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A Real Vermeer (2016)
Bad sound
It was really impossible to hear and understand what the most important actress was saying. The main actor was better to understand, but not good. A dutch desease, we are very bad in this. I really dont know why.
The story is great. I knew the history of Han Vermeegen and I know a lot of his huge talent and his great works. A very goilod painter. The movie gives a very good impression of this. So, if you are dutch, try to find undertitles ;)
It is interesting, amusing, rather like it was in those years, good pictures and film places. Technical it is wirthwhile, like the story is. So, try it.
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Oppenheimer (2023)
Dutch? Great movie though
In the movie is told that one of his speeches was in dutch. I am sure it was not. It sounded more as a sort of german.
I am dutch and could not understand one word of it. Especially in Leiden, where he stayed, the most accurate form of dutch is spoken. So, nope, it is not english and I cant tell you what it really is.
The movie is great but also exhausting. A lot of talking and talking. Great actors and acting. Nice pictures. Intriguing sounds. Very interesting story. I learned a lot, also about names like Einstein and Bohr.
Maybe more could have been done with the bomb itself? What happened in Japan.... Do people still realize? What was the threat of Japan.... It IS important because Oppenheimer had 2nd and 3rd thoughts about this.
Vikings (2013)
Good story, strange mistakes
I really liked it. Great cast, very good scenes. But also a lot of strange things or even nonsense. Thats why I give just a 7... It is unnecessary.
Kattegat has no mountains, for example. Danmark does not have them. Kattegat IS in Danmark, so the name of the possible livingplace of these vikings is ok, the nature is it not at all.
I dont think that they were able for having partly very short hair constantly. No tondeuses or trimmers in these years.
They all look like soccer players, but it is far from sure that they had tattoos.
Uppsala was in the wrong spot for a temple of the danish vikings. Uppsala is in the north of Sweden. A temple IS found in Danmark,so that can be true.
They act strange with languages in the movie. The vikings speaks perfect english but not when they meet english people, than they speak a sort of old swedish. The english have the same. They sprak english but suddenly speak old english or so when there are vikings in the neighbourhood.
Only the danish vikings went to england etc. So how can they live in the mountains?? Why all thise mountains in the movie??
How can a swedish vikingking work with a danish vikingking and go together to england? The Swedish Vikings went to the east....not to the west.
So: it is a pity. Why change history like this??
Its like a movie about worldwar 2 where england works together with the germans, and the germans lived in russia instead of germany... And the germans attacted Canada. Something like that....
The Escape from Auschwitz (2020)
Strange
It's a strange movie. The actors are OK. The story itself is not OK. Wrong for example is that when one had to speak german, he speaks english. Several times. That is a huge mistake in the movie. And it looks like that parts are cut out of the movie. Or does the director expect us to understand everything? -->
So, I do miss totally what has been done in auschwitz. By purpose??? I do know a lot about auschwitz, I do understand what the smoke and "things" in the air mean. But do young and/or not european people know that too? I am afraid that such is not the reality. So, for whom is this film made??
Bortført (2021)
Great story, terrible actress
I dont know if the actress, who had the re of mother of Pia, had to play a very unsympathetic irritating stupid woman.
If she had to.... Great performance!
But I dont think so, because she was a very important diplomat. She made nothing of it. Also her husband was far from convincing. 2 Norwegian actors, I know Norway dóes have good actors.
But: Very good camera work, its thrilling, interesting and the other actors are profs. The story is not always close to reality, that's a pity.
Chosen (2016)
Chosen....
No, this movie is not always accurate. Soms locations are in the movie far from reality in those years. You maybe must have been in Poland and Warsaw to understand this I did several times). And its strange that in this movie alle Hungarians and Polish people speak English, and only some Germans German. In those years, only English people in Europe spoke English....
And well, the russians were far from nice when they reached Poland. Maybe the people "portrayed" in this movie were very lucky with these russians. There ofcourse are nice soldiers but that war was hard, very hard. People became animals... Every soldier, also american, did not always act correct.... Far from that.
But, more important, it's auto-biographic so it tells how it is experienced. And well, its a movie so is I guess "a bit" romanticized and simplified.
It is very good a movie like this has been made!
It is a warning which can reach young people. Hopefully a lot... Show it on schools.... especially in surroundings where children learn to hate other people (small chance that that will happen, I know). Show it where it is possible... to children about 16 years old.
It will maybe lower down hate in the world and give more understanding why for example Israël exists and why that country acts the way it does. How it is possible that a huge group of people are put down, and killed, just because they belong to that group because they have that race.
This movie is about love and about how bad ordinary (and soldiers) people can act.
And it shows a real hero. It will learn children how one can be a hero and what it takes to be one. That a real hero often loose a lot, possible his of her life, and in most cases dont want to be called a hero... Because one does nog do it to be one !
Its about guts, drive, see possibilities, trust, being afraid, being disgusted, personal intelligence and taking huge risks which can cost ones life ...
A Touch of Frost: Penny for the Guy (1997)
Great!
Great acting! Allready 24 years old but so good. Fine humour, lot of tension, great story Line, Nice music. Have seen this one many years ago, and it still is very nice to watch, like I did last eve. And I was very surprises by the quality, again.
Hudson & Rex (2019)
The original
The german original is far better. Why always a remake?
But, The Rex in these canadian movies makes it worthwhile to watch. Pity that there is an American/canadian sauce over the stories.... So well, it is ok but that's all.
Winter Castle (2019)
Poor
Poor story. What you expect, will happen.
Bad casting. The actress who plays the mother is 11 years older than Ullerup, who plays one of the daughters...
The winter Castle itself is amazing!
A Dream of Christmas (2016)
Great xmas movie
I rated the movie as a xmas movie. Its special to see a good story, great acting, and nice pictures. Rather different as the rest of this kind of movies. But its exactly about what xmas means or should mean.
Well done!
Fire on the Amazon (1993)
pooh
This movie is bad. Craigh sheffer plays terrible. The story is a diasaster. Sandra oh Sandra, why?