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Last Updated on Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:24
Written by Atilla
Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:52
So, review is late. Again. Seems like that’s the trendy thing to do this summer. In my defense – my Zerg ate my review, so I had to write a new one.
Speaking of trendy things – Inception is a trending topic on Twitter for a second week now. Trusting a community that keeps Justin Bieber as a trending topic for over 6 months is never a good idea, but since they predicted the awesomeness of Kick Ass, I was really expecting a lot from Inception.
On to the chase. The night started rainy and gloomy, while some of us had sunburn from the day before. While upside-down-burgers were being eaten again, we got to discuss “paratrooping” with our newest movie-goer, in his first homeland appearance. Apparently what we talked about was so deep and engaging someone had to try to walk trough a door, which didn’t prove to be successful. A few pats on the back later we were in a packed cinema, watching what the Matrix should have really been.
Dreamworld, in a dreamworld, in a dreamworld. It’s a game with the ultimate creative desire – to play God and shape the world at your whim. The same idea that got you thinking in the Matrix works here, only expanded in a whole different way. Especially fascinating are the moments where you see how recursion and paradoxes can work in a really creative way, one that you’ve never imagined. Call me geeky.
The movie had me interested at minute 5 and didn’t let go until the end. There was 1 moment where they could have messed it up, had they pushed the lame talk a minute longer. Good thing they know their timing right and stopped before this ruined an otherwise 100% immersed experience. It’s a rare thing when a movie gets me like this and given the plot of the movie, it’s quite fitting that you get out of the movie hall, wondering what happened.
The cast is something special. Leo DiCaprio has definitely learned how to act, a long time ago and it shows. Plus he’s not the cute kid from Titanic anymore so he doesn’t make me twitch just by looking at him. The typical Hollywood hotties were also missing, substituted with two slightly strange looking chicks.
Generally speaking, this is a movie with lack of cliché. It gives you a bit of everything that makes a decent movie stick out and tops it with great ideas and splendid execution. One of the movies you know you’ll watch again and mention as a reference a few years down the line.
I really wish they made more of those.
Tags: beer, billabong, dreams, inception, Leonardo DiCaprio, matrix | Posted under Reviews | 4 Comments
Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 09:46
Written by Jeremy
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 02:13
On yet another not so sunny Sunday afternoon we met at Cafe Barbera for what promised to be an exciting SMEx. Our numbers were decimated by Illness and indifference towards Quentin Tarantino, meaning a turnout of nowhere near as many people as I expected.
I was a little apprehensive when going into this movie, I had known for a while it was going to be a difficult one for me. Being filmed with mostly German and French, I was going to have to use my limited knowledge of the Norwegian language to read subtitles to follow the plot. This was probably the thing which surprised me the most, the fact I could follow the plot!
The movie itself was not very surprising. I had been looking forward to seeing Inglourious Basterds for a while, with Tarantino apparently taking more than a decade to write the script I had high expectations. It turned out to be a very typical Tarantino movie, there was a very welcome dose of humor, gratuitous violence and some very stylish scenes and artistic shots.
The story follows the Basterds in their quest to rid France of the Nazi’s and all the way through to their attempt to end WWII. Inglourious Basterds shares a lot of the same satirical undertones with an old Kubrick classic and this film has some of the most original and funny characters i’ve seen in a war film since Full Metal Jacket. With Christoph Waltz‘s portrayal of the Jew hunter stealing the show for me personally, but with Brad Pitt and the other Basterds giving excellent performances too.
If I have to fault Tarantino, it feels like he has fallen into a rut and is maybe too stuck on the past. This film had the overuse of old style chaptering and sectioning like we saw in Kill Bill, along with the old fashioned techniques which could be found in Grindhouse (Death Proof)… and of course his trademark of dramatic music pieces out of place during the middle of a scene made a comeback. While I know he is always paying homage to filming techniques which he used to love as a child, it would be nice to have him shake up his style and produce something completely different. Maybe his talent is making arty films which get accepted by the mainstream but it would be nice to see him try something else, just to see if he could.
Don’t get me wrong though, its a very small blemish on what is otherwise a excellent movie. I’ve already watched it again with English subtitles to pick up on what I missed the first time round and I still thoroughly enjoyed it. With this probably being one of the last major releases of the Norwegian summer schedule, I have to look back and say that we’ve done really well, with a string of high quality movies with only a few piles of turd in between!
Tags: Action, beer, comedy, Quentin Tarantino, WWII | Posted under Reviews | 4 Comments
Last Updated on Monday, 1 December 2008 08:06
Written by ingunn
Wednesday, 23 April 2008 06:35
A terrific sunday evening that started with beers and a view of the pretty town hall. The movie following this adventure at least kept me in a fun mood.
Jerry (Mister Jack Black) destroys a video shops inventory with his magnetic forces, obtained by a sabotage mission with a debatable success. Although his condition turns out to be curable by nature, the tapes are still lost forever. To meet the customers demands, they started to create their own sweded versions of the movies, with great success! They had some very creative and enjoyable low expense solutions, which sometimes even included soundtracks.
This brilliant plot has a fun progression, and the movie is absolutely entertaining. Even though it has a surprisingly noticeable story of moral. Personally, I particularly enjoyed the falling scenes from Rush Hour 2. And that the movie shows that magnetism still is a catalyst for fun.
Hoff says: “Even Baywatch had better plots than this mess!”
Tags: be kind rewind, beer, comedy, homer simpson, smex, smexevent | Posted under Reviews | No Comments