Monday, April 08, 2013
An Eskimo came along
Yes, it's pretty cool, but compared for instance to the almost embarrassingly similar Heat (Michael Mann), I really don't think it stands on its own much longer.
Alive for a reason
A huge game. I started playing it to kill some time and liked it immediately. And suddenly the minuted turned into hours, hours turned into days, days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months. I had to put a stop to it, I finished the story mode, but left the smaller more trivial episodes for the future.
Friday, April 05, 2013
Life is a marathon
It was now a second time that I watched this. Within a short period of time, that is. I remembered that I liked it the first time round and now just tried to find out if it still holds true. And yes, I reckon, it does.
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Foxes live in holes for a reason
I was recommended this by couple of people, so I watched it. I am not a fan of so called stop-motion animated features, but yeah I guess this wasn't alshite.
Monday, April 01, 2013
Life is happiness in hell
They put Russian mafia, Chinase triad, bent NYPD cops and Jason Statham in the same room. And we pretend to guess who comes out alive.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Let's get properly lecherous
By Finnish standars, this has a top-notch cast and features every makings of a cool comedy, but - don't know - despite clocking only 75 minutes, the fucker seemed like lasting for a lifetime and just for a two short moments or so, it made me laugh.
Altering attitudes of mind
I really liked the Lars Keppler novel and this - albeit few subplots - is loyal to it, but can't help it that the movie looks like a cheapo TV production with idle moments abound.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
First cut the red wire
It was a race against time. Who can look dumber and act worse. Elisabeth Banks or Sam Worthington. A close call. Jamie Bell and Genesis Rodriguez following close behind. Man, what a fucken turd of a movie. Painful to watch. Seems like I don't like watching movies in the Spring, everything is fucking rubbish.
Girl with a handful of grenades
I find it always very amusing when Liam Neeson is making these serious tough guy pictures. And all in a positive sense. It's just kind of cool as I'd imagine him being totally opposite in real life. Nothing wrong with Neeson in Taken 2, but wow, what an amazingly shit of a story. Easily one of the silliest ones I have seen for a very very very long time.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Stir the fire with a sword
A scifi thriller that doesn't take itself too seriously, or at least Guy Pearce's character Snow is a bit of a comic rascal with coltish one-liners. Having said that, without Pearce's efforts the film would be lost in space.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Dodging bullets
The initial concept is great. A gigantic life-ending asteroid is about to hit the earth in a few weeks time and people act accordingly. Someone creative and cool would have written something else than wishy-washy happy-together crap, sumthin like death and dying and famine and great plagues and mass suicides. Maybe suffering.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Eighty-nine percent pure junk
I don't think there's a more fitting movie that depicts the time of the early seventies New York, you can almost taste and smell the dirt and fumes of the city. That, and it's a pretty cool picture too. Gene Hackman is somewhere in my Top 2 actors of all time.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Once upon a midnight dreary
Can't really put a finger on why this is so much fucking rubbish. The actors - particularly John Cusack and Luke Evans - are totally lost interpreting Edgar Allan Poe and his peers. The story seems unnecessarily busied and the stiff seriousness of everything - despite of some horrendously brutal scenes - is downright comical.
Snickered by multimillionaires
In the end, probably the most serious and thought-provoking 'comedy' Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have done thus far. Of course, when it's funny, it's amazingly delivered, but there's quite a different story here too. A strong statement of celebrity, of ordinary people wanting to get famous, the whole reality show business.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Bigger than Buddha
I believe that no-one truly, not in their heart, believes in God. Let’s repeat that for emphasis; no-one truly believes in God. Deep down they know God or Heaven or Angels or what-have-you do not exist. Therefore religion in all shape and sizes should be ridiculed. Like Bill Maher does here quite righteously.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Hammered, but out alive
I honestly can say I didn't understand all of it, the business jargon got to me, but thanks to cool cats playing it - particularly Kevin Spacey who makes acting look so easy - it was all very exciting all the same.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Warmer by the fire
Brian De Palma lost between Carrie and psychological thriller. Overlong with tediously overlong scenes, thence hopelessly boring. Thumbs up for a true Spinal Tap spontaneous exploding though. Kirk Douglas as a gun-toting father and John Cassavetes as a one-armed bandit.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Large trees in the axe peninsula
I stopped following cross-country skiing in 2001. Entirely. This tells the reason why. Now I truly hate the sport, can't stand the fucking sight of those fuckers. And they still hush-hush the doping scandal and the skiers are regarded as kind of fucking stars. Pathetic. If any of them people is on TV, I'll change the channel. Scum of the earth.
Botched kneecaps
Not bad, but compared to the original, much worse. Same shit always with the remakes, don't know who the fuck bothers.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Mexico is best-i-co
Will Ferrell speaking Mexican Spanish (español mexicano) is the catch. They were fingers crossed that alone makes good comedy. But doesn't quite cut it, does it?
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Catching the worm
I watched this because I like Steve Martin's tweets. Of course, this has nothing to do with his tweets. Unfortunately.
The price of nobility
A kidnapping story puts on a Deliverance gear, or vice versa. Too a crazy and illogical action, but quite alrite.
Friday, March 08, 2013
Hang or be hanged
When the film ended I was all what? It just ended, couple of the mysteries of the story remained unrevealed, or I don't know, the movie anyways breaks all the laws of film making that I couldn't be much bothered.
Sunday, March 03, 2013
The phantom of technical deaths
All the time, this was almost hilariously funny. But, sadly, never there. Todd Solondz, the odds were against him, he had to backfire some day.
To choose not to shoot, the highest form of shooting
These two great actors, Vesa-Matti Loiri and Samuli Edelman, carry this flop of a movie. The storyline zigzags to fucklots of unnecessary places, there are unmotivated characters running around, the film doesn't have a clue is it a road movie, slapstick comedy, farce or a drama.
Stone-cold, ruggedly handsome delta operators
Manywhere critized as a trademark average first-person shooter (FPS) game, but I guess I haven't played them that many because I had cool killer time.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
A river is not ashamed of running
This one is ridden with quite the same disease as the majority of Finnish comedies; what the characters are saying doesn't sound natural, no one speaks like that. Bad writing, or maybe it's just bad acting, I don't know, bad directing most likely. Whatever the case, it ruins the already perfectly below-average movie.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Those things are death
Compared to its predecessor, this is a poorly acted fucker that has quite nothing of its own. But it wasn't wholly bad, in spite of all the hilarious fuck-ups, goofs and what-not, it's still rather entertaining.
My second only friend
I was quite out of the storyline all the time, partly because I hadn't played the first Darkness. What I gathered, my character was this mafia boss freak with two extra tentacles who is in a vendetta kind of mood. I quite enjoyed.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Dirty soap
A bit different, more experimental and weird, and it got weirder by the minute. Not much money was wasted on the production, but it's an effectively brutal, violent film with a plethora of genuine what-the-fuck moments.
The hungry rabbit jumps
Cops and bad guys are chasing poor old Nicolas Cage in hot pursuit and it seems there's nowhere to hide and no one to trust, but luckily Nic has some devious plans of his own and the city of New Orleans ain't big enough for them all!
Walk on through the rain
A close-up of a Finnish footballer Jari Litmanen that goes through his career with the highlights and setbacks in obligatory fashion. All in all, a rather typical biopic of a sportsman, revealing only little of the person beyond the field.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Hippies lost their car
French thriller that is done so serious-mindedly that it's downright laughable and laborious. The action is alright, but making the impossible possible a little silly.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Hate people equally
I thought of getting a story of a bent LAPD cop (Woody Harrelson) going on a killing spree. And I waited for something to happen. And waited for some more. Eventually I hoped at least something would happen. And a whole lot of nothing happened, not even an exploding ending.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Bastard's days are numbered
After Far Cry 3 this quite well could be the coolest game there is. You run into places and you shoot people dead. Basically, is all.
To survive one must have a plan
A Hitchcock masterpiece that has comfortably room for black humour, conspiracies, doubts, romance and murder.
He who looks within, awakens
They rarely, hardly ever dazzle, but they - the Swedes - are good at music and porn and meatballs and crime fiction.
Friday, February 08, 2013
Twisted cheese-eating gnome
Two Brits and three Germans a.k.a. nazis lost in the Norwegian woods in WWII. Things are bound to get interesting!
Thursday, February 07, 2013
Trolls and leprechauns alongside the road
Late eighties actor-driven drama of ex-Vietnam war vets coping with their past. Somewhat of a slow-moving side, a simple story, the few war scenes were shot the cheapest way possible at the nearest sandpit, but at least them actors do alright.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Don't kill innocent people
A high-octane conspiracy fucker set in Johannesburg, South Africa. Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds dodge bullets like there was no tomorrow.
Monday, February 04, 2013
It takes time to figure things out
Pure artistry. The Paul Thomas Anderson quirkiness is there, but it's cleverly hidden in the somewhat innocent and simple story. One of the most beautiful and original pieces of the year, no doubt.
Just a little less shit
It's no longer as ground-breaking and intelligent comedy as Sacha Baron Cohen delivered at best of times. But I have no trouble admitting that I laughed out loud like never before at some of the bits. The bits most would people would refer to as vulgar and cheap insults.
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Funerals make people hungry for some reason
I have always read and enjoyed pulp fiction with hard-ass wacky characters, off-the-wall action and pitch-dark humour. By authors like James Crumley, James Lee Burke, George V. Higgins, Jim Thompson and, to some extent, Dennis Lehane. And now someone has finally nailed it on film. Thank you William Friedkin.
Ordering a takeout
Shot and choreographed with a fresh approach, coolest of fighting sequences, hand-to-hand combat that takes no prisoners. Quite likely the best straight up action movie of the year.
To be a rock and not to roll
I almost stopped watching after the first few tunes, the band seemed strained and the show lame. Deliberated, bet ya, because the concert rocketed sky high soon afterwards.
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