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Captain Corelli's Mandolin - A good love story

Advantages: nice cast and beautiful scenary
Disadvantages: not Nicholas Cage's normal type of role

...have to put up with Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicholas Cage). They don’t like his presence but unlike the other soldiers and officers he seems a little friendlier, especially with his passion for the Mandolin. When Pelagia’s fiancé (Christian Bale) heads off to fight the war the relationship between Pelagia and Antonio starts to really flourish as the circumstances bring them closer together. The rest of the story focuses on their relationship and ...
...Cast ***** Captain Antonio Corelli: Nicholas Cage Pelagia: Penelope Cruz Dr Iannis: John Hunt Mandras: Christian Bale I thought this was a very touching love story and a very good movie. It is adapted from a book written by Louis De Bernieres and although i have not read it i did find this film to be very good. I picked this up thinking it would just be a war film but was very surprised when i found out it was romance but that did not put me ...

Southernboy 12.05.2007 · Read full review
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A weird film about reality

Advantages: Interesting story
Disadvantages: A bit confusing at times

The 2001 film, Vanilla Sky, is a bit of a weird film that may not appeal to everyone. It is a remake of a Spanish film, Open Your Eyes (Abre los Ojos). Vanilla Sky is about David Aames (Tom Cruise), a wealthy man, who owns a publishing company and seems to have the perfect life. When he and his friend Brian (Jason Lee) are at a party, he meets a beautiful girl, Sofia (Penelope Cruz), who he falls in love with her. However before David can pursue ...
...girlfriend, Julianna (Cameron Diaz), is determined to get revenge. She crashes her car with David in it, leaving the surviving David with a disfigured face. David tries to rebuild his life and tries out find out more about Sofia, but things start getting confusing for him, when someone dies David is help to blame and is put in the care of Dr Curtis McCabe (Kurt Russell) who tries to help him piece together the mystery of his life and work out what ...

mozzie76 30.10.2009 · Read full review
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Blow (The coke)

Advantages: Great music in the movie, much drugs, money....
Disadvantages: nothing!

This movie is based on a true story. Directed by Ted Demme and the main actor is Johnny Depp - George Jung in the movie. The whole movie is about drugs. Starting with marijuana, and all later goes on cocaine, Pablo Escobar, and so on. The movie starts as George lives in a poor family, they don't have money, his father and mother are fighting coz they don't have money and than George decided that he won't be like his parents. So he moves on, and ...
...his future wife, a stuardess who will get marijuana through the border for him. The business starts to go very good, but later on he falls. In the prison he met Diago, with who he will do next and next business but with cocaine. George's wife dies in breast cancer, he's totally pissed, when he gets out of the prison, he starts the cocaine business with Diago. The whole movie is dynamic and very good, especially the music is great in the movie plus ...

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Almodóvar‘s Masterpiece

Advantages: Powerful. poignant, moving, funny
Disadvantages: None that I could find

...but promises to tell him all when they get home. However, as Huma leaves the theatre and Esteban runs after her for an autograph he is tragically and shockingly run over and killed. Manuela is devastated and she reads in Esteban’s notebook how much he wanted to know his father. So Manuela sets off to Barcelona to find Esteban’s father and tell him about the son he never knew. On arrival in Barcelona Manuela chances upon an old friend Agrado (Antonia ...
...not acting as mothers. Nearly all of the characters in the film are women, except Esteban who dies early in the film and Agrado and Lola who act and behave like women. Without men to interfere Almodovar freely explores the interactions between this fascinating set of “females”. The result is a highly emotional and richly woven tapestry. The performances are masterful. Cecilia Roth is excellent as the strong willed Manuela who though devastated by ...

buzios 20.09.2004 · Read full review
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Life is But a Dream?

Advantages: Briskly paced, riveting thriller; excellent performances all around.
Disadvantages: Nada!

...directed Abre los Ojos / Open Your Eyes (1997) is all these. Alejandro Amenábar, the co-writer, director, and music composer of this film, is a young Spanish filmmaker of remarkable talent. He has shown that his craftsmanship early on was no fluke with his recent hit, The Others, which boasted convincing performances from Nicole Kidman and the rest of the fine cast. Although as a matter of principle I refuse to see Vanilla Sky, the Hollywood remake ...
...that product ranks way below Amenábar’s original, which doesn’t surprise me one bit. An alternate title for the film might have been, Life is But a Dream. So you think you can definitely tell the difference between reality and dreams? Well, think again. The theme in Abre los Ojos might be summed up thus: which of our experiences are real, and which are not? Abre los Ojos presents you with this filmic puzzle, one that will gleefully play havoc with ...

zerbine28 26.09.2003 · Read full review
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