The carrots are cooked

Well, no matter how well it is executed; the cinematography, the acting, everything, it still is a very thin and an empty story. French Philippe Petit wants to tightrope between the WTC twin towers and that's all there is to it. Sure enough, it's spiced as much as humanly possible, but in the end the vast majority of the drama and suspense and laughs had terribly constrained feel to it. Lots of the movies based on a true story battle with the same dilemma.

Not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution

I recently watched from TV the series where Ville Haapasalo - a Finnish actor who is enormously well-known in Russia - traveled the river Volga for 30 days. And I'm currently following his new series where he travels the Caribbean for, you guessed it, 30 days. Decided to take his first travel series from the library where he, by train, goes across the great nation of Russia (in 30 days). Besides being educative and funny, it's eye-opening in many ways.

Too strong to break up

I didn't play it all the way through. I left it before completing the so called final battle. I tried it a few times, but, as often, I didn't have the patience to try the same thing over and over again, so I retired. Satisfied with the, say, 95 % completion. Needless to say, I liked it.

The sad dog strategy

I like Will Ferrell, his persona and his take on humour. Without him, these comedies were sacks of shit.

Escapades are extremely bad idea

Not exactly the perfect husband and dad, Cam Stuart (Mark Ruffalo), he's a chain-smoking manic depressive, but gets the job done, more or less. A bit slow-burner, but one of those feel-good movies you can't be fucking bothered to criticize that much.

No frontiers left to conquer

The world is atomfucked, but botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) and his crew preserve trees and plants in their spacecrafts. Upon the orders to destroy the orchards for commercial purposes, Lowell gets mad angry and crafts some plans of his own. Finished in 1972, so obviously the scifi tech looks funky and silly, yet in the end that's the only thing you really want to see in this movie.

Humbug Street 6

It's a bit deranged and weird, but, damn, it's ultimately fucking funny. Probably the only Finnish comedy (consists of short stories) in the last decade that made me laugh. Great acting to boot.

Pope shits in the woods

If you hit-and-run a bigfoot, you better be prepared to deal with the consequences. In the Sasquatch land five Texan friends tread in dangerous waters and a cabin in the woods is a not a safe enough fortress. Clichéd horror shit.

Born for greatness

It was a bit surprising for me how little I knew of the greatest boxer of all time, Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali. Despite being an informative fucker, the documentary was great otherwise as well. At least, the people close to him (his children, manager, the rivals, Tom Jones, et al.) had their say, and, I reckon, he is loved by all.

Rap is no art

More or less an autobiographical take on NWA, a group of L.A. gangsta rappers from the late 80s to early 90s. I don't necessarily need to like the 'music' - which I don't - but I can see the importance what their rise to fame did to the freedom of speech in the particularly tumultuous times in California. In every other aspect, this is ridiculously overrated a movie.

From girls to women

Someone said it exceptionally well that this is 'soulless crap'.

Two is the perfect number

Romantic drama with a serious undertone or something of that nature. Fucklots away from my comfort zone, but the interesting cast was enough to give it a go. Russell Crowe is a reknowned author and a widowed father suffering from mental issues and custody battle. So, yes, emotional bullshit written all over it.

Ghosts are real

Guillermo de Toro paints a splendid motion picture. Crimson Peak is Gothic horror with utterly colourful visualization and the wardrobe department is funky as hell, but story is a bit of a shallow and boring kind.

Heart skips a beat

Bit of a leeway the last two episodes but otherwise outstanding British crime drama. Petty drug dealers opt to try out their talent in kidnapping business and things go fucking sour.

Stay human

If there is an average zombie movie, it's this fucker right here. Except for new ways to kill the living dead, it's trademark rubbish. Based on a video game.

Light of the moon

1944. Poland is preparing for uprising against its German invaders. A Polish film and even though it seems somewhat budget-limited in general terms, it has some utterly powerful scenes that boosts its character and the craziness of war is well brought out.

This ain't fucking playstation

Major Thomas Egan (Ethan Hawke) is a soldier in Las Vegas, Nevada, operating a drone that bombs Talebans in Afghanistan to kingdom come. He's a pilot, but he's not flying. Probably not the most exciting way of warfare, but he gets to job done, and then some. The absurdity of the fairly new way of combat and the collateral damage within are the reasons why the major is feeling unwell. It's a though-provoking piece, but not powerfully enough executed.

The ladder to success

Three bright students try to make do in Inglewood, California, where life revolves around drugs and gang violence. They unwillingly get involved with the bad guys, so end up from one adventure to another eventually finding the whole shit enticing and lucrative. I reckon it was well received, the movie, I barely made it through.

All become green

Young prosecutor finds out that Auschwitz wasn't an amusement park and Dr. Josef Mengele was one of the sickest motherfuckers ever faced the earth. It all comes news to him, it's the late 50s, the scars haven't been healed in Germany, albeit being a sensitive subject he intends to imprison all the former members of the nazi party still walking free. Based on the 1963 'Auschwitz Trial', so at least it was somewhat eye-opening the whole thing.

Bumper to bumber on the Hillary Steps

Based on a true story (1996 Mount Everest disaster) where eight people lost their lives. I already read that the dramatization is total bull, but can't be surprised. This is your next Hollywood catastrophe popcorn with major stars, but, as often, it has so little to offer otherwise.

Death waits no man

Didn't make as strong an impact as the previous two seasons. For one, they introduced us to lots of new characters who, I'm afraid, were portrayed by actors who struggled with their profession. Also, the season was infested with surprisingly idle moments and rather useless sidestories (i.e. Gods on earth) and zigzagging in between Kattegat, Wessex and Paris was perhaps too adventurous and audacious.