Walle has an 8.6 rating on IMDB. So I openen Walle in HD and had a look. The images were very good. The story was however so incredible dull and superficial that I did not manage to watch it more than half an hour. I rate it a 4 for the quality animations.
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Still Life or Sanxia haoren
Posted in Movies on Oct 17th, 2009
Still Life was originally published as Sanxia haoren but then subtitled in English. Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his daughter and ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. Nurse Shen Hong also comes to Fengjie from Taiyuan in Shanxi to look [...]
The Star Wars Saga
Posted in Movies on Oct 11th, 2009
After writing single posts on Star Wars 1 and 2 I decided to review all 6 episodes at once for they are too good together to be regarded apart.
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
Posted in Movies on Sep 6th, 2009
Star Wars: Episode II gained speed over Episode I, but still some scenes take too long. Other scenes however go too fast. The special effects are quite good and Natalie Portman raises the rating of the movie with a full point all by herself. Which makes it a 7.5.
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Posted in Movies on Jul 21st, 2009
Star Wards: Episode 1 was the 4th movie in the Star Wars Saga but the first on internal Chronology. It was also the first I saw and I was actually positively surprised. It’s a cult movie and it’s a good one. The concept is clear the scenes are entertaining. References are interesting, the play is [...]
Black Hawk Down
Posted in Movies on Apr 13th, 2009
Black Hawk Down sucks you into combat situations in the 90s in Somalia. The scenes feel very realistic. Too realistic for me. Saving Privat Ryan is easy compared to this. After almost 2 hours I had seen enough and turned it off. It’s just not my genre. I rate is a 7.
The Prestige
Posted in Movies on Mar 29th, 2009
The Prestige is a movie about 2 men performing their magic. Where does the magic take you? And where does the magic stop? The playing is good, the script is original, the atmosphere is strange in a good way. tension is nice. I rate it with an 8.
Into the Wild
Posted in Movies on Mar 10th, 2009
“An IMDB rating of 8.2 can only result in watching a great movie.” FALSE. Into the Wild is different then an ordinary Hollywood film. But in the meantime it is not. The story of a boy growing up and deciding to make something out of his life and do things different then his parents might [...]
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Posted in Movies on Jan 24th, 2009
Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlet Johansson) visit Barcelona for their summer, staying with Vicky’s distant relative Judy (Patricia Clarkson) and her husband, Mark Nash (Kevin Dunn). A Narrator (voice of Christopher Evan Welch) describes the two friends: Vicky is practical and traditional in her approach to love and commitment. Cristina, on the other hand, [...]
The Girl in the Cafe
Posted in Movies on Apr 27th, 2008
The Girl in the Cafe is a television movie about a successful civil servant working hard on the Millennium Goals of the United Nations. When he meets a young woman he falls in love. This movie is about love and how people influence each other. It’s not brilliant, it’s even predictable. But for some reason [...]