"Blood: The Last Vampire" ~ 2/10

Some jerk (obsessed-with-films-which-have-the-word-dragon-in-their-title/bessonesque Chris Nahon...) saw "Kill Bill", heard the "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack, and might even have seen Production I.G's "Blood: The Last Vampire" and its derived products...
Then he decided to base this film on the very rule he's probably been living his whole life with : the audience of a "wannabe hollywoodian" movie shall be full of morons who cannot tell the difference between a Chinese, a Korean, and a Japanese (and maybe even between an Italian and a mafioso, a Muslim and a terrorist, an African and a slave... ?), and who can't pay attention to the actor's chinese or korean accent, in english, of the "Japanese" characters...
The main actress was so much better as a "Sassy girl", or even in the recent "17 again" ! And why on Earth did Clint fucking Mansell had to take part in such a dull shit, just to imitate his own "Fountain" soundtrack (masterpiece, btw...) ?
Not only did California become the fifth economic power on Earth, but it now has to brainwash the world even with the help of probably-cheaper-than-Japanese Chinese actors, like any other industry... Please next time be honest and put a "Made in China" sign (or "Made in Korea" for animation) ! And please Mr Nahon don't tell anybody you come from Paris !

"Tellement proches" ~ 4/10

Nothing especially original in this completely "France Television"-esque family comedy.
Toledano & Nakache's first short films were way better, and their previous feature film ("Je préfère qu'on reste amis") too... The actors are good and funny also in this one, though.

"Lascars : pas de vacances pour les vrais gars" ~ 8/10

As I'd been expecting for months now, this movie truely was a good surprise. The graphical universe, the music, the characters, the choice of the voicing actors (especially Omar Sy and Gilles Lellouche), everything is great and perfectly used. And above all, the humor of the TV series is still there.
Though, as any creation from a french "té-ci" (slang word for suburbian high-rise block of council flats), this film displays references to Brian De Palma's "Scarface", but somehow lacks paying hommage to any other culture.
Anyway it was a good little masterpiece of animation.

"Whatever Works" ~ 7/10

I didn't even pay attention to the fact that I was starting this cinema blog the very same day Woody Allen would attend for the first time a movie premiere with a "normal audience" (meaning we paid our tickets like any other normal show).

So this funny little guy came before the film and told us (in french, please ! ^^) how grateful he was to France, and how hungry he was (totally normal for an American in Paris !). That wasn't much, but there merely wasn't much to say as we hadn't seen his new film yet. ^^
He was accompanied by the freshly returned from a masterpiece (Aronofsky's "The Wrestler") actress Evan Rachel Wood, for the first time in a leading role of a comedy. It's the second time she's been playing in a movie about the Myth of Pygmalion (after Andrew Niccol's "S1m0ne"), might it be linked to her character ?

The movie itself was a good "regular" Woody Allen movie, with very funny sarcastic scenes about misanthropy and entropy. As far as I remember it's the first time, since he was elected, that I hear a joke in an american movie about Barack Obama being president. It was good to see Jessica Hecht which we in France know only thanks to TV series like "Friends" and the movie "Dan in real life" which was on screen last year here.

First but not feast

As this is my first message on this "blog", I'm going to try to explain my intentions here.
Music and cinema are my most important passions, among many others.
Everyday I'm going to some movie theatre(s), and the rest of the time I'm listening to music (even if I have other occupations).
Not only do I try to watch any single movie opening each week (on wednesday here in Paris, best city in the world for cinema-lovers), but I also try to see any earlier movie I haven't seen yet (there are some ^^).
I do like absolutely any movie I can watch, even if I give it 1/10, simply for the fact that the contemplation of art is a luxury I can afford, and I don't want to forget that the major part of humanity cannot.
Citicizing a film is thus only a way of criticizing the world we live in, and I'll do it in english only because I have friends all around the world (maybe sometimes I'll post in some other languages...), but please feel free to post comment in other languages, it's a free world !

Cinema is an art, and therefore any movie deserves being seen entirely if you want to legitimately criticize it.
I have never fled from a movie theatre before the end of a film, even if I thought it was an absolutely null movie.
Since I also use IMDb, I will post IMDb links for the films I criticize.
Under some circumstances might I post about something else than cinema.
My nickname is Kamiku.