Malarkey

These Three Musketeers are something completely different than you would expect. And that’s actually a good thing. After all, what good would it do me to watch the same story over and over again, just with different actors? This story is always taken very seriously not only from a historical point of view and at times gets quite romantic. Anderson took the originally story, fucked around with it, gave it a thrashing, abused it and this is the result – a completely zany ride which makes no sense whatsoever but entertains. And that’s the most important thing. You must take it as entertainment, not as a historical tale. Then it works, and rather well at that. The actors also understood this and I must say that I had quite a good time with them. I laughed and got to see the musketeers as a bonus.

I can’t say that this film is bad, or at least as bad as the ratings here make it look. It didn’t feel like that to me at all. I rather think that the feeling still prevails on this website that the Germans cannot make good films, which is not true at all. The problem is that it’s harder for the really good ones to get to us than for the commercially successful ones. Gran Paradiso is a classic story about overcoming the insurmountable and I really liked it. It really resonated with me. For example, I really liked how the main character in the wheelchair changed his views over time, beginning to realize that even though he is in a wheelchair, life is still something we should respect and take care of. And the ending was just delicious. It wasn’t exactly a hit movie, but on the other hand I knew it was sincere.

I thought Clint Eastwood would come up with a military blockbuster that will make me laugh as it happened perhaps only with the M.A.S.H. 4077. But it’s still not a bad movie. Heartbreak Ridge has a classic idea, a classic rendition, just as classic course and an even more classic conclusion. In fact, it’s all absolutely average. This is improved by Clint Eastwood himself, who as a sergeant employed certain slightly harsh methods, and his platoon ignored him. This creates a lot of good but also bad situations and the biggest problem lies with the platoon. I couldn’t stand those guys. The actors portrayed them as a band of usual douchebags in a way that I had to root for Clint, who at least kept showing some effort throughout the film.

I’m glad that at least someone brings some prestige to my last name. Tuva Novotny is absolutely endearing in this movie. I mean, she is endearing wherever she appears, but here the ignorance and uncertainty associated with her memory loss made her into a complete baby. On top of that, she looked very pretty. The film is quite simple, to be honest. It begins with Tuva waking up in the rubble by the river and remembering nothing. Then she arrives in the nearest village, all dirty, sweaty and bloodied, and some French guy accommodates her, pours her a glass of Beaujolais and doesn’t ask any questions. If it were me, I’d call the cops, but I understand it had to be different for the film. And that’s not the only scene in the movie that felt like this. Still, it was pleasant to watch, even though it wasn’t the best film ever made. But Tuva raised it to another level.

This romantic comedy has a huge charm to it. Especially since Justin and Drew really fell in love during the making of this film, so I didn’t have to force myself at all to believe their performances. Here it was simply clear from the first minute, when they drew attention to themselves with bright flashes in their eyes. And in the end, I had a really good time. It was obvious that the movie didn’t want to cater to mass tastes so at times it was harsh, crass and so on. But that that’s the beautiful thing about it, because life is exactly like that. On the other hand, it was a real pity that Justin had two great pals in this movie – Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day – but the creators just throw them aside without a moment’s hesitation. Even though that without them, the movie would have been only a half of what it was. Anyhow, it was a great movie, proving that love is love and that it emerges, perishes and develops in any form, and the usual clichés do not always apply. This is probably what I liked about it the most.

I was really excited to see this, even despite the strange and incomprehensible story. I thought that nothing can be more surprising than a fight between the 19th century cowboys and aliens who decide to visit an arid town in the middle of the American prairie. Let’s face it, it was all a load of hogwash, but I must admit that I had fun. The actors were cool. Their performances were standard. Harrison Ford’s might have been a bit better. He’ll probably always be charismatic. In any case, the movie’s main currency were special effects – and the authors really put a lot of work into those. It’s true that the story starts getting insane halfway through, but I didn’t really mind that much. I enjoyed it and I think that at the cinema, this experience would’ve been on a whole new level.

From the very beginning, I was wondering what kind of clown there is on the screen, running and dodging bullets like that, with cars skidding in front of him and someone constantly firing an uzi at him. The whole movie was awful, awkward and stupid. I had it on as I was cleaning around and I was appalled at the sort of movies that get filmed nowadays. It was a complete farce, as if Chaplin appeared in a French movie. But Chaplin at least had a certain charm about him and he could make the viewer laugh. Dupontel just embarrassed himself with this one.

The war wrote a whole array of absurd stories, that’s general knowledge. And if it wasn’t, then movie stories and book stories alike would tell us all about it. One such story was told by the Netherlands in collaboration with Luxembourg. At first glance, Twin Sisters is an incredibly interesting story about twins who live fundamentally different lives as they’re separated by the era. The war atmosphere was great, but I was a bit disappointed not to have formed a significant relationship with any of the characters. It’s as if the movie was lacking feelings and emotions and that’s extremely bad for a war drama. In any case, I really liked the interconnectivity between the past and the present and if nothing else, I’m glad that movies about ordinary people living through a war still get filmed in Europe, because nowadays, it’s exactly those kinds of stories that can teach us a lot about humanity.

Decent acting performances fitted into an emotional life story; all of that mixed into a raw British drama. It’s good in this case, but not quite as good to make it memorable like an array of other dramas are. I’m not even sure why.

Claustrophobia might just be the movie’s main feature. So, it’s good that it’s not that long. It reminded me of a similar movie Moon a little bit; by its atmosphere, the background music, the story flow. This was a very interesting, original small-scale movie that was – in my opinion – executed as well as possible.