Keep track of all the movies I watch in 2009

I’m not even going to write out the ridiculous plot for this movie. You really don’t want to know.

(And if you must, well: here you go. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)

Okay, this was awesome.

There was a lot of improv throughout the film, which I usually don’t like, but I feel like in this instance it was done very well and realistically. And the plot…oh my, what a plot it was. Two (straight, male) friends dare each other to make a movie for a porn festival…together. It sounds like it would be goofy, but it really didn’t go in that direction at all. The awkwardness was done so well it was almost painful to watch, and it managed to be funny without being offensive in any way.

This was supposed to be one of those movies with a “shocking” plot twist at the end, but I didn’t think that it was executed very well. A nice try, I suppose.

Great film, very sweet but also sad. (hulu)

I saw “The Box” at the theatre.
It was pretty crappy.

82. Perfume – The Story of A Murderer

I liked the style of this film, and thought it was a pretty good comic book based film, although it did seem to drag on and not actually get to the point for a large part of the film, I also felt like I must have seen the story before, or read it before because I pretty much knew what was going to happen. It was stylish though and interesting, though equally in feeling that I already seen the ending, I also felt like half the beginning had been lopped off as I didn’t understand how they were superheroes, whether they had superpowers etc.

I didn’t like this as much as I thought I would. I did like the bleak colouring but didn’t find the story very involving, the children’s connection is kind of disturbing, and the ‘gore’ scene seemed like something out of terrible 70’s movie. It just didn’t live up to they hype for me. I was pretty bored really :(

I’m afraid I wasn’t very impressed, it’s basically a standard rom-com with a pretty standard ending-really …

It just attempts non-standard story telling, and it just came across as bitty and that Gordon-Levitt wasn’t ‘feeling’ his character he seemed too knowing. It was funny in parts but the characters weren’t very in depth they didn’t feel like real people- just romcom cut-outs. And it was boringly cliche, and enters the whole muse territory, the woman in this film doesn’t care about her career and seems to have no aspirations whatsoever.

Basically it was playing at being ‘indie’.

I loved this! It’s the only other Lars von Trier film I’ve seen besides The Idiots. But it is brilliant, you have to like awkward comedies though, and perhaps be aware of the history between Iceland and Denmark. Very funny though with some completely absurd scenes. I loved it when they’re at the cinema with the ice-cream, ripping up paper. 5 stars.