Monday, October 29, 2012

Some people deserve to die

They brought the cast of Russell Crowe, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henriksen and Gary Sinise to a western movie set with no other purpose than to play a prolonged gunfight. Sharon Stone's acting was so bad that it was pure comedy.

Make the night as bright as day, and burn, baby, burn!

Well, it looked wonderful, the visuals were alright, I'll give 'em that, but that's it, it ends there, can't for the fuck of it think anything else, I've forgotten everything already.

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Remove the head or destroy the brain

Like just about everyone knows, a sort of movie that has funny shit and zombies. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright haven't done much wrong.

Your habits become your character

To speak the truth, the only intest I had for this was Meryl Streep's performance because it had been praised to hell and back. Early on, it was clear that she does alright, but the movie still is a boring fucker.

Friday, October 26, 2012

That shit eating grin

Was a bit of a fuck, this. There's a quasi-storyline, but nothing's happening. Depicted a small American town in the early Eighties, coulda been the Nineties, present day, whatever, but I put two and two together because they kept yapping about the Falklands War and I'm so fucking clever. Now, I just have to find out what exactly U.S. had to do with the Falklands War - I had thought nothing, but apparently they won that battle too.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Can't throw a disco party

A documentary of a punk band that consists solely of mentally disabled people. Thoughtful and eye-opening Finnish movie that hopefully gets a strong worldwide promotion.

Strange phenomena as unnatural things alive or dead

Wow. Gigantic manslaughtering sugar-thieving mutant ants caused by lingering radioactive by the first atomic bomb have gone absolutely mental! A tough nut to crack to a team of local police, army intelligence, FBI and scientists.

Beware of the dwarf

It still is quite a good comic crime movie and it depicts the spirits of the times (San Francisco, late 70s) quite nicely, but I don't like the slapstick kind of humour that funny.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

We rode along in silence

A hoot. Story of two mercenary brothers on their journey to California to execute a hired kill. Full of rich characters and even if it’s violent, it’s funny in a weird way. Echoes of Charler Portis’s True Grit, deadpan humour of Richard Brautigan stories, Deadwood TV-series and a little Elmore Leonard for good measure. And not only Patrick deWitt is good with words, The Sisters Brothers was a splendid package, I truly fucken love its cover and the font it was printed was really really good on the eye.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho

It was a bit long, something like three hours, so it drivelled some, but otherwise a funky adventure.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

The reds go marching on on on

Based on a true story. A plane carrying a team of Manchester United players crashes in Munich, Germany, in 1958, resulting in a total of 23 fatalities with 21 survivors. It's a BBC production at its best, everything looks authentic, story is wrapped engagingly and the cast of mostly British young stars do fucken alrite.

The axeman cometh

A remake of the '79 original and about as unneeded as it can get. Ryan Reynolds tries to act a man possessed and it's quite funny.

Devil has many disguises

So bad that it's just horribly bad. Like many of its peers, horror b-shits, it didn't even amuse me. Well, maybe Jouko Ahola's acting as the captain of the team of elite soldiers and - spoiler alert - later as a zombie was pretty hilarious. In his favour though, everyone involved in this movie should start looking for another job.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Who stand for nothing fail for anything

Hamilton is a hard-ass Swedish killing machine who eats James Bonds and Jason Bournes for breakfast. Another movie based on Jan Guillou's excellent novels and yet another actor performing the agent's role and Mikael Persbrandt fits the part and I quite fucken liked the action of the film too.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The last day of extermination

A real triumph of acting, writing and utmost stupidity. A strong contestant of the worst movie of the years award.

Nugget of shiny silver

Time and time again Jeffery Deaver brings forth a book and proves he's the thriller author bar none.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Never fucking lose

Probably this is the bloodiest, filthiest and pornographic television production of all time, but at the same time it’s utterly beautiful and compelling on its own right. I guess I didn’t quite like Dustin Glare (Gannicus) as much as I liked Andy Whitfield (Spartacus) as the leading gladiator, but still, this series is really something else.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Flossers die

If this had nothing to do with the '82 original, I guess I wouldn't mind, but attached with its name already this prequal has quite nothing of its own, it's just terribly piss poor in many ways. The thing, the creature from outer space, is unintendedly funny and actors are shite.

Monday, October 08, 2012

Inferno in Rock Avalance

Restrepo is very much similar to Armadillo, the latter though had a storyline whereas Restrepo is a but a cluster of unanswered questions. Americans fighting in Afghanistan, sure, there's that, but what the hell were the guys doing there, but kill and get themselves killed? This kind of documentary of crazy war needs some sort of cohesive structure, otherwise it's a clusterfuck.

Saturday, October 06, 2012

Crying for common man

Wow, wasn't this a fucken fiasco or what. I'd loose my mind unwinding the fuckery of all this. So, quickly, just a few points. The fighting scenes were awfully shot and choreographed. Medieval clichés were bludgeoned from right to left. There was a romantic subplot and it's the reason I have nightmares for the rest of my life. Paul Giamatti was terribly mistcast, with a weird hairdo. James Purefoy and Kate Mara and Aneurin Barnard plus the supporting actors were all very horrible and incredibly bad. Plain shit. Ironclad is a fuckturd.

Friday, October 05, 2012

Depth of loyalty we seem unworthy of

Animals are cute and usually movies based solely on some creature's comings and goings are fucking lovely. The dog in Red Dog is alright, but what stroke me is that I didn't find the Aussie humour that funny and the somewhat similar Hachi: A Dog's Tale was more emotional as a film.

Fuck all to lose and everything to gain

A biobic of Ozzy. There's the Sabbath years and the post-Sabbath years and we all were constantly reminded he drank and used drugs a lot. Stories of the pigeons and the bats and whatnot, it's all there.

Beating the crap out of everybody is the best solution

Paul Giamatti yet again in another easily forgettable drama. Standmark decent.

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Kill all captives

Clocking in 2 hours and 22 minutes, it's a bit heavy-handed, even with the subject as tough as the Rape of Nanking. It wasn't bad, but it driveled particularly the midway of the movie. If you don't know the story, what happened in the Chinese capital of Nanking in 1937, read about it somewhere and shit yourself with horror and disgust.

Pick the right weapon

No proper story to speak of, bobbies hunting a cop killer in the London suburbs and one utterly meaningless sub plot. Jason Statham as Jason Statham.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Devil's torture chamber

Deliciously rubbish comic horror. Awfully cool and uncool. A fucken bore most of the times, but alright in the alright parts. A remake of the 1985 original.

When I was born they screamed

Peter's parents aren't what they seem, they've a sinister secret no-one knows about. Cobweb is not a desperately bad a horror fl...