UPDATE

Hello again!

Some movies are so touching, thought-provoking and meaningful that they deserve a deep analysis and a full review. This section ("Update") is dedicated to movies that don't fall onto that category: they're just mindless entertainment, or they simply didn't cause deep impressions on me.

To start, the two last movies I've seen. One is a Twilight parody from two of the most hated modern day filmmakers, and the other is the adaptation of an escapist best-seller.

Vampires Suck (USA, 2010) is definitely an improvement from Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's previous spoofs Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans and Epic Movie. I can't think of any other director who gets as much hate as Friedberg and Seltzer nowadays. All of their movies have an incredibly low rating on IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and many other film websites, and are frequently listed as the worst of the decade.

This time, they make fun of the teen-based franchise Twilight. Being easy for me to recognize what exactly they're spoofing, Vampires Suck was not entirely bad, though the 1st half is superior to the 2nd. Just a mindless teen spoof to mock a franchise that - as the title indicates... sucks. My vote is 6/10.

Eat Pray Love (USA, 2010), on the other hand, doesn't bash a feminine icon: it transports it to cinema. Written for the screen and directed by Ryan Murphy, this chick-flick is based on the homonymous best-selling novel by Elizabeth Gilbert, an American divorcee who went away on a 1-year trip around the world to... "find herself". Or some sh*t like that.

Played by Julia Roberts, Gilbert starts her odyssey in Italy, where she discovers the joys of pasta and the pleasure of doing nothing. Follows a trip to India, where she'll try to get closer to God, and finally, some time in the Indonesian island of Bali. There she meets her current husband: Brazilian Felipe.

It was a major goof for the producers to cast Spanish Javier Bardem as Felipe. Being Brazilian myself, Bardem's unrealistic Portuguese accent pissed me off. And it wasn't the only thing that upset me: Eat Pray Love ran for 130 minutes, but it felt more like 3 hours.

Creator of the hit television series Glee, Murphy doesn't display his usual sarcasm here, and his screenplay made this movie adaptation too tame and familiar. There's nothing much to say about Eat Pray Love, a regular chick-flick to be seen in feminine company - and I say this from my own experience. ;P My grade is 6/10.

This ends our first "Update" post. More movie reports later on.

BACK TO WORK!

Hello, everybody!

As everything else in my tech life, this blog came as the center of my attention, but was soon left aside. Maybe I was too busy, maybe I stopped caring as much as I did when we first started... I don't know, but we have kind of forgot about our dear The Movie Goers' Diary. But I have decided to give this blog a restart.

Lots of movies have been watched by me and Rapha in this 7-month gap, and therefore it is impossible for us to recap them all, as well as the important movie news that came out in-between. I was actually pretty surprised when I saw our last published review was January's Sherlock Holmes. I hope we can continue the work as we left it 7 months ago. Rapha and I have had our setbacks and... well... fights. Tons of them. But I hope he'll return.

I'll refresh our "Must-See" list, as well as add some important movie links. Hope you enjoy it! :)

Yours sincerely,
ZÉ B.