D.Moore

I'll watch a clip from the Wembley concert from time to time because a number of songs here are in their very best versions (“Another One Bites The Dust" is totally unbeatable), but I haven't seen the full show in a long time. To this day. Queen are at their peak here, and Freddie Mercury does as he pleases with the full stadium. Unforgettable, and from today's point of view almost chilling, is his statement that the band is in no way falling apart and that they will stay together while they're still alive. Right after, “Who Wants To Live Forever" is heard which is a new song at the time, and those thousands of enthusiastic fans listen to it with bated breath... But it's pointless to describe it, because it really needs to be seen.

Terry Gilliam and his Quixote don't have it easy at all. The disaster documentary Lost in La Mancha and the fact that filming began again after almost 20 years, raised huge expectations... without the audience knowing exactly what to expect. So it is a surprise that some people are now satisfied, some half satisfied, and some are not. Indeed, Gilliam himself writes in his pre-eminent memoir “Gilliamesque": “If we can finish the film someday, people will probably just be disappointed that we didn't get the ideal of don Quixote's futile struggle with windmills." Well, I'm not disappointed. True, I would have preferred if don Quixote and Sancho Toby had gone on their quest a little earlier and the film was quicker, but the experience of those great ideas and the absolutely perfect performance by Jonathan Pryce made up for it. The best scene, I think, is the one with the ride to the moon and the sun, in which there was absolutely everything from humor to emotion. Although Terry Gilliam did not do better than The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, he certainly did not make a disgrace out of this old dream.

In the “Gilliamesque" memoir, Terry Gilliam writes: “What the camera didn't capture was buzzards. They were circling over our heads waiting for us to die." When I saw Lost in La Mancha for the first time ages ago, I still didn't know much about Gilliam, and I had no idea how (difficult) his other films were to make, but still the result impressed me. Today, now that I'm more familiar with them, plus the day before I see a film that finally came into existence, this disaster documentary is even more impressive. It's a shame it all went so horribly wrong back then, mainly because of Jean Rochefort, but there’s nothing that can be done about that. The windmills simply won for once.

A horribly crazy something (probably a film), which, to my great delight, is not an ode to drugs, but which, under the surreal taking of existing and non-existent hallucinogens conceals a bitter message about the state of American society (because of which Terry Gilliam also co-wrote and directed all this). But I had to wait for a long time to be in the right mood for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, because it's so suggestively shot that my head always started hurting after 15 minutes and the STOP button saved me.

I would imagine that a short film story or, conversely, a black-humored sitcom series would be produced based on this idea, but there was really too little for a full-feature film. Joe Dante tried to sneak in as much love for classic horror films as he could, but with that shallow contemporary script, it just couldn't come together. A few bright moments this film may have, but I won't remember them for long.

As in the case of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, I'm very happy with what I saw this time, but I'm going to need to see it again because the film turned into a huge mess at one point, which did still entertain me perfectly, but I was lost in it. Ryan Gosling pleasantly surprised me with his comedic talent, Shane Black with how he still manages to tear himself off the leash (like the final action scene, that's pure slapstick). And if I ever see Nixon, I’ll know what's going on.

If thanks to nothing else, then thanks to the Jor-Ela character (the fantastic Marlon Brando), this version is definitely better. But there are even more changes - there was an amazing scene with Lois and a revolver, or finding out that General Zod's prison was destroyed by saving the planet from the first film. On the other hand we also got misplaced scenes like “Superman returns the roof of the White House," which no one could have taken seriously.

Whoopi Goldberg is really great here, and thanks to her and a few other actresses, the first half of the film is not as boring as the screenwriter wrote it. The second half, however, once the singing starts, makes an average comedy above average. The songs have zest and Maggie Smith's stony expression is priceless.

Lots of funny situations just like in the first installment, but this time we also get a whiff of humor at all costs. Perhaps I was expecting the main protagonist to be a little more adult and that the plot would be a little more serious - more fateful (I was much more interested in the story of Hank and Janet than the main story), but this did not happen and by the ending I figured out that something like this might not actually suit Ant-Man. Maybe.

I'm sorry to say that the magic of the previous film (not to mention Spielberg's original) isn't repeated this time. The dinosaurs are great and often enter the scene in a fully horror way, although the strange script makes some of them unadulterated action heroes and because of it, the film definitely has the worst (lamest) finale of the entire series. Chris Pratt is fine, but this time he's a superman rather than the cheeky sympathetic Owen from Jurassic World, the character played by Bryce Dallas Howard has almost nothing to say at all, and (except perhaps for Ted Levine) I probably won't even remember any of the villains... And I consider Jeff Goldblum's bark to be the greatest betrayal. It’s too bad, because the second Jurassic World looks really great, has some really good scenes (the one with the Brachiosaur standing on its hind legs is 100% moving) and thanks to the bombastic music by Michael Giacchino it also sounds great, but the result is quite similar to Jurassic Park III.