Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Nightmares end
The fifth season of Walking Dead. I'm following it like everyone else. And it was a very good season. I have to catch up the last episode again. I watched it yesterday, but I was drunk on wine and today I realized I remember only bits (if that) of it.
Laughter is poison to fear
I don't know what's wrong with me because I've overwhelming difficulties following and understanding this series. I'm constantly confused. Yet, hell, it's still near fucking awesome.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Some semblance of hope
It really is not more than a simple vigilante thing. People have done John Wick (Keanu Reeves) wrong and he gets his revenge. Reminds me of Death Sentence where Kevin Bacon put people out of their misery. At best reads like a western or a martial arts movie. And stands out because of the subtle little laughs.
People disappear worldwide
These are the best. You think that you have seen the silliest and shitties movies of Hollywood, but the reality pulls you back in. Nicolas Cage as a fish in the water.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
It's called war
Well, I couldn't stand the actors. None (Brad Pitt, Shia LeBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, John Pernthal) of them. The characters were portrayed like macho yankee imbeciles that you wished were soon slaughtered by the nazis. I'm sure the real veterans - alive or dead - shudder with disgust when they see the performances. Shame, otherwise - on technical aspects - it could have been alright.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Her kiss is a promise of paradise
The second of the Sin City movie series, it's rather groovy. Shitloads of graphic violence and plethora of high profile actors make it and their wicked characters interesting.
Lots of scars, but all the others are dead
This was praised to hell and back because Nicolas Cage's character isn't his usual character. And he does well, Nicolas, and it ain't that bad a movie either. Somewhere in the U.S. hillbilly lands, people are greedy for dogs, prostitutes and other simple things in life.
Monday, March 23, 2015
Sin to survive
Poor little Polish immigrant gets screwed around in the 1920s New York. And then there are two cousins, dodgy entertainers, making do in the time of prohibition. The well-known actors (Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner) try their dearest, but the story goes nowhere.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Left to die
Dirty and blazing hot Australian outlands. Characters are driven by violence and bestial insanity. People eat dogs for breakfast and times are miserable. Robert Pattison as particularly retarded.
Ingvar was not a drug addict
I loved this to death. Really brutal story with gangs and drugs and assassins and mafia shit, but ridden with incredibly subtle black humour that cracked me up a million times.
Death is not always the end
A chemist wants his wife dead and things - horrifying things - are taking place in the local morgue. Comes with the traditional scares, but this sure is quite an excellent Spanish film.
Unexpectedly like a phantom
There's a point in Jim Jarmusch's vampire movie where the undead indulge in fine arts such as music and literature. It's a bit different than what you normally get. Of more atmospheric and sophisticated nature.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The moment seizes us
Boyhood is a coming-of-age story. It's built smoothly and patiently. Even if nothing ever too drastic or something of overly controversial nature happened, them almost three hours just flew away in an instant. And hey, if it took 13 fucking years for the film makers (and the lead cast) to finish the project I can take the hours just fine.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Deimos is a little piece of crap
So enjoyable. And catching. An American astronaut gets stranded in the planet Mars and a struggle for survival begins. I was hooked immediately and I contemplated that it won't take long until they make a movie of the fucking thing. And, sure enough, I read the news of Ridley Scott directing and Matt Damon starring. Saving Astronaut Mark Watney.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Poppy and Violet
An early 70s piece of shadowy meat industry. Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin as hard-headed gangsters and young Sissy Spacek as beautiful and sweet as they came. Sparks are flying.
Goddamn stabbing in Corona
Jake Gyllenhaal is a lone creep who makes news videos of tragic accidents and violent deaths. And the profession gets under his skin in murderously passionate manner. This was a cool movie, not only because of the brilliantly shot images of the city of Los Angeles.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
A surfer with perfect vision
A romantic comedy a.k.a. romcom. Now that's the genre I feel the most uncomfortable with. I convulse already when I see the title The One I Love written. But anyways, this story involves - beside the wishy-washy romance - a guest house which comes from another dimension, so it's kind of intriguing.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Circle in cinnamon stew
I took this just for laughs. And laughed I did. I mean, it goes beyond my comprehension is it even possible to make such amazingly repulsive piece of shit. The Legend of Hercules's stupidity is something else. Easily one of the worst movies ever made.
Sunday, March 08, 2015
We are outraged and we are fighting back
The Purge follow-up. A group of people try to survive the night of legal annihilation. It's as silly as it was last time. A bubblegum thriller that you chew and throw away.
When things go sideways
I understand why Transcendence got such a bad rep. Computer nerds and other knuckleheads laugh at it's expense, I'm sure. And, yes, it's ridiculous on number of ways, it compares well with After Earth and Happening and other bona fide flops. But apart from the last 30 minutes that were pure comedy, it was kind of captivating.
Sodomized by angry clown
One of the last movies Robin Williams ever did. And that's the only reason why I bothered. Too bad it shows that he really isn't there, his mind occupied on other issues. Can't blame him, it's a shit movie. Sad though.
Friday, March 06, 2015
Long bad hair and greasy skin full of acne
A remake of the 1980 William Lustig original. I could recollect only quick flashbacks of the original one, but here Elijah Wood plays a little lunatic who goes around killing and scalping beautiful young women. A tad pointless, but a decent enough ride on the 80s stalker movie nostalgia.
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
The dust have come to stay
They don't make these kinds of drama movies any longer, do they? It's slow-moving as shit, but absorbing and enticing as hell.
Monday, March 02, 2015
Race against the dying of the light
For his age, Robert Duvall is in fine form and is as convincing in his artistry as he ever was. But, shit, why is he keeping his career aflame with this kind of utter fucking nonsense?
Sweet tooth monkeys
A very good movie. A hair-raising cat-and-mouse game between Palestinian friends and Israeli Gestapo. I've rarely seen this kind of shit and, truly, it must be hell living in that kind of political and religious persecution. In addition to the concrete and stone jungles these poor bastards have to live in.
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