Problem, the catalog is so large that you spend endless time deciding and finally maybe give up.

The site Sens Critique which was put online in 2011, is a free service which will allow you to give your opinion on your films, series, books, comics, video games as well as music. Unlike some websites, SensCritique only lists public notes and does not include any press notes.

That said, even if SensCritique lists 100M votes, it is still tedious to check each film from Amazon Prime or Netflix.

An extension for Firefox and Chrome was developed by an independent developer who has since joined the SensCritique team.

This extension will allow you to display the average viewer rating for each film and series alongside basic information.

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The Internet has made it possible for many people to access a resource simply by clicking a button. I still remember my first experience with the internet in an internet café. It was in Lille, on a Mac. At the time, I was very focused on the X-Files series and I was always looking for new information from French fans or American sources. Most of the time, I was trying to view and play 360P photos and videos. It was a time when the Internet was not yet accessible to everyone.

With the arrival of the first Internet operators for individuals, people no longer had to travel to get information. Obviously, like any new technology, this was not easy for everyone to understand. But a lot of tools and business perspectives emerged for better and worse. The Internet is a child of computing because without computing, there is no Internet.

As I said, the Internet has revolutionized our habits. Commerce, holiday reservations, public transport, radio, TV…. I do not intend to give you the history of everything that has changed with the Internet, but to focus on two aspects and consequences: Video games and cinema.

What has been looming for several years in the world of video games is gradually arriving in the cinema industry. I have always considered cinema as a work that was intended to be a unique experience to be enjoyed in theaters. For two things: Conviviality and the giant screen that stands before us to project a director's vision.

Conviviality can be present from the purchase of the ticket until the end of the screening, when having a drink with friends to discuss the film. This conviviality is never as strong as during a screening of a film in theaters. We meet people and friends to share the same moment. We heard onomatopoeia in the room about this or that scene, telling us that we were not the only ones who were in tune with the film. It was self-satisfying. At least that's what I saw a few years ago. Today, no one speaks openly, and the room seems empty as we are sucked into the same story. Somehow, I miss this thing, this connection point during the projection.

At the very beginning of cinema, there was film. Impossible to see the footage outside of cinemas. When the VCR arrived in homes, it was first used to record TV programs. Then we were able to see the potential of a medium like VHS, by selling to individuals VHS of the film which had just been released in cinemas. Specialists of the time then affirmed that this would be the death of cinema. But it didn't happen. From VHS we moved to DVD and BLU-RAY. This storage medium for cinema transformed over time, just like projectors in theaters which needed a reel and which today need a hard drive as support.

What I'm getting at is that digital technology has made it possible to have a film in homes that is close to the original and less bulky than a VHS. But with the arrival of the Internet and digital media, abuses began to emerge. Video games have reached the point where some no longer offer physical support for the work. In any case, this is what the video game industry is doing today with platforms like Steam or Epic Games. And now, some teachers are starting to sell the box without physical support. The latter only contains a code to download the game and own it digitally. The plastic box serving as an object in a collection, but a box empty of any substance.

And I just learned a few days ago that films are catching the same disease. Certainly in an embryonic way. One of the companies to try this is Disney. I recently read an article about the problem with the Wanda Vision series. Imagine that Disney puts on sale collector's boxes which no longer contain the series. You will need a computer connected to the Internet to be able to enjoy the film without being able to touch the support on which the work was placed. Disney had already thrown a spanner in the works by releasing its film Mulan only on its Disney+ platform, and no longer in theaters. Of course, the pandemic had been there, and production companies were looking for a way out of the drop in theater attendance. Which has led a lot of studios down this path, not without some uproar (See my article on Oppenheimer). Whatever the case, the pandemic seems to be behind us and yet Disney continues to plow the furrow and find an all-digital solution.

What will cinema be in 10 or 20 years? Nobody knows. I hope that the Disney experience will not be imitated. Cinema has changed a lot since the Lumière brothers. As well as the spectators. Throughout the eras in which people live, they educate themselves and learn with a culture that is specific to a specific time. This is why some people sometimes say between two dialogues: “It was better before”. But what about today's young generation? All I can tell you is that she remains very attached to digital. You just have to look at the younger generation to see that information no longer comes from dialogue between us, but from social networks which bombard us with all kinds of information.

There will always be a generational problem and this will persist throughout the ages. We live and educate ourselves with our own culture. But putting everything digital may not be a solution for us. We have been accustomed to being close to things. Today, digital is everywhere. But the fact of owning a DVD box or box tells us that we own it as a work, it belongs to us. While digital games or films on streaming platforms…. It's sad to know this, but it's our sadness because we are starting to see a future that we don't like from our past. Perhaps the younger generation will one day be fed up with everything digital and there will be a survival of physical content.

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I'm rewatching the first season of

Magical for me at the time, The mysterious cities of Gold rocked my childhood like a whole bunch of cartoons from the time. Today I would raise her to the same rank as Captain Flam or Ulysses 31. Because mixing mysteries, enigmas and many other exciting things.

Several editions were started for DVD releases, and if you are still nostalgic for this flagship series of Franco-Japanese animation, I would advise you, before buying it, to refer to the very complete test of the different editions offered by Internet user :

In summary, don't buy the Blu-ray version, even the collector's version, you would lose a lot of detail.

Several decades later, new seasons were produced from 2012. But just by seeing the drawing style of the trailer, I was already quickly disappointed. The new seasons are available for free on France 4 as Goldorak, Tom Sawyer And many others.

The colors and drawing style are no longer the same, making everything much less natural.

After seeing season 1, I wanted to see the following seasons. So I did some research and came across the commentary of Eric Malbos psychiatrist who has a fairly good analysis of the seasons following that of 1982.

Reading this article, I realized one thing: times change as do everyone's precise goals.

But when I think about it, that hardly surprises me. It started in 1982, then it started again in 2012. We took a formula that worked in its time and we made a sequel which no longer really corresponds to the original work, riding on the nostalgia of a prosperous era but gone.

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Long before Henry Cavill And Brandon Routh, several actors have played Superman in the cinema. But the one that many of us remember Christopher Reeves. This actor, passionate about theater from the age of 15, will be selected and admitted to the prestigious Juilliard School and will follow the courses of John Houseman. He will then continue his studies to perfect his profession as an actor at Glasgow and Paris. Between 1973 and 1975, he played in several plays in Broadway.

In 1978, he had his first film role in Save the Neptune of David Greene. From 1977, he will have the privilege of being the actor who will be chosen among 200 auditionees (among whom there were contenders James Brolin, Christopher Walken, Nick Nolte Or Jon Voight) to play Superman in the cinema.

It was a huge success when the film was released in 1979, grossing $300 million on a budget of $55 million.

I was able to find for you, 1 hour of making-of (divided into two parts) on this film which brought superheroes into the big leagues.

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Recently, I was able to interview Brigitte Lecordier and Benoit Allemande during the event Geek Dreams. You can find the interview in this article.

These actors and others took part in the exercise of dubbing authentic French actors in the short film We got overtaken! . In the documentary The legendary dubbing voices“, the dubbing actors talk about their first audition, their way of perceiving the profession, their way of doing things.

Directed by Nicolas Ramade and produced by Transkom, it brings together 14 actresses who lend their voices to the greatest. They tell us about their journey, their encounters and the specificity of this shadow work. 26 minutes to discover who is hiding behind these voices that have entered the collective imagination. Dance documentary, you will be able to find the testimonies of

• Patrick Poivey : voice of Bruce Willis
• Richard Darbois : voice of Harrison Ford, Buzz Lightyear in Toy story and genius in Aladdin
• Maïk Darah : voice of Whoopi Goldberg and Courtney Cox (Monica) in Friends
• Céline Monsarrat : voice of Julia Roberts
• Daniel Beretta : voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Brigitte Lecordier : voice of Son Goku in Dragon Ball , of Yes yes and a multitude of children in many films and series
• Jean-Pierre Moulin : voice of Jack Nicholson and Anthony Hopkins
• Virginie Ledieu : voice of Meg Ryan and Princess Saori in The Knights of the Zodiac
• Thierry Desroses : voice of Samuel L. Jackson
• George Caudron : voice of David Duchovny (Mulder) in X Files
• Benoit Allemane : voice of Morgan Freeman
• Odile Schmitt : voice of Eva Longoria
• Patrick Béthune : voice of Russell Crowe and Kiefer Sutherland in 24 hours flat
• Pierre Hatet : voice of the Doc in the Back to the future

Patrick Poivey, Odile Shmitt, Patrick Béthune and Pierre Hatet having unfortunately left us since filming, this is their last testimony.

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A film misunderstood by the public and yet with a very rich universe. Film made by Wachowski sisters , the same one who gave us the trilogy Matrix, series Sense 8, and also Cloud Atlas but especially the comic book adaptation V for Vendetta.

Thursday evening on TMC

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Which means that if we have seen them all, we can, with a little common sense, summarize the first half hour of the film and it's a shame.

The first time I saw the first trailer of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, I quickly took stock after 2 minutes 30 seconds, and above all deduced the basic story which can be summed up as follows:

"Claire, we had the scare of our lives escaping from the dinosaurs, but I feel guilty about leaving them there. I suggest we go back to rescue them from the awakened volcano that risks killing them (and us with it)."

That's what I deduced. Who would be sane enough to go back there to get some poor dinosaurs who didn't ask anyone for anything? In the first part of Jurassic World, there was already an improbability: The fact of introducing a dinosaur trainer. But I would say, why not. But here, we are dealing with an abandoned park with dinosaurs left behind, including carnivores much more powerful than man. Why don't we leave them alone? Why do we have to save them when a volcano risks exploding and taking everything in its path? In any case, they are on an island and most of them don't know how to swim. Unless the Loch Ness monster is the animal that escaped from this island...

Personally, the following trailers only confirmed what I already thought about certain franchises. The more we advance in time, the more the studios no longer seem to have anything to say. Except to make something new with something old and this in spite of common sense. Except that we have the impression of taking us for spectators with the memory of a goldfish who no longer remembers what was done before. But I also think that these new films are only aimed at the younger generation who have not seen the films of Steven Spielberg. Or that nostalgia has been synonymous with profitability for several years.

This is the kind of film that doesn't make me want to go to the cinema, unless I leave my brain at the entrance of the cinema and give 10 euros to people who are no longer trying to make us discover something new, but only to perpetuate a license again and again to the point of reducing it to nothing. It's a bit like making a photocopy of the copy of the copy... it makes a very bad copy of poor quality.

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOWN
Theatrical release: June 6, 2018
Duration: 2h08
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Main actors: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall
Synopsis: It's been three years since the dinosaurs escaped from their enclosures. Isla Nublar has been abandoned by humans. When the island's dormant volcano begins to roar, Owen and Claire must organize to save the remaining dinosaurs from extinction.

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