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Monday 11 January 2016

Star Wars: The Force Awakens..... On second thoughts. And also spoilers :)

Remember a while ago when I bashed Star Wars to the ground? Well I was wrong, about some things. Most of the arguments I made still stand, but what I did was focus solely on them, instead of the good stuff, wich there is a lot of. Most things in fact are very good, and after seeing it another twenty-eight times, I've decided to write about all the amazing stuff that I expirienced while viewing this movie.

Well obviously this.

But other than that: All of this stuff: TR-8R, BB-8, FN-2187, 3D......
But seriously for a change, BB-8 was the most awsome orange and white ball I have ever seen
He (?) was just the coolest thing that the production team could have come up with, while not being an R2-D2 replacment, and if the story about Simon Pegg's daughter befriending the onset robot is true, it makes him all the more awsome. And the way his roundness was used for visual humor made him something that was lacking from the prequels, a fun character. 
Serious characters, there were some, like Tarkin jr. I mean Hux! And Captain Phasma, the third in a proud tradition of looking cool, while at the same time doing jack-shit. But someone I really want to talk about (for now), is Kylo Ren, or should I say, Ben Solo? I wont, but still. Now that I've given it some thought, Kylo was an extremely deep and intresting character, leaving me to think what would have happened to Luke should he have chosen the path of the dark side. He was clearly a woulrenable boy, not knowing what to do, and therefore choosing to follow the strongest and smartest one around.

Speaking of whom: heres a theory on who Supremeleader Snoke is!!!!
According to my theory; he is Emperor Palpatine. Heres the evidence: His disfigurments recemble being  very badly burned, or electrocuted, like Palpatine was, twice. Palpatines body was never found, he was a storng force-user, he could have survived and escaped that drop. If he was the apprentice of  Darth Plagueis, he might have known how to survive death. Thats all I've got to be honest. Its not a very good theory. Anyways, I'l be back with a new review sometime wednesday when the H8ful Eight finally comes out in Finland. 

Wednesday 6 January 2016

2015 What is Film Awards

Skit coming, too busy at the moment.

2015 is over, but before we dive face first into the cloud of unearned optimism that is 2016, lets look back at the best, worst, and the mediocheriest films of last year. There are howerver many categories I came up with while writing this. Also keep in mind that not only did I not see all films,  and some werent released in Finland yet. And I'm including films I didnt review. Hold on to your butts!

Action
Best:
I didnt have to think about this too much, While there were many good action films this year, like the fun Kingsmen and the total parody Spy, this award goes straight to Mad Max: Fury Road! The absolutely epic awsomenesplosion delivered what I wanted, and destroyed my low expectations! I so cant wait for the 3 other films in the series in wich Tom Hardy has been singed up for.
Worst: 
Terminator Genisys, move along.
Mediocheriest:
This I had to think about for a bit, but ultimately decided to not include a "mediocher" cathegory.

Actors
Best: 
There were many good ones to choose from, Tom Hardy in Legend, Tom Hardy in Mad max, Tom Hardy in Legend, again. But I ultimately went with Tom Hardy as Ronald Kray in Lengend, he completely sold both of his performances as the crime-lord twins, But in my opinion, the mentally challengend Ronnie was the better one.
Worst:
Ugh, Idk, Jai Courteny in Terminator Genisys.

Comic-book movies
Best:
There were two Marvel films last year. Of those two, One was great, and the other amazing. Avengers: Age of Ultron was slightly better than Antman.  Sorry, but without Edgar Wright, it feels like the director that was brought in just tried to copy his style, not quite nailing it.
Worst:
Fant4stic, Fuck that film, needing the rights is no excuse for a lowsy film, Fox!

Eurm.. Effects
Best:
While films like The Martian and The Walk looked really good, I feel like Star Wars: The Force Awakens blended CGI with practicality the best. With perhaps too much overshadowing of the CG, making some characters really stand out as badly done.
Worst:
FantFourStic, I dont want to talk about it anymore.

Score
Best:
I went mad trying to think of the worst- pick in this category, the best one was Mad Max; Fury Road!!!!!!
Worst:
I dont know, didnt listen, probably Terminator genisys or Fant2+2stic.

Worst Film of 2015
Fant4stic four, stop asking me about these things.

Best Film of 2015
There were so many great..hahahahahahaaa, Couldnt even write it with a straight face. There were some great movies this year, Legend, Star Wars, The Walk, Jurassic world..... (these are honorable mentions I've just decided) But only one can be the best!!! And if you know anything about patterns, you will know that it was:

This film

Here's to a good film year! Let us hope 2016 also has some good movies!

Monday 4 January 2016

The Girl King

Remember way-back-when when I wished for a movie about a gay princess? Well here it is! only this is very much not a disney-film. So very much not. And since I saw it with my grandparents, I am now dead. The Girl King is a Finnish/Swedish film about Queen Kristina of Sweden, and her life as the titular "Girl-King". And seeing as how she was a strong indipendent woman who didnt need no man! she of course is a great ruler, right? WRONG! she is torn between being a good queen, and embrasing herself. See back in the 17th century, it was not suitable for a queen not to have an heir to the throne.

But enought about the story! How was the film itself? It was fairly "meh". Some things were good, like the props. Other things were not good, like the acting and pacing. The actors clearly struggled to not sound like rally-drivers, but failed miserably. Mika Kaurismäki, brother of Spielbergs Finnish counterpart; Tapani Spiilperkkilä. Tries to make this a great historical epic, but the finished product is rushed, drags at ome points, uses the wrong gimmicks at the wrong points, goes for shock-value over actual emotion..... I could go on listing the things that are wrong, but I wont. Its a finnish movie made in English. They are generally fairly bad, for example Iron Sky. Fun, but lacked any deeper meaning. This is that again, slighty better maybe, but dont see it with your grandparents. The lesbian-part of Kristinas story is explored fairly graphically.

And since people were shorter 400 years ago, and this was filmed in real castles, everyone crouches in doorways like theyre Bigfoot.