10 movies in 1 month - July
I realized this only tonight, going out of the bus back home from the cinema...I watched the 10th movie of July that means...my 100th movie! Yes, it's already 10 months I'm doing this project and I didn't fail even once >< I'm so proud of myself! *bricked* :D Really, it's amazing :3 I'm totally happy! ♥
July was a great movie month anyway!
Hall Pass (12.7) & Blue Valentine (24.7)
Let's start with these two movies that are totally unconnected XD Hall Pass is a comedy movie with Owen Wilson, the story of two husbands that get a "pass" from their wives to spend a totally free and conseguences-less week, of course they try to have fun, flirt with girls and do many crazy stuff but in the end...oh well, the love of your life is always better, it seems. Anyway not a particularly good movie, a pair of laughter here and there but nothing more. I don't understand why comic movies must always turn very sexual, I think that sex jokes/scenes aren't the only and best way to make people laugh.
Blue Valentine, quite the opposite, was a pretty sad, depressing movie. As you probably know Shige said he watched it on his new radioshow Sorashige. It's the very delicate report of a love story, how it started, how it took shape and then how it ended. Nothing shocking, nothing violent, just reality on his most honest and true face, I really liked it because most of times movies want to show a not usual story instead this one was pretty common, all the same it was heart-breaking. When the movie is over you kinda feel like it's better to avoid love at all XD Shige said that after the movie he wanted to say: "I hate women! Men are mean too but women more!". Just like that, I felt the same (even if I think that the worst behaviour in the movie was the one of the husband U_U). It's funny that I had that feeling, I just read Sorashige's transcription, I didn't know what Shige said about the movie until now XD If it gives the same feeling to people all around the world it means that the movie is good I guess!
Season of the Witch (14.7) & Priest (17.7)
I guess you already understood that I like action movies, right? XD Season of the witch is a potentially good movie, it talks about a group of crusaders who must bring a witch to the city to be judged. During the travel they experience a lot of magical, scary things until the end when they understand why the girl is considered a witch and they have to fight the evil. I've always liked witches/Inquisition/Medioeval stories so I was attracted to it...but in the end it was another usual action movie with absurd stuff like zombie monks and devils :S I enjoyed it, it was exciting in the last big battle part, but still, not a memorable movie.
Priest too was a potentially great movie! Isn't this frustrating? I mean, the story was kinda old, a group of special trained priests who fight against the vampires (not in human shape) but the set was very cool! All setted in a post-apocalyptic scenary, steam punk style, it was very particular and interesting to watch. Anyway, even if also this one was exciting and funny for the action scenes it wasn't exactly a good movie. I recommend those two to people who like horror/action movies and have a free night to spend having light fun.
Spaceballs (18.7) & Labyrinth (19.7)
This was my wild idea...I wanted to watch all those cult 80s movies that somehow I haven't watched yet ^^ I started this month with those two. Spaceballs was made in the 1987 and it's a parody of Star Wars. Due to all the famous quotes I expected for something more funny but maybe I didn't enjoy it at his best because I watched it too late XD Anyway it made me laugh a lot, it's also cool to see how movies changed from the 80s to the current times. To do an example, if we compare it with Hall Pass, both are comic movies but Spaceballs is definitively more refined and witty, it has easy jokes as well but it's another type of comedy, not always vulgar.
Labyrinth is a movie of the 1986. I knew it was cool but...it amazed me! It's a fantasy story of a girl who has to escape a Labyrinth to reach her little brother who was kidnapped by the Goblin king, which is David Bowie *___* It reminded me another fantasy 80s movie, the Neverending Story, I liked it so much when I was a kid >< This one is really a good movie, a must-see!! Even if I'm more than 20 years old I enjoyed it like a child ♥
Roma città Aperta & 20 Sigarette (24.7)
These two will be a little hard to explain and most of you won't be interested in them since they are Italian >< Anyway they came out from an event I attended with my parents, we were invited to a military museum and after the exhibition there was the projection of these two movies, both about wars. "Rome Open City" is one of the most famous Italian movies, directed by Rossellini in 1945, it is set in Rome during the II World War's Nazi occupation. It talks in particular about 3 men who fought with the Resistance and their friends. It's a dramatic movie, it really express how the life was during the war, so scary and sad, expecially because Rome is my city and it was heavy to watch it during those years ><
The other one "20 cigarettes" is the autobiographical movie of Aureliano Amadei, a civil who survived to the terroristic attack in Nasiriyah (Iraq) where 19 Italian soldiers died. In the movie he shows how he found himself in Iraq, how he met the soldiers, the day of the attack and the next days of his recovery. It was a movie with a very strong, heavy impact. It showed all the horror and the violence of the attack, those scenes were taken as if he was holding a camera while explosions and shots were all around him so it was particularly shocking and impressive >< After the projection the very same man was there to be interviewed, it was surprising to me who didn't know too much about his story, it was very touching.
Harry Potter & the deathly hallows-Part II (13.7) & Captain America (29.7)
Those are my two cinema movies of the month. Harry Potter was of course unmissable, I follow the story since the first book, then the first movie, I grew up with Harry and his friends and I still can't believe that everything's over. I didn't like all the Harry Potter's movies, the two last ones were good, it's unavoidable that they cut many and many parts from the book and the readers will always be a little disappointed. Unexpectedly I wasn't too touched in the end XD I think that the waiting and the expectations made me more moved than the movie itself, I shed only a tear when Harry sees his parents and Sirius...I definitively want to watch it again soon anyway! Or maybe do a marathon and watch all the movies...
Today I saw Captain America, my 100th movie :3 I love all the Marvel movies so I enjoyed this one a lot as well! I hadn't many expectations because Captain America isn't one of my favourite superheroes but the movie was very nice, never boring, not too much absurd action, nice characters, hot guys >_> I honestly say: I can't fucking wait for next summer. I want to see The Avengers!! I flailed like crazy just watching the teaser at the end of this movie!! *___* Gosh...I really am a nerd XD
(Will post images when Lj will stop being an ass ><)
July was a great movie month anyway!
Hall Pass (12.7) & Blue Valentine (24.7)
Let's start with these two movies that are totally unconnected XD Hall Pass is a comedy movie with Owen Wilson, the story of two husbands that get a "pass" from their wives to spend a totally free and conseguences-less week, of course they try to have fun, flirt with girls and do many crazy stuff but in the end...oh well, the love of your life is always better, it seems. Anyway not a particularly good movie, a pair of laughter here and there but nothing more. I don't understand why comic movies must always turn very sexual, I think that sex jokes/scenes aren't the only and best way to make people laugh.
Blue Valentine, quite the opposite, was a pretty sad, depressing movie. As you probably know Shige said he watched it on his new radioshow Sorashige. It's the very delicate report of a love story, how it started, how it took shape and then how it ended. Nothing shocking, nothing violent, just reality on his most honest and true face, I really liked it because most of times movies want to show a not usual story instead this one was pretty common, all the same it was heart-breaking. When the movie is over you kinda feel like it's better to avoid love at all XD Shige said that after the movie he wanted to say: "I hate women! Men are mean too but women more!". Just like that, I felt the same (even if I think that the worst behaviour in the movie was the one of the husband U_U). It's funny that I had that feeling, I just read Sorashige's transcription, I didn't know what Shige said about the movie until now XD If it gives the same feeling to people all around the world it means that the movie is good I guess!
Season of the Witch (14.7) & Priest (17.7)
I guess you already understood that I like action movies, right? XD Season of the witch is a potentially good movie, it talks about a group of crusaders who must bring a witch to the city to be judged. During the travel they experience a lot of magical, scary things until the end when they understand why the girl is considered a witch and they have to fight the evil. I've always liked witches/Inquisition/Medioeval stories so I was attracted to it...but in the end it was another usual action movie with absurd stuff like zombie monks and devils :S I enjoyed it, it was exciting in the last big battle part, but still, not a memorable movie.
Priest too was a potentially great movie! Isn't this frustrating? I mean, the story was kinda old, a group of special trained priests who fight against the vampires (not in human shape) but the set was very cool! All setted in a post-apocalyptic scenary, steam punk style, it was very particular and interesting to watch. Anyway, even if also this one was exciting and funny for the action scenes it wasn't exactly a good movie. I recommend those two to people who like horror/action movies and have a free night to spend having light fun.
Spaceballs (18.7) & Labyrinth (19.7)
This was my wild idea...I wanted to watch all those cult 80s movies that somehow I haven't watched yet ^^ I started this month with those two. Spaceballs was made in the 1987 and it's a parody of Star Wars. Due to all the famous quotes I expected for something more funny but maybe I didn't enjoy it at his best because I watched it too late XD Anyway it made me laugh a lot, it's also cool to see how movies changed from the 80s to the current times. To do an example, if we compare it with Hall Pass, both are comic movies but Spaceballs is definitively more refined and witty, it has easy jokes as well but it's another type of comedy, not always vulgar.
Labyrinth is a movie of the 1986. I knew it was cool but...it amazed me! It's a fantasy story of a girl who has to escape a Labyrinth to reach her little brother who was kidnapped by the Goblin king, which is David Bowie *___* It reminded me another fantasy 80s movie, the Neverending Story, I liked it so much when I was a kid >< This one is really a good movie, a must-see!! Even if I'm more than 20 years old I enjoyed it like a child ♥
Roma città Aperta & 20 Sigarette (24.7)
These two will be a little hard to explain and most of you won't be interested in them since they are Italian >< Anyway they came out from an event I attended with my parents, we were invited to a military museum and after the exhibition there was the projection of these two movies, both about wars. "Rome Open City" is one of the most famous Italian movies, directed by Rossellini in 1945, it is set in Rome during the II World War's Nazi occupation. It talks in particular about 3 men who fought with the Resistance and their friends. It's a dramatic movie, it really express how the life was during the war, so scary and sad, expecially because Rome is my city and it was heavy to watch it during those years ><
The other one "20 cigarettes" is the autobiographical movie of Aureliano Amadei, a civil who survived to the terroristic attack in Nasiriyah (Iraq) where 19 Italian soldiers died. In the movie he shows how he found himself in Iraq, how he met the soldiers, the day of the attack and the next days of his recovery. It was a movie with a very strong, heavy impact. It showed all the horror and the violence of the attack, those scenes were taken as if he was holding a camera while explosions and shots were all around him so it was particularly shocking and impressive >< After the projection the very same man was there to be interviewed, it was surprising to me who didn't know too much about his story, it was very touching.
Harry Potter & the deathly hallows-Part II (13.7) & Captain America (29.7)
Those are my two cinema movies of the month. Harry Potter was of course unmissable, I follow the story since the first book, then the first movie, I grew up with Harry and his friends and I still can't believe that everything's over. I didn't like all the Harry Potter's movies, the two last ones were good, it's unavoidable that they cut many and many parts from the book and the readers will always be a little disappointed. Unexpectedly I wasn't too touched in the end XD I think that the waiting and the expectations made me more moved than the movie itself, I shed only a tear when Harry sees his parents and Sirius...I definitively want to watch it again soon anyway! Or maybe do a marathon and watch all the movies...
Today I saw Captain America, my 100th movie :3 I love all the Marvel movies so I enjoyed this one a lot as well! I hadn't many expectations because Captain America isn't one of my favourite superheroes but the movie was very nice, never boring, not too much absurd action, nice characters, hot guys >_> I honestly say: I can't fucking wait for next summer. I want to see The Avengers!! I flailed like crazy just watching the teaser at the end of this movie!! *___* Gosh...I really am a nerd XD
(Will post images when Lj will stop being an ass ><)