Saturday, December 28, 2013

Fireworks in kebab stands

I think Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the best football player in the world right now, just inches better than Luis Suarez, but easily over Messi and Ronaldo and Ribéry what have you. What he does with the ball is oftentimes beyond understanding. The others are great football players and they play like educated well-oiled machines, whereas Zlatan is otherwordly. So I read the book.

The man in svart

These "new" Wallanders get such bad reviews, but I haven't really read why exactly. I sure as hell fucking like them. Easy-going crime shit and Krister Henriksson is as cool in the title role as the rest of them Wallander cats.

Kiss me you dirty cunt

Jesus, this was cool. And people think it doesn't pay enough homege to the original. Who gives a shit. It was bloody, creepy and funny. One of the best movies of the year.

Too smart for your own good.

Quite alrite, this. Basically it has three movies within a one single movie, three different leads and all that. Very nicely done. Ryan Gosling continues where he left of with Drive, almost exactly the same character, but he does it well, even though I have never considered him as a marvellous as an actor everyone else thinks he is. I liked the laid-back attitude, the silent parts, in this movie a lot.

The god of war and warriors

Well, shit. Amazing. Best fucking TV I have seen for a while. It's better than Lilyhammer and Hannibal that I'm currently following and it's better than Game Of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire and True Blood. Shit, it's the best fucking TV in decades. Loved every minute.

Condemned to repeat itself time and time again

I'm up to here with these horror movies where the scary children are the shit.

Cook with clairvoyant abilities

Once again, I don't understand all the rave reviews because I found this bloody awful. Teenage sci-fi/horror for those who watch this kind of garbage.

Desperate to mingle

At times this was excruciatingly funny, just over-the-top fucking comedy, but the anarchistic controversial mode was on ever so rarely. The akward and clumsy Brit in the States bit it is kind of died out. 

Country heroes

I was about to say this is one of the shittiest pictures of the year and in a way it is, but can't escape the notion that many people find this bold and courageous and funny. I guess I just have a shit taste.

Everyone is a potential murderer

The way it should be. A goddamn simple story of two people swapping murders and that's all there is to it. The great ones don't need much to make a story frightening and interesting.

Keep it simple

It's either high self-esteem or shameless egoism, probably both, when this Finnish ice hockey couch speaks of his career. Either way it was an ok read, of course it's a one-sided truth, but you wouldn't expect any less from an autobiography.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

What Lies Beneath

 
I'll probably keep on watching this. When the time is right. It didn't blow minds or anything, but twisted enough little fucker to keep me interested. Having said that, it tried too hard in being of the twisted and controversial nature, so sometimes it made it look like a cunt.

The best man in the country on madness

Michael Caine hunts down the notorious serial killer Jack The Ripper. He's pretty good, as it pretty much everything in this late 80s TV series. All these contemporary shits they are producing these days have lots to learn. You don't need two hundred characters within a series and sidestories of sidestories. Less is more.

Cock your pistols

Another classic that I picked up because I hadn't seen it before. I guess it lasted days, this Stanley Kubrick's costume drama, but I guess it was worth it. Or then, it wasn't. I don't know.

A pattern of insubordinate behavior

I dare to admit I didn't understand it all. I left my concentration waver a bit there. Sometimes there were too many Cruises in my comfort zone, but I guess I'll see it again sometime in the future. The movie it looked awfully nice.

See you in the morning light

One of those classic films that I had not seen before but was oftentimes recommended to me. And you know what, as often, it was very fucking good, but not spellbindingly good. Somehow you have too much fucking expectations.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Ominous music playing

Hasn't got much recognition, but this is exactly my kind of a movie. Great actors, greatly written dialogue and cool as hell gangster shit.

Shadows walk in foggy mountains

They say that it's one of the most important movies of the Sixties. I don't know. What is an important movie? It was alright, but it didn't extinguish the house that was on fire the other day.

Zeitgeist paranoia

Cheapo semi-horror. You can wipe your ass with the best British horror in years comment.

Totally funkless

A feel-good-movie. I like them. Innocent yet more-than-average intellectual fun. Funny and so much fucken enjoyable. Had me there.

Fucked without bacon

Rides the based-on-a-true-story fuckadoo. Without it, I might have nodded and said an alright little movie, but if half of this is true I'll shit on someone else's pants. If someone hollers it is true, and it actually is true, people are stupid and they are not allowed to live.

Lost paradise

Amazing documentary. Three children get killed and three teenagers are caught as suspects and nothing can stop the lynch mob. It makes you wonder how many real murders walk scot-free because of the U.S. justice system. And how many blatantly innocents have been ridiculed, spat on and killed for absolutely nothing.

Outcast before birth

A weird case of stolen identity. It's fucking absurd to begin with. This Texan-born boy goes missing and a French boy living in Spain sees his chance of taking his place and everyone fucking buys it. The family, friends and teachers, fucking everyone. A good movie, well worth the watch, I only wish they'd dug up what really happened to the original missing child, the assumptions weren't quite enough.

Life is a short hand game

Matti Ijäs has done some remarkable pieces, but this one is forgotten easily. There's nothing to grab hold of, acting is something you'd expect to see at some random school play and dialogue is beyond normal talk. It's a shame really because you can tell that the novel the movie is based on is amazing.

Like wounded wolves at bay

Played this fucker through because I had too much time on my hands. Coulda done something else. But I didn't. There's not much you can do about it.

Quo, Motörhead, Saxon

Funnier than Spinal Tap fo' sho.

A good death is its own reward

I liked this. Too long, too much high-tech, too much action and too much special effects, but other than that, I liked what I saw. Henry Cahill, despite everything that's been said, is alright as the Superdude. As is, Michael Shannon as his nemesis. Russell Crowe is somewhat out of his character as S's father, but that's no biggie.

The 13th wave

Thor Heyerdahl and his buddies build a non-motored draft and sail across the Pacific. Quite the type of an adventure as you'd expect w/ sharks and whales and storms and sumthin.

Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Claws like Ginsu knives

Done with deliciously bad taste. People (Henry Rollins included) stuck in a roadside tavern down in desert canyon surrounded by disgusting slimy creatures. Fine trash horror, like hillbilly Alien.

Memoirs of a moron

Robert de Niro as delusional author, taxi driver (!) and a hobo. A movie of poverty, depression and homelessness. Above average.

Floating sorrows

A two-episode TV drama written by Paul Abbott (Clocking Off, State Of Play, Cracker et al.). Squeezed into a movie, in 90 minutes thereabouts, this would have been quite alrite instead of just decent.

An early war paint scheme

An Aryan family flees from Allied Forces in WWII. The parents apparently are hardcore nazis and they leave the children of five to make do alone. The little ones wander through the countryside and struggle for survival as the horrors of the nazi regime unravel.

Rotten ass attitude

A bit naive and rough around the corners, but 80s cop-slasher movies are the shit.

Things don't get better here

Petty thugs in Queens, NY, sometime in the 80s, or 90s, I don't know, something like that. One of those coming-of-age -stories you've seen in thousands.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Corpses don't bleed

Probably first timer on couple of issues. Zombies fall in love with humans (vice versa, too) and they recuparate (with luck, they turn back into humans). Quite blasphemous to violate these unwritten laws some would holler. But anyways, the movie was better than I expected.

The dogs are coming

A hijack where nothing happened - no-one was hurt and no bombs or shots fired - I don't think would have deserved a movie. There's absolutely no story to speak of, no twist of any kind, not anything.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

I believe it's insured and other insults

A fucking Die Hard on White House. One of the most pathetic movies I have seen for a while. For the shit-for-brains only.

Freeze-dried and bronzed

Better than I expected. I can fathom Mark Wahlberg's acting in movies like this, he can manage these not so serious roles. And the movie is a funny little piece itself, so infantile and over the top that it stuck to me.

So full of wonders

Quite interesting. Two worlds (one up, one down), different gravities, one gigantic sky scraper in between and one love story that holds no barriers. Starring Kirsten Dunst and Jim Sturgess.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Feed them cocaine

So amazingly not-funny.

Hard to imagine a future

I gave up hope on Steven Soderberg after Out Of Sight (1998), but this was a glimpse for better future. Not entirely flawless, but damn exciting psychological thriller.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Harold and Lloyd

Finnish eccentric hippie builds a habitable truck basically from a scratch. And we follow the process. I didn't like the car parts, but the sceneries and the niceties of the people in Northern America struck gold.

We are at the beach

One of the saddest tragedies in human history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, left me speechless. Reminiscing the days by watching this movie did the same. Despite the emotions, I really liked the movie.

Saturday, November 09, 2013

How do you evaluate the risk of not doing something

Fucklots better than the current 7,4 points on IMDB. I admit though. I was biased the first 30 minutes in that will it hold the whole 2,5 hours. The first hour or so it was kind of tough and confusing, couldn't really concur what the fuck was going on, but thankfully it took shape a little further on. The last hour was great, focusing on the greatest manhunt this world have ever witnessed.

Friday, November 08, 2013

Sunday, November 03, 2013

Some of us just came back

I kept watching and finished the movie only because all these great actors (Chris Cooper, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliot, Richard Jenkins, Brendan Gleeson) kept gradually popping up. Otherwise, it's a crap movie. Quite like Shia LaBeouf.

Beaten, raped, burned for being witches

It was funny to shoot zombies in the head. Unfortunately, that was the only thing. Wasn't interested in the story.

God is a vampire

I was very disappointed during the first few episodes. The show became its worst enemy, everything was askew, millions of characters more weirder than the next. But fortunately, things picked off, they simplified the story some and only the strong survived.

Within and without

Story of a flamboyant Gatsby. The title role is performed by Leonardo DiCaprio and he's good enough, but otherwise utter waste of time.

Not foaming at the mouth

Dominic Cooper as Saddam Hussein's son Usain and his body double (aka Devil's Double). Based on a true story and all that shit. Sure enough, Usain was a cunt, but I think the only thing that is real in this movie is the actual Gulf War footage.

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...