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I watched it on 2006–04–14, Friday night. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/ My rating: 7/10 This is a 3 hours (!) long movie that tells exactly the same story that the original King Kong did. The first hour – when the only primates on screen are humans –, delivers one very solid character: Carl Denham, played by Jack Black. The [...]

I watched it on 2006–04–15, Saturday night. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434292/ My rating: 7/10 This is a very professional spanish movie about two prostitutes, one “local”, the other an illegal migrant, from Dominican Republic. This is a simple, believable story, set on “real life” places, with great acting! Because I watched it shortly after “Family Stone (2005)”, I [...]

I was just browsing, when I found this on digg. Most posts there seemed “too hot”, so I decided to cool off, gain distance, and then write my own thoughts. People are wrong, when they assume that file copying is necessarily “stealing”. In many countries, the consumer is allowed to make copy(ies), for personal use, [...]

I watched it on 2006–04–09, Sunday. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356680/ This is, by far, the worst movie I’ve seen this century. “The Family Stone” (2005) is unbelievably shallow, empty, void, meaningless and predictable. This film opens a dangerous precedent, since it is supported by a decent budget and it casts decent actors and actresses, yet it utterly fails [...]