Movies of november and december

[oneiriad]

108. Om Shanti Om
The plot is alright, but I'd probably have appreciated it more if I actually knew a bit about Bollywood.

109. The Wire season 4.
Remains awesome.

110. Heroes season 1.
Yeah, I know - way behind everybody else. I don't know, it's a bit of a slow start, partly because of the many characters. But there are fun bits, although I most confess not getting what everybody seems to see in Peter Petrelli.

111. New Moon
Not as fun and snarkable as the first. Also, the werewolves are yet another entry on the loooooooooooooooong lists of not-quite-convincing movie werewolves, even if they are shaggy-cute. Also, I'd just like to point out that some guy standing halfnaked in an Italian town and sparkling would not, in any universe that hasn't had Twilight as a fictional creating, scream OMG vampires are real! Personally, I'd suspect the guy of having lost a bet with his baby sister and being covered in some form of pretty princess sparkles. If he had to be something supernatural, wouldn't a fairy or maybe a shapeshifting unicorn be more obvious guesses - or pretty much anything other than vampires - creatures of the dark, you know? Or maybe that's just me.

112. Serial Experiments: Lain
Kind of weird, but good. Also, it's always fun seeing the weird "internets" people came up with before and in the early days of the internet, so to speak.

113. CSI: Miami season 7.
Am I the only one who has realized that CSI: Miami is secretly a cyberpunk series? Even if we disregard the casual use of supercomputers and usual forensic phlebotinum, there's the tendency to display awesome technological gadgets and 20 minutes into tomorrow weapons, the occasional company outside of the law and the medical technology that is obviously futuristic - getting shot in the head is easily recovered from with minimal fuss and plastic surgery must be not just cheap, but compulsory (unless there's some eugenics program going on behind the scenes, which would explain the huge number of supermodel women types everywhere just as well) - and then there's the sunglasses.

114. The Wire season 5.
OMG - they shot Omar. Bastards.

115. Dexter season 3.
Favourite serial killer not going quite as strong as he used to, but still fun.

116. Push
Average movie with pretty nice special effects - but can someone explain to me why every new story with people-with-powers requires a whole new vocabulary of increasingly un-intuitive terms?

117. Supernatural season 3.
The boys are still pretty - also, you could have knocked me down with a feather when I realized that the channel would be continuing with season 4. immediately, rather than waiting a year.

118. Luftslottet som sprängdes
Better than the reviewers let on - I suspect one of the problems are that the series play with a new genre in every book / movie. The first was basic murder mystery, the second was a crime-thriller and the third is more political thriller / espionage games. I wonder how many books it would have taken Stieg Larsson to getting around to chick-lit ;-)

119. St. Trinian's
Rupert Everett makes one ugly woman. Just saying. Apart from that, an awesome movie :-)

120.Der bewegte Mann
Axel reminds me a little of Jason Stackhouse - he's an asshole, but he's quite hot and reasonably nice most of the time and mostly just way too heterosexual for his own good and really not very smart at all.

121. Jul i Gammelby
Yay for classic christmas calendar, but with older and more jaded eyes its, well, maybe not the best choice. I mean, in this age of financial crises we are offered a story about a family, where the father cancels Christmas solely due to financial problems and is met with a terrorist campaign by children and nisser who can only think of correcting his anti-Christmas attitude (which isn't as much humbug as christmas is silly but harmless, let's sell stuff to people, but oh no, my ship is probably sunk, I am probably ruined, oh no, must cancel Christmas party) and not giving a single thought to actually trying to solve the actual problems.

122. Sherlock Holmes
Awesome. RDJ is one of the coolest Sherlock Holmes' I've ever seen and the vision of London is cool and slightly steampunky. Jude Law's Dr. Watson is fun too, and I might be inclined to read Holmes/Watson/Mary stories - because that would be awesome. However, the version of Irene Adler left me unmoved apart from annoyance.

123. Avatar
Also awesome. A movie that really needs to be seen in a cinema with 3D and everything - even if the plot is mostly dances with smurfs. That said, between this and District 9 I think I've seen enough humans are bastards - redemption equals turning into alien species - science fiction. When will we get the science fiction first contact between humans and alien species movie where the aliens are really alien and really surprisingly like us and everybody is excited and squeefull and learning languages and having cultural misunderstandings and soldiers posturing and finally the world is saved through the sheer power of squee on both sides? You know, a movie about how it would be cool if it really happened for everybody involved, not just the latest repeat of apartheid / colonialism / poor treatment of refugees / exploitation IN SPACE!

124. De vilde svaner
Nice design (of course, it would probably be some sort of insulting of the monarchy to think otherwise ;-), but the acting is stilted and the narrator is freaking annoying - there is no need to narrate what someone is saying when they are right there on the screen saying it! Also, it feels pretty unreasolved - what about the evil queen? For that matter, why did 11 full-grown swans not just beat her to death in the tower to begin with? I mean, swans aren't really something you want to get close to?

125. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Pretty typical Terry Gilliam, really - and not as fun as I had hoped, but the Johnny Depp cameo is fun, especially since he pretty much plays some random rich woman's wet dream :-) Which is very appropriate, don't you think?

Comments

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I agree about Irene Adler. I think that it's because they made her 'weakness' Holmes. The Adler from the stories would never have let a man be her weakness.