The Quiet

The Quiet (2005)

Beautiful, simply beautiful. Dot, Dot, Dot the end.

The movie is a dark, serious and artistic. It's about Dot, who after her father died moves in with her godparents and their daughter. She deaf and mute and she likes to go through life invisible. But when she realizes that everything isn't as it should in her new home she has to start getting noticed.

This is one of the most artistically made movies we have ever seen. Every light angle, every monolog, every move was so beautifully composed it gave us the chills.
And we cannot believe everyone stud us up for this movie. Camilla Belle does an awesome interpretation of Dot, the deaf and mute girl. She plays the piano like Beethoven himself by feeling the vibrations of the tones. Her acting in this movie must have been hard since she had to look unmoved even though she knew everything that happens around her.
Nina (the daughter of the house) played by Elisha Cuthbert, is your typical shallow cheerleader the first time we see her in the movie, but once you get to know her we soon realize she has a dark secret.
The chemistry between Camilla and Elisha is just mind blowing. Morbid but mind blowing. Every scene they made with each other gave us chills.
The monologs in the movie where just pure genius artistic with a touch of greatness. For example:
Dot: "All I wanted was to be invisible. It was a simple request. It didn't involve anyone else. When I was in a room with another person, I felt like I was only half there. When I was in a room with two other people, I felt like a third of myself. When I was in a room with three other people, I felt like a quarter of myself. And when I was in a whole crowd of people, I felt like nobody."

That's just one of many more.
Crap we can't still let go of the setting the movie gave us. The dark slightly morbid with the touch of the first light of the day.
We give this a 9.7/10... we are so going to buy a copy each of this...

Dot: "But being invisible isn't worth it in the end, because when you're invisible, other people may not see you, but you can't help seeing other people."

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We almost forgot about the amazing soundtrack who filled our ears and minds with the mood the setting was putting out. Genious, deadly and totally screwed up.

-Elin and Em trying to get our chills down... TOWARDS THE SHOWER.

The Shrink is In

The Shrink Is In (2001)

Imagine Courteney Cox as a person with way to may phobies and then she takes on her shrinks role and starts to help them... well that's what this movie is about.

Samantha, a travel writer suffering from claustrophobia, agoraphobia, and a whole host of other phobias, isn't exactly lucky in her romantic fate. But when her pshycologist suffers a major mental breakdown, she secretly poses as the missing shrink in an effort to turn Michael, her new neighbor, towards her and away from his girlfriend. Through her chase, Samantha meets the happy-go-lucky magazine salesman, Henry. What follows is a series of events that lead to the one question Samantha has to face: Is she thinking with her heart... or with her mind?

Both Courteney and her real life husband David Arquette is in this movie, and they are funny as a monkey on 10 legs. Which is WAy funny.
Courteneys character also had a dog, a cool little pussy hunting dog. We loved him with all off our hearts.
The movie was funny and original, we give it a 5/10, we do recomend you to see it but not buy it if you haven't seen it before. Since it may not go well with everyone.

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-Next movie to review... The Quiet and then Bathory with no english text and slovenian talking... We can tell you what we thought out of the "pictures"

Grindhouse (Planet Terror & Death Proof)

Planet Terror (2007)

Rose McGowan is a go-go dancer (not cry-cry dancer) who has very many useless talents which soon come in handy when the town she lives in get infected by a virus that makes people look like Quasimodo in boils filled with pus.
A few people, who are immune to the virus, starts to fight back against the flesh eating Quasimodo’s. By now Rose has gotten a new leg since her first leg was eaten, the second one penetrated through Quentin Tarantino’s eye... so now she has a gun that can blow your brains out... literally.
And among the other Quasimodo kicking people we have a doctor, doctor Dakota (Marley Shelton), whose husband is an evil son of a bitch who also is hypochondriac and a bit paranoid since he thinks Dakota has an affair with a woman named Tammy... about this part The husband Doctor was right.... moahahahahaha.
While Dakota runs through a window with a Venetian blind wrapped around her as she fell into a garbage can (this has Elin done... without the blind). She has no control over her hands cos her husband gave them paralyzing shots. This was very funny, well not the sticking needles in her hands part but the way she tried to like for an example open the car door, driving the car and rising her hand.

Now we have moved on to

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Death Proof (200 unt 7)

This movie has a very boring first half, you only need to see Rose McGowan blond once in a life time (we have seen the movie before). The second part on the other hand is just pure brilliant, though it was a very nice 20 seconds right before the second part when our beloved Dr. Dakota turned up for a few moments.
Anyways the whole good part is about four women who likes to drive fast cars and make stupid games (we want to try... Elin has done some of the crazy stuff here 2) and a crazy guy who also likes driving fast. The crazy guy starts to follow and play with the girls (he thought) when he tried to ram them off the road. We laughed when he got a bullet in his arm after yelling "This was fun ladies, now I have to AUCH"... This is a very good man-hating movie... which we love.

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The acting was superb in both movies. Planet Terror is shot in classic grindhouse manners which we love since we ARE grindhouse fans. Death Proof on the other hand has the same elements in the story though it's shoot in a completely different way, more serious.
Until Tracie Thoms starts to curse, like a rabbit on crack. Rosario Dawson does a very nice New Zeeland accent and we never knew she could kick her leg that high. Zoë Bell is just pure amazing, all she needs to do is to talk and we melt into a puddle in the bed (WE LOVE THE ACCENT), Mary Elisabeth Winstead in a cheerleader outfit with pomm pomms and is as easily fooled as Elins old odd friend.
Rose McGowan... what more do we need to say, she's hot, she's got a gun as a leg, she kills people AND she wants to be a stand-up comedian.
Marley Shelton = hot doctor with paralyzed hands, and when they are unparalyzed she fires a little gun who shoot needles with poison in them YAY.

As you might have guessed we love the women in these two movies. We are sure there were men in them too but we didn't see them.
Planet Terror gets a 8/10
Death Proof gets a 8/10 too... well the second part of the movie that is.

-A big + for your who managed to read it all... though a big slap in the ass for you who didn't... Elin and Em!

Fierce People

Fierce People (2005)

Sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz (Diane Lane), who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guesthouse on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald Sutherland). There Finn meets and starts a relationship with Odgen's granddaughter Maya (Kristen Stewart). And he also befrends Mayas older brother Bryce (Chris Evans). Everything seems to go great until Finn one night get raped by a mysterious man at the estate.

This movie was just fucked up, in a good way that is. I had no idea what the movie was about or anything such... all I knew was that Kristen Stewart was in it and that's all the convincing I needed to see this movie.
I mean just Kristens characters entrance in this movie was just WOW, Finn got trapped in a animal trap (one of those close thingys you use for bears) and the first thing she does is to give him crap for hunting deer on there estate.
She's just pure awesome in this movie, but then again when is she not?.
I don't know what to say about the movie more than I LOVE IT... even though Anton Yelchin was abit annoying. But I grew sympathy for him after the rape, really good acting.

I'll have to give this movie an 8/10, it was weird, strange and absolutley wonderful. I loved how they put in these metaphores and similaritys with the Indian tribes way to deal with things. And they also cut in the indians in the movie like they where one of the people. Though they didn't came until it was twoards the end.

All I've got to say is... WATCH IT.

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- Elin... over and out... Time for bed and hopefully some nice dreams about Kristen.

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway(2008)

This is probably going to be my (Emelie) new DVD purchase. I watched the old RENT movie from 2005 about 2 years ago and fell in love. RENT is a classic but I have to say that this new movie, which is really a professional recording of the show on Broadway, is much better than the old movie…

How does one even go about explaining RENT? It’s so much more than a movie/show, it’s a cult and a classic. I will try and break it down though,

Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
In the heart of these people you find one of my favorite characters, Angel. His/her journey from falling in love with Collins to getting sick is so heartbreaking and for me it is the heart of the show.

This version of RENT (as a difference to the old one) is build pretty much only of the songs. It may make it harder to follow but it also deepens the music.
As far as the cast goes this cast is quite different. The only one same in both movies is Tracie Thoms who plays Joanne. She rocks the role. In this version she plays up against Eden Espinosa instead of Idina Menzel (awesome choice). Eden really is funnier, prettier and sings better. The rest of the cast was brilliant as well but for me Eden, Tracie and Justin Johnston (Angel) stole the show. I do miss the 2005 movie Collins though.

The effects are of course not like other movies. This is a recording of the show on Broadway so it’s on stage, you do however get amazing angles and its shot like a real movie. You won’t miss a thing. Of course this is the real show, not the movie version that was badly put together. Some of the best songs were not even in the movie but now you can hear them here.

I’m biased. I have loved RENT for a long time (even if apparently it’s not cool. Who cares anyway?)
I give this a 9.8/10. Hands down amazing, I will buy it the second it comes available on DVD next month.

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-- Emelie. No day but today...