This is a résumé and my point of view about the first podcast !
Marie
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Movies news November 3rd 2013
Hi guys !
I come back
to tell you the last gossips from Hollywood…
So, we
learnt this week something about the Peter Jackson’s casting in The Lord of Rings. Indeed, several
famous actors applied to play in the film. Among these actors we can find Daniel
Day-Lewis to play Aragorn and Jake Gyllenhaal to play Frodo. The latter admitted
to having been auditioning but he didn’t that I had to do it in a British
accent. He failed the audition and Elijah Wood was finally chosen.
We can
still speak about Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince
of Persia: The Sands of Time and Prisoners).
May be have you seen one picture of him scrawny with long brown hair? Don’t worry!
There's no need to worry. His physical transformation attracts the attention
these last weeks, but it’s just for his next film, Nightcrawler, written and directed by Dan Gilroy. He will play a
journalist, a crime specialist who discovers the dark side of Los Angeles. To
become more persuasive and to go into the role, he decided to lose around 20
pounds… 
Now, I have
to speak about a staggering film: Gravity,
the last film from Alfonso Cuaron with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. Maybe
have you already seen this movie? So, what do you think about it? Personally, I
didn’t want to watch this film. I thought that it’s a movie about space, with
science fiction… STOP IT ! It’s real human adventure! It’s the story of two US
astronauts stranded in space after their space shuttle is crippled by
high-orbiting debris. You have to watch this film in 3D that gives the
impression that we are in space with the two astronauts. This film is visually
a wonder, but not only, it brings a thought about the life, anguish,
bereavement..
The film is
predicted to win an Oscar in 2014… Coming up next!
vendredi 1 novembre 2013
Apollo 18
Hi everybody, this week let met talk
you about an other movie, a different kind one, its name is Apollo
18. This is an american-canadian science-fiction / horror
movie produced by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego in 2011. It has a budget of 5
millions dollars (not too much for this kind of movie) and generated
25 millions dollars on the box office which is great. It last about
80 minutes.
I have to say right now, it's an
onboard camera movie, this sub gender of cinema is really
controversial because it can be misused (Cloverfield for example) or
launch a strong feeling of anxiety and proximity with characters,
even realistic terror (Cannibal Holocaust). For Apollo 18, I can say
it's a bit of both.
This wrong documentary is based in the
Apollo 18 mission who was cancelled for budgetary reasons in 1970.
The movie support however that the mission was conducted secretly, by
sending three cosmonauts with the official mission is to install
monitoring equipment against russians, but informally to collect
“moon stones”. So the movie take its time with the moon landing
and the installation and here come “the stressful elevator”, it
means a series of shady events which put characters and spectators
uncomfortable (moves, unknown footsteps, radio cuts...). The discover
of a russian module with blood everywhere does not help the nerves of
our brave astronauts.
I must wait the half of the movie to
envisage an extraterrestrial theory since where some critters appears
by the way of fast plans. The situation degrades slowly but surely ;
characters start a psychological descent, with one of the cosmonaut
which, of course, is contaminated and goes crazy. The situation need
now drastic decisions and our poor spacemen will try to go back on
Earth, but the NASA refuses of course by risks of infection and
prefer let them rot in space.
Unfortunately the end stay predictable
with a conspiracy theory, to the effect that the government was aware
since the beginning and send them there as testers.
Finally the movie finish with a scene
which honors men of this program, and which try to make us believe
that the government lies in the entire story supported by the website
“lunartruth.com” (The problem is that it's only a promotional
website for the movie)
To talk a bit much about the
production, the onboard camera principle can be good or not, but in
this movie, a wrong documentary, it was necessary to be realistic
because there is no doubt that Apollo missions don't bring a whole
producing crew, so the only way were the onboard camera.
It is still efficient, with a general
montage of black and white plans of poor quality to comfort the
realism. Moreover, transitions are a bit sudden but it's not a big
deal. The special effects are correct, the infection is not that bad
even if the enemies are not really convincing (but don't worry, we
don't see them too much). I also noticed the use of flashes as
lights, a great tool, even if the saga Saw already popularised it.
Then, the actor performance is really
correct, I didn't pour liters of tears, but at least I didn't break
my TV because of bad role play. Concerning the characters, those one
have a realistic behavior in general, keep their calm in good
professional, observe their environment, draw objectives conclusions
and finally decide to sacrifice themselves when they feel their end
arrive.
To conclude, as I already said, a
sympathetic wrong documentary on Apollo 18 mission, well manage in
the beginning (omnipresent suspense and intelligent characters for
once). But the end stay too predictable with a hype of the conspiracy
theory towards the government. It's a kind of Blair Witch Project in
space, i'm not shouting at the miracle but either at the crap.
I will give a 4 out of 10 for this
movie not as bad as we can think.
Valentin
Valentin
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