The Best Offer

This is a movie about art and love. Virgil Oldman is an art collector and an art auctioneer. He has a secret room in which he keeps portraits of women - an obsession of his. He was never married, can't bear to be touched and always wears gloves. On his birthday, it is a tradition that he takes the first call. The first caller is a young woman. She asks him to evaluate her collection. When he comes to her house, he finds out she has never gone out of a secret room in the villa. He talks to her through the wall.  He wonders why, and discovers she has agoraphobia. One evening, he hides in the room to see her and falls in love with her. When she discovers that he has been hiding, she starts fearing him less. In the meanwhile, he found pieces of clockwork and asks his friend for love advice, and fixing the clockwork. That's what the friend does. The woman, Claire, seems to fall in love with Oldman too. One evening, when he comes to visit her, he is beaten up by a group of boys. She runs to rescue him - and suddenly her agoraphobia is cured. She comes to live with him, and he shows her the secret room. When he leaves for an auction in another country, she steals all of his paintings from the secret room. When he finds out, he goes on a search for her, and finally ends up in the bar across the street from her villa. There, he sees a very small woman, who tells him that her name is Claire, that she owns the house and that she rents it to "the cinema people". He realizes that the Claire that he loved didn't actually love him. He becomes solitary and dies old, heartbroken and alone.


You have to see this movie, because even though there are not many action scenes, you feel as though you are involved in the story, and you can feel all of the feelings that the characters feel, which makes this movie amazing.

Hotel Transylvania

Hotel Transylvania is an animation movie. The story is quite simple.

Dracula is a vampire. But not as you know him. He owns a hotel for monsters. Every year, he invites the most famous monsters for his daughter Mavis' birthday. But when a human stumbles upon the hotel, everything falls apart.  Dracula doesn't know what to do with him, so he camouflages Johnny the human into a cousin of Frankenstein. Mavis falls in love with him, not knowing he is human. He falls in love with her, but is scared to stay and soon leaves. In the meantime, Dracula has grown fond of him and brings him back to the hotel. Mavis and Johnny declare their love and - well, that's the end.

There's lots of funny scenes inside, and the animation is really good. You should watch this, because it really makes you laugh.


Here's the trailer:

A bonus for Cloud Atlas and something about Doctor Who

Update: The Cloud atlas bonus is not working anymore. :-(

Doctor Who. Everyone, well nearly knows that. I used to think it's stupid, but now I'm a fan. Just try it and see! Those Angels are really, really creepy, too. And some of the special effects are not that good. But I, and lots of people all over the world, love it.

Cloud Atlas + Sorry for not posting

Hi Readers! I am  sorry for not posting, and I just wanna say: Well... Here's a new Post.

Basically, it's all really complicated. It starts in 1849 with this person, Adam Ewing, crossing the ocean, and then, it fades into a story where a person writes a piano partition called Cloud Atlas. One of their Very good friends was Rufus Sixsmith, who is then murdered because he didn't like an atomic reactor and was about to reveal everything about it to Luisa Rey, a jounalist. Then, an old editor, Timothy Cavendish, reads a book called Luisa Rey's Detective story. It all fades in to Sonmi 451, a rebelling humanoid robot. Then it's Hawai, and Somni is the goddess of a middle ages type of world. So it's all interconnected very weirdly, and all the characters come up again and again, and the intrigue builds up, and then ta-dah! It's the end.

The movie is a must-watch. It follows the story quite well, and the transititons from one story to the other are very fluid. Some things change, but they don't matter much. The spirit of the book isn't lost, it's actually even more present. If you haven't read the book, you might be lost at first, but then you understand everything, and you're really surprised. And at the end, everything is clear. They all know everything.

And as they say: Everything is connected! The  movie is great but a bit long, but so is the book. You'll love it.

And here's a character map, which might help you or mess everything up in your mind even more.

PS: All the readers, thanks for getting me more than 2000 views. This is what keeps this blog going, and all other blogs too.

Rain Man

Rain Man.

Note: I think this is like, the second post in a month, which is not a lot, but I promised to myself I'd write at least two posts a month, so - there it is.

This is one of the weirdest, yet best movies I've seen so far. It's about a young man whose father died, and he's surprised to have received only a car and a few rose bushes as an heritage, because his father is a multimillionaire, and the young man, Charlie, wants to find out to who the rest of the heritage went.

He then stumbles upon Raymond, who is his brother, but who is an autist. He lives at the Walbrooke Institute, a place where autists and other people with mental handicaps live. He then tells Raymond they're going for a drive and kidnaps him.

Meanwhile, while Charlie is at Walbrooke, Charlie's car company has to pay back a gigantic debt, and Charlie's girlfriend disapproves of him kidnapping his brother.

This is Raymond.

This is Charlie.

Raymond is having a crisis.

Charlie wants to take Raymond to Los Angeles by plane, except that because Raymond remembers everything, he is scared of the plane because at least once, every company had a plane crash. So Charlie is forced to bring Raymond to LA by road, and by tiny secondary roads, because Raymond is scared of the highway. They stop at a tiny hotel and, when Charlie turns the hot water on, Raymond breaks into a crisis. Charlie asks him why.

Raymond: Raymond burn Charlie!
Charlie: Raymond, calm down. I'm not burnt, see.
                                                                Raymond calms down.
Charlie: Why do you say I'm burnt?
Raymond: I burnt you when you were a baby with hot water.
Charlie: You lived with us? So you're who I called Rain Man and sung me songs so I wasn't scared?
Raymond: Yes.
                                 Charlie is surprised.

When they depart from the hotel, Charlie teaches Raymond to play blackjack and they go to las Vegas. Charlie buys Raymond a new costume, and tells him his old ones are POO. Raymond thinks this is a joke, but agrees.

They play blackjack and win 80'500 dollars. Charlie's girlfriend arrives and gets stuck in an elevator with Raymond. They kiss. She asks him: How was it?
Raymond answers: Wet.

They leave las Vegas and arrive to LA. There, there is a trial because Charlie kidnapped Raymond and Raymond has to go back to Woodbrooke. Charlie promises Raymond to come see him in 2 weeks.

THE END.

BONUS

This elevator scene is also in another movie, The Hangover. And in the Hangover Elevator Scene, the guy with a beard and the grey costume is also kind of an autist.

Premium Rush

Premium Rush

It's a movie about bike coursiers in New York. They exist in real life. And they deliver messages quickly. There's a bit of an article from www.nydailynews.com:“ The faster you go, the more money you make,” says Kevin Bolger, president of the New York Bike Messenger Foundation. “The money is there, but it’s up to you to chase it.”And with the internet taking business away from the courier companies, the riders are racing to bag what jobs they can.“There’s no way you are going to get something from Point A to Point B faster than a bike messenger can do it,” says Heather Muller, who took second place in the women’s division of the Cycle Messenger World Championships in Chicago this month.“We can move through traffic the fastest — but it does get dangerous.”Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/wheel-world-real-life-premium-rush-riders-spin-nyc-bike-messenger-tales-article-1.1140273#ixzz2Kao3qAnI
Now about the movie again. There's a bike coursier called Wyley, and he has to deliver a mysterious envelope to the Chinatown side of NY. But in this envelope is the key to lots of money, and a secret... Because the one that asked him to deliver the envelope needs to make her son pass to the USA from China...Wyley gets pursued by a maniac police officer. But in the end, he does manage to deliver the envelope and the son gets delivered to the USA.

I know this is pretty short, but there's not much of a story in that movie, and most of the scenes are just on top of bikes, doing crazy races. And some fights. So... Action lovers, you should watch this.

Life of Pi - The Movie

I already talked about Life of Pi before, if you remember. But that was the book. Nobody knew it, and suddenly it became very fashion, because there was a movie. I got to watch it twice. And I'm going to tell you what I think about it. If you want the story, there it is, but you can also check out the Life of Pi post. The story: http://ragdollsmaybe.blogspot.ch/2012/08/life-of-pi.html - too lazy to copy and paste it.

Well, what I think about the movie is that it followed the story of the book pretty well. Except I think that Pi should have been a bit more skinny. For all of that, I think that the movie is super well done, with lots of special effects. To learn more, check the website out: lifeofpimovie.com

I really liked the movie and I think you should see it, because it's one of those rare movies that actually follow the story of the book and manage to add stuff in that makes the movie very interesting to watch even to those who have read the book and/or have seen the movie already.

Paranorman

I'm kind of surprised of myself. This is the 3rd post in a day! But when I saw this movie I just had to write a post about it! Basically, if you're scared of zombies you wouldn't be scared of that because it's super funny!

This is Norman.

The movie is about a boy, Norman, who is paranormal. Why? Well, because he can see dead people. He's walking on the street or at his house, and he talks with his dead grandma or a dead person!

His parents don't want to believe him and everyone hates him. But when zombies attack the city, he is the only one to be courageous enough to confront them - and then to become friends with them!

This is now one of my favorite movies!

Check this link out to know more about Paranorman!
paranorman.com

There's also loads of funny and weird scenes like this for example:

No, you're not dreaming. Norman is on a toilet, in a forest, surrounded by zombie toilet paper.

So, are you watching the movie?

I'd like to have Norman's power to talk with dead people! It's super cool.

Norman trying to brush his hair

Norman's sister

Norman Brushing his teeth

A zombie on the windshield

Le Marginal

Finally I have time to write a post! That's cause I'm sick.

Yesterday I stayed up really late watching this old french movie, it's called Le Marginal.

Mecachi

Basically, it's about this police officer who wants to kill a mafiosi that's involved in various drug problems and other illegal things. If you want to know, the mafiosi is called Mecachi and that's him. Belmondo, the police officer, gets into lots of trouble when he drops drugs off a boat into the sea so nobody can get hold of them. Mecachi wants to kill Belmondo. Mecachi's workers two twin-looking brother try to kill Belmondo in his car - but it's bulletproof. So he kills them ! In the end, Belmondo takes another person's gun and kills Mecachi while he is playing billiard. The other police officers ask Belmondo if he knows who killed Mecachi and he says: 'No.' Even though it's him. There's also loads of funny moments and fights. It's a super cool movie!

Skyfall

Skyfall, as I think all of you now it, is the new James Bond movie.  It has a very weird plot.

So, at the beginning, James Bond is shot by another agent and falls from a bridge. He's supposed to be dead. But he's not. Because he's James Bond.

So he comes back to his agence and they give him a new mission. To kill the Agence's ex-best agent. The other 'James Bond'.

On the left, James Bond.
On the right, the ex-James Bond.

He has an island all to himself. James Bond ends up on it. The other James Bond (Silva) gives him a long talk about rats:

Silva: My grandma had a small island. But if was infested with rats. So she had to get rid of them... Did she kill them? No. She put coconuts in a big hole. The rats all fell in the hole and when there was no coconuts they ate the other rats. When there was only two rats left, she let them out. And they didn't eat coconuts, they ate only rats. We are the two rats that are left. Are we going to eat each other? No...

James Bond: ...

James Bond manages to run away, but Silva, who has an overly big intelligence, 

Silva blows up the MI6. James Bond has a plan to kill Silva. James Bond goes to his home,  Skyfall and prepares a trap for Silva. Skyfall was Bond's house when he was young. He puts dynamite in it and while Silva is in it, blows it up. But Silva's still not dead. Bond falls into a frozen lake and has to struggle to get out. In the end, Silva is in a church and pointing his gun at Bond. But Bond kills Silva.

And there's only one rat left. Bond. James Bond.

And Adele made a song for the movie. It's a good song, I think.

Moonrise Kingdom

I think this is the best movie I've ever seen. It's about love, it's funny and it's the best movie all at the same time.

There's a scout *is that the boy?* you say. Yes. And he loves the girl. But the girl's parents think he's someone she shouldn't know.  But they somehow manage to write letters to each other, and they decide to run away. So they run away together. Until they're discovered. But that won't stop their love. So they run away again. And don't you dare think this is a stupid movie!!! Well, you're allowed but not in the comments please.Then, they marry each other and try to commit suicide. But at the end, everything comes in place.

If you want to understand the poster, watch the movie please. It's really funny and nice.

I know I didn't write a lot, but that's just so you like the movie more when you watch it. But it's really excentric.

Hunger Games

The “Hunger Games” is a nice movie. It’s about a girl, called Katniss Everdeen (I’m not sure if you write it like that though) that comes from district twelve, and you’ll think *what’s that?* I’ll explain. Her sister gets chosen for the Hunger Games, which are basically violent games where everyone is killed except one person – the winner. And in every district (there are 12 of them), there is a boy and a girl chosen randomly to participate. But with Katniss, that won’t go because she doesn’t want to kill her friend from district 12. So they fake loving each other to survive – well, Katniss does but not him…

That's Katniss.

That story was taken from a book by Suzanne Collins and she wrote a trilogy out of it. The first book is good, the other two are boring – I think. I was too bored to read further than page ten of book two.

The movie was good. I liked how Katniss played her part – but she was a bit fatty and not beautiful. But she acted REALLY WELL.

So, it’s a good movie – as I said. But it’s quite violent so children under 10, stop here and don’t watch that movie. Ten-year olds and more, watch – except if you have a phobia of bees, dogs or blood. Otherwise, the movie had good special effects – and the music was OK.

So, I recommend this to you.

“ May the odds be ever in your favor…” Don’t worry, you’ll understand if you watch, if you were thinking *whaaaat?* just now.

9

"9" is a wonderful movie. With a number name. 9, because there is *nine principal characters, you think.* And you're right. I present them to you before the story because this movie is what pushed me to making this blog. So there they are (In the images above and under):
1, the leader. He's scared.
2, the inspired. He found 9.
3 and 4, the intelligent ones. They know what happened before because they read.
5, the one that the Beast wounded.
6, the artist. He was not scared and understood.
7, she's a girl. She's like a ninja and fights.
8, the protector. He protects the ones that live with number 1 *everyone except 7*
9, the new one. Who came to save them all.


Their story: An inventor imagined a mechanic brain, used by a dictator to attain bad things. The machine rebelled and started a human-machine war. The inventor gave his soul to the 'numbers', to save the world from the machines. The last one is 9, and he must save them all.

This is one of the best movies ever. I loved it. And I recommend it to you. You might think *this is an animation movie, that's for kids* - no. It's a poetic story between good and evil, but where everything is inbetween evilness and goodness.. And Timburtonesque. (He contributed: if you watched 'the Nightmare Before Christmas' by him, you'll see 8 is exactly like the big green guy that looks like a bag).

The Lorax

Well, this blog is about movies. The movies I watch. And the movies I watch are weird movies. So, as you guessed: this is a blog about weird movies.

The first movie I'm presenting is: The Lorax.
It was originally a book by Dr. Seuss, but this year, they made a movie of it. It's about a boy called Ted that loves a girl. They both live in a city called Thneedville. In the city, there is no real trees. But the girl wants a tree. Ted will get her one. This is a movie I didn't particularly like. But for you: It's a tale of love, and ecology. *Well, actually it's just a story about two stupid boys, trees and a girl. And a lot of singing.* But there's two funny characters: a big, fat and stupid bear, and a crazily nice granny.

That's the bear. He's really stupid and funny.

And that's the granny. She's like the granny most of the people want to have.

But I surely don't recommend the Lorax, except to small kids under... ummm... 7.

I didn't read the book, but I think it's better. But one thing to say, is, that: the animation is GREAT!