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Movies

While I don't have anything better to write; here's what I've seen in the last half of year or so :wink:

Martian child - really cute!
Stardust - A nice farytale...
21 - a lot of fun watching it, but that's all
Searching for Bobby Fischer - hm...
Vantage Point - I bet Opel payed a great deal for this one... cool :D
Hallam Foe - Marvelous!
Wonderfalls - How could this get 9.1 on IMDB? OK, Caroline Dhavernas is cute, and that sells the series, but the rest of it...
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs - The previous movie was a lot better...
Margot at the Wedding - I promissed myself not to watch indie movies again, and here I go and do it. Not that it's a bad movie... but it's difficult to watch it and it is so for no apparent reason. You can at least enjoy good acting in this one.
Horton hears a Who - Amusing :wink: But I missed some more developement on side charachters...
Before sunrise & Before Sunset - Beautiful! Just beautiful!
Sleepwalking - It has some good acting and that will keep you watching. But the rest is a bit boring.
Ekusu makina - Japanese animations can be so full of crap, but I love the way they are done!
The other Boleyn girl - A few things make this movie interesting; the fact that it is based on real historic events, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson and the way they are both dressed. As a movie - nothing too special.
The last king of Scotland/ - A well done movie, but I think African leaders don't talk broken English among eachother.
Resurrecting the Champ - Well, it is a nice flick for Samuel L. Jackson fans... but this movie has just too many cliche's for my taste.
Chaos theory - boring... I stopped watching after 30 minutes
Smart people - Actually rather pleasnt movie for a sunday afternoon (if you have nothing better to do).
The life before her eyes - It is a good movie, it really is. The camera work is AMAZING, and so are the actors! But; this idea is slowly getting worn out. I will not tell you what it is, because it might spoil you the movie, but the ending spin was seen before and perhaps for too many times now.
The Grand - Actually quite entertaining. Did you know that the last game was played for real and that actors improvised?
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - A rather charming movie. :wink:
My sassy girl - As I later learned, this is only a remake of a Korean movie. I must say it is a bit boring, so I stopped watching at least two times, but Elisha Cuthbert had created such a lovely characther, that I resumed every time.
Happy feet - Just a little bit too long, but still very cute movie penguin
Bigger, Stronger, Faster - Am... I don't know...
Encounters at the End of the World - Amazing documentary
An American Crime - Well done! A brave performance by Chaterine Keener and Ellen Page!
In Bruges - Awesome!!!
The Dark Knight - I wanted to see what the fuss is all about. And I wasted 3 hrs of my life... Batman is just not my coup of coffee.
Wall-E- The best thing evar!!!
Snowangels - A good movie, but totally morbid :s Not easy to watch!

Movies

I decided that not to write about every movie I see, but just about the ones that deserve to be noted (no matter the reason). As usual; the bigger the font, the more I liked the movie. :wink:

Juno - Awesome, simply awesome!
Across the universe - A couple of things really made me say "WTF is this part of the movie?", but overall a nice work. There are some really good Beatles cover songs on the OST.
Vexille - The graphics are like OMG! ...and story is well done too. You must see this!
Lars and the real girl - An other must see. It is amazing how little is needed to make a good movie, and on the other hand; how hard it is to get a good idea. This movie is based on just one simple idea (I'm not telling what it is, it would be a spoiler)... Everything else, like execution, is totally simple and low-budget... and that's the beauty of it!.
August Rush - Loved every bit of it!

Persepolis - Stunning, stunning, stunning!
My blueberry nights - It wasn't really as I imagined, but then again; I couldn't picture Norah Jones in any other... At first I didn't know where it was going, but then it gets very watchable.
It's all gone Pete Tong - Don't waste your time on this one...
Ondskan - Fantastic!!!
Jumper - Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson are getting into some good ol' Jedi fights again. They even have some sort of lightsabers. But of course, the force is strong with Hayden and he gets to win at the end. OK, it is entertaining, but it is not something memoriable.
The air I breathe - It's like Crash and Vanila sky all over again...
No county for old men - I don't get it...
Logan's run - mixed feelings about this one... rather bad.
Wristcutters: A Love Story - So boring that I stopped watching after 10 minutes...
The golden compass - I must say I rather enjoyed this one. But mostly due to awesome graphics and cool analogue designs.
Music within - Good one!
Meet the Robinsons - Also cool, but I'd expect a just a little bit more from Disney. The story is quite good.

Movies

Here are the movies I've seen in the past couple of months.

Shrek the third - It should be Shrek the recycled.
The man from Earth - it is a good example that not even bad acting can spoil a good idea in the plot! It's a classic SciFi.
Impostor - this one is however, quite the oposite; nothing more than a chase movie whith pretentious effects and fireworks, to make it look like a SciFi
BSG - Razor - It was really good, but not as good as I expected. A little more of that moral dilemas wouldn't hurt.
Hairspray - I enjoyed it a lot. Now I sing along with soundtrack :wink:
Futurama - Bender's Big Score - It has a little bit of something that was missing in the series. Enjoyable!
Paprika - An interesting anime (I'm not an expert on animes, so I can't really judge).
Eastern promises - Really well made movie on Russian mafia in London.
Un amour à taire - Great movie, but a torture to watch.
Delicatessen - That's like the wierdest thing I've seen in a loooong loooong time. But surely worth while.
Day zero - Not too bad, but not at the top of my priorities either (I was only watching it because of Elijah Wood).
Reign over me - It is SO COOL to see Adam Sandler do a serious role once. This is a must see movie!
I am legend - It has only one flaw: stereotypical zombies. Everything other than that is fantastic.
The great debaters - Nice performance by Denzel, but overall very boring and too predictable movie.
The lake house - An other one of those "sending messages back trough time" love movies...
Lucky miles - A really nice Australian movie about illegal imigration.
Superbad - Maybe the best highschool movie so far :wink: Worthwhile, definitely!
He was a quiet man - A torture to watch... (If it wasn't for Elisha, I wouldn't be able to go trough)

Star wars - I finally get it!

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Yes! I finally get it what the Star wars saga is all about! It took me a long time, didn't it? :D
But in the previous years, when episodes I-III were comming out, I didn't have enough patience and knowledge to fully understand, even though I did saw episode I and II at the time. Now, during this hollidays, I saw all six of them in a couple of marathon evenings. I watched it in the same order as they were filmed. You must know it was a powerful and overwhelming experience.

And afterwords it was worth to see Family Guy - Blue harvest and have a really good laugh!!!

Movies

I didn't watch too many since July (I'm more like into books right now). Here's a list:

Total recall - Huh... so 80's...
Surf's up - That is amazing! The story, the animation (OMG!!!)... A MUST SEE!
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Cool drama :D
The lookout - Very watchable!!!
Cashback - OMG! So poetic, so nice, so well made... MUST SEE!
Ostrov - totally morbid rip
The Simpsons movie - Great stuff! Better than I expected, but also shorter. Only 1h16'?
The Ultimate Gift - I has flaws, but it is good enough to enjoy it (with a girl, perhaps)...
Fracture - Very intense psyhological action, but very poor ending. :frown:
Everything's gone green - Well... don't watch it P:
Interview - Actually not bad for an indie. But the script would need some fixes.
Becoming Jane - Fabolous movie, but a torture to watch.
Pride & Prejudice - After seing Becoming Jane, it is certainly a next logical step. References to her own life (of Jane Austen) are clearly visible. It is a great movie.
3:10 to Yuma - OK, so it is a Christian Bale and Russell Crowe movie (and they are both great), but this movie is nothing special indeed.
Live Free or Die Hard - If you don't expect too much, you might actually have a good time with this. Plus you get to see the "I'm a Mac" guy. (yeah, he plays a geek there too)
Ratatouille - One of the best Pixar's ever :wink:
Shadowlands - A classic drama and a good look on C.S. Lewis' life.

Movies

Black Snake Moan - It's about the blues, baby... Must see :wink:
300 - One of those trully graphical movies.
Moulin Rouge! - OK, if you are a true Nicole Kidman fan, then go for it. She is awesome! But if you're not, then buy a ticket for Puccini's La boheme instead!
Sex, lies and videotape - Not bad...
Sunshine - Just a couple of days ago I was thinking there aren't many good SciFi films anymore out there. So when I spotted this one, I was really excited. And so I contiued to be for the first 45 minutes of watching. The idea seemed to be good, it had capacity to present some real moral and ethical dilemas, this shall be a great movie, I said. But then, they had to fuck it up. They had to put zombie in it... Like a mission to save the Sun isn't hard enough, like it is a smooth job, where nothing can go wrong and no technical, scientific, logistic difficulties and even moral doubts can emerge and only zombie can put them in jeopardy. So, to conclude, it is a movie you have already seen, if you saw Sphere, Even horizon, 2010 and so forth. Only the visual effects are better...
EL Laberinto del fauno - We live, we die and even kill for own fantasies...
Breach - Really cool spy movie.
The Bridge - Crappy documentary about people who jumped oveer the Golden Gate Bridge. Nothing about the bridge, really. Just miserable suicide stories. Don't waste your time on this!
Snow cake - OK; not that I didn't like the movie, but I have to ask something: why is the most watchable character killed right at the beginning of the movie??? Besides that, a movie is about 15 minutes too long.
WarGames - Not bad... a pre-PC movie, not so much about computers than it is about cold war.
The Adams Family - I'm into goth right now so I thought I might check this flick. Well, it's entertaining enough...
Scarface - a true classic! And Michelle Pfeiffer is fabolous! flirt
Mr. Brooks - Wow! That was fantastic!
1408 - Really cool. Not many horror movies drag me in like this (usually I don't even watch), but this one looks like a 1st person documentary on schizophrenia.
Longford - A nice European drama about a guy who believes in second chance!
The lost room - I loved it, but an answer "You wouldn't understand it" appears too many times.
The number 23 - lame... serously, it was a torture to watch this.

Movies

Since there is nothing else to write about, here are some movies i've seen.

Miss Potter - very very well made movie. Fantastic photography [showing beautiful landscapes]
Little children - High class is bussy making money, low class is bussy trying to survive, middle class is terebly bored...
The Hoax - Lie might be the sweetest truth.... (bullshit, i don't know why i said that, but it sounds kind of cool :D)
The painted veil - How the feelings grow... Fantastic achivement in cinematograpy, you'll love it! Naomi is very charming, as always...
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - I couldn't stop thinking about many resebmlences to Oliver Twist... well, it ends slightly differently :D... well, seriously... the official poster for the movie is masterpiece of it's own!
Äideistä parhain - It is always nice to see something European, and this one was really good. I won't say it is an easy movie to watch, but it will leave you with a lot to think about war and to hate it even a bit more.
The World's Fastest Indian - this is one hell of the enjoyable movie. Nothing too special, just fun to watch!
Venus - sad, but beautiful movie about vibrant connection between love, beauty and dying...
Starter for ten - Very postmodern atmosphere, only a bit too long for this plot. Cut out 10 minuttes and you'll get a very good movie. Reminds me a bit on Try seventeen...
Alpha dog - Drug movies always bored me... This one in particular. I stopped watching at 35th minute (nothing really happened...) :frown:

Latest movies seen

Here are some movies seen after my last posting on this matter...

Stranger than fiction - well, it's nice to see a romatic comedy with an intelligent plot. The ending is rather dissapointing (but then again, my version wouldn't make it a comedy).
The Prestige - very nice! A lot better than The Illusionist... (why do movies come in such pairs???)
Notes on a scandal - The unstopable Eros meets inevitable Tantos. A nice movie by British cinematography.
The Queen - Thumbs up for Hellen Mirren and Michael Sheen. Besides that, the plot looks like it's been written by Tony Blair himself.
The Conclave - hm... dark... a bit boring...
Bridge to Terabithia - That was so nice! Finally a well made movie for the kids, that even adults can appreciate. (Just because kids are small and young it doesn't mean they are retarded).
The Fountain - This is what I call masterpiece! MUST SEE!
Proof - Gwyneth and Anthony are worth watching! Other actors are not up to their level, which spoils a well thaught movie. I think it might have been even better than Beautiful mind, if it wasn't for Russel Crowe and Jennifer Connelly.
Sliding doors - Nothing dramatic. Gwyneths is cute, movie pleasntly unrealistic and simple.
Chapter 27 - I don't know why this movie got so many negative critics. I quite liked it! Even the psyhotic state of mind (of a murderer) is IMO realisticly portrayed.
Living 'til the End - The script could make a really nice movie, but this looks like it's been filmed and edited with my pocket camera. There are a few very basic begginer's mistakes... (zooming, wrong cuts, light shifts, color temperature... etc).

Notable movies

Here is a list of movies i have seen since last posting on this matter:

History of voilence - interesting...
Brainstorm - good idea, but to many subplots...
Donnie Brasco - nice...
Ordinary people - i already forgot what this was about
Driving lessons - nice British film...
16 Blocks - if you like action
United 13 - this is the movie to honour the fallen?
Over the hedge - veeeeery entertaining
The Da Vinci code - pha... it's good i didn't waste time with book, but Audrey is cute :wink:
Thank you for smoking - nice debating lesson
Crank - a bit more original plot for action
Eve and the firehorse - nice indie film
12 and holding - if you liked Kids or KenPark, you should like thisone too
The architect - crap
The Black Dhalia - looks like L.A. Cinfidental II
Minis first time - crap
Copying Beethoven - why create fictioinal story about such great composer?????? total crap!
The Quiet - i really enjoed it!
Broken flowers - it's like Lost in Translation II
The good shepherd - tooo damn long for this plot!
Renaissance - damn good graphics and story!!!! Must see!
The ant bully - very entertaining cartoon!!!
The illusionist - well... it's an OK movie... Score by Philip Glass is well done!
A simple curve - nice film, i watched it for Michael Hogan
Apocalypto - does Mel Gibson hava an unfulfilled dream to be a butcher???
Lion King - a classic
21 grams - i didn't sleep well for 3 days after watching this... fabolous movie!
Road to Guantanamo - all US voters should see this!
Opal dream - what a sweet litle Australian drama!
Babel - good, but overrated
A good year - finally a romantic comedy that is not completly retarded
The pursuit of happyness - stunning story, great acting from both Smith's
A scanner darkly - superb graphics, dramatic story... i really liked it!
Flushed away - very cute Aardman animation!
Wallace & Gromit in the curse of the were-rabbit - hm... nice
The merchant of Venice - Pacino is... simply perfect!!!
The last kiss - it's like a bad version of Garden State, but still acceptable

Recent movies

Here are some movies i have most recently seen. I have been really lucky this time. My brother picked up some flicks with the criteria that none of them should have IMDB raiting less than 7. All of them are amazing. There are also some movies of my choice there.

Leon
Wow! Wow! Simply great! (8.5 at IMDB is no coincidence, could even be better :hat:)

Serpico
Great to see young Paccino! The story is inspireing, but maybe a bit too long (2 hours?)

Running scared
Fresh and visually creative movie with fast action in Tarantino style.

My Family and Other Animals
Simple and funny! I had a jolly good time watching it! :D

Match point
Woody Allen at his best. Can you dare to play with your luck?

When do we eat
This sure isn't the best comedy ever, but you can see it if you have nothing else to do.

Tiedeland
I simply don't get it. Why can't I watch Terry Gilliam's movies over their 30th minute? I tried out with Brasil , then with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and now with Tiedeland. I respect his imagination, i really do, but the story just can't seem to be working for me. :frown: I feel like one of us is halucinating... Why don't I have problems watching Tim Burton's films?

Palindromes
Now that's a weird movie! But I must say I respect the idea! Recomended!

Welcome to the Dollhouse
Well.... just too many stereotypes for my taste! 7.3 at IMDB is highly overrated!

Akeelah and the Bee
Can somebody explain to me how this crap got 7.7, while The house of Yes, which i consider a masterpiece (fantastic dialogues!), has only 6.4????!!! This movie is one cliche after an other, you must have seen thousands of movies like that and they are all sooooo booooooriiiiinngggggg.... why did I even watch this? :cry:

Recent movies

Here are some movies i have most recently seen:

Silent Hill
Stunning CGI, no plot... give me back my 2 hours of time!

Things to do
crap

Oliver Twist
Now that's what I call a good plot! Superb movie in every way! Can you find Ben Kingsley in it? I couldn't recognise him!!! What a performance!

Everything is illuminated
Very pleasnt movie, good acting from all main actors...

MirrorMask
I've seen it before, I will watch it again. Visual masterpiece!

Inside Man
Interesting way to spend an evening. Denzel is OK.