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Mamma Mia! (2008)
At last!!!
Warning! This is nothing but a complete surrender to Waterloo... No, Mamma Mia, I mean! Since the Swedish premier of Mamma Mia unfortunately I haven't got the chance to watch the screenversion more than twice but...
Yesterday 26 Nov at about 11.00 (SST) I got my very long lasted DVD of this absolutely fantastic musicalmovie! Writing this at 02.30 (SST) 27 Now after watching thru the DVD 4 consecutive times, yes the whole lot including all the bonus material! I haven't felt this good for a long, long time. And still I haven't wept this much during a movie for many a good year.
Thank you ABBA for the music!! Thank you Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Cristine Baranski, Dominic Cooper and all rest of the set for such a wonderful movie!!!
At last, but not the least, thank you you three brilliant women - Phyllida Lloyd, Catherine Johnson and Judy Craymer - who could make a story out of songs that in no way has more connection to each other than ABBA and Stig "Stikkan" Andersson (by the way I'm pretty sure he's taking lots of credits in his heaven, watching this musical and movie).
Ladder 49 (2004)
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My main reasons posting this comment are two earlier comments.
At the first mjrfucup posted in March 2005 under the title "One word cliché".
I can't but disagree with mjrfucup since I've watched a number of firefighting movies throughout the years. And also have been working as a firefighter and EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) for 11 or so years. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the far best firefighting movie I've seen. Showing the pranks to rookies, the feelings of familiarity within the watch, the families concern about the work although it's not always as risky as depicted and so on. I recognize a lot of it. So, not at all just clichés.
At the second SFFFozzy in December 2004 under the title "Words from a dutch firefighter
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Remember, BA-sets (Breathing Apparatus with compressed air) weren't that common in the US for many years, European firefighters were well ahead US in that branch. And I also got puzzled of the construction of the mask. We had masks just as you describe it, an inner-mask closing up to nose and mouth to minimize dead-space of the airways. Maybe though, US BA-sets has another way to compensate, but I don't know what that should be.
Two of your other remarks, I feel that I've to comment on. Being on the roof, well I don't find it that puzzling. If you're going to ventilate the fire room, using the roof is one way. But I agree with you as far as I find the scene showing a recklessness I've never seen in real life. One must rig safety equipment doing such a walk.
The other remark is the one about the ambulance guys. As far as I know it wasn't that uncommon in the US that even ambulances were driven by FD personnel, no matter if they were EMT or Paramedics. I've seen pictures from more than one fire in the US where the ambulance personnel showing up on a fire wearing fire-gear, even wearing BA-sets.
One thing that puzzles me though, at the rescuing of the girl is that they didn't carry a rescue-mask attached to their BA-set. That was just standard procedure if one could suspect one had to transport the victim thru smoke. But it could well be the same thing as you noticed about the BA-sets used. Maybe it wasn't possible to attach such rescue equipment. But finally, I find the movie well worth seeing.
The Bucket List (2007)
Ouch!
If you're going to the movies once a year, this is the film you should see in 2008!
Two strong actors, two strong characters and they don't "kill" each other.
I've seen both Nicholson and Freeman doing strong characters before and I had my thoughts about them in the same movie, so close to each other. But man, did they do well!!!
And I can't but agree with "nowego" that most certainly there are some, maybe a lot, who don't like this movie. I don't care. I like'd it and it is a film I will tell my friends to see.
I'm grateful to my wife who told me that we should see it.
Beck: Pojken i glaskulan (2002)
Lip sync
As an earlier comment to this movie said: Lip sync isn't that good for one of the characters. Bust just one. It's Josef Hillman who is played by a German actor - Hanns Zischler - and dubbed with the voice of a Swedish actor - Fredrik Ohlsson. Otherwise it's OK. The story is OK. What one could wish is that the new "Beck" minis could get a bit more realism in solving the crimes. Now it's just computerized searches that does the work. Not the traditional "flat-foot", surveillance. Still, I can recommend almost all of the movies about Martin Beck. The one I just can't stand is the "Stockholm Marathon" which emanates from one of the original 10 books (#10 "The Terrorists"). That adaptation is just the worse ever. The absolutely best is the one with Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt as Martin Beck - The Man on the Roof, 1967.
Hudson Hawk (1991)
Better than the everyone says!
A nice, crazy, movie and I can't understand why so many dislike it. Totally crazy, lots of humor, absolutly not realistic and I think that both Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello are good comic actors. Take it for what it is: Action Comedy. Don't try to analyze it to be something else.