Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)

Män som hatar kvinnor, or in english - The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo - is about Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who gets hired to solve a 40 year old mystery. A girl went missing and no one found out what happend to her, her uncle who has been working on the case ever since she disapeared has grown old and therefore ask Mr.Blomkvist for help. Mikael, together with Lisbeth, a hacker, tries to break the mystery.

When this movie came out, I boycotted it. I thought it would be like most swedish criminal movies. A older man/woman - a unsolved mystery/murder - he tries to solve it and gets into alot of trouble... They are all the same, Wallander - Beck - Johan Falk. When people told me that I really should see this  movie and that it was really good and the grading it got was very good as well, I did not believe it. But now two years later I've seen it! And it was good. It stuck out from the usual "line" as I mentioned before. Not one of my favorite movies but it was watchable. Though I have to say Noomi Rapace, who played the female main roll, was fantastic! One of the best swedish actresses for a long time! Even though she was splendied and the movie was slightly different I'll only give it a +3/5!

This winter 2011, for you don't like watching foreign movies or movies in a different language than english, an american version will be realesed with Daniel Craig in the main roll as Mikael Blomkvist. And the director is David Fincher, who has directed one of my favorite movies - Fight Club! I'm don't sure if the movie will be better just because it's in english and to be honest I'm not sure Daniel Craig is right for the part as Mikael Blomkvist either but I am acctually looking forward to comparing the swedish original with the american copy!

   

Found it!!!

My friend (who is awsome!) found the movie that we saw in India!! It´s named Siruthai and I´m not sure what it means but I think it is cheetah in english, but as I said I am not sure... Anyway, it´s about a con man who´s life changes when a little girl finds his and believe he is her father. The girls real father who looks exactly like the con man is a famous police officer, a nightmare to the criminals, and soon the criminals find the con man and the little girl and tries to kill them.
It´s really hard to explain the plot when you didn´t understand it all when you saw it so I´m not going to write a review on it. But I can say there is alot of action in it and I think it was supposed to be funny but when there´s no subtitles it´s realy hard to tell what´s funny and not. But if you think it sounds interesting then check out the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mpkWJnTBCs 

An experience I will never forget!

HEY!
It has been a while since last time, hope all is good with you! I am great myself! I have just returned from India which is why I haven´t written anything for some time. I lived in a village and it was really hard to find a computer and something that was even harder to find was a place where you could watch movies... But I did go to an indian cinema while I was there though. And WOW...that was truly an experience I will never forget!

The cinema wasn´t in the best condition but I guess it could have been worse...could have been more than one rat inside...hahaha. No but it wasn´t too bad, specially not the sound! Damn it was LOUD! Before I went they told me to bring earplugs but I thought they were just exaggrating...oh boy how wrong I was! Luckly I got a pair from one of my friends who had a extra pair. It was like going to a consert if not worse...at least you like the music when you go to a consert.

The movie was in Tamil, which is the language they speak in Southern India, and it was about three hours long. They actually had a break in the middle of the movie so people could go to the bathroom or buy snacks if they wanted. The movie was very different from any move I ever seen before. It was made in a different way which made it a little confuseing for me to understand it (there was no subtitles) but I did with a little help from my interpreter. Sadly I do not know the name of the movie so I can´t write an review on it...

Easy A (2010)

High school, either one of the best years of your life or the worse. A new rumor starts to go around that the school has a new slut, Olive. At first Olive tries to tell everyone the rumor isn´t true but when no one listens to her she desides to go with it to advance her social and financial standing. But soon everything goes too far and she has to find a way to put back things as they once were.

This high school movie was different from the ones I have seen before which is a good thing! It is not as many other high school movies, where the unpopular guys want to get laid before graduation or the new girl in school as a crush on the most poplare guy but know it can never be...and so on blablabla... This felt like a more serious high school movie in a way but I also think it was a little flat. I can not really put my finger on what it was that made it flat but I felt like something was missing. So...I give it a 3/5!

Love and Other Drugs (2011)

Jamie Randall a charming, hansome and outgoing guy, with other words a true womanizer, gets a new job in Ohio, where he´s going in to the world of pharmaceutical sales. Accidently he meets Maggie Murdock and after a rocky start, they become good friends (with benefits). But as the relationship grows, they are taken by surprise, finding themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: LOVE!

This sounds like a ture chick movie, I know, but don´t get fooled. The movie is funny, as in a lot of sex jokes funny, but it has a lot of romance in it as well. It is a perfect first date movie! It has a perfect balance between not being to girly or to guyish, there is something for everyone to enjoy. Example, for the guy: many hot chicks! For the girls: Jake Gyllenhaal naked and the romance.

There is one thing that buged me a little bit though, which was that there was a moment were you saw the tape where the actors where supposed to stand. And I have to say, Edward Zwick, for being in the movie industry that long, it´s not okey... But I will give this movie a 4/5 anyway, because it was very good!

What a Incredible coincidence!

I watched The Incedibles the other day and I could not stop thinking about where I had seen one of the characters from the movie before. Edna Mode, she the superhero outfit designer in the movie and I have seen her "in real life". It took me a while (about three days) before I knew where from I have seen her. The character Edna Mode looks exactly like Linda Hunt!!! And know you´re thinking: "Maybe she was the voice of Edna? You thought about that?" Yes I have! That was the first thing I looked up and no, it is not her. The "actor" playing Edna is Brad Bird, yes he is a guy, who is also the director and writer of The Incredibles. HA!

I wonder if they thought about that when making the movie. Maybe, Linda Hunt was supposed to play Edna but turned down the offer in the last minute and the creaters liked their Edna so much that they did not bother to change her appearance. Who knows? 



Linda Hunt VS Edna Mode from The Incredibles



After Life (2009)

After a terrible car accident, Anna wakes up in a morgue to find a man, Eliot Deacon, preparing her body for her own funeral. Anna, who is confused and scared and feeling very much alive, do not believe that she is dead. The funeral diractor Eliot explains to her that he as a gift to talk to the dead and that she passed away in the accident and is in the process of passing over to the world of the dead. Locked in the morgue and with no one else to turn to except for Eliot, Anna is forced to confront her deepest fears and accept her death. In the meanwhile Anna´s grieving boyfriend Paul, starts to suspect that Eliot is not who he claims to be. And as the date of Anna´s funeral approach, Paul comes closer to the shocking truth, but is it to late?

A different, confusing and thrilling movie. I really liked this one. I couldn´t predict anything which is very unusual for me. Though I have to say it was a little boring in the middle so you have to have patience when watching this movie. Liam Neeson and Justin Long were splendid and I am really impressed of the director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, whom I never heard of before this movie. Maybe not too surprising, she has, according to IMDB, only made one short movie before this one called Pâté. Now back to this movie, as I said I like it and I give it a 4/5! A great debut movie!

Let´s start again, shall we?

Hope everyone is alive and had a great New Years Eve, it is finaly 2011!!! WOHO!!! This year is actually going to be slightly different. I am going to India pretty soon, so I wont be able to write anything then. And after India, I am going to have alot of work to do because I´m graduating this spring. Very exaited about that, going to be great!! But because of this, I am going to start writing right away, there is no time to waste!

That´s it for this year!

Okey, that is it for the Ben Stiller marathon. But as I mentioned in the begining of the marathon, I am going to write about Meet the Family, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers, when I have seen the third movie after it has been released here.
So that´s it for this year, I wont writing about more movies so you have to wait till next year haha. Hard I know, what is it, like 36 hours left? Anyway, I wish you all a great New Years Eve, with that said:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Tropic Thunder (2008)

During a war movie shooting in a jungle of Asia, a series of strange things starts happening. This soon force the actors from the war movie to become the soldiers they are playing so they can stay alive long enough for the helicopter to come and transfer them to a safe place.

This movie has a bunch of good, funny actors like Robert Downey Junior, Jack Black and Ben Stiller who also is the director of this movie. Í think this movie has its funny moments, here there. It is not one of those movies when you come out from the cinema and you go: "Wow, that was AWSOME! I need to see it again!" You maybe watch it once or twice and that is enough. It gets 3/5!

Madagascar (2005)

When the four spoiled animals, Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Gloria the hippo and Melman the giraffe from the Central Park Zoo, get on the island Madagascar after a shipwrek they soon discover the true life of the jungle. While struggling to survive now when their food no longer is served on a silver plate, they are trying to find their way home which is not easy when you are stuck in a jungle.

A exiting and entertaining movie, with some groovy moves and music, "I like to move it, move it..." haha. I really like the movie and the actors, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and the lovely Jada Pinkett Smith, who´s husband I adore. Okey, back to the movie. Well as I said, it´s a exiting and entertaining movie and I´ll give it a 4/5!

The Heartbreak Kid (2007)

Eddie, a 40 year old single, suddenly one day bumps in to the very hot girl Lila, who is everything he wants a woman to be. They marry after just sex weeks of dateing and everything seems to be perfect. But on their honeymoon in Mexico, Eddie soon discovers that his perfect wife really is a living nightmare!

A romanic comedy made by the Farrelly brothers, who also made "There´s Something About That Mary". The movie is fun, crazy and different, wouldn´t say it is so romantic really but it is good anyway. One of the better movies Ben Stiller is in and it is really worth seeing. It gets a 4/5!

Zoolander (2001)

The Prime Minister of Malaysia is planing to stop the use of child workers and raise the salaries to the workers in his country as well. This will badly affect the fashion industry when everything becomes more expensive and therefor the most successful fashion designers decides to assassin the Prime Minister. Mugatu, one of the designers, get the assignment to find a extremly stupied model who can "get trained" so he later can kill the Minister, and he choses the three times winner of the Model of the Year award Derek Zoolander.

A movie with some pretty good actors like Owen Wilson, Jon Voight, Will Ferrell, and Ben Stiller of course. Though there are many good actors in the movie, doesn´t it mean the movie is good which it isn´t. Ben might be a pretty good actor but he is not the best director. This movie had a low sence of humor that I do not find specially funny and it feels like they maybe had a low budget as well due to the bad quality. It only gets a 2/5!
  

Great Timing

This Christmas I got a rather fun present:
"BEN STILLER - The Seriously Funny Collection. Seriously!" 
I have been thinking about what I should start writing about now after Christmas. If I should try to find good movies you could watch before New Years Eve. Then I remembered that people party on New Years Eve, who watches movies then? An other thought I had was if I should wait till next year and then start with a new marathon of some sort. It is only week till 2011 but, many people here in Sweden has holiday now. Which means you get together with the family, get cosy in front of the TV to watch movies. So I didn´t want to wait a whole week before I could write because then the hoilday is over, but then I got this present. I guess you understand where I am going with this, I am going to have a short Ben Stiller marathon now, before New Years Eve.

The collection include five movies: Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, The Heartbreak Kid, Zoolander and Tropic Thunder. I am going to save Meet The Parents and Meet The Fockers for later because I what to write about them at the same time as the third, Little Fockers. Sweden actually has the last release date of the movie in Europe, 14 January 2011. I know it is already out in most countries, Sweden is just slow sometimes when it comes to movies, sadly. Anyway, I am going to wrtie about the other three movies from the collection and I might come up with an other movie surprize too, we´ll see

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

The Christmas is over here in Sweden and it has been wonderful, with wonderful food, company, presents and movies of course. Though the Christmas is over here I now it isn´t in the states so MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I hope you all have, or had, a fantastic Christmas and you´ll hear from me soon again. 

Bad Santa (2003)

Wille is a rent Santa who doesn´t giva a shit about Christmas. All he care about is: 1) Rod the money from the stores. 2) Nail every sales girl working in the stores. 3) And last, scare the crap out of the children.

A great and funny movie "showing" the (never seen before) bad, nauty side of Santa which is hilarious! The actors are well known and good and I think the kid, Brett Kelly was really good for being so young. The movie as a whole gets a 4/5! A movie you should see at Christmas but maybe not with your kids though haha.

A Christmas Carol (2009)

The classic Christmas story written by Charles Dickens, about the bitter Mr. Scrooge when he is haunted by the Christmas ghosts of the past, prestent and yet to come, so he will learn about the true Christmas spirit.

An other remake of the wonderful story from Charles Dickens and it is truly wonderful! Animation can hardly get any better than this. It feels real, it really catches the Christmas spirit and it is very well made. I just sat back and enjoyed every minut of it. Jim Carrey, who I normaly have a hard time with, did a great job and so did Robert Zemeckis, the director. It shows that he has done this before and he does it well. This is a terrific Christmas movie and it gets a 4/5!

"17 signs that you are about to see a really bad movie"

Okey, I know I´m supposed to write about Christmas movies but I just could not restrain myself after I had read this article "17 signs that you are about to see a really bad movie". I will do a short summery of the points that I think is not right and those who are right. Here´s the list and as I said, I do not agree to all of this, I will explain later what I think when the list is done!:

1. It´s a "dream project"
Meening, movies with a popstar in it who has the leading role are bad because they are only made to make the popstar look good.
2. "From the creators of Scary movie"
5. Gerard Butler as a american
He can not speak with an american accent and still they what him to play american.
10. It is a Santa movie without Billy Bob Thornton (from Bad Santa)
Movies about Santa without Billy Bob Thornton is not worth seeing, e.g. Santa Clause with Tim Allen.
14. The continuation you never heard about before
15. Adam Sandler writing the script and playing the leading role
17. When the mike is visible in the view

Okey these where the ones I reacted on when I read them. I´m going to say what I think about it so lets start from the top.
1. I think there are some truth in it, most movies with popstars is not good. But there are some exceptions e.g. The Bodyguard (1992) with Whitney Houston.
2. Hahaha. Yes I agree, though I do like some of the Scary movies. But what I do not understand is how is it possible to do a worse job now then bad in the days.
5. Sure, Gerard Butlers´ american accent might not be the best but he is still a good actor. And I think it is unfair to blame him for the parts he is given.
10. Yes, Bad Santa is a great movie! And I can agree to a certain amount that the Christmas movies Tim Allen has been in is not the best but I think the first Santa Clause was good. The ones after on the other hand wasn´t the best. Still it wasn´t Tim who wrote the script so you can´t blame him.
14. When I read this one I did not quite understand what they meant. But know I do. Did you know there is a Titanic 2? I didn´t either till today. Hahaha. I am going to look it up and then I´ll tell you if I agree with this or not.
15. Adam Sandler has done some bad movies and he as written some bad to. But come on, Grown Ups was a great movie! The reporter compaired Grown Ups with You Don't Mess with the Zohan, which really is a baaad movie, but honsetly COME ON!! No sense of humor!
17. Okey, sure I agree. If the mike shows up in a scen it is a bad movie but aren´t you all ready watching it when you find that out? How can you know there is going to be a mike showing up in the movie just looking at the cover?

Christmas with the Kranks (2004)

When Luther and Nora Kranks´ daughter Blair goes to Peru with the Peace Corps over the Christmas holidays, Luther comes up with the suggestion to skip Christmas and go on a cruse in the Caribbean instead. After doing some thinking Nora agrees to the idea and they both decide not to put up any lights or buy a Christmas tree, not to send out any Christmas cards, no Christmas food and no Frosty the Snowman on the roof. Simply a Christmas without Christmas.

An other Christmas movie with Tim Allen and it is decent, it had its funny moments here and there. One thing that I could not stop thinking about while watching this movie was how typical American it was, with the whole neightborhood society, geting into everyone else business and going after traditions. Very, very typical American. I think because of that the movie is not as fun here in Sweden as I think it possibly is in America. So the movie gets a 2/5!  

Deck the Halls (2006)

Steve and his family live in a quiet little town, in a calm little neighborhood. Steve has worked out a perfect plan so everything will be ready when Christmas Eve comes but everything changes when the new neighbors move in across the street. Buddy, the new neightbor, wants to do something spectacular which no one never will forget and comes up with the idea to cower his whole house with Christmas lights so it can be seen for space. This annoys the crap out of Steve and soon the war has begun.

When you read what this move is about it sounds pretty interesting, the actors are well known and the director, John Whitesell, has done many funny TV-series and one funny movie as well, (Big Momma´s house 2) so you would think this movie has to be really good right? Sadly isn´t that true. I did not laugh one time thourgh the whole movie and since it´s supposed to be a comedy that is not a good thing! It gets a 2/5! I would have giving it a 1 but the actor prefromances were good, I liked the lights and I kind of feel bad for the guys who had to fix all those light, gosh what a job!