(very very late) thursday melody #15
created: Fri, 27.08.2010, 18:44:06 | last update: Fri, 27.08.2010, 18:44:45 | category: thursday melody
Stephen Jerzak - Cute
created: Tue, 24.08.2010, 17:34:32 | last update: Tue, 24.08.2010, 17:39:21 | category: film reviews
Oh yes, it is.
I haven't been posting anything for more than a month. For several reasons.
Reason No.1) I stayed in Italy for two entire weeks without Internet. I didn't even take lots of pictures. It's embarassing.. but hey, the holidays were worth it.
Reason No. 2) One week in Paris, again without Internet (oh yes, it's possible!).
So I've got to make it up to you. And here it comes - a new film review that was expected way earlier and finally arrives.
The Expendables
...or how one old man managed to get all the crazy action heros and put them into one movie that shows absolutely no difference to any other action movie.
I'm not gonna be too hard. Stallone really knows what he's doing. And it's an action movie, it's supposed to be unnecessarily violent with lots of explosions and gunfire and stuff. And actually he succeeded in creating the whole athmosphere you expect when you go watch a movie like this one. But that's it. There's Bruce Willis' name on the poster, he appears exactly once (the same for Arnold, btw).
The plot is very simple. The Expandables, this group of highly skilled mercenaries (including actors like Jet Li, Jason Statham or Dolph Lundgren) head onto a South American island to kill their merciless dictator. Once there, they discover the true conflict that's happening there and everything suddenly changes..
Well, what else can I say. If you like Rambo, Crank or Indiana Jones - watch it. If you like The Notebook - don't. But you're still allowed to enjoy the trailer.
created: Fri, 23.07.2010, 17:13:56 | last update: Fri, 23.07.2010, 17:23:11 | category: miscellaneous
There are blogs about everything. Sewing. Dogs. There are even blogs about socks. So.. I don't think you're gonna be shocked by the blog I'm gonna show you now. It's so politically incorrect - you gotta love it.
(yes, you can even order this fantastic book online; what a birthday gift!)
I love checking this blog which already has more than 62 Million hits. I'll give you a few examples why:
- #116 Black Music that Black People don't listen to Anymore (can't touch this, du du du du)
- #124 Hating People Who Wear Ed Hardy (well, it's not hate, it's disgust)
- #104 Girls With Bangs (let's be honest, it looks cute)
Check it out. No matter what colour your skin is.
now playing: Kate Nash - Nicest Thing
created: Thu, 22.07.2010, 11:19:39 | last update: Thu, 22.07.2010, 11:19:39 | category: thursday melody
Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree
created: Wed, 21.07.2010, 23:30:31 | last update: Wed, 21.07.2010, 23:32:09 | category: film reviews
You have to make the right choice. As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible.
You've got one choice to make. However you choose, that's the direction that life will lead you. Whatever happens - it's your choice.
What a remarkable idea. Jaco van Dormael shows us that life is not destiny. We are who we are because we chose to be who we are. We are a sum of our choices. This simple way of thinking makes this movie so... different. Nemo Nobody is 34 years old and leads an average life with Anna, the girl he's always loved. But then - cut - Nemo (played by Jared Leto) is 118 years old and the last mortal human on earth. His death is shown live on TV all over the globe. And one interviewer manages to get the last chance to talk to the last person on earth who will die.
The story that is told is very complex. The old man talks about his life as if a couple of stories happend at the same time. As if he lived in three places at once. We see him in different ages, with different friends, once with his father, once with his mother. He asks himself the question:
What would have happened if I had chosen the other way? How would I have lived?
And there is one quote I don't want to hide from you because for me it contained so much truth:
Young Journalist: Everything you say is contradictory. You can't have been in one place and another at the same time. Of all those lives, which one is the right one?
Nemo Nobody aged 118: Each of these lives is the right one! Every path is the right path. Everything could have been everything else and it will have just as much meaning.
now playing: Tiga - Love Don't Live Here Anymore
created: Wed, 21.07.2010, 13:50:24 | last update: Wed, 21.07.2010, 13:50:24 | category: my gallery
