December 2009
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Coffee is for closers
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). If you haven’t seen the movie I recommend you see the following fragment. If you saw the movie, you probably know what’s coming and see the scene again :)
Out of the comfort zone! With this terrific speech, the movie starts.
The film is about a bunch of real-estate salesmen. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be very good at their job, and it...
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Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia, a big movie from the 1960’s. Literally big, cause with it’s 220 minutes, the movie is quite long. But watch it when you have some time, and it’s totally worth it.
The movie tells the story of Thomas Edward Lawrence, a British military who played an important role in World War I. While no other military saw any value in Arabia,...
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I believe in Pain
Or better Payne. Max Payne.
Before watching, I didn’t expect this movie to be A class. I just hoped It would be a relaxing and visual attractive action movie. And that’s exactly what we get here.
I’m not much of a gamer, but I did play the first Max Payne game on Playstation. Although it’s quite a time ago, I was still wondering how the game would make it into a movie.
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Going UP
Up, as in Pixar’s latest feature film.
Nice, original and refreshing animation film. A story about lost dreams an chasing them. And looking back to realize your dreams might have changed after all, or things aren’t what they seemed. A little box of happiness.
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Best movies of the decade
This is really difficult, what’s the best movie of 2000-2010 ..
Here are the movies that made it to the IMDB top 250 (at this point)
The Dark Knight (n °9)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (n° 11)
Cidade de Deus (n° 16)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (n° 20)
Avatar (n° 22) (*)
Memento (n° 27)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (n° 30)
WALL·E (n°...
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Das Leben der Anderen
“An innocent prisoner will become more angry by the hour due to the injustice suffered. He will shout and rage. A guilty prisoner becomes more calm and quiet. Or he cries. He knows he’s there for a reason. The best way to establish guilt or innocence is non-stop interrogation.”
When you hear this at the beginning of the movie, you realize 2 things. The first thing is...
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The cars from the Transporter
I saw the Transporter 3 this weekend.
I like the series. Simple sit-back-and-enjoy-the-ride action movies literally. All written by Luc Besson, one of my favorite contemporary French movie directors / writers. He made come pretty good action / chase movies .. think the Taxi series, Nikita, .. but also the Fifth Element and Lèon.
And then there’s the Transporter. They say Besson was...
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Brittany Murphy just died ..
This is sad news .. I just learned on Twitter Brittany Murphy died, age 32. Source TMZ.
I think she was really talented.
She absolutely did great in Sin City (I love that movie), and although probably not political correct, I think she played very well in 8 mile as well. She carried the movie.
Such a shame ..
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Listen
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The Pianist
Roman Polanski .. love him or hate him. For sure he’s done some disturbing shit in his live, but man he also made some brilliant movies.
One could ask himself, are these two things relied? Would he have been such an artist, without this bit of twisted-ness? Or even worse: do his movies compensate for his bad behavior? But let’s not go there, this is a movie blog (although the people...
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The Morgan Freeman Chain of Command
Click the image to see the full version.
Fun, and it show how versatile as an actor Freeman is.
My favorite roles: nr1, Red in the Shawshank Redemption (1994), nr 2 Detective Somerset in Se7en (1995).
BTW, the movies on the image are only a tiny part of what Morgan played.
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Wall-e
Ah Wall-e, one of these sweet sweet Pixar movies!
How can you not like this movie?
Like most of these modern animation movies, this one has layers, a little sweet wake-up call to humanity.
Wall-e is a garbage bot. Left on the earth, which has become a large dump. All humans left years ago, orbiting somewhere in space, cause the home planet is not livable anymore.
Wall-e is a collector,...
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Running behind
I need to catch up my blogging with my movie watching.
Still coming
Das leben der anderen
The Pianist
Wall-E
Hancock
Speaking about catch up, here’s the Pulp Fiction Fox Force Five joke
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Naked Lunch
More Naked on this blog ;) Again without nude I’m afraid ..
Naked Lunch (1991), I think we can say it’s starting to become a cult classic by David Cronenberg. I was very happy to bump onto the DVD a few weeks ago, because I never saw the movie before, but I do remember some bits from when I was way younger. Typewriters coming to life and such shit. Scary, but even more appealing at...
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Naked
Did you ever get the felling you’re being followed?
Today, in my music shuffle, I bumped onto the song S.A.L.T. by the Orb. Great song that I attached here.
I knew this song way before I saw the movie Naked (1993) by Mike Leigh. I always was strangely attracted to it. It’s hypnotic in a way. Parts of the song are burned in my brain. The song didn’t make sense at the...
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Madagascar 2
I’m a sucker for animation movies. I think they’re underrated. Obviously the quality of animations has increased a lot since Pixar and later Dreamworks entered the scene. Technically, but equally in story telling.
I just saw Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, and it’s big fun. More of the same as the original Madagascar movie, but that’s in this case just fine!
The story...
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It rains, you get wet
Choices and their consequences. Cause and effect. This is how Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) looks at his gangster life in the movie Heat (1995) by Michael Mann.
Or to put it differently, and explaining the name of the movie at the same time “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the...
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The thing is ..
I like movies
There’s not much movies I really hate, or can’t see trough, but there’s even less movies I really really like. The quest of this blog is to find these movies.
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District 9
Ah an other alien movie. By the time they invade our world we’ll be so brainwashed by movies, they don’t have a fair chance.
“We’re from Sedna, take us to your leader!” “Hell you are, creatures from Sedna are green, and have tails”
That said, District 9 absolutely deserves it’s place in the long list of alien movies.
The movie is directed by the...
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Espresso
For some reason I had to think of the following scene
It’s a scene from the masterpiece Mulholland Drive by David Lynch. Other than Lynch’s usual films, Mulholland Dr. is considered to be more accessible. That’s because of the very nice cinematography. After watching the movie you might find yourself thinking: this was a beautiful piece of work, but I don’t have a...