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Ticket to Paradise (2022)
Incredibly bad film, like watching a train crash for1 1/2 hour.
Total chliché. Superficial characters, so skin deep. It's absolutely painful to watch the film, it's agonising. I often like rom-coms, but the parents are ridiculously unbeliable characters and the younger couple are just there. The film isn't even so bad that it's funny, I did not laugh once watching this "comedy". It's as fun as watching tomatoes rot.
Julia Roberts an George Clooney are wonderful actors, and they do their best to save the film, but even they can't.
The story never captured me, the parents were simply grumpy annoying people that couldn't get a grip and behave.
There is though quite a bit of pretty nature in the film, and that's something.
Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake (2022)
A movie about bad selfish privileged people.
This movie is more about bad selfish privileged people than an earhquake. Western tourists overtaken by fright, greed, thinking just about themselves when the going gets rough, not caring about saving the injured first, bordering on (or fully bloomed in) sociopathy. And about the poor locals, devastated about their loss, of their people, and all their belongings. Beautiful scenery and filmmaking. A bit misleading title and trailers as it happens in three places in Nepal. Best wishes and gratitude for a real deep thinking movie, in what could have been about emotional gibberies. Thank you dear film makers.
Ben-Hur (2016)
Well done and mesmerizing.
I never saw the older films so I am not preoccupied by them. But I love history, culture, and sharing good drama with the family. I loved it.
Babysitting 2 (2015)
Great laughs.
I did not see the first movie, started watching this on tv, and it's the funniest movie I've seen in a long time. Crazy storyline, hilarious characters, the grandmother of the year. I'll have sore belly-muscles tomorrow, I've laughed so much.
The Piano (1993)
Sexual abuse.
This is a wonerfully welm made film. Top acting, filmin, cutting, story. The only thing bothering me, is that the film is really saying, that it is all right to sexually abuse a woman, it makes her falling in love with you. The message is chilling.
The Christmas Heart (2012)
Good for the family to watch together, parents, kids and teenagers.
This film is different. It is a feel-good film for December. It is about being kind, about being afraid for your loved ones, it is about the difficult subject which heart transplant is, and it is about our reactions and feelings when we are very scared that our loved ones will die. I watched it with my children, an 8 yo and a teenager. It kept us interested and we had strong sympathy for the persons in the movie. It gave us a lot to talk about, because the questions of life, death, organ donation and illness is not something that comes up in a day to day discussion. My kids were very interested in the subject and really interested in the film. On the other hand, the acting is often pretty bad in the film, it is often very soap-opera like. But the kids weren't concerned about it, acting in children's movies is often pretty bad anyway. I just bit my tongue sometimes so I wouldn't blurt out "ouch" when the acting was too much of a cliché. So, I highly recommend the film for what it is, a good film for parents to watch with their kids and teenagers, to think with them, and talk about some thought provoking subjects. It is also a gorgeous relief from all the films that are filled with gore and profanity, finding good films to watch with kids can be so hard these days. So, don't expect Oscar winning performance, just enjoy the ride and the good sides in this film.
Pacific Rim (2013)
A strong female hero YES :)
It's about time to have a strong female role model in one of the new action hero movies. And one of the main roles here is definitely a strong, smart woman, fully clad, was not repeatedly "helplessly saved" by a man, simply a cool role model for girls and a cool independent female for the boys t admire :) Yes there were strong guys there too, but we need more good female role models for girls and boys that are watching movies today :) Thank you. Kudos to the makers of this film :) I did not go happily to this film, I was dragged by my sons and a film about robots fighting monsters sounded very dull. But I thought at least I might get a nap during the film. But this film is fun, very well made, good action scenes, not too disgusting so my blood and gore-hating 7 yo son could enjoy it totally, I loved it :) And, oh, yes, I'm a middle aged lady :)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
A good story/book, destroyed by turning it into a cartoon movie.
The graphics are great, but...
The book is originally well written and a wonderful story, but obviously modern film industry had to milk as much money out of it as possible. All the morale is gone, and it's just made into an action movie with lots of clobbering - again and again and again. Lots of scenes are written into the movie that weren't in the book, and mostly they're just clobbering scenes, with the persons surviving totally improbable situations where they couldn't survive (and the book is not like that). Practically a Tom & Jerry movie. Tom & Jerry are fine, but mixing their genre with Tolkien is just stupid and awkward. The movie is 3 hour long, and they'll make 3 such movies, 9 hours out of this little book, good grief. It would be 1 fine 2-3 hour movie. This is very sad, because as I said, it's a great story. Also, because I like adventure movies. It's just sad.
Skyfall (2012)
Dark, well made, humorless.
Well made, very entertaining, a good thriller, a good twist on the James Bond legend, but it's almost not a James Bond movie at all. Super action scenes, and it is good that it is not terribly gross or horrifying like many action films are now. It still has gross, bloody and horrifying scenes at times, I miss the times when I was a kid and could easily see all the James Bond movies, now it's almost too gross for a 12 yo, and impossible for a younger kid. Skyfall is lacking in humor, I'd like to see more of the coolness and the humor of the older type James Bond movies. This James Bond is getting very old and depressed and weary. Even the lovemaking scenes were painful, where's the sexiness? Also, I think it is horrible that M was turned into a man again, it was superb to have a female strong personality there. But, the scenes were well made, and kept me and my 13 yo son on the edge of our seats. The film was not all about just bombing and fires this time, it was a good story, keep up the good work there ;) On the other hand, how about less grossness, more humor, more kissing, less depression.