Some of the best movies 2017
There was a later version called Logan Noir, in a domestic format, which was wonderful and was the same footage but with all the frames in black and white. But with the "normal" version released in theaters, it was enough to know that Hugh Jackmann said goodbye to his character Lobezno and Logan. And attention to the huge Patrick Stewart as a very old Xavier.
The character of Wolverine deserved a great single film, although it made reference to its decline. It is one of the best tapes filmed on the world of the X-Men. Drama, suspense, conflicts of the characters and some unforgettable sequences. Logan is an apocalyptic western that has made history and will be a classic throughout time. Thank you, James Mangold, for this movie.
Christopher Nolan has earned by his own merits to be a director that interests the public. So much that he could afford to ask for 20 million dollars and 20% of the collection for doing 'Dunkirk', since he was the star. Warner did not regret it in the face of its excellent performance at the box office, supported by some enthusiastic reviews that have been paving the way to a probable victory at the Oscars of 2018.:
"Christopher Nolan's latest work is simply a masterpiece, the work of one of the last craftsmen left in the industry that combines an amazing narrative management of time with an impeccable invoice to give us one of the most important films of the time. We have been in the century. "
The most controversial film of 2017 financed by a large studio. The idea that you can only love her or hate her with passion is widespread, although, obviously, there are also intermediate points. In our case it is Tonio L. Alarcón who points out the strengths of this unusual new work by Darren Aronofsky:
"After that splendid (re) biblical reading that was 'Noah', Aronofsky launches into the void (and without a network) into another visceral reinterpretation of Catholic religiosity as a mother! Which, between the lines, also reflects on the demiurgic and arrogant character that masks the creativity of great artists, and that, as if that were not enough, is a love letter taken from Jennifer Lawrence, the nerve center of a project that has come from the depths of its chief executive. "
Makoto Shinkai's film has fallen in love with millions of viewers - not for nothing is the highest-grossing anime of all time - with the story of how two young strangers connect in a most singular way. Hollywood is already preparing the remake in real image, but it is the animated production that has been cast among the highlights of 2017 and Roberto Morato points out why:
"There is a debate that goes through all the cinema of contemporary animation: The confrontation between the historical legacy and the new forms that technology imposes." In Your Name, this reflection on the past and the present is carried to the paroxysm establishing a beautiful dialogue in Around animation and Japanese society, Shinkai dialogues with the tradition and history of his country's cinema and elevates a beautiful story of adolescent love to a key work of contemporary animation. "
The greatest success of the career of Edgar Wright, to such an extent that the person in charge of the Cornetto trilogy has reconsidered his position towards the sequels. From the start it shows us that it will not be the typical theft movie and also that music will play a more fundamental role than ever for the construction of the film, but let it be Fernando Siles, collaborator of Xataka, who explain your virtues:
"'Baby Driver' is a direct adrenaline rush to the heart that neither Mia Wallace, for a little less than two hours, Don Edgar Wright makes us breathe to the sound that marks with the songs he chooses and the unbridled but millimetrically planned action that You end up exhausted and delighted, like after ... yeah, well, you understand me, the poor in spirit will say it's just a video clip, but what a video clip, what a joy, what virtuosity! The coolest movie of the year, no more. "
Oscar's dream for Carla Simón's first feature has faded even before the announcement of the Hollywood Academy Award nominations, but it does not detract from a small movie that in most cases would have completely passed away unnoticed. This has not been the case and Adriana Izquierdo:
"Frida loses her mother and must move to the countryside with her uncles, 'Verano 1993' makes us connect with that innocence in the process of rupture, of her difficulty in handling something so emotionally complex, and she achieves it based on a subtlety and daily life so eloquent and charged with emotion that each sequence is gold, a jewel. "
Superhero movies have dominated Hollywood for years and it does not look like that will change in the future. At least in relation to the box office, since it is not so usual that some films starred by these characters sneaks into the lists of the highlights of the year in artistic terms. The sequel to 'Guardians of the Galaxy' has earned its presence here and Juan Luis Caviaro, explains the reasons:
"In 2014, James Gunn surprised everyone with his fun and exciting adaptation of the comic book 'Guardians of the Galaxy', featuring such eccentric and lovable characters as Rocket Raccoon or Groot, it was a milestone, Spielberg points it out as his favorite superhero movie And three years later, Gunn has achieved the unthinkable, surpassing himself with a sequel that offers the usual show of this type of proposals but that delves deeper into the characters and confronts them with greater conflicts, closing the story with a message Fabulous about maturity and the real family, at least it's the best superhero movie of 2017. "
For several years James Gray has earned the reputation of being one of the most interesting American filmmakers of our time. As is logical, not everyone agrees with that statement, but the person in charge of Ellis' dream has earned a critical appreciation and Fernando Ganzo points out how he has achieved it with his latest work behind the scenes to date :
"The path of Michael Cimino is still open, a great movie about the obsession with a fixed idea, about the family, about opening the cinema and its characters to something bigger than them, as Gray does with his own cinema, and without needing Pharaonic budgets, the last American filmmaker. "
Hollywood continues to have a clear deficit of directors and it is a pity to think of the great filmmakers that we will be missing because nobody simply gives them a chance. What would become of us if nobody had trusted in his moment in Kathryn Bigelow? Well, a worse world and we would have run out of 'Detroit', an exciting approach to a real incident that Victor López G .:
"With 'Detroit', Kathryn Bigelow signs what we could define as a real punch in the pit of the stomach in cinematographic terms, an impeccable exercise halfway between the thriller, the judicial drama and the stifling and wonderfully executed history lesson that gives you shatter your nerves and beat your social conscience, brilliant in all its aspects. "
What could have been an efficient film and little else has ended up becoming one of the biggest cinematographic phenomena of the year in the United States. He raffled off at the box office and it would not be surprising if he also won several Oscar nominations. What is this all about? John Tones:
"The best horror film of the year: above indie efforts with excess of cryptic symbolism, has a clear and direct (and necessary) message and enunciated intelligently, connects with great names of social metaphorical terror, of 'They are alive' to 'Society', going through the best moments of 'Twilight Zone', and nonetheless it is an extraordinary horror film, tense, aggressive, continuously crescendo and truffled with extraordinary pills of poisonous humor. "
M. Night Shyamalan never left (at all), but the public did seem to turn their backs on him for some years. That trend has already begun to change with 'The visit' and 'Multiple' has confirmed that viewers have returned to embrace the Indian director's cinema. Here also offers a unique opportunity to James McAvoy to showcase that talent that not many filmmakers have managed to squeeze. Juan Sanguino offers us his impressions about the film:
"In a time when Hollywood neutralizes the identity of his films to build expanded universes, Shyamalan threw the board out the window with 'Multiple', the most violent slasher, the most grotesque thriller and the most twisted sequel. (s) interpretation (s) of the year and poses a perverse game facing 'Glass': that villain causes us repulsion, but we are looking forward to seeing him again. "
The closing of a trilogy in which practically had any faith and that has ended up becoming one of the best in the history of cinema. Already the first part was a remarkable surprise, going even more with the second installment and 'The war of the planet of the apes' was the finishing touch:
"A perfect brooch for the most important sci-fi trilogy since the original Star Wars." Matt Reeves forgets the status of blockbuster and redefines the term with an adult film, full of classical war and western influences that makes his photorealist CGI forget change-rules to focus on his tremendously beautiful (anti) humanist discourse. "
This movie could not miss. We do not care if it reaped everything that was expected or not because what Dennis Villeneuve has done with this work that acts as a sequel is to maintain the cult essence that Ridley Scott's original had in his DNA.
And some will say that "it is slow, confused, dense, dark, strange, with few dialogues and philosophical ...". Yes, they just said the same thing about Scott's 1982 original at the time. And time contradicted them, putting the tape in its place. The same will happen with Blade Runner 2049. By the way, great role of Ana de Armas, which surprised even the most skeptical.
Little more we can say that we have not already said. It was the supposed movie of the year and for the majority it has not disappointed although there are always people against and have increased some criticism, having disparity of opinions.
In general, very entertaining, with Rian Johnson including a lot of humor and departing a lot from the previous installment, episode VII of Abrams. Episode VIII is imperfect, of course, but it is still a very interesting chapter and one that can mark the future development of the saga. Now to wait for episode IX in 2019 and the next spin-off of Han Solo this 2018 that enters. There's a lot of Star Wars ahead.