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Der Untergang or Downfall in English.
Also known as "that one where the Hitler parodies are from"
A great film. I've seen it lots of times and can't get enough of it. It examines the situation in the Fuehrerbunker in the last days of the war and, "controversially", portrays the inhabitants of the bunker as human beings and their response as they realise the situation is hopeless. Part of this is the particular discussion amongst the Generals as to how they will deal with the capitulation; do they try and escape? Do they surrender? Do they commit suicide to avoid humiliation?
Burno Ganz as Adolf Hitler is superb; his switch between the scenes of Hitler being normal and doing normal things like talking to people like they're human beings is excellent with the contrast of his scenes when he has an outburst of vitriolic resentment at the Jews and the German people as a whole. Spotter's badge for the scene where Hitler states his hatred for compassion and that the weak must be eliminated and not seeing the irony as he is then handed a report that Himmler has offered to surrender, because Germany has itself become the weakling.
I equally love Ulrich Matthes' performance as the unwavering and absurdly loyal Josef Goebbels. His striking likeness to the propaganda minister borders on terrifying and his skeletal features only add to the demonic performance. He's the only character in the film whom I feel doesn't really show a human side. Almost all of the other characters have moments of a candid nature whereby they laugh, joke or drink. Goebbels is firmly determined to the cause and is completely focused on the situation at hand.
An honourable mention to Andre Hennicke as Wilhelm Mohnke; one of my favourite German actors.
The other character I find interesting is Heino Ferch as Albert Speer. Famously "the Nazi who said sorry" Speer is not cast as a warmongerer, despite his actual position as minister of armaments. He retains a close tie to Hitler but equally retains a sympathetic nature; his admission to Hitler that he has not carried out the scorched earth policy really is the final nail in the coffin and Speer maintains an air of dignity throughout the film.
Visually the film is done very well. The decaying ruins of 1945 Berlin are a tremendous background for the decay of the Nazi party and Nazi Germany. As a squeamish chap, I still have to brace myself but gore in the battle scenes is kept to a tasteful minimum.
The best quote from the film is when Goebbels is arguing with Mohnke.
"I have no sympathy [for them]. I say again, I have no sympathy! The people chose this fate themselves. Yeah, that might come as a surprise to some people. Don't kid yourself; we didn't force the German people to vote for us. They commissioned us, and now they're getting their little throats slit."
Also known as "that one where the Hitler parodies are from"
A great film. I've seen it lots of times and can't get enough of it. It examines the situation in the Fuehrerbunker in the last days of the war and, "controversially", portrays the inhabitants of the bunker as human beings and their response as they realise the situation is hopeless. Part of this is the particular discussion amongst the Generals as to how they will deal with the capitulation; do they try and escape? Do they surrender? Do they commit suicide to avoid humiliation?
Burno Ganz as Adolf Hitler is superb; his switch between the scenes of Hitler being normal and doing normal things like talking to people like they're human beings is excellent with the contrast of his scenes when he has an outburst of vitriolic resentment at the Jews and the German people as a whole. Spotter's badge for the scene where Hitler states his hatred for compassion and that the weak must be eliminated and not seeing the irony as he is then handed a report that Himmler has offered to surrender, because Germany has itself become the weakling.
I equally love Ulrich Matthes' performance as the unwavering and absurdly loyal Josef Goebbels. His striking likeness to the propaganda minister borders on terrifying and his skeletal features only add to the demonic performance. He's the only character in the film whom I feel doesn't really show a human side. Almost all of the other characters have moments of a candid nature whereby they laugh, joke or drink. Goebbels is firmly determined to the cause and is completely focused on the situation at hand.
An honourable mention to Andre Hennicke as Wilhelm Mohnke; one of my favourite German actors.
The other character I find interesting is Heino Ferch as Albert Speer. Famously "the Nazi who said sorry" Speer is not cast as a warmongerer, despite his actual position as minister of armaments. He retains a close tie to Hitler but equally retains a sympathetic nature; his admission to Hitler that he has not carried out the scorched earth policy really is the final nail in the coffin and Speer maintains an air of dignity throughout the film.
Visually the film is done very well. The decaying ruins of 1945 Berlin are a tremendous background for the decay of the Nazi party and Nazi Germany. As a squeamish chap, I still have to brace myself but gore in the battle scenes is kept to a tasteful minimum.
The best quote from the film is when Goebbels is arguing with Mohnke.
"I have no sympathy [for them]. I say again, I have no sympathy! The people chose this fate themselves. Yeah, that might come as a surprise to some people. Don't kid yourself; we didn't force the German people to vote for us. They commissioned us, and now they're getting their little throats slit."
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Bad Grandpa I rented this over the weekend with low expectations. I laughed so hard at this movie. There were a couple parts that actually had me gasping for air because I was laughing so hard.
I don't think I have laughed this hard in almost a year. I recommend everyone check this out if you get the chance. 👍
I don't think I have laughed this hard in almost a year. I recommend everyone check this out if you get the chance. 👍
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The Worlds Fastest Indian
This movie is FANTASTIC! Also based on a true story. Truly inspiring movie about elder man that has a dream to set the land speed record with an Indian bike. The motivation, courage, and intelligence of this man is so amazing. 9/10!
This movie is FANTASTIC! Also based on a true story. Truly inspiring movie about elder man that has a dream to set the land speed record with an Indian bike. The motivation, courage, and intelligence of this man is so amazing. 9/10!
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No brainer if you like racing really 👍
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It's a Lot,
This film was good for the first 30mins, then the plot went down hill rapidly. For a film based in London it's dreadful I wasted 1hour 40mins of my life. If you want a good film based in London look elsewhere such as Adulthood or Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. The quality of the acting is very poor and the script feels like it was written on a sheet of tracing paper, as to me the people in this film had no idea what they were doing. Thank god I borrowed it from a friend.
My rating 3/10
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The Seven-Ups, crime thriller from the '70s with a memorable car chase scene, I'd give it 9/10. Definitely a must watch along with the French Connection I&II (which had most of the same producing team and stunt drivers).
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I have been watching the LOTR trilogy again. Just so amazing. Especially the 2nd and 3rd movies. Those epic battles were so well done. You just cant get that kind of massive scale and epic audio with CGI. This is the real deal, hundreds of people and just such a goose bump experience. That audio is simply incredible with that many real life people on the screen. I realize some was CGI but the majority of the people in costumes and the scale is just mind blowing. The Hobbit movies just don't even compare to the LOTR trilogy.
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Pretty ok, solid action movie.
30/10, would watch again.
Not seeing it in 3D (for whatever reason it wasn't shown in 3D that day) really took away a lot I think, so it was only mediocre. 6/10.
Not up to par and although the cast is awesome the director doesn't seem to really make the most of it. 6/10
Very solid action movie, very unpredictable (well apart from that the good guy is winning in the end). 8/10.
Up next on Friday: 300! Might even see another movie, have to check what's available at either the Champs-Elysees or La Defense, just so that I can waste the day.
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Lego Movie was great! Took my son to the Movies and he sat in his seat the ENTIRE movie...
I watched Captain Phillips last night and it was a good movie. But I did some eesearch on the actual story and the crew members have a different take. These kinds of movies always have problems like this. But an interesting article I read in the NY Post. And now Capt Phillips is back out at sea and on the same boat two ex Navy Seals died from heroin overdoses. Got mixed feelings on the whole thing now!
http://nypost.com/2013/10/13/crew-members-deny-captain-phillips-heroism/
I watched Captain Phillips last night and it was a good movie. But I did some eesearch on the actual story and the crew members have a different take. These kinds of movies always have problems like this. But an interesting article I read in the NY Post. And now Capt Phillips is back out at sea and on the same boat two ex Navy Seals died from heroin overdoses. Got mixed feelings on the whole thing now!
http://nypost.com/2013/10/13/crew-members-deny-captain-phillips-heroism/
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Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
***Review coming soon.
***Review coming soon.
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman 8/10 (worth the ticket price.)
To be honest, I'm surprised not more reviewers liked this movie. Complaints included the horrible puns, the sappy dramatic adoption plotline, the obvious "this isn't our Peabody and Sherman" and whether most of the jokes would fly over the kids' heads.
I don't get it. For one: The "Rocky and Bullwinkle" back-up animated gag strip that Peabody and Sherman starred in back in the day was full of horrible puns. As "Rocky and Bullwinkle" itself was. The whole point of puns is that they have to be horrible to be truly funny.
For another: The sappy adoption plotline: forced in parts, tender in parts. Only misses by a little bit by having the resolution handled in such a Deus Ex Machina manner. And... come on... we're discussing this after a Lego Movie that refused to take even death seriously, and that included an even more marginal and quickly resolved familial crisis between Will Ferrell and his kid?
This isn't Peabody and Sherman: A pair of two-dimensional joke-delivery vehicles from old animated shorts can't fill a 90 minute movie. You need to give them a little more personality. Thankfully, they felt true to the original characters, for the most part. Contrast this to Rocky and Bullwinkle, who stayed completely true to the original down to the incessant punning and wordplay. That movie bombed. It's fun in small doses, but the original format CANNOT carry an entire movie.
And lastly: with slick action, fart, armpit, and slapstick jokes don't go over the kids' heads. Our screening was tittering throughout the whole movie. While the puns did zoom over a lot of heads, the zingers after let you know they were meant to be horrible.
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You don't have to turn your brain off to enjoy this one. The animation is slick, the visuals are gorgeous and there's a nostalgic tone underlying everything. The pace slows down at points, but it never truly gets overbearing, and having the movie broken down into episodic sections makes it very, very easy to digest.
I will say, some of the reviewers have a point about the dramatic plot... it would have been nice to focus more on the time travelling hijinks. The movie feels a bit unfinished, whcih is both bad and good. The best movies leave you wanting just a little more. This one does that.
This movies wasn't as laugh-out loud funny as the Lego Movie, nor did it approach the limits of its possibilities as well as that one did, but it's a solid effort, and the best adaptation of a Jay Ward cartoon to date. Ty Burrell does an excellent job, as you'd hope he would, but Patrick Walburton (as Agamemnon) really stole the show in each scene he's in. (Don't tase me, bro.)
Fun movie, even if you don't have kids to watch it with.
Again: Worth watching on the big screen. Maybe even in 3D. 8/10.
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5/10 - I'd be mighty pissed if I'd have paid for the ticket but with a subscription card (20€ / month for unlimited visits to all UGC cinemas) it was ok...avoid it if you have to actually pay for it.
2/10 - I received an invitation to a showing last week, with the crew present, and this film was...so measly I can't even find words for it. Good news is that most of you will never even have a chance to see it, I seriously doubt they'll release it in English.
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Don't ask why, randomly picked a movie, Veronica Mars, don't want to talk about the quality of the movie yet too much, though it seems like a fair TV-to-big-screen poppy crime type of thing...
The 6-series. This movie is so obviously BMW sponsored it's painful. At one point the main character says to her friend who's driving it, while they're parked and she's about to go poke around in somebody's apartment, "you better move that, it doesn't exactly blend in..." A 6 series. Evidently BMW also got to fiddle with the script. Just now they're going on an extra long drive, that car's been in half the movie so far. And another obvious promotion with the Z4 placement...
The 6-series. This movie is so obviously BMW sponsored it's painful. At one point the main character says to her friend who's driving it, while they're parked and she's about to go poke around in somebody's apartment, "you better move that, it doesn't exactly blend in..." A 6 series. Evidently BMW also got to fiddle with the script. Just now they're going on an extra long drive, that car's been in half the movie so far. And another obvious promotion with the Z4 placement...
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Gravity
Visually stunning, and the sense of feeling as helpless as the characters is portrayed well. However, I found it intensely frustrating to watch. Even before you consider the glaring inaccuracies I didn't feel for any of the characters simply because the situations they were in would have been avoided by any astronaut that NASA let anywhere near the ISS. I really don't understand the hype around this film. Do people really like seeing Sandra Bullock spinning around in space and panicking?
6/10, mostly because the photography and sound editing were fantastic.
Visually stunning, and the sense of feeling as helpless as the characters is portrayed well. However, I found it intensely frustrating to watch. Even before you consider the glaring inaccuracies I didn't feel for any of the characters simply because the situations they were in would have been avoided by any astronaut that NASA let anywhere near the ISS. I really don't understand the hype around this film. Do people really like seeing Sandra Bullock spinning around in space and panicking?
6/10, mostly because the photography and sound editing were fantastic.
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Eskiya (Turkey, 1996) so far I love it! If you like great story, and global setting, and can figure out how to get it and the subtitles, you won't be disappointed... (where'd that movie buff from Venezuela go that always used to post here...)
Edit, Tom Servo, that's the guy I figure has seen this movie here. And, happy to report, fantastic ending, great throughout!
Edit, Tom Servo, that's the guy I figure has seen this movie here. And, happy to report, fantastic ending, great throughout!
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Gravity.
Didn't live up to the hype, but then I might have gone in with expectations to high. The effects were stunning, amazing to behold. But the whole story line was a bit one dimensional, not to mention far fetched.
The whole 90 minutes is spent watching Sandy B floating around screaming and crying. And you always knew she was going to survive, the film would be pointless otherwise.
Also would something as low tech as a fire extinguisher be used on the ISS? Surely something as important as that would have integrated fire extinguisher systems, as opposed to an explosive metal cylinder that can't be used effectively because of zero gravity. And then there's the fact she used it to propel herself through space. As I said, a bit far fetched.
All in all a 7/10.
Didn't live up to the hype, but then I might have gone in with expectations to high. The effects were stunning, amazing to behold. But the whole story line was a bit one dimensional, not to mention far fetched.
The whole 90 minutes is spent watching Sandy B floating around screaming and crying. And you always knew she was going to survive, the film would be pointless otherwise.
Also would something as low tech as a fire extinguisher be used on the ISS? Surely something as important as that would have integrated fire extinguisher systems, as opposed to an explosive metal cylinder that can't be used effectively because of zero gravity. And then there's the fact she used it to propel herself through space. As I said, a bit far fetched.
All in all a 7/10.
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(This is the order I watched the movies.)
9.5/10
My favourite of the bunch. I enjoyed pretty much every second of the movie. I like how Frozen focused more on family love rather than romantic love, much unlike most other Disney princess movies. I enjoyed the story too, although I thought they could've expanded a bit more on it, especially the ending, which leaves me wanting a sequel. There might be a few plot holes here and there, but they're definitely not enough to break the movie. It lost half a mark for that reason nevertheless. The visuals and music are the movie's strongest points. Frozen is easily one of the best movies I've ever watched.
9.5/10
My second favourite by a very close margin. Like with Frozen, I was expecting Tangled to be another generic Disney princess movie, and in some ways, there are traces of genericness. However, I found the movie to be very fun and I loved every second of it just as I did Frozen. The story is definitely more in-depth than Frozen's, and the music and visuals are just as good. Along with Frozen, Tangled is easily one of my favourite movies.
6/10
Perhaps watching Frozen and Tangled first did set my expectations higher, but I thought Brave was an okay movie. The story was decent but also confusing at times, like the part about Mor'du and the tapestry. And the witch, which was also downright creepy. Good theme though, but not enough for me to want to watch the movie again. In all honesty, being a Pixar film, I did have higher expectations.
5/10
I liked the original Cars movie. Being a car guy and all, it was nice to see how car culture was tied into a movie about being selfless. Before I watched Cars 2, I read the reviews, so I approached the movie not expecting much. Cars 2 is so different to Cars that it feels like they're only similar in characters. It seemed to have removed all the values and themes that were taught in the original Cars. It's very thrilling and all, but it leaves a lot to be desired. Definitely not Pixar's finest hour.
9.5/10
My favourite of the bunch. I enjoyed pretty much every second of the movie. I like how Frozen focused more on family love rather than romantic love, much unlike most other Disney princess movies. I enjoyed the story too, although I thought they could've expanded a bit more on it, especially the ending, which leaves me wanting a sequel. There might be a few plot holes here and there, but they're definitely not enough to break the movie. It lost half a mark for that reason nevertheless. The visuals and music are the movie's strongest points. Frozen is easily one of the best movies I've ever watched.
9.5/10
My second favourite by a very close margin. Like with Frozen, I was expecting Tangled to be another generic Disney princess movie, and in some ways, there are traces of genericness. However, I found the movie to be very fun and I loved every second of it just as I did Frozen. The story is definitely more in-depth than Frozen's, and the music and visuals are just as good. Along with Frozen, Tangled is easily one of my favourite movies.
6/10
Perhaps watching Frozen and Tangled first did set my expectations higher, but I thought Brave was an okay movie. The story was decent but also confusing at times, like the part about Mor'du and the tapestry. And the witch, which was also downright creepy. Good theme though, but not enough for me to want to watch the movie again. In all honesty, being a Pixar film, I did have higher expectations.
5/10
I liked the original Cars movie. Being a car guy and all, it was nice to see how car culture was tied into a movie about being selfless. Before I watched Cars 2, I read the reviews, so I approached the movie not expecting much. Cars 2 is so different to Cars that it feels like they're only similar in characters. It seemed to have removed all the values and themes that were taught in the original Cars. It's very thrilling and all, but it leaves a lot to be desired. Definitely not Pixar's finest hour.
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