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Sherlock Holmes

Draupner — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:48:10 +0000

Say Sherlock Holmes the other day, and I think it was actually pretty good. I’m not too sure about the idea of Sherlock Holmes as a super-hero with ninja-skills, but it is well made and exciting to watch.

Rating: ★★★★☆

2012

Draupner — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:04:30 +0000

Saw “2012″ yesterday, another end-of-the-world movie, I like those. I was a bit afraid that this one was too American, but it wasn’t that bad. But yet the movie didn’t bring anything new that you haven’t seen before in “Deep impact” or “Knowing” for example.

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Avatar

Draupner — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:55:07 +0000

Saw Avatar yesterday, seems to be the hype movie of the season. It’s an animated movie about an alien world that humans wants to exploit for a rare mineral, no matter what the cost is for the native humanoids. It’s a pretty good movie, but for me it was abit too much of fantasy and fairy-tale things in how the alien world Pandora works, it would have been even better with more science. But it’s still good and gets a high grade from me.

Rating: ★★★★☆

District 9

Draupner — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:01:25 +0000

Saw “District 9″ today, a movie about an alien species whose ship breaks down and can’t leave Earth again, suffering from starvation mankind decides to help them by allowing them to stay on Earth in slumlike camps, and they remain there for 20 years.

They are harrassed and abused, controlled and moved around and no human really cares for them and wants them to leave. One of the aliens managed to come up with a liquid that can power their ship, but the same liquid infects a human and transforms his DNA into one of them. Now they must work together for their survival.

Much of the movie is shot in a kind of freehand style, like “Cloverfield”, which can be annoying sometimes, but it’s a good story and very well made.

Rating: ★★★★☆

The taking of Pelham 123

Draupner — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:35:33 +0000

The taking of Pelham 123 is a movie about terrorists taking control of a subway train, holding hostages for ransom. The leader, played by John Travolta, makes his demands on the phone with a subway control operator, played by Denzel Washington, and they develope a bond. It’s a pretty good movie, and John Travolta always plays bad guys very well. I was a bit disappointed on the ending though, I wanted more of an unexpected twist.

Rating: ★★★★☆

Transformers 2 – rise of the fallen

Draupner — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:08:54 +0000

Transformer 2 (rise of the fallen) brings alot of nice special effects and eye-candy, and some bots are impressive and cool, but it has not got a good story I think. No big surprises in the movie, it’s pretty predictable, but some bots do got some gangsta lingo going on from time to time.

Rating: ★★★½☆

Impact

Draupner — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:14:42 +0000

Impact is a TV mini-series in two parts. It’s about a huge meteor crashing into the moon almost destroying it, which has a devastating effect on its orbit, and on the Earth, causing strange phenomenons to occur all around the world. Now, much like in the “Armageddon” and “Deep impact” movies, the world must unite to a common purpose in order for humans and the Earth to survive. As always, the first attempts to save mankind involves a lot of nukes, which always fail…

Rating: ★★★½☆

The invasion

Draupner — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:36:01 +0000

Watched “The invasion” today, a movie about people getting infected by an alien micro organism, coming to earth with a crashing space shuttle, and changing them in their sleep. Soon almost everyone is infected and the rest must try to get away, and stay awake. It’s an OK movie, but again, just like “Cloverfield” and “The happening” for example, the ending is too brief and I think it should be more scientific and less of a “zombie killing-spree”.

Rating: ★★★½☆

Crank

Draupner — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:00:27 +0000

Saw Crank tonight, the first one, not the sequel. I wanted to see this first since the sequel takes off where the first ends. The plot is about a hitman who becomes poisoned by a drug that forces him to keep his heart rate high in order to keep alive, and basically become a big adrenaline junkie. He must find new ways to keep his adrenaline level high while seeking his revenge. The movie was an OK action movie with some funny elements, there is also some blood and gore.

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Ice Age 3

Draupner — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:07:31 +0000

Saw Ice Age 3 tonight. It’s an OK movie, a few laughs but overall pretty much predictable. If you like the first two movies you’ll like this one probably, it’s about the same. Can’t think of anything more to say about it really…

Rating: ★★★☆☆