The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Almost 3 hours long yet offered so little content and insight. The acting was shoddy at times, the dialogue terrible and lots of weird accents. Sven Nykvist's cinematography and Lena Olin were the only good things about it I'd say.
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I think it's actually been a really bad year for cinema deaths.Vera Chytilova's dead.
Are people actually dropping like flies lately, or have they always done and it's something I'm only just paying attention to now?
I have to admit that I once had to watch Daisies as part of a homework but couldn't be arsed to finish it.
King of Kong - Movie about competitive video gaming. its strangely fantastic. 9/10
Veronica Mars
Saw this over the weekend and as a fan of the series, I really enjoyed it. Took about 30 mins to get going but once it did, it just felt like a longer episode rather than a film, but that didnt bother me. Some good cameos, especially James Franco who was hilarious. The over-arching story wasnt THAT interesting but it had enough to keep things together. So as a fan I'd give it 7.5/10 but for non-fans it would be 6/10
Saw this over the weekend and as a fan of the series, I really enjoyed it. Took about 30 mins to get going but once it did, it just felt like a longer episode rather than a film, but that didnt bother me. Some good cameos, especially James Franco who was hilarious. The over-arching story wasnt THAT interesting but it had enough to keep things together. So as a fan I'd give it 7.5/10 but for non-fans it would be 6/10
WAtched this last night and thought it was awful. The julieanne Moore character was totally pointless
She's just an eye candy, and as much as she's unnecessary, it's nice to have that sexy female lead in a movie (and not, not julianne moore sexy)
But to be fair, it's just an action movie where I pay to watch Neeson doing a cool middle aged guy looking cool with guns, and Julianne Moore still has it, considering she's 53.
Each to one own I guess, It's an enjoyable popcorn flick
Unforgiven (Japanese Version)
A Frame by frame remake of Eastwood's Unforgiven (which I think are overrated in the first place) but in Japanese. Ken Watanabe is stellar as always, looking tired and washed out, although the director failed to make his rise to strength believable during the end, he just simply turn rambo magically (ala Eastwood), glimps and flashback shown that they are man of steel back then, but it's hard to believe seeing how fragile they are portrayed that they suddenly found their mojo back.
I admit I watched it in x2 speed in DVD, but I believe it's good enough if you're patience with the slow buildup, but meh... it's a carbon copy. No additional twist / stuff, except that they made it that some outlaw mutilate a prostitute (a chance to stick in a japanese flesh female
) and payback theme.
Overall, Could have been good if it's original, but they never tried to hide it, and imo it's just a tribute (remake) of the original Unforgiven
4.5 cocks / 10
A Frame by frame remake of Eastwood's Unforgiven (which I think are overrated in the first place) but in Japanese. Ken Watanabe is stellar as always, looking tired and washed out, although the director failed to make his rise to strength believable during the end, he just simply turn rambo magically (ala Eastwood), glimps and flashback shown that they are man of steel back then, but it's hard to believe seeing how fragile they are portrayed that they suddenly found their mojo back.
I admit I watched it in x2 speed in DVD, but I believe it's good enough if you're patience with the slow buildup, but meh... it's a carbon copy. No additional twist / stuff, except that they made it that some outlaw mutilate a prostitute (a chance to stick in a japanese flesh female
) and payback theme.Overall, Could have been good if it's original, but they never tried to hide it, and imo it's just a tribute (remake) of the original Unforgiven
4.5 cocks / 10
Finally got around to watching the second Hobbit film. That is just too damn long. I actually enjoyed it but it was a chore to finish.
Betty Blue - I was execting a rambunctious and manic love story but the exectution was just so dull and so, so, so overlong...and vacuous. Whenever a quirky character or scene appeared it all just felt a bit anticlimactic. It looked great though, lots of pretty colours.
World War Z - 7/10 - Not as bad as I was expecting
Oblivion - Looks great, but fairly boring - 5.5/10
Oblivion - Looks great, but fairly boring - 5.5/10
The Lincoln Lawyer
I thought McConaughey was very good in it but the praise I'd heard for this film was way overboard, it's fun but forgettable and Ryan Phillipe is fecking dreadful in this, and everything else.
6/10, and validate my life by reading my review of it heeeere: http://filmfixx.com/today-film-history-lincoln-lawyer/
I thought McConaughey was very good in it but the praise I'd heard for this film was way overboard, it's fun but forgettable and Ryan Phillipe is fecking dreadful in this, and everything else.
6/10, and validate my life by reading my review of it heeeere: http://filmfixx.com/today-film-history-lincoln-lawyer/
I really enjoyed The Lincoln Lawyer as pulp. Would've made a good TV show.
As pulp sure, I think I just got bad info on what it was going for
Nice blog. Like the layout.
Is The Lincoln Lawyer really part of Film History?
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Technically, it is.
Personally, I'd say that the McConaissance began with "Surfer, Dude".
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In McConnaughnews, Brad Pitt is apparently been lined up for season two of True Detective.
Pitt and Casey Affleck, that would be the dream!
Anatomy of a Murder
Twelve Angry Men
If you like courtroom dramas, these are two American classics from the late 50's. They are both murder trials. The first one is the usual front of court view of the trial room, a sort of extended and better Perry Mason. The second takes place almost entirely in the jury room as they consider their verdict. The respective leads are James Stewart and Henry Fonda in possibly their best roles. 8/10
Twelve Angry Men
If you like courtroom dramas, these are two American classics from the late 50's. They are both murder trials. The first one is the usual front of court view of the trial room, a sort of extended and better Perry Mason. The second takes place almost entirely in the jury room as they consider their verdict. The respective leads are James Stewart and Henry Fonda in possibly their best roles. 8/10
I think that happened, Nilsson. Didn't end well for Brad.
Someone go watch Under the Skin for me.
I have judged Lincoln Lawyer to count as film history because a) it came out today and b) the man is guaranteed page hits right now.
Winter's Tale - No, not the Shakespeare one, but one by the guy who wrote Batman & Robin, which as sentences go is a little like saying "no, not the Sistine chapel, this bit of sick I've just seen come out of a tramp over there who'd been eating his own shit." Now, obviously, if life was fair he would've been burned at the steak by the WGA in 1997, but he somehow conspired to limp on and partially redeem himself with a couple of Will Smith vehicles. Though he also adapted the Da Vinci Code so that's a setback. Here he's adapted, produced and directed a film that is somehow impossibly boring for something that contains a flying horse, Will Smith as the devil and Russell Crowe as a comedy accented Irish thug with a tick.
It's sort of set in a mythical, parallel version of earth, but this isn't either explained or depicted quite well enough to be charming in a Stardust sort of a way, and so it just seems daft and confusing when a flying horse (called simply "horse") turns up and flies a silly haired Colin Farrell all around the place during moments of extreme plot convenience. Farrell is in love with a girl who's dying, and they have an instant, silly, annoying romance that at one point includes the line "Do you think it's possible to love someone so much they simply can't die?" which is very nearly more hateful than everything in Batman & Robin combined.
Russell Crowe plays a twitching thug like an impression of a drunk Richard Harris by an even drunker Oliver Reed and Will Smith is the devil, which sounds like it could be a good idea, but isn't, as he's in a grand total of two scenes, never leaves one small room and is dressed like some kind of hateful Bruno Mars fan with two earrings and t-shirt/jacket combo, which instantly ruins everything.
There's also some dozy subplot about people in love becoming stars when they die that made me want to kick through my TV and Jennifer Connelly turns up to do virtually nothing for the final 1/3rd, a bit like when Bridget Fonda was in The Godfather for no reason, and then wasn't, only backwards.
It was so annoying that I forgot how long my chicken had been in the oven, meaning at one point there was genuinely a possibility of a film being so bad it could've killed me.
I'm alright though.
The only good bit is Russell Crowe riding a horse and somehow managing to look fatter than it.
Dull aching bollocks. 3
It's sort of set in a mythical, parallel version of earth, but this isn't either explained or depicted quite well enough to be charming in a Stardust sort of a way, and so it just seems daft and confusing when a flying horse (called simply "horse") turns up and flies a silly haired Colin Farrell all around the place during moments of extreme plot convenience. Farrell is in love with a girl who's dying, and they have an instant, silly, annoying romance that at one point includes the line "Do you think it's possible to love someone so much they simply can't die?" which is very nearly more hateful than everything in Batman & Robin combined.
Russell Crowe plays a twitching thug like an impression of a drunk Richard Harris by an even drunker Oliver Reed and Will Smith is the devil, which sounds like it could be a good idea, but isn't, as he's in a grand total of two scenes, never leaves one small room and is dressed like some kind of hateful Bruno Mars fan with two earrings and t-shirt/jacket combo, which instantly ruins everything.
There's also some dozy subplot about people in love becoming stars when they die that made me want to kick through my TV and Jennifer Connelly turns up to do virtually nothing for the final 1/3rd, a bit like when Bridget Fonda was in The Godfather for no reason, and then wasn't, only backwards.
It was so annoying that I forgot how long my chicken had been in the oven, meaning at one point there was genuinely a possibility of a film being so bad it could've killed me.
I'm alright though.
The only good bit is Russell Crowe riding a horse and somehow managing to look fatter than it.
Dull aching bollocks. 3
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Sounds fantastic! 
He does look fat.
Witness for the Prosecution and Inherit the Wind are some other good courtroom dramas from that period.
I wish I could, there isn't even a Swedish release date for it yet!
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Yes, Inherit the Wind is also known as a classic play. What stands out is that it is a trial over a social/scientific idea rather than murder or violence.
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Good, wholesome, Wes Anderson-y fun - that's both a fair bit different to his other stuff, yet wholly familiar. Oh, and Ralph Fiennes is brilliant.
Thanks for that. Saw a trailer last week and thought it will be worth a look.
Absolutely. I think everyone in the movie is good, but he's so much fun to watch. Willem Dafoe's character is great too.
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Red Rock West - Nicolas Cage is brooding and wears a jeans jacket. A lot of sinister blue eyes and an occasionally Frank Booth-ing Dennis Hopper. An entertaining neo-noir along the lines of Blood Simple but not really much more than that, a bit forgettable in the end. John Dahl's next effort The Last Seduction is a much better film.
Dennis Hopper (right), the jeans jacket (left]
Does Leslie Nielsen have a cameo where he complains that "It's not red and there's no rocks in it"?
I think every conversation with a new acquaintance should start with that sentence.
I think @Mockney has inspired me to watch winter's tale.
That's a good point. Don't think Nilsson has watched it yet. And he dares to question my love for Friends, the philistine.
I'm going through a jeans jacket period at the moment. I only watch films where a jeans jacket plays a prominent part.
Brokeback Mountain has a jeans jacket that nearly won an Oscar.
How about a jeans shirt?
47 Ronin
This has lots of bad critic reviews but I really enjoyed it. It was shot beautifully and some of the action scenes were amazing. The story, whilst not completely original, held things together really well. I liked how they didnt use the film to show a westerner learn from the Japanese and lead them into war valiantly as many films of this ilk tend to do. Instead, Keanu had a subtle role, almost like the secondary character, a sidekick with badass powers. It wasn't perfect however. It should have probably been done in Japanese language with sub-titles as it seemed the actors were struggling with their lines, and the accents and dialogue almost made the film very cartoonish. Also, they had Rick Genest in the poster but his screen time was less than 5 minutes, which was annoying 7.5/10
This has lots of bad critic reviews but I really enjoyed it. It was shot beautifully and some of the action scenes were amazing. The story, whilst not completely original, held things together really well. I liked how they didnt use the film to show a westerner learn from the Japanese and lead them into war valiantly as many films of this ilk tend to do. Instead, Keanu had a subtle role, almost like the secondary character, a sidekick with badass powers. It wasn't perfect however. It should have probably been done in Japanese language with sub-titles as it seemed the actors were struggling with their lines, and the accents and dialogue almost made the film very cartoonish. Also, they had Rick Genest in the poster but his screen time was less than 5 minutes, which was annoying 7.5/10
Only if it's worn by Sam Elliott.
Dead End. Now that was a nice little horror movie. Yes, it was quite predictable however they managed to create a very nice atmosphere throughout the film which made it quite enjoyable for me. If you don't need tons of gore and blood in your movies, give this one a chance. 6/10