EL MARIACHI (1992)
Watchable. A perfectly acted, apparently by amateurs, movie with lots of style. A bit too slow at times.
Monday 30 June 2014
Monday 23 June 2014
Thursday 19 June 2014
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Watchable. The film shows how reaction times vary between generations. For me the first half an hour is at the gamers' speed. Then it slows down a little bit and you can appreciate the occasional humour, e.g. the threat: "The boat is flammable, we're in the ocean. How's your swimming?" "Very poor." The middle part is an "Avatar" rip-off and towards the end it heavily draws on "LOTR". The best thing though is that it's full of love for animals. Kids should see it for educational purposes.
Watchable. The film shows how reaction times vary between generations. For me the first half an hour is at the gamers' speed. Then it slows down a little bit and you can appreciate the occasional humour, e.g. the threat: "The boat is flammable, we're in the ocean. How's your swimming?" "Very poor." The middle part is an "Avatar" rip-off and towards the end it heavily draws on "LOTR". The best thing though is that it's full of love for animals. Kids should see it for educational purposes.
Sunday 15 June 2014
GRACE OF MONACO
Watchable. An inspiring story told in a cheesy and dull way.
CHENNAI EXPRESS
Watchable. A comedy which is funny but silly.
GOLIYON KI RAASLEELA RAM-LEELA
Watchable. First I went through the ludicrous film to see Priyanka Chopra and then I continued to see the non-standard ending.
HUNDRAARINGEN SOM KLEV UT GENOM FONSTRET OCH FORSVANN (THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED)
Watchable. Slow and painfully boring with a handful of funny scenes in between. I liked the one with a hammer on a construction site best. But most of the story is like Forrest Gump in a dark comedy way.
JASKOLKA
Walked out. Why would anyone sit watching some degenerate weirdoes?
NIGHT FILM MARATHON: THE X-MEN NIGHT
X-MEN 2
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
THE WOLVERINE (2013)
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
Watchable. Seen for the umpteenth time all earlier parts were still fun you didn't want to sleep through even if a little tacky. The new Bryan Singer film brings nothing you haven't seen in the cinema before, yet delightfully mocks some good oldies - the spoofs of "Terminator" and "Inception" are just disarming.
The trailer at the end of the latest instalment shows a cult in ancient Egypt. I wonder what that is going to be...
FADING GIGOLO
Watchable. Fading Woody Allen lacks energy but some lines were funny, e.g. "Have you got any children?" "Six. I wanted to have more but I took a while to get pregnant."
BELLE ET SEBASTIEN
Recommended. A beautiful fairy-tale-like story about the love of nature, animals and fellow humans.
LA VENUS A LA FOURRURE
Recommended. Two actors completely steal the show. You become engulfed in the ambiguities of their relation.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Watchable. An interesting personality. Sadly, the film covers only a short excerpt of his life skipping both his growing up and upbringing and his death, we only see him young and successful. The French, as usual, focus on sex life.
POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE - YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE ONE
Recommended. An endearing tale of a nice neighbourly chap and a crazed corporate psycho with lots of hints at pop culture. The cat is cute.
THE NIGHT OF CINEMA
WALESA. CZLOWIEK Z NADZIEI (WALESA. MAN OF HOPE)
Recommended. Accurately and convincingly recreated communist-time reality togehter with suspense worthy of a crime story. Walesa is portrayed as a people's man, fearless, active, with lots of common man's common sense.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Recommended. A masterpiece in a league of its own. The storyline is unique, the acting superb. The costumes play with the bowler hat gentlemanly stereotype. And movie psychos rarely get as good as Alex.
The comparison of Poland and the UK of the 70s in the above movies leads to two conclusions: In those dark ages smoking was ubiquitous Europe-wise. The differences in the working class standard of living were drastic.
LAST VEGAS
Watchable. Not really funny but truly warm and light-hearted, showing there is life on retirement. All grumpy old people should see it.
WARSZAWA 1935
Watchable. Most of the film is too dark for already-darkening 3D glasses. Otherwise it's an interesting recreation of my home city at times when it was different beyond recognition.
Watchable. An inspiring story told in a cheesy and dull way.
CHENNAI EXPRESS
Watchable. A comedy which is funny but silly.
GOLIYON KI RAASLEELA RAM-LEELA
Watchable. First I went through the ludicrous film to see Priyanka Chopra and then I continued to see the non-standard ending.
HUNDRAARINGEN SOM KLEV UT GENOM FONSTRET OCH FORSVANN (THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED)
Watchable. Slow and painfully boring with a handful of funny scenes in between. I liked the one with a hammer on a construction site best. But most of the story is like Forrest Gump in a dark comedy way.
JASKOLKA
Walked out. Why would anyone sit watching some degenerate weirdoes?
NIGHT FILM MARATHON: THE X-MEN NIGHT
X-MEN 2
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
THE WOLVERINE (2013)
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
Watchable. Seen for the umpteenth time all earlier parts were still fun you didn't want to sleep through even if a little tacky. The new Bryan Singer film brings nothing you haven't seen in the cinema before, yet delightfully mocks some good oldies - the spoofs of "Terminator" and "Inception" are just disarming.
The trailer at the end of the latest instalment shows a cult in ancient Egypt. I wonder what that is going to be...
FADING GIGOLO
Watchable. Fading Woody Allen lacks energy but some lines were funny, e.g. "Have you got any children?" "Six. I wanted to have more but I took a while to get pregnant."
BELLE ET SEBASTIEN
Recommended. A beautiful fairy-tale-like story about the love of nature, animals and fellow humans.
LA VENUS A LA FOURRURE
Recommended. Two actors completely steal the show. You become engulfed in the ambiguities of their relation.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Watchable. An interesting personality. Sadly, the film covers only a short excerpt of his life skipping both his growing up and upbringing and his death, we only see him young and successful. The French, as usual, focus on sex life.
POSTMAN PAT: THE MOVIE - YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE ONE
Recommended. An endearing tale of a nice neighbourly chap and a crazed corporate psycho with lots of hints at pop culture. The cat is cute.
THE NIGHT OF CINEMA
WALESA. CZLOWIEK Z NADZIEI (WALESA. MAN OF HOPE)
Recommended. Accurately and convincingly recreated communist-time reality togehter with suspense worthy of a crime story. Walesa is portrayed as a people's man, fearless, active, with lots of common man's common sense.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Recommended. A masterpiece in a league of its own. The storyline is unique, the acting superb. The costumes play with the bowler hat gentlemanly stereotype. And movie psychos rarely get as good as Alex.
The comparison of Poland and the UK of the 70s in the above movies leads to two conclusions: In those dark ages smoking was ubiquitous Europe-wise. The differences in the working class standard of living were drastic.
LAST VEGAS
Watchable. Not really funny but truly warm and light-hearted, showing there is life on retirement. All grumpy old people should see it.
WARSZAWA 1935
Watchable. Most of the film is too dark for already-darkening 3D glasses. Otherwise it's an interesting recreation of my home city at times when it was different beyond recognition.
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