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Vares - yksityisetsivä (2004)
Good entertainment, but...
It is a Finnish film, but I watched it with my foreign friends. It was funny as a Finnish guy, I sometimes see the small problems of Finnish cinema. The problem being dialogue.
But for my foreign friends this was no problem at all. They have no idea how Finnish people act or speak live. They also loved the exotic landscape, which for me of course had become too familiar.
This made think, is this the same for every other nation? Do they see their films in a similar manner, and I looked into it. Apparently in the US most films before the late 60s have a style of acting coming from the theater. After the independent films came Hollywood took a more down to earth style of acting like from real life. Now it is the norm.
In Finnish cinema you can still the heavy impact of the fact that most actors come from theater. Perhaps people are almost expecting it.
However putting that aside it still a good detective thriller in Finland. I would recommend it especially to foreigners, as it was quite a hit in Finland itself. Also what I found funny in this film did not go down too well with especially the Indians (we watched this film as we have a club with my work buddies, where we watch films from our native countries). The two guys from India found the film almost too dark, I don't wonder why as we had to watch a bollywood film two times ago when we met. It was horrible...
Funny how these cultural features come into play with films. I would hope that the cinema-complexes would show more foreign films. Perhaps they don't sell too good, but perhaps the consumer needs to become more aware. For example after this film some of the guys told me that my dark jokes were similar to what's in this film. Next time I'm going to show them some Kaurismaki... I mean this film is a little more commercial than Kaurismaki (he's style is unique, and the theater thing is not valid).
Overall good film, and we should thank Markus Selin for his constant good work in producing these!
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Predictable entertainment
The more I think about it, I think I'd rather have a pure Western using the same hangers - man without memory - seen. Then also place would have been to the conflict that inevitably arises when you realize that you are one of the evil space found. C & A tries to accommodate perhaps a bit much. The man without memory, which is obtained from its past, the gentle bartender who has become a shooter needs, the boy who will become the man, the mysterious stranger, a mysterious stranger still, the ratio of Dolarhyde to son and foster son, the ratio Dolarhyde and Jake ... and then even an alien invasion is thematically very much.
Cowboys & Aliens Olivia Wilde Daniel Craig is over long distances as a tough guy to beat me, which I did here lacked the depth of the script. I would like to learn more about the man Jake. Harrison Ford is good, if somewhat flat, which I put back on the screenplay. Clancy Brown as Meacham's great priest and died way too early in the film. Olivia Wilde would have earned more than eye candy as a writer Compliant take part.
The film has no boring places, but with 123 minutes is too long to get Cowboys & Aliens. The story could be told in 100 minutes as well. Then some of the clichéd subplots could have believed it.
If you take a deep breath through and pushes aside all expectations, offering Cowboys & Aliens 2 hours dense Wild West entertainment with extra fun by aliens.
6,5 / 10 points