Click! (Nelonen tänään su 14.6. klo 21)

Ei arvostelu, mutta leffasta kuitenkin, joten laitetaan tännekin. Leffan arvosteluni oli aikoinaan 4/5.

Tänään telkkarista tulee leffa, joka sai minut tekstittäessäni itkemään kuin vesiputous. Ihan vaan, jos joku haluaa tarkistaa, reagoiko samalla tavalla. (Mulle tää oli jotenkin sellainen "kivikin itkisi" -elämys, vastoin KAIKKIA odotuksia.)

Mielestäni en kuitenkaan tekstittänyt Neloselle, joten tässä on vissiin eri tekstit? Outoa sinänsä. Pitäisi ehkä tarkistaa, onko samat, koska silloin multa pimitetään uusintakorvauksia.

Star Trek - 02.06.2009

My review, copied from facebook & extended somewhat:

I would undoubtedly have enjoyed this more if I'd focused less on differences from original movies. No can do, so there you go. Still enjoyed it.

Good: Karl Urban as Bones was a standout, the only one truly channeling the original character / actor. Uncanny. (Don't tell me channeling wasn't the point. I wish it had been.) He's also very handsome, but honestly, I was awed by his performance. The looks were a bonus.


See? See? (But again, not just looks or similarity in looks - acting. If everyone had done as good a job as Urban, it would have been Star Trek heaven.)

Also liked Chris Pine's Kirk and enjoyed Kirk & Bones's banter. Simon Pegg's Scotty spoke much like a Glasgwegian, so obviously close to my heart... not close to the original, but not a major character anyway. Anton Yelchin (Chekov) has a disarmingly earnest air about him, impossible to dislike the boy in anything, despite the over-the-top russian accent.

Bad: Spock was a serious disappointment: character too emotional, actor so VERY wrong in the face department. Just. Not. Spock. This was one of my biggest problems with the film, as I adore the original Spock (was heartwarming yet sad to see Nimoy so old and frail). After a good Kirk and a great Bones, the holy trinity was sadly left incomplete. The hole was the size of a house, and the main reason this film was just OK to me, not more.

Uhura and Sulu were seriously miscast. Uhura should not be some skinny doe-eyed model girl, and Sulu should not be a Korean from Harold and Kumar, and that's that.

What I mean about Spock being bumpy:


Arched eyebrows suit certain people (Hugo Weaving springs to mind as a prime example). They do not suit people with droopy eyelids. If you have droopy eyelids to start with, you end up looking like a bumpy Whedon vampire. I kept thinking 'Argh! Spock looks disfigured!' all the way through the film. Shallow and mean-spirited, but the thought wouldn't leave me alone.

Bottom line:

The next one ought to be easier, as I have already made these comparisons and know what to expect. The parallel universe plotline is clever, gives them freedom to take liberties.

At times the film felt more Star Wars than Star Trek. (Not a compliment, although I do enjoy the original Star Wars trilogy: Wars replaces Trek's depth and intellectuality with action scenes that go on forever, right?) However, was mostly redeemed towards the end.

Rating: 3,5/5

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - 07.05.2009

Kopioin facebookista leffa-arvosteluni.

Kirjoitin sinne tänään myös Star Trekistä, voin kopioida senkin myöhemmin. Facebook-kieleni on englanti, joten kielikylpyä lukijoille. :)


Here's the thing:

Even if one were normally attracted to non-macho metrosexual types, so metrosexual that a lot of other girls go "What, someone finds THAT attractive? What about this latin lover right next to it?", but you just go "Nah, I prefer this" (completely hypothetically speaking, cough)... Even if one were generally that way inclined, Wolverine is just SO macho that he appeals directly to the cavewoman deep within the subconscious of every (heterosexual?) female, bypassing normal evaluation processes so that you mostly just go weak at the knees, "You carry me somewhere? Now?", and also start to type in run-on sentences.

I fail to understand how anyone's favourite comic book character can NOT be Wolverine. He has it all. I have now decided that Hugh Jackman should only ever play this guy until the day he retires. (And occassionally sing and dance. I actually think he could make a Wolverine musical work, but I'm probably in the minority on that one.)


I could rave about Jackman all day, but the rest of the film was just OK. Entertaining, cool action, no huge flaws, would have been massively improved by cutting the number of minor characters by 50 to 70%. (And what the hell were the ugly CGI claws?! Those were SO obviously put in afterwards, beyond embarassing.)

Rating: 3,5/5.