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Actually, the beginning is referencing this incident when someone who was hired by the US military was working in Korea and actually did dump formaldehyde down the drain.
I saw eastern promises yesterday. Was very dissapointed. Also, i have just rented some Marx Brothers dvds which i’m going to watch in the following days…
First i watched’The Brave one’ .Well to say it directlty this was Hollywood crap of the highest order.Foster putting the same acting as in flightplan.Neill Jordan embrasing the Hollywood formula and giving it an onethical ending,to keep the American viewer happy.And just when i thought that it couldn’t be worst,i watched James wans ‘deathsentence’.if i could give a razzie award to a movie ,then deathsentence would be the winner by far.I am traumatized and will not watch a revenge movie comming out of Hollywood for a decade.
Sweeney Todd- I hadn’t really looked into Burton’s new film other than the trailer so I went into this not knowing it was a musical. Definitely caught me off guard and it took about 20 minutes into the film for me to get caught up in it… but from that point on i was hooked. All of the characters are incredible (including a great surprise with Sacha Baron Cohen), the set design is breathtaking, and Depp’s performance is great. The final scene sealed the deal for me. I’ll be picking this up on DVD as soon as it comes out.
Watched Dragon Tiger Gate and Stardust on New Year’s Day.
While nowhere near as good as Sha Po Lang, Dragon Tiger Gate does have its moments. Unfortunately, all of the angst and despair, which worked so well in Sha Po Lang, doesn’t work here. It’s difficult to buy into the characters’ angst, etc., when they look so much like Abercrombie & Fitch models.
Stardust was an unmitigated disaster. I love the book—it’s easily my personal favorite of Gaiman’s works—and this movie gets just almost everything wrong. The filmmakers removed every bit of wit, cleverness, subtlety, mystery, and sadness that exists in the novel, and all so that they could have a big, bad-ass, pyrotechnics-filled, and utterly generic Hollywood fantasy film. My review is here.
recently i have seen Sweeney Todd, i think its a movie made for the theater. The overpowering musical score worked very well in the theater environment. I really enjoyed this film.
I saw Arn and Rovdyr, in Norway very nice movies, need to see the next Arn in November now, very good epic movie, and i love survival so i like Rovdyr very much, i love hunting
I caught The Orphanage last night and really enjoyed it. One of the creepier films i’ve seen in awhile…had me squirming in my seat more than a few times. More effective for me than The Devil’s Backbone.
I caught The Orphanage last night and really enjoyed it. One of the creepier films i’ve seen in awhile…had me squirming in my seat more than a few times. More effective for me than The Devil’s Backbone.
I finally caught up with THE ORPHANAGE this afternoon, after looking forward to it for months, and it didn’t do very much for me—until the penultimate shot, and then an overwhelming sadness hit me and I started to cry!
Very well made, and will probably linger in my memory.
To complete my double bill, I walked down the multiplex hallway and caught JUMPER. Odd how Doug Liman has cherry picked actors from tv’s THE O.C., isn’t it? First Adam Brody in MR AND MRS SMITH and now Rachel Bilson, who looked much better than she ever did on the small screen. Sadly, I just don’t feel like there’s anything going on with Hayden Christiansen. I can see that he’s a good looking chap, but he appears hollow inside. I would have preferred Jamie Bell to have the lead role. The movie was a pleasant-enough experience for a popcorn picture, and I appreciated the brevity of the storytelling, which allowed the “cool factor” of personal teleportation to rule the day.
John J’s fitting swan-song (hopefully) is an astonishingly brutal, dark and bludgeoning action film that manages to inject just enough popcorn entertainment to satisfy as a world weary Rambo does what the world failed to do in real life and dishes out some righteous retribution against (the sadly very real) brutal, mass murdering, Burmese military.
Julie Benz is a simpering annoyance, but that’s the only real weak link in this gore drenched finale to Rambo’s journey that brings things full circle.
Forget the hippie haters and get out to the cinema and support it!
