Two Good Movies

1 11 2009

Last week I’ve watched 2 movies that are must for every person to see.

Maybe I would not post on this but today there is nothing to do in the city, everyone is scared to go out and get ill, so I have some spare time. Why not? :)

The first one is Shrink with Kevin Spacey. This actor never gets a chance to make you disappointed. Serious movie with a lot of hemp, jokes and happy endings. Especially I liked the character of Dallas Roberts.

The second movie I have seen already few years ago but refreshing it in my mind was at least the same interesting as watching for the first time. It’s a “Being John Malkovich”. This masterpiece is all about people’s hidden desires and how they drive our lives.

If you don’t know what to do – go get these movies and enjoy.





Movies and not Only

3 03 2009

If I ever wrote about some movies there were only my comments on really good movies, since I like to share positive things for others.
But this time I will comment a very bad movie. On the last weekend I’ve seen 4 or 5 movies, two of them were really ugly so I had no desire to view them completely to the end. The first one was the “Against the Dark”, a latest film with Steven Seagal. I will not describe this movie since it just ugly thing about some vampires, really cheap and nasty and without any fucking idea at all. My patience was able to bear maximally 15 minutes ;) But still I can understand why such movies are being produced and why actors agree to play in them: money. There’s never nothing bad with money making, it seems to run the world progress.

But the second movie was not ugly just because it is cheap and without idea, it pretends to be with the idea. Movie stars are never responsible for the content of the movie, they just play the scenario as good as they are asked. Director and screenplay writer are fully responsible here, they are filling the form with the content. Thus I would not say any shit to Daniel Craig who took a role in this crap called the “Defiance”. The real hero here is mr. Edward Zwick. I would like to wish mr. Zwick never ever again have any chance participate in movie making.
Now the reason why I am focusing that much on this movie… Well… History managed things in a way where between Western and Eastern Europe we have not only geographical division but so called “mentally” separation. Of course there are mental/cultural/other differences. But. I will despise any person who will try to deliberately cultivate the image of Ukraine, Russia and other Eastern Europe countries as the society of degrading people who only drink vodka full time and swearing. This film is all about this.
Quite often I have met people from Europe who never seen real Eastern Europe but who believe in this image. This is not good. I wish old good Western Europe all the best possible but people – be careful to not degrade yourself in taking so simple and rude provocations as the basis of your judgments. Those mental differences are no more such visible as it was 15 years ago, world is changing and vodka is not only being drunk in post-soviet countries, and people are visiting museums and listening to classical music not only in Germany or UK.

Now let’s start the work, it’s a fine day :p





JoJo in the Stars

1 11 2008

Today I saw a short animation of a kind I have never seen before. It is only about 13 minutes but it is really amazing.

Just decided to watch a new portion of FutureShorts in the cinema. There were ~7 short movies, almost all really sucked but this one last was worthy to endure all the previous crap and enjoy 13 minutes :)

Here it goes on the YouTube: JoJo in the Stars.

Tell me what you think about it.