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TBS (2008)
TBS, surprisingly good...
I watched TBS as a Sneak Preview in Cinema... I use to go there every week... Sometimes I get very disappointed... But sometimes you're so lucky... ;)
TBS is one of the movies of the latter category... Until recently I wasn't very fond of Dutch movies... They used to have a lot of sex in them, bad acting, bad directing, low quality... But only since two or three months ago I'm starting to change my opinion... TBS is another movie that makes me believe the Dutch can produce quality... Although the plot isn't all too original (an escaped prisoner wants to prove his innocence), the subject of escaping prisoners is quite a resent subject in Holland... The end was kind of unexpected (call me naive) and makes me think this movie might just get a place in my very own gallery of honor... :P The acting is very good... Both Johan and Tessa are very convincing characters... Directing too is done well... Although the movie is not visually stunning, the atmosphere is well set...
Liked it very much... I can really recommend it...
Niels...
The Golden Compass (2007)
My great disappointment...
I really like fantasy movies... So when I saw the trailer of the Golden Compass I knew I had to see this movie... In fact I looked very much forward to it... My expectations were pretty high... There have been some very good fantasy movies the past few years... You know of which I speak: both JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were very satisfying... I had not read the book of the Golden Compass movie and I think of this as a good thing: the second and third installment of LotR were a bit harder for me to get into, because I had read the books by then...
As I said: my expectations were high... Yet, I had to recalibrate them as soon as I read that the director of this movie is the director of American Pie... I just can't say AP is the most qualitative superb movie I've ever seen... Still, I though the Golden Compass could be a nice movie... Not as great as the ones names before, but very much like Potter maybe?
Was I ever disappointed! It didn't work for me at all... Both the acting and the story-telling are poor... The story goes from one situation into another without explaining what exactly happens and why it happens: it just happens... Characters pop up and disappear, pop up again... There is one, maybe two characters that have sort of a heart and a soul in the movie... The rest of them are totally flat... (Not a surprise: American Pie...)
But to be honest: visually this movie is very good... The CG characters look very convincing and real... And although the landscape isn't as picturesque as are both Narnia and Middle Earth, still it looks nice...
Concluding what can I say? I was disappointed... I expected more... Still had a good time, though...