Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

I highly recommend it. I wasn't expecting it to be so good.

Jim Carrey was just what he needed to be. He wasn't all that extravagant like he always is, he was just rigth for the role (and I am not a very big fan of him). Now, as far as the story goes I loved it. It was sad, it was happy, it was sarcastic, it was exciting. I laugth a lot. The kids were just great. The photography and the setting were very attractive too. If like me, you were thinking you will never ever see that movie... you will be surprised. I saw it by accident and I will say that is one of those accidents in life that you enjoy you ended up having. (others migth think otherwise, http://www.lemonysnicket.com/movie.cfm). As far as a kids movie? kids have evolved wayy too much since I was one so I guess my criteria would be irrelevant. I will have to get to know today's kids better. For a grown one I'll say I loved it.

5 stars *****

DownFall: Hittler and the End of the Third Reich.

Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film.

Saturday nigth I watched the downfall. I must say it is a movie to watch in a specific mood and definitely You need to make sure you are not sleepy at all.

A movie about Hittler's downfall. A 22-year-old Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) is selected as the personal secretary to Hitler. She is working with Hittler as he is falling from power. It is able to re-create the last days of these horrifying epic story.

The movie was pretty boring at the begining. Too slow the first half hour. Bruno Ganz' performance was good. An 8 over 10 points. He did very good in portraying what we often think of Hittlers personality. He portayed Hittler, the person. However there was too much yelling and at times he was pushing it too much. Eva Braun (Hittler's wife) and Traudl (the secretary): an excellent performance.

It is interesting to actually see those final days of Hittler. Putting things into perspective, what amazed me the most were the statistics given at the end of the movie: about 6 million jews died by Hittler's prosecution. Now, as crazy as it sounds 50 MILLION Russians died.

Mas comments from rotten tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/downfall/trailers.php

3.5 Stars ***(*/2)

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