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An atmospheric slaughter movie that I found surprising thanks to some of the twists. Great ideas put into practice well. Wan certainly knows his stuff. It was pleasant to see many well-known and quality actors alongside some unknown ones. But it isn’t so brutal and doesn’t make you jump, so don’t be afraid. ;)

Maybe the best comic book adaptation. Nolan milks the maximum from it in his movies, but still he remains in Miller’s shadow. Part two of the Return of the Dark Knight pulls a joker from its sleeve. The chilling and brutal confrontation with the loon with the smile across his face in the tunnel of love is probably better than the epic finale with the Man of Steel. The action sequences are of course longer than in the book and it’s a treat to watch them. All the people I've murdered...by letting you live.

The original is on a higher level, but Oliva approached it from the right direction. Weller’s thunderous voice is just right for the old man whose psychopath inside awoke with a mission to wipe out injustice. Good drawing, and the fights have pace and style. On the right road.

Darn stylish, with lots of iconic scenes. Bond’s one-liners are real pearls this time. The scene with the laser is unpleasant to watch, even after all those years. But the locations could have been a little more exotic.

A great romantic comedy, the best for the past... a really long time. Very untraditional, argumentative and full of paradoxical situations. Bradley Cooper is excellent (well-deserved nomination) and Jennifer Lawrence (well-deserved nomination) is the perfect psycho fox with a sensitive soul. Notwithstanding the unarguable qualities of the main duo, De Niro (well-deserved nomination) rocks the most. An unpredictable, cute, but unintrusive movie that you can take a girl to and rather than the date turning bitter, you will more likely be treated to a sweet dessert.

The Arctic is no place for a man... A powerful rescue epic with a much darker dimension thanks to the dream-like hallucinations. The first half drags on a little, but then the atmosphere begins to thicken. The most powerful scene is without a doubt when Amundsen discovers the wreckage of the Italia. Powerful shots of the icy wilderness and Morricone’s music give the picture much needed beauty surrounded by despair. The acting performances are excellent. The final verdict is a jab at humanity which is more than right. /// I watched the original Russian version.

Pilot: It looks like a fairly well cast thrilleroid series with a weird, perverse and unarguably unlikely (even though Yankees can be real maniacs) plot about serial killer fans (Hi there, Dexi ;-) ). Poe is rather overused inspiration, but for the pilot it suffices. I hope that Bacon starts to drink more, if there’s not much action, a broken heart is annoying. So far, Purefoy isn’t chilling enough, but he didn’t get much room. We’ll see, so far I’m quite hooked, but it’d better get better soon. Season one: A twisted game with the viewer and his taste? The first half is stupidly refined and Joe and his little sect are quite entertaining. Then they start trying to finish writing the book themselves and that’s where everything starts to fall apart. What’s with the attempt at literary cliché and screenwriter’s cliché? Where is it Joe’s fault and where is the screenwriter at fault? The whole thing goes unpleasantly against the genre by copying it. At the end Purefoy is a completely different person from the one who says at the beginning... “It’s too soon for me to kill you". At the end, pacemaker or no pacemaker, Bacon jumps into the shoes of Jack Bauer just to look like a complete idiot at the end. This ending is a dirty trick on the viewer, who wanted to part company with this serial after the first season, but now I don’t know what to do. I suppose I’ll take a look at season two, at least one episode.

Classic Bond. A better script, more one liners, explosions and action; the fight on the train in particular is very good. The first villain babe, numbers, a shoe with a knife and a gorgeous Bond-girl. And JimBo comes back in Goldfinger.

This isn’t completely traditional the Bond movies after all, the storytelling structure is fixed, but James isn’t yet the carefree Casanova that we’re used to, he just does his job in his own way. Traditional espionage tricks, not futuristic weapons, and only in the finale does Dr. No start to smack of sci-fi (metal claws, radiation), but that’s the way I like it. Ursula Andress is an old-style, double-edged goddess, with the wave of a wand, she changes from half-naked native in a bikini into Barbie and back again. Connery is my favorite Bond and he clearly enjoys the role of murderous bastard. An immortal classic. I think they were on their way to a funeral.

I haven’t read the book, so I liked it much more than most people (who have read it), so I will have the last laugh when I get around to reading the book, because I will relive the fun while the rest of you had to suffer the (supposedly) less funny hundred and nine minutes of the movie. Ha Ha Ha. P.S.: Marvin rocks.