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Lost: The Incident: Part 1 (2009)
What lies in the shadow of the statue
The comment I write will be for "The Incident" (Part 1 and 2), because it is a two-in-one episode as usual for the season final.
This episode again reveals some of the long hidden secrets, as for example, what is behind the wall of the hatch(season 2), who is Jacob, why does Richard Alpert not age, how did Locke come to life again after Ben killed him. And at the end of this episode there is a cliffhanger, similar to the last seasons, which will make the time waiting for season 6, quite long. What happened after the detonation of the hydrogen bomb? Will they be at LAX? Or still in 1977? What happens after Jacob's death? We are left with questions again, but that's what I love LOST for. See you in some weeks/months.
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
will split opinions
I'm someone who is smiling, most of the time I'm awake (I don't know about the time I sleep), so I thought I really will like this movie. There were many people telling me how wonderful this movie is (I work in a DVD rental so I get many comments on almost every movie). The movie also got a silver bear in the last Berlinale (Berlin Film festival). So maybe my expectations were too high as I started watching this. Usually I don't quit a movie after the end credits. Sorry to say I could not stand longer than 30 to 40 minutes and I tried to watch it two times.
I can't stand the actors voice (the German voice), which it really hard to follow the (flat) dialogue (I heard from British people it's the same in the original version). In my job I meet many people, most of them friendly and charismatic. In this movie the characters are in my opinion very one dimensional, insensitive (Poppy) and boring to watch.
For example in the first scene Poppy goes into a book shop, talks to the guy working there (a monologue) and while leaving the book shop giving a rude/in her eyes funny comment. That showing a lack of empathy of Poppy's character. I mean the guy is busy (looks like he got a lot of new books) and this talking to herself girl comes in and after he doesn't come to her realizing how special she is she leaves the shop leaving a rude comment. That's something kids do when they get no attention.
Maybe I would have liked this movie, if I have seen it total, but (and that's the point and after reading some comments here it's not only for me) it was too hard for me to watch it. I did it through the real bad "Epic movie" and I have to say that "Happy-go-lucky" is not even bad. But I could not stand it.
Due to the fact that this is not bad at all but I can't stand it and because I didn't finish watching it, I don't give it a rating
Lost: This Place Is Death (2009)
Yes
Like in season four, also here in season 5 episode 5 is my favourite (until now). I really liked this one. It had everything a LOST episode needs, and what were some people arguing was missing in the last episode.
I don't want to tell anything of what is happening here, because I don't want anybody to read spoilers. You have to see it. In my opinion one of the best episodes of LOST. So all I can say is "YES".
I will have a really hard time waiting for the next episode next week (okay it will not be that hard, because I started watching again LOST from season one)
10/10
Lost: The Little Prince (2009)
Don't think the writers are "LOST"
I'm sorry to say this, but I don't like the kind of hater-like comments here, who got so less to say about the reasons they are disappointed by this episode, that they have to copy their old comments or parts of the response IMDb gives if you are not able to write more than two sentences. If you got something more to say than "I think the writers are lost. I want the questions/secrets of the earlier episodes to be revealed." maybe people will vote your comments "useful". The reason David Lynch was forced to give the murderer of Laura Palmer, that networks didn't think people are patient enough to wait for more than few episodes until a mystery is revealed. In case of Twin Peaks, that destroyed the whole series. With LOST it is the same. If the secrets of the island would have been revealed in the third or fourth episode, the fun of it would be gone. I trust the writers and producers they put it in a big picture in the end. It's like a big puzzle. After a certain time you start to see, what the big picture will be.
I also think there are better episodes, but you can't put action or mystery in every episode. We get to know in this episode, that Jin is still alive (in different time), which was quite surprising(usually to LOST). The rest of the episode deals with the lawyer who asked the blood test of kate and Aaron, Jack and Kate meeting and following him, finding out that he is the lawyer of Claire's mother. But he is also Ben's lawyer too. The island time travellers meet themselves, seeing Aaron's birth and after a second time jump they are hunted on a boat, they found at their camp on the beach.
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Not as good as people say
First of all I have to say, that I didn't see the old series, but I've grown up with different TV-shows (Sci-fi like Cpt. Kirk, Cpt Picard, but also others like Kung fu, MacGyver, ... I watched them all). Now many people told me to watch BSG, because of its good special effects, its well written story, because it's the best sci-fi show, etc. So I started watching the mini series and the first two seasons. And I was hardly disappointed. The special effects I was expecting to see were so rare and so cheaply made, that I guess they spent not enough money in CGI. If I look for example at the cylons, the flying around ones look okay, but these that walk around, look like ten year old CGI-robots. I don't believe these things would destroy nearly the whole population of "humans". They also had the great idea to make some cylons look like humans, which is also a cheap way to save some money. Captain Kirk in the old Star Trek series had his Phaser-weapons, in BSG, they might have thought "Why spent money on weapons special effects, when we can take some Heckler & Koch guns?" which is a much cheaper way to solve the weapons problem. Maybe they should have produced the whole series in China and used stones instead of guns, it would have reduced the production-costs of the series. In other countries these H&K guns might look futuristic, but as they are the standard weapon in the German army, I was distracted. Now for the plot of the series, it was taking sometimes two episodes to tell what could be told in half an hour, and then sometimes had jumps of weeks in a single episode. And half of every episode was conversation with no certain direction in relation with drinking and smoking. Okay they also had a bar on Captain Picards ship, but it was shown once or twice per episode. In BSG whenever there's a discussion between Adama and Madame President they drink, when the pilots are not in their vipers they play cards and drink, when the hangar-crew and the chief don't repair vipers they drink (they don't even have real glasses). It makes me feel like a bunch of alcoholics is trying to save the rest of mankind. There were also some let me call it "plot holes" that were to disturbing to believe it. They say there are twelve different cylons. So there is this one "sleeper-agent" cylon on board of Galactica, who shoots Commander Adama and then gets killed. And there's her copy on Caprica getting a child with Helo. Curiously, when the Sharon, who shoots Adama gets killed, she is reborn, but while she is still alive, her copy on Caprica knows everything she knows. The Number Six on the Pegasus is not even able to recognize Baltar. Looks like the Sharon-type-cylon is some kind of borg instead of a cylon. And the whole black market episode I would call a plot hole, because they tell a linear story over two seasons and then put in a single "finished-in-one-part" episode. That most of the characters were not interesting and you didn't care if they were killed by cylons was told her repeatedly, but it's a fact. In a TV-show like "Lost" I was shocked when some of the main characters were killed in the first or second season, in BSG I wouldn't care for them (for example Admiral Cain). Most characters are replaceable like cylons. Battlestar Galactica is like one of these 80's soap operas put in a spaceship. It takes too long to tell the story it wants to tell, which makes it annoying to watch. The story didn't get me, after watching the mini series and two seasons, so I think they failed badly to create an interesting TV-show.
Sieben Mulden und eine Leiche (2007)
What is left when you die?
In European culture death is a kind of taboo. Although it's a inevitable part of life, and everybody who is born will die, with no exception. This documentary is based upon the experiences of the Hämmerli brothers, when they were confronted with the death of their mother and everything around this "event". On his 40th birthday Thomas Hämmerli's mother dies in her apartment. The police finds her body, that was situated on the floor, which had a floor heating. Normally people are only confronted with situations like this, if they work for first aid medical services, fire department or police. The film starts with Hämmerli, in this situation coming to his mother's apartment. His mother was what is called messie today. In this kind of shock, confronted with the remains of his mother, he took his camera to get some distance to the situation. He tells about the hardships of finding a cleaning company to clean the floor, where the corpse was. After that kind of real shocking start of the movie, his brother arrives to help him throw away everything, his mother collected for years. This part of the movie is not political correct, and has a lot of very dark humor. This movie is dealing with death and the things the family members have to deal with. He is showing all the things that come up, when you are confronted with situations like this (it took them one month to clean the apartment). Many people will find this movie impious, I think it's very honest. And it's very funny sometimes.
Immer nie am Meer (2007)
Really enjoyed it
First I have to say that I don't like most comedies, because they aren't funny to me. But I like Grissemann and Stermann and their kind of comedy. When I rented this movie I didn't know they were in, I just read that this movie was recommended by "Titanic" (a German political satire magazine). The story starts with an introduction of the different characters (Strunk, Grissemann and Stermann) and how they come into the situation, they are for the rest of the movie. Usually a movie about three guys captured in a car sounds boring, but this one has some really funny moments. The idea to have some guys trapped in a situation like this, and a boy with some interest in science and using them for his experiments, because his rats are lost, is put in scene perfectly. This movie is an example, that it's possible to make a good movie with a good idea, a small budget and good actors. I really liked this movie and think it's one of the funniest comedies I've seen this year. The only bad thing is the fact, that the cover designer wasn't able to write the name of Christoph Grissemann correct (I just know the German DVD-cover).
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
Not funny
This was the fourth movie, I've seen of Apatow and I didn't find even one of these jokes funny. The other movies I saw were Anchorman, The 40 year old virgin and Superbad. I know there are people, who think these movies are funny and they are able to laugh. For me watching these movies was a waste of time. Don't get me wrong, I like good movies and a good joke makes me giggle(there is no way to suppress it). The idea of making a parody on biopic, like in this case Walk the line seems to be a good idea. The question is how you do it. Definitely not like Apatow did it. The repeating of "cut in a half with a machete jokes" or "the wrong son died lines" don't make them funnier. Same for the drug jokes. They are not funny (maybe you have to smoke some weed to find them funny). As I watched it on DVD I had the "pleasure" to watch the extras, like "Walk Hard-The real Dewey Cox". Okay they got Sheryl Crow and other people in front of a camera to say things about the "real" Dewey. This whole thing is as funny as the movie and if you can laugh at lines like "I love Cox" (get it?), you're probably 15 years old and will have fun with this production. If not you better go watch a funny comedy.