MAMMA MIA

I can still recall ok ok it's not a NEW MOVIE, but I was on my way to NYC some weeks ago and feeling very tired and this movie was on the list of movies showing during the flight on those small TV sets they have now on intercontinental flights so I watched again:

"MAMMA MIA"

Big production, nice style, good actors, amazing Meryl Streep dancing like a young girl, very good acting, they really seems to be having real fun while shooting this movie and this complicity transparent to the screen.



Some minor errors specially in continuity and synchronicity sometimes but not enough to cause any trouble to the movie.

The idea is quite simple and already made millions of fans on the musical presentations, using well known musics and create a plot where those musics fit in without any trouble. Sounds easy.

The story: The girl who's getting married and plan to stay taking care of her mothers small hotel on a paradisaical Greek island. She wants to know who her father is and finds three possible men in her moms diary, she decides to invite them for the wedding without telling anyone and thats where all the quiproco starts. But since this is a musical it all ends more than well.

It all takes place on this amazing greek island (which is been trying to surf on the movie's success to increase its tourism there with their website: http://www.mamma-mia-island.com/)

You really have a good relaxing time watching this musical, it's well edited, the frames are good, they could have used a little less the color correction and the scratch software and maybe have a third and final part which could have been a little less longer with the Meryl Streep solo of "The winner takes it all"

A part from that the musical is very successful. You feel like getting on a plane and going to the greek islands, it's summer time all over again. That's the magic of this musical. A little easy film that is up to it's pretentious: make us relax.

Final words: A good pass-time. worth watching.

The curious case of BENJAMIN BUTTON

Oh yes... today let me talk about :

"The Curious case of Benjamin Button"

Again, a very promising story, good casting, big budget but unfortunately we can say that the director was like a child with a new toy: using and abusing of the effects and editing.

I had a "Déjà vu" impression when I watched this movie, the script had many unnecessary parts which were supposed to make us laugh such as the man who was strike by lightning 7 times and every time we would see a small clip old-fashion style of the lightning bolt. It was very "Amélie Poulain" like and totally unnecessary and annoying.

The movies is too long, too slow and a part from the fact that he's old and getting young. All the rest is not interesting. The fable just don't work hence I got so bored I slept through some parts.

Cate Blanchett and Queenie are the only ones worth while in this movie. Cate is as usual astonishing and plays beautifully. Brad Pitt on the other hand is loosing hand, he's flat in this movie, I can't believe he even got a nomination for the Oscars.

It's not that I don't like love stories or big blockbusters with famous actors, I just wish some directors would stop taking us viewers for granted.

Final words for this film: Boring, Not worth it!

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

For this first article I decided to talk about the last film I watched:

"SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE"

I watched at home with a DVD lent by a friend who works for a cinema festival, I was happy in the end because I would have regretted so much If i'd payed a ticket to see this movie on a theater!

I love this directors' work but I hate when in the movie business they just create fake trends or fashions in order to defend their lack of new ideas.

Slumdog Millionaire is nothing new, is nothing interesting it starts by the protagonists at young age, very cliché the poor boy from the slums who's always in trouble and who losses everything including his mother and is betrayed by older brother. It sounds and looks like "déjà vu" as an indian "CITY OF GODS".

Then the story just follows on the "clichéism" and bad editing altering one TV program question and a flashback to let us know how the poor boy new the answers to those questions.

As the film goes by we just get bored by the lack of interesting story, as a matter of fact we know the end from the very beginning, and from its diagonal camera shots that instead of making it look cool or interesting just makes us annoyed.

I don't understand why all the buzz around this movie, I tried to avoid to see it but after listening to people adoring it i decided to let myself go and watch it. well I regret it.

Under the excuse the director had no new ideas and wanted to do a tacky-cliché-fable-love-story he just chose to say: "I wanted to do a bollywood movie!" that's the easiest excuse from a director in order to defend a bad tacky no interest story.

Final words: Not worth seeing it !