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Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022)
Boring and unaccomplished
How sad (and boring) must be the life of a teenager to get involved in a sick relationship with an older man? Moreover, it is not easy to understand why she is attracted by someone who does not show special qualities. Worse of all, at the end she's capable of missing him... The binary choice (either boredom or abuse) is too simplistic. One must hope that there are multiple paths to reach happiness or, at least, serenity.
Acting is regular (not too difficult either), casting is not ideal, cinematography is flat, script is not brilliant, dialogues are void. However, I was not surprised to know the success it had in Sundance, it has many ingredients for that.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Unnecessary sequel
Like looking the 'original' in a distorted mirror. A very predictable script does not sustain the movie. Dogfights and action scenes sometimes are confused, they were much better in the 1986 movie. But if one look for action, action is served. Too many 'machitos': the scent of testosterone is even stronger than 36 years ago, and the unique female presence in a masculine role is not enough to smooth its smell. Good cast, though, and very credible resemblance between 'Goose' and his son 'Rooster'. Credible performances by everyone. A very sad presence of Val Kilmer who's suffering from a throat cancer in real life, but I think that producers owed him a role in this movie. Young spectators who didn't watch Top Gun release in real time (iI mean, in 1986) will appreciate this release.
Loving Pablo (2017)
Bad movie as a whole and in every aspect
It is not very unusual, but not very common either, to find a movie where nothing is worth mentioning as 'good'. Bad script, bad acting, bad direction, bad music and even bad makeup, as it can be appreciated in a few sequences where Pablo Escobar/Javier Bardem exhibits his naked belly... Even Alex Catalán's cinematography is not worth mentioning. Not bad, but surely well below the expectations of anybody who watched 'La Isla Minima' (2014) or 'Tambien la Lluvia' (2010), where Catalán showed his talent. I have the suspect that in this country (Spain), in order to get public financial help to shoot a movie, you must count with the Cruz-Bardem couple. In other words, as we say in Spanish, you must 'pasar por el aro' (jump through the hoop) of casting this couple of very mediocre actors to make a movie with public financial support.