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I just watched Things We Lost In The Fire and just like The Jacket I absolutely loved it. The performances in this film are soooo strong. Benicio Benicio Benicio!!! I think I forgot about how great you are. I mean, I watched the man portraying Che and he was outstanding, but as Jerry in this film he really wowed me. Excellent in every scene he's in. And Halle Berry, she should be offered more roles like this one. This woman is a really great actress and I feel that even though she won an Oscar she's still prettymuch underrated. Most of this is due to the explicit sex scenes in Monster's Ball for which she won the Academy Award for Best Female Performance In A leading Role. I've read many comments since her win in which people say she only won because of those sex scenes. But that's just really wrong. Those people should watch Things We Lost In The Fire so they can see for themselves that she's capable of giving very strong performances. And then there's David Duchovny who's most famous for his role in The X Files, I myself can't even remember having ever really seen a film of him. His part is small but he plays his character with so much ease. He's so real, so authentic, so normal. I can't believe it only got a 64% rating on Rottentomatoes.com! What the F*CK?! I mean, 64% is not THAT bad, but it's far from excellent and would have a lot of people change their mind about the film. Before the reviews they might have thought about seeing it but knowing reviews aren't that great they may have ended up choosing to see a different film instead. Fortunately for me the film was directed by Susanne Bier who I think made at least two wonderful films Brødre (Brothers) and Efter Brylluppet (After The Wedding). So that's why I decided to buy the film when I saw it at the shop this one day even though I knew critics weren't overwhelmed by it. Perhaps if it had not been directed by Bier but someone completely unknown to me I would have never bought it just because I had not really heard any good things about it. It's so unfair. This film deserves way better. I enjoyed every second. It's such a warm film. Of course you should decide for yourself and some people will completely disagree with me. I'm not trying to write a review here even though it is kind of what I'm doing, I know. How can you ever really explain your love or dislike for a film without it being a review? So that's why most of the time I go and see a film because I saw a screenshot of the film that intrigued me or just because I'm familiar with the work of the director. Of course I also go see films that get a lot of positive reviews and tend not to see those which doesn't. You can't really escape it. But I feel sometimes critics are really only there to make you go see a film or not. As if that's their real job. Like they're really trying to make that decision for you whereas I hope that in the end people still really decide for themselves. I know a lot of people still do just that though, 'cause a lot of films which I'd say are crap still bring in a lot of dough :) But I just wouldn't feel right being one of those people, being a real professional critic. I wouldn't want to be the person whose job I feel is to make you decide whether something is really good or bad when you haven't checked it out yourself.
Anyway. I liked this film. I figured that out on my own and for me the negative reviews are wrong. Same with The Jacket. It's your own opinion that counts. Just try to see things with an open mind. In the end we're all our own critics.

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I had not yet seen this poster for the US remake of Susanne Bier's Brødre, not until a minute ago. I like it. A lot actually. The poster apparently has been out for a while. I did see the trailer a while ago and it just seemed like a complete scene by scene remake or at least close to it. So I wonder if Jim Sheridan who directs it will bring something new to the table, something Bier's version doesn't already have.

Thanks to Cinematical

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Lately I'd been thinking about bringing back my blog called Analyzing Pictures which I used for writing reviews on all the movies I'd see. However, because of not having enough time, knowing that probably no one reads the blog anyway, while also no longer believing in writing reviews, I decided it had been enough after having already resurrected it from the death before. But now I'm planning to bring it back again, but differently. I've been thinking a lot about what could be a more interesting way of writing a review or at least convincing people to see or not see a film, getting them excited, by giving your opinion about it. But the thing is, most people will go to a movie anyway, no matter if reviews are good yes/no. If you already decided to see it before reviews came in you'll probably go and see it anyway. Of course I do let myself get influenced by reviews, visiting sites like Metacritic.com and RottenTomatoes.com to see how much of a percentage of all reviews are positive/negative. Often this has me ending up saying that reviews are good when I see a film receives like 80% of positive reviews. But, in contrast to what it at times might assume, I don't read reviews. Never actually. So when I say that reviews for a movie are really good it only means I saw that they received a high percentage of positive reviews. This does really influence my excitement for a film as it can be very much increased. It's the same effect awards such as the Oscars can have on people which often make them decide to watch a certain film. How many times have you not been in a DVD store hearing the person next to you say to a friend: 'This one got 8 Oscars!', which to them means, one, it's apparently really good 'cause it won Oscars, and two, buy it! But even though I feel those sites like Metacritic.com and RottenTomatoes.com are a very good way of getting people excited for a movie and perhaps the best way, I do want to try something new. Instead of writing reviews about an entire movie I will just write something or maybe nothing at all about one image, one movie still that I choose from the movie I've seen and then post on the blog. So that's what I'm going to do. To convince you to see a movie or at least gete xcited for it based on one image from that film. At the end of the day movies are just images, and to me the look of the image is still always one of the most important things to me and maybe even the most important. I could go and see a movie only because it appears to look good. I guess over the years I have created a real love for the image.
A couple of days ago I watched Bande À Part (Band Of Outsiders) for the first time. Now if I could choose one image that I liked, I would choose this one below, although it's hard to choose just one image. Might not be the one I think was the nicest, but it's one of many. For instance, I could have chosen a ny other image from Bande À Part but I decided to take this one. I could perhaps even have chosen every image, but that would be posting the entire film and that's not my intention. This one image has to make you go and see all the images yourself. So would you go and check out the film just because of this one image? Does it get you excited for it?

My 'review' of Bande À Part :)


And last night I saw Efter Brylluppet (After The Wedding) by Susanne Bier who's truly one of the best directors out there. She really shows how crucial a good director is for telling a story. 'Cause at times her stories might be a bit melodramatic, a little bit like a soap opera. But it's the way she tells the story, the way she connects the characters emotionally that make her films so affective.

Efter Brylluppet:



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