Jet Trash

Everything you touch turns to shit

 

Year: 2016
Director: Charles Henri Belleville
Writer: Simon Lewis
Starring: Robert Sheehan, Sofia Boutella, Craig Parkinson, Jasper Pääkkönen, Adelayo Adedayo ,Osy Ikhile, Raj Zutshi, Roy Martin Thorn
What is this about: Two friends are hanging in the coasts of Goa. Story relieves why they ended up there and what happened before in London. This had had quite low scores in the Finnish televions guide, watched it anyway with zero expecations and I was pleasantly supprised.

Content warnings: Drugs, violence, sexual abuse
Best about it: Perfect amount of plot twist
How did I felt: This was somehow light and easy to watch, even tho themes were deperessing
Goodness: 3,5/5
Weirdness: 2/5

Vanilla Sky

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Year: 2001
Director: Cameron Crowe
Writer: Alejandro Amenábar & Mateo Gil, based on film:"Abre Los Ojos" (witch is also great by the way)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor , Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, Shalom Harlow, Oona Hart , Ivana Milicevic, Johnny Galecki, Armand Schultz, Alicia Witt
What is this about: David seems to have perfect, succesful life but things start to get twisted when he gets interested in a girl his friend wants to date. After traffic accident it gets difficult to outline what reality actually is.

Content warnings: Some violence, sex
Best about it: Rewatching old favorites continues. Mysterious plot kept me interested. I liked this as much I liked it when i watched it the first time.
How did I felt: Mostly calm and interested
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 3/5

Twelve monkeys

'Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out. 

- Wiping out the human race? That's a great idea. That's great. But more of a long-term thing.'

Year: 1995
Director: Terry Gilliam
Writer: David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples, based on film La Jetée by Chris Marker
Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito, Joey Perillo, Jon Seda
What is this about: It's 2035 and mankind is living underground. With a help of prisonners scientist are trying to solve how deadly virus was released 1996 so they could prevent the disaster humanity faced.

Content warnings: Violence
Best about it: I rewatched this old favorite. I especially love actors and visuality in this one. Plot is also very smart, but not too compicated or tricky
How did I felt: Fun. This is a good mood movie for me even tho it's not very light
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 3/5

The Bad batch

Strange isn't it? Here we are. In the darkest corner of this Earth. And we're afraid of our own kind. 

 

Year: 2016
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Writer: Ana Lily Amirpour
Starring: Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Jayda Fink, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Yolonda Ross, Aye Hasegawa, Giovanni Ribisi, Louie Lopez Jr., E.R. Ruiz, Cory Roberts.
What is this about: Criminals are expelled to the dessert where normal laws are no longer valid and different gangs have differnets methods of surviving.

Content warnings: Violence, cannibalism, drugs
Best about it: I love dystopias and this was a good one, with many clichés (such as dessert) but also with some freshness. If you wanna be sure you don't get bored during a movie, this is certainly worth watching. It's not slow, things just start happening right away, but not too much action either. Very humane.
How did I felt: Partly super disgusting, but mostly not too much horror elements. Captivating storyline. Really well written. Acting wasn't the greatest all the time, so that's the reason I didn't give five stars, also I'm not sure about how believable the end was. While watching this I was entertained, little repulsed, scared, happy, hopeful and sad. Good two hours.
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 4/5

Lucy

Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge.

Year: 2014
Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt , Pilou Asbæk, Analeigh Tipton, Nicolas Phongpheth, Jan Oliver Schroeder
What is this about: Lucy is drag in to drug business without her will and ends up testing new super drug.

Content warnings: Violence
Best about it: I liked the start but soon everything started to feel very pointless. This was easy to watch and had some good points. If you like action with female starts this is propably your thing.
How did I felt: Somehow entertaining, but felt kind of meaningless. I'm always little dissapointed if I feel some potential was wasted. Entertaining filmo tho.
Goodness: 2/5
Weirdness: 2/5

Cure for wellness

' I've never felt better in my life. '

You see? Why would anybody want to leave? 

Year: 2016
Director: Gore Verbinski
Writer: Justin Haythe
Starring: Ivo Nandi , Adrian Schiller , Celia Imrie , Harry Groener, Tomas Norström , Ashok Mandanna, Ron Nair, Magnus Krepper , Pieter the Vet, Peter Benedict, Craig Wroe, David Bishins, Lisa Banes, Carl Lumbly, Tom Flynn, Eric Todd, Jason Babinsky
What is this about: Lockhart is hardworking business man who gets an assaignment to retrieve companys CEO mr. Pembroke from wellness centre back to New York to foster business arragements, but spa doesn't seem to be easy place to leave.

Content warnings: Violence, nudity
Best about it: Plot had many layers, not predictable, not cliché. I loved scenery and use of color.
How did I felt: Some parts disturbing and not pleasant to watch, but I loved how this was not too much horror and really not too much fantasy (wich really is not my thing). I would describe this intense mystery drama. Really captivating plot, I can really recommend this movie but I can say that this also was that way unpleasant experience that I propably wont watch this again.
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 5/5

Mortdecai

Kissing a man without a mustache is like eating an egg without salt

Year: 2015
Director: David Koepp
Writers: Eric Aronson (screenplay), Kyril Bonfiglioli (novel)
Starring:  Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGrego, Paul Bettany, Olivia Munn, Jonny Pasvolsky, Michael Culkin
What it this about: Lord Charlie Mortdecai, an art dealer,  is suffering from money troubles (and mariage troubles) and ends up having a mission to solve a mystery of stolen painting.

Goodness: 4,5/5
Weirdness: 2/5
Content warnigs: Some violence, some sex
Best about it: Twisted and fun. I like characters, plot and the art collector theme.
How did I felt: Easy to watch and enjoy. I published this post originally 2106 but I watched this again, loved it again so I'm updating and reposting this. I don't get why this movie has so low rates in IMDB, I think this is just great rogue movie.

These Final hours

How about you, Mum?
What are you gonna do? When it happens. You got anything planned?
- Got a few puzzles. I'll try and get finished.

Year: 2013
Director: Zak Hilditch
Writer: Zak Hilditch

Starring: Jessica De Gouw, Nathan Phillips, David Field , Angourie Rice, Daniel Henshall, Kathryn Beck, Lynette Curran, Benj D'Addario, Alison Van Reeken

What is this about: For some unexplained reason world is about to destroy and people are afraid of dying in a painful way. Last day on earth is quite a chaos and James planned to spent it partying.

Content warnings: Sex, nudity, violence. Nothing too brytal tho!
Best about it:The plot may sound like depressing but it was actually sort of warm.
How did I felt: I really loved this. The feeling of everything ending really soon didn't make viewer to feelf panic, more like acceptance.
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 3,5/5

Ps. If you notice this blog has focused nowadays more about apocalypse movies I have to say it's mainly because of Covid19 pandemia. I've watched these movies more than I have time and energy to make posts. Thinking about possibilities how human race is going to be erased or how world is coming to an end is somehow therapeutic to me. I do take pandemia seriously, this is just my way of dealing with the situation. Stay safe!

Cargo

To wait here until things get back to normal.. that's not gonna happen, is it.

Year:2017
Director: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke

Writer: Yolanda Ramke

Starring: Martin Freeman, Simone Landers,  Marlee Jane McPherson-Dobbins, Lily Anne McPherson-Dobbins, Finlay Sjoberg , Nova Sjoberg, Susie Porter, Bruce R. Carter, Kris McQuade, Natasha Wanganeen, David Gulpilil, Anthony Hayes, Caren Pistorius

Content warnings: Cannibalism
Best about it: Something between a great drama movie and zombie apocalypse.
How did I felt: I had zero exeptations and I was very pleasantly suprised.
Goodness: 4,5/5. The ending littel bit bothered me, it didn't feel 100% right, but otherwise this was just great.

Weirdness: 3,5/5

Originail trailer: Klik

Parasite (Gisaengchung)

It all gets ironed out. Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out by money.

Year: 2019
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Writers: Bong Joon Ho, Jin Won Han
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Cho, So-dam Park, Jeong-eun Lee, Hye-jin Jan, Myeong-hoon Park, Ji-so Jung, Hyun-jun Jung, Seo-joon Park
What is this about: Poor family, the Kims are struckling to make a living and they find an opportunity to become servanst of Parks family, who have everything they could ever possibly need.

Content warnings: Some violence
Best about it: Description of class society and human mind. I had prejudice about the plot that rich people are presented as mean and less fortuned ones automatically shown hard working with higher morale and I was happy to see that this movie was much deeper.
How did I felt: Nothing bothered, just great. Really powerfull movie without unnecessary special effects or too extreme violence.
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 3,5/5