Man Has Made His Match… Now It’s His Problem

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My rating: 4 out of 5

Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LPD’s Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as ‘replicants’. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man’s obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired.

Älskar den. Den är så mörk och dyster. Sedan är ju Deckard (Harrison Ford en sådan skön Anti-hjälpte, ungefär som han spelar Indiana Jones. Detta är Harrison när han är som bäst. Dyster och nedstämd. Synd bara att denna film ännu inte fått en värdig DVD-utgåva.

Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?

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My rating: 2 out of 5

Ex-Navy pilot Ted Striker has been nervous about flying ever since THAT incident during the war. He’s on a flight which would cause anyone concern: he seems to be the only sane person aboard. Of course, everything that could possibly go wrong on this flight will go wrong… what do you expect with a co-pilot who doesn’t realize he’s a basketball star, and an air traffic controller with a substance abuse problem?

Had för mig att den var mycket roligare. Bara några få skratt kring det som jag mindes sedan tidigare. Men det är ju något av det första som Zucker och Abrahams gör.

There’s a reason they look so real.

Product Image: House of Wax
My rating: 2 out of 5

A group of friends on their way to a college football game falls prey to a pair of murderous brothers in an abandoned small town. They discover that the brothers have expanded upon the area’s main attraction.. the House of Wax. And created an entire town filled with the wax-coated corpses of unlucky visitors. Now the group must find a way out before they too become permanent exhibits in the House of Wax…

Neah, denna var heller ingen höjdare. Ska tydligen vara en Gore-Horror. Men tycker den inte var så mycket skräck och så mycket gore var det inte heller. Även den här överlever för att man har en söt flicka i den att vila ögonen på. Elisha Cuthbert från första säsongerna av 24 är med.

*knock* *knock* *knock*

Product Image: The Fog
My rating: 2 out of 5

Exactly one hundred years ago, off the rocky shore of an isolated Northern California town, a ship of lepers seeking refuge was betrayed by the town’s founding fathers and burned, dooming everyone aboard. Now, tonight, the ghosts of the long-dead mariners have returned from their watery graves to exact revenge. Shrouded within a supernatural fog, the ghosts trap the residents of the remote community, intent on seeking out the descendants of those who founded the town…and killing anyone who stands in their murderous path.

Jösses vad Hollywood har fått remakenoja. Oj, vad mycket rök det måste gått åt när denna filmen skapades. Men tja, det var ingen höjdare. Mest en massa rök och dåliga cgi-effekter. Skulle vara kul och se om John Carpenters orginal är bättre. Det enda som gjorde filmen njutbar var att Maggie Grace som är med i Lost var med i filmen.

Review: Memoirs of a Geisha

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My rating: 4 out of 5

n 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto’s Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo’s bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha’s mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha’s world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.

En mycket vacker film, vilket foto, vilka miljöer. Att sedan historien drar in en och man verkligen känner för skådespelarna gör inte filmen sämre. Detta är ingen typisk Hollywood-film. Annorlunda och mycket trevlig.

One guy walks the walk. The other talks and talks

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My rating: 3 out of 5

Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way.

Tyckte inte filmen kändes speciellt bra i början, men allt eftersom filmen fortsatte blev den bättre och bättre.

B13

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My rating: 3 out of 5

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

Mycket enkel story, men ändå mycket underhållande. Huvudrollen görs av samma person som varit stuntkordinator på filmer som Transporter. Bara första jakten är helt fantastisk. Men det är nästan bara jakt- och actionscenerna som är något. Annars är filmen ganska tunn. Men dom häftiga scenerna gör filmen sevärd.

Everybody gotta have a dream

Product Image: Hustle & Flow
My rating: 3 out of 5

A rap star from the Dirty South who is trying to make it in the hip hop world, he has to deal with many different types of people who try to bring him down, including strippers, baby’s mama, and all the things that try to keep a player down. This is probably his last chance to make it, he is approaching his 40’s, and his life is looking downhill.

Bättre än vad jag trodde innan. En film som Tea tyckte vi skulle se. Hade inga förväntningar på den och blev glatt överaskad. Men den kanske iunte passar för alla.

The first and most important rule of gun-running is: never get shot with your own merchandise.

Product Image: Lord of War
My rating: 4 out of 5

This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

Filmen slår ton med en gång. Den öppnar med att vi får träffa vår “hjälte”. Kameran närmar sig honom där han stold står i ett hav av tomhylsor. Under förtexten får vi följa en kulas “liv”. Från produktionen till dess slutet i huvudet på en minderårig i afrika. Hela filmen är melankolisk med den ena uppgången följd av en nergång. Härligt film med att mycket bra budskap bakom. Rekommenderas.

No Nudity No Violence Unspeakable Obscenity

Product Image: The Aristocrats
My rating: 3 out of 5

Comedy veterans and co-creators Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza capitalize on their insider status and invite over 100 of their closest friends–who happen to be some of the biggest names in entertainment, from George Carlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Drew Cary to Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Saget, Paul Reiser and Sarah Silverman–to reminisce, analyze, deconstruct and deliver their their own versions of world’s dirtiest joke, an old burlesque, too extreme to be performed in public, called The Aristocrats.

Hur sjutton gör man en 1.30h lång film om ett kort skämt? Om du ställer den frågan. Titta på denna filmen. Hela filmen handlar om ett skämt kallat “The Aristocrats”, fast sett från en mängd olika komikers synpunker. Filmen är vissa delar riktigt underhållande och vissa delar rent tröttsam. Men jag är glad jag har sett den 🙂