A special “Over The Air” production of Torchwood, by the OTA-sweding crew.

After the previous massive movie review I decided to do this more often as a service to all you undecided movie goers.

Juno (2007)

Very witty and lighthearted comedy, with some marvelous dialogues. Really worth watching and worth the Oscar, a must-see for all.

A Tale of Two Sisters (2007)

A Korean psycho-horror with a marvelous plot. If you like these kind of movies than this is really a must-see.

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

Typical costume drama with a predictable story and annoying camerawork. How many shots through fences/windows/bushes do you need?

The Lives of Others (2006)

A very touching movie about espionage in former east-Germany. Very worthy of winning the 2007 Oscar for best foreign movie.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)

Odd mix between a movie and a tv episode, and it wasn’t even a good episode. Still love Stargate though.

27 Dresses (2008)

Cheap romantic-comedy with some great actors, a good story line, but very annoying extras. Sadly too late for valentine’s.

I have been watching quite a few movies lately. Mainly new ones but also a few old classics that I still hadn’t seen. I came to this because Melinda is in The Netherlands for a while and we have basically finished most of the TV shows we use to watch. I didn’t want to write a large review for all of them, so here is my 20-word-movie-review for all of them.

The Bank Job (2008)

A “true” fiction story told as a documentary which doesn’t help the suspense. Set in London though, which is “interesting”.

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Typical Oscar winner, with some great scenes. Somehow it seems to stick but don’t know why. Couple of “quotable” scenes.

Rambo: First Blood (1982)

Made in my birth year, but never seen it before. Sadly enough it’s quite boring. Die Hard was way better!

Cidade de Deus (2002)

#2 movie to see of this century according to IMDB. Don’t really agree but again an Oscar nominee that sticks.

Helvetica (2007)

Fairly boring documentary about a Type Face (Font). What else do I need to say to make this 20 words?

Blades of Glory (2007)

Typical Will Ferrell movie, so you need to like those movies to like this. Jon Heder balanced it out though.

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

It had some great scenes, but I’ve never seen so many people look around after the movie going: was that it?

I went to see Planet Terror today with Melinda. This is the Robert Rodriquez part of the Grindhouse movie he made with Quentin Tarantino. In the USA people didn’t get the joke of the series (get the explanation here) and they decided to release the films in two separate parts in Europe (too bad). I really loved the movie (I got free tickets, so I’m a bit biased) because of the style, bad special effects, and the way they totally didn’t take themselves serious. It was even extremely funny that next to the “fake” meltdown of the tape, we actually also had a real problem in the cinema. I hope to see the other part soon, and I would like to thank Tweakers.net for the tickets.

I went to Die Hard 4.0 (or “Live Free or Die Hard” as it is called in the US) yesterday in the Empire cinema here in London. It was the first time at the Empire, which is one of the biggest/luxurious/expensive cinemas here in London.

I was amazed by the service, with people bringing you to your seat with little lights, but my impressions of the theatre quickly disappeared when they showed me the “Don’t Steal Movies” trailer. I know these trailers and I know the campaign against them, so nothing new here.

What really pissed me of though was that right before Die Hard 4.0 started they decided to treat us to a nice “from the red carpet”-special that they had filmed a few weeks earlier at the same cinema. Mixed with the interviews they showed a lot of scenes from the movie we were all going to watch.

I mean: for god sake, we are here to watch THAT movie. Stop showing spoilers, stop commercializing. We already payed (a lot)! I am so annoyed that even the movie theaters don’t understand their customers.