtown Abbey"), circus acrobat, and Igor with Lorelai who plays the part of Igor's good conscience. Igor is in fact is prey of doubts between the gratitude to Victor for having freed him from the imprisonment of the circus and the "morality" of his experiments.
In the rest of the cast to quote Charles Dance in the role of Victor's father.
