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The Guard (2011)

The Guard

Sometimes an opening scene of a movie manages to paint a clear picture of what a movie is about in just seconds. The Guard is an example of a film which manages to do so in an exquisite way (small spoiler coming up). A car with a couple of young men who are speeding, crashes at the exact spot where sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is already waiting in his police car. He frisks one of the unconscious (or dead) men who has been thrown out of the car, finds some drugs, throws half of them away and takes an XTC-pill that’s part of the package. It’s immediately obvious that this is not the most normal cop and that The Guard is a very dark enjoyable comedy. Continue reading →

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

As stated in this week’s Monday Question about guilty pleasures I can really enjoy the Transformers movies. Although I did watch the cartoons and had some of the toys as a kid, I never had strong feelings about them. The cartoons were entertaining and it was fun transforming cars into robots, but I wouldn’t be able to tell you much about the names of the characters or even what the cartoons were about. Only thing I know is that the Autobots are good and the Decepticons aren’t. After the success of the first two Transformers movies, Michael Bay ends the trilogy with Dark of the Moon. Not much has changed really, it’s still about robots beating the crap out of each other. Continue reading →

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The Princess Bride (1987)

There are some movies I would never watch if it wasn’t for lists like the IMDB top 250. The Princess Bride would be a good example of this. Looking at the summary and some pictures this didn’t seem like my type of movie. When I bought the DVD it was in a “Princesses” box together with another princess movie starring Anne Hathaway. I had the feeling that I was buying something for a little girl as it was all pink, but had to watch this one. Luckily my persistence was awarded with a very nice movie. Continue reading →

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Another movie in the IMDB top 250 I’ve hadn’t watched yet and it was time I did. I’m now slowly getting to my goal of having seen 200 out of 250 movies by the end of the year (currently only 9 to go so I’m sure I’ll be able to make it).

Knowing this is a Stanley Kubrick movie I had high expectations of it, have seen several of his other ones (most of them I loved), so was looking forward to it. The only scene I had ever seen was the iconic opening scene where the drill instructor (R. Lee Ermey) is screaming against all the new recruits. It’s such an amazing scene to watch, especially knowing that a lot of it was improvised. When watching it you can’t help but laugh. Continue reading →

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Bridesmaids (2011)

Chris Rock once had this part in one of his shows where he talked about rivalry between women and that no matter where they work they always turn everything into some Dynasty type thing, thinking that the other woman is trying to destroy them. Bridesmaids takes that thought, mixes it with a bit of The Hangover and adds some Sex and the City to end up with an interesting result. Continue reading →

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Superheroes (2011)

Years ago there were hardly any superhero movies (except for Superman). If they were made almost no one went out to see them, but now it is a very succesful genre with a couple of big movies coming out each year. The genre is so big that the limits are also explored resulting in movies like Super, Kick-Ass and Defendor where characters are shown who think they are real superheroes in a real world. Those were still movies though with characters someone made up. Superheroes is a documentary which looks at “real real-life superheroes”. Continue reading →

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Thor (2011)

Superhero movies, I have to admit I am never really looking forward to any of them although I do watch almost all of them. When I grew up I didn´t read much comics (I stuck to Donald Duck and ´Suske en Wiske´) not having any connection with the characters probably is a good thing as you won´t notice that things are different from the comics. I didn´t think Thor would be a very interesting movie, but when a colleague of mine, who is a big comic book fan, told me how much he enjoyed watching it I had to give this one a chance as well. My review after the break. Continue reading →

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The Monday Question: Laughter!

It’s Monday again, hopefully you all had a great weekend and saw lots of amazing movies!

This week’s question has to do with a genre which is possibly the most subjective of all the movie genres out there, comedies. Unless you know what kind of taste in comedy someone has it’s very hard to rely on their judgement. That’s why I want to know about your taste. This week’s Monday Morning Question: What are your favorite comedies? Continue reading →

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Win Win (2011)

Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) is a lawyer who has some trouble keeping his law firm profitable. He hardly gets any new clients and when he sees an opportunity with a client to suddenly get a steady monthly payment he decides to make some decisions which will come back to haunt him. The result of this is that the grandson of the client, Kyle (Alex Shaffer), suddenly appears who has run away from home. Mike is forced to take care of him and try to solve the mess he created. Continue reading →