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Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Don't mess with nature, unless with slow motion explosions
I guess the story is about consequences for having no respect for nature. But the movie also has a lot of slow motion scenes with people slicing and dicing their way thru innocent creatures, lovingly portrayed for cool factor, but is just silly.
Why is everything so big? On islands the wildlife is small. Birds, fish, mammals... everything is smaller on an island, i guess you could argue it's a big island, only they hike over the entire island in a couple of days by foot.
Lots of characters, all of them tired stereotypes, but not in a fun caricature way, non are developed enough for me to care about anything that's going on.
The photography is really weird, at one point a gun gets POV, to no effect or reason.
Supposedly the main draw is to see some cool monsters, and there is a couple of cool ones.
So many questions: Why does the helicopters keep flying towards the deadly monster? Why is nobody affected by the poisonous gas? Why are the colors so weird? Why are the native people so stoic? Why is Harrison Ford in the background for one scene? What are all these expensive actors doing in this movie?
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
embarrassingly bad
I saw this Movie by accident just now. Please learn from my mistake, don't repeat history! The plot was so unengaging, and could not decide was it was about, I cared so very Little about what was going on.
Riddled with Flashbacks that don't contribute to the story or the characters, the characters will tell you Everything anyway, and i wish they would not, at least I laughed out loud a few times over how bad the dialogue was.
And the CGI, don't get me started, was I watching an old Tarzan TV-series from the nighties? The shot-compositions and framing was so confusing, in some dialogues the camera was spinning round and round for no reason at all except making me fell nauseous.
The editing, confusing as hell, a character is over there, now it's over here, a weirdly timed close up, suddenly two new characters appear from nowhere.
Oh god the animals looked horrible, HORRIBLE! Tarzan turned to rubber-plastic-cgi as soon as he was swinging from the lianas, at one Point he swings on one that seems like it's 300 meters long.
The finale is at least so terrible you have to be amused by the awfulness of it all.
Elektra Luxx (2010)
as unsexy as porn...
I've never felt so compelled to enter IMDb.com just to give a bad rating. I saw this movie just because of Carla Gugino, and i've never seen her so unsexy as she is here, as pornstar Elektra Luxx.
The conversations in this movie are so unnatural, it's only to be compared to the horrible horrible light-design of this movie.
The forced comedy of the lines are delivered with no sense of timing and the acting leaves me wondering if the director/writer met his actors, even once, to talk about his text.
The director manages to suck all the actors dry of any talent they might hint in any other movie.
If there is anything positive to say at all: there are maybe two lines by character Holly Rocket (played by Adrianne Palicki) that would have been funny if delivered with any kind of timing ore feeling...
Everything about this movie is so unsexy, but then again, so is porn.
Gunnm (1993)
androids, romance, sci-fi, what more do you need?
just as a movie, the android Gally is put together by technical and live parts that together work as an emotional unit. In this future the borders between machine and man is wiped out and cybernetic parts are as respected as biological. A future like this might not be impossible with the growing tolerance of body enhancements such as plastic surgery and piercing.
This is an anime movie that succeed to deliver so much more emotion and vitality than many many live-action movies. The upcoming live action movie's actors will never succeed to reflect emotions as the animated eyes of these anime-characters.
For me, this is in first hand a love story, one of the most touching i've seen. The fact that Gally is a robot and might not know how to love is never put up. No, the plot is more sophisticated than "is an android capable of loving?". Gunnm is about social classes, chasing dreams and most of all finding a place for those refusing to be apart of the world of violence they are thrown in to.
I love this movie, I absolutely do, maybe my opinion is colored by me being very sensitive to the "robot/man - man/robot" theme, i often dream about androids wanting to be human ore humans finding out they are human, and what more suitable theme for a movie than androids to raise questions about humanity and sympathy?
At first the whole thing with Gally being built as a "warrior" machine fails to impress me, I know It's a vital part of the plot but the fighting parts... It's just taking pleasure in super-violence, the monsters are really but-ugly. But then I figured the violence-theme is really just contributing to the sense of this grim fictional-world and the contrast to this which is the love story of the film. The two sides of Gallys persona is highly contributing to the complexity of the whole movie. Though i still consider it to be some unnecessary amount of "gore".
Make sure to see this before the Cameron live-action in 2009!
Agnes Cecilia - En sällsam historia (1991)
gentle and touching
This movie moved me to tears simply by it's tempo and the fantastic acting. The story is very hard to grip and mostly focuses on the inner-life of Nora, long shots of her face reacting to the things she sees. Is it in her mind? some kind of generation-passed-down-deja-vu? ore ghosts of the past? The mystery keeps you on the edge thru the whole movie and the end is surprisingly a satisfaction, not revealing to much of the mystery. The movie stays with you a long time after the last note of the fantastic musical score rings out.
A movie with a gentle touch, a sense of "fragile". Definitely deserves more confirmation in Swedish film history, this should be in the same level as "en kärlekshistoria" but is not often mentioned.
Definitely not an ordinary Swedish youth film.