Daybreakers (Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig), 2009

A couple of interesting ideas about life as a vampire society doesn't make this film worthy of watching.  With the same budget a lot of us could have come with more interesting things to do or say about the subject.  Hollywood people doesn't seem to look for the best, but simply how to maintain their own jobs.  This kind of films need script doctors right away. (2/5)

L'heure d'été (Summer Hours) (Olivier Assayas, 2008)

This movie by Olivier Assayas has everything to make your blood boil: it is talky, presumptuous, and about an upper-middle class family. However, it is involving and meaningful in a surprising way.  It is not my task to review films resumed in other thousand sites and blogs, so I only will let some thoughts on it for you.  It is about the value of perdurable objects, not the everyday disposable things related to fashionable technology, but those little trinkets that used to be made to make the journey of a lifetime next to us, in our living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms and sleeping quarters.
Assayas mixes this personal question with broader issues: how to kept cultural objects and the national heritage, how to show them and what happens and the same time with people (which are personified forms of this heritage). Globalized capitalism does not forgive, not even to those that seems to be the winners of the system.  It is not a perfect movie, in the end we still ask ourselves why we should care about the inheritance of the bourgeois: Maybe if we consider them as the guardians of what is left of a thriving society the danger of loss will be touching also for us. (4/5)

A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy, 2009)

I always liked Twohy movies.  The guy is pretty good at making genre films with little idiosyncratic touches.  Again, this "whodunit" is one of them.  You cannot ask from "A Perfect Getaway" more than it can offer, so I recommend you to follow the scriptwriting clues and enjoy the "twists" as they unravel.  If you discover the secret before it is explained it is possible to enjoy the same, simply in a different track from other members of the audience. (3/5)

A Serious Man (Cohen Bros.), 2009

This film is a waste of my time. Broad characterizations to mock people, to show how idiotic an human being can be, and call it "normal". The Cohen Bros. hate people, they don't seem to consider the rest of us part of their own "race" of post-modern pseudo-intellectuals. They have been doing it for decades now, but this is their pinnacle. All their empty philosophy will not obscure the fact that they do not respect their audience, they think of us as fools. The truth is that simply they do not seem to understand humanity.

Movies Seen 1st Week of October

October 3rd: "Trouble the Water", Carl Deal & Tia Lessin (2008).
Powerful documentary about the first-hand experience of a black family of the 9nth Ward in New Orleans before, during and after the Katrina hurricane landfall in 2005.

Ocotber 4th: "Black Narcissus", Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburguer (1947).
Superb Technicolor dream about morality, lust and power in a convent in the high mountains of India. The convent is the stuff of which old colonial adventures are made, the matte paintings are art, the last 20 minutes are chilling, everything is exact, beautiful and meaningful.

Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Michael Bay

"I don't know what is going on, but we gotta move". That phrase, uttered late into this succession of images, defines its content.  In other scenes the characters also express in this manner what the viewer is exactly thinking.  At that point in the movie, I was thinking that I should simply go, after all "Transformers 2" doesn't need me or anyone else.  Do not watch this film (if you want to because of Megan Fox, I suggest you to watch some random porn clip from the Internet instead).

I could do a shot-by shot analysis of it (I cannot use the word film, picture, or movie) to show you the intrinsic amorality of Michael Bay's brain, but my time is worth something.  At least Bay does not have a political position of power over any kind of army.  

Movies watched

"Greek" (series), season 1 and season 2. Mindless fun.

"Boy A" (2008), John Crowley, UK. (7/10).