I almost watched fruitvale station last night but got drunk instead..

I saw Europa Report yesterday.
Pretty interesting movie, but it starts so slow.
And after watching gravity the space scenes are a little bit dissapointing, but I guess they had no budget for it.

I swear The lone ranger is cursed. First my glasses break the day I get it, now the power failed while I was watching it due to the largest ice storm in years hitting Ontario.
The movie was about to enter the final act when the lights went out, came back 5 sec after causing my projector to make a horrible noise, then the power started turning on and off rapidly so I had to scramble to unplug the thing to avoid any further damage. A hot shut off is not good for projectors. Now I have to wait until the ice goes away before testing if it will still work. After the power being out most of the night it's still turning off randomly during the day.

Anyway the movie was enjoyable so far. It doesn't come close to true grit but I'm still curious to see what they make of the ending. Gore Verbinsky's cinematography style is not really my favorite. He makes the image look as if it has a lot of crushed blacks, although since it's in the original they call it deep, inky blacks. The result is the same however, large areas on screen without detail. It's fine in dark scenes, but I find it distracting during daylight scenes, half blacked out figures walking around is just poor lighting if you ask me.

Now I've got to cut off some ice covered tree limbs hanging against the house before the wind picks up tonight.

I watched the end of the lone ranger last night. Brilliant chase scene, perfect music for it too. It brought back memories of the first time watching the mine cart scene in Temple of doom. The start is the best, then they took it a bit too far into loony tunes territory. The transitions in scenery were too abrupt and, unlike with the mine cart race, the illogical track configuration made it confusing to watch.

Behind the scenes footage explained it, it was filmed with mockup trains and train cars on the back of trucks being driven over roads through various forests and canyons, while the actors were performing on top. Gore Verbinsky wanted to make it look more real, however while I was watching it, a lot more looked cgi then there actually was. A shame after all the effort they put into it. They build miles of actual track, made fully working locomotives, did everything on location, yet in the end a lot of it ends up looking like cgi.

Which is kind of my whole problem with the movie. Verbinsky manages to make everything look more dull then it actually is. Every single location in the behind the scenes footage looked better then on film, that's usually the other way around.

Still it's an enjoyable movie to watch with interesting main characters (villains were kinda average) and a great final 20 minutes, but as a whole, less then the sum of its parts. Unlike death proof, the final chase scene can't carry the movie, and the story telling falls far short of what The fall did. 6/10

fruitvale station

8/10

state of play

6/10

the impossible

8/10

knight and day

nice with family or friend its really fun...

7/10

Movies from this year that I still want to see The Heat, 12 Years a Slave, Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Gravity, Despicable Me 2, Frozen, Anchorman 2, Prisoners, American Hustle, Rush and The Wolf of Wall Street there are probably some more that I want to see but those are the main ones.

I have Gravity and Hunger games lined up on amazon for when they come out on blu-ray. I'll wait for the hobbit complete edition before I watch any of that. Maybe I'll watch pacific rim and man of steel when a good rental deal comes along. ps4 has $2 deals every week it seems, currently world war Z is $2 for HD rental.

Last night I watched source code, was on tv. Not what I expected, better actually. Ground hog day while uncovering a home grown terrorist plot. 6/10.

I watched Ran by Kurosawa and fell asleep I was tired you need strenght to watch his movies..to be concluded :D

tonight its hobbit DOS I didnt really like the first so dont kill me and rush i hope the real thor doesnt show up..for christmas home alone 2 and matrix trilogy on TV i still dont see why revlutions is such a bad movie..and Jurassic Park 1 and 2 as a kid I hated the first movie now its the other way around..

hobbit DOS

this was far better than the first

8/10

odd thomas

this took me by surprise its fresh and interesting could have been a mini series..

6/10

don jon

this could have been much much better...but i liked how they embraced the simply truth porn is better than real sex.

6/10