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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Compensating a bad movie with loads of action
Full of expectations I watched this movie. I had already seen the first in the cinema and I loved it. From the start on I knew this movie could not be as good as the previous. It looked a lot like the previous, only shorter and not as spectacular. And that problem stays the entire time. The entire movie is almost exactly the same as The Black Pearl, only the treasure is something different. But where the first film could keep your attention by a good and original story line and nice action scenes from time to time, Dead Mans Chest seems to have lost that. There are way too many action scenes and most last too long. The story is as predictable as what and the romance is so annoying. If you look at the storyline I think this should not have been a trilogy because part 2 and 3 (if 3 is going to be like this) could well have been 1 movie. What's left is a brainless action movie. Just like the Matrix Reloaded this movie just seems to ruin a great concept for the sake of money.
V for Vendetta (2005)
The Wachowski brothers are back
I was skeptical at first, when I saw the trailers of this movie, the Wachowski brothers didn't really inspire confidence after they ruined the Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions. But my skepticism was completely unfounded, this movie is fantastic. Everything is the movie is simply fantastic, the storyline is superb, the acting is brilliant, the music is perfect and the setting (England halfway the 21st century in a dictatorship) is awesome. V for Vendetta is one of those movies you can see twice in a row and still want to come back for more. I saw it on a Saturday and went back to the cinema on Sunday to see it again. Both times I had goosebumps at the end, everything comes together perfectly, the storyline, the music and of course the climax of the movie.
After the Matrix the Wachowski brothers again made a brilliant movie that everyone should see.
Down to You (2000)
My favorite movie, but not the best I've ever seen
Do you know that feeling, when you know something is bad, but you still like it. That's this movie for me, so what if the acting isn't great, so what if the storyline is predictable, so what if nothing makes sense, I love watching this movie. Because it's a relationship as you want it to have.
The plot is incredibly thin, Guy meets Girl, they fall in love, girl cheats, they break up, get back together and live happily ever after.
So what makes this movie fun to watch, I don't know, maybe it's the fact that despite the break up part, this is a relationship most people can only dream about, because during the whole movie you have the feeling it's true love. The chemistry between Julia and Freddy works, and that's what makes this movie fun to watch.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Not for the fans
I was seriously disappointed in the third Harry Potter (HP) movie. Ik lacked a good plot, the book was ruined and the acting wasn't much better. On the other hand, if unlike me, you don't consider the books to be sacred you could have a lot of fun watching it.
The same goes in an even bigger way for this fourth movie. Personally I hate it, I think it's the worst book movie in all of history, and it's the worst movie I've seen in years. It annoyed me, the movie completely ruined a great book, the plot was gone, it was going way to fast, ah well, I could go on for hours. Suffice it to say that if you're like me a die hard fan of the books you probably won't like this movie because it isn't the book.
On the other hand, if you're not a die hard fan and you just like HP you probably will have a wonderful time with the movie. It has comedy, drama, action and romance. It has a fast plot to keep you on the edge of your seat and nice visual effects.
The problem with the movie is not in the acting or anything, the problem is that some great events from the book are not in the movie. Sorry to say this, but for everyone hoping for a spectacular finale of the Quidditch World Championships, forget it, you never get to see the match. This was the first disappointment and at that time I knew I was not going to like the movie and I didn't. I laughed at times of course, but I couldn't fully enjoy the movie because so much was twisted in a bad way in comparison to the book and even major characters left out and major events changed. And that really saddened me.
In short, if you loved the books, read them till the cover came off don't go watch it in the cinema. If you've only seen the movies or weren't such a fan of the books you'll have a wonderful time with this movie.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
How to turn in a great book into a bad movie
Many people have done it before, ruin a great book by making a film about it, but this is by far one of the worst book movies ever. I love the Harry Potter books, every single one of them has a sort of magic that's very rare, a magic that both kids and adults like. The movies on the other hand, are a totally different story.
The first movie was, well, OK, it wasn't bad, but it was no Lord of the Rings. The second one was a bit worse, but still, fun to watch, but the third, my god what were they thinking when making this movie?
My thought is that they took the book, took some elements from it, the ending, the beginning, and some other small things that affected the story line and rewrote a completely new book from there on, because almost everything has been done differently. Now this could be a good thing, if the book wasn't the best Harry Potter book and virtually impossible to improve.
So what has gone wrong you wonder, well, nearly everything. It starts at scene one, where harry blows up his aunt, the book didn't say she flew away and was never to be seen. And so it goes on, Harry doesn't spend weeks in London, now it's only a day, we don't see him, Hermione and Ron going shopping in Diagon Alley, and Harry finds out about Black in a totally different way.
And the trend goes on, most things changing slightly, but some major events changing big time.
One thing that probably annoyed me the most, was the ending, it sucked with a capital S. Harry get's his new broom and flies off. What, but didn't Black give that to him halfway his year, and didn't he won the quidditch season with it. Yes, but apparently not in this movie, in this movie there is no quidditch, except for the first match. In this movie, Harry is just scared of the dementors and that's the reason he's learning the Patronus charm. But why should he be, the dementors aren't allowed at school grounds by Dumbledore, so he has nothing to fear. I think they just wanted to squeeze the broom into the movie, and by doing so, ruining in ending.
Now, if the story was all that went wrong, that would be one thing, but there are so many things, bad acting, bad lighting, bad casting (Emma Thompson never convinced me as Trelawney), David Thewlis wasn't bad, but good no. The only one who really convinced me was Gary Oldman. I really saw him as Sirius Black. Of the three main players, Rupert Grint was the best, Emma Watson wasn't bad either, Radcliffe, how in gods name he became Potter will always remain a mystery to me. But this was his worst acting performance by far.
And so what do we have after 2 hours of film. Well, I really don't know, if you know the story line, the movie is entertaining, but nothing more than that, and if you don't know the story line, you never will, because everything is rushed into. It's a big book, and they fitted it in 2 hours, but that won't work. Nobody cares if it's a 3 hour movie, I didn't care with movies like LotR, and I wouldn't care with Harry Potter, even better, I'd love a 3 hour movie, but make it a Potter movie.
What the makers tried was to make a film both enjoyable for the Potter fans who had read the book at least once, and to the lesser fans as well, who had only seen the movies. And this movie is a disappointment to both. The real fans will see a ruining of a brilliant book, and the movie fans will see a movie without a storyline. I'm really sorry I have to rate a Potter movie like this, even more because the third book is still my favorite one. But that's how it is, hopefully part 4 will be better, otherwise they might try to get Peter Jackson to direct the movie, because otherwise, I have little hope.
Finding Forrester (2000)
One of the best movies I've seen in a long time
When I started watching it, the only actual reason was that it had Sean Connery in it. But after maybe 10 minutes, I really started appreciating the movie for what it was, a great movie about a young black boy from the Bronx who has got a real talent for writing, and a retired writer, who's afraid of the world because of the death of his brother and parents, for which he partly blames himself.
The movie may start off a bit slow, but when the conversations between Jamal and William get underway, about writing and school, the movie just took me away to another reality.
Rob Brown really impressed me as an actor, though from time to time he looks a little uncaring. But Sean Connery completely makes up for that little loss. He proves once again that he is a great actor.
He is so convincing that I really nearly cried at the time in Madison Guarden when he loses Jamal in the crowd and just gets to a corner to cry. It really touched me.
The movie has really one major location where everything takes place, and that's William's apartment, everything that makes the movie turn happens here. The relationship between Jamal and William really grows up until the point that Jamal forgets about his friend from the Bronx and nearly spends all his time with William, learning about how to write.
On school he gets involved with Clair. A relationship that we, thank god, never see to the kissing end, but which is build up perfectly. Claire is the rich girl with a father in the school board he absolutely is not happy that his daughter is spending time with a poor black boy from the Bronx. Paquin may not be the greatest actress, and it showed in this movie, but she still was convincing enough to show the slow build up of the relation and the blossoming of the love between the two. A simple concept, but very good worked out.
And then of course there is the point that the movie needs a happy ending and thus something that nearly spoils everything. In this case it's Prof. Crawford, who is Jamal's writing teacher. He doesn't think that a black boy from the Bronx can be writing at a level he can't even reach, and when Jamal embarrasses him in front of his class by answering every question right, he tries, and gets, his revenge. He nearly gets Jamal suspended until, of course, William interferes.
It's all maybe a bit predictable, but well, a movie in which everyone loses everything isn't fun to watch. And like in a great book we all know, Lord of the Rings, William can't stay and they lived happily ever after, he leaves for his homeland Schotland and dies there of cancer, of which he never told Jamal. A not so happy, but great, and I nearly cried here as well, ending to a great movie.