Sherlock Holmes

Very very cute.
Arthur Conan Doyle's masterpiece that inspired generations of genious grannies and generally speaking weirdos to devote their lives to crime fighting, now on the big screen.

Ok, just a little hint on my psychotic profile: I spent a lot (a really lot) of my time as a teenager reading crime fiction, and I 'm completely addicted to this kind since I was 12. So,
What else could I ever asked?
I heard some people complaining about a bit too much violence or not so much mental agility apparent in this movie, but... have you read the original or you have just stuck with the image of the helpless but ingenious old lady as Agatha presented her detective hero?
The movie has this industrial english dark atmosphere that is so absolutely beatiful and intriguing, the actors are first class (Robert Dawny Jr. and Jude Law) and above all this is a movie you HAVE to see. And slap yourself really hard if you haven't read any of the original books. And read it, now.

(if you don't remember the guy on the right in the movie it's just because he's Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the original novel, you moron!)

Thank you millenia of fanatics of this page once again,
yours (hahaha I don't give a dime),
FL

Link to youtube trailer of the movie.

Taking Woodstock

After I 've seen the trailer of this movie I was (strangely) eager to watch it. While not exactly my cup of tea, the main plot sounded like good material to create something interesting and most of all funny.
I watched it yesterday. Not bad at all, funny but not too much, avoiding any cheap imitations of "xxx movie No X", and even more masterfully avoiding references to genitals to provoke laughs.
I liked this one, although I did not exactly laughed my guts out.
Watch it, you won't regret it anyway.
The plot, extremely briefly is the following: In a small and forgotten village somewhere in US, a young dude manages to organise a Woodstock like event, against all oddities, like his old-school mother, his fellow villagers, local authorities etc. etc.

Rating: 6 because it's another interesting movie with original scenario.

Surrogates

This is the latest "running unshaven against the evil robots - aliens - technology" Bruce Willis movie. Bruce managed after so many hardships to establish himself as the numero uno action hero but with a serious, scientific profile also. Based once more on a comic this movie deals with human fear against technology and the nightmare of having machines running our lives rendering us to obsolete. (Bah?)
Who remembers him as the funny, genius guy in the historical "Moonlighting"?
Somewhat later come the tooooo damn hard 2 die series of movies, and there he has the chance to show off all his muscles and of course prove that even an almost crap scenario movie with a really good actor can make serious success, especially if the case is like my country where "die hard X" is being showing on tv on every Christmas for the last 7 years.
But then comes the brilliant for scifi geeks "Fifth element" and he looks a bit more serious more "actionman". Sixth sense re-imposes himself on our minds as a thoughtful, brilliant, scientist - teacher - whatever.
12 monkeys was another diamond in his collection and just in case you haven't watched it yet, shame on you, run to the closest dvd store and get it now! or I 'll curse you to to watch 100 times a Steven Seagal movie.
Sin city is an absolute personal favorite, combining an absolutely perfect scenario, completely new techniques (back then), and an impressive set of actors. Watch it now, or add to the previous curse 10 movies with Chuck Norris.

Back to surrogates, the movie generally reminds a lot "I", "AI" etc. Bruce fights against human clones whereas all the other bored to live humans wait for their demise. And guess who finally saves the world!!!!!

Rating:
6: interesting, worth to watch, but nothing unbelievably new or astonishing...

Thanx and see ya,
FM