END OF WATCH (US’12): Predictable, cheats on its own concept-and yet I kinda liked it. Made me wanna rewatch Colors.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 1, 2012
Arvio Domessa.
THE PAPERBOY (US’12): The freak gallery bit works better than the mystery / thriller. McConaughey’s third slimy Southener this year?
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 1, 2012
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (UK’12): Heavy on mood with a bit of meta head fuck towards the end. Could’ve packed a bigger punch.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 1, 2012
PALME (SE’12): A solid biography told in traditional chronological order. Loads of archival footage with a sprinkling of talking heads.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 2, 2012
GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE (JP’04): Couldn’t make heads/tails of the story but damn it looks good. Held my interest > Sky Crawlers
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 2, 2012
NIGHTBREED: THE CABAL CUT (US’90/’12): ”This is too weird!” #nightvisionsff
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 3, 2012
DREDD (UK/ZA’12): Yay for the Judges. Story, gore & prod design get a pass. Fail on the use of the word ’fail.’ Lacking in satire.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 4, 2012
KUMMISETÄNI THAIMORSIAN (FI’12): Honest opinionated youth goes home wrecking. Heartfelt with slight structural / show don’t tell problems.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 7, 2012
LIFE OF PI (US’12): High camp on the high seas. Sorry but the magic didn’t take. Closeups of CGI kitty look good.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 8, 2012
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (US’12): Mashes mythological mish up real good. Loads of flying, ’believe in yourself’, dual sword-wielding Santa etc
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 9, 2012
THE READER (US’08): How long does one need to watch simulated copulation with violins playing in the background? 2nd viewing, for an essay.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 11, 2012
DE ROUILLE ET D’OS (FR’12): Rough,beautiful, devastating. All actors in top form, few structural quibbles (like the final scene).
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 12, 2012
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (US’12): Shock-full of gags as befits a film cowritten by R Smiegel. Best animated feature since Rango?
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 13, 2012
IMAGINAERUM (FI/CA’12): Pathetic fallacy galore with lousy-ass CGI and a massively earnest parents-children theme.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 14, 2012
CALL GIRL (SE’12): Not really a thriller but an indictment of the entire system with one man standing up for justice.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 15, 2012
FAUST (RU’11): Not sure I got any of it but! Feels like the Academy ratio frame cannot contain all the life that’s in the film.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 15, 2012
WARRIOR (US’11): Fights dramatically flat, scenes outside the cage seem almost perfunctory. The National isn’t enough to fix it.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 18, 2012
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (US’12): Actors transcend the so-so script. Adams is phenomenonal, even Timberlake mostly holds up.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 20, 2012
KILLING THEM SOFTLY (US’12): A lot of talk, a little action (not in the action movie sense but vita activa and all that).
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 20, 2012
Arvio Domessa.
MIESTEN VÄLISIÄ KESKUSTELUITA (FI’12): Kukkonen plays an asshole novelist who grows as a human through writing about heavy themes.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 22, 2012
Butt-ugly handheld DSLR footage and heavy handed prose that’s supposed to be awe-inspiring. Even the almighty Kukkonen isn’t at his best.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 22, 2012
TAKE THIS WALTZ (CA’11): An unrequited love triangle with a steady buildup, some clever structural bits and loads of golden/red light.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 22, 2012
GOLDFINGER (UK’64): The score is even better than I remembered. Jimmy Bond is even more of a sexist pig than I remembered, too.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 24, 2012
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (US’12): Hushpuppy, O fearless Hushpuppy. Let me sing the praises of your presence and energy, O Hushpuppy.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 27, 2012
I am considerably less enthralled by the handheld cinematography, especially in the first act or so.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 27, 2012
At its worst I felt it was more about (signalling) being shot handheld than about what’s in front of the lens. Not a fruitful balance.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 27, 2012
I don’t want the camerawork to be meaningless, but neither do I want it to ignore the images being captured on film or CCD.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 27, 2012
UN AMOR (AR’11): The past is a different place you cannot return to, no matter how tempting it would seem. MOR drama, MOR execution.
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 27, 2012
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (UK’67): Looks purtier than Goldfinger, Connery has a better grip on Bond, location footage is gorgeous, quips atrocious
— Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) November 29, 2012
Määrä on 182. Saan siis ehkä juuri ja juuri 200 rikottua tänä vuonna.