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Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
80% fiction...
i read the book "7 years in Tibet" from Heinrich Harrer and was fascinated of it. then i immediately grabbed the DVD and started to watch the movie. i remember the first time i saw it back in 98, i kinda liked it. well, now i watched it again in full knowledge of the book it is based on. and soon i realized how WRONG it all was told:
when they enter Lhasa the people start to stick their tongues out of their mouths and Thewlis and Pitt have the impression that its the way to say hello in Tibet, so they greet back... in the book Harrer explains, that sticking the tongue out is a sign of absolute humbleness and loyalty in Tibet and they may do it in front of the Dalai Lama but certainly not for these two europeans! not only the mother but even the Dalai Lama himself was wearing glasses in the public. in the book Harrer mentions, that no one in Tibet wore glasses to that time(sorry forgot the reason, but its explained in the book too).the young Dalai Lama did, but only when he was alone and nobody could see him! and what about that Mao tse tung lookalike, destroying the mandala in front of the young "living buddha"?? childish... and the tailor made Harrer and Aufschnaiter tibetan clothes not European designer suits! why are so many events that really happened eliminated from the story, just to fill the time with a fictional love interest (the female tailor...)that is completely unimportant? just like the whole story about harrers son, rolf. not one word is mentioned about him or even any family member of harrer in the book. but that was OK for me because "7 years in Tibet" is not a book about harrers person. its about tibet. I'm very disappointed by this "adaption" of the famous book. and i bet heinrich harrer was, too... 3 stars, just for the cinematography.
Sueurs (2002)
french cinema is not dead!
I'm always happy when a new film comes out that is NOT American. i just read the name jean hugues anglade and "sweat"- then i grabbed it! this is another fine and weird role by anglade, who i love since his great performance in "killing zoe". as someone else posted, SWEAT reminds indeed a bit of "wages of fear" and "mad max"- but that was the only minor flaw 4 me. there is no hero, just villains and, unlike American movies nowadays u actually see men smoking cigarettes- and they are enjoying it! just like i expect from a french movie hehe. great cinematography, great atmosphere (marokko desert), great ending. Vive la France! :-D
Birth (2004)
sean is a bad boy...
either way u can see it. *spoilers ahead*
if he is just a very smart and coldblooded boy he is a little demon- and if he is sean in a new body then sean must have been a selfish arrogant b*st*rd anyway: all he did was making everyone around him unhappy or at least feeling uncomfortable. boy or man that person was not friendly to anyone! why didn't he accept his freakin karma and let anna live her new life without him in peace?suddenly he just stands in the room and brings tragic to all. the most satisfying scene 4 me was when annas fiancée lost control cos the boy didn't stop bother him kicking his chair from behind all the time. why the heck was the boy there at all?? little sean wants his wife back & he doesn't care for anything or anyone else. but when he is alone with anna u get the impression he doesn't care for her either lol. he was just... ignorant deluxe. everything else in this movie is 1st class, yes its a kind of paradox but i liked the style the direction the music(!) the casting (excluding the boy), everything was good quality. but the screenplay yes yes... strange situations where the actors react even stranger/more unrealistic. when it was clear that anne heche was seans lover i started guessing "will little demon boy now start to kill people?" well at the end bad boy sean has mercy and makes place for annas new life and man- but its too late, he did too much damage to her. she marries that nice man being a psycho wreck, crying all the time... 6 of 10 -the boys attitudes couldn't harm the films nice style and mood &nicole is a pleasure to watch, indeed. could have been more though :-/
Blade: Trinity (2004)
oh my god....
its all too clear to me that the writer/director used the blade franchise only to introduce the next generation of his invincible moneymaking models/heroes to us (the dumb audience): they are young they are pretty and of course they are both white. tell me when I'm wrong but i don't see that many movie series with a black man in the leading role. there goes another one... this movie is done 4 only one reason- to suck money from teenagers & to prepare them 4 "oncoming highlights" with hannibal king and abigail whistler. OK *spoilers* on the way: by far the most annoying thing 4 me was the girl listening to music while fighting the vampires- like its all a video game 4 her & u can see that she is a "progamer"(or maybe a cheater). yes, she handles dozens of vampires so easily (while enjoying some nice music), with her john carpenters "vampires" would be a 10 minute short film. when blade says "coochie coo" to the baby with stoic face i knew another great fantasy hero was dying, just like i knew it in terminator3 ("talk to the hand"). i don't even want to say anything about drake-boy (somehow he looked like a dockworker in his disco outfit).well maybe one question: what the hell did Dracula do in iraq?? oh and another: how did he transform into old whistler and other persons (thought Dracula didn't transform into humans..?) and why? and why the heck did he run away from blade???? the script is simply bad... no, I'm getting depressed remembering all those scenes, it is the burial of blade :-( funny thing the best one liner is not from ryan reynolds its from blade himself:
criminal psychiatrist:"who is our president?" blade:"an a**hole!" :-P