The Hunt

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I made it a Danish night on Monday night.  I had this drama from Denmark on my Netflix list for a while.  It was a good solid drama.  It was nominated for Best Foreign at the Oscars last year, I believe.  It's not a thriller or a mystery.  It's literally a straight up drama about this kindergarten teacher that's accused of being a pedophile.  The innocent little girl heard some words from her brothers and before she knew it, she told the principal a story and it blew out of proportion.  It's a good story about how others judge people and something very disturbing as pedophilia, well, you're judge for life.  Innocent or not, there will always be someone judging you.  That's the point of the movie.  Loved it.

Good recommendation right here if you're in the mood for a Foreign Drama.

  

Made my first Danish dish:
Karbonade med groenaerter (Breaded pork patty with pea gravy).
Of course, I got me some Danish cookies just for kicks.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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Well I finally saw the last Hobbit movie the other night.  Funny that they killed the infamous Smaug the dragon in the first 10 minutes of this film.  I personally think they should've killed him in part 2 since he's not a big deal in the third film.  Fuck it.  So I thought a few action scenes were awesome but all this could have easily been one long three hour movie.  Good popcorn movie though.  Can't compare to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  Which reminds me, I love the ending to this and how it starts tying in to the Lord of the Rings.

Must see to complete The Hobbit trilogy, other than that, nothing special.

Life Itself

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Saw this sad but interesting documentary about the world's most famous movie critic, Roger Ebert.  Learned a lot of things.  Genius man.  I can never be a full on critic.  It's not my thing.  I don't like it when people call me a film critic.  I have a movie blog and I write short comments but it's all in great fun.  Sure, I wouldn't mind getting paid just to write short comments but to write long reviews, that takes away the fun sometimes.  Not for me.  Roger Ebert was an important human being in the film world.  Love the Martin Scorsese soundbites on here.  Also, there's a part where they talk about the production of "Beyond the Valley of Dolls" (a crazy exploitation film that Ebert was a part of).  I been wanting to see that movie for a long time, I gotta visit Vulcan soon and rent that one out.  This documentary of course gets sadder as we see Ebert fighting cancer and getting worse and worse health-wise.  Didn't know he had thyroid cancer (my mom had that too).  Scary fucking thing.  Anyways, this is a good documentary on the film critic.

  As a fan of movies, this is worth checking out but not a priority.

Hector and the Search For Happiness

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I was disappointed with this one.  I like movies about travelling and about finding yourself.  That was one of the main reasons for watching this one.  That and Simon Pegg.  I felt like everything was too easy for him.  One lucky situation after another.  Too much of a coincidence.  But it is what it is.  Love the first half and the second half was a downer for me but good for Hector.  He found his happiness.

A movie that comes to mind that I would recomend better than this is: Into The Wild.

Girl on a Bicycle

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Well, I decided to watch this on Netflix last night.  It's the romantic side of me.  But, I didn't enjoy it. It started out promising but then it got lame.  I definitely didn't enjoy the last 30 minutes of it.  Yeah, there were some sweet scenes but not enough to carry the movie.

 

So, if you're thinking about checking out a movie with your romantic partner, know that there are lots of other better options than this one.

Bicycle Thieves

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Went to Vulcan Video the other day to pick up my Hitchcock Thursday movie and as a free
rental, I chose this one.  Why?  Because I'm planning on my buying a bike before the month is over. I almost bought one over the weekend but I decided to wait a little longer.  This movie is also known as The Bicycle Thief.  It's an Italian classic about a father and son who go onto a journey to search for their stolen bike.  A bike the father needs in order to work and provide for his family.  I don't know if it was the wine I was having but this movie was depressing.  The struggle is real!
The ending was depressing.  But that's the whole point of the movie.  You see the struggle people in the lower class go through.  I enjoyed a lot of the scenes.  Not bad for a film that was made in the late 40's.  I love the restaurant scene towards the end.  The father asks his son if he wants pizza.  His son smiles and they go to a fancy restaurant.  They don't serve pizza so the father orders a mozzarella sandwich and bottle full of wine.  Everyone around them are eating big pasta plates.  Such an awesome scene.

This one was okay to see.  I can see why it's special to many.  It didn't touch my heart as I wanted to but I did appreciate it.  A movie that comes to mind that did touch my heart that is somewhat like this is: Children of Heaven.

Researched the movie beforehand and found out about the mozzarella sandwich order in the restaurant so that's exactly what I made.  A grilled mozzarella cheese sandwich, some pasta, and Italian salad.

Strange Magic (2015)

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It was a relaxing Sunday morning with my son yesterday and he pitched going to the theatre.
I checked the discount theatre and this was playing.  It was a strange coincidence because we were already planning on hitting the "Faerie Trail" at the Botanical Gardens.  This movie is about fairies.  After watching the trailer, my son wanted to watch the movie.  So on we went to our adventures at the trail followed by the movie.  Good experience.  This is my first Animation of 2015.  It was okay.  It's a musical.  I love musicals but this got annoying after a while.  Maybe because I didn't like some of the songs.  I did like some parts of the story.  True love conquers all kind of a story. So, I wouldn't exactly recommend it.  But if you must take the little ones, go in with low expectations. For the record, my son loved the movie.

Giving this a 5 out of 10.

 

Going to this "Faerie Trail" made the experience worthwhile.