Metal Reviews

Yeah, tbh I tend to go more French/Spanish/German than Scandi when looking into foreign films. I suppose there's always Ingmar Bergman...?

Swedish films are terrible.

This is a Korean masterpiece that everyone should see:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353969/

It's one of my favourites. Korean films are overall very good.

Laughable. Bergman is the best director I've ever seen.

Sceadugenga: Among your requests for Horror or War films, two of Bergman's come to mind:
Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) for horror, and Skammen (Shame) for a war movie.

I've had Hour Of The Wolf on DVD for ages, must get around to that sooner rather than later.

Yes please do.

I still have to get around to Fanny and Alexander and Scenes from A Marriage, seen most of the rest of his films though.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm definitely going to check out Vargtimmen and Skammen, they both sound right up my alley.

I came across a few more today that seemed like they might be interesting. One of them that I'm checking out is called Ond Tro (Bad Faith). The reviews seemed interesting, so see how that goes as well.

Bergman is great. Don't know that many Swedish films but Let the Right One in was good.

Also second on Korean films. The more I see them the more I love them. I recommend watching anything by Chan Wook Park. If you've seen Oldboy you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, and I'm telling you all, GO AND WATCH IT RIGHT NOW!

Amazing movie.

Only swedish film I've ever seen was a bunch of retards getting it on.

One good director doesn't make much of a difference. I'm from Sweden and everyone I know avoids the shitty films that are made here.

The Professional. I hadn't seen it in a while so I forgot about how much it portrayed her wanting to have a romantic relationship with him and I forgot totally about the scenes where she does on-the-job training.

The Adjustment Bureau.

Not good. That is all.

Aw, really? I was looking forward to that one, the concept seemed interesting.

Not surprised. Sick of that style of conspiracy film at this point.

Ong-Bak

I'll definitely be checking this out, Kang-ho Song is one hell of an actor

It was REALLY silly. Very hard to take seriously. It was like they were trying to do an Inception/Matrix-style movie, just without any real stakes. There were so many cringeworthy moments and absolutely no cool scenes at all.

The only good thing about it was Emily Blunt.

So yeah, don't waste your time.

This trailer is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TdczoetXk4

The Descent Pt. 2.

Not nearly as good as the first, but enjoyable. I fucking HATED the ending, though.

Saw the Black Swan without actually planning/wanting to. Given the fact that Aronofsky seems to have completely changed direction with the films he's become involved with (The Wrestler and The Fighter) to something I wasn't very impressed by, I was pretty sceptical about it. But then the trailer made it seem like maybe he was doing a return to form/Pi and Requiem days.

Bleh, not at all. The ending of the Black Swan was pretty predictable but still kind of cool...but the rest of the movie was too bland and typical Hollywood.



Fuck yeah! I love that movie, especially the first one!

I saw Adjustment Bureau when it first came out and dunno...it could have been a cool movie but I hate it when potentially good action flics are marred by a romantic plot. Kinda ruined it for me.

Got a hold of Vargtimmen. Gonna watch it tomorrow.

The Lord of the Rings (extended), for the umpteenth time. That "My friends, you bow to no one" scene fucking chokes me every time.

Also, Pitch Black. My first Vin Diesel flick, actually. It was OK. Oh no I forgot, I have also seen Babylon AD. It was crap.

I'm gonna watch Salinui chueok, which was recommended here.