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Den sista resan (2024)
The journey my father have made and hopefully will do again
I had two major concerns before I decided to suggest to my 80 year old father and cancer survivor to go see this film.
The first concern being the duo, Filip and Fredrik. They have been everywhere on TV, radio and the entertainment industry in Sweden for probably 20 years and I quickly became very bored and annoyed with their immature, noisy and all over the place approach to everything they did. I have actively avoided them for more than 15 years or so. I simply couldn't stand the two.
The second concern was taking my father to see it. Five years ago he was hospitalised and we all started to think and plan for the worse. Fast forward three years and he started to get stronger and healthier and suddenly one day, the cancer was gone. He is still not as strong and healthy as before the cancer but he is at least around. My father and I have taking many father and son trips throughout the years. We went Interrail one summer, we have cruised between whisky destilleries in Scotland and just months before he got ill we traveled to Georgia - probably our last trip abroad together as father and son.
I was wrong to have concerns. The duo delivers a beautiful, sometimes very funny, journey that really put the relationship and love between a son and his depressed old father in focus. It is honest, it is sincere and very emotional. Filip and Fredrik have regained my respect.
Another thing that made this experience even more wholesome is the fact that my father was a high school teacher just like Filip's father - and I am a school teacher today, having my father as an inspiration. There is one specific scene (if you are a teacher you know which) that really hit both of us hard.
I loved this film and I am thankful that Filip and Lars Hammar would share their beautiful bond they have with all of us and I am sure, this film will help many families!
Dunkirk (2017)
War for Generation Y
Regarding the movie Dunkirk
When Saving Private Ryan premiered in Bristol 1998, I was the youngest person in the theatre. Around me were elderly English war vets. I could tell, they wore their veteran uniforms and veteran badges. During a couple of hours elderly men and women quietly sobbed in their seats watching, and possibly reliving, the war all over again.
This wasn't a normal cinema experience and I don't think I will ever experience one like this again. It changed my view on war and the fact that I and my country Sweden, in fact have no experience of war in modern time. But we are pretty much the only ones in Europe, or the entire world for that matter, with a 200 year history without wars.
Steven Spielberg pulled this off. He made Europe remember WWII all over again and he educated the young and helped (?) elderly to closure. Spielberg is a movie maker who knows very well his genres and how to not mess with them.
Enter Chris Nolan. A movie maker famous and known for science fiction and fantasy. With Dunkirk he shows at least me that he is as predictable as a dull Adam Sandler.
My biggest concern when I sat down to watch Dunkirk was weather Nolan would stay true to the genre or if he would put his sci-fi magic into it. After ten minutes I realised I was watching Interstellar again and I had to fight the urge to actually leave the theatre. What annoyed me the most was the sci-fi sound effects, scifi music score and the shallowness of the historical event.
Is the movie good? Well, Nolan's fans will probably like it, Generation Y will like it but people who, like me, had a life changing experience with Saving Private Ryan, won't be as thrilled or impressed. Imagine Schindler's List in the hands of Christopher Nolan. Darn right, thanks but no thanks.
I didn't like it at all.
Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
The monster is you - still don't get it?
I rarely write reviews here (if I have ever, not sure to be honest), but now I feel I have to.
I loved Monsters, the first film, and I love this even more. One reason could be the fact that both movies are not Hollywood, not mainstream and have unknown actors in them. A different reason is that as soon as you dare to go independent and not Hollywood, you could be up for a ride.
I am a what I would like to call a "Fifteener". That means that if a movie fails to keep my focus within the first 15 minutes, I am out. I leave the theater (has happened many times) and I press the pause button and I do something else. Mainstream and Hollywood productions tend to have this affect on me.
Back to the movie. To this movie specifically. It got my attention after five minutes. Probably due to great acting from quite unknown actors and great camera work and editing. And these things lasted throughout the entire movie.
I am going out on a limb here, because I do think that this movie attracts a certain kind of people. If you watch this thinking it is another scifi flick, you will probably not like it. The monsters, the evil aliens, are not there that much.
But the thing is - they are. If you look for the squid-like monsters you will get to see them briefly. But you have missed the point. The monsters in this movie aren't the squid-like creatures - it is you and me.
The first Monsters movie focused on us, the people and not the aliens. This should be, and to me it is, something unique and quite awesome. It might be sci-fi depending on who you are. It might be a story based on actually events - depending on who you are.
There are scenes in this movie that made me cry, made me upset, made me think about my own life and what I do with it. It is about monsters but the monster isn't an alien. The monster is in me, you and already here.
I can't remember the last time I was this moved and affected by a movie. And the fact that that the IMDb rating is so low, makes me think that there are more monsters out there than I could imagine.
As Above, So Below (2014)
Enough. Grow up!
This is a proof of that the horror entertianment industry needs to change. It might work for teenagers, but still, the majority of us are older, wiser and more intelligent than them. The era of found footage horror films must end, the era of jump scares must end. It is simply not quality.
Everyone can make a "horror movie" today using their own mobile phone. This is one of them. Combined with someone who knows how to edit and someone who knows how to ad sound effects, this is what you get.
It takes more. Just saying.
This is so stupid I want to chew a limb off. Just saying.
Enough. Please.
Pompeii (2014)
Titanic but with a volcano
I am funny this way - sometimes I love movies because of the action and the entertainment and sometimes I dislike movies of the same reason. When you name or base a movie of an event that is of interest to me and the world with the interest itself, such as "Titanic" or in this case, "Pompeii" you expect to see a bit of a disaster. In a way, both Titanic and Pompeii might as well have been a documentary from National Geographic simply because we want to know more about the disasters and nothing else. I just don't care about Rose and Jack and their Romeo and Julia-like love for each other and in Pompeii, I don't care about a love story that is made up in a Hollywood-esque way. My interest lies in the title of the movie and nothing else.
Of course this means that up till 1:10 of the movie I am playing with my mobile phone, tweeting, reading news and with a quarter of an eye watching what's happening on the screen. I have no interest what so ever in love stories and political feuds - I am here to see the volcano erupt and to see how "they" managed to capture the horror of the event. Which means I could easily fast-forward an hour because that's when the "action" starts.
Some might now think of me as a dull and boring movie enthusiast that isn't even worthy of reviewing a movie like this one. So be it. And perhaps a NG documentary would have suited me better, since I don't care about made-up love stories that are more or less invented for the Hollywood feel of it all.
Okay, there is a build-up to get to know the main characters and you might get emotional and close to them in a typical Hollywood way, but focusing on this when you name a movie after one of the world's most known disasters, is fooling your audience. And at some point I am sick and tired of this. Picturing an event known for certain things, should focus on them, nothing else.
So yes, I might go to National Geographic or Discovery Channel next time to get the real idea of what happened. Because this is just pathetic. But that's what you are dealing with when wanting to base a movie on an actual event - stay true to the known events or make up you own story.
I prefer the first.