1982: From Best to Worst

One of the best horror movie i've seen in a long time. It's intresting from beging to end, first as a picture of a normal summer day in America, but turn out to be a so unnormal as it first had showed.

John Carpenter's The Thing takes place in Antarctica where two norwegians in a helicopter follows and tries to shot down a running husky dog who's heading for an american outpost. One of the norwegians, tells them in norwegian (which doesn't sounds like norwegian to me) that the dog is not a dog, that it's just imitating a dog, that it's some kind of a thing. The norwegian continue to shoot at the dog and even hits one of the americans in the foot, as a result that the americans have to shoot him. If they thought the worst part was over, what they didn't know was that they unleashed an even more terracing threat.
The Thing is a great, smart and scientistic horror film. I don't want to give away the ending, but I promise that is perhaps one of the smartest and funniest endings in the history of motion picture history. Thumbs up.

In 1974, the famous kurdish actor and director Yilmaz Güney was arrested for the charge of murdering a judge. These accusations was of course false, he was basically arrested because of his political views that provoked the Turkish government. But the imprisonment didn't prevent him from keep on fighting. He actually directed three films, or in this case gave instructions to other directors, and the last one is probably his most famous and most provoking, Yol which in english means "the road".

Yol tells us the story about several Kurdish prisoners who is granted a furlough, only to find themselves lost in a place they don't recognize anymore or are not welcomed, some of them find their home occupied by Turks. For instance one of the prisoners, Mehmet Salih is become a dishonor for his wife's family after running away from his brother-in-law during the heist he was arrested for, a man that was shot and which he could have helped. And when he comes back, her family is not afraid to kill him at the spot. An other prisoner is Seyit Ali, who travels by horse to his home up in the cold mountains only to find out that his wife has been unfaithful to him by working as a prostitute. His family have kept her in chains until the day Seyit returns to kill her because of her disloyalty.

There's a lot of stories, some big, some small, but they all shows us the Turkish society from a Kurdish point of view. The problem is not only about the Turkish militant repression but also about the Kurdish family law and culture. Honor killing is quiet acceptable, but it's not only the Kurds, there's also honor killings in many culture inside many different religious branch. Yol was actually banned in Turkey until 1999 because of it's view towards the Turkish treatment of the Kurds, and the religious themes.

Yol is a great film. It's not only a honest film, (though I expected the Turkish prisons to be as brutal as in Midnight Express) it's also a great poetic and beautiful film, beautiful landscapes and cinematography, that really brings forth the Kurdish mythology. It's as mind blowing, as if we should have been in Russia. Like with the films most famous scene where Seyit carry his wife who is suppose to freeze to death but Seyit change his and tries to save her, but it's to late. Another great scene is when Ömer is playing with a dog is a meadow and having fun, he then stops and turn his eyes towards his village, when he suddenly hear shots. As beautiful photographed as a David Lean film and as political as a Costa-Gavras film, this is a must see film. Thumbs up.

Very KEWL movie!!! With very mutch Action! Love it

This was a great movie. Rocky is the best. eye of the tiger!!

The Late Sidney Lumet's suberb courtroom drama is a wonderfully directed and well written film, with Newman in one of his finest preformances on the screen as the old lawyer Frank Galvin. It's not another film about an alcoholic working man who has lost his way of life, it's about a man who waiting for the right moment and trying to get work, alcohol just eases stress. We have also his sidekick his long time friend and colleague Mickey (Jack Warden). The enemy, the charismatic lawyer Ed Concannon played wonderfully by veteran actor James Mason. And we have Charlotte Rampling as the women who Frank meets at the bar and support him though the difficult times, but I wish only we could have seen more of her and that she would be more clear, shes like a ghost in this film.

The Verdict is the story about the aging Boston lawyer Frank Galvin who has only have four cases in four years and all of tem he have lost. One day he gets a case where the lawsuit agaist a catholic hosbital for injecting the wrong medication to a young pregnant women on purpose. The judge ask Frank to drop the case for $210 000. But he insist of taking this case to court. It isn't going to be easy for our hero, who is allmost at his lowest.

The Verdict is a good Legal drama with a good preformance by Paul Newman. Though I always looked at Newman as young no matter what age, he have done a good job of looking and sounds old, he's extra grey hair. I love how Lumet have been able to catch the atmosphere of winter, hopelessness and again in a perfect mix. How the films open, with Frank playing pinball in the cornor while drink beer, while over him the christmas decoration still hengs.

a great Ridley Scott Movie, good Spesial Efects, and a good story

Kayaanisqatsi is the biggest out of mind cinematic experience ever. absolutely worth watching.

One can say that The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is the Texan aswar of Rob Marshall's Chicago, it should only been called Texas or The Chicken Ranch. This is an underrated funny and catchy musical, with the perfect cast such as: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise and Charles Durning who was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his five minutes long, but memorable preformance as the singing and dancing Texan Governor.

A whore house known as the Chicken Ranch is a happy place that every one in the town knows about and don't have anything against. Even the Sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd (Burt Reynolds) has an affair with the owner Miss Mona Stangely (Dolly Parton). But one day a christian patriotic news repoter, Melvin P. Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) speek in wain towards the Chicken Ranch, and how sinful it is. If Miss Mona doesn't lie low, it will means th end of the Chicken Ranch. But that isn't gonna be easy, specially when the football season is soon over, and the celebration is on it's place.

I though that The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was a great comedy and a great musical with superb music numbers. Though Dolly Parton takes away all the attention from all the other girls on the ranch, because of hear large curves. This is a movie that can make you feel in a good mood, that that you can also begin to ask yourself the question: "What is so wrong about having a great time?".

The great movie about a great hero. its so realistic.

hehe... funny. Hoffman always doing a great preformence in every movie he is in. and he did great as a women.

Les Blank's Burden of Dreams is the documentary about the german filmmaker Werner Herzog's incredible journey into the amazon jungle to film his masterpiece Fitzcarraldo. A hard, dangerous and difficult journey, a fight against goverments, against cast and crew and against time. Blank try to focusing much on the native indians who's language and culture is near extinction thanks to a globalizing world, more precisely Americanization, and they are not careful to show us all the coca-cola bilboards and Mickey Mouse T-shirts as a sympol of exactly that. Werner Herzog let himself be interview without any problems and expresses his opinion in front of the camera extreamly good. His not only a filmmaker, but also a poet, a realistic one. The one thing I did surley missed was Herzog's struggel with Klaus Kinksi, he seemed perfectly sane, more sane that Herzog. But that's another documentary called My Best Fiend. Overall this is a great documentary in honor of the dying native people of the amazons, but it isn't great because of the lack of Kinski.

A good relaxing film about six high-school friends who is slipping away because of weddings.

Wim Wender's unusual documentary is an intresting piece of film making, where the interviewee is left alone in a hotel room, Room number 666. They have to talk about the worries around the domination of televison over the cinema. It's maybe not a theme that is so relevant today. Among the interviewee's we have over a dusin of filmmakers all with different opinions, either with a long or short aswar, some times a speech. Some are worried, some are not. Room 666 is an interesting documentary, maybe some thing I as a young filmmaker could make. I think it's kind of a releaf for the interviewee if he's or she's mind are free and not shy when he or she is alone and can give us their real opinion. Thumbs up!

Double as long as Cries and Wipers, If you count the five-hour long TV-version it's three times as long, but still it's not as good as any of his earlier movies, which didn't take themselves so serious, this seams more like a not so good swedish version of Fellini's Satyricon. Short answer: it's to long.

Krzysztof Kieslowski's tale about a working citizen named Witek who's fighting to contain a decent way of life, by go from one job and religion to another. This Film contain's many clichés, and thoose are repated least for times. But I love the whole scent and feeling of this picture, but it is to good to be true.

Costa-Gavras' Missing is a political drama, that is not as effective, nor exciting as Z. Like Z we don't get to know what country it's in. In this case it's based on the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, where many american military officers had interests in supporting the dictator Augusto Pinochet. A lot of foreign journalists gets killed or declared missing. In this film the person that is missing is the left-wing journalist Charles Horman (John Shea) who is missing. And his wife Beth (Sissy Spacek) and his father Ed (Jack Lemmon) desperately tries to find him.

Thought it is a political thriller with a moral and message. It is very poor made. It's message is kind of forced on to us like a boring university speech. The setting and the environment, doesn't seem realistic. The acting is kind of wooden, and they doesn't fit in either, It feels more like a soap opera, then a film. And who's idea was it to cast Jack Lemmon. His old man salesman persona does't fit into a modern political thriller, they might as well cast a circus clown. Missing might seems like an poor Hollywood version of Z, because of it very, very safe filmmaking, with few real unforgettable shots. But what goes in like delicious food, must come out as crap. Thumbs down.

The Director knew what he was going to make, a sequel that is poor and stupid, just like the endless line of airplane sequels,and he made it just perfect. Airplane 2 repeat it self with an even more difficult and risky scenario, this time in space. The jokes are all the same, same cast but not the same hysterical laughter. though I wish that Leslie Nielsen was in it, then I would love it even more. I don't say it's not any laughable scenes, they are just don't funny as in the original Airplane! and it's feels even as double as long as the original. Thumbs down!