Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Never stop looking for what is not there
A more than mundane feel-good movie and it's irritatingly syrupy, yet you have trouble admitting yourself that you quite enjoyed spending time with it.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
I was in the fucking room
What I understood of this horror movie is that there's this boogeyman freak called Hollowman who terrorizes families in two countries. My grasp on it ends there. Eventually the story is tuned into a twist, but it fails to explain anything thoroughly. I'm not bothered to find out the explanation to the hints and clues and secrets because fundamentally the movie is plain shit.
Monday, January 28, 2013
The sea was angry that day, my friends
An Italian movie. Haven't seen much Italian movies and I'm beginning to understand why. Taking the easy way out with the generalization, but don't reckon this deserves much more thought.
Love reaches beyond the dark shadow of death
Trademark film-noir where a murder mystery unravels little by little. Just quite awesome and I gotta find and watch more these kind of pictures.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
There are many forms of immortality
What else is there but to like it really? It's a Christopher Nolan blockbuster, the buster of blocks, it's big, fucklots of stuff is happening, things explode, everything is wild and crazy. Entertaining, yes. It still ain't overly violent, dark or scary and the problem lies therein.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The sick are already dead
Great. A plague has eaten the world alive and people are dying extinct, but all the downright stupid ones seem to be immune.
Flying solo ain't for sidekicks
It's well executed high-octane action, I'll give them that, but it's very exaggerative, everything falls quite too neatly into places, and then there's Mark Walberg.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Cling to a crock of shit
These kind of dramas with no stars to speak of don't do much at the box office, they are made straight to DVD anyways and never reach the audience they deserve. And it is a shame. Wonderful actors, well written shit, entertaining as fuck.
There is a storm coming
Curtis (excellent Michael Shannon) fears he's losing his marbles or foreseeing the world is coming to its end. Popping pills and building a tornado shelter just might come into rescue. Quite frankly, one of the best movies I have seen for a good while.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Like an arrow from Alcatraz
Basically, a story of a can of ravioli. In truth however, it’s a documentary of working people in factories, slaughter houses, fields and what-not. It's rather bleak, has a whole lot of nothing and by leaving too many unanswered questions it's an uninteresting film.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Half human makes a stronger god
It's all very amusing to see few A list actors humiliating themselves wearing robes, holding spears, spewing thunder and playing gods. Yes, of course they are there getting their paycheck, but still. Danny Huston as Poseidon, Liam Neeson as Zeus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades, Bill Nighy as Hephaestus and Sam Worthington as himself because he can't act.
The life in your years
A cheapo B movie, but the film makers unbridled enthusiasm is noticeably captured and this is easily one of the best movies I've seen thus far this year. Currently there's an unbelievable 3,0 points in the IMDB scale - don't know what's going on.
Shit
Yet another Steven Soderbergh mess. I've said a number of times that he can't direct a movie if he was standing on one. This one - like many of its peers - is pointless, hard to follow and desperately tries to be original and artistic. The story in short, a kung fu super chick assassin or agent of some kind hits and kicks men to their death. Laughable.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction
Loads and loads of self-irony and intelligent offbeat comedy with Ricky Gervais, the funniest man alive.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Trite and jaded
Fuckloads of glitter, and nothing else. It's not funny or engaging, it's rock'n'roll as Hollywood sees it (Def Leppard played at the premiere).
Polar fucks
Slow-witted Swedish soldiers and one Finnish supertrooper lost on a full-blown war in Lappish wilderness in WWII. Härregud.
Demons in the attic
“I am not a member of the human race (not an earthling)”, so it is written in document with a gold seal, undersigned Roky Erickson. In this world or the next, his life was (and still is?) greatly demonized by LSD, heroin and pot, schizopheria, crazy mother, maximum security mental hospital and quite extraordinary psychedelic rock. Love these documentaries of rock’n’roll’s weird and eccentric geniuses.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Exclusively on talkies
Gotta give it to their efforts, they made something out of it. But having said that, thankfully I'm not a critic and pretend loving it to death.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
A thunder cookie
This was a fun adventurous ride of sort. Not a serious film by any means and maybe that's why it was cool to watch such a crazy jungle island story for a change and it has people like Luis Guzmán and Michael Caine.
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
A good idea is a good idea forever
Now is there anything better? Anything funnier? As good a comedy as, say, Big Lebowski, Seinfeld, Dr. Stranglelove and Monthy Python, better sometimes.
This lonely view
It took me years and years to read it through. I always started it and it was always fucken good, but somehow - as I always do - I moved on to read something else. Every now and then I came back to this and started reading it from the beginning again. It's a marvel, one of the greatest telltale novels of rock'n'roll.
Monday, January 07, 2013
Big things has small beginnings
A style over substance -science fiction fairytale of gigantic proportions or just plain shite futuristic mumbo jumbo riding the Alien coattails. Don't know. But yea, particularly at the beginning there were some good bits, so it was not all bad.
Sunday, January 06, 2013
Nickel and dime
Intense thriller that Depp and Walken make it look even better. The story is preposterous and full of gaping holes, but that's alright.
Then you can die you scumbag
A brilliant depiction of the early 70s New York City and Al Pacino does a magnificent role as an untouchable and constantly outfit-changing cop. Unfortunately, there is ever so little happening throughout the picture.
Saturday, January 05, 2013
Don't cross the duke
Wasn't that good any more, or maybe it was, I don't know, I was too busy following Kurt Russell's piss-poor acting.
Thursday, January 03, 2013
The first kid on the block to get a confirmed kill
Sometimes this is the best war movie there is, sometimes it ain't, it sure as hell is different and it's a timeless piece, a classic if you may, and the one-liners go a long way. A good fucken novel - Gustav Hasford's The Short Timers - too if I remember it correctly
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