David Cong: Critiques de films
Popcorn? Forget that! We need some dried squid!
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剛剛看完了。太浪廢我的時間。電影到底是甚麼意思還不明。我只能批評以下部緞:

爸爸出事(從馬跌下來)生命危旦,小兒子問他姐“爸爸是否能回來?”表示他知道死是甚麼意思。
可是後來還有個一場,他吃飯還問他姐“‘死’是甚麼意思?。。。為甚麼人會死?”
狗屁!小孩子會真的不懂死是甚麼呢?電影作家到底為甚麼常常用小孩子拿來當做天真羔羊? 而且頭一場,他怕他爸爸死而哭出來,很顯明的知道死亡是甚麼,怎麼會在後一場還明知顧問?
故事的背景是第一世界大戰之前。在另一場面有個女人在外面給她孩子哺乳。。。
第一:亂去哺乳在西方國家是最近這20年來才有的。偶而有些人還會為這樣的事搞到去法庭爭論。更何況是那年代?
第二:有個男人走來看到她哺乳喂奶,大家也沒甚麼反應,好像大家很無奈。女人也不把男人趕走,那男也沒有覺得不好意思的走開。還坐下來跟她們還聊起來。
荒謬。
裡面地主的老婆有了外遇。還當面跟他老公說她會走。
一個女人在當時的時代,遽然有了不倫關係還會跟她丈夫說嗎? 這樣犯法會受死刑,還不靜靜的不聞不覺的走溜?

而且整個電影一直有個敘述者嘮嘮叨叨解釋故事給我們聽。那你為甚麼還要拍電影呢?不如錄收音機節目吧!還可以省點製作費!不過如果沒有那個人在說話,恐怕整個片會更糟。這也是顯明寫劇本那個人不會寫。
Bottomline: I hate this film.
不過如果你還想要的話就隨便你。。。

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What?! What war?!
The war on crappy education. That’s right! Day 2. I dropped my accounting class today. So it was class after class of cooking-related stuff, followed by the battle to stay awake in the 70s film appreciation class. Yes, some of you think I deserve a medal for [...]

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Normally, I don’t watch a lot of post-apocalyptic movies, because they just suck. Too much gore and violence to make up for the lack of a good story, Or to add some dramatic effect, everyone is making references to the Bible constantly, and pulling quotes from it left and right, that you might as will [...]

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From the beginning, there was a somewhat funked-out rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land”, and sort of brought this upbeat feeling to it. The movie indeed had many moments where you could feel that same feeling, by the punches and throws every person threw at each other. The actors’ dialogues [...]

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我看了”Invictus”的時候,我可以感覺到當時在南非白人跟黑人之間的葛藤,不但反映了美國白人跟“少數民” (黑人,拉丁人,亞州人, 等等。。。)之間的問題,也反映了政治上保守派跟自由派的衝突。噢巴馬跟曼德拉兩個人的負擔很大。要解決的問題更多,要實行他們的理想更難。因為黃家駒懂得Mandela為了南非人所受的辛苦,是以為他歌頌“光輝歲月”。
電影裡面的演員一流。 Morgan Freeman 跟 Matt Damon 要克服南非口音已經夠難。可是Matt Damon還要學怎麼打Rugby(欖球),而且自己身材也比普通欖球手有點矮。看他們打欖球,你也很想在劇場裡面為南非隊大聲叫你支持他們。當你看到紐西蘭隊在球場上跳那個令人生畏的舞,看欖球的fans或者打欖球的人也會知道這部電影對事實很忠實。看了也幾乎忘了自己不是在看球,而是在看電影。
這部電影以 John Carlin 寫的 “Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation” 為本。而題目是從 William Ernest Henley寫的詩:
從那包庇我的晚上走出來,
Out of the night that covers me,
在兩極之端如無窮低窪的黑暗,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
不管是哪一個神也好我都感謝祂
I thank whatever gods may be
賜與我那不撓不屈的靈魂
For my unconquerable soul.
在那危急的情況
In the fell clutch of circumstance
我未曾退避或喊叫
I [...]

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RAIN!!!!
The main reason why I hate this movie is petty, but seeing half-naked, makes me feel like less of a man.

That aside, it was at least better than G.I. Joe was, despite the fact that some kid kept cheering and clapping really loud. I mean, really. No moral stories telling you how “knowing [...]

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當時在美國的大蕭條時代,人們需要逃避他們每天已經受夠的痛苦, 而”The Wizard of Oz
“就是大家需要的治標。可是現在,我們能夠以另一角度再次重溫這個經典。。。“Wicked”! 一個很有色有彩的戲劇。。。

。。。原作是Gregory Maguire的 “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”
, 而這本書是以Lyman Frank Baum的 “Wizard of Oz”
為本。

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你們可不可以想象一個沒有過Beyond的世界? 說真的我也沒法想出來。那。。。你們有沒有想過如果Beyond一致都被禁,你們會怎麼樣的呢? 因為在60年代的英國,搖滾音樂曾經被禁。而卻在這個時刻有了叛亂的Pirate Radio
出現。。。

獻給所有“鍾鐿“搖滾的人。。。

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Recently, I’ve been preparing to get an iPhone, and backing up a lot of my DVDs, and watching the ones that have already completed the conversion process. This was one of them. Watching it again, you start to have expectations from the very beginning, like “Ooh! Ooh! If they would only [...]

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Starting out, I noticed the retro style, from the credit roles, the music, and the constant roll of tapes. Aside from being told the date, and the use of pagers, you would even think it might be the 1970s corporate lifestyle. I don’t know the exact meaning of this, but that was the [...]