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Dream (2001)
Okay (tried to write OK here but was told to not shout :).
In short the movie is about this young girl from some boring little village in Scotland (? (saw this a while back so can't remember accurately)) who gets pregnant to her boyfriend and then wins a fashion competition arranged by this sleazy fashion/TV star guy. She then travels to London (?) (without telling about the baby) with the sleazebag and her naive mother to a bigger contest. Things of course go all wrong and the girls father and boyfriend both go after her (father gets worried after a call from her and BF finds out about the baby). Stuff happens and then a happy ending.
IMO the movie was okay enough, afterwards I felt pretty satisfied. Reminded me of the "Full Monty" although this wasn't as good. A bit uneven but worthwhile if you're bored and trying to pass some time etc.
House of Games (1987)
Few things that annoyed me in this film *SPOILERS*
The beginning of the movie seemed fine. Then there came this scene that seemed pretty naive to me: Mike and his associate want to show Margaret this basic money cheating trick involving a envelope and 20$. I'm too lazy to describe the whole scene but in short Mikes friend seems to put 20$ in this envelope and gives it to Margaret who actually believes she has now 20$ in the envelope even though she has just been told she will be shown a cheating trick.
In a situation like this anyone who hasn't grown up in a barrel or something would suspect that the envelope is really empty. However this woman who is supposed to be intelligent enough (she's a famous psychologist after all) doesn't have a clue.
However this didn't annoy me that much. It felt a bit stupid but I kept on watching. The midsection of the movie was pretty OK.
Then near the end came the airport scene which left me feeling pretty awkward and sort of spoiled the movie for me: Mike (who we at this point know is supposed to be this pretty elaborate professional con artist who you'd think could probably plot his way out of a bad situation) basically simply tells Margaret to bite it when she's pointing a gun at him. Then when she gets mad and shoots him in the leg he gets mad too and really starts insulting her. It's like he's suddenly gotten a death wish or something. So Margared shoots him again; he politely asks for some more. Margaret shoots him dead and the movie basically ends there. After this comes a scene in which we are shown that she got away with it but there's nothing much happening anymore: Margaret is a restaurant with a friend. She autographs a book, steals a cigarette lighter and soon after that the end texts start rolling (as did my eyes).
This movie has in my opinion to some extent the same sort of feel as "To Live and Die in L.A.", if you like it chances are you'll like this too. Some critics say "To Live and Die in L.A." is one of greatest thrillers ever and the car chase scene in it is supposed to be really good but in my opinion the movie felt often a bit too 'artsy' and absurd (as also did the House of Games in some scenes) and the car chase scene actually made me eventually laugh in disbelief; it just seemed to last for ever and felt generally weird.
You are of course free to make your own decisions but while watching the credits roll I myself felt like this movie had suddenly gone seriously TV-movie on me. Had I known before watching how this ends I wouldn't have bothered staying up late because of this. The House of Games isn't exactly a bad movie but because of the high user rating and a well written positive comment on the title page (at the time) I did expect something better.
Hymypoika (2003)
Movie with a good idea with potential but average realization
The plot of the movie has been already described pretty well in comments by other people so I won't repeat it so extensively here. The other comments are however (or at least have been so far) quite positive so I thought I'd add my own opinion too since I didn't think this movie was that good.
Like I said this movie is based on a good idea. In short it's about these 4 guys who get this idea of a sort of a 'game' where they would video all of their.. well, intercourses and then watch them together afterwards for fun. As most people can probably guess, things end up going very badly wrong and people get very hurt (a girl gets raped and one of the guys eventually kills himself).
Sadly, the realization of the movie isn't as good as it could have been. It doesn't feel believable. I just couldn't buy it that these 4 guys would do the things that they are shown doing. The character development feels often unrealistic. It's sort of hard to explain. In the movie 'Traffic' the viewer is in my opinion shown pretty believably how people end up making bad decisions and end up losing control of their lives. This movie fails in that.
As a result, I found this movie to be entertaining (often even amusing) mostly because of its general "freakiness" and its shocking subject rather than its quality. This movie reminds me of 'Baise Moi' and 'Mauvaises fréquentations' both of which are these sort of depressing french dramas where peoples lives basically go down the toilet (although 'Hymypoika' has a happier and more hopeful ending). If you like this, check them out. Also the movie 'Piano Teacher' has the same sort of feel (and dysfunctional characters) in it as 'Hymypoika' has.
My vote is 6/10. If you haven't seen this you haven't missed anything special.
PS. If you want to see finnish movie at its best I would recommend Gourmet Club. It has a funny plot and the cast includes Michael Badalucco (he played 'Jimmy Berluti' in 'The Practice'). Also I can sincerely recommend a very well produced and very entertaining dark comedy short film called 'Rare Exports Inc.' which reveals some amazing facts about the origin of Santa Claus. Reviews of both can be found here on IMDb.
Superman (1978)
Superman fails where Burtons Batman succeeds.
IMDb recommends to see Tim Burtons Batman if you liked Superman. I myself would recommend that you skip this and see Batman instead since in my opinion Batman is a good movie and, well, this is not.
I read some of the other comments before writing mine and I got the impression that most of the people who like Superman had seen as a kid and it really impressed them. Well, maybe at the time it got released (in 1978) it was something really groundbreaking (I can't really tell since I wasn't born until two years later) but now it looks in my opinion pretty lame. The special effects (including techniques like fast forwarding and rewinding the tape) were often rather campy and, what's worse, the plot also wasn't generally that impressive and it had a few pretty annoying holes too.
I'll list few of the things that (more or less) annoyed me in the film:
Lex Luthor reads from a newspaper that Superman is from Krypton. From this he is able to deduct in about 5 minutes that some pieces of kryptonite must have wound up on earth and that they must be unhealthy to Superman because their special radioactive vibration level or something.
Luthor and his henchmen generally suck. Someone compared them to the 3 stooges and I agree. The villains in Burtons Batman are loony in a quite charming way. The villains in Superman made me feel like twisting my arms.
At one point Luthor and co. stop a military truck carrying a missile by staging a car accident. The whole convoy stops and everyone gathers on the accident site. No-one seems to pay attention to guarding the missile and Luthors assistant fiddles with it. Right after this they stop the convoy again because the assistant screwed up the first time. This second time they block a bridge with a truck of their own and again no-one properly guards the missile.
Superman jumps out of a window of the Daily Planet building. We see him diving downwards and his costume magically changes in mid air. I mean his suit sort of morphs into the Superman costume. I did not know he could do that..
San Andreas vault is moving and we see this big crack opening on earth. Superman fixes the vault and we are shown the crack-forming-clip backwards. Uhh.
Superman reverses the time by flying really fast around the earth so that it starts to turn backwards.
The jump back in time is also messed up, time goes backwards alright but when Superman changes the direction of time back to normal (by flying really fast around the earth in a opposite direction, naturally), (bad) things that should start happening again just don't.
This movie might be passable if you want to take trip down the memory lane or you are 12 yrs old or you aren't very demanding with movies (meaning you like stuff like 'The Fast And The Furious' for example). Otherwise see Batman.
Air America (1990)
Entertaining no-brainer similar to lethal weapon & police academy
That's about it. I've seen this film maybe 3 times now and it's still funny.
Edit: Didn't have enough lines so I'll have to write more..
Well, this is the sort of movie that you should just kick back and eat some popcorn while watching, if you want to see something intelligent or artistic or something then don't' watch this.
This isn't maybe quite as good as the first Lethal Weamon or Police Academy movies but IMO this is still a good movie and worth a watch.
What's my taste? My voting history can be found here:
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=10127200
Blink (1993)
The usual TV-movie quality batch of clichés..
..irrational, illogical behavior (running away from your police escort while being stalked by a killer ring a bell, anyone?-) and general foolishness. I first thought I'd not watch this but then I read a positive comment on the movie here on IMDb which claimed that though this might mostly be a pretty average movie there also was something special about it. Well, to me this felt pretty much the usual cannon fodder.
I think this could have been a decent movie. The basic plot is OK. However, they didn't make it so, but instead so-so, so towards the end of the movie the only thing that kept me watching this was that I wanted to see how badly it would stall, hoping that that it would get bad enough to be actually funny. It didn't. Instead it had some filler arguments which I particularly hate in a movie (you know those scenes where two or more previously rationally behaving people suddenly start behaving like they have PMS).
Not good enough to enjoy and not really bad enough to be campy. IMO a waste of time.
My voting history should be available here:
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=10127200
Love Stinks (1999)
A uneven but worthwhile watch
Firstly I'd like to mention, that this movie is a rather over-the-top and not very intelligent or realistic comedy containing rude/insulting humour (looking at the rating many would probably call it just stupid) mainly about a woman who turns into a quite she-Satan when the well-off man she has sinked her claws on refuses to marry her. If that sounds like it will make you feel bad don't watch this, go have a glass of milk and some cookies instead.
After seeing 'Love Stinks' I thought it probably hasn't got a very good rating here because of bashing from some ferocious feminists and other people who take themselves and things in general too seriously. However when I checked the ratings (which weren't very high as expected) I saw that women didn't in general give lower points than men which was a pleasant surprise. I guess there are more than few women who can take even a little provocative joke after all.
The reason why I expected women to bash this movie is that it portrays many women as either rather bimbo-like (many of the side characters) or manipulative control freaks (especially the main character and also to some extent her woman friend).
The main plot revolves around Chelsea and Seth who meet at a party. Chelsea is the bridesmaid and Seth is the.. umm.. 'groomsmaid' at their friends wedding (can't remember the real word at the moment, bad English, sorry, if u want to make a complaint please make it in finnish ;)). They get together and for a while things are OK. Then Chelsea decides she wants to get married and starts plotting on how to get what she wants. At first it seems to work but then Seth starts to get worried and jumps on the brakes. When he determinedly refuses to propose to her Chelsea goes slightly mad and tries to rip Seths life apart, which leads to quite a war between the two.
Someone compared this to the 'War of Roses' and I also think the two are a bit similar. The War of Roses is a little better I think, Love Stinks is bit like War of Roses with a screwball twist.
I gave this movie a rating of 6 due to it being a bit uneven (there are few moments that are in my opinion a bit boring or stupid). However I would recommend seeing this because the funny parts are quite funny. There's a farting in bed - scene for example that has been circling in the net (Feeder on fire! Incoming..! ;).
Dangerous Minds (1995)
Soapy cheese.
When it comes to movies I like to think that I'm not very picky. I like all sorts of movies. I liked Shadowlands and Sleepless in Seattle. I liked American Beauty. I like the Rambo movies. I like the Lethal Weapons movies. I liked Rush Hour. I liked Freddy Got Fingered. I liked American Pie. I liked the Brainstorm. I liked the Cube. Liked Memento, Silence of Lambs and The Fly. Titanic was okay (though in my opinion it's the worst DiCaprio movie I've seen). Ang Lees Ice Storm was okay. Casablanca is a good movie. And so on.
And a movie doesn't even have to be good in order for me like it. Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, It Came From Outer Space, Cleopatra Jones and The Fly 2 were IMO pretty amusing crappy movies. I have no dislike for any particular genre of movies.
I hated Dangerous Minds. Ange-8 called this movie as teenxploitation in his/hers comment and I agree completely. This is the cheesiest movie I can remember seeing. Argh.
In the beginning the movie didn't seem like it would suck so completely but the more I saw the more I felt like I was watching a overlong episode of some b-grade soap opera. The main character played by Pfeiffer is supposed to be an ex-marine but half the time she's just so frigging clueless that it seems unlikely that she's ever even seen a marine. And this little lost hen is supposed gain the respect and trust of a group of rough kids from slums. As if.
If you can bear watching crap like Bold & the Beautiful or Melrose Place then maybe you'll also be able to endure watching this terrible movie without getting an aneurysm. Otherwise don't risk it.
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
IMHO this movie sucks (possible mild **SPOILERS**).
I'll first mention some movies I consider to be good so you'll know a bit what's my taste: L.A Confidential, American beauty, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Usual suspects and Forrest Gump.
I have nothing particular against Streep or Hoffman. I have seen some of their other work and liked some of it. But I did not like Kramer vs Kramer.
Maybe I was born too late (1980) to get this movie or something. I also didn't quite get Easy Rider, though I liked it more than this. But both of these movies somehow felt so.. seventies. It feels a bit like trying to watch a episode of Charlies Angels with a serious attitude. If you think you could do it, then maybe you can also enjoy this movie. Me, I inevitably get this more or less campy feeling. With Charlies Angels it doesn't matter but with Kramer vs. Kramer it really gets on my nerves.
This movie felt a lot like Terms of Endearment except IMO this wasn't as good. In ToE there was Nicholson who gave the movie a lot of kick, Kramer vs Kramer felt in comparison really lame.
Short synopsis: The movie is about this married couple with 1 kid (a boy) who break up because the guy pretty much dedicates his life to his work. The wife takes a hike but comes back after a while and then they start to bitch & whine about who'll get the kid.
Some things that annoyed me: In the beginning of the movie when Teds wife left, why didn't the guy try to hire a nanny or something? This felt annoyingly illogical. Even his boss suggested he should get help. There were also other conflicts that seemed to be more or less made up like this. Ted and his wife never _really_ tried to talk to each other. It felt strange. If this was their relationship how did they ever even get married? Did they perhaps meet in a bar and then it was like "Hi I'm Ted wanna get married with children?" "Mmkay cool."
First the movie felt too toothless and soapy, then when the child custody trial begun it turned into this stereotypical ridiculous slandering contest. Too much of the time the movie somehow didn't feel believable or fluent.
IMO this movie isn't really worth watching. See Terms of endearment or Sleepless in Seattle instead.