Movies watched in 2011

expectations:
- great story about Ernesto Che Guevara
- good acting
- good action scenes

expectation rating: 8

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd."

good and innovative story about memory. the movie criticizes our tendency to focus on bad memories and forget the good ones.
good acting by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.
some smart and funny jokes.
great visual effects and cinematography. the process of erasing memories is visually very clear.

expectation rating: 9

"Nature is Satan's church."

good and innovative story about nature. it's not just about nature around us, but also human nature. it's a pessimistic view of the importance of our lives, as opposed to the christian view.
great direction and cinematography. almost everything is metaphor, mainly created from parodies of biblical figures. some are very obvious, like "Garden of Eden" and "The Three Beggars". others are subtler, like sacrificial love. but some of those are too subtle and i didn't quite understand them, like in the final scene. of course it could be just my lack of knowledge...
great acting by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. i liked the way they used their bodies to make scenes more realistic. sex and violence scenes are pretty shocking, thanks also to the visual effects.

expectation rating: 8

"I don't know whether I'm alive and dreaming or dead and remembering."

great and innovative story about perception and reality. the protagonist's unique health condition, caused by war, brings unique questions about what is reality. can we live without senses? even more, can we live without feelings? how can we decide what is right or good?
bad direction and cinematography. ok, all that inactivity is coherent, because of the protagonist's condition. but in any movie i expect to see movement... that's all.

expectation rating: 8

expectations:
- good but overused story about revenge
- great direction
- great acting
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 8

"You didn't betray me, you betrayed yourself."

expectations:
- terrible and overused story about saving the world
- good direction
- great visual effects
- bad acting

expectation rating: 7

"Because, as every housewife knows, the first check you write is for the mortgage, but the second is for the insurance."

expectations:
- bad story about altruism
- good acting
- to help me learn a little more about the football world

expectation rating: 6

"- I like him. He's nice.
- He's scary.
- Like Santa."

"Forget about it. It's just a freak show to them, anyway. It don't matter."

comments: soon...

expectations:
- bad but innovative story about a bank robbery
- great direction
- great acting
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 8

expectations:
- bad story about small and recurrent situations in society
- good acting
- a lot of smart and funny jokes

expectation rating: 6

"This is your receipt for your husband... and this is my receipt for your receipt."

"We're all in it together, kid."

great story about inefficiency in society. although the protagonist has dreams of love, happiness and freedom, bureaucracy makes them very hard to reach. a dystopian society is described to criticize the way social hierarchy affects so many important decisions in our lives.
great direction. fantastic dreams alternate with absurd realities, so you are not always able to identify them. this confusion tries to minimize the difference between the importances of dream and reality.
good acting by Jonathan Pryce and bad acting by Kim Greist.
some smart and funny jokes.

expectation rating: 8

"The Power of Christ compels you!"

"Your mother sucks cocks in Hell, Karras, you faithless slime."

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expectations:
- terrible and overused story about the devil
- good direction
- good cinematography
- good visual effects
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 7

"You couldn't stop that earthquake."

expectations:
- good but overused story about friendship
- good direction
- great acting
- good soundtrack

expectation rating: 7

"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."

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expectations:
- good but overused story about relationship problems
- great direction
- great acting
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 8

"I just want to know that it's really happening."

expectations:
- terrible and overused story about aliens
- great direction
- great visual effects

expectation rating: 6

expectations:
- great direction
- great acting

expectation rating: 7

"So He did the light, He invented it. Which means... that He created the Heaven and the Earth in the dark! Fucking hell! How good is that?!"

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expectations:
- a lot of smart and funny jokes

expectation rating: 7

expectations:
- a lot of smart and funny jokes

expectation rating: 8

expectations:
- bad and overused story about magic and saving the world
- great visual effects
- good cinematography
- good soundtrack

expectation rating: 8

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool."

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expectations:
- good but overused story about music and love
- good acting
- great soundtrack
- a lot of smart and funny jokes
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 8

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."

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expectations:
- good story about The Doors
- great soundtrack

expectation rating: 7

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expectations:
- bad story
- bad visual effects
- good action scenes
- to be as good as so many people say
- to make me learn about japanese culture

expectation rating: 6

"Production Value!"

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expectations:
- bad and overused story about mystery and something inhumanly powerful
- great visual effects
- good direction

expectation rating: 7

"Never start a fight... but always finish it."

expectations:
- good but overused story about kidnapping
- good direction
- great acting

expectation rating: 7

"The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by."

"Mother. Father. Always you wrestle inside me. Always you will."

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expectations:
- great story about life
- great acting
- great cinematography
- good direction

expectation rating: 10

"If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you're no longer a racing driver."

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expectations:
- great story about Ayrton Senna
- good editing
- great action scenes

expectation rating: 8

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expectations:
- terrible story about mystery
- good direction
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 6

expectations:
- innovation in narrative techniques
- innovation in cinematography
- bad story
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 8

"I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it all the same."

expectations:
- good story about imagination
- good direction
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 7

"Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you."

"Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely."

"I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt."

"Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not."

expectations:
- good story about love for music
- great acting
- great soundtrack
- great cinematography

expectation rating: 8

expectations:
- good but repetitive story about political crime
- great acting
- good action scenes

expectation rating: 7

"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives."

comments: soon...

expectations:
- good but repetitive story about social relationships
- good acting
- to be as good as my friend and many people say

expectation rating: 7

expectations:
- good story about humanity
- a lot of smart and funny jokes
- bad soundtrack
- good acting

expectation rating: 7

expectations:
- good but repetitive story about relationships
- good direction
- great acting

expectation rating: 8

expectations:
- bad story about free will
- good acting
- good visual effects

expectation rating: 6

expectations:
- bad and repetitive story about teen lovers
- a lot of smart and funny jokes
- great acting

expectation rating: 7

expectations:
- great visual effects
- some innovation in sci-fi, but most of all overused concepts about time travel
- bad story

expectation rating: 7

"I want to escape, to escape from myself! But it's impossible."

expectations:
- good but overused story about investigation
- great direction
- good soundtrack
- to be as good as so many people say

expectation rating: 8