domingo, 28 de outubro de 2012

Scarface (1983)

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Who put this thing together? Me, that's who! Who do I trust? Me! - Tony Montana

The rise and fall of a drug lord. This remake of the classic Scarface (1932) brings a new and intense look at the gangsters of our time (Even 30 years later). Pacino brings a intense acting with a great directing by De Palma.


A remarkable film for its history and the denounce it makes about how the drug cartel works in USA and how easy is to get in this game, how hard is to keep playing and how impossible is to get out alive.

****1/4

domingo, 7 de outubro de 2012

The Machinist (2004)

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"Don't worry. No one ever died of insomnia." - Trevor Reznik

Christian Bale is an industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity. Great movie that holds your attention from the beginning at the end, with a fantastic performance by Bale in this one.

***3/4

sexta-feira, 6 de julho de 2012

The Prestige (2006)

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"A real magician tries to invent something new, that other magicians are gonna scratch their heads over." - Alfred Borden

An accident can completely change the lives of two magicians, arousing anger, hatred and obssession that unleash in a fantastic rivalry.

****1/2

terça-feira, 3 de julho de 2012

Frank Movie Star List


*****
Rocky (1976)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Shutter Island (2010)
Heat (1995)
The Truman Show (1998)
Yojinbo (1961)

****3/4
Goodfellas (1990)
Fight Club (1999)
The Prestige (2006)
Rocky II (1979)
With Honors (1994)
Snatch. (2000)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
The Great Dictator (1940)
First Blood (1982)
Collateral (2004)
Léon (1994)
Dial M For Murder (1954)


****1/2
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Casino (1995)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Toy Story (1995)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Street Kings (2008)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
American History X (1998)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Moon (2009)


****1/4
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Scarface (1983)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Training Day (2001)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
The Insider (1999)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)


****
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Rambo (2008)
Blood Simple. (1984)
JCVD (2008)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Batman Begins (2005)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Gladiator (2000)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
The Expendables (2010)
The Wrestler (2008)
Burn After Reading (2008)
Wo hu cang long (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Bound by Honor (1993)
Cape Fear (1962)
The Machinist (2004)
The Day Of The Jackal (1973)
Le Samourai (1967)
Taken (2008)
Citizen X (1995)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
The King's Speech (2010)
Vampyr (1932)
5 Fingers (1952)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Dark City (1998)
Fantasia (1940)
Insomnia (1997)
Nikita (1990)
Skyfall (2012)
The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The Thing (1982)
Lord of War (2005)
For Greater Glory - The True Story of Cristiada (2012)
The Great Escape (1963)


***3/4
Raising Arizona (1987)
Cop Land (1997)
A Man Apart (2003)
Appaloosa (2008)
Cobra (1986)
Troy (2004)
Die Hard (1988)
Fargo (1996)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
The Punisher (2004)
Harry Brown (2009)
The Recruit (2003)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Above The Law (1988)
8MM (1999)
The Iron Lady (2011)
Casino Royale (2006)
Citizen X (1995)
After Hours (1985)
Dredd (2012)
Legionnarie (1998)
Se Ying Diu Sau (1978)
Enter The Dragon (1973)
Escape From L.A. (1996)
Escape From New York (1981)
The French Connection (1971)
Sherlock Holmes - A Game of Shadows (2011)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
The Italian Job (1969)
Falling Down (1993)

***1/2
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Pride and Glory (2008)
Miami Vice (2006)
88 Minutes (2007)
El mariachi (1992)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Desperado (1995)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Con Air (1997)
Watchmen (2009)
The General's Daughter (1999)
The Odyssey (1997)
Dreams (1990)
The Big Heat (1953)
Finding Never Land (2004)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Sky Captain And The The World of Tomorrow (2004)
Wasabi (2001)
Jumanji (1995)

domingo, 1 de julho de 2012

Rafael Movie Star List

*****
The Kid (1921)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
City Lights (1931)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Kumonosu-jô (1957)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Shining (1980)

Scarface (1983)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Interstellar (2014)


****3/4

Modern Times (1936) 
Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Heat (1995)

Se7en (1995)
American History X (1998)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Fight Club (1999)

Donnie Darko (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Inception (2010)
Gravity (2013)

Whiplash (2014)


****1/2

The Circus (1928)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Yôjinbô (1961)

Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) 
The Terminator (1984)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Snatch (2000)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Collateral (2004)
The Departed (2006)
The Prestige (2006)

Shutter Island (2010)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 
Django Unchained (2012)
Rush (2013)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
The Revenant (2015)
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)


****1/4

Chaplin (1992)
Falling Down (1993)
Reservoir Dogs (1994)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

American Psycho (2000) 
Gladiator (2000)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Der Untergang (2004)

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
Sin City (2005)
V for Vendetta (2005)

Watchmen (2009)
Warrior (2011) 
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013)
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
Man of Steel (2013)  
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
The Imitation Game (2014)


****
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)

The Exorcist (1973)
Halloween (1978)

Mad Max 2 (1981)
After Hours (1985)

The Untouchables (1987)
Pet Sematary (1989)

Goodfellas (1990)
American Beauty (1999)

Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) 
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Hooligans (2005)
300 (2006) 
Cassino Royale (2006) 
O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2006)
Rocky Balboa (2006) 

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Rambo (2008)
The Wrestler (2008)

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

X-Men: First Class (2011)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012) 
The Avengers (2012)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Godzilla (2014)
Nightcrawler (2014) 
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) 


 
***3/4
A Dog's Life (1918)

El Chanfle (1979)
Mad Max (1979)
Evil Dead (1981)
The Color of Money (1986)

The Godfather: Part III (1990)
The Doors (1991)
Batman Returns (1992)
Léon (1994)

Grand Hotel (1995)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Die Welle (2008) 
Spun (2002)
Closer (2004) 
Good Bye Lenin! (2004) 
Superman/Doomsday (2007)
Bigger Stronger Faster* (2008)
The Machinist (2004)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

The Damned United (2009)
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) 
Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan (2012)
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
Fury (2014) 
Pawn Sacrifice (2014)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
The Raid 2: Berandal (2014)
Jurassic World (2015)


***1/2
The Gold Rush (1925) 

Rashômon (1950)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Amadeus (1984)
Rocky IV (1985)
Batman (1989)
The Rock (1996)
Titanic (1997)

Desperado (1995)
Payback (1999)
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
The Bourne Identity (2002)

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003) 
Luther (2003)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
The Punisher (2004)
Troy (2004)

Live Free or Die Hard (2007) 
When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
Hulk Vs. Thor (2009)
Hulk Vs. Wolverine (2009)

Clash of the Titans (2010)
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)
Machete (2010)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Immortals (2011)
Limitless (2011)
The Raid (2011)
Thor (2011)
Justice League: Doom (2012) 
The Expendables 2 (2012) 
The Raven (2012) 
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
Maleficent (2014)

About Us

So we are just two guys who love movies, and we are here to express our opinion about movies we enjoy, with a rating scale using stars. Here we present only the films evaluated with grades above ***1/2.

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