Posts Tagged ‘movie’
Last Updated on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 11:12
Written by robfm
Tuesday, 27 January 2009 04:39
For SMEX 60 we stayed close to Opera. Meeting up on Park Lounge, where I’m sure deep and philosophical conversations took place (I wouldn’t know since I arrived late). Our fearless board member (Adam) asked for volunteers to accompany him early to the kino se he could return an extra ticket, and after a total of zero hands going up, promptly left alone. After a few relaxing minutes and a stop at Deli de Lucca to load up on supplies, we where on our way to watch The Spirit at Ringen 1.
The Spirit was written and directed by Frank Miller, who was involved on Sin City and 300, and this clearly shows in the style of the movie feel. In fact, by the end of the movie I got the impression that the whole Sin City look & feel The Spirit has, is just Miller’s attempt to get one more movie out the software used before. But even though the gratuitous atmosphere doesn’t fit into the story as well as in Sin City, it’s not so bad that it get in the way of the story. The story itself had almost no twist or mysteries, it feels like your typical comic book mystery: simple and unsurprising. And while I didn’t find it boring, I knew exactly where the story was going from the beginning.
Ironically, except for the actual Spirit, the rest of The Spirit cast is pretty well known. Samuel L Jackson plays the demented and very funny bad guy called the Octopus. His sidekick is played by Scarlet Johansson, which appears a lot less sexy a she could be, in contrast with Eve Mendes, playing the Not-So-Bad-Girl, which looks as sexy as she needs to be. There is also a policewomen character which seems to have been pulled from Police Academy 7, yes, she is that bad.
Overall, I had a good time watching The Spirit. Maybe it was because I had low expectations coming in, or maybe the pre-movie beer helped, or my brain was still stuck in “what-an-awful-movie” mode from last week’s The Transporter, and this was just what it needed: a fun movie.
Tags: COMIC, movie, NAZI | Posted under Reviews | 3 Comments
Last Updated on Monday, 1 December 2008 07:58
Written by espen
Monday, 19 May 2008 09:34
We are in 2035 some 25 years after an outbreak of a deadly and unstoppable virus in Scotland. The government in London decided at the time of the outbreak to refit Hadrian’s wall to prevent anyone and anyhing to escape from Scotland and let nature settle things by itself inside the confined area. This version of the wall is made out of steel and guarded by some rather effective fully automatic sentry guns so England’s “Endlösung” proved pretty effective for many years.
But nature is smarter and the virus manage to cross the border and soon a team of soldiers and scientists are headed into the death zone with the mission to capture a method or knowledge of how to make a vaccine.
One know that “something” has survived the virus, and luckily for us, the spectators, the “something” turns out be true madmen that live in full anarchy with the acquired habit of cannibalism. These people must have seen Mad Max before the disaster because the hairstyle and behavior is back in high fashion. There are other groups of surviving people as well, and these people apparently preferred the worst aspects of the medieval and roman time epochs when they decided how to run their societies. All in all, action movie lovers have nothing to fear.
I do not really think the owners of the Bentley brand are too happy to see that their model gets outrunned by some homemade junk. I have lost faith in Bentley and will never consider buying it. I am also skeptical that the GSM network is still operational in 2035, but maybe we’ll make everyhing backward compatible in the future.
Hoff says: “This movie had everything except a beach, and... The Hoff”
Tags: HOT CHICK, MALCOLM MCDOWELL, movie, review | Posted under Reviews | No Comments
Last Updated on Monday, 1 December 2008 08:03
Written by Atilla
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 06:52
If you had your … reservations about seing that movie – maybe you’ve been overthinking it too much.
While not worty for the “lotsablood” tag, nor filled with enragingly bad attempts of humor, nor bland as an English vegetable dish – all the stuf that seems to be on nowadays – it was still a very decent movie. With a cast of people that could at least remotely act. I swear we’ve seen so many pathetic attempts of acting, in the last few months, that I start feeling sorry for the ones who didn’t see that one. Not that it was something stunning and unforgettable, but at least it was done with desire.
It is the story of two broken minds, slowly detoriating mentally and emotionally towards the the final encounter in the story. After a foolish hit-and-run accident, a young boy looses his life. The culprit – a man who recently started having too much to loose – his relation with his son – decides to run away from the scene, after a short hesitation. The short hesitation however is enough to leave the image of the killer in the mind of the father of the unfortunate boy. A father, that in his mind has lost everything he has and slowly becomes obsessed with thoughts of revenge and misunderstood justice.
Both men are dragged down towards insanity as the endless feelings of guilt, fear, pain and rage haunt them day and night. The seemingly unrelated lives of those wrecks of families start to intertwine in the meantime, bringing the two men closer together to arrive at the point where the killer has to push forward the investigation of his own crime, on behalf of his client – the father of the deceased boy.
It’s a story of emotion and a lot of moral and human values. In a way, it reminds of “The night of the sunflowers” with its progression and the human emotions. One could also relate it to “Death Sentence”, only with – you know – real actors and some real human values in it. Even the “grown man crying” theme didn’t manage to get on my nerves this time. Somehow it always managed to fit in place.
Oh – it did contain the most natural, truthful and impressive scene of an enraged husband & wife pair I’ve ever seen. I seriously thought she’s about to just tear his head off his shoulders – any-second-now.
Hoff says: “If he'd been driving KITT with his night vision the whole accident could have been avoided”
Tags: grown men crying, movie, smexevent | Posted under Reviews | No Comments