The fifth movie about Harry Potter is also one of the series best in my opinion.
This movie from 1977 is Quentin Tarantinos favorite war movie. He is probably going to make a remake of this movie(or maybe multiple movies), as he has written a 600 page script.
'I know who killed me' is an interesting thriller, about a girl beeing kidnapped and tortured by a serial killer, but when she manages to escape, she's a complete different person, has she had an amnesia or is it something else going on?
Based on a true story, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson plays the lead as Sean Porter, a frustrated parole officer for criminal youth. He decides to create a football team and teach these young men dicipline.
'Civic duty' is about a paranoid american man who have just lost his job. He begins spying on his new neighbor, an apparant middle-eastern looking man.
My god what a movie! I don't think I have ever seen more people get shot by 'our hero', then in this one.
Eastwoods 'twin' movie to 'Flags of our fathers' is seen from the japanese perspective.
I must say I was a bit disappointed. I think 'Flags..' is a great movie, and expected this to be as well, but as a friend of mine said: 'It's missing a bit of Eastwoods magic'
Not to say it's a bad movie, but I perhaps expected to much. It has an interesting story, and good visuals, but it didn't quite 'make me care' as much as 'Flags..'
Rating: 4 of 6
'1408' is a psycological thriller based on a Stephen King novel.
The main character(John Cusack) is dared to stay at a certain room at The Dolphin Hotel, an evil room supposedly. Samuel L. Jackson plays the hotel manager who tries to talk him out of staying at this room. The room manifests ones personal hell it seems.. An evil room.
Great acting, particularly by John Cusack, he is alone in a room most of the movie! a great performance.
The story is good, and you never guess what comes next. A lot of scares. Nailbiting atmosphere, great visual effects, thrilling music/sound effects makes one hell of a thrilling ride!
Rating: 5 of 6
Finally, a great western! The first really good one in several years. Featuring two great actors; Russel Crowe and Christian Bale.
Superbad is a comedy that had me laughing hard at times. It's about two best friends soon going of to college, partying, getting with girls for the first time. But it's not as typical as it may sound. The charcters are much weirder than usually in such comedys.
The two main characters are okay, but the prize goes to their friend Fogel, who makes a fake ID-card where he calls himself Mclovin, with no firstname! Not to mention the two cops, they are insanely funny!
All in all a great comedy, whose only problem is that it's a bit to long. Nearly two hours should have been trimmed down to one hour thirty minutes or less. But the people who made this movie, also made 'Knocked up' and '40 year old virgin', which both had the exact same problem in my opinon.
Rating 4 of 6
'Flags of our fathers' is directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg, as one of two war movies released simultaneously, the other being 'Letters from Iwo-Jima'.
Michael Moore's documentary 'Sicko' is about americas healthcare flaws compared with how it's done in other countries, like britain and france. Where healthcare is'nt private but controlled by the state, and free for all, and people don't need medical insurance to get the treatmeant that is necessary. Prisoners at the guantanamo base in Cuba even get better medical care, without paying for it, than the average american.
However, this film is mostly about the americans who actually have insurance, and all the troubles they face getting help when they get injured or sick. It's all about money, and apparently denying claims is really good for business.
No, this documentary is not objective, and yes it does paint with a broad brush to get it's message through. But all the same it's a good documentary, well worth watching.
Rating: 4/5 of 6
The third part of this triology sees some great new characters played by Chow Yun-Fat and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones(!).
The second pirates movie continues more or less where the first one ended. Again, this is another great action adventure movie for boys and men of all ages, just like the first one! But it is also a typical 'middle movie' in a trilogy(think matrix reloaded, the two towers etc) What I mean by this is that it focuses a lot on the action part, but not so much on the story. But this was to be expected, and the movie is still great.
This is a movie for boys and men of all ages! A superb action/adventure movie! Spectacular visual effects, great story, often funny, many exellent actors doing a really good job of entertaining.
Johnny Depp impresses the most in his portrayal of infamous pirate captain Jack Sparrow. All in all this is an instant classic.
Rating: 6 of 6
Hot Rod is a very funny flick! I laughed so hard I almost peed myself! It's about a guy who wants to become a stuntman, like his dad was, before he was killed. Rod lives with his mom, half brother and step father. He and his step father constantly gets in hysterically funny fights! But suddenly the stepfather becomes very ill. Rod and his friends decides to have a fundraiser stuntshow live on AM radio to save his life, so Rod can kick his ass!
I don't want to say anything else, watch it for yourself, you wont be disappointed, unless you are a moron.
Rating: 5 of 6
The sequel to Hostel received a 20 year age limit exactly like the first one(at least in Norway) I'm not sure if this is just a PR gimmick, but anyway it gives a clue that this is not a movie for the fainth of hearted..
This time around it focuses more on the guys paying money to kill people, and the victims this time are girls, in the first movie it was about some guys backpacing in Europe. Both movies portray Europe as some sort of dark medieval place, very stereotype, but this didn't matter much to me, I liked both movies. But as pointed out before; you have to have a strong stomach.
Rating: 5 of 6
Warrior King is a thai martial arts movie. Starring Tony Jaa, for some known from 'Ong Bak'. If you want good acting or story, look elsewhere. This is an all out knucklefest from begining to end. The story is actually so bad it hurts! Someone steals a couple of elephants, and our hero seeks revenge and his elephants back! But the martial arts scenes are some of the best I have ever seen on film, they totally rock! And luckily there are many of them.
After a boring first halfhour, the rest of the movie is martial arts mayhem all the way. Mostly thaiboxing combined with unbeliveable physical stunts. If you are a martial arts fan watch it!
Rating: 4 of 6
'War' is an action movie starring Jet Li and Jason Statham, they have played opposite each other in a movie before, The One, from year 2000. In 'War' Statham plays a cop and Jet Li plays an assassin. Great action, and interesting story with some surprising, and it must be said; unrealstic, story twists.
But all in all this one is a winner. Not as much kung fu from Jet Li as some would like, but I didn't care. He is very good in this movie nevertheless. And there is kung fu in this movie, it's just not a kung fu movie.
Rating: 5 of 6
Spider-man 3 is better than the second movie, but not as good as the first. Fortunately Sam Raimi has directed all three movies. Some people didn't like this one, but I don't see why. It has more action, more badguys, as well as the 'inner conflict thing' going on. Sure some of it is a bit stupid(i.e. the black alien stuff that makes you bad..), and not very realistic, but it's not meant to be!
It's a superhero movie, so if you want pure drama, watch something else.
Rating: 5 of 6
Robert Rodriguez' Planet Terror, was the part of the grindhouse project I was looking least forward to, but I was blown away by it! Damn cool movie, and better than Deathproof in my opinion. Great dialogue, fun action and charaters appearing that we have seen before in the Tarantino/Rodriguez universe.
The tagline sais it all: Humanity's last hope... Rests on a high power machine gun!
Rating: 5/6 of 6
Deathproof is writer/director Quentin Tarantino's 6th film as director(he has also written the script for Natural born killers and True romance, as well as acted in and/or produced other movies as well).
Anyway, he is one of my alltime favorite directors, and I love his movies! So needless to say, I was looking forward to this one. The first time I saw it I was actually a bit disappointed, sure it has great dialouge and cool action as allways with Tarantino, buth it took longer then usually to get really involved, and the dialouge and characters were not as cool as in his other movies.
But this is Tarantino, and this is good. And after watching it a second time, I liked it better.
Rating: 5 of 6
Sunshine is a sci-fi movie that is somewhat realistic, it could happen. The film is directed by Danny Boyle(Trainspotting, The Beach). It's about a crew in a spaceship sent out to save the earth, because the sun is dying.