made of honor (2008)

by zeke

And yet another romantic comedy.

Tom (Patrick Dempsey) is a ladies man. He, following a strict set of rules, moves from one lady to another without ever looking back. But there is one that is always there, his best friend Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). His life teeters when she leaves for Scotland for a few weeks and comes back to get married to a Scottish duke and have Tom being her maid of honor.

Everything this romantic comedy has to offer happens at the beginning. It is not that it has nothing to offer after a while, but as the story develops becomes more predictable. Nevertheless, the inertia achieved during the first minutes is enough to keep things rolling.

forgetting sarah marshall (2008)

by zEke

Have you ever been dumped? If you have, this is the movie you are looking for. This does not mean that you need to have had your heart broken to enjoy the movie, but if you have, the movie will turn your notches into laughs by means of every single cliché you can think about. Do not expect therefore to be surprised by the plot, which you can figure out right from the beginning. You will, though, by how different things look like when watched on the screen.

Television star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell) breaks up with composer Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) after a five years relationship. To heal, broken hearted Peter takes an impulsive trip to Hawaii, only to discover that he will be staying at the same resort Sarah is staying with her new boyfriend, rocker Aldous (Russell Brand).

closer (2004)

by zEke

Mike Nichols demostró ser un director precoz con su segunda película, the graduate (1966). Sin emabargo y a pesar de contar con una filmografía, si más no, decente, no volvió a estar en boca de muchos, para bien o para mal, hasta el estreno de closer hace ya uno años. Basada en la obra de teatro homónima de Patrick Marber, closer es una incursión pesimista para algunos, realista para otros, en la manera que tiene el ser humano de relacionarse. O sea, una película de enamoramientos y desenamoramientos. Hasta el punto de que los diálogos que llevan a los personajes en una dirección o la otra, son lo único que importa.

El argumento es de lo más simple y consiste en mezclar los cuatro personajes protagonistas de todas las maneras imaginables. Eso sí, manteniendo intacta su heterosexualidad a lo largo del largometraje. Estos son Alice (Natalie Portman), Dan (Jude Law), Anna (Julia Roberts) y Larry (Clive Owen), quien había interpretado a Dan en la obra de teatro.

indiana jones and the last crusade (1989)

by zEke

Have you ever tried to whistle blend together the indiana jones, star wars and superman main themes? Neither have I.

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is asked by Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) to go after the Holy Grail after his father vanished while searching for a clue to its location himself. Donovan owns an incomplete stone tablet that might hold the key to the location of the chalize and points them in the right direction. Jones accepts and travels to Venice with Dr. Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliot) where he meets Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody) and will discover that they are not the only ones interested in the location of the Holy Grail and that the Nazi army are also after it.