Cinema

New DVDs for my collection!

November 7th, 2006

  1. Spirited Killer
  2. Deathwatch
  3. Totally Bill Hicks
  4. Kirikou
  5. Romasanta
  6. Prison Break season 1
  7. Deadwood season 1
  8. Maniac Nurses find ecstasy
  9. Man Bites Dog
  10. Forgotten Silver
  11. Bandits
  12. Bad Lieutenant
  13. Laputa / castle in the sky
  14. I Confess
  15. For en neve dollar
  16. devils rejects
  17. Meet The Feebles
  18. Party Monster
  19. The Shining (not Kubrick, I’ve got that one already)
  20. Beyond The Valley of the Dolls
  21. Lost & Delirious
  22. 150 Cartoon Classics
  23. Nightmare Before Christmas
  24. Dead or Alive
  25. The Weather Man
  26. Trans America
  27. NARC
  28. Bad Taste

This time the number is 28 new DVDs for my collection.

Till now I’ve had the chance to see Trans America, The Weather Man, Lost & Delirious, The Shining, Meet The Feebles, Nightmare Before Christmas, Forgotten Silver, Bandits, some of Deadwood, Maniac Nurses Finds Ecstasy.

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I spit on Your Grave

October 20th, 2006

I spit on Your GraveThis is a gem. First half of the movie is an endless amount of rape and the second half of the movie is an endless amount of revenge. “I spit on Your Grave” is from 1978 and was originally titled “Day of the Woman”. The tagline is probably the most uncorrect tagline ever. “This woman has just cut, chopped, broken and burned five men beyond recognition… but no jury in America would ever convict her! I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE … an act of revenge” I’m gonna go and make some spoilers (so don’t come here and serialrape me if you’re going to watch this movie and you hate spoilers). First of all I’m quite 100% sure that it’s four and not five men she kills in this movie. Second; She didn’t just do it, she does it at the very end of the movie. The tagline makes it sound like she’s going to torture these guys and molest their bodies, but she doesn’t. Neither is there a jury involved. The only thing that’s right in this tagline is “an act of revenge”.

The movie is really about Jennifer, a writer from New York, who’s going to spend the summer in a cabin in peacefull environments so she can find the inspiration needed to write her first novell. Quite soon she finds herself in a middle of a nightmare with four guys taking turns at raping and beating her. They leave her to die, but oh no! she doesn’t. She survives, and she heals and she decides to kill everymotherfuckinglastoneofthem. She’s sneaky and hot and the guys are amazingly stupid and easily fooled. This movie is just as bad as every other movie in the exploitation genre, but that’s what makes them all so entertaining.

Read more about I spit on Your Grave on IMDB.

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I’ve just bought a redicilous amout of DVDs

October 19th, 2006

Today I bought some DVDs. A redicilous amount of DVDs. I have no idea how many, but I’m gonna go count now. BRB babes.

  1. Russ Meyers Up!
  2. Russ Meyers Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
  3. Russ Meyers Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens
  4. Dawn of the Dead
  5. Land of the Dead
  6. Happiness
  7. The Cooler
  8. Arizona Dream
  9. Angel Heart
  10. Brotherhood of the Wolf
  11. Sling Blade
  12. I Spit on your Grave
  13. Johnny got his Gun
  14. Silent Hill
  15. Come & See
  16. Dr. Strangelove, or; How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb
  17. X-Men III - The Last Stand
  18. Shameless series 1
  19. 4400 season 2
  20. Sling & Arrows season 1
  21. Sling & Arrows season 2
  22. Return of the Killer Tomatoes
  23. Four Rooms
  24. Strings

So 24 is the number, and 24 it is. I just watched Four Rooms which is directed by none less than four directors. The directors are: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarrantino. They’ve all directed (and written) each of their own segment of the movie (guess how many segments there are). The whole movie is mainly about a bellboy (played buy a nervous Tim Roth) who’s working alone in a hotel at new years eve. The bellboy gets involved in a lot of incidents during the evening. Each incident is one segment.Of the four segments (I guess you’ve got the answer on the segmentsquestion now) I liked the segment which Robert Rodriguez directed best. It’s named “The Misbehavors” and is about a mexican gangsterlord (or something) who’s taking his lady out on new years eve while the kids stay in the hotel-room to watch TV. They pay off the bellboy a not so very modest sum to watch the children and make sure they behave. The segment involves many interesting things such as a dead hooker, Salma Hayek dancing, a guy getting puked on and lots of fire & carnage. Also appearing in this movie is Quentin Tarrantino, Bruce Willis, Madonna, Antonio Banderas and Jennifer Beals.

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Trip to Lillehammer - Visiting Ada

October 16th, 2006

This weekend I visited my friend Ada. She’s currently stationed in Lillehammer at a school there called Nansenskolen / The Nansen Academy. It’s named after the semi-famous to famous norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who is a Norwegian delegate to the Justice League. It was really cool and everyone there are going to be superheroes or evil geniouses.

Getting there

Getting there was a real pain in the ass and I really wish I could either fly really really fast without any effort at all or be invisible. The traintrip lasted for two and a half hour on a shitty train which ran on shitty tracks. There were as usual kids screaming and running about with obviously unfit parents “watching” them. Luckily one of those nice =Oslo magazine sellers was on the trainstation before the train left. She sold me the newest edition of =Oslo magazine so I had that to read in addition to Sandman #5. It was an interesting subject regarding the lie of life (lies that you need to be able to live). There’s a quote from Henrik Ibsens play Villanden / The Wild Duck printed on the cover “If you take away the lie of life from an average human, you take away his happiness at the same time“. If you live in Oslo or are passing trough I stronly recommend you to get this edition, it was very good!

SUPERPOWERS!!! & Arnold & Predator

Speaking of flying and invisibility; me and Ada had the discussion about which superpower we’d want the most. I think I want to be invisible most of all. Sneaking around is awesome! I also hate myself (but not very much) for not remembering what kind of superpower Ada wants, but she wants to be Arnold Schwarzeneger without steroids. Then the conversation spun off to Predator. We discussed back and forth wether Arnold or Predator is the most awesomest ninjacreature. Ada was on Arnolds side because he won in the movie. I was on the Predators side because predators fucking kicks ass! The only reason that Arnold won was because there was a lame as guy writing the manuscript or the director decided that it wouldn’t be good if the Predator won. I won the discussion because Ada agreed that Predator was a totally unrealistic movie and that a Predator would in real life kick Arnolds guvernor ass all the way down to Texas. And the real proof that Predator wins?

Lillehammer

Lillehammer is a freaking cold place. I’m sure it’s about -15 degrees celcious there right now and that’s freakin’ cold. In Oslo we’re still on + side thank God. We’ve got happy sunshine and a bit warmth. I’ve been to Lillehammer a couple of times before. One time in the middle of winter and another time at spring. Both times it was COLD. Freakin COLD. Not that cold, but cold. Lillehammer is a nice place though. It’s a city/town that lies at the side of a hilllooking down into a valley and over to a hill on the other side. It was beatiful when covered in the colors of fall. It also happens to be beautiful at springtime when everything is turning green and the snow melts.

Saturday night LIVE!

We spent the entire saturday watching sexploitation and exploitation movies (mostly sexploitation). Among the movies were Russ Meyers Up! which I’m not quite sure what’s about, but there seem to be a murder and alot of huge knockers and spanking of Adolf. There was also another Russ Meyer movie, Beneath the valley of the Ultra Vixens, which was about everyday life in some small town involving lots of huge knockers and a murder. Of course we also had to see a Jess Franco movie, among Adas collection we chose Barbed Wire Dolls as it seemed like the most promising except for ILSA which we’ve seen before. I can’t really remember anything else happening saturday. I was introduced to some of the others at the school and got to check out some of their facilities (like the toilet and their couches).

Sunday

When I woke up at sunday Ada had already been out jogging for a half-hour or something. We went down to eat breakfast, I ate slices of bread with ham, jam and cheese and had a couple of glasses of milk. Milk is always nice! Then we decided to walk around in Lillehammer and get ourself a cup of coffee at 7/11 which was the only thing open. I got myself a nice cup of coffee a couple of more slices of bread and I got the chance to try the newly introduced COKE ZERO! It’s better than Coke light, but worse than regular Coke. I don’t even really like Coke that well (except for when I’m having pizza or stuff like pizza, like hamburgers). Coke Zero is certainly more manly than Coke Light which is very much wus-like. The only thing that really turned me off about Coke Zero is that it says “Real taste - Zero sugar!” That just killed the whole manly man-man concept and made it just as metrosexual as Ken.

After our little trip around Lillehammer (which lasted for about 45minutes - 1hour) we sat down and watched Zombie Flesh Eaters on the bigscreen in the auditorium at the school. We had to rearrange some chairs and get a couch from another room but it worked out fine as soon as we found the powerswitch for the DVD and stereo. Then we sat down and enjoyed zombie carnage! Zombies fucking rocks. Except for zombies the movie had ugly bitches and a cool soundtrack, definitely worth to see if not to have in your collection. The cool name is also a very good reason to see it.

Going home

Then the trip was over. I had to get down south to Oslo again. 2 and a half hour on a train with _nothing_ to read and my iPod is still fucked and won’t recharge. After about 1 and a half hour a nice old lady sat down next to me and talked trash about the railroads, I liked that. When I finally were back in Oslo the next bus home wasn’t moving before about 30 minutes so I decided to take a taxi home. I usually take place in the front seat when I’m riding alone and usually the taxidrivers don’t mind that. But this taxidriver was all weird and didn’t want me in the frontseat, I almost wanted to wait for another taxi to show up but I decided to get in the back of the cab instead. All in all it’s better than the bus.

I’m truly sorry that I don’t have any photos from the trip, but I was really lazy and didn’t care enough to take my camera out of the bag.

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Last Man Standing

September 2nd, 2006

Last Man Standing

I just watched Last Man Standing for the 50th time or so and it’s still great. So go ahead and see it a few times more everyone :)

I’ve also found a new source of fun!

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Slipp Jimmy Fri (Free Jimmy)

April 23rd, 2006

I just came home after watching Slipp Jimmy Fri (Free Jimmy) at the cinema. Slipp Jimmy Fri is a Norwegian computeranimated movie made the same way as Ice Age. It’s funny, sad, hilarious, dramatic, full of drugs and it’s politically incorrect. Everything I’ve been waiting for from a Norwegian movie. In contrast to other animated movies like Ice Age and The Incredibles this movie is not for kids, it’s a movie for adults with animated sex, cursing, violence and gore! All the fun you could ever want! There were some scenes when the whole audience laughed constantly, and other scenes where I thought I heard someone cry (I almost cried myself). Slipp Jimmy Fri touches a large spectre of emotions. I can recommend it to everyone who liked To Trøtte Typer (Two Tired Guys) and those not offended by hysterically funny politically incorrect comedy. Great job Christopher Nielsen!

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New movies-rant and Corpse Bride

February 4th, 2006

I was down at the DVD-store I used to work at last wednesday and got myself some new movies and DVD-boxes.

I bought:

My first thought is that I probably use too much money on DVDs, but I’m a movie entusiast and I don’t use much money on other things (except for food, music and random crap I don’t need).

I’ve seen Batman and Batman Returns many many times before. Even though they are not that good I find them quite enjoyable and I felt like I needed those two movies in my collection along with Batman Begins.

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride was beautiful and very much like I expected. It is about a young man named Victor (Johnny Depp) who is forced to marry Victora (Emily Watson), a girl he’s never met before. Fortunaltely fate has it so that they fall in love at the very instant they see eachother and everything should’ve been well if it hadn’t been for the weddingrehearsal and Victors less fortunate meeting with the Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham Carter). It’s a sweet and morbid lovestory, amusing characters and it had beautiful animation and scenes. The music of Danny Elfman is as always perfect for Tim Burton’s work. I don’t think it’s nescessary to say anything about Johnny Depp, he delivers in every movie he’s in. Helena Bonham Carter (Carnivale) did a great voice as the Corpse Bride and Emily Watson (Equilibrium) was as good as perfect for the role as Victoria, the young girl in love with Victor. It’s not Tim Burton’s best (that would in my opinion be Edward Scissorhands), but it’s among one of his best along with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I haven’t started to watch The Wire yet. I’ve only heard positive things. It’s supposed to be better than The Shield and more like The Sopranos. Looking forward to it! I haven’t had the chance to see Pusher yet either, but people have tried to kill me because I haven’t. So I guess it’s a good movie.

I watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the cinema a good while ago. I thought it was very funny and it’s definitely worth having in one’s collection!

You guys probably knows all about Family Guy from before so I won’t bother writing too much about it except for: SEASON 4 FUCKING ROCKS!

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Fuck politics. We’re here. All the rest is bullshit!

February 4th, 2006

I watched Jarhead last weekend. It’s a movie about the Gulfwar through the eyes of an American soldier. Where other newer warmovies got a lot of focus on the war Jarheads’ focus is on the soldiers. The movie is based on a book written by former Marine Anthony Swofford who seems to be there for the job more than he is there to save the world.

A lot of good scenes and dialogue, even though I’ve seen a bit too much of it from before. I think it’s almost up there with Stanley Kubricks Full Metal Jacket, but not all the way up there off course, Full Metal Jacket will always be the number one warmovie (at least untill this day) that every other warmovie will be compared too.

If you liked Full Metal Jacket, watch it. If you liked Saving Private Ryan or the Thin Red Line, watch it. If you’re not into warmovies I suggest you’ll give this a try anyway.

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