Cinema

[Pater Alf]

I read that they plan a 3D version of the Star Wars movies and I don't want to see it. They were great the way they are and everytime George Lucas changed something, they got worse.

Le Petit Nicholas
I was surprised, because I didn't expect too much and what I got was a beautiful family movie with a wonderful warm humour that should be suitable for adults as well as for children (which is very seldom I think). Two thumbs up, the right thing to watch on a cold autumn day.

[Pater Alf]

vincent will meer
A german road movie that is well played, scripted and filmed, but on the other hand doesn't add anything new to the genre (but maybe it's hard to add something new there).

Mary and Max
This beautiful australian stop-motion movie (mainly filmed in black-white) is about a lonely eight-year-old australian girl that becomes pen pal with a 44-year old man from the USA that suffers from asperger autism. Very funny, sad and touching at the same time. Forget Disney, forget Pixar, this is definitely the best animated movie this year (and maybe of the last decade). Go watch it!

[Chroelle]

Mary and max sounds promising!

My last visits to the video-shop has been weirdly surprising. Watched 2 Danish movies Ved verdens ende (at the end of the world) and parterapi (couples-therapy), which was both hilarious in their own way, and along with each Danish movie we rented a Hollywood production, First A Serious man which I was extremely bored during, and then a comedy Bounty Hunter, which had its elements but wasn't that funny overall.

On another note; my stepbrother borrowed me the complete "V" series and movies, which I hope to be able to watch soon.

[Pater Alf]

The old series or the new one?

I saw "A Serious Man" some time ago and I liked it. Very weird and funny, a typical Coen Brothers movie.

And I saw another movie:

Fish Tank
A very good coming-of-age-movie. Mia lives somewhere in England and is a girl of the British social underclass. And she is very angry, at her teachers who kicked her out of school, at her friends who let her down and especially at her mother who is a alcoholic bitch that never has a friendly word for her ("Did I ever tell you that I wanted to abort you?"). And suddenly there is a man who is friendly to Mia, a thing she can't cope with. She misunderstand the signals and something terrible might happen...

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/fish-tank/trailer

And here's a trailer to "Mary and Max" if you are interested:

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/ma ... re-trailer

[Chroelle]

The old series or the new one?

V: The Original Miniseries
V: The Final Battle
V: The complete series.

I guess that answers it.

Unfortunately its without subs, so I can't watch them while half asleep, but have to be awake so I can understand what is said. Otherwise I would have used my time home sick now to see it...

Did see Lord of War with Nicholas Cage today though, and that was sort of ok. An ok ending, which was a bit not what I expected. An ok storyline, and some good acting, but it wasn't my new favorite movie or anything...

[Pater Alf]

The old series or the new one?

V: The Original Miniseries
V: The Final Battle
V: The complete series.

I guess that answers it.

It answers if you are talking about the new or the old series. But are you really going to watch the original mini series and the complete series? It doesn't make much sense as it is the same movie only that the the complete series includes several additional and extended scenes.

[Chroelle]

When I have gone over the two first DVD's then I will let you know if I feel like digging into the last one. Somehow I am afraid that it will destroy my vision of a great series from the past when I start watching... Sometimes you have to let oldies be the goldies without rewatching them, and I a bit nervous it might be the case here...

[Pater Alf]

Don't be too afraid. I watched the whole series a while ago and I think it is still pretty good (even if the special effects are of course quite lame compared to modern standards).

[Chroelle]

Just watched "Ironman 2", and have to say that it lives up to the first movie. I never was much for Ironman as a kid, but the two movies have grown to be my favourite superhero movies...The new Batman movies also holds its own on my list....
Very recommended for a night home alone without the girlfriend....! (Have a suspicion that Pagers wife might be up for it though...Am I right?)

[Pater Alf]

Allt Flyter (The Swimsuit Issue)
Funny midlife-crisis-movie from Sweden. Some men in the mid-forties who aren't good enough to play semi-professional hockey any longer, form a synchronized swimming team and plan to start at the world-championship. Not an easy thing as there hasn't been a male team for many years in Sweden and nobody takes them serious.

Not the best movie I've seen this year, but it is quite entertaining and has some nice and funny scenes.

http://www.tribecafilm.com/tribecafilm/ ... Issue.html

[Chroelle]

Translated it means "Everything floats" and I saw fragments of it last year, and had a good laugh.

[Pater Alf]

Oscar et la dame rose
A good movie without any doubt, but certainly not one where you will leave the cinema with a laughing face. It's about a ten-year-old boy who suffers from leukemia and just has about ten days to live. No one laughs in his presence anymore, no one is angry with him and no one dares to tell him the truth (which he knows). So he decides not to talk any more and to ignore his parents and his doctors. Then he accidently runs into the pink lady who gets angry and shouts at him and tells him she is a female cather (in fact she sells pizza) who can easily break his bones. Now it is his only wish to meet this woman again. She makes a deal with the hospital, visits him every day and tells him to take every day left for ten years of his live in his imagination. So he goes through childhood, puperty, adult live and maturaty in just a few days and the audience gets some interesting thoughts about life and how to live it.

http://www.cinemamontreal.com/trailers/ ... _Lady.html


Banksy - Exit through the Gift Shop
A very entertaining documentary about a guy who wants to make a movie about street art, becomes part of the scene himself and finally gets famous and rich as Mr. Brainwash. If this movie isn't a fake from the first minute on (and I'm not sure about it), the whole arts scene is totally crazy and insane. Maybe I don't really want to know...

http://www.banksyfilm.com/

[Chroelle]

The Oscar movie sounds really interesting (and French plotwise). It sounds like something I have to sit down with the wifey and have a good cry over. (Wait...guys... you didn't see that...as a big manly man I of course do NOT cry over movies...of course...)

[Pater Alf]

Gainsbourg
I just watched this movie, because I liked the trailer. I didn't know much about Gainsbourg and I didn't know much of his music. What do I know after watching the movie: He smoked too much, drank too much alcohol, had sex with some of the most amazing women of his time and was quite an asshole. Not very much and certainly not enough to think his life was really interesting.

Might have better spent the money to buy one of his records...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMLn1zt0brA

[Pater Alf]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows - Part 1"
The best Harry Potter movie so far (and I was always sure that they wouldn't beat "The Prisoner of Askaban"). Very dark with lots of tears, blood, desparation and a depressing atmosphere. Definitely not a kid's movie series any longer.

Best scenes are the quiet ones (e.g. Hermione deleting the memory of her parents) and the ones when the atmosphere cracks up and happieness shines through for a little moment (e.G. Harry and Hermione dancing to a Nick Cave song). There's also a very well-made animated scene (about the origin of the deathly hollows).

I'm happy that they didn't messed up the movie with lousy 3D effect, but left it in good old 2D instead.

[Pater Alf]

Monsters
Amazing! You expect a low-budget monster movie and instead you get a great subtile love story and a parable about immigration. Must be the perfect date movie (a little bit for everyone)...

I still wonder how they made this movie with a budget of 800 000 dollars. It looks much more expensive and better than many Hollywood mainstream productions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-2aTT2S ... re=channel

[eMTe]

Ive recently watched Zwartboek (Black Book) by Paul Verhoeven, the most expensive Dutch movie ever produced according to sources. It's an ok movie, a bit Hollywoodian, but in a good sense (cinematography), something like English Patient, but in the same time very European (lack of black&white characters). It tells the story of a young Jewish-Dutch woman who becomes involved in a WWII resistance and ends in a war of everyone with everyone where nobody can be trusted - Jews, Dutch, Americans, Germans - everybody follows their own agenda trying to survive for any cost. Plot-wise it's a great movie with many twists, but that old pervert Verhoeven wouldnt be himself if he didnt saturate it with droning eroticism - to be true, Zwartboek shares many similarities with Nazi sexploitation genre, albeit does it in a very sophisticated way. Anyway, it's one of these movies that cant be missed, imo.

[Pater Alf]

I think I wrote something about it a long time ago in this threat. I thought it was ridicilous and very bad and it was hard to even consider it as a funny trash movie as it takes itself much to serious.

[eMTe]

You talking to me?

[Pater Alf]

Yes, it was meant to be a reply on the "Zwartboek" movie. But feel free to ignore it...

BTW: I even found my original post,but it wasn't very long:

Black Book

Bad, worse, Paul Verhoeven...

God, it must have been nearly twenty years now since this guy made a good movie (at least it feels so long). There are no words to describe this movie. But I will try with a single word: Ridiculous!!!