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Promedio rojo (2003)
This might be the story of your life
Being a little freak, introspective, somewhat fat and a huge fan of Star Wars and comics might render you unattractive for the vast majority of the popular girls in your college.
Roberto Rodriguez is the perfect prototype of a fat freaky looser, and he can live with it, until a new female student arrives into his class. She's an adorable Spanish brunette who also likes comics books, and Roberto falls for her instantaneously.
The problem is that she's quickly drained towards Fele, an older student who is the perfect handsome heart breaker, forcing Roberto to attempt desperately and pathetically to get her to notice him.
I think this movie might be a little autobiographic for Nicolas Lopez, Director, Script Writer and co-producer of Promedio Rojo. And might as well have many similarities with the lives of a lot of young men who hadn't it easy during high school, being unnoticed or unattractive to girls, hanging out with freaky friends, having little or no social life and having to survive the cruelty and rudeness of popular students.
Altought the film has some dramatic ingredients, it's by no means a melodrama. I think this is plain comedy, but a rather sarcastic one. You might find yourself laughing at things that you know that are full of bad taste or even plain gross... and those situations wouldn't be funny if presented in another context, but in this movie it works, and it works well.
There are some petty side conflicts which really aren't important nor funny, but all in all the movie is entertaining, funny and has enjoyable characters.
And I declare myself absolutely in love for Cristina, the Spanish student.
Dungeons & Dragons (2000)
Perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen
And I'm not exagerating. Considering the massive amount of FX used on the film, I can assume that they had a nice production crew as well as a lot of resources to make something better.
Almost every character behaves completely lost, childish and unnatural. Not even Jeremy Irons show anything decent. The Marlon Wayans's character is annoying and he behaves as if he was in NY.
Anyway, there are a few good thing in the movie. First and most important, Zoe Mclellan, whose character is a bit dull, but who cares. She's beautiful and has the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen.
Second. The Damodar character, who manages to transmit far more evil than his master Profion.
Third, the dragon battle secuence. It is perhaps the only moment in which the spectator could imagine the massive amount of power that the rods can give.
And that's all I can rescue from the worst two hours I've ever spent.
The House of the Spirits (1993)
Not as good as the book, but it gets close.
Perhaps the best Isabel Allende's book, House of the Spirits describes an alternative chilean history, this one full of magic, a mystic veil, plus some kind of omnipresent sadness. This movie gathers a great cast, plus a great art direction, with a script that cannot contain all this book's quality. It's unusual for a nearly unknown country like Chile to get so well represented as it is by this movie, whose perhaps only sin is to aim too high, and because of that left the illiterate public a little upset, mostly because they understood very little.
Gummo (1997)
The most strange people in earth, living in the most boring town in the world
I don´t know if seeing this film was a morbid act... I mean, every situation involve so many sick, grotesque details that the film results on a trip to test our willies threshold. Gee, I even couldn't tell if some of the situations exposed there are fake, and if not, then this shouldn't be tolerated. Anyway, and perhaps just because of the morbid environment, the film grabs you since the very beginning, sometimes just to see what could come next.
El chacotero sentimental: La película (1999)
Three self standing stories
"El Chacotero Sentimental" is truly a daily radio show in Chile, in which people speaks on open air -via phone- about their sentimental and sexual life. "El Rumpy", also a real character, is this show's host, and this movie presents three self standing stories -hot ones-, linked together as if they were three phone calls in a row, which are listened and questioned by El Rumpy. These stories are most about infidelity and funny sexual issues.
It is not deepening art, but the cinematography is smooth and very surrounding. The storyboard is also very interesting. Note that all three stories are based upon real phone calls since 1995.