Solomon Kane

I didn't like this movie.
It wasn't interesting, no matter how many twists they put up. The climax was weak, incredibly weak! And the main caracter was just boring to follow!

What's it about? Redemtion... Haven't heard that one before! And there's not really any surprises. One man, Solomon, was a warrior in a time of war. And in the beginning he was greedy and didn't care if his men died as long as he got the gold... NEVER ADRESSED AGAIN! Then he comes into a temple after he escapes from the Devils reaper, you don't see him again. And at this temple he learns the way of God in one year, I might add. But then the priest tells him that his home isn't here. So he must leave the temple to go on a journey and find his true path. So on this path we learn that he doesn't fight other people anymore and he is "a man of peace" and then he comes across a family which accept him even if he was a killer because "God speaks of forgivness". But then the family gets killed except for the little girl who instead gets kidnapped. Solomon tries the peaceful way to get her back and fails so he says "screw you God I'm gonna do things my way and... hopefully you'll like it." The father's lasts words are: "Save my daughter and God will forgive you." So the movie is mostly about Soloman going after the bad guys and getting back the girl.

The story is really boring and really clumsy handled. But since I want to avoid spoilers in the beginning we'll talk about the that last. So let's move on to the main character that was also boring. I've seen this character SO many times and I'm starting to get sick of it. He's just a character that will fight because... The director really wants it! He tries the peaceful matter but he's REALLY not good at it. Ever word that he speak is not belivable. When he tries to speak calmly to a "monster"... Yeah, you can see what's wrong there. It's like talking to a bear who's trying to protect the cubs with you pulling up your arms and say: "Let's just talk about things"... It doesn't work! And there's a bunch of other things like that, it was repeated over and over and I had no idea how this man was thinking and he was REALLY weak minded. One simple thing could destroy him! Weak main character, let's move on!

There wasn't much bad about the movie it was just the story and the villain and the main character, the music.. I didn't hear much of it since I was so bored with everything else. The special effects... They were OK, I've seen better but I've seen worse too. The lightning was Ok, the other characters were OK. Nothing much to say about it really.

Before the spoilers I'm just gonna say: Yes, this movie has like witches and vampires, but it's pretty downplayed. The vampires were really out of place, I don't really know if they were vampires but they looked and acted like the creatures from "I am Legend" so... Feel free to think what you want about that. And the witches... There were one witch in this movie and I have no idea why she was in here. And everyone kept saying that Solomon was a sorcerer but he never did anything magic at all. Just some tatoos that were supposed to protect him from the devil.. I don't know.

Ok! Now spoiler alert! The climax of the movie... Up to here we've seen Solomon gain his faith, lost his faith and now gain it again. I'm gonna tell you more about that before I go to the climax. Solomon is being told that the girl he's supposed to save is dead. So of course he's going to a dark place...... A dark place in a bar! ... In a movie with witches and vampires and the devil... I really didn't expect for any of the characters to be placed in a bar! So he gets really drunk and he keeps saying "there's no point, because she's dead" even though someone is just asking "Are you Solomon Kane?"... We are supposed to LIKE this man! Aren't we? He's the main character! And he fight's the devil and God is supposed to be with him! NO! And also before this, before he was told that the girl was dead, he kept saying that the world isn't a good place to live in, where is God in all this suffering. That doesn't fit his character at all. Even though he doesn't believe in the peaceful way he still believes that God is watching over him and stuff like that... It frustrates me.

So now, the climax, sorry for the delay but I needed to go over some problems with the main character first before I take you to this place. Solomon thinks that he killed his brother, that was his first kill. But then we find out that the masked man who infects people and turns them into slaves is his brother who has a master who the devil is the master for... Yeah. But the twist isn't good because of this reason: Solomon tries to take the peaceful way again, and he fails with that. So he then kills his brother for real this time! ... THAT'S YOU'RE FAMILY!!! YOU SHOULD NEVER KILL YOUR FAMILY NO MATTER HOW EVIL THEY ARE!!!!! ... So that happens! Really quick! So the brothers master called: Malacaid (Don't care about the spelling) then "frees" the devil so that he can come into the human world.... You know the devil in "End of days"? ... This was like that except this time he is a monster. He looks kind of like the Balrog from the Lord of the Rings but with a mind like the cavetroll from the same movie. The devil gets stuck between two pillars! He can't see Solomon when he hides behind a pillar and he's REALLY slow so Solomon pretty much WALKS away from a blow! ... So Solomon shoots Malacaid in the head and then God banishes the Devil back to hell and Solomon gets his salvation. ... ........ Solmon killed hunders of innocent people though they were just infected by his brothers sickness, he killed his father, he killed his brother... but he shot Malacaid in the head and saved the little girl! That's all that counts! ... NO! NO! NO!!! no! .. no... NEVER

I did NOT like this movie, there's nothing in it that I liked! .. I don't recommend it. no...

Rise of the Guardians

Incredible Movie!
Disney has disappointed me, as you all know if you read my blog... DreamWorks on the other hand... They continue to amaze me and never disappoint! ... Except for Bee Movie... And Kung Fu Panda 2... Other than that! They're great!

Anyway! Rise of the Guardians! It's about believe and hope and all that good stuff in kids movies. Every kid believes in the easterbunny, the toothfairy, Santa Claus and Sandman! But nobody believes in the Boogyman. So the Boogyman wants to proove to the kids that he's real. But to do that he needs to take away their hope first. Can't be afraid if you're hopeful. So one by one the kids start to doubt the Guardians and get more afraid for each day. And if you don't believe in the holidays... they disappear.

Ok, negatives! ... There's only one negative element that I can remember... And that's the ending. So we're gonna take that last. So what I'm gonna talk about now is some good parts and this movie had a lot.

First off the design. The animation in this movie is GORGEOUS!! It blew me away, not as much as Legend of the Guardians.... But still some great animation! And the angles, the shadows and the design for everything is great! I love the hair and the sandmans.. sand! It was just great to look at and they kept building it! At first it was grand with some nice colors and some animals that the kids were dreaming about and they kept building it to the larges animal in history! It was just beautiful and amazing. It was a nice movie to look at and I'm so pissed I didn't get to see it in the cinema.. Sweden, they only showed it in swedish... Oh well!

Then we have the characters and they were great! I remember every character that was in this movie (I think, most of them anyway) and that's hard to do. I can't even pick favourite character because everyone was unique in their own way and likeable in their own way! And yes, everyonw stayed true to their character... You should know what that means by now. I think I've explained it in every blog post here!

The story.. I didn't expect this story when I saw the trailer and the poster, even if it was kind of predictable.. And let me tell you, I follow DreamWorks on their FaceBook and.. I was hyped to see this movie! I waited for it to come to Sweden days after it aired in America! ... And then it only came in swedish and... I have to hear Jude Law as the Boogyman! And Alec Baldwin as Santa! So I had to wait until it came on Blu-ray... Damn that I missed it on the cinema... Oh well! Liked the story exept for the ending that was weak!

The jokes... I don't really like when the whole movie is all jokes.. I didn't like Pirates of the Caribbean 2 because of that and many other Disney movies because they make it all about jokes. This movie kind of does that too.. In the middle of the battle they can throw in a joke or before the villain is supposed to be threatning they throw in a joke. At one point it flew me off, first I was laughing but I cut the laugh because right after the villain was doing his thing. So that's not really good.... But I think I laughed at every joke they put in. I have no idea how they did it, but I was just a little bothered by the jokes, not by much and to do that... that's good job. I guess something with the story and the characters... It worked! So yeah, good job!

And the music... I want to listen to this music seperatly because I heard some good tunes, but I couldn't concentrate on the music because everything else was so awesome! So it caught my ear and I wanna hear more about it. It worked perfectly with the movie for the mood setting though and everything like that so.. Well done on that part too!

Now! Finally we get to the negative stuff... The ending, well.. I guess I'm just saying that it's a little weak. Not that I didn't like it but for everything else to be so amazing and they kept building it up and everything like that... It was a pretty weak ending. Maybe it would've worked if the guardians decide not to cast of the boogyman but they're saying that they need him to help kids with the hope. Without fear you can't have hopes, something like that, and maybe after that the kids can finally see him even though they're not so scared of him anymore, give him some happy ending too instead of the whole "you're evil so we don't want you here!", that's been done in every fairy tale. They tried to give him depth with the same story as Jack Frost, but they didn't quite get that right... So that was a little weak, but yeah.. What are you gonna do?

So that's it! I really liked this movie, and I'm definitly gonna see it again and again and again and again... and listen to the soundtrack while I'm waiting for the next DreamWorks movie to come to Sweden IN ENGLISH! .. Thank you for reading! See this movie!

Ink

I liked it!
I'm not sure why all these things happened, but even so, I liked it!

So, OK, I'm gonna try my best to summon what the movie is about. This movie doesn't explain much, if anything at all but I think it's about a reunion between a father and his daughter. After his wife's death , John was find unfit to take care of his own daughter due to some drug problems and alcohol. The girl named Emma is now living with her grandparents and one day she has a seizure and is taken into the hospital. Even so, the father feels betrayed by the law and the grandparents so he doesn't visit his daughter. What they don't know is that the daughter actually was taken by Ink, a creature that can walk through worlds. In one of these worlds lives other creatures that can control humans dreams, either give them a pleasant dream, or nightmares. The creatures that gives out pleasant dreams needs to save Emma and bring her back to the human world before the creatures that gives out nightmares does something... But only John has the ability to wake her up. So the pleasant dream givers has to take John to Emma in the hospital and protect him from the nightmare givers.

I don't really know why they need Emma or John, they don't really explain that well. I think the most important thing was the relationship between Emma and John so they concentrated on that. But it's good. You can see Johns pain and confusion, he doesn't really know what to feel so he becomes angry, and they show that really good. Ehum... But yeah! The only negative thing is that you don't really know the goal of the bad guys in the movie so it fails a little in that.

At first I thought the edeting was really bad but then it became a style and a dance between the camera, the caracters and the story. So it's stylish when the edeting goes by very fast, when it needs to be slow, it's slow, in a fighting scene it jumps around a lot. They knew how to work it though and I was never annoyed by the camera movement.

And second thing I thought was bad but then turned out stylish was the lighting. There was expaned lightning and it looked really weird, but then I noticed... It's to show the different worlds. The creatures that give dreams, they are in the human world but they can't interact with the humans, so everytime the camera is on them the lighting is a little brighter and when it's on the humans it looks normal. Another plus went up when I discovered that, it's actually kind of clever. And then when the bad guys appeared it turned green and they really knew what they were doing with the light so... GOOD FOR YOU!

The music is kept in the background and I LOVED that. It felt like the music was shy, it wanted to do something grand but someone was keep telling it to stay in the background and... Damn that was a good decision. I don't like it when the music takes over when it's not a musical and you can't really hear the actors because the music is SO LOUD! But here, it let the actors and the camera do the work. It was just there so it wouldn't be silent. And don't get me wrong, there were some silent moment of course! But yeah! I liked it! More plus!

The actors in this movie did a GREAT job with portraying every caracter they were supposed to be. The design of everything was just perfect, and I'm talking about the clothes the hair and... beard. It was just perfect! Fit every caracter and the child did a great job of portraying, scared, angry, happy, determind... It was great seeing this child. So yeah.. Actors great job!

Now, the caracters... I found three caracters that I loved in this movie. Three caracters in ONE movie that was my favorite... And they didn't disappoint! That's pretty amazing! So yeah, you can pretty much guess that everyone kept their caracter through the movie, the comedy was the comedy and concistant! I loved that, the warrior was a warrior and Emma was still a child even though she became braver and stuff like that. I hate it when the child stops being a child just because she's brave... You know what I mean, hopefully. So yeah, great caracters, great actors... where can you go wrong?

This movie has only one negative thing that I can think of and a million things that are great! So, I recommend this movie and see what you get out of it! I'm definitly seeing this movie again! And I so want to see behind the scenes to see what they really wanted to get across and how much fun they had making this movie!

Yeah! So, see you next time! GO SEE INK!