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46. When the last sword is drawn
Quite interesting, but I would probably have appreciated it more if I had known more about the time period...
47. The hunt for Gollum
This is a very nice little movie - and considering that it's fan made, it's awesome. Especially the computer graphics. But I think its weakest point is the actors - not as actors, but it seems like they have spent more time finding actors who could look like Aragorn as seen in Peter Jackson's movies than Aragorn from the books, if that makes any sense?
48. Indomptable Angélique
And it started so well - a beautiful young noblewoman has found out that her dead husband is not so dead after all, so off she goes to find him, even if the 17th century Mediterranean isn't the world's safest place. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the last actual act the lady gets to take - she is captured by pirates, beaten, raped, subjected to torture by room full of cats and finally sold as a slave. As luck would have it, her husband - who has been off being a pirate lord complete with secret lair only accessible by Jules Verne-style submersible - buys her and they have a happy reunion for about five minutes. Then he proves exactly how immature and not worth keeping he is by throwing a fit about how his wife - the woman he has never even bothered to try to inform that her status of widow, well, wasn't - must have cheated on him with the French king (she hasn't) (also - did I mention that his secret pirate lair came complete with harem - hypocrite). Mind you, the sets are lovely, but the story - grrr. Show a little more detail in a couple of scenes and we might have had an s/m porn movie here.
49. In Bruges
Culture clash is always fun.
50. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
One good thing about this movie - it very quickly shows you exactly how much suspension of disbelief you're going to have to have. I mean, even if the lead in a common refrigerator was enough to protect against a full nuclear bomb worth of radiation, then the flight and landing should have broken every bone in his body two times over - unless he has some magical immunity leftover from the Grail or something...
51. Angélique et le sultan
Kidnapped by pirates - again - and sold to a sultan. I've figured out what really annoys me about these movies - it's Angélique and the fact that she never even really tries to have agency. Everything that happens in this movie, happens to her. Sold, in harem, flees, saved - others act. Even the only other major female acts. But Angélique? Stupid goose simpers and says no occasionally and never actually is anything except an idiot.
52. Jungfrukällan
Medieval stories aren't very bright, are they - and this blond wasn't, either. Not that I ever managed to develop any sympathy for the spoiled, blond chick...
53. Banlieue 13
The setting is basically stupid and the way the only female character is treated is chilling, but the two male main characters have a fun relationship with handcuffs, even if that doesn't really make up for anything. Watch it for le parkour, if you watch...
54. The rising - the ballad of Mangal Pandey
The East Indian Company make an excellent villain and they have nicer uniforms than in PotC, but - well, the problem with this movie isn't actually a problem. It's just that it's very patriotic in the way that the audience is supposed to be emotionally invested in and, well, I'm not. Intellectually I can get the conflicts and points, but I can't really get the emotions - besides, part of me can't help but wonder why they couldn't just sort the bullets... Anyway, there is a brief glimpse of the British steamships approaching, which is pure dystopian steampunk. Just saying.
55. Terminator: the Sarah Connor chronicles season 1.
Quite good, though I would have loved to see some more readjusting after the time jump. Also, I can't help but finding it a little unrealistic for a hacker to be nine years out of date and still at the top of his game, but maybe I just don't know enough about hacking...
56. Tre mand frem for en trold
A slightly too smart journalist and a not particularly smart nature photographer enlist the help of reluctant folklore expert and go to Sweden to find a troll, and pretty soon they find a pretty girl who might or might not be a huldre. Sounds like a fantasy story, right? Except while it's never actually stated, then the photographer comes across a somewhat autistic and the girl is pretty much the naive and somewhat fey girl stereotype, and, well, the whole thing turns out to be a reasonably sweet romance between two (what's the pc term - mentally challenged?) people. The funniest parts are actually the brief glimpses of the Copenhagen newspaper office, with printers arguing about whether trolls and politics have anything to do with one another, and the editor having a phone conversation with an old lady who swears she saw a troll in Ørstedparken (I have no idea what reputation Ørstedparken had in the 60's, but the modern day reputation gave me certain suspicions about what she actually saw...)
57. Pushing daisies season 1.
The style of this kind of reminded me of the French movie Amelie, except not as fun. Still, quite sweet, even when it ought to have been macabre.
Quite interesting, but I would probably have appreciated it more if I had known more about the time period...
47. The hunt for Gollum
This is a very nice little movie - and considering that it's fan made, it's awesome. Especially the computer graphics. But I think its weakest point is the actors - not as actors, but it seems like they have spent more time finding actors who could look like Aragorn as seen in Peter Jackson's movies than Aragorn from the books, if that makes any sense?
48. Indomptable Angélique
And it started so well - a beautiful young noblewoman has found out that her dead husband is not so dead after all, so off she goes to find him, even if the 17th century Mediterranean isn't the world's safest place. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the last actual act the lady gets to take - she is captured by pirates, beaten, raped, subjected to torture by room full of cats and finally sold as a slave. As luck would have it, her husband - who has been off being a pirate lord complete with secret lair only accessible by Jules Verne-style submersible - buys her and they have a happy reunion for about five minutes. Then he proves exactly how immature and not worth keeping he is by throwing a fit about how his wife - the woman he has never even bothered to try to inform that her status of widow, well, wasn't - must have cheated on him with the French king (she hasn't) (also - did I mention that his secret pirate lair came complete with harem - hypocrite). Mind you, the sets are lovely, but the story - grrr. Show a little more detail in a couple of scenes and we might have had an s/m porn movie here.
49. In Bruges
Culture clash is always fun.
50. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
One good thing about this movie - it very quickly shows you exactly how much suspension of disbelief you're going to have to have. I mean, even if the lead in a common refrigerator was enough to protect against a full nuclear bomb worth of radiation, then the flight and landing should have broken every bone in his body two times over - unless he has some magical immunity leftover from the Grail or something...
51. Angélique et le sultan
Kidnapped by pirates - again - and sold to a sultan. I've figured out what really annoys me about these movies - it's Angélique and the fact that she never even really tries to have agency. Everything that happens in this movie, happens to her. Sold, in harem, flees, saved - others act. Even the only other major female acts. But Angélique? Stupid goose simpers and says no occasionally and never actually is anything except an idiot.
52. Jungfrukällan
Medieval stories aren't very bright, are they - and this blond wasn't, either. Not that I ever managed to develop any sympathy for the spoiled, blond chick...
53. Banlieue 13
The setting is basically stupid and the way the only female character is treated is chilling, but the two male main characters have a fun relationship with handcuffs, even if that doesn't really make up for anything. Watch it for le parkour, if you watch...
54. The rising - the ballad of Mangal Pandey
The East Indian Company make an excellent villain and they have nicer uniforms than in PotC, but - well, the problem with this movie isn't actually a problem. It's just that it's very patriotic in the way that the audience is supposed to be emotionally invested in and, well, I'm not. Intellectually I can get the conflicts and points, but I can't really get the emotions - besides, part of me can't help but wonder why they couldn't just sort the bullets... Anyway, there is a brief glimpse of the British steamships approaching, which is pure dystopian steampunk. Just saying.
55. Terminator: the Sarah Connor chronicles season 1.
Quite good, though I would have loved to see some more readjusting after the time jump. Also, I can't help but finding it a little unrealistic for a hacker to be nine years out of date and still at the top of his game, but maybe I just don't know enough about hacking...
56. Tre mand frem for en trold
A slightly too smart journalist and a not particularly smart nature photographer enlist the help of reluctant folklore expert and go to Sweden to find a troll, and pretty soon they find a pretty girl who might or might not be a huldre. Sounds like a fantasy story, right? Except while it's never actually stated, then the photographer comes across a somewhat autistic and the girl is pretty much the naive and somewhat fey girl stereotype, and, well, the whole thing turns out to be a reasonably sweet romance between two (what's the pc term - mentally challenged?) people. The funniest parts are actually the brief glimpses of the Copenhagen newspaper office, with printers arguing about whether trolls and politics have anything to do with one another, and the editor having a phone conversation with an old lady who swears she saw a troll in Ørstedparken (I have no idea what reputation Ørstedparken had in the 60's, but the modern day reputation gave me certain suspicions about what she actually saw...)
57. Pushing daisies season 1.
The style of this kind of reminded me of the French movie Amelie, except not as fun. Still, quite sweet, even when it ought to have been macabre.