Watch_And_Learn Reviews

The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Seriously ?!

[3/10 · 8 November 2011]

Was it for real?

This "movie" is really bad. It is like an animated cartoon, but with hideous graphics/characters (Gollum was a good idea in LOTR but you can't seriously make a movie with full Gollum style...well Tintin made it) and no fun (if you laugh for nothing you might find haddock funny though), so I really wonder what's the point.

There isn't nostalgia neither, the Tintin cartoons made in the 90's are far better than this movie, you should watch or even re-watch them instead of this, I don't know if they were ever broadcast on TV in the US (btw I'm French). To be fair, I will conclude by saying children are bound to like this movie (especially the lame captain Haddock), but that's it. I really wish you good luck if your children want you to go to this movie with them. I went with friends and we only had fun by seeing parents who were boring while their children were enjoying the movie. That is to say we didn't get much fun neither, but at least we tried to ...

PS: I forgot to mention they didn't even made a soundtrack for this, which makes the film even more boring.

Melancholia (2011)

So good that it makes me forgive LvT about Antichrist.

[10/10 · 24 August 2011]

First part: Intro

I'm French and movies are usually released later in my country than in the USA (or other countries), that's why most of the time I can have an idea (based on reviews of the US/foreign users) on new movies months before they can be seen in French theaters . But for some reason, Melancholia was released earlier in France than in the US, so here is my review, has a repayment to US users (and more generally to all users who still can't see this movie). One more thing before starting this review, we French people are bad in English, actually I'm quite good for a French (really I'm not lying) but still I don't use advanced vocabulary so my review may seem basic (you might even think it was written by a 12 years old -_-'), it may also contain a few mistakes, sorry about that, I hope you will enjoy it though.

Second part: Review

First, Melancholia is a slow movie, and lasts more than 2 hours, but I didn't get bored at all. I found it very fascinating, for me Melancholia is kind of similar to Lynch movies that are slow too but catch your attention very deeply so that you forget about the whole world, about time, and just focus on the movie. The cast is brilliant, especially Dunst and Gainsbourg, they really act perfectly in this, K.Sutherland is good too and so is the rest of the cast. I don't want to make a "spoil review" so I can't say a lot of things but basically this film will captivate you more and more and the closer it comes to its end, the more intense you will find it (I like to call that a "crescendo" movie, just like Black Swan or Memento for example), and eventually you will find it really deep and beautiful, and you will want it to last forever (or at least for hours). Let's talk about the final scene, this is of course the peak of this "crescendo" (even if many others scenes are really good too, I tell you that cause some might say this is the only good scene of this movie, well it's not), and seriously I can't remember a scene being so moving in any other movie I've seen, that is to say 6, but I plan to see a 7th soon (just a joke :O). Actually, the audience was so captivated during this final scene that no one in the Theater could move during several minutes when Melancholia ended (OK maybe for some people it's due to the fact that they had fallen asleep at some point),.

That being said, you will find, as for any other movie, reviews with this kind of summary "0/10 what was that really? In one word: BORING". I must say I understand these reviews cause Melancholia is one of these movies you are likely to find either a work of art, either a piece of sh** (like I already said it looks a little like a Lynch movie). So I really hope Melancholia will captivate you, and if it does you will really love it but if it doesn't, well you have been warned here and now, haven't you?

PS: BOOM