It’s been a while, folks, but I’m back (well, I was never away actually, but…yeah, you know what I mean).
I just want to tell you what I am planning to do in the next months: There are 3 (!) Snow White movies coming out this year. That’s an opportunity I can’t miss, so I am going to watch and review every single one of them.
Grimm’s Snow White (aka the Asylum’s Snow White-rape)
Mirror, mirror (by the guy who brought us “The Cell” and “Immortals”)
Snow White and the Huntsman (aka Twilight’s Snow White)
Snow White: A Deadly Summer (aka What the fuck does this have to do with Snow White?)
In addition, I will wtch the Disney-Snow White, which I have never seen before.
The eleventh book in the series is also the last one to be published by Egmont publishers. The journey of Andrej and Abu Dun is said to come to an end, before it goes on indifferently.
In 1588, Andrej and Abu Dun come to Cadiz,which is preparing for war with England, to find and kill the God Loki, whom Andrej has sworn bloody revenge. Due to a shot to the head, Andrej’s abilities don’t work that well, and Loki turns out to be a tricky shapeshifter. He lures the two immortals into a finely spun spiderweb of traps and treachery, spun by himself as well as by English spies. The final confrontation takes place on a ship on course to the new world. Andrej and Abu Dun must fight the villainous God Ra, and a grieving widow takes the final blow…
Personal opinion
In retrospective, this book shouldn’t be that good, for the “final” book by the original publisher does not have a final ending. But actually, it still holds up. Of course there are some mistakes – again. And not every question is answered (hm, I wonder whether ANY question will be answered in the books), but the deal with Andrej’s strange behaviour can be answered by a previous book – The Deathstroke (well, if you see it like I do):
You see, in the third book, Andrej has been kinda possessed by the werewolf Tobias, due to some blood or saliva in Andrej’s body. In the tenth book, something similar happens, and Andrej kinda follows Loki’s (who is – according to mythology, the father of the fenrirwolf – werewolves) orders. This happens because of the gun shot in Andrej’s head. The bullet was poisened, most probably filled with Loki’s blood. Pretty tricky, and ingenius.
There is no particular love interest, but the hangman’s grieving widow, who understands what Andrej and the other immortals are, and plots revenge on Loki by blowing up the ship. So it’s a pity that Andrej wasn’t able to perform the final blow to avenge his love’s death. Surely Loki will stay dead forever, won’t he? Maybe the epilogue will tell…
Conclusion
Godperishing is a pretty good “final”book, despite some minor mistakes and unanswered questions (But who cares anymore?). Loki is a tough villain, and really dangerous. It has a good pacing and makes you interested in what happened 1588…
Trailer are advertisments for movies. They often decide whether a movie is worth watching or not. I love trailers. When I go to the movies, I make sure I can watch the trailers of other movies before the main feature. So I made some thaughts about trailers, what you would have to look after when you are making one.
Never put a movies ending into your trailer!
Don’t spoil important scenes by putting them into the trailer!
This also includes revelations!
Edit it in a way it makes the audience interested in the movie!
Don’t put your best scenes in the trailer!
Use good music! Either foreign or composed one.
When your movie is shitty and you know it, you can still get people to watch it by using great music!
Make sure the music is synchronised with the pictures
Fire THAT guy!
Make the trailer resemble the movie! It should tell the audience what kind of movie to expect. These trailer advertise movies to belong to a certain genre. A genre they don’t belong to actually.
Today is the first anniversary of befilmbebook.wordpress.com!
It’s been a years since I started the blog, and to date I ‘ve made around 82 posts and have got around 8-10 followers and a bunch of other people that regularely read my thoughts and reviews.
That’s why I want to take the time to say:”Thank you!” Thank you for reading and keep reading and following my blog. I never thought I would get people interested in it other than my friends (of whom not all know about the blog)
I’m really happy about that thing (the blog, not the cake), and I hope you enjoy and keep enjoying my posts, be it reviews, thoughts, rants or whatever! To celebrate, I’ve got something special for you (I hope non-German/non-Austrian readers will understand it though)
Well, actually I didn’t want to write about that movie, but I’m just in the mood for it now, so I’ll cover it quickly.
I love trash, and this movie seemed to be a perfect candidate for it. But nope, false alarm. This movie is rather disappointing, for I believe it takes itself too seriously.
Let me explain: Trash is a very vague and difficult genre. It often just happens accidently, meaning the makers wanted to make a serious genre picture (most common are horror or sci-fi movies), but didn’t have the recources or the talent to do so. So it tends to suck. But it sucks so hard, that it becomes good again.
To make such a movie in a way it doesn’t suck on purpose is rather difficult, and not always it works.
With “Lesbian Vampire Killers”, the producers wanted to make a cult trash movie on purpose. And they failed. The movie takes itself way too seriously, and that’s the biggest problem. It should have got much more self awareness and bad quality (it looks too “good” and clean to be a trash-film).
Another problem is the title (which is actually the first thing they had invented for the movie). For a supposed trash-film about lesbian vampires there’re way too little lesbian scenes in it. This movie is PG 16. You may think that I’m just a randy nutcase, but ask yourself: What would you expect from a movie that is called “Lesbian Vampire Killers”?
As for the actors, they are all young and unknown (except for the vampire queen, she was played by the female vampire that was killed in Van Helsing, and I think the blonde girl had an appearence in HIMYM)
And the plot… well, it’s rather nonsensenal and resolved too quickly.
A real “good” trash movie keeps you laughing. With this one I have been laughing too little to really enjoy it.
Loser Frank (Rainn Wilson) loses his wife Sarah (Liv Tyler) to the drug dealer Jock (Kevin Bacon). To win her back – to save her – he decides to dress up as a superhero and fight crime. Soon he is better known as the extremely brutal vigilante called “Crimson Bolt”, and soon afterwards joined by his sidekick “Boltie” (Ellen Page), a nymphomanic comic-book girl who loves action. But can Frank hide his secret identity to the public, and is “Crimson Bolt” able to save Sarah and to really shut up crime?
“Super” is a victim of the wrong marketing. The superb trailer sugests that it is a action comedy very much like Kick Ass. And to be fair, in the beginning it looks very similar to it. But “Super” is not a movie about ordinary people becoming superheros. It is a movie about a man who tries to get his life back together by dressing up as a superhero. It is a drama. The fact that Frank believes to get visions sent by God to guide him (with the help of Nathan Fillion) makes this film rather more like “Take Shelter”, a movie I highly recommand, and subsequently I see “Super” as a hybrid of “Kick Ass” and the latter one.
Another difference is the violence. “Super” is extremely brutal, and in that way far more realistic when it comes to injuries and fights. But when I say violent, I mean it in a way that “Hostel” would be jealous of! Heads get slain, people get stabbed in more than one way, driven over, blown up and shot. And you see everything. As an example: At one point a head gets crushed against an edge, over and over and over again. I have to admit: I had to look away because I couldn’t stand it anymore.
This movie asks the question whether it’s normal to become a vigilante, or if only psychopaths are likely to do so. It does not give a clear answer, for one of the dynamic duo is definitely a psychopath, and the other one has also some tendencies. In the end, the protagonist resumes his deeds and work he has done in the movie, and clarifies whether it was worth it or not. Though the movie itself has some kind of “happy ending”, the audience is just uncertain about it. Too much blood has been spilled and bodies disforged to forget those images after the end credits have been rolling.
“Super” is not just a great movie. It’s a masterpiece It combines a lot of genres and still keeps being fresh. There is humor, action, suspense and also disgust. The characters are likeable and the actors are doing a wonderful job portraying them (though Liv Tyler seemed a little odd in her role). You may not know Rainn Wilson, but this role is made for him. Page is great in ALL her roles, so also in this one. And Kevin Bacon is Kevin Bacon, and seems to have had a lot of fun with his part.
If you have the chance to watch it, go watch it. But keep in mind: It’s not a superhero movie…
Are you familiar with the movie “Pineapple Express”? It’s a 2008′s comedy by David Gordon Green about two stoners that witness a murder (in short). And it’s fun as hell. The movie stars Seth Rogen, James Franco and Danny McBride. Oh, you don’t know the last one? Well, he is the disgusting “fat” guy nobody likes. And he has a funny part in this movie as the neverdying sidekick. So, why am I talking about “Pineapple Express” when the title says “Your Highness”?
It’s the follow-up movie by David Gordon Green, starring James Franco, Natalie Portman, and Danny McBride. But this time, McBride also wrot the script (note: He didn’t in “Pineapple Express”). Keep that in mind please.
The story is about two royal brothers in a medievil fantasy-kingdom. Franco plays Fabious, the kindgom’s hero and heir to the throne. McBride plays his younger brother Thaddeus, a lazy stupid fuck who does nothing but banging chicks. So one day, Fabious’ fiancè gets kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Leezar, who also wants to bang her in order to rule the world (this plot sounds both familiar AND stupid) To bring her back, Fabious and Thaddeus team up and go on a quest. On their journes they meet Natalie Portman. A pre-pregnancy Natalie Portman…
But they don’t seem to get along well. But Fabious is kidnapped, so Thaddeus has to team up with Nat, kills a minotaur and cuts his dick off as trophy. Then he rescues his brother, who saves the kingdom/ world/ fiancè/ whogivesashit.
In the end, he and Nat take off to hunt down an evil witch in order to free Nat from her chestaty belt…
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As you may read by my summary, this movie is awful, and I mean really really awful. None of the actors acts really good (and keep in mind: we have got an academy award winner, an adademy award nominee, and Zooey Deschanel in the cast)
The script is bad, and the dialogue is disgusting: Every second joke is about cox, dicks, gays and pedophiles. That IS the movie.
McBride is a disgusting person, who would take any possibility to harress a beautyful woman. As is hisrole, our main hero. Normally, a main hero does undergo a personal journey, which alters him in the end. But nothing happes to Thaddeus, he is still the same at the end.
My advice: stay away from it as far asyou can. This movie is nit wotrth the time spending it
