It's quite a deja vu from the Napoleon theater experience, watching a very expensive looking farce. The story is quite ridiculous and the film never managed to pull me in. The characters are charicatures and sometimes unintentially funny. Even the action sometimes looks weird and over edited, with sections visibly missing and setpieces disappearing. Some of the action is still entertaining, which is the only reason this film isn't a total dumpster fire.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966
Cool end to a cool trilogy, largely more of the same but with a heavy dose of civil war. Not my favourite westerns, but undeniably iconic. This film could have probably done with some 40-50 minutes or so shaved off. Still trying to figure out why a man with dark brown hair gets called blondie.
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Deadpool & Wolverine 2024
Excessively obscene, as you come to expect from Deadpool. It's a barrage of dirty jokes and brutal action, and while certainly not all of it lands, it had me cracking up a lot of times. The physical comedy involving brutal action sequences are often hilarious.
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The Promised Land 2023
It's been a while since i've seen anyone get to the level of evil that the villain has in this film. There's something particularly sickening about a powerful prick that casually does the most heinous shit without having to fear any real consequences, kind of akin to animal abuse.
Anyway, mr. Mikkelsen plays our flawed but highly motivated protagonist in another Danish language film, and i've come to look forward to these since they've been very good so far. This one is pretty bleak, but the acting is solid and the landscapes are gorgeous.
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Rio Bravo 1959
What a banger. This film really set the bar for westerns with its great and snappy dialogue, scenes within scenes, and the dynamic between the varied characters. John Wayne is quality as usual, there's no weak links in the rest of the cast, and the cherry on top is a sheriff office singing scene with Dean Martin.
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300 2006
If this film had better gore, it'd be a perfect film. What's more cool than a bunch of roided sword and board warriors cleaving a path through man and myth, in slowmo, in a fucking thunderstorm? Can we finally get some more of this next? Maybe do something with the Diablo games, demolishing hordes of the most horrifically deformed demons. Or Dragon Age, mages incinerating legions of darkspawn and corrupted abominations. What does it take mr. Snyder?
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 2024
Furiosa is to Fury Road what Corpus is to Rictus, the stunted little brother. It's a very fun wasteland flick in it's own right, with some great new machines, gnarly action and some surprisingly bleak touches, though held back by some choppy pacing, the fragmented story, and to be honest, Hemsworth being a bit of a weak link in the acting department. Dementus kind of flips between being a jaded wasteland philosopher and a petulant child, a combination that doesn't…
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Warcraft 2016
If only this film had been just a little bit better and sold a few more tickets, this could have turned into an epic film series featuring all the big characters from Warcraft lore, alongside some amazing looking visuals.
Even through the clunky story and acting, there are glimpses of the campy and over the top greatness of the world of Warcraft. The roid rage Orcs and Fel magic are the stars of the show, but these are really the…
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Revolver 2005
From famous director Dude Wealthy, Revolver is some kind of weirdly twisted (yes, even more so) version of Fight Club, in a casino jacket. And there's a triad involved or something. And Statham looks weird in a wig. And Liotta plays a funny guy who lives in a tanning booth. I just found this buried in my harddrive somewhere and decided to vegetate on the couch and watch it in a partial state of delirium because i'm bloody ill.
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Oppenheimer 2023
That was ok. We purposefully didn't watch it in the theater so we could watch it at home in 2 parts, because it just didn't seem like much of a theater film. Nolan does his best to make the story as hard to follow as possible by chopping the story in bits and throwing them in the timeline mixer for no apparent reason.
Oppenheimers life is also just not very interesting beyond making an atom bomb, and yet the morbid…
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No Country for Old Men 2007
2007 was a mixed year. I was 13, which is a horrible age to be alive, Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare hit the shelves, which is a pretty sweet videogame, and Javier Bardem was hitting the big screens with a haircut that can accurately be described as illegal.
I wanted to rewatch this film because it just pops up in my brain sometimes. It has a subdued and quiet atmosphere, but still manages to be pretty badass and has…
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Under the Skin 2013
Certainly not for me. I like my films to have a plot that could fill more than a post-it note. This could easily have been a short film 20 minutes long instead of nearly 2 hours, but even then i wouldn't have liked it.
If you're thinking ''boy i could really go for a glacial and uncomfortable film with naked ScarJo and a bunch of Scottish penises'' then say no more, this is the flick for you. And it's basically all you're going to get, for nearly 2 hours.