And here's my update:
xyla - 7/50 books | 40/50 movies
Books:
Movies:
I liked Young Adult for having a character you can sympathize with, but not really like. It's quite seldom that it works out and it didn't work for me in Killing them Softly - great little monolog at the end, but the overall movie lacked one character I liked.
Whatever Works marks my first Woody Allen film and I was quite suprised how much I liked it. Somehow I had completely wrong expectations regarding his style and humor. Now I'll have to watch some of his older stuff and Midnight in Paris got bumped up in my watchlist.
The Raven was a waste of potential. Dunno if it was always written like this, but the way they tried to mimic Sherlock Holmes didn't work at all. And the end and credit roll was almost offensively bad and out of place.
I can recommend Flight to anybody for the first half hour. Best tension I watched in a long time, even if I knew how it would play out.
House of Cards is an amazing series so far, I hope season 2 won't let me down. And Fincher comes through in the first two episodes. You can see the difference in direction compared to later episodes.
Edit: I think I'll adapt the Netflix five star scale for my ratings. 10 point scala doesn't make a lot of sense when I actively circumvent movies that would end up south of 5 points.
'hated it - 'didn't like it' - 'liked it' - 'really liked it' and 'loved it' says more about a movie anyway than the difference between an 7 and an 8.
xyla - 7/50 books | 40/50 movies
Books:
- A Clash of Kings 7/10
- Homicide 8/10
[*]Night Watch 8/10
[*]The Light Fantastic 7/10
[*]Equal Rites 8/10
Movies:
- Pandorum 5/10
- I Saw the Devil 7/10
- The Joneses 6/10
- Conan the Destroyer 6/10
- Bottle Rocket 7/10
- Moonrise Kingdom 8/10
- Synecdoche, New York 9/10
- Cosmopolis 6/10
- Dredd 8/10
- Django Unchained 8/10
- The Bourne Legacy 6/10
- Hotel Transylvania 6/10
- Brazil 8/10
- 30 minutes or less 7/10
- Stolen 6/10
- 21 Jump Street 7/10
- Parker 6/10
- Punch Drunk Love 7/10
- Justice League: Doom 5/10
- Immortals 6/10
- Hesher 7/10
[*]Killing them Softly 6/10
[*]Jeff who lives at home 7/10
[*]The Perks of being a Wallflower 9/10
[*]Young Adult 8/10
[*]Smoke 7/10
[*]Beasts of the Southern Wild 8/10
[*]Argo 7/10
[*]Whatever Works 8/10
[*]Flight 8/10
[*]Turtles Forever 8/10
[*]The Switch 6/10
[*]The Raven 5/10
[*]Terry Parchett: Choosing to die 8/10
[*]Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 8/10
[*]Life of Pi 9/10
[*]Wreck it Ralph 8/10
[*]Monster House 6/10
[*]Jo Nesbø's Headhunters 7/10
[*]House of Cards Season 1 9/10
I liked Young Adult for having a character you can sympathize with, but not really like. It's quite seldom that it works out and it didn't work for me in Killing them Softly - great little monolog at the end, but the overall movie lacked one character I liked.
Whatever Works marks my first Woody Allen film and I was quite suprised how much I liked it. Somehow I had completely wrong expectations regarding his style and humor. Now I'll have to watch some of his older stuff and Midnight in Paris got bumped up in my watchlist.
The Raven was a waste of potential. Dunno if it was always written like this, but the way they tried to mimic Sherlock Holmes didn't work at all. And the end and credit roll was almost offensively bad and out of place.
I can recommend Flight to anybody for the first half hour. Best tension I watched in a long time, even if I knew how it would play out.
House of Cards is an amazing series so far, I hope season 2 won't let me down. And Fincher comes through in the first two episodes. You can see the difference in direction compared to later episodes.
Edit: I think I'll adapt the Netflix five star scale for my ratings. 10 point scala doesn't make a lot of sense when I actively circumvent movies that would end up south of 5 points.
'hated it - 'didn't like it' - 'liked it' - 'really liked it' and 'loved it' says more about a movie anyway than the difference between an 7 and an 8.
