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.
quinta-feira, 21 de abril de 2011
sexta-feira, 8 de abril de 2011
Love And Other Drugs (2010)
Just finished watching this one, Love And Other Drugs with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway.
1996, Jamie, a smart guy loses his job at an electronics store after hooking up with his boss' wife. He soon turns to another career, drug rep, in a new town. Maggie is a free spirit who won't let anyone or anything near her. She has Parkinson's Disease and tries to keep everyone away so she can't get hurt. They crash, she trying to keep him away, he relentless trying to win her over.
So why did I like this movie?
The obvious answer would be because is a romantic comedy and I love those but it's not just that. What I like here is what happens underneath all that comedy.
You have a beautiful, smart, young woman with a disease without a cure, how do you deal with that? how do you deal with the fact that at 26 you have this problem and it won't go away? I've no idea. I guess she tried to protect herself from everyone, from more pain, from disappointment, from the pain of a broken heart.
On the other side we have Jamie, he's what you would call a jerk, or at least he looks like one. He turns out to be a good guy, one of those that cares a lot about you, that wants to help you no matter what.
What starts as just sex turns into love (she's not to happy about it at first) and than the weight of the illness crashes into them.
I think this happens with everyone in this situation, you try everything, every trial, every new experiment because there has to be a cure, it's not fair if there isn't one. That weight is just too much sometimes and that's what happened here, she breaks up because she can't take it, Parkinson's can't be her life.
What I really like is the fact that even after he got what he wanted, that big job, he just wanted her. Nothing like a little video to show you what is really important, he just wants her before anything else and that's what I love in these movies, that commitment.
It's going to be a hard road, it won't be fair, but it's their choice, it's their life.
1996, Jamie, a smart guy loses his job at an electronics store after hooking up with his boss' wife. He soon turns to another career, drug rep, in a new town. Maggie is a free spirit who won't let anyone or anything near her. She has Parkinson's Disease and tries to keep everyone away so she can't get hurt. They crash, she trying to keep him away, he relentless trying to win her over.
So why did I like this movie?
The obvious answer would be because is a romantic comedy and I love those but it's not just that. What I like here is what happens underneath all that comedy.
You have a beautiful, smart, young woman with a disease without a cure, how do you deal with that? how do you deal with the fact that at 26 you have this problem and it won't go away? I've no idea. I guess she tried to protect herself from everyone, from more pain, from disappointment, from the pain of a broken heart.
On the other side we have Jamie, he's what you would call a jerk, or at least he looks like one. He turns out to be a good guy, one of those that cares a lot about you, that wants to help you no matter what.
What starts as just sex turns into love (she's not to happy about it at first) and than the weight of the illness crashes into them.
I think this happens with everyone in this situation, you try everything, every trial, every new experiment because there has to be a cure, it's not fair if there isn't one. That weight is just too much sometimes and that's what happened here, she breaks up because she can't take it, Parkinson's can't be her life.
What I really like is the fact that even after he got what he wanted, that big job, he just wanted her. Nothing like a little video to show you what is really important, he just wants her before anything else and that's what I love in these movies, that commitment.
It's going to be a hard road, it won't be fair, but it's their choice, it's their life.
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