The Revenge of the Silent Film

Last night we went to see The Artist, and I must admit I was completely blown away by it. This very fine piece of art exceeded my expectations in every way and punches a big hard fist right in the face of all "talkies" that drove the silent film to its demise.

Now that the novelty of talking movies is gone, could silent movies make an incredible comeback? Probably not, as The Artist is not so good only because it is silent. But still, I really hope that there will be more attempts at it ... and possibly more accomplishments like The Artist. Loved it!

My (Incredible) Five Minutes of Fame

Sooo ... last weekend we went to Strasbourg to see the Cirque du Soleil. If you don't know what that is, shame on you, it is one of the best live performances in the world. And, since a picture is worth more than my blabber, the story goes like this:

9'o clock in the morning ... still too early for a Saturday ... 

master paparazzo photographer catches the moment when the native woman meets the metro-sexual soon to be famous guy

driving to Strasbourg... yes, apparently 4 people can fit inside a Mini

lunchtime strikes, pork and cabbage ... last meal before becoming famous is not very exquisite ...

after lunch ... native woman and soon to be famous metro-sexual guy buy tasty TASTY treats

metro-sexual guy gets a taste of being famous as everyone wants one

... please feel free to salivate ...

afternoon ... arriving at Cirque du Soleil ... fameousness about to strike ...

Cirque du Soleil ... amazing paparazzo catches the moment 

when metro-sexual guy becomes FOREVER FAMOUS 

BY GETTING ON THE FREAKIN' CIRQUE DU SOLEIL STAGE !!!

... about 45 minutes and one million applause later around the parking lot ... famous metro-sexual guy is quite famous ...

Later in the night around town, some people giggle and point at the famous metro-sexual guy and he starts wondering if he will ever be able to go back to non-famous life ...

Even later in the night ... no-longer-metro-sexual guy dressed in pijamas goes silently to sleep next to the no-longer-native woman ... he knows his 5 minutes of fame are up ... it was quite nice ... amazing paparazzo is nowhere in sight to take a photo ...

 P.S. thanks to my master paparazzo friend for supplying me my famous photos

P.P.S. yes, the show war really really amazing ... and not only because I got on stage ...

Hungry Kids

Sooo .... Hunger Games ... the first real blockbuster of the year ... without giving away too many spoilers (or at least not more than in the pic above), the movie was quite OK. I was expecting maybe a bit more, but in the end it turned out to be a balanced movie about children killing each other in the forest.

And speaking of balance, I don't know what the guys holding the cameras were smoking but I came out with a dizzy head ... suddenly, I didn't feel hungry any more ...


... get it? hungry? ... myeah, I probably should get back to work ...

Two Hundred and Fifty Million Dollar$$$

I don't know if you've heard about this already... looks like Disney blew two hundred and fifty million dollars on a movie and forgot to spend some on marketing. Yes, there is a movie out called John Carter which cost two hundred and fifty million dollars to make ... and you've probably never heard of it ...

And, if you've somehow by some chance heard of it ... maybe seen the trailer  ... you probably went like ... John Carter ... hmmm ... John Carter ... Who the heck is John Carter ? .... and why is he fighting giant polar bears in the desert ?? The movie is in no way a master piece, but it's not that bad either ... So maybe if you knew that he is some kind of war hero that gets teleported somehow to freakin' MARS or if they just kept the original title John Carter OF (freakin') MARS it would have made more sense and have more appeal ...

But it doesn't .... and there go two hundred and fifty million dollars ... quite a shame ...
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Not so Safe House

I saw Safe House and it was really quite good ... it goes a little bit something like this ...

I'm not sure what makes this such a good movie. The story is inevitably predictable and I'm guessing it's not Reynolds, because he's last movie ended up as a big pile of stinky pooh. So, it has to be Denzel, right? ... he  really is tha man ... 

Actually, what happens is that Denzel is great (as usual or even better), but Reynolds really gets his s#it together and puts up one of his best performances, and the story is ...well ... decent ... kaboom! good movie!

Or maybe it was the Terminator ... yeah ... he dies pretty quickly though ... you're gettin' too old for this s#it, man...