Friday, August 31, 2012

A milk run

Some of the footage in Ghost Protocol is deliciously hair-raising, but lots of action sequences are utterly useless, just technical show-off. Harmless turd, kind of a trademark thing, but still.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off

Yes Minister on cocaine. Yet again, one of those television shows I knew I'd relish, but somehow for years I've put off actually watching the series. Well, the first season made my day. Intellectual political satire with vehement, outrageously funny and vulgar dialogue. Really really good.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Monkeys make you hungry

What have I done for I've been hidden from Gold of the Amazon Women for thirty years?

Wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, magicians

I never actually doubted it, but I was a little wary could Martin Scorsese master other than tough guy pictures. Hugo is fascinating. Visual. Epic. Wonderfully acted. Quite spellbinding fun.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

I eat death for breakfast

During this movie I had time to think since it didn't exactly grab my attention. I thought that even if I absolutely love horror movies I don't think that in recent years I have seen a contemporary horror movie worth a fuck. Apart from some pseudo-horrors (Dead Snow, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil and Troll Hunter), my mind draws blank. Where are the Rosemary's Babies, Exorcists and Omens of today? This Wes Craven piece definitely ain't one.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Clock-punchers are easily replaceable

Well, pick up a rock and throw it at some random teenager and, there, he/she will write better comedy.

Live you fucking whore

Excessive violence and groundbreaking brutality in this zero-budget nonsense. Luckily, I had forgotten half of the movie before the welcoming end credits.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Wild at heart and weird on top

David Lynch musings and tirade for transcendental medication. A quick read, fairly interesting, probably a fucken must for whole lots of people.

Monday, August 20, 2012

The sound of sweet surrender

Well, I'm stupid, so I don't make much of these kind of movies where nothing really seems to be happening, but the slow-moving scenes, some would say, still are fucken powerful and magical. Gripping, even.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

One day we're going to run out

Season 2 of An Idiot Abroad where Karl Pilkington acts a tad idiotic than he actually is. Or the hell do I know. Pretty cool television though, enjoyed it more than I guess I should have.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The nights got so damned cold

Though having read, say, a dozen novels of this famous Finnish author, I am not much of a fan. As a matter of fact, I don't consider him being much of a writer. A decent story teller, at best.

Monday, August 13, 2012

You motherfucker you

I realized I like Casino more than I like GoodFellas and how much I miss seeing Joe Pesci in movies.

Friday, August 10, 2012

Rich people go to Rio

I purchased this DVD solely because of the cover. Young Kim Basinger in spandex. All the rest is rubbish

Arsenal running dry

Maybe I liked this, maybe I didn't, maybe I need an ADHD shot after I saw this, I don't know. It was fast-moving, bit messy, funny in burlesque kind of way.

Thursday, August 09, 2012

Cowards die many times before their deaths

And now we just patiently wait Hollywood to make its own version of Special Forces where elite soldiers rescue hostages and kill bad Taleban fuckers to hell. These French selfisly used all the clichés already, but that hasn't stopped you before.

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Cemetaries and water are safe bets

It seems I change my opinions as often as my socks since I saw this piece a few years ago and I semi-liked it. Now, on the other hand, I could't stand the movie. Kevin Costner did his usual average style, William Hurt couldn't stand out, and people like Demi Moore and Dane Cook sent shiver down my spine every time I saw them. The story is rather ludicrous, too.

Smugness is not a good quality

My favourite Seinfeld regulars David Puddy (Patrick Warburton) and J. Peterman (John O'Hurley) make their entrance and having said that, make the others look better too.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Once more into the fray

Apparently no one cares if a plane carrying dozens of oil workers crashes down in Northern America. There's no rescue operation of any kind expected and then there are these wolves that hunt down humans for fun. They are special wolves. They are bigger and meaner and they are intelligent. Tough shit.

In need of a jackal

One of 'em post-9/11 witchhunts. Watchable, but without a little twist at the end, not much of a case for a movie.

Monday, August 06, 2012

Comfort to the enemy

Well, they made quite a mess with an Elmore Leonard story. There are the typical wacky characters, but this time 'round dialogue is baffled, humour is far from funny and Joseph Gordon-Lewitt or his character is trying to be too flashy with his non-existent charisma.

Poker is 100% skill and 50% luck

This has potential for decent comedy, but what it really is but a mishap in Steve Buscemi's career.

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Integrity is something you sell the public

Back in the mid Eighties I guess I watched this movie once a week or something, just for the sake of the famous car chase scene, I was so hooked up to it. Now, a few decades later, the car chase scene is still the best driving scene there is, but otherwise there's a whole lot of silent scenes which, depending on the mood, are either masterfully engaging or wholefuckedly boring.

All this and more

A stand-up comedian struggles to co-parent his autistic son. A simple story, seen many times before, but solid and entertaining little flick...