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De fortabte sjæles ø
De fortabte sjæles ø (2007)
9/10
Brilliant movie by Arcel and the Special effects team!
14 February 2007
One of the best danish directors right now is Nikolaj Arcel! T his guy is surely capable of directing one of those big blockbusters. His care for details is huge, and you can feel throughout the movie that he likes what he is doing.

If you like Harry Potter or Narnia, you will like this one too! The plot is one of those good old adventures about the battle between the good and the evil, souls, ghosts, dark creatures and evil sorcerer.

The special effects in this movie is insanely well done, and is just as good or perhaps better than the effects of the rescent Potter-movies.

The acting is great, considering we are dealing with teenagers and small children. The older actors are some of the best danish actors right now, Anders W. Berthelsen is always a pleasure to watch, and Lars Mikkelsen is frightening as the Necromancer. If Ralph Fiennes didn't play Voldemort, Lars would!
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Vertigo 2005: U2 Live from Chicago
Vertigo 2005: U2 Live from Chicago (2005 Video)
10/10
U2 goes Vertical with Vertigo!
2 January 2006
It is impressing how a band this old can still produce a concert like this! They have the same energy as for 25 years ago! Unfortunately I didn't see U2 when they came to Denmark, and I am still sad about it!! Could have been a experience of my lifetime - if it was just half as good as the show in Chicago.

The best thing about this concert, is that they play a track from almost every album they have produced! Noy only the hitlist-wonders like Vertigo and Sunday Bloody Sunday. They play less known numbers like "40" and "Cry/Electric Co." I must admit that I wasn't the biggest U2 fan, so I didn't know these tracks. But they are almost as good as the biggest of all: "Elevation" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday"!

Elevation is bye the way, the best track on the DVD. The way the entire Crowd shouts "ELEVATION" is extraordinary! The only thing I can compare it with, is "We Will Rock You" from the Live Aid concert from 1985. 100.000 people or more shouts "WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU" along Freddie Mercury!

A truly amazing music-DVD!!
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Die Hard
Die Hard (1988)
9/10
Possibly the best action movie of all time!
23 December 2005
How to make an great action movie: First you need a (male!) hero, this dude has to have some sort of personal or mental problems. He also needs a striking humor! Then you need, of course a bad guy with some sort of catchy name, something a bit more clever than for instance "John Smith". It's vital that the villain and the hero is not from the same country. Usually the crook is from the middle-east (terrorist) or Europe (Nazi or rich asshole looking for more money). The plot is usually not that important. But if it's original and make you say "Wow!", then that's just another star in the book. Two more things: Beautiful, gutless Women and an extreme amount explosions. Everything which in real life will not explode, no matter how many times you shoot at it with a Beretta or UZI, has to explode!! If all it takes is someone to kick the item, it still has to explode! And the explosions has to be incredibly large and flamey. A toaster being shot at with a slingshot has to make the same amount of flame as 5 kilos of napalm!!

If you add all these things up, you'll get... TADAA! Die Hard! And Die Hard = Movie worth watching over and over and over again!
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A History of Violence
A History of Violence (2005)
6/10
Boooooring!
12 November 2005
I thought this would be one of those movies, where in the end you're left with a sense of divine excitement. But no... The movie had scored some great reviews in the newspapers In the about 90 minutes the movie lasts, there is only two scenes where you feel fine, and that is the two semi-nude scenes. There's not really any story, a man gets haunted by his past and therefor he must kill some bad blokes. Although the story it self sucks, Viggo Mortensen does his best to make the movie worth watching. His facial expression always matches the given situation of the film. I don't know if it could earn him an Oscar-statue, but definitely a nomination for it. So if you're a fan of Aragorn, sorry... Viggo Mortensen it's a film you cant afford to miss.
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The Village
The Village (2004)
8/10
Great movie, but not all the way.
24 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
The Village is a very well-written, well-casted, and well-produced movie. Phoenix is always good, and this man has only one scar on his CV. Ladder49, a extremely boring movie, which should've been 30 min shorter than it is. The sixth sense is very very spooky, and Signs could be a kind of War of the Worlds clone. Which is good! Phoenix is also here good. And he's really nasty in Gladiator. And he's also good in this movie, although he does not have the main role. The trailers and commercials for this film, made the viewer to believe that he did. But it's no big deal, because Bryce Dallas Howard does a stunning job as Ivy Walker. The film is scary, and has a lot of moments where you sit and hug your pal in the seat next to you. The creatures in this movie is more scary than the Aliens in "Alien" The only thing that is to complain about, is the ending. Which is so extremely stupid. It seems like M. Night Shyamalan had to write the finish in a hurry, because it's not very thoughtfull, and does not fit the rest of the movie.

But when everything comes everything it's a great movie, which should be in every DVD-collection!
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Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
10/10
Style, Style, Style!
9 August 2005
It shouldn't be possible, but it is. Gathering the biggest male stars of Hollywood in one film. Usually when several big stars is starring in one film, the results tends to be rather doll. But Ocean's Eleven is not at all like that! It's witty, it's got a really god plot, and it's so extremely stylish! It's actually better than the first movie from 1960. And that's not very often, that the remake is actually better than the old one. I remember when i was about to see the premiere, i was thinking to myself: "Perhaps i can still get a refund", cause I had very little faith in the movie. But after the movie was done, i was thinking to myself "Perhaps I can still get tickets to the next run" So see it! Several times!
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Back to the Future
Back to the Future (1985)
10/10
For everyone who enjoys a good laugh
7 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
This is one of those movies, you can watch anytime! It's funny the first time, it's even funnier the second time, and the third time it's still very funny, but you notice the small details in the movie. Examples: In the first movie, when Marty goes to see the Time machine for the first time, he drives (on a skateboard) by a sign that says "Twin pine mall". When he escapes from Old Man Peabody in the car, he hits on of Peabody's Pines, (there where 2 of them) - and when we see the mall later on in the film (when he has come back to the future), the sign says "Single Pine Mall" Another is in third movie. At first the ravine is called "Shonash Ravine", and in the future (before Doc and Marty arrived) it's called Clayton Ravine, because Clara Clayton should have fallen in it. But because they save Clayton and Marty, who's known as Clint Eastwood back then, falls in it instead. Well of course he does not fall in, it's just the train, but Doc must have said to the people in Hill Valley, as an excuse. So they name the Ravine after Clint Eastwood (Marty), so it's called Eastwood Ravine. And there's a lot of these funny small things in the movies, and that's just a fraction of the reason why this film is one of the best ever made!
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