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The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
No flag waving hero stuff here.
Eastwood is never trivial or corny. This could have been an american flag waving hero film (some people see it that way anyway) but in fact it's about a normal guy that has been treated not so well in life by the authorities but at the end has his day and becomes what he always wanted to be: someone that saves lives. It's about life. Not flags. For example, it's interesting when the guys are corrected by the german tourist operator saying that Hitler was under attack by the Russians and NOT the Americans when he killed himself. You can't always be the hero when evil is defeated. I don't see flag waving here.
Incendiary (2008)
Unnecessarily complicated storyline
I just rented this yesterday without knowing anything about it beforehand. I sincerely think that it is an awfully bad film. I read a few of the reviews posted and cannot agree with the reviewers that say that if you don't like this movie you are either "an idiot, a zombie or who someone who likes action films and (evidently in their opinion) cannot understand anything else". If we are here to discuss (or comment) about movies let's just do so. Here are my plus points: good acting all around, good photography. Here are my minus points: 1) Unnecessarily complicated storyline. If you take away the Ewan McGregor character and the affair with the policeman, the story, which regards a woman losing her husband and child in a terrorist attack in London, would still stand-up and probably have been more focused. Did they need to make the movie longer just to reach 90mins? 2) Some characters are not believable. How does Ewan McGregor get to own an Aston Martin etc? Someone commented "who cares about the car". I wouldn't care but in films, if you have something that doesn't fit-in with the character it makes you think that maybe there is a reason for it then you start thinking what that reason could it be and, will running after butterflies, you lose focus on the principal storyline which I think is the drama of a woman losing her child in a bomb attack and everything else that goes with it.. Given that for some reason this character had to be in the film, if he had a Ford (for example) I think it would have been much better. By the way, for once I think that the Italian title is much more apt: translated it means "without apparent reason" which I believe answers the question of why this film was made.
Martyrs (2008)
horror porn?
Hello everyone. Watch out: spoiler ahead! I just saw "Martyrs" yesterday and have been going through the various comments on the board. I really don't understand how it can be called "horror porn". The reason behind the torture (with no specifically sexual abuse such as rape involved as was stated at the beginning of the movie when the girl escaped) was because the "powerful rich" wanted to know what was on the "other side" by reproducing the agony of the religious martyrs (even though many "martyrs" shown were not religious at all, but the idea is the same: through their agony they "see the other sid... or God"). I see political implications here (remember "Society"?). The idea that at the end there is no other side makes the old lady of the powerful aristocrat shoot herself because she knows now that it was all useless. There is no other side(pity actually because they all should eventually got to hell) . Where is this torture-porn or does it have a significat meaning? To me it has.