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Movies of may
50. Aftermath - population zero
Very interesting.
51. Allegro
Seriously? I liked the narrator, but come on? Boring pseudo-Orpheus pretentious boring.
52. Thor
Surprisingly entertaining, even if the Asgard and Midgard parts felt a bit - poorly connected. Poor Coulson - it's not enough the world contains mutants, aliens and Tony Stark, now SHIELD has to deal with gods? And out of all the pantheons, they get the Norse? Darcy is love. Loki is - well, the movie should have ended with that boy getting a hug. He needs a hug. Just saying.
53. The Station Agent
Peter Dinklage is turning out to be a pretty cool actor *checks IMDB* Hmmm, now where might I find this Threshold...
54. Bibliotekstjuven
I really, really, really didn't like this. The main character was so completely and utterly unlikeable that it's not even funny - not to mention that it just didn't make sense. I mean, if you primarily value to prestige garnered from money, why the hell get an high-level academic education in the first place? Besides, the National Swedish Library felt pretty - empty? Seriously, one librarian for the archives? One?! What was this supposed to show me, working class rage against the system - it lost my respect pretty early on, when the main character changes his last name because it's too pedestrian. I mean, seriously? Seriously? Or is Sweden really that different from Denmark??? WTF
55. En forelskelse
I might have liked this better with another actor than Lars Brygmann, but I don't think so. I mean, it's a perfectly decent short movie, and I know the trope of the teenager crushing on an adult is old as sin, but I still find it kind of creepy. Sorry.
56. Humpday
I sat down to watch this fully prepared to be hopelessly embarassed-by-proxy - the subject and the fact that it was an American comedy kind of made me expect it. I wasn't. I was just bored. *yawn* Long rambling conversations mostly about nothing at all, and besides, I find the kind of oh-we-are-so-edgy-true-are-is-offensive idea boring, particularly when there idea of offensive is only offensive to the most extreme borgeouise and themselves...
57. Give 'em hell, Malone
You know the sort of movie that has all the right ingredients - ninja teenage girl, hero going to his mom at the retirement home to get stitched up, noir feeling, all that - but just doesn't manage to spark? That would be this one.
58. Supernatural season 5.
Yes, yes, I know, slow to get around to seeing stuff and all that - sorry :-( Loved Gabriel, loved Crowley and his hellhound, grumpy Bobby and slowly falling Castiel. That said, the storyline felt - too loose? Maybe? I mean, the whole season is supposed to be gearing up for the fullscale Apocalypse, yet it never quite manages to feel that way. Ah well... (also, is about a third of the way through season 6 and actually quite enjoying it - everybody's fucked up and nobody's communicating and the people who where allies, friends and maybe more facing a common enemy are now hopelessly fractured - don't get me wrong, I want to hit the lot of them half the time, but I still like the story - so far).
59. Prince of Persia - the Sands of Time
This movie is so obviously an attempt to cash in on the PotC succes that it's almost painful - lowborn young man andannoying feisty highborn woman, lovable scoundrels, fantasy element surprising everybody. And of course it's the vizier who wanted to be sultan instead of the sultan - wait, wrong Arabian Nights story. Anyway, it doesn't actually manage to be that engaging...
60. Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides
Well, the second and third had Norrington, but this one has a Jack that actually comes across as competent, so. I enjoyed it, but I don't think I'm going to back to the fandom for it - mind you, I might track down the book, see how much was copy-paste and all that. Maybe.
61. Death at a funeral
So, I might have decided from watching GoT that I need to watch more Peter Dinklage. Only, why was he in such a crappy movie? I mean, PD is fun and has amazing facial expressions, but come on. Please?
62. Fortunes of war
It's amazing how slow old tv series can feel. I mean, this is about 25 years old and it shows. Decent enough story, but still. Towards the end I caught myself wondering where they would have added the sex scenes if HBO had been making it today...
63. Naznaczony
Sometimes, television does offer some obscure gems. Right. Mild-mannered Polish math teacher Tadeusz Kral has a close encounter with a mysterious old man dressed in black (who I think looks a bit like Ian McKellan), and it leaves him with a nasty handshaped burn on his arm. He becomes obsessed with this man (ghost, demon, avenging angel?), and we follow him as he investigates, as his daughter starts manifesting a mysterious connection with the man in black and his wife worries (and her brother the psychologist would just like not to be caught in the middle). At the same time, episode after episode, we follow the man in black, The Unknown, as he glides through the world, a catalyst for violence and death - he seeks out people, giving them evidence, knowledge, to set events into motion, clues to old wrongs, guilty consciousses coming to the surface - tells a man his best friend molested his daughter, a woman that her fencing coach and not her sister killed the coach's husband - and things escalate and people die. His victims, though never by his own hand - his victims, that he seems to feed on?. And he strikes out the name of someone who had done something so very wrong, a name that just appeared? in his little notebook. Not that he's a nice person rigting wrongs - he doesn't care about collatoral damage, for one thing - on the other hand, neither does he ever quite manage to be a monster, even once stepping in to give a young man a chance to right his wrong before everything's completely lost. Throughout the series we - and Tadeusz - learn more about the man in black, and about what Tadeusz did to get his name in the book (not so mild-mannered after all) - and off to the side there are Catholic monks keeping mysterious secrets dating back to the middle ages, a secret police group hunting the man in black for unknown purposes of their own, and a very neat weaving together of story threads that even manages to give nods to minor characters from early in the show later on. And it is good. I kind of hate that it is good - it's the sort of fantastic genre tv that only uses special effects sparingly and mostly of the sort you see in crime shows - blood and explosions - the sort that Danish tv ought to be able to make just fine. So why don't they? *pouts*
Very interesting.
51. Allegro
Seriously? I liked the narrator, but come on? Boring pseudo-Orpheus pretentious boring.
52. Thor
Surprisingly entertaining, even if the Asgard and Midgard parts felt a bit - poorly connected. Poor Coulson - it's not enough the world contains mutants, aliens and Tony Stark, now SHIELD has to deal with gods? And out of all the pantheons, they get the Norse? Darcy is love. Loki is - well, the movie should have ended with that boy getting a hug. He needs a hug. Just saying.
53. The Station Agent
Peter Dinklage is turning out to be a pretty cool actor *checks IMDB* Hmmm, now where might I find this Threshold...
54. Bibliotekstjuven
I really, really, really didn't like this. The main character was so completely and utterly unlikeable that it's not even funny - not to mention that it just didn't make sense. I mean, if you primarily value to prestige garnered from money, why the hell get an high-level academic education in the first place? Besides, the National Swedish Library felt pretty - empty? Seriously, one librarian for the archives? One?! What was this supposed to show me, working class rage against the system - it lost my respect pretty early on, when the main character changes his last name because it's too pedestrian. I mean, seriously? Seriously? Or is Sweden really that different from Denmark??? WTF
55. En forelskelse
I might have liked this better with another actor than Lars Brygmann, but I don't think so. I mean, it's a perfectly decent short movie, and I know the trope of the teenager crushing on an adult is old as sin, but I still find it kind of creepy. Sorry.
56. Humpday
I sat down to watch this fully prepared to be hopelessly embarassed-by-proxy - the subject and the fact that it was an American comedy kind of made me expect it. I wasn't. I was just bored. *yawn* Long rambling conversations mostly about nothing at all, and besides, I find the kind of oh-we-are-so-edgy-true-are-is-offensive idea boring, particularly when there idea of offensive is only offensive to the most extreme borgeouise and themselves...
57. Give 'em hell, Malone
You know the sort of movie that has all the right ingredients - ninja teenage girl, hero going to his mom at the retirement home to get stitched up, noir feeling, all that - but just doesn't manage to spark? That would be this one.
58. Supernatural season 5.
Yes, yes, I know, slow to get around to seeing stuff and all that - sorry :-( Loved Gabriel, loved Crowley and his hellhound, grumpy Bobby and slowly falling Castiel. That said, the storyline felt - too loose? Maybe? I mean, the whole season is supposed to be gearing up for the fullscale Apocalypse, yet it never quite manages to feel that way. Ah well... (also, is about a third of the way through season 6 and actually quite enjoying it - everybody's fucked up and nobody's communicating and the people who where allies, friends and maybe more facing a common enemy are now hopelessly fractured - don't get me wrong, I want to hit the lot of them half the time, but I still like the story - so far).
59. Prince of Persia - the Sands of Time
This movie is so obviously an attempt to cash in on the PotC succes that it's almost painful - lowborn young man and
60. Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides
Well, the second and third had Norrington, but this one has a Jack that actually comes across as competent, so. I enjoyed it, but I don't think I'm going to back to the fandom for it - mind you, I might track down the book, see how much was copy-paste and all that. Maybe.
61. Death at a funeral
So, I might have decided from watching GoT that I need to watch more Peter Dinklage. Only, why was he in such a crappy movie? I mean, PD is fun and has amazing facial expressions, but come on. Please?
62. Fortunes of war
It's amazing how slow old tv series can feel. I mean, this is about 25 years old and it shows. Decent enough story, but still. Towards the end I caught myself wondering where they would have added the sex scenes if HBO had been making it today...
63. Naznaczony
Sometimes, television does offer some obscure gems. Right. Mild-mannered Polish math teacher Tadeusz Kral has a close encounter with a mysterious old man dressed in black (who I think looks a bit like Ian McKellan), and it leaves him with a nasty handshaped burn on his arm. He becomes obsessed with this man (ghost, demon, avenging angel?), and we follow him as he investigates, as his daughter starts manifesting a mysterious connection with the man in black and his wife worries (and her brother the psychologist would just like not to be caught in the middle). At the same time, episode after episode, we follow the man in black, The Unknown, as he glides through the world, a catalyst for violence and death - he seeks out people, giving them evidence, knowledge, to set events into motion, clues to old wrongs, guilty consciousses coming to the surface - tells a man his best friend molested his daughter, a woman that her fencing coach and not her sister killed the coach's husband - and things escalate and people die. His victims, though never by his own hand - his victims, that he seems to feed on?. And he strikes out the name of someone who had done something so very wrong, a name that just appeared? in his little notebook. Not that he's a nice person rigting wrongs - he doesn't care about collatoral damage, for one thing - on the other hand, neither does he ever quite manage to be a monster, even once stepping in to give a young man a chance to right his wrong before everything's completely lost. Throughout the series we - and Tadeusz - learn more about the man in black, and about what Tadeusz did to get his name in the book (not so mild-mannered after all) - and off to the side there are Catholic monks keeping mysterious secrets dating back to the middle ages, a secret police group hunting the man in black for unknown purposes of their own, and a very neat weaving together of story threads that even manages to give nods to minor characters from early in the show later on. And it is good. I kind of hate that it is good - it's the sort of fantastic genre tv that only uses special effects sparingly and mostly of the sort you see in crime shows - blood and explosions - the sort that Danish tv ought to be able to make just fine. So why don't they? *pouts*