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Power Rangers (2017)
I didn't feel nostalgic... but it had its highlights
After watching this movie last week I felt I needed to review it as soon as possible. I was expecting to feel nostalgic with a family oriented movie but it didn't happen. There were many factors like the PG-13 content, something you wouldn't expect in your childhood show. I should have checked the classification before going to the cinema. But anyways... let's start.
The music was not that great, maybe just in that part the zords are heading to Angel Grove to save the date. That part was epic. The Fx were pretty decent to me. Some of the action when they discovered their powers reminded me of some teen vampire movie I watched in the 90's. Just that in this case their powers came from the coins provided by the aliens. They did so many risky thinks that you could swear that had to be on meths or something.
Zordon was an interesting character, more modern than the old days Zordon. Alpha was not so impressive to me. The villain Rita was really scary so I would not recommend this movie to little kids.I did like the way she delivered her lines.
About the Power Rangers, in this version they are so different to the originals... I remind the Red Ranger being a well behaved boy in the 90's show. In this version he is Jason the juvenile offender. Maybe he had some kind of redention when he saved his father's life but I think I would have loved to see some kind of reconciliation.
Billy, the black guy, portraying the Blue Ranger's uniform definitely stole the show. He was a very likable character, and his lines were the best.
My English is not very good so I had some problems to understand the lines that were given to the Yellow Ranger. Was it a problem of script redaction? I don't know but I could swear I heard she said to her little brothers why not they would like to be the Yellow Ranger and she asks how do they know that Ranger is a make. I was like do she wants them to be the Ranger with boobs? Or does she consider herself a 'he'. Really confusing to me so I thought she was some kid d of Trinny the Trannie.
Did you see that episode titled Kalamity Kim? Kim's character was always so cheerful in the TV series that I didn't find a connection between the old and new personality. Save for that episode where she was like having a really bad hair day. But at least the new Kim looked pretty excited and happy when driving her Zord.
And last,but not less important let's talk about Zensational Zack, the Black Ranger. He was as cute as a Korean drama actor taking care of his ill mother that it made me feel a lot of tenderness and a tear could have fall from my eye if it had had turned more dramatic.
The movie has his ups and downs overall but I wouldn't recommended it to you if you were dreaming about a version true to the original and kids-aimed show.
All About Eve (1950)
So glad I finally watched it... and i loved it!
Since I was a teenager I used to read a fashion magazine where they always made references to old great Hollywood stars. There was some mentions about an actress named Bette Davis and how great she was on a movie named "All about Eve"(1950) and I wondered who was she and what was that movie.
Some time later I became fan of a Korean drama titled "All about Eve" (2000)and I wondered if it was a copycat, a tribute or an imitation of that - until then- unknown movie. I told myself "Well, I guess I'll never know because in my country it is hard to see old movies being broadcasted by our local TV stations". However, for my great surprise, yesterday I came across with "All about Eve"(1950) on cable TV, and I decided to give it a chance.I was a little bit worried thinking that maybe I wouldn't like the movie because its title in Spanish, my first language, was "La Malvada". Oh no - I said- that title sounds so... evil... maybe I won't like this film. But as soon as it began, the narrator said another title instead. He said "Hablemos de Eva". Then I changed my mind: "Maybe I could like this". And it was so.
I watched it and I can tell you that it has been the best 1950's film I have ever seen. Now I understand why this film was so remembered in that magazine. Good acting, good story, good script, like-able characters... I really loved it. I watched it with my sister and she loved it, too. I wish that nowadays movies could make me feel the emotions, the "feel- good movie" sensation it caused in me.
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Ralph el Demoledor
Empecemos por el doblaje en español en Latinoamérica. Sin saber de antemano quiénes hacían el doblaje,inmediatamente en el cine al oir una particular voz me di cuenta que la voz de Vanellope se la prestó la reconocida María Antonieta de las Nieves (La Chilindrina). Debo admitir que al principio no me gustó la voz de Vanelope, sentí como que le faltaba estar en forma o en tono para que sonara más infantil. Pero después en la escena donde Ralph y Vanelope construían un auto sentí una mejoría, y Vanelope ya me sonaba auténticamente como una niña. En verdad fue grato oir la voz de una actriz famosa por sus doblajes de vuelta en este arte.
Ahora hablemos de la trama de la película. En base a los comerciales de la película yo esperaba que el legendario Sonic tuviera algo más de protagonismo, pero no lo tuvo. Esa es mi queja sobre la trama. Por lo demás la historia está muy bien contada, bien estructurada, es el tipo de trama que hubiera esperado de otra película basada en lo que puede suceder dentro de un mundo imaginario de las computadoras pero que nunca se dio, me refiero a Tron: El legado. Los personajes fueron fantásticos: Ralph, Felix, Calhum y por supuesto Vanelope. Los giros de la historia también fueron muy buenos.
Acerca de uno de los mensajes de la película no lo entendí muy bien, el mensaje se parecía al de la película Vampiro en Brooklyn, donde Eddie Murphy decía una frase como que "el mal es bueno". Lo mismo fue dicho por Ralph. Esto es algo muy confuso para los niños oirlo en una película, créame. Un niño que salió de la sala de cine cuando terminó la película, rompió a llorar cuando su mamá cariñosamente le preguntó "Tú eres Ralph el demoledor, cierto?". Vamos, ningún niño quiere ser comparado con el malo de la película. ****SPOILER****Ojalá hubieran aclarado que Ralph ahora era una buena persona, aunque ... le tocara actuar de malo. ****
La otra enseñanza de la película es la muy conocida lección sobre la amistad, que vemos reflejado en la gran amistad que tiene Ralph con Vanelope y lo dispuesto que él estaba para sacrificarse por ella.
En resumen es una película que se puede recomendar para toda la familia, solo que no le digas a tu niño que él es Ralph El Demoledor.
El tesoro de Morgan (1971)
Interesting plot and some good jokes
It has been the first and oldest movie whose main topic is the search of a Morgan's pirate treasure, totally filmed in Panama. I can recognize the Central Avenue of Panama in that scene where Magda is persecuted by the bad boys and I loved to see my own country in a film. Well, the script was not perfect but at least there were many good jokes specially from the private detective. Even there were a couple of songs performed by the main characters. Anita Villalaz had a good performance, so I am proud of being from Panama like her. And the foes were a classic trio looking for the treasure of Morgan hidden in an island in the Pacific. Well, I wish there were movies like this in my country, perhaps with a better plot.