The Help (2011)

Hey there,
It's been a long time but I wanted to write about this one, The Help with Emma Stone. Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.

Last month my friends gave me the book "The Help" for my birthday, I've been wanting to ready it for a while since the movie came out but I didn't had the book.
I always like to read the books first, it's better and I enjoy it very much. I always take a book with me everywhere I go.

So I finished if today at the beach and for the past 2 and a half hours I've been watching the movie. It's not the same of course, some parts are edited and others are just the same. I loved it!

It's a great book and a great movie, the theme is not easy but it's something that happened and needed to be told. It shows another perspective on the life of maids and not only maids but of every house worker.
The laws, the fear they live in, the separation, the racism, these are current problems, current situations. It happened back then but it still happens now. It might be a little different but the main problem is still there.

I'm not speaking for experience but from what I read and hear. I hate seeing someone treat another person bad for a little thing, we are ALL human, we all make mistakes or have bad days. What not all of us do is take it out on the help, on the "inferior" ones, the ones we pay and because of that we think we own.

I'm really glad this book came out, I'm even more glad the movie did to because it was because of the movie that I knew this book existed and I got to read it. I got to see what's like to live these women's lives, the hardships they go through, the love they give for the children they raise. It was a learning experience and I hope everyone reads it and watches the movie too.
It gives you a face to all those characters you read about.

5 stars from me for both.

Read the book and see the film please.

You Got Served 2 and Abduction (2011)

Okay so in the past few days I watched those two, You Got Served 2 and Abduction.

Starting with You Got Served - Beat the World (2011), a dance movie about three dance crews from Brazil, Berlin and USA that are getting ready to compete at the international Beat the World competition in Detroit.
I got to say I was a bit disappointed, I was hoping for more since this is the follow up to You Got Served from 2004.

The fact we have 3 different worlds is interesting but it gets lost because the transition between scenes and stories is not continuous. How do I say this? The stories are too detached for most of the movie and they shouldn't be as much. Of course they are from completely different backgrounds but they have dance in common, that passion, the work, routines, moves, ideas.

Other thing are the actors, there wasn't a connection between some when there should be. For example, Eric with everyone else, I wasn't feeling it. Okay he's good, he's cocky and all that but every scene with him was too forced, too unreal.

I really like Stephanie Nguyen's character Nina. Something about the way she moves, the way you can see how she is when she dances, how she expresses herself when she's sad, angry, calm... All that thru dance.

In the end, the Brazilian crew wasn't that good in my opinion, they could have picked up more Brazilian flavor, could have made it unique.
The parkour moves made a big difference, adding dynamic to Fusion's routine.

Overall it wasn't the movie I was expecting, I was hoping for something much better, with sick moves and a good story.


->Up next Abduction

So about Abduction (2011), movie about a teenager that discovers his face in a missing persons website and starts questioning all his life, his parents and himself. A lot of action involved, secrets, lies, CIA, Russians and of course a girl.

There's not much to say.
This was better than the other movie, it was what was expected, a movie with drama, thriller and action.The story was good, not that many loopholes, somewhat predictable since we knew from the beginning what would probably happen but even so... It was entertaining to watch.

The fight scenes were good, almost thought they would break the train lol
But it was a good movie.



I've seen many movies between the last post and this one but hadn't had the time to put up my reviews and comments. Will try to be more consistent since I see movies every week :)

See ya

oh boy so many movies

hey there, well since July I've seen tons of movies and I can't remember half of them lol

Not because I didn't like them but because I just can't remember their names. I've a few post lined up to publish very soon but I want to double check them before doing so.

Just so you know, 127 Hours, No strings attached, burlesque, Little fockers, streetdance 3d, Fast Five, friends with benefits, among others.


See you soon.

I'll be back

Hey there, so much work, not enough free time or will to write about the movies I've seen lately.

I promise I'll write soon, this week if all goes well

Bye for now
Rita

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

And here I was, going to the movies to see "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" with the unpredictable Captain Jack Sparrow.


As you surely know, this is the 4th movie of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, with Johnny Depp returning as Cap. Jack Sparrow and a new addition to the main cast with Penélope Cruz.


This time they are in search of the Fountain of Youth, its water can restore you a few years with a slight footnote.
There are two chalices, one gives life and the other takes life, someone always dies for the other to live...


Well let me tell you what I most like about this movie, might not be the obvious things.

First I really like Syrena and Philip's bond, a man of faith and a being from another world. The worry about another person's well being, I really wish I could see that more often in the real world.
Other thing I like was to have Jack finally admitting to have feelings for someone, even if that was the way it ended, with me laughing at the end :)


Really funny movie, blockbuster so far, you should really see it 

The Life Before Her Eyes (2007)

I saw this movie in December 28th of 2008. I had this review in another blog and I just found it so here it is.

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I have to say I didn't expected it. Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood in an amazing movie.

You should see the movie The Life Before Her Eyes, but really see it, don't read anything about it (like what I write next lol), don't make up your mind about the type of movie you are going to see... Just watch it, feel it and you might realize what I'm talking about.

Is is true that your life passes before your eyes when you are in the face of death? But is it your past or your future? What do you see?

My sister doesn't like movies like this one, she likes something, how can I call it, solid, with a "the end". I liked the movie, maybe because it surprised me, it made me thing about lots of things, it made me come here and tell you about it.
I don't want to ruin it and start telling scenes and events but it's hard to explain what I felt without doing so.

When you're young, being an adult is so far away, you have your whole life ahead and it seems that everything is possible. You have your friends, you make your own mistakes and you learn from them, you grow up, you begin to see what life is about.
I never thought about my future, what I would do or how I would do it.

An event like that one in the movie, it changes everything. I've never heard of such thing happening in Portugal, only in the US and one European country. I have no idea how I would feel or react to that situation.
What makes a person do that? How mad, angry, disappointed, hurt would you have to be to hurt so many people? It's something I don't understand.
And this movie just skips it, it takes you to a single moment in time, the moment where you choose, the moment you find out what you're made of, how big is your heart, those seconds where you can see everything.
I really thought I was seeing her life, with her guilt, her sadness, her choices, her friend's dream life but I was wrong.

You should see the movie "The Life Before Her Eyes", but really see it! Just watch it, feel it and you might realize what I'm talking about.

It's time to go.
See u soon
bye
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I stand by what I wrote then, I really loved this movie.

Source Code (2011)

It's been a while, I've so many movies to review and so little time...

This weekend I went to the movies with my friend Jo, we saw Sorce Code with Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan.

It's a story about a soldier, Colter Stevens, that wakes up in a body of another man, named Sean, while on a train, and has to find out how planted the bomb that's gonna explode in 8 minutes. The funny thing is that it already happen, he is remembering/living this other man's memories over and over again until he can figure out what happened on that train. In the meanwhile, there's Christina a woman who has traveled on that same train many times with Sean. Colter starts falling for her as those 8 minutes go by.

So, this is not the typical time travelers movie, you can't go back and change what happened, it doesn't work like that. What the source code does it allow you to relive the 8 last minutes of someone's life, over and over again, in other to figure out what happened before they died. You can investigate for those 8 minutes, until the bomb explodes.

It's interesting to see the changes, they various ways Colter tries to figure out what happened. Each time he goes back he learns a bit more, it gets to know everyone a bit more. They all look their hiding something, maybe it's a big secret, maybe it's nothing important... His persistence is amazing and, has a true hero, he wants to save them, wants to save her, even though they are all already dead in the real time.

I'm not gonna tell the end lol Action, romance, mystery, some sci-fi to the mix and we have a great movie.I really liked it.