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El Clan (2015)
An amazing thriller of a real-life villain.
Few years after the dictatorship in Argentina by Rafael Videla is overthrown, the remaining members of that military order begin a life of crime, using as an excuse that the Argentinians sold the country and pushed the patriots into catastrophe. At this time in history, is where the story of Arquímides Puccio (Guillermo Franchella) and his family take place. Puccio is an old retired military who starts kidnapping rich youngsters not just for the money, but to satisfy an evil mind that wants suffering. However, his five children, Alejandro (Peter Lanzani), Maguila (Gastón Cocchiarale), Silvia (Giselle Motta), Adriana (Antonia Bengoechea) and Guillermo (Franco Masini), are the ones who end up with the biggest sorrow. This brilliant movie is not a conventional crime thriller, it also explores the psychological illness of all the members in this family caused by the oppressing voice of Puccio's patriarchy. Alejandro, the brilliant and successful eldest child, is the connection between us and the pain inside the characters. The narrative of the story begins by the end, and so it goes interchanging present and future, until they collide in a sublime climax when all the feelings and thoughts of the children explode. Each one of the characters, even though they were real, are so astoundingly designed that you can feel the hate of the father; the indifference of the mother; the rage, the fear and even the love of the children. Another remarkable aspect of this movie is the BSO, featuring an accurate selection between The Kinks, Credence Clearwater Revival, and Argentinian rock of the 80's like Seru Giran and Virus. This is also a portrait of the post-dictatorship era as a fictional interpretation of the feelings of an old retired military, his new war, and his new army: his family.
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
A stupid movie, with stupid characters,in a Hot Tub Time Machine...no more words!
This movie is an amazing discovery. All the clichés, the old same jokes, and the recyclable characters in every comedy movie are here; a stupid story about three middle age best friends that travel to the past with one millennial antisocial nerd.
Maybe describing this movie with all these elements might make it sound like a predictable and horrible comedy crap. But Hot Tub Time Machine has perfect timing jokes, the accurate pop culture reference and fabulous personalities in each character, that put together result in two hours of classic 00's comedy. Guaranteed.
John Cusack is Adam, a frustrated and egocentric, mildly economically successful guy, that lives with his nephew Jacob (Clark Duke), a nerd that interacts with other people only in Second Life, in which he is also a loser. Then, one of his old friends, Lou (Rob Corddry), tries to commit suicide. So, Adam, Jacob, and Nick (Craig Robins) – other friend from high school, and the black guy every comedy needs- decide to take their suicidal and failed friend to Kodiak Valley, the pinnacle of youngster parties in the 80's, nowadays transformed into a decadent ghost town. Here is where this four underdogs find a hot tub that transports them to 1986, at the same Kodiak Valley camp.
The three friends –Adam, Jacob and Lou- have to do exactly the same things they originally did in order to maintain the present undamaged. The other guy, Jacob, wasn't even born yet, so he just wants to go back to the present.
Well, in their effort to keep the past unchanged, these three losers realize that they have the opportunity to transform their dreadful future with all the information they have. And that's exactly what they do, taking this movie to a happy, ridiculously and incredibly stupid ending; with a new master web searcher named Louggle included.
You may think this is just bullshit, and that I can be easily amazed. But give it a try, believe me, Hot Tub Time Machine is the movie you're looking for when you don't have much to do.