AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

love-sanne-love Where Scorsese's others films are rough, he totally shocked me with this lovely children's story. the images are outstanding. the combination of fiction and real history made me interested. that it's about film made me even more weak. the drama and the sad story made it watchable for older watchers, unlike much other children's movies out there. the boy was acting right in my heart. and it's also saying something about Scorsese directing to handle child actors in such a good way and make them so vulnerable on screen.

invisibleunicornninja This is a pretty good movie. The story is entertaining and the child actors are pretty good. There is some stupid in this movie, but not too much. I'd kinda recommend it. Its not great, but still fun.

cinemajesty Film Review: "Hugo" (2011)Honored with Eleven Academy Award Nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director in regard to Martin Scorsese, who reinvented himself with this film by giving in to deeper emotion and empathy without being sentimental as the one Director of his generation as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and further Oliver Stone and David Lynch, who divided the emerging so called "New Hollywood" under themselves until it became clear at the beginning of this decade that cinema turns entirely digital by 2020.Director Martin Scorsese proves with "Hugo" that the magic shall be alive even in a realm of full digitization as this picture, even additionally supported by a Fusion 3D camera system under supervision of Academy-Award-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson, who stabilizes the director's vision translated from screenplay writing by John Logan, which misses no beats for motion picture entertainment on the highest level, where every shot had been carefully considered to be part of a 2-hour editorial by Thelma Schoonmaker that leaves no wishes open for audience members of any age."Hugo" surprisingly made its way through the years to be a pitch perfect example of how to use technology in times of confusions to make it a part of a creative process to come further out the restraint looks of lock-up-tables that no one seems to care anymore how color transcends in the viewer's eye to be the primary indicator of a visual perception. Here comes it all together, the highest budget given to Director Martin Scorsese managed by Producer Graham King and further passionate film supporters as actor Johnny Depp himself, sharing-in with an investment from selfly-owned production company Infinitum Nihil earned from the most expensive picture of them all "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011) in order to create the ultimate picture on the process of desperation in making films.Then later at the Oscars on February 26th 2012, it became clear from whispers through the ranks that again no other Director worked harder by digesting the given source material as the book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick, to receive a ringing in one's auditorium guest's ear, when the time came to hand-over the Best Director Award for an still retrospectively speaking, the most engaging year of a decade at the movies.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

oOoBarracuda Hugo was one of those cinematic experiences I occasionally have in which I feel a need to pen a letter of apology once it was finished. As a young cinephile just getting my feet wet in film, I did what I thought we all were supposed to do; worship at the altar of Martin Scorsese. During my second Film Studies class, I struck a deal with my professor where he let me complete a career retrospective in place of making a short film for my final project. I was thrilled that my professor agreed to this deal, as writing a 60-page paper seemed like less of a daunting undertaking than operating a camera. I knew I was going to pick Martin Scorsese before I knew if my professor was going to let this happen or not. With his help, I watched every film Scorsese ever made from Who's That Knocking at My Door to Shutter Island. Not only did I see all of his full-length features but I also saw a great deal of his shorts and documentaries. It was supposed to be a cathartic experience of me getting as close as possible to the director I loved until it wasn't. That's not to say I didn't enjoy and appreciate many of Scorsese's films--I did, but I also learned that his enormous contribution to cinema didn't necessitate him being my favorite director. It's unfortunate that this project was one year too early to have Hugo included because once this project was complete, I tended to shy away from Scorsese films that came after, for a spell anyway. I missed seeing Hugo in the theatre, how could I have known I would have loved it so much and it would have been about one of my favorite cinematic subjects? Georges Méliès was one of my first cinematic idols, and he remains one today, as I am finally completely healed from my tattoo immortalizing his iconic image of the moon with a rocket that landed on its eye. I even attempted my own version of a shot-by-shot re-imagining of A Trip to the Moon, achieved by painting 146 individual canvas screens photographed to appear as though they move; an intensive labor of love that has never seen the light of day. Georges Méliès life being portrayed on screen would have been enough to get me to a theatre had I not been in such a Scorsese burn-out that I never even bothered to read what his 2011 film was about when Hugo hit theatres. Starring Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, and Chloë Grace Moretz, Hugo is a brilliant spectacle that would make even the most devout skeptic believe in magic.Based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, Hugo follows an orphan boy who lives in the clock mechanism of the train station keeping the train clocks running so he can have a place to live undetected avoiding the orphanage. Still reeling from the death of his father, Hugo (Asa Butterfield) painstakingly works to repair an automaton (mechanical man) that his father instructed would only be complete with a unique key. Once Hugo finds the key, he will know what secret it contains and retrieves the last message his father sent him. While attempting to find the key, Hugo crosses paths with a shop owner Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley) who believes him to be a thief. When Hugo meets Georges' goddaughter, Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz) who is always looking for an adventure, Hugo learns that their paths were destined to cross in ways he could have never imagined.Hugo is one of the most beautiful films to look at that I have ever seen. Scorsese's outpouring of love to classic cinema and film preservation couldn't have tugged any harder on my heart strings if that had been the intention. Every single shot is gorgeous, capturing Scorsese's grand production design and exquisite colors. This is a film for us, for cinephiles, for the ones who don't feel the magic in any other setting than a dark theatre. Hugo is for the ones who dream in 16 millimeter and can't imagine a life without cinema. Hugo encompasses everything a cinephile feels in their heart when a film begins to roll, proving that "the movies are our special place."