Saturday, February 02, 2013

Crocodile runs like a horse

An old-school slasher movie by Tobe Hooper. To be perfectly honest, it was a bit too outdated sicko shit, even for me.

One guy in a unitard

I kinda liked this even if it was big, mainstream kind of big. Of course it was child friendly and all, nothing too devious or murky, but just funny and entertaining enough. And Andrew Garfield did ok.

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

Sandman keeps on walking

Entertaining, electrifying and visually wicked cowboys and samurai ninjas picture.

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

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Chasing shadows

Not saying Daniel Radcliffe did terribly wrong here, but had he been replaced by some unfamiliar face this old-school horror film would have been on a whole different level. Fronted by the marvellously famous Harry Potter superstar kinda takes the scares away.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Victory or death

A story of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. He was an exceptional war tactic and he was one of the few people in Nazi Germany who had the courage to stand against Adolf Hitler. And ultimately that led to his demise. Anyways, James Mason makes a brilliant role here and the film's quite good too.

Beyond the point of forgiveness

Well fucken good. It - god help us - has Shia LaBeouf, but even he couldn't ruin this movie, only the scenes he was involved in. There should be a law that forbids him from acting. Was it Lars von Trier's movie he's going to fuck up next?

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Bughuul eats children

I hate it when the central character is made out to be stupid. This one here (played by Ethan Hawke) talks to himself as if to explain the audience what he's thinking and he prefers walking around in the dark instead of turning on the light. But otherwise, minus the supernatural mumbo-jumbo, this is a creepy enough serial killer movie.

Mortified and stupefied

The last Seinfeld season. And now I just wait for how long does it take until I just gotta start watching the series again. Like I have stated before, best show on television.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Perpetual black terror

Had the makings of a proper traditional horror film - the set-up of an isolated orphan school in the English countryside in 1921 was right on the money - but it really offered nothing but a confusing attempt to combine The Others and The Sixth Sense. Listening to Jean Sibelius's Finlandia during one of the last scenes of the film was the most remarkable thing of them all.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Suspect the worst of everyone

Despicable little piece of unfunny shit. I don't get why it seems to be getting such great reviews pretty much everywhere. It wasn't hilarious, wasn't tragic, wasn't particularly well acted (someone shouted Oscar nominations for fuck's sake). Rubbish, it was.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Smells of lots of fucking bullets

If the story wasn't ultimately piss-poor stupid and ridiculous, this would be one of the coolest revenge films. Kevin Bacon as the vigilante. 

Sunday, December 09, 2012

Everyone else is everyone else

Damn decent this, but compared to some other well known movies of WWII concentration camps it doesn't send shivers down your spine. The emotion is lukewarm, at best.

Saturday, December 08, 2012

All that glitters is gold

Three guitarists Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Edge (U2) and Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs) talk about their instrumental history. The film is in its most interesting and original phase only when the musicians share the same stage together talking and strumming, but unfortunately that happens ever too rarely because I'd watch that for hours on end. Individually, they aren't directed interestingly.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you find anything

Four buddies´picnic trip takes a turn for a worse.

Friday, December 07, 2012

Bearfucker, do you need assistance?

A cult cop comedy if there ever is one. Oftentimes misunderstood, but it's only pseudo-moronic.

Deep down below

My first Jo Nesbo experience. It was enough a ride that I'll hunt down the rest of the Harry Hole thrillers, even though it wasn't such a hell-blazing earth-shattering read as its advertised everywhere. But like I said, good enough.

Thursday, December 06, 2012

Burnt offerings

I guess it's bit of a relief not all the Swedish thrillers are prime cuts. Based on a Liza Marklund's novel and I hear there's a platoon of others lurking behind the next corner. Can't say I could hardly wait. About as below average as it can get.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

The secrets of the universe

Never liked the MIB series, never laughed at any of the gags of them three movies. Seemingly, I have watched them, but that’s because I’m stupid and I have some faith left. But no, this stuff is not for me. Utterly useless eye candy.

Monday, December 03, 2012

It got serious

Awarded and praised, but I welcomed this only because it's nice to see an Iranian movie for a change. Bits boring.

A street Black Sabbath

A struggle for survival music documentary thing, lotsa like The Story Of Anvil, but this one is done with a shoestring budget and whereas the Canadian chaps were easygoing as fuck, Pentagram's Bobby Liebling, simply put, is a bleak crackhead.

Saturday, December 01, 2012

War is hell

Still, beats the living crap out of all the movies and television series and fuckers like that.

A tree is known by its fruit

The only reason I watched this was because it was shot in my neighbourhood and that, of course, makes me a star. The movie is shit.

Once in a lifetime alone

Film critics don't like these. Or they won't admit that they do. The general public doesn't necessarily like them either, but ...