Violated, shat upon, sedated, narcotized, appalled, and bored stiff case file #52: Only God Forgives · My World Of Flops. My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following. Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 American breakthrough film, Drive, had a cultural significance that transcended its box-office performance. It was an instant touchstone in the cinema of cool that transformed Ryan Gosling from a well-liked young star into a contemporary Steve McQueen as good as any actor alive at not saying anything at all. The film established Gosling as the ultimate strong, silent type, a soulful and sensitive loner whose mournful eyes and perpetually haunted expression betray a profound inner sadness.
The protagonist’s scorpion jacket ignited the imagination of hipsters and cinephiles alike. If people were put off by the graphic violence in Drive, they were liable to be sickened by the stomach-churning ultra-violence of Only God Forgives. “On se souvient toujours de ‘Blade Runner’, on a oublié ‘Minority Report’”, Alain Damasio, écrivain - Cinéma. Les sitcoms doivent-elles devenir tristes? «La rançon du succès? Pourquoi maintenant y a une dose de ouin ouin dans chaque épisode? Faudrait pas commencer à se prendre au sérieux, comème!
Ouaip, c'était mieux avant...». «Sérieux ils deviennent de plus en plus glauque et triste les Bref là. Publicité Il y a comme un air de déjà vu sur la page Facebook de la série Bref depuis que Kyan et Navo ont décidé de mettre un peu de drame dans leur série comique. Les premiers sitcoms, à la fin des années 40, sont des adaptations d'émissions de radio. M.A.S.H., la rupture Dans les années 70, tout change. La scène finale, totalement inattendue, de la troisième saison vient alors de traumatiser l'Amérique. «J'ai un message. En quittant la salle d'opération, Radar laisse une équipe de médecins abasourdie et muette puis en larmes. C'était la première fois dans l'histoire de la télé américaine qu'un personnage central d'une série comique (de surcroît la série la plus regardée de l'époque) mourait dans des conditions tragiques.
Michael Atlan. Star Wars Movie Review & Film Summary (1977) To see "Star Wars" again after 20 years is to revisit a place in the mind. George Lucas' space epic has colonized our imaginations, and it is hard to stand back and see it simply as a motion picture, because it has so completely become part of our memories. It's as goofy as a children's tale, as shallow as an old Saturday afternoon serial, as corny as Kansas in August--and a masterpiece. Those who analyze its philosophy do so, I imagine, with a smile in their minds. May the Force be with them. Like "Birth of a Nation" and "Citizen Kane," “Star Wars'' was a technical watershed that influenced many of the movies that came after. “Star Wars'' effectively brought to an end the golden era of early-1970s personal filmmaking and focused the industry on big-budget special-effects blockbusters, blasting off a trend we are still living through.
It's possible, however, that as we grow older we retain within the tastes of our earlier selves. Lucas fills his screen with loving touches. J’ai vu TOUT Star Trek et je peux vous dire quelle série et quel film sont les meilleurs. Mission: Explorer de nouveaux épisodes, s’aventurer là où (presque) aucun fan n’est jamais allé. Leonard Nimoy est décédé vendredi 27 février, à l’âge de 83 ans, a annoncé sa femme au New York Times. Il était le fameux Spock de Star Trek, celui qui s’était sacrifié pour sauver le vaisseau Enterprise... Celui qui faisait le signe vulcain, «un "V" de la main qui s’ouvre entre le majeur et l’annulaire», rappelle Le Monde. «Un signe emblématique, inspiré, selon l’acteur, d’un signe de prière juive orthodoxe».
A la suite de son décès, nous republions cet article sur Star Trek, la fiction qui l'a rendu célèbre. Dans le deuxième épisode de la septième saison de la quatrième série télévisée Star Trek, Icheb, un extraterrestre adolescent vivant à bord d’un vaisseau de la Fédération depuis plusieurs mois après avoir été tiré des griffes des Borgs, demande dans un sanglot: «N’est-ce pas ce que font les gens sur ce vaisseau: s’entraider?»
Les officiers de Starfleet aident les gens. Why people hate Michael Bay (but love Furious 7) Furious 7 didn't just have a big opening over Easter weekend, it broke Hollywood records. Many of them. What's interesting is how much of the pop culture world seems to be in love with The Fast and the Furious series, complete with marathons, timelines and all sorts of excited nerdiness leading up to the film. Many of the same people who heap scorn on Michael Bay are unapologetic Furious 7 fans. The entire Fast series has earned the sort of open fandom that is only matched by superstar franchises like The Avengers. Why do people seem to hate the Transformers series but the equally dumb car racing films get a "free" pass?
This was an interesting conversation on Reddit, I have a few thoughts myself. They're in on the joke Michael Bay films tend to be dour, serious affairs that use over-the-top imagery and brute force to make you feel anything. The Furious films, on the other hand, are light and fluffy. "I think this is the biggest difference between Bay's films and Fast and Furious.
Is Avatar a Revisionist Take on Aliens? | the m0vie blog. I know this isn’t exactly a new idea, but it’s one I’ve been mulling over quite a bit lately – especially since my aunt picked up the Alien Anthology on blu ray for Christmas. It’s been fairly frequently remarked, on-line and in-print that James Cameron’s Avatar bears remarkable similarities to his Aliens. However, it’s not the similarities that interest me, it’s the differences which reveal quite a bit. Most fascinating – at least to me – is the idea that Avatar represents an attempt to revise Cameron’s work on Aliens. Killer queen... Aliens is the story of a team of marines on a different planet repelling an aggressive force which, while implicitly not native to the environment, are certainly more attuned to their surroundings. Many commentators suggest (and I agree) that Aliens represents Cameron’s attempt to make a Vietnam movie. Soldiering on... Avatar follows a very similar structure. Loaded with meaning? Is there a twist in their tale?
Compare and contrast... Cameron goes green... Aide to Kubrick on ‘Shining’ Scoffs at ‘Room 237’ Theories. That, at least, is the notion behind “Room 237,” a documentary by Rodney Ascher released on Friday. The movie is a series of voice-overs atop scenes from Kubrick movies by a small assortment of obsessives who have developed baroque theories about the true meaning of “The Shining.” One believes the film is about the slaughter of American Indians, another that it is about the Holocaust.
Yet another claims it is a kind of apology by Kubrick for the putative role he played in helping to fake the moon landing. And there’s more. The documentary could be construed as a sly tribute to “The Shining” as measured by the startling variety of fanciful postulations and close viewings it has inspired. But the theories are presented with such a surprising lack of irony that it seems as though “Room 237” — the name refers to the scariest suite in the Kubrick movie’s snowbound Overlook Hotel — just might want its audience to take them seriously.
That makes the theories fair game for a sober assessment. «Vice-Versa» est un tour de force, pas un chef-d'œuvre de cinéma. Le nouveau film d'animation de Pete Docter est un double coup de force, intellectuel et formel. Mais les auteurs de chez Pixar sont des «créatifs», pas des cinéastes. Le titre français n’a rien à voir avec le Inside Out original, ni avec le film –sinon peut-être son abstraction. Il est l’œuvre de Pete Docter, un des principaux «créatifs» de Pixar, le studio d’animation né sous les auspices de Steve Jobs pour concurrencer le règne de Walt Disney, et qui y réussit si bien que le vieil empire de Disney a fini par annexer cette province dynamique et très rentable. Comme le patron de Pixar, John Lasseter, et les autres figures importantes du studio, Andrew Stanton, Brad Bird, Lee Unkrich…, Docter se signale par la capacité singulière à transformer en fictions des idées abstraites, des concepts.
Conçue d’emblée à destination d’un très large public, enfantin mais pas seulement, la production Pixar est un véritable coup de force. La crise d'ado en 5 émotions Défis figuratifs Jean-Michel Frodon. Is The Shining About Native Americans? | the m0vie blog. You know how interested I am in quirky interpretations of the deeper meanings of popular culture – like the discussion over whether Anton Chigurh of No Country For Old Men is actually an angel or whether this year’s Torchwood: Children of Earth miniseries was actually about the recession.
So it should come as no surprise that when I read about how The Shining by Stanley Kubrick is supposedly about the genocide of the Native Americans, I was more than a little intrigued. Even the baking powder is in on it... The main proponent of this thesis is Bill Blakemore, who proposed it in a 1987 article in the San Francisco Chronicle. He makes the point that the film’s overt refences to Native Americans (the fact that the Overlook Hotel is on a Native American burial ground) were added to the film, and were not present in the book: Stuart Ullman tells the caretaker’s wife Wendy in the only lines in the film in which the Indians are mentioned. There are also less subtle elements of race at play. J'ai vu tous les films de Steven Spielberg... et je n'aurais peut-être pas dû. Retrouvez notre classement des vingt-six films de Steven Spielberg publicité Steven Spielberg a toujours entretenu une relation étonnamment houleuse avec l’Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Le chapelet de ses premiers classiques (Rencontres du troisième type, Les Aventuriers de l'arche perdue, E.T.) lui a valu des nominations pour l’Oscar du meilleur réalisateur sans jamais lui en faire remporter aucun. Certes, La Liste de Schindler, qui lui a rapporté moult récompenses dans la catégorie meilleur film et meilleur réalisateur (Oscars, Bafta, Golden Globes, Césars...), peut avoir des airs d’apothéose, mais près de vingt ans plus tard, il fait plutôt figure d’exception. Si l’univers technique du royaume du film honorera à jamais les œuvres de Spielberg, l’académie des Oscars dans son ensemble paraît faire de son mieux pour le snober à chaque fois que l’occasion se présente. Il a réalisé deux des dix plus gros succès de tous les temps, et quatre des vingt premiers. Mon verdict? How does a 'terrible' movie make $300 million in three days? 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' makes a strong argument for humanity's extinction.