Monday, April 5, 2010

Movies time

Apart from reading books I've also got spear time for movies.

Welcome to Nastya's movie review!

Alice in Wonderland (imdb 7, me 2)
Don't watch it unless you intend to be disgusted. I still remember quite well Alice's bleeding scar, some strange animals' teeth covered with saliva, ugly faces of main characters (really ugly!), dark circles under Alice's eyes, princess' pale to transparent skin, grey and dead landscapes, vomiting, etc. I wanted to vomit after that movie myself. I mean, you don't just turn a fairytale upside down and show it as if it's a background for Quake!

17 again (imdb 6,5, me 9)
This (who-the-hell-is) Zac Efron is so cute that you can just stare at him the whole movie and that's how it becomes 10 scoring movie, but then you understand the whole story suck, so it the end it's 9 points :)

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (imdb 6, me 8)
Same with McConaughey - he's hot and it makes you watch the movie, but the plot sucks even more then 17 again, so 8.

Urban Legends: Final Cut (imdb 4, me 9)
I love this kind of very fake horror movies, where people are just randomly killed one by one (the type of Final destination or L'Auberge rouge or Big nothing).

The Great Buck Howard (imdb 7, me 4)
The main character, both of them do not win over my heart. And on top of it I am generally afraid of the magicians/mentalists in real life, it thrills me off.

Dogma (imdb 7,5, me 0)
The movie is way overrated. I didn't expect it to be such a waste of time, and why the hell were all those cool actors in it?!?! :(

Как я провел этим летом (me 8)
A new russian movie. It's a little depressive and slow (well, as all good russian arthouse), and fake at some point, but I'd advise you to see, those who are russian here :)

The Girlfriend Experience (imdb 6, me 8)
Sasha Grey casting, for those who are not familiar - a 22 yo porn star. The movie is decent, nicely cut and generally my kind of a movie.

L'Auberge espagnole and Les Poupées Russes (imdb 7,3/7,1, me 6/4)
French movies about young people leaving together during Erasmus exchange, and then gathering together again in 3 years. Well, I could say our life on aiesec exchange is a lot more fun and weird, which is 1) true for me and 2) can't be really claimed as I didn't make it to the movie :)

Bollywood/Hollywood (imdb 6, me 9)
Indian movie. I am not a fan of Bollywood, and I didn't like any of the movies I watched during my stay in India, but this one is actually good, and reminded me of my beloved country, I'm missing so much :(


Well, it might be not complete list of the movies I managed to watch for the past 10 days, but these are at least the ones I remember :) Again, share what you've recently seen!


3 comments:

  1. I have seen 3 of the movies mentioned, plus heard of 2 others.
    I was disappointed by Alice in Wonderland too. Your description of the movie is spot on: it's plainly and simply creepy.
    17 again was fun to watch. I for sure wouldn't have bought a ticket to see it (I'm grateful for rentals, haha) but it was mindless fun nevertheless. Of course, you were so into it because of the Efron kid but whatever, haha!
    I saw Ghosts of Girlfriend Past and... what is there to say? it sucked! I don't even know why I watched it. Oh yes, I remember now: I had the flu and ran out of ideas of what to watch to pass time so I watched it. Big mistake, but it's good you liked it. Better that than regret the last 2 hours of your life, haha.
    I hadn't heard of Urban Legends: Final Cut but I for sure liked the Final Destination movies. I might check this one out. Horror movies are awesome!
    Finally, L'Auberge Espagnole! I haven't seen it since it first came out but I should watch it again soon since it definitely embodies the type of life I've been living for the past 3 years, haha. Although I'm sure my experience has been more low key and less chaotic than in the movie.

    that's a lot of movies and books to see/read in 10 days! I've read 1.5 books over the past 30 days. I need to step up my game, haha.

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  2. ooh, bad math on my part: 'I have seen FOUR of the movies mentioned and heard of ONE other'

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  3. hey, remember we watched paranormal activity? :) good fun!

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