Yesterday evening we watched Spider-man 3

Ontem à noite assistimos a Spider-man III after having some discussions about “pastéis” and “Inland Empire”. I will explain myself… The thing is: I love watching blockbusters like Spider-man, Batman, Superman and so on, because those characters made part of my childhood and thus are very significant for me, since they helped to build part of my world of fantasy, action and romance. I admit to never having read the actual comic books, but I spent lots of time watching the cult movies (Superman and Batman) and TV animated or live-action series. My husband, on the contrary, dislikes those characters and the “blockbuster” concept that supports them, and for this reason I had to convince him, once again, to go with me to see Spidey on the big screen. Well, I have succeeded in making up his mind for about 10 times (as when we went to watch Batman, Spiderman I and II, Superman, and all the Harry Potters) so why would I fail now? Than I came up with a drama about how I did’t want to watch “Inland Empire”, but this didn’t work out very well… so I promised I would prepare him some “pastéis”… but I guess he gave in because he actually hates the idea of letting me go all alone. Now, about the movie: It was lots of fun! Like usual, not as cool as the first part, but still full of humor, romance and action. Something to eat pop-corn with, have a good time, and forget the morning after. I liked “Inland Empire”, but there’s nothing like a good fantasy movie to make my worries blow away (ariadne)

Gestern abend waren wir in Spider-man, and I have to say, that it was probably the best movie ever. They re-employed the old – and very creative – villain vs superhero theme mixed it up with a lot of unnecessary teenage problems and spiced it with a bunch of fortune cookie wisdom. I just wonder how many fortune cookies the writers must have eaten to have been able to come with such a really deep and profound movie. For those of you who might not have realized: this was actually sarcastic and not really the truth. I promised my wife to watch the movie with her and I was pretty sure that I was going to be disappointed. And right I was! Well, the story was more than lacking creativity. Moreover it was pretty boring showing a little boy’s relationship problems who really were not at all new for a standard Hoolywood filminho (pt. derogative for movie). So one question comes up during watching this movie. Why is he called Spiderman?! Instead he should be called Siderkiddy or Spiderboy. And all this deep wisdom like: friends will be friends or everybody can change the world! WOW! Tell me more about things I really never heard before! Plus, not even the part with the black Spiderboy, in which I had put so much hope before, were thrilling, instaed it was just like the rest of the movie. Pretty dull!
Concluding, I can say that Spiderman 3 was exactly like Spiderman 1 and Spiderman 2 and Batman and Robin and Batman Begins and Superman 1 and Superman 2 and Superman Returns and Daredevil and all the other movies that use the villain vs hero thingy. Why not let the villain win once? So my last words: PLEASE SPARE US MORE OF THAT JUNK or at least make it interesting! (christian)

Last Friday we watched “Inland Empire”…

Sexta-feira assistimos a “Inland Empire”, David Lynch’s new masterpiece. I must confess I didn’t really want to go: three hours of potential boring frenzy weren’t my plans for the weekend. But Christian insisted so much and mentioned all those movies I forced him to watch… so I gave in. And I do’t regret it. The movie is simply overwhelmingly amazing! A Critique to Hollywood, a movie about a movie, a thriller teeming with suspense and horror, a dream… or a nightmare? Hard to say, yet marvelously filmed, edited, acted. Oh, and the sound track… infuriatingly frightening. With this film Lynch shows what “cinema” is about, and laura Dern, the actress muse of a movie within the movie shows for it. Her acting is, not to fall into deviances, perfect. The film is… a must go. More I can’t say, for my opinions are mere delusions of a disturbed mind affected by Lynch’s world. Go watch it and make up your own conclusions. (ariadne)

Letzten Freitag haben wir uns “Inland Empire” angeschaut. Well, what could I say about that movie. It is certainly the most interesting movie I have watched so far this year. It is an excentric movie in which the spectator lives through a seemingly never-ending nightmare. No, the movie itself is not the nightmare, but the movie shows us a nightmare. The nightmare that is being dreamt and felt inside the protagonists head. It is displayed so vividly and strongly that sometimes it is really hard to keep watching because one feels just too tense. The way of filming combined with strong contrasts between light and shadow and the soundtrack create a constant feeling of helplessness and fear – just like when one has a real nightmare. The plot of the movie is just like a nightmare too. At one point the protagonist (Laura Dern) is in one subplot and all of a sudden she enters the next confusing surreal subplot without finishing the first plot. Actually, it is really hard to describe a movie like David Lynch’s masterpiece adequatelly, so i summarize it for all of you in a few words: Surreal nightmare! That’s what it is and that’s what makes the movie so good.
One last thing: Thanks to Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons and all the other actors and actresses for participating in this movie, because it certainly will not be a major box-office hit, and I really appreciate that people like David Lynch have the courage to make a movie so good but so very different from all the other Hollywood standard productions which constantly lack even the slightest trace of creativity. (christian)