Guilherme Simões Reis

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Favorite films

  • Brazil
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • The Constant Gardener
  • Requiem for a Dream

All
  • Batman: Hush

    ★★★½

  • Madame Web

    ★★★★

  • The Number 23

    ★★★½

  • Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

    ★★★★

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Batman: Hush

2019

★★★½ Watched

Not a bad Batman animated film, but a slight disappointment cannot be ignored. There are good moments, and the characters are well depicted. Well.. there are too many characters... Too many things happen one after the other, seeming that various movies were squeezed into a single feature film. The plot could be perceived as ambitious and huge, but actually it never seems very impressive. Spectator does not feel any of the numerous surprises, events, twists, character arcs. Batman faces extremely…

Madame Web

2024

★★★★ Watched

Given the infamously awful rating, I could never expect to watch a so amusing (and sometimes either funny or cute) superhero action movie. The origin story (and the mystic jungle stuff) works well, the five major characters are well developped given the fast pace, and the divination power is very well portrayed. I guess terrible rating has three different (and not necessarily shared together by all the film's haters) reasons: 1) firstly (and the only reason I do respect), the…

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Before Night Falls

2000

★★★ Watched

This could have been great, as it is technically a good achievement, but it is a dishonest piece of propaganda. It is a cowardice to use LGBT struggle and suffering as a tool for capitalist propaganda. Cuban regime did criminalised homossexuals (what has changed only more recently) and it is fair and necessary to say that in cinema. However, it is unbelievable that a Hollywood film uses it to establish a fallacious relation between homophobia and socialism, and to delegitimize…

Cassiopeia

1996

★★★½ Rewatched

Neither the most compelling sci-fi story, nor visually impressive in its 3D images, but extremely important for the history of cinema: the first full-made CGI film is Brazilian! Excellent Toy Story was finished before it was planned just not to be released after Cassiopeia. Anyway, Pixar used physical models for the toys, while all robots in Cassiopeia have been fully designed in computers... with a small budget! Watch it here: youtu.be/8azqJrOJvj8