movies recently watched by me:
Paranorman: Good story, can relate to it, etc.pp. They just really overemphasize the fact that Norman gets bullied by the thick ones. I kinda took their side here, I thought 'They might not know better, but that doesn't mean they're genuinly stupid.' At some point, it feels like the movie makes fun of them for being thick.
But otherwise, a really enjoyable movie, with zombies, a witch and an aesop. I just can't not enjoy an animated kids movie. And the ending to the jock-and-blonde pairing is surprising yet refreshingly satisfying.
Django Unchained: Tarantino nailed it again. His trademark blood amounts are omnipresent, and he gives his own cameo a death that made me laugh out loud in the cinema. I also enjoyed the bilingual bonus by Waltz, who again plays a german fellow. And you constantly have the silent question in the back of your head: just how accurate is this depiction of slavery?
Mr Nobody: a beligian-canadian-french-german coproduction which is scifi-fantasy-mindtwist. It reminded me of 'Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind' and 'The Butterfly Effect'. It is 'Inception' for people who prefer their own theories and thoughts over exposition. As I said before, I don't have THE favourite movie, but this one, while completely different, is competing with 'The Genetic Opera' for the nonexistent throne. It's appealing to me because it has a beautiful science fiction frame, and its themes are choice and consequence, and a personal weakness of mine (which whould be a spoiler).
Jackie Brown: a Tarantino that has escaped me until now. And Tarantino delivers. A stewardess who couriers for a gun trader deceives an ingenious plot to aquire an illegal half million dollar gun payment from Mexico while distracting both the cops and the gun trader. Tarantino takes his time to let the emotions sink in, he uses silence as well as loud segments. And the ending is one of the most intense i've ever seen, though that could be because I am currently returning from an adventure in New Zealand back to University and regular life.
While walking through the city, I saw the cinema at the art gallery screening 'Seven Psychopaths'. The trailer looked good (director of 'In Bruges' and Christopher Walken? I'm in!) and when I saw that the next screening was in ten minutes, I took the opportunity to see it. It's about a writer who is working on a movie script entitled 'Seven Psychopaths' and he is trying to think of psychopathic characters. His friend has a 'dog borrowing' business, i.e. kidnapping and getting the reward. When he snatches the dog of a deranged mafioso, the plot unfolds. There is also a killer running around who only kills high and middle ranking members of the organised crime and the yakuza. Great fun, and personally I liked the many meta-jokes about the movie script in the making.
It amazes me time and time again how many great movies are out there. There is literally no time to waste with the mediocre garbage that is out there. Then again, I always have to keep in mind that it's those movies that finance the studios. Just yesterday I learned that Robert Rodriguez directed 'Spy Kids'. Go figure.
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