2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!
Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to by...
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.
elliest_5 This movie is alright as far as rom-coms go. It's cute, more original that your average rom-com, with some dramatic undertones that give it a bit more substance (though this also means that, for a comedy, it doesn't invest as much as it could on its funny side). The main characters are consistently written and well-acted, the ing characters are a bit stereotypical but not annoyingly so.Zoe Kazan plays a "manic pixie dream girl" kind of character, the "dream girl" part being quite literal in this case, since she is supposed to be a character in a writer's mind who magically came to life. Paul Dano plays the writer, a dorky former-child-genius with a dark and controlling side (kinda like the "nice guy" tale who reveals a mean vengeful face when friendzoned by his crush). The story is mostly told from his perspective, going through an emotional journey that starts from disbelief, and goes through excitement, love, but also jealousy and anger.It is precisely that darker side that I would have liked to explore more, although I understand that this would not technically work within the rom-com convention. I just felt that it would be fitting for this kind of story (with the advantage of meta-fiction/meta-narrative) to break out of the rom-com convention, experimenting with stranger and darker themes, playing more with the moral ambiguity and psychological disturbances of the main character.Bottom line: nice and easy to watch, but somewhat restricted by staying faithful to its genre.
CinePendejo RUBY SPARKS starts off with a killer premise: a useless schmuck of a writer, suffering from writers block and a breakup from her girlfriend, decided to write about a perfect, ditzy, happy-go-lucky girl spawned from his shallow, unsocial male gaze. But after one Twilight-Zone-Ray-Bradbury night, she ultimately comes to life from the pages and acts like just the perfect character booster for our titular hero. Now to anyone pulling out the Manic Pixie Dream Girl card (lord knows it's not unwarranted based on the first 30 minutes alone), the kicker is that she would grow and adapt as a real human being, blossoming with her own agency instead of acting for someone else.You'd think with a killer premise, they'd come up with some insightful ways this could play out. Maybe a statement of our modern relationship issues, or how women don't get proper credit in fictional literature, or how the world will process to someone like her. Considering the directing duo behind the surprisingly clever LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, anything is possible right? LOL NOOOPE! For all it's buildup, it sets up as a statement on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope only to then make up something even worse. For one thing, even if she did try to make up her own mind, the writer still has control over her by just typing on a keyboard. Yep, she's still basically influenced by man anyway, but it's all ironic right? I seem to get that impression anyway, because otherwise how the f#@k do you end like that with a straight face? After all the 90+ minutes of wasted potential, it decided to end on such an awkwardly staged and hilariously stupid climax ever. Without spoiling, this so-called set piece would be if like if someone threw around a voodoo doll and made it play the hokey pokey. Sure their last film ended with girl stripping to Super Freak on a little beauty pageant, but this is plain f@#ing stupid.And yet somehow it manages to be the one true novel thing about the entire damn movie. The rest of it just feels like a rote, first draft Woody Allen comedy. The characters are either despicable or one-note, the script sorely lacks, Paul Dano was obnoxious, Poor Zoe Kazan tries to liven up the scene with nothing to work with, the final 5 minutes feels like nothing was accomplished, and the whole thing was an overall chore. Only things going for it is Zoe Kazan again, the directors tight filmmaking and that howl of a climax.Much like STRANGER THAN FICTION, though, it goes all in with interesting Kaufman-esque scenarios but can't cash the check. But hey, at least unlike that it didn't LOOK like total pretentious sh!t.
Ole Sandbaek Joergensen This is a special film, not so much in its story as you might have thought, but more in the way it is fitting every little part and story together. The Persons in the film is as surprised as the viewer about whats going on at times and especially for Ruby and Calvin the turn of events seem strange, but also exciting and mind blowing.Essentially it becomes a power struggle between the natural evolvement and the ability to change the course of events, whats make you happy at the beginning and what should evolve to be a good foundation for a relationship, is not necessarily one and the same. And even though this film plays with the thought of being able to control another person to fit into your image of the world and how it should be, it is properly not the way it was meant, so nature will always play a part and evolution is unavoidable.This is an enjoyable film, that actually has something different to offer.
Sara Ferreira I don't even how have I found this movie, I think I saw an image and it seemed interesting to me, so I decided to watch it. In the beginning I thought it was one more romantic movie, with the same old history, but as the movie was playing I kept getting more and more consumed by it like I was there, but just watching. I just ended watching and I feel happy. The history is original and mind-blowing, the characters were very very good, and I loved every single second of the footage. Looking for more and more movies as good as this one! I highly recommend watching this movie, i promise you will feel very inspired as I am feeling right now.
