lunes, 29 de junio de 2009
Transformers: Optimus prime al 15% de descuento en el área de juguetería!!!
viernes, 26 de junio de 2009
Michael Jackson: a (very) brief filmic overview
- It's to long to summary 50 years of entertainment trayectory
- Probably everybody else has done it already
- We would be out of the path of this blog's mission...movies!!!
So I considered It would be less repetitive to recall only his carrer from a filmic angle.
SO...
When we have The king of Pop in mind, several images appear in our heads, and not necessarily the same from one generation to another, because....it's difficult to maintain the whole 30 years of carreer valid for every decade plus the new stuff, but certainly there's a place in your heart...wait, that's a Wacko's song...there's a few icons of his carreer that bind every generation together to worship him...Thriller is practically the strongest generation-to-generation link to remember how big he was not only for the great creativity behind the concept of the video, but also for the revolution in music business that started.
Directed by John Landis (known for directing american werewolf in england and Animal House)Thriller was a revelation for the industry in many levels. In first place, by the time Thriller aired for the first time, music videos only lasted no mre than five minutes,revealing its 13 minutes of terrorizing pop, MTV was eceptic, and actually was going to broadcasting for the worst kind of reason: racism.
MTV declined transmiting Thriller claiming that black artists already had their space (don't remember the name of that channel , it was the Spike TV of the time), so the record company threated MTV to remove all their catalogue from VH1 networks...the rest is history (I'll avoid criticizing MTV because this is not their space (in your face MTV)).
As you can see, this bad boy practically opened the big gate for black artist to the mainstream, also
MJ had a lot of participation within the filmic insutry, unfortunately, non of them had good critics; a good example of this was "The Wiz", a 70's funky verson of the Broadway musical, based on the classic "The Wizzard of Oz", in which Jackson had a supporting role as the Scarecrow with Diana Ross as Dorothy, I saw it like 3 times, wasn't that bad, but still wasn't good. Another participation was..actually before this one, and was only as part of the soundtrack, but because of his talent, made the song as important (surely more) as the movie it was based on; the movie was Ben a rat that apparentely turns as a little boy's BF (best friend)
Maybe the legendary failure of his movie entries is the hyper-over-wastedbig budget movie "Moonwalker", directed by Colin Chilvers (basically for his experience in special effects, because his trayecyory as director is poor and not so successful): a compilation of stories/acid trips from the mind of Jackson himself (where else?) using many different techniques, only as prelude to the main story, in which Jackson has to save himself and his dear friends (the only surprise there was the black boy as his best friend instead of a blonde one) from a villain who wanta to conquer the world (Joe Pesci´s worst performance). I don´t undertand why critics were so harsh on him; only because he passes from a some kind on peter pan/foster parent character to a smooth criminal and a robot that turns into a ship, only to transport his kids to the safety of ...a concert of his(mmm...in order to be condescendent I won´t say anything about the abstinence of sense of narration... and logic).
Maybe the only well-done filmic projects he had were some of his videoclips, the majority around the times of "Thriller", and maybe tha last descents videos he had were "Who is it?" and a Pepsi commercial where he sings with himself as a boy (TRIVIA: During the filming of the ad, he request the director to use a white blonde kid to represent his child self, obviously they rejected and because of the contract (thank God) he was not in position to say anything against it).
Fortunately for him, Michael Jackson will always be remembered for his musical carreer, because if it depended on his filmic presence...I'd rather the fame as pedophile homosexual...ok that was over the line , I apologize...Oh look!!! a blue car...
viernes, 12 de junio de 2009
CSI: Cine Sucio Increíblemente
What in the cousinfuck just happened here???
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Oh, cielos!!! ¿Qué ha acontecido aquí?
Es demasiado perturbador el sólo pensar en lo que ocurrió aquí, cómo es que la gente puede estar tranquilamente sentada al lado de éste potencial escenario del mal..y cómo pude ser tan enfermo como para grabarlo para la posteridad.
Yo sólo esperaba la hora en que aparecieran los zombies correlones tipo "28 weeks later" ó Dustin Huffman con su traje para epidemias como en "Contagio", ó los miebros de CSI, dejando ver perspectivas locas de la escen del crimen, ó los de House encontrando elementos insospechados que den la solución a una enfermedad rarísima, ó...mejor ya me detengo, parezco teórico de conspiración como AMLO...
Disfruten ésta imagen!!!
jueves, 11 de junio de 2009
Up (Disney) / Kirschblüten - Hanami (Majestic Film Verleih): When the same story can be seen in different rates and levels...
A few days ago, something really sad happen tome...I quit my job; It was friday afternoon, I was working outside the office and then it hit me, I was not happy with the things developing around proffesionally. This epiphany made me break the habit and walk, for a long time; when I realized I was tired, I found myself in front of a movie Theatre, so I went in, in order to maintain my mind occupied from this matter for the moment (it's stressful to keep that kind of idea for a whole weekend).
As I was checking the billboard, I realized I already saw the majority of the movies, and for the others... wasn't really in the mood (Not exactly a Hanna Montana Fan ); then I saw that "UP" was now in theaters, with no second thoughts I took the ticket to that movie (took because I have a membeship card, so I don't pay for movies... :P).
For those that haven't seen the movie yet, I'll try not make a big spoiler, just need to release some info in order to make a point:
Up is about an old man, Carl Fredricksen, who made a promise to his wife; which he tries to accomplish after she dies, giving place to events and meetings that will bring him a whole new perspective of...everything outside his mini universe
Now, a few days after I saw that movie, at the same time I was trying to get a new job, I'm found myself watching another movie, this time it was a France/ Germany co-production named Kirschblüten - Hanami . I'll explain its premise as shortly as I did with Up, and the result will surprise you...
Kirschblüten - Hanami is abput an old man, Rudi Angermeier, who made a promise to his wife; which he tries to accomplish after she dies, giving place to events and meetings that will bring him a whole new perspective of...everything outside his mini universe...sounds familiar??? look up a few paragraphs...
My point here is, I'ts really funny and interesting how one premise can take two widely and wildly different courses of action, and yet manage itself to give a message with so many intersections between each other; for example, both movies take the character to unthinkable places; from a floating house, to a bath with two teenage japanese whores (guess which one of this scenes doesn't belong to "UP" or "...Hanami"), both movies arrange thi odissey in a way the character breaks with the habit through a violent event, their whole conception of the people they knew is trembled and find some stability and peace of mind in the few new people they meet.
But knowing this mustn't be the reason to miss any of them...on the contrary, both films manage the same story, but deal with it in very different levels, in this case, the story of "...Hanami" finds it's Disney version through "UP"...without been cheesy and make you want to throwing UP while watching it... :D ... :S
Of course there are also differences between the flims, The first and most important...one is animated and the other is live action (DAAAA!!!), seriously...the differences which will be noticed in the tone a little bit more melancholic in "...Hanami" provided by the fact that in thist film, the story is more about the coping with the lost, the lesson is learned more hardly, and there is definitely a lot less comedic moments than in "UP"...the situation is practically the opposite with the case of the pxar film...besides UP doesn't have a scene with japanese teenage whores (In case you never guessed which scene didn't belong to which movie a few paragraphs ago).
I think that's it for now, hope you enjoy my first post in english, (As I'm from Mexico is no so common), I'll try to do more...
Any comments, critics and interesting movie facts you would like to share are welcome, and if you have any job you could give me , You would me my gods... :P
TAKE CARE!!!!!