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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The best movie I've ever seen!
I've seen alot of movies, ever since I first started to realize the reality around me. I've seen most of everything that one can lay an eye upon. For good and bad; since I get sort of ... disentiziced by it all. I can't hardly ever be impressed any longer... with two exceptions: Gladiator and another one... which I won't even put beside that (however great) movie.
This movie took my breath away from the first minute to the last (I can hold my breath for three hours ;D) ... I won't even begin to try to describe the greatness that Peter has put onto screen... he's done what was thought undoable... he's created something so grand, Harry Potter wouldn't even be good for fillage in Légolas arrowcase; sorry Harry Potter fans... but this is like comparing "Ernest in the jungle" to "Ben-Hur"...
I'm out of words, so I can't write anything more... just that this was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Besökarna (1988)
A click of swedish horror...
I remember watching this movie once back in 1992, back then I thought it was amazing (somehow), upon seeing it again I realize that it has a bunch of elements that really stand out, and is worthy of attention.
Don't take me wrong, I'm pretty cynic when it comes to Swedish movies, the only one I've ever liked so far is "Mannen Pa Taket" and "Noll Tolerans", however this has nothing to do with any action paced scenarios, but more the realism in it, unlike the ungraspable Hollywood-movies.
It all starts out with a series of events in the families new house in a town outskirt, where everything for a start seems to be quite alright (with a couple of flaws of course), then for some reason they start to notice that something is happening to the house, the tapestries start to fall off in one of the rooms, in another nothing 'feels' right, and then it all gets creepier and creepier.
I can't say that this movie is very particular in comparison to the great, I just think that this is a missed out movie, may it not be the Swedish quintessence, but a good portion of essence (at least).
Swordfish (2001)
A pretty standard film with a couple of highlights
First of all, I don't think that this movie won't be viewed as bad or even nearly bad by most of the people watching it, I've watched a bit too many similar films though, so I probably am a bit bored with this type of fastpaced actionfilled guntoting flicks with a slight touch of hackeresque and dialogue on speed.
It's clearly noticeable that there are alot of influences from the biggest films released during the past 5 years, as if following some sort of recipe for creating a salesbreaker. I'm not questioning this, since most people do fall for the main topics: sex, action, rock'n'roll; if that's for you, this film will blow you away. However if you are a bit like me, and have seen it all; this is going to be as a bad déja-vu.
The Matrix was sort of a trendbreaker when it came, and since we've seen alot of it's cinematic features in dozens of new releases. Blending a bit of postapocalyptic reality with a pinch of modern society computer fanaticism, and add the basic recipe for a "good movie" (see 'main topics'), wham; bam, thankyou ma'm, and you'll have a movie that will sell alot.
Swordfish is full of scenes I could place in other movies, for instance; there's a scene where the character of John Travolta is assembling a .50 machinegun, shooting from a driving car at other cars, blowing them to the sky in explosions that just wouldn't ever be there. I've seen the car chase-scenario in so many movies, that I won't even have to mention one, to call it cliché.
In another scene we have the somewhat insane, yet apparently somewhat intelligent madman who wants to take over the world, using a facade of american justice. "Kill ONE american, we bomb one of their cities", as some sort of counter-terrorism move. Gee' Watson, haven't we seen this before. Know what?, Powercrazy criminals is a drop in the water in modern films. And it gets better, later in the film he justifies his street-craziness with him being a part of some old american lawenforcing agency (blah blah) fighting terrorism. The guy who wrote the script either was bored, or just don't have imagination.
I can line up countless series of films that are JUST like this one, that follow the same method of climax, same rapid dialogue with smart remarks, and the same "newthinking" way to end the movie. Still, I think that it can be pretty cool for those of you who haven't experienced so great many movies, or just want to see some thin slender women in undies, listen to cool music, and watching highly explosive, yet unrealistic scenes follow eachother like an ocean over a beach.
This really proves that Travolta was made large due to the directors Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) and John Woo (Face/Off + Broken Arrow) NOT through his acting skills. To be honest, I haven't found much difference from all the characters he's played in the above listed movies, and he doesn't stray from that pattern in this one.
If you haven't got anything better to do, go see this to waste 1,5 hours; if you DO have something better to do... walk the dog, write a poem, watch the neighbor's lawn, it's better, and you'll save braincells.