CihanVercan Reviews

Those Were the Days (1995)

coming of age teenage socio-drama for the top cinephile's collection

[9/10 · 4 May 2024]

Ask a middle-age psychologist what was '90s like? She'd say they still dwell within me.

Ask Bruce Willis today, why everyone hated The Color Of The Night, but you loved yourself as a psychologist attempting to save a suicidal teen from killing herself, he'd say they still dwell within me.

Ask a middle-age Michael Jackson breakdance fan what was '90s like? He'd say they still dwell within me.

Asked Elodie Bouchez what was '90s like? She said ''LE PLUS BEL AGE" (it was the most beautiful age) to live, to love, to have sex, to suicide

What would Zalman King say?

What would Serge Gainsbourg say?

Exactly 'tis the same:

One can't understand the age of '90s the period from 1989 'til 2000 looking onto it from the year 1988, nor from the year 2002, further to the past and to the future makes the understanding even harder and unostentatious.

For a screenwriter, thriving to make producers option his script of a movie retelling the '90s, Le Plus Bel Age with its socio-drama style, adds a layer an idea.

Great opening with a mystery in this film, unique fast-paced photography, and eroticism action is in the style of Zalman King... Meaning very very very rare, A gem, A coming of age teenage socio-drama movie for the top cinephile's collection.

Magician Mickey (1937)

Mickey, Goofy, Donald trio at its earliest and finest

[8/10 · 26 November 2023]

STORY- Same story structure formula used with the hilarious Boat Builders.

Beginning: Join 3 opposite characters in same adventure.

Progress: Let them build a moving sensitive action-packed construction.

Ending: Destroy the construction as a sum of all 3 heroes' faults.

SETTINGS - My favorite. Proscenium Arch.

HEROES - Mickey Mouse on the stage facing his fans and audience applausing him for his mind and hand tricks.

Goofy on the backstage working as a light technician reference to Nikola Tesla.

Donald Duck as a nasty prank-maker who confronts Mickey's tricks by his own brutal force pranks.

MOTIVE - Donald does not enjoy Mickey's magician tricks. So he jumps off to the stage mockering and making a fool out of Mickey. But Mickey has enough magician tools to cause Donald bigger troubles than he can ever imagine. Goofy in the meantime does not interfere with the duo, yet he cannot run the show focusing the light and effects on more than one host. By the final prank Donald does it to Mickey, Goofy totally fails to maintain the backstage and the entire theatre falls apart nail to nail.

Out of the Past (1947)

Living In The Past'ime Paradise when Heartlessness was a plus for a detective playboy

[7/10 · 5 June 2022]

It is Sunday morning; church time, knowing what the pastor will be preaching about if I have been gone to one in town; I turned my bedroom into a church room with a TV playing only TCM.

When Robert Mitchum types "Farewell Ann - I am going to San Fransisco" to a hotel guest notepad: from his penthouse flat on a hotel room seeing ocean from the window view Jane Greer(Ann) walks in.

As if knowing what Mitchum's detective archetype wrote on the guest notepad; Ann aimed forcing him not to leave in that iconic romantic scene which I have never forgotten.

Old Turner Classics captivate my heart in Sunday breakfast times...

Out of the Past is a very slow-paced mystery movie full of intrigues and brave back door entrances; plenty of scenes of which were motivations to my childhood TV favorites of late '80s Moonlighting and such.

Lovely and unique romance/comedy dialouges have made every fan laugh in good script to screen transitioning ways from the director; which was primarily Michael Curtiz pioneership style of filming.

It is airing on TCM right now; and this is how just one movie makes one channel favorite of mine next to ABC-Spark these days.

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

Truer and Truest Romance with Sergio Leone franchise

[9/10 · 11 April 2022]

None of you had any idea why they called it a "Spaghetti Western" when they charged 75 cents for a movie ticket and Sharon Tate did not have the cash to see herself playing in public.

Once Upon a Time in West/America/Hollywood was the longest spanning franchise in history. It spans over a course of 80 years and covers the Western History of 175 years.

Q registered a truly heroic past time paradise agenda taking Flame Throwers into 1969. I just wished I saw more of Cliff Booth doing a stunt double in a real movie set or Rick stayed in front of the camera a bit longer... And I also would have preferred keeping the Police/Ambulance/Emergency/Fire rescuers away from the Action (when the ranchers strike back)

Heroes are made. They are not born heroes. They do not dress heroes. And since they are made; a hero has to prove himself over and over again. That's the code for Spaghetti Westerns. This is why Bruce Lee "for the first time in cinema" loses a final round of fight.

Historical Celebrity Appeal of the '60s were all worthwhile. Playboy mansion scene needed more R-rating content. Roman Polanski needed to be a badass; he could have been played better.

Another history was made when heroes get humble and prove themselves why they were heroes.

Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive (1946)

Tarzan Goofy Happy Go Lucky

[7/10 · 7 April 2022]

One of the least distributed Clarence Nash & Pinto Colvig cartoons. Many years ago I was in a discussion where I later came to my senses that I was wrong: I used to think Goofy had never done Tarzan and besides I had never recalled a cage holding businessman Donald Duck.

This Donald Duck short has little to no conversation. Although in the jungle when the Adventurist Donald, frankly, finds a trophy to bring back home alive; he first attempts to speak up to the Tarzan Goofy... But to no use. Goofy, more than any other Goofy episode ever, is totally in his own world/own view.

With lots of Coyote & Road Runner type of cat rat race, Goofy manages to trap Coyote Donald Duck in with a cave lion.

If you omit goofs like Tarzan operating a motorboat quite well, and exaggeration on law of physics limits in cartoons; then it is an unique/creative/fun watch.

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: I Am Florence Nightingale/I Am George Washington Carver (2019) Season 1, Episode 11

Scientifically Accumulative Brain Vitamin Storage episode from Xavie'riddle

[7/10 · 12 February 2022]

Animation is laziness. Voice acting is talent.

Good animations are lazy talents; who sound energetic and vital so they take forward the A-type top-notch feature format productions.

Laziness with talent is the most precious gift.

Because you may risk losing your talent by unnecessary hard work.

This is not a case for Albert Einstein.

But it is exactly what the secret behind the success of George W. Calver and Florence Nightingale.

Only walking miles away from the hospital both Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling were born the same day and on the same floor; I volunteered for many years to help Alzheimer and Dementia patients and to help my own ego if I can deliver a plant-based organic antidote-type of cure out of Rattlesnake poison which works the same way Dementia spots grow in infected lob(brain). My sole outcome to this day is only fictional due to the enormous amount of talent and idea slavery in the Medicine field.

But the same oppression of rules and system slavery was also in Science-based animations for years long for teleplay writers. This episode, that's why is unique and a rulebreaker as it index-fingers the methodology Florence Nightingale aimed to apply in 1830 (the darkest era of human biological death research and grave robbers in history of science) in U. K.

Dumb Bell of the Yukon (1946)

Fur Trade was a humanist fashion trend unjustly stymied by Politics

[8/10 · 4 February 2022]

Canadian landscaped Clarence Nash solo voice-over Donald Duck 7 minuter, with noteworthy/unique/memoria scenes.

1* Love Letter from Daisy.

Gloria Blondell must have penned this; it has that lover female tone in the handwriting. How lovely it's viewed on the letter sheet, and how lovely Donald Duck reads it.

I had always wondered how did Dennis Hopper in David Lynch's Blue Velvet(1987) come up with those strong punchlines. Dumb Bell of the Yukon is a reminder to Dennis Hopper too in a sense.

2* Bugs Bunny kissing prank done by D. D. Donald Duck does that kissing the Nemesis in the lips prank twice in this 7 minuter. For reasons beyond why Bugs Bunny does so; D. D. now also has a foolish but more genuine motivation.

3* Political Stymies in the post-WorldWar-II era cartoons This is definitely why Dumb Bell of the Yukon is the lowest rated Donald Duck cartoon ever. It's 'cos audiences in the post-modern era cannot view anything that goes against their beliefs.

But to me, you cannot judge Art & Entertainment with Politics.

I don't support Fur Trade and neither I am against it; but even if I was against the Fur Trade strictly in a foolish mind I would still watch and rewatch this cartoon unbiased.

In World War II era, racism against Japanese citizens was a normal idea. Same with the Fur Trade; it was normal to hunt down bears for their furs during this era. The Global politics did not develop humane justification by banning and stymieing all these and alikes. This is not suitable for Freedom Of Will and Human Rights in any case. At least one thing the TV networks and studios could have done:

Just keep the critiques and censorships not affected by Globalism politics. You see since 1940s ; the World did not become a better place for humans to live subsequently.

Person to Bunny (1960)

Edward R. Burrows introduced the 3 Humane Faces in Real Hollywood before he passed away

[10/10 · 20 January 2022]

Remember the infamous Clint Eastwood quote from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly(1966)?

"There are two kinds of people in the world, my fella: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting"

This is taken from Edward R. Burrows talk show in 1959 TV. Although no one recalls how the original quote was prompted on live TV, by today; we have a clue from Person To Bunny(1960):

During the late Spaghetti Western Action flick era, director Sergio Leone noted that there are 3 genuinely Humane faces in Hollywood from Burrows' vision of critique:

3. Overexcited know-all hand clappers (The Ugly) - Daffy Duck

2. Hidden banquet sitters and cash flow counters (The Bad) Producer-Interviewer on his couch

1. Actors who can't hold their mouth and pay the price overcharged (The Good) Bugs Bunny=Clint Eastwood

Timelessly speaking if you are ever in Hollywood and if you have a face number 4, then YOU ARE FAKE, you will not last long.

All these 3 faces are real life and all come ever brand new with the true-hearted mistakes they always do and keep doing; like Bugs Bunny can't hold his mouth and talk down about his audience so Elmer Fudd takes it personally and comes to throw stones to his face, illiterally. That's how everything ever is: illiteral.

Burrows both in real life and in this animation leaves a legacy equal everlasting lesson for all of us to take on how to stay genuine (if you were ever genuine at least once) in this industry.

Hyde and Go Tweet (1960)

Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde real story premise done simply Best Version

[9/10 · 20 January 2022]

Science Fiction gets best both in reading(1*), filming(2*) or just watching(3*) when there is MAGIC TONIC vs. ANTIDOTE story structure in the concept. The original premise for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was merely an introvert scientist inventing a formula to prove his genius worth to be someone in life but he could not handle the Double Life of masking a calm doctor over a killer monster.

1* In Novels or Gamebooks(cyoa etc.) No amount of hero introduction is ever enough to withstand the necessity of a monster tonic so a casual medical doctor can become a better doctor than he was before. This means, story needs more visuals and actions than dialogues and backstory.

2* Sci-Fi submerges with Action through chase and suspenseful tension sequences of life-and-death battle when filming directly to video, or for TV which actually 1956 version of Zorro did just that in a perfectioned version Double Life Leading stories. Only the 1956 version of Zorro(TV). What worked was a simple trick: "The hero has a weak point which must be kept as a secret; if it is ever revealed then he needs to stop his Double Life" which indeed was the pioneer fuel behind all the Superhero genre today in 2022.

Friz Freleng may be just a simple animation director to all of you; but he was the pioneer of the Superhero/Nemesis genre for Marvel even before there was Marvel in 1956.

3* Antidote concept.... This is also used as an ANTI-NEMESIS storyline. So what is an Anti-Nemesis? We have to come back to Zorro once again. Zorro indeed was the only Superhero who lead TRIPLE LIFE - the nameless poor farmer only his family knows of during holidays; the town chief Don Diego De La Vega(based on real biography) during daytime; and the Zorro during night-time. In this antidote concept; the hero can give up every passion in his life when in danger to go back to being a poor nameless farmer again; in this case everyone would know Zorro dies when Don Diego De La Vega gets killed although through the antidote HE STILL LIVES (which gives a room for a franchise comeback). This antidote must always be a tangible matter:

• A tonic
• A pill or a syringable formula
• A transformator device like the Frankenstein's operation table

Otherwise the story will not be used of by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde structure.

In Hyde And Go Tweet; Friz Freleng accomplishes it. But for the past 62 years ever since I always wondered why noone else could repeat it.

Shishkabugs (1962)

German and Turkish versions "Dubur Ici Dolma" of "Kufurbaz Haydo"

[7/10 · 20 January 2022]

Hasenpfeffer seriously known as a Middle Age Saxon dish. Not so plausible to predict whether it contains a medium size rabbit or not. Yosemite Sam is the only folk who calls Bugs Bunny a "rabbit" when indeed he is a hare and not a rabbit.

Mel Blanc was heard all over the world TVs due to his talent after Clarence Nash of course for making trio-casted characters with his own organic voice. In German, Italian, Russian and Turkish versions there were 3 different voice actors who gave voices to characters in this Bugs Bunny episode. As a non-european or solely English language viewer; I recommend you to check foreign voice translations of Shishkabugs(1962).

In Turkey 🇹🇷 both the 1960s and 1990s voice translations to Shishkabugs mentioned the snorty King's favorite dish "Dubur Ici Dolmasi" instead of Hasenpfeffer. Also the latest Fandom Voice Translation by "Kufurbaz Haydo" 2010 made a cross-reference to the fall of Ottoman Empire which got even funnier to belly-laughs. In real-time Middle Age Ottoman Empire 1600s there were luxury and western-bound throne room failures just like it was mentioned in this episode as well.

Nihavend Mucize (1997)

Every Mother is an Angel to her Son

[9/10 · 18 January 2022]

An Istanbul(Delta Film) + Paris(La Vie Est Belle) + Atina(Dourios Ippos) joint co-venture European film production supervised by director Atif Yilmaz's Turkish crew. This means a lot for the understanding of the cinema language and artsy style of Nihavend Mucize.

Atif Yilmaz portrays ever-interchanging face of modern City Life in Istanbul in '90s (which was no different than it was of Paris's) from a perspective of a deceased Singer and a homemaking mother.

Story revolves around a lonesome TV producer whose late mother comes to visit him after a psychological trauma he has in his daily life. In this aspect, this idea was about to create a trend larger than French Surrealism of '90s.

One year later Gani Mujde and Ihsan Aydin who did not actually play a writing part in this film created "Ruhsar" with the very same promise: A late housewife comes back to life in order to support her husband emotionally getting back standing straight on his feet.

With one major typecasting difference: Mihrace Yekenkulug, who played a sidekick office secretary in Nihavend Mucize; was to play Ruhsar's husband's cutebug sister. The only actress who both played in Nihavend Mucize and Ruhsar.

For most viewers from Fan Bases in the norms of 2020s' people remember Nihavend Mucize as Beyaz's most remarkable high screen credit accompanied by the legendary cinema queen Turkan Soray(who is still fresh, eye candy and as charming as ever).

Eye Candy is another reason why and how audiences will always remember Lale Mansur + Turkan Soray + Mihrace Yekenkulug.... Who were both charming, sexy, inspiring and genuine in their female appeals.

But the youngest one (born 1977) Mihrace Yekenkulug deserved as high screen credit as the other 2 of the trio.

Do not miss these top 3 genuine Turkish feminine icons although they may be old by now; Atif Yilmaz and his cinematographers knew how to shine them. Incomparable with no Italian, French or Greek top stars: No Sophia Loren, no Juliette Binoche, no Sophie Marceau nor Monica Bellucci. Turkish feminine icons are Incomparable; sometimes in some scenes Turkish feminine really deserve more. Seriously. No exaggeration.

Roma (2018)

Cuaron plays a Spielberg game with Not-So-Great Expectations

[5/10 · 28 December 2021]

One cannot argument the fact that Alfonso Cuaron today, by the 2nd decade of the twenty hundreds is the sole Spielbergen moviemaker.

First thing first; the failure in compass of cinematography: If the film is set in B&W monochrome ; then you cannot go fantastic with hilarious camera movements. Actors in Roma are playing a stage game which director is not involved in supervising it.

Cubic Art is not a game. You do not follow the best examples in film history like Federico Fellini and Steven Spielberg to go artsy; otherwise then it turns out shallow and ungenuine.

Black&White cinema 🎥 is not a MINIMALIST movement. Making a low budget film cannot get you the IMPRESSIONIST and CUBIC Art quality you failed to achieve.

Art films must be global/universal: SCHiNDLER'S LiST had an universal theme and message concerning all humans; not only Polish Jews.

Yet, Roma is done in Low Expectations. Political revolts of 1970s are established unbiased. A housemaid's life p.o.v. Cannot be engineered and edited in this fancy artistic style and it has gotta be in Color.

A Knight for a Day (1946)

Billy Bletcher(narrator) gets Warner Bros envy of him in 7 minutes

[9/10 · 18 December 2021]

How is the Narrative structure built? Why does American Industrial Cinema require narrative formula? What is Cinema other than a picture-told story?

You knew all wrong; because you have never been in Vaudeville in your life by the norms of 2021. In 7 minutes A Knight For A Day, the classic underdog replacing hero format; the eyes of tournament spectators and the minds of arena runners genuinely reflected by Billy Bletcher, who narrated this silent dialogue-free short animation.

Silence, by all means, is not merely the situation of quiteness. It is actually when no voice can be heard other than the voice of the mind. Cross-referencing Jules Massenet's Don Quixote Opera of February,19th.1910 in Monte Carlo.

Pinto Colvig, as Goofy, adapts his voice talent into this Impressionist art movement; characterizing both Cedric the servant, his master The Duelist, his opponent The Knight, his spectators and his imprisoned Princess.

A total piece of art with motives from Cervantes' Literature of Medieval Spain; which in 10 years of passage was going to be revised and repeated by two Buggs Bunny shorts by Warner Bros.

The Real Ghostbusters: The Halloween Door (1989) Season 5, Episode 9

Red Green Blue are the Real Ghost Busters, not Monochrome

[7/10 · 27 November 2021]

The Real Ghostbusters 4th season appeared a few times both in Russia and in Turkey, once in 1992; twice in 1994, and perhaps also in 1995(for the last time).

Star-1 in 1992 and later-on with its modernized name Star-Tv in Turkey(headquartered in Istanbul) aired 4th season in 1992 in Saturday morning 9:00-9:25 a.m. Timing. When on Sundays Laff'a Lympics from1978 were on air during this timing.

The reason why I mention this inspection is the Fan Base Orientations manipulation of USA and British networks:

Cartoon network and WB Kids in late '80s only marketed Franchised Movie Reminders of cartoon episodes to the 2nd World which also includes Japan.

"The Halloween Door" episode of the 4th season is most likely the 1st episode one can ever recall from RGB who is watching from the East; since it's been aired multiple times convincing the viewer think it is promoting something else beyond itself.

My dearest opinion is that the original Dan Aykroyd(from Ottawa,Canada) Ghostbusters is a black-and-white busting of ghosts with little to no challenge among the ghosts attack. RGB as the invention of the Color Codes in Television Production, Time Codes, Slate, Color Bars and Tone brought forward The Real Ghostbusters with top quality and engineering in Sound Editings and Antagonist/Nemesis developments not only in Horror Animation but also the entire Horror/Suspense genre of the whole entertainment industry(movies+tv+atari/console games+music video clips esp. Michael Jackson's "Thriller")

It is not a coincidence and absolutely not a Halloween-tradition that Michael Jackson filmed the Thriller video music clip on this very date of October,29th,1989, SUNDAY and produced/distributed it on first Friday of November,1989 that week.

A thinking-eye viewer will also find several similarities and cross-references between Michael Jackson's Thriller and The Halloween Door.

Another production note is that Dan Aykroyd was in contribution in writing this episode and Michael Jackson contacted Dan directly after firing his Italian egoist talent manager Frank DiLeo early February,1989.

Test Pilot Donald (1951)

"Dale"devil chipmunk riding a Drone

[9/10 · 25 November 2021]

Which one is Dale, which one is Chip?

In Test Pilot Donald, a masterfully designed short film structure; Dale and Chip have distinct and not-so-opposite character growth.

Make this short your 1st Chip'n'Dale episode to start watching their other adventures; so you will never confuse who is who.

The premise is in two Acts:

Act-1: Donald remote controls a AN-74 Ferrari inspired jet drone which hits and bogs down on a tree two chipmunks have a home in.

Inciding Incident: Dale jumps on the drone and aims to ride it, while Chip warns him indicating a big white duck (Donald) controls the drone.

Thesis- Dale must take the control of the drone from Donald, by riding it from its pilot seat.

Act-2: Dale takes on the challenge and Chip will need to run for his rescue when Donald captures Dale in a water bottle.

Synthesis- To prove he can handle this trouble on his own, Dale succeeds on messing up with Donald and manages to entrap him tied down to a houseroof while the drone was lapsing around it continuously.

The first Academy award nominated antagonist chipmunks in animation history(1947) have been given distinct character growths; uniquely uncompleting each others' opposite motives. Chip only risks his safety for his shelter or in case he needs food; while Dale is the Daledevil always jumps for any adventures and challenges by heart without making any plans.

After this episode, ever since 1951, in the new Chip'n'Dale adventures Chip always draws up a plan and whispers to Dale's ear ; which will indeed hamper Dale's adventurist initiations. (Accordingly making all the new Chip'n'Dale cartoons predictable with boring endings)

The mastered Duo rule for any unique Comedy Duos: + Do not oppose your dual partner just because he has an opposite character ++ The duo do not have to attempt all challenges together; while they are both still actively involved in the action +++ Out of the duo, decide which one will be on the foreground ; and which one for the background ++++ When the duo do not need to complete each other; their character growths are given free space and the story structure evolves into an unpredictable dynamic (the master rule for all duo-comedy franchises)

Tabloid Truth (2014)

In every rumor there is a portion of truth nobody knows nothing about. Hushhhh!.. Neither do you.

[8/10 · 7 August 2016]

In this dark thriller, an innocent hero seeks reasons to the suicide of a TV starlet, whom he was in a romantic relationship with. All heard and known from the news is that the starlet was rumored to be seen in a late-dinner date with a member of a municipal council. Some politician that you don't want to mess up with. The tone of the thriller is set in such a mood that we don't have time to care about what does this guy do for a living, if he is not a detective?

He is not a detective, so this turns toward a sweet sour revenge. A revenge like Quentin Tarantino or Bryan Singer knew how to craft it in the '90s. The romantic kid decides to find whoever is guilty from the suicide of his girlfriend. How far he can go with that fantasy?

It is a nice challenging set-up with self-denial exams introducing new allies and new foes meanwhile. Yet, there is this major hindrance to catch up what is happening, why is happening and how is happening:

1- Characters do not look for other options 2- Characters do not have strong motivation or a good reason to be in this story 3- Characters do not have reasonable and mutual growth 4- And finally, what you see is what you guess and get: Story does not establish the film, the film becomes something else other than the promise.

Unless this is your first South-Korean action-thriller that you are watching, you will be okay with brutal fighting scenes, meaningless pain inflicting sequences, imbecile acting melodrama moments, cheap laziness in directing antagonist interactions(bad guys just stay there awaiting to be destroyed), and my favorite cheapness: Only as smart as a high-school manga. Well, guess what, the opening scene takes place when the heroes are in high school.

What you cannot find in any other action-thriller, but only in this film:

1- Trying to discover a secret via the fastest and the hardest way: Trace Manga! Track the suspects and beat them to death until they speak out who did it! "I am asking you s.o.b! Tell me who did it! Or I f.cking break your arm!". Crack! He breaks one arm. Oh no! He was innocent!

2- THE DARK TURN: Nobody knows who did it. But the more the hero seeks answers for, the more he learns that... It is a hidden top secret network, where its individuals are equal to each other; everything that is done, every news that is written, is known in the first place by no one. But the rumored secrets prompted the crime in this same first place, too. The more the hero struggles to find answers, he finds himself being part of it, and he turns his back to review his present life; that he was doing the same what it was done to him to other innocents like him.

3- The information is travelling faster than the speed of the light: Since every character engaging in the story is an employee of the news and media franchises, they cannot see the end of their actions, but we can. The use of internet in this film was nicely constructed with all the necessary reason and result synergies.

4- "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown". This small-brain film will remind you and help you understand better the big-brain classics of all time. "Louis I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"

5- The town is not called Chinatown or Casablanca, but the realm of the unseen corporate institutional power is much larger: "Media"

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior: The Girl in the Blue Mask (2011) Season 1, Episode 12

When Plastic Surgery Goes Wild: Be careful! When you are falling dead, don't you ever bruise that pretty skin

[5/10 · 20 March 2016]

The major issue in second TV instalment of the Criminal Minds episodes is that the timing that's given for the Antagonists to step into the story. Was ridiculously insufficient. With an unorthodox thinking, even God himself gave %16(sixteen percent) of the lines of the Bible to Satan, that he could be introduced first as a serpent in Garden of Eden, in the entire chapter of Genesis 3. And if you have a Circus Of Horrors(1960-UK-Sidney Hayers) material in your hand to shape it up in an contemporary American life setting, you've got to give life to your antagonist to make him plausible.

A teen girl in blue mask walks in with doubts on her mind why did her father want to alter the look of her face. Does her father also run a country-wide touring circus with all-four-seasons bikini wearing honey bunnies as in 1947 British Horror of Doctor Schuler's plastic surgery fantasies?

Criminal Minds is a TV-series with a lot of screen timing on the Protagonist side, where we don't see enough of what evil side is doing in the mean time. So copycatting a British Horror with mysterious evil characters is not appropriate material.

Yet, it is the kind of material, what TV is missing in recent years. Below is my previous research regarding plastic surgery stories established in silver-screen.

There are notable films within various genres featuring plastic surgery. Starting to count, let's look at the drama/romance genre first: In Elizabeth Taylor's popular drama movie "Ash Wednesday(1973)", Taylor's character tends to have plastic surgery to retain her lover's attention on her. From the last decade of 1900s, Alejandro Amenabar's "Abre Los Ojos" and its Hollywood copycat "Vanilla Sky" both tell the off-base story of a playboy's lose of his handsome face due to a traffic accident, and his captious dreams of regaining his pretty face with plastic surgery. From the TV, 2005's Golden Globe winner TV- drama "Nip/Tuck" was taking its departure with two plastic surgeons of opposite personalities.

Plastic surgery was also memorable in Robert Zemeckis's "Death Becomes Her(1992)" where Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn were making up a fun out of this matter. Addictive to look younger, two aged ladies were competing with each other via having plastic surgeries until they explore a youth elixir. Another funny example of a plastic surgery comedy had been featuring in a scene in Terry Gilliam's "Brazil(1985)" where the leading character's mother wants to have plastic surgery without anaesthesia while she's awake.

Whereas in the horror genre, the plastic surgery has been used very seriously in odd details. The cult filmmaker Jesus Franco's "Faceless(1987)" was a psychopathic crime story, in which a plastic surgeon kidnaps a beautiful model to stitch up her face into his sister's. Dated 1960 the British horror "Circus of Horrors" told another crime story of a plastic surgeon who takes his patients prisoner to work as models at a circus of horrors.

Maybe the earliest example to a plastic surgery concept on the big screen was Humphrey Bogart's "Dark Passage(1947)". This was an unique crime/thriller movie, having Humphrey Bogart as a criminal's new face after the plastic surgery which made it easier for him to hide away from the police. In the other crime/thriller movies that used plastic surgery within its concept, Michael Caine's "The Jigsaw Man" displayed a KGB agent who is sent to Britain for misleading targets. John Travolta and Nicolas Cage's "Face Off" on the other hand, brought a fresh idea of shifting agents with each other by means of plastic surgery. Looking at a Turkish TV crime genre epic "Kurtlar Vadisi(Valley of the Wolves)" displayed a MIT spy turning a Mafia boss after a successful plastic surgery altering him to a new identity so that he could prevent Turkish mafia from attacking Pope in Vatican or destroying the future of EU.

* References and external sources to this article can be found at:

• University of Toronto. ScienceDaily. (2011, August 25). Anti- ageing techniques not yet viewed as acceptable, study suggests. Retrieved (March, 8, 2014)

• Anti-ageing and reversing youth (Lef Magazine, October,2008)

Donald and the Wheel (1961)

a true collectible of a Walt Disney run Sci-Fi piece

[9/10 · 14 November 2015]

Not having seen my father for over 5 years, this Walt Disney production reminded me too much of him, and gave me some clues to "What on Earth ever happened to movies?" and "Why don't they make it like they used to any more?".

The answer was simple, and came naturally: When young producers grow old, if they are recognized enough, they desist taking part of turning raw ideas into stories, for if they don't... Then they face the risk of losing their reputation over a silly money-making mechanism employee(I am not offending no one), but then(who did this mistake? Nikola Tesla did and Howard Hughes did), hence movies without them are not made fully but came to a senseless conclusion by losing the original idea in an effort to keep the story interesting and the mandatory rules applying.

Whereas Donald And The Wheel is a single executive run Walt Disney studio production, it is only one man's self-inspired work, and it is way ahead of its time. For he is the Walt Disney himself who that one man is, produced the entire footage, wrote most parts, plotted the entire production design, drew sketches on a blackboard with a piece of chalk, just like you've seen today on the animation, and ultimately he invented the first-seen-on-movies 3D human-cartoon match-up visual effect, dated 1961 the same year Walt presented the first full-color TV-programming via his co-production "Wonderful World of Color(**)", 27 years before Who Framed Roger Rabbit(Robert Zemeckis of BackToTheFuture).

But that's not it. The gem in this short animation is that Walt tells the history of world science, from the wheel-invention perspective. If you imagine another world, without no other discovery than the wheel, this is what you get. If you don't believe me, for I don't have a Nobel award, I remind you that in 1904 Einstein has said that "If you take any true scientific discovery and add it to a non-working mechanism, not only will it work the mechanism, but it will operate it solely by itself(*)". Do you think Walt didn't know that?

What goes on the story is that a father and his son sing together a Orson Welles kind of duet, telling the history of science, from the very date of the invention of the wheel in BC.3500, its many uses in carriage, in military defense, in agriculture, in forestry, in ancient metropolis constructions, in Ancient Egypt BC.2000 which the history has more records than the other civilizations as being used for the first type of ground transportation, then in Philosophical Ancient Greece BC.400 when Hippocrates and Aristocrates designed the first horse carriage(via stealing the secret of How to train horses from Persia) and starting from BC.200 Romans how the horse carriages developed in time until AD.1820, when the locomotive and the railroad systems were invented. All displayed within perfect illustrations, like a hands-on science class taught by a never- understood mad professor wearing suede shoes dancing waltz to himself and speaking to himself with a unique jargon you never want to miss.

The professor's illustrations goes on until the automobiles are used in travel to long ground distances(1920s), and the first space satellites(1950s). Meanwhile the father and the son singing duets and dancing, go back in time to BC.3500 to inspire the caveman in motivating him to invent the first wheel. The caveman finds the father and the son too crazy to believe in, and quits his silly idea of inventing something that rolls on its own unstoppably.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- References and bibliography used in this review follows:

Live Science - Invention of the wheel 180008 (**) D23 - about Walt Disney (*) einstein-website.de/z_biography

Erotic Passion (1981)

Don't let the charming girls kill their aunts out of jealousy

[8/10 · 5 January 2015]

is must be one of the rules of being ladies' men. In this B type softcore feature, Monica Nickel -a German/Greek playboy playmate- plays a coming-of-age girl Della, a seductive beauty who is on hunting for mature men to drive them wild towards having all types of foul sex, public sex and skinny dipping. But neither of the scenes involve gay/lesbian interest nor any male nudity hardcore elements. Monica Nickel is a playboy playmate and she will show all, of course, with a couple of other older females joining her. The sex scenes are so soft in the style of Emmanuelle series, but still they are motivating and rolling with high temperature.

Read these critic, if you will, prior to watching the movie, so you will know what to expect. I promise that there are no spoilers.

There are many qualities that makes this film a good romance flick either than being a Poison Ivy type seductive crime. How can a girl steal some other girls' boyfriend without being a spoilsport to that girl? She can if she is as smart as Della. All Della wants alongside the movie is to be a grown-up girl. She is doing what she thinks mature people do. And the world around her obeys her dream. It's a small and pink world, that she can fall for a criminal and can easily save him from being charged for a new crime.

Her fugitive boyfriend convinces her not to kill her aunt reminding her that every girl has the potential to be a mother one day, and hence they have to respect other mothers no matter what. Such a ladies' man!

The crime is not this movie is made of. It's a coming-age drama softcore with all the plausible reasons for a girl to go rebel and go berserk against everything that can stop her from being grown-up so quick, while at the some time -with all of her innocence deep inside- falling for wrong men.

Neither the story or script is engaging for professional aspects. Don't forget; this movie is a softcore/romance movie and can only be watchable for these purposes. When you have this purpose and got everything ready with your sweetheart for a soft and tender night, you'll enjoy it all, with all the music, the settings, the atmosphere, the innocence, the soft and pink world where nothing good or beautiful happens except love.

With all the music, the settings, the atmosphere, the innocence, the soft and pink world where nothing good or beautiful happens except love.

What follows below is the lyrics of the song at the opening credits that takes us to these pink crime world:

" It's only love

Keeps me alive

If you should ever leave me

That I'd just die of your sadness

I hope you understand

With such a feeling

With such a deep emotion

I'll give your love my devotion,

Tenderness and passion

It's only love

So don't be afraid

If some time I get angry

'cause I don't feel any more loneliness " (music by Giovanni Ullu)

(song and lyrics uncredited)

Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)

"America is addicted to oil" says President George W.Bush as he commits the murder of the Electric Car

[8/10 · 6 November 2013]

When somebody asks your opinion about what will be different in future, the answer you're going to give to that person will not be the same answer after you watch this brilliantly thought-provoking documentary.

In the recent years I became a volunteer member of the World Future Society via the U.S. based monthly magazine called Futurist. WFS is a society established in 1966 by the Baby Boomers, who had the prevailing sociological demographics of being afraid of the future and technology. Wherever and whenever the more you read and the more you make research about what's upcoming with the future, you end up finding yourself in a strictly controlled mechanism...

A strictly controlled mechanism of making people afraid of the future is a Globalism vista. This is what 99 percent of today's scientists all over the world face, as they keep running after their dreams to effectuate an EASIER LIFE for the whole world in the future.

When I say "easier life" I am daydreaming about a future with less obligations, less touch of economy in every little thing of life, less time wasted on waiting things, less time wasted on waiting your flight/waiting your bus/waiting for the traffic lights to turn green and there comes the vision of spending less time on daily transportation.

But the vision of spending less time on transportation is restricted with the Global Economy. Until the Earth's oil resources are totally drained coming to a point of depletion, the people of Earth will still be obliged to use refined petroleum to fill the gas tanks of their cars; since this Global Economy is based on the money you spend to fill out your gas tanks.

Whereas since the early 1920's Ford and General Motors have already developed the idea and possibility of running automobiles with use of electrically charged batteries. This is the initial introduction of the Electric Car in this feature documentary. The science of Electric Car has come back to development in the 1980's once more. As General Motors company developed the technology further, they have introduced their first publicized Electric Car in a 1989 fair opening. The pioneer electric car in America has been named GM-Saturn EV.1 (EV stands for Electric Vehicle).

In the late '90s in the states of California and Arizona, a total of 78 electric cars have been purchased by public. Ford Think, Ford Ranger EV, Toyoya RAV4 EV, Toyota Hybrid, Nissan Altra EV, and Honda EV Plus are the electric cars that are sold. Along the documentary, which is very nicely done through public interviews, we get to lend our ears to the satisfactions of electric car drivers.

92 minutes of running time in this documentary features two main themes:

1/ the introduction of Electric Cars and their manufacturers, principals of their engines and fuels, electric vehicle charging stations, and the EV owners

2/ the investigation of the obvious question "How come there aren't any Electric Cars in the traffic today?" that is followed by "Who did take off the cars from the traffic?"

This investigation covers every little and every crazy possibility that comes to your mind when you think of who killed the electric car:

Western States Petroleum Association, California Air Resources Board, American Petroleum Institute, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, President George W.Bush, California Fuel Cell Partnership Group, car companies, lack of marketing, emission requirements, lack of public demand.

Which one is guilty, or who is guilty? Who is behind the fact that Electric Cars are taken off the traffic?

The writer and director Chris Paine has done a great job putting together a list of suspects, as if this is a case and as if the act of justice needs to punish the guilty.

This documentary of course cannot offer solutions to what to do about this guilt. It is the mission of the American Justice System. But as long as USA doesn't approve Liberalism for its regime, no one is going to punish the guilty. Yet this is only my opinion. This professional documentary doesn't have any political stand, and it doesn't force you to anything. It is just to let you know, and let you think.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

Rebel with a Cause - a very week social drama due to disregard of psychological science

[4/10 · 2 November 2013]

An author and a movie-maker are two totally different career personalities. It isn't always easy for an author to turn his own novel into a feature-length movie. Even though there are exceptions, in general the idea of writing a drama novel develops through emotions and thoughts, whereas writing a movie requires thinking in visuals and in character motives.

As a novel "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" has published by MTV in the year 1999 for Young Adult audiences. Examining social psychology as a subject matter is the leading concentration herein. This novel has several references from English Literature works and Western Philosophy movements. Author Stephen Chbosky reflects his opinions on struggles of an adolescent growing up to adulthood in a western society where the adolescent has to face isolation and alienation while delving deeply into individual freedom as it is the case in Nihilism, Absurdism, and in Existentialism.

The refusal of loneliness is the concealed and driven force of being a wallflower. Being a wallflower for an adolescent in this film stands for acting the cool guy, and acting the wanna-be-popular guy. According to Albert Camus, the French philosopher, this is the definition of being a "rebel".

But the promised concealed and driven force of being a wallflower isn't displayed in the film, which is the initial problem of the chain of other continued failures. The reasoning with choosing to be a wallflower is explained through shyness. If the Charlie character is made shy, how can he easily strip down his clothes in front of a hundred people on the Rocky Horror Picture Show night? The psychological trauma awaiting after committing such a "rebel" action for a shy person may be very severely grievous, or may be not. Let's hope it may not.

The ease of dialogues and interactions between Emma Watson's character(Sam) and Charlie are also improper with the given character motives. She types "write about us" to Charlie's typewriter. And what does Charlie do in return? He types "I will". This is just nonsense. Later on she goes to sit on her bed sort of inviting him to sex. The moment as a couple they were about to start making out, as Sam touches Charlie on his inner thighs, Charlie recalls his sister who is dead. How can you recall your late sister while your dream girlfriend makes love to you as she touches your thighs? Reality is that Charlie's character is not directed to be a shy character. He is just a cool but abnormally depressive character. And this has nothing to do with being a wallflower.

Charlie is the next James Dean. Everything he did to lure girls, so did James Dean the same way. For over 65 years in Hollywood, being the cool and rebel guy always created more impression on girls rather than being a nice popular guy. This is a huge and inexcusable directing inferiority.

Whoever loved this film, loved it because of the resolution at the end. Whereas also whoever hated this film, hated it because of the revelation at the end. The Perks of Being a Wallflower film has two main themes:

1/ Finding the love you deserve 2/ Finding the meaning of becoming an adult

Each theme is in contradiction with each other. This film offers us the resolution that seeking the love you deserve keeps you away from becoming an adult. And it offers us the revelation of finding the meaning of becoming an adult in Nihilist freedom of an understanding that you cannot run after love, love will come to you.

Jobs (2013)

Failure in "Thinking Differently" : a Poorly Marketed Good Drama movie about an Epoch-making Achievement, and absolutely not a Biography movie

[6/10 · 5 October 2013]

Steve Jobs(R.I.P) October,5th,2011.

jOBS is not a biography movie like Citizen Kane, Gandhi, The Last Emperor, The Last King of Scotland, Malcolm X, and Gladiator. But it takes all the genre clichés from these movies, while following the same story structure of Social Network.

Since I mentioned David Fincher's movie Social Network, I will start my review with the major problem in jOBS: Considering Social Network was an aptly marketed everyone's hero style of an average business-drama movie, in order to market a Steve Jobs life story appropriately, this wasn't the right choice. The cause of this marketing errors are the trailer, the poster with Ashton Kutcher on it, and the movie itself with Ashton Kutcher starring in it.

Then what is jOBS about? jOBS is just a simple telling of a person's epoch-making achievement like Schindler's List, Spartacus, Raging Bull, Braveheart, Papillon, The Pianist, and even David Lnych's The Straight Story. jOBS has more than a few things in common with those movies including the pain of sacrificing your beloved ones in order to succeed in your career, including similar character traits, similar ethical beliefs, similar moral decisions. jOBS is only a brief telling of what Steve Jobs gave to the Macintosh computers, just like what Oscar Schindler gave to Jews, and what Braveheart gave to Scotland. You can't expect to see the birth and death of Steve Jobs in this movie. This is not a biopic, instead it's a drama, poorly marketed good business-drama.

There are both strong and weak points in the technical side of jOBS. As a start, having no narration is a strong point, yet having not explained why Steve Jobs dropped out from college is crucially a weak point. Ashton Kutcher takes his girlfriend and goes behind bushes in the country and smokes weed. Then we get to figure it out that Steve Jobs has dropped out from college because he smoked weed and got his girlfriend pregnant. Refusing the birth of his first child due to his busy work schedules, Steve Jobs character has been made more weaker and weaker minute after minute. There is certainly a rule of character growth followed in this film, but none of this film's audiences have really bought that character growing incidents.

This is an average business-drama movie, set in the world of entrepreneurial minds. You're lonely, you always keep a positive mind but always looking for a person to trust, you are goal-oriented, you take maximum risks for every little achievements in your life, you are a reliable friend to your colleagues but they are always afraid of you, and you see every step in your life as a competition with someone else's steps in their lives...

This is a strong premise that killed the sense of making a Steve Jobs movie to honor his memory. This movie should have been made in 1997, when Steve Jobs have become the de facto chief CEO of Macintosh. And this movie could have been titled "Think Differently" as this is what it is only about. If this has been a movie called "Think Differently" made in 1997, then it could earn some recognition. Now people would come to you and ask "What did Steve Jobs do for the last 14 years of his life as a CEO in Apple?"

REC (2007)

A great Zombie movie and a must-see on Halloween

[8/10 · 18 September 2013]

There are only some minor spoilers in my review, and those spoilers are in the technical and structural aspects of movie-making. I'm not going to spoil the story to you, because it's very brief like a prime time news story. I just want to mention the opening segment of the sci-fi movie District-9. The style used in District-9's opening segment is inspired from Rec.

This horror film has been made within a first person point of view live action perspective, and shot by a single hand-held camera. The ultimate challenge is that the entire movie goes until everybody dies. There are no bad guys, and no good guys. Everybody is a victim. Everybody must die.

All along the movie we are controlling Pablo's camera, and we are in his point of view. If you ever played FPS(first person shooter) computer games, you'd like this even more, because this film is entirely in FPS gaming style. We are always in point of view of Pablo's video camera. If the battery dies, the camera shuts down, then we can't see anything. If the audio receiver is disconnected, we can't hear. If the camera lens gets broken, we'd take off the lens, and start filming via night vision. This is a very strong premise, and absolutely this is what made me keep watching till the end. Otherwise zombie movies for me are just unreal and nothing interesting or scary, and always guessable too.

I'd recommend this film for adolescents who want to have fun on Halloween. As a unique zombie movie, it deserves multiple views. Turn on the volume and just join the fun.

Üç Arkadas (1958)

Golden Age of Stars lapsed into reverie

[9/10 · 4 August 2013]

Remember the times when movies are made with stars. Remember the times when there is no story to tell, if there is no star to play it. It feels so sad that oldies are archaic. Like a golden statuette, you can't be part of its drama any more, no matter how close you look you hold and you feel it.

Three Friends is one of those oldies which belong to bygone days, when the movies were only following one side of a story, very straightforwardly. You'd easily know who the protagonist and antagonist are. But you can never see a scene where protagonist is not present. There is no other story happening in the background with side characters or with the antagonist. There is only one plot, but with many different themes that is enriched: Heroic themes, love themes, friendship, innocence. It's fully a drama.

Because there has been a revision in 1971 of the same movie played by different actors, shot by the same director onto the same script, you can easily tell how the modern cinema has evolved by time. Particularly this is a story of three poor friends who are helping out a blind vagabond girl by sharing their food and home with her. In the similar setting of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights with lots of inspirations from the Tokyo Story and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Three Friends is a highly emotional social drama which focus is on friendship and innocence. Highly recommended for all lovers of classic drama movies.

Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)

Hare-Way to the Stars(1958) vs. Haredevil Hare(1948): Chuck Jones refines his work

[7/10 · 19 December 2012]

The original premiere Looney Tunes version of the first Marvin the Martian stories has this simple promise:

"Marvin the Martian is a diabolical genius who wants to destroy the Earth, but Bugs Bunny stops him"

Michael Maltese writes a script for Haredevil Hare(1948) following the promise above. In Haredevil Hare, Bugs Bunny is sent to Moon for a given mission: To establish the first radio contact between Moon and Earth. So he goes to Moon, just after he thinks he is the first creature to land on Moon, he meets with Marvin. Marvin wants to destroy the Earth. But Bugs distracts him, so he accidentally blows up his spaceship. Not only Bugs saves Earth from being destroyed he also completes his mission. But the plot-hole, a huge logical deficiency, here is that the space engineers establishing the first radio connection with Moon, doesn't know that a Martian wants to destroy the Earth, and even at the end of the episode Bugs Bunny didn't tell them so.

Director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese make a revision 10 years after Haredevil Hare, naming it Hare-Way to the Stars, to keep it easily marketable rhyming it both with that earlier episode and also with Ella Fitzgerald's popular country song title(Stairway to the Stars). This way it became one of the most marketable cartoons of Warner Bros all time. In the production side, not only that the problems with the plot are fixed, but also Looney Tunes wanted them to create a more funny, more combative, more challenging cartoon. So Jones and Maltese started a new opening image and a unique set-up, putting Bugs in a bad morning mood after he wakes up to go and get himself a nice morning shower. The first funny and challenging moment is here in the set-up that, Bugs is not aware that he is going to Moon, unlike Haredevil Hare. Also when on the Moon, even though the same story 10 years ago follows its identical sections step by step, this time Marvin the Martian is more prepared to the combat, he has back-up for everything Bugs does. Bugs find himself in a tough challenge killing Martian soldiers one by one in most funny ways possible. And ultimately at the end, again unwillingly and uncontrollably, just like how he came to Moon, Bugs returns to Earth bringing Martians with him, creating a perfectly funny and suspended ending.

The next most noteworthy episode of Marvin the Martian story with him trying to blow up the Earth is "Mad as a Mars Hare"(1963) a Merrie Melodies touch to the Marvin the Martian series. What's different production-wise than the Looney Tunes episodes is that, as always Merrie Melodies are more concerned with the humour not with the story. In Mad as a Mars Hare, we will find Marvin the Martian more prepared to fight, more angrier, more challenging and hence more funnier, with cool sci-fi ideas that only add more booze to the excitement of the episode.