Well, I have to be sincere.
I'm sincerely disappointed with myself, because I was supposed to review and criticize Woody Allen's movies and post here but after having watched the last one I felt like I was kind of tired of watching his movies. It is not that they're bad, I'm not saying this, but in fact I'm not into comedy too much and it was difficult to put myself to watch this Bananas movie. In fact, I laughed a little too less than what I have expected and I had to make and effort to reach the end of it.
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| Young Sly. |
In the meanwhile, after the last review, I've watched so many movies, well, 2013 was a good year for movies, at least for me. But for now I won't spend my time to talk about it, I'll keep straight with Bananas.
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| Mellish in disguise. |
Bananas is about a guy played by Woody Allen that is called Fielding Mellish. He is the simple loser, idiotic character Allen is used to play up to now - in the movies I've seen. I have to say I have problems with this kind of character, since it's to imbecile for me to feel any kind of sympathy, I just don't care about what is going to happen with him - in fact I wish for the worse. This kind of think makes me want to stop watching the movie, but I'm strong when it's about movies... I just keep waiting to see what's going to happen. And...
Mellish is attracted (can't say he's in love) to a girl which is involved in activism and a country in Latin America called San Marcos (a kind of Cuba). So, when she dumps him - because he deserves it - he decides to go to San Marcos to prove himself to her, to prove he is not just a moron.
Well, the movie is basically a lot of comical sketches about someone being trained in a rebel's army. It's fun sometimes, but for me it lacks in purpose. I know it has a subtext on war and Cuba's problems towards USA and media involvement in people's and political affairs, but for me it didn't work. Best part for me was seeing young Sylvester Stallone in a cameo.
