Finally saw the Watchmen movie, It’s not quite as good as the comic book, but it’s still:
The endig was also better than the comic book, and I cant wait to get the extended version and the tale of the black freighter on Bluray
Rating: 9.5 / 10
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Watchmen
Saturday, March 7th, 2009Død snø (dead snow) sucks – Ein Zwei Fail
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Against my better judgment I went with some friends and saw the Norwegian made “nazi-zombie” movie Død Snø (Dead Snow).
The movie is made by talentless writer/director Tommy Wirkola, who just 2 years ago embarrassed the country with a horrible Kill Bill parody (“Kill Buljo”). By looking at the trailer for Død Snø, it actually doesn’t seem so bad, and if the movie was as good as the trailer I would not be bitching and complaining right now.. But the movie itself fails at so many things it’s almost embarrassing.
Story – FAIL
Now I would be the first to acknowledge that a movie with nazi zombies does not need much of a plot. However there at least have to be SOMETHING, even if the plot is so simple as “zombies around, locked up in shopping mall / mountain cabin, try to escape” there still have to be events that pushes the story forward towards something. Watching Død Snø feels like going nowhere really slow, nothing really happens and there is nothing leading up to anything, no sense of progression, no nothing.
Characters – FAIL
The only properly developed character is killed early in the movie. The rest of the characters are uninteresting and with NO back story. The dialogs throughout the movie are lame and if you are going to have someone talk with the ugliest Norwegian dialect ever conceived (Stavanger) for the love of gods, ADD SUBTITLES!
Genre – 3x FAIL
The movie tries at three genres and misses all of them by a furlong.
Horror/zombie, the movie is not scary at all, it has no atmosphere what so ever and there is none of that tight, claustrophobic eerie zombie feeling. Just a few attempts on sudden/cheap scares which FAIL.
Comedy, the only good thing this movie has to show for are a couple of OK jokes. but sadly most of the movie is about as funny as watching Adam Sandler making dinner.
Splatter, this movie does not qualify as a splatter, there are only a few splatter scenes, most of which are pretty dull and unoriginal. Both the quality and quantity of the effects does not stand up well to other splatters.
Quality – FAIL
The sound sucks donkey balls.
The music sucks elephant balls.
The effects are mediocre at their best.
The zombie makeup is almost passable.
60% of the movie is shot in the dark.. by someone who can’t shoot in the dark.
Conclusion
This half ass movie reaches movies like Bad Taste, Braindead, Shaun of the dead, *real zombie movies* up to their ankles. I would rather have watched Braindead once again. No sound, no color, Portuguese subtitles, as a poor VHS rip on a broken LCD monitor, and with one eye shut.. It would still be roughly 3 times better than Død Snø:
“Artist illustration”
rating: 2.5 / 10
The poorly illuminated knight
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008I saw the latest batman movie last night, and considering all the hype around it, I find myself somewhat disappointed.
The plot is pretty uninteresting for the most part, but not that bad either, it’s like an average action movie.
There where a few things that annoyed me:
- They could have killed the joker at 4-5 times at the movie, saving lots of people.
- Heath Ledger’s acting was OK, nothing more.. If he had not offed himself with a bad drugs combo nobody would give a shit or suggest him getting an oscar.
- Batmans voice sounds like Homer Simpson with a cold.. SERIOUSLY.. it’s off putting!
- Nobody notices 50-100 barrels of explosives being moved into a hospital or a ferry.
And finally.. “Dark knight”?
Batman is not Dark.. He is Emo.. There is a big difference.
Rorschach (Watchmen), V (V for Vendetta), Marv (Sin city), The punisher, Wolverine (X-men) are dark, and they get the job done.
Batman is a black teletubby who like superman is never going to solve the problem by killing his deadly enemy, but instead play a weird form of catch and release, which gets LOTS of people killed, but still batman is sooo guilty when the joker kills a few people demanding that he expose himself.
At least this movie was not as HORRIBLE as Batman Returns. Still.. Batman = Pussy
rating: 5 / 10
Nemi vs Jedi
Sunday, November 30th, 2008Me and Nemi made a short movie this weekend:
It looks better in high quality, but dont know if it’s possible to embed that from youtube
Dvd collection
Saturday, September 27th, 2008I tried out a couple of programs for managing your DVD collection lately. The choice fell on eXtreme Movie Manager. Adding movies and tv shows by importing from IMDB worked nicely.
I really like the tv series part, where I can list all the tv series I have, order by rating, etc..
You can also export your collection to a html page like this
or to a simple list.
Iron Man
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I just saw Iron Man, and it is easily the best marvel based movie ever (except the X-men movies of course).
The ending was not so fresh, but the movie as a whole was pretty damned good. I really liked the main character and the humor in the film was great. Will definitely watch Iron Man 2 and Avengers when they come.
Rating: 8.8 / 10
The Ruins
Friday, September 19th, 2008I saw a movie a couple of days back, The ruins.
It’s a horror movie about some people who goes to check out an ancient temple in southern America. This seems like a pretty cheesy story, but the movie is actually kinda neat and got a nice kind of charm over it, and it relies on psychology, tension and a form of creeping horror, instead of gore based or sudden scares.
The movie’s atmosphere kinda reminds me of the descent, but to be honest, the descent is much better. Either way, the movie is an OK watch 
Rating: 6.8 / 10
Cloverfield
Friday, September 19th, 2008I actually haven’t gotten around to watch Cloverfield until now.
Seeing that the last hand-held camera style movie I saw turned out to be crap (Diary of the dead), I had low expectations of this one. It did however manage to positively surprise me
unlike Diary of the dead, this movie actually have ok characters that people can somewhat identify with. And the story although pretty simple, is entertaining trough the whole movie.
Rating: 6 / 10
Ferret Clubbing
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Bah, I got a flu something and a fever so I’m home from work.. Nothing to do here except play around with sony vegas
The Mist
Saturday, July 26th, 2008I saw a pretty good movie just now.
The Mist is a “horror movie” based on a novella by Stephen King. But unlike most films based on his stories, this movie does not suck.. It’s actually fairly good, a little bit slow in the middle, but nice ending.
The movie is about a small town that gets covered in a thick mist, leaving lots of people trapped in the local grocery store. If you’re a fan of Stephen King movies (the few good ones), you might want to check this out, as this is one of the good ones (like The Stand, Storm of the Century, Rose Red, Green Mile, Carrie, etc..).
I guess it’s also a good “casual horror” movie, nothing scary. Speaking of scary, I just realized there are no asian people in the movie.. weird.. Stacy is going away tomorrow, so maybe then I can get to watch the latest asian horror movie I bought (Ghost game).
Rating: 7.5 / 10
