"We are not born equal sinners, or perfect knock-offs of God. The world tells us whether we're heroes or victims. But, we can decide for ourselves."

Victor Mancini is a sex addict, who tries to pay for his mother's treatment in a hospital, a mother who has made Victor's life really weird and who suffers from dementia, and doesn't even realise that it's Victor visiting him. During the day Victor works as a Irish farm labourer in the 1700s, during the nights he chokes in restaurants.

I wanted to see the movie because I read the book. I'm a big fan of Chuck Palahniuk, I have been ever since I read Fight Club. Choke was the third book of his I read. Weird thing is, during the book I kinda imagined Victor Mancini as Michael Fassbender, and in the movie he was played by Sam Rockwell. It was kinda surprising, I mean they are very different actors. But to be honest Sam Rockwell was better for the part than Fassbender would be. To be honest I kinda didn't think Rockwell was this good. I was positively surprised.

I was kinda worried about the sex scenes. If I remember correctly, book had several. And I was worried that I might attract unwanted attention from my family even if I watch this in my room. Anyway, sex scenes weren't that... uncomfortably noisy. They were actually kinda stylish - you know, in the way that they were simply sex, since Victor is a sex addict and all, so they weren't too romantic, too stylish. But they weren't too close to porn. They just were. Usually I don't even mind sex scenes, but I just had to say this. 

Even though no movie is ever as good as the book, they kept the important stuff on the movie pretty well. Of course there was several scenes missing, but they didn't seem to matter that much. But not many scenes were added - I counted one, maybe two. Also could be one of those I just don't remember from the book. Anyway, movie was very good, if we think about if the movie is or isn't loyal to the book. Choke was very loyal to the book. And what's most important, it still held the gruesome but amazing philosophy Palahniuk's work always seems to has. Fight Club has that, so does Damned, so does Choke. It's amazing.

But of course book is better. But the movie is worth watching

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

8/10 

"It's funding for the needs of the disabled. I'm disabled and I need a drink."

Rory O'Shea is disabled, and has been looking for a chance to find his own place for ages, but he's application has been denied. But with his new friend, Michael Connolly who suffers from cerebral palsy, they both get to try their wings living independently in the "real world". 

I saw some GIFs from this movie, and I wanted to watch the movie. Mostly because my first thought was "wait, this is something I haven't ever heard of". Like most movies people talk about and make GIFs are so popular that I've at least heard of them. Well, I hadn't heard of Rory O'Shea Was Here / Inside I'm Dancing. And I thought I could watch it. I was interested in it, because I hadn't really seen a film about disabled people, and I thought I should've. 

First of all, Steven Robertson was marvellous as Michael Connolly. I mean Leonardo DiCaprio is praised by his portrayal of a disabled character - if I'm remembering correctly, I might be wrong about several things but let's not go there - but I've never heard anyone say anything about Steven Robertson. I mean I had to actually check that he wasn't actually disabled. But then again there's the fact that I might not be actually that experienced with disabled people, so I don't know how true his portrayal of cerebral palsy truly was. But it seemed to be very good, extremely good. I should see him in other movies. 

But to be honest, from the GIFs I saw I thought this movie would be quite happy. And that's one reason why I was really interested in it. But well, it was more serious than I expected. I kinda would've hoped for more positive movie, but Rory O'Shea Was Here / Inside I'm Dancing was very good for what it was. I mean it had its positive moments but then again all the very serious, very sad moments. I'm pretty sure both positive and negative moments are part of everybody's lives, so that kind of portrayal is probably realistic. Though the movie was very sad, so I don't know, that might be over doing it, you know, making it sad. I have this weird comparison on my mind which might not make sense but here it goes - it's like movies about lesbians. They are always sad, someone dies etc. So it might be the same thing here. I don't know though, since I haven't seen that many movies about disabled people, so I'm only guessing. I definitely should watch more though, for whatever reasons I have.

But I do recommend the movie to anyone. I think I might see it again someday myself. Very excellent acting, very excellent story.

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

7/10 

"If you're receiving this transmission, make no attempt to come to its point of origin. There is only death here now, and I'm leaving it behind."

The passengers on Prometheus are on their way to a moon which some of them believe holds the key to all the meaningful answers about human life. They believe that moon is or was inhabited by what they call "engineers" who created, well, human beings. But when two crewmen left outside because of a storm go missing, the idea of the trip may not seem so tempting anymore. 

I remember when I went to see this movie for the first time. I was about 13 or 14, and I was really scared, but I didn't have nightmares. But same things kept bothering me now than they did then. What was the clip in the beginning about? If David had no soul, why did he clearly have a personality? And the second time watching didn't answer any of those questions - mostly because in 4-5 years I hadn't been thinking about the movie. If I had those same questions in my mind while watching, then maybe. Except David. I think his personality will be a mystery forever. Or I just don't know so much about androids.

Usually, if I watch science fiction, I prefer more subtle science fiction - no space. I don't like Star Trek or Star Wars or anything that includes way too many aliens and strange planets or huge spaceships. ... Kinda weird that I like several seasons of Doctor Who... Anyway, even though Prometheus is kind of "ultimate science fiction" with space and aliens and questions about the destiny or origins of human life, I still really liked it. It wasn't too much flying through the space and meeting all kind of aliens and all that bullshit. It mostly took place on that one moon, and searching for one species. And mostly the horror genre was also so clear that it didn't seem like pure science fiction. I paid most attention to all the scariest parts. 

Then again there might be some arguments over if the movie is scary. But I get scared really easily, so there's that.

The music in Prometheus is wonderful. When the main theme came on, it felt like I had been listening to that for ages, even though there really was 4-5 years when I didn't see the movie. And that probably tells you how really incredible the soundtrack is. I mean if I now started watching another movie I had only seen once and hadn't seen in ages, I probably wouldn't think the main theme sounded so familiar, like it had been stuck in my head for ages.

Actors were wonderful - Noomi Rapace is very good. I mean seriously, she portrayed pain so well it was easy to forget she was acting. Michael Fassbender as the android David was also very, very good. Maybe it was Fassbender that subtly gave David personality. His acting was marvellous - it was easy to see that David was programmed to act very human, but you could see how empty every smile was. It was just a polite smile with no meaning. But then again... David clearly had some kind of personality. He was somehow curious and he was an asshole.

But Prometheus is a very good movie, though it is "ultimate science fiction". But what else do you expect from a guy who brought us Alien? Actually I think I should see Alien some day. It seems awfully thrilling. Wonderful.

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

7 / 10

"Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness."

Kamikaze Girls is a story of unexpected friendship between a girl who loves rococo and lolita dresses, and a girl who is a member of a biker gang.

I once saw a powerpoint presentation made of this movie. The presentation was trying to make people watch the movie. The movie seemed interesting, so I really wanted to see the movie. One other thing that maybe affected my decision was that Anna Tsuchiya played Ichigo, the biker chick. Anna Tsuchiya is one of my favourite Japanese musicians.  Her music is very cool.

The first notion I made while watching the movie wass the special effects. They were a bit like the special effects on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.. You know, very cool but sometimes over the top. Like they might really annoy someone. I liked them, except for few parts they almost gave me a headache. Also the humour was sometimes a bit over the top, but it worked. Especially that it wasn't just funny all the time, I mean there were some serious moments, mostly main character Momoko's monologue and all that.

I really liked the story. It was really sweet, but not too much. I mean it had its rough parts and serious parts and funny parts. But what I really liked was that it was a story of a friendship between two girls. It was about them with no useless romance and boys involved. 

I really do recommend Kamikaze Girls to anyone, who isn't afraid of movies in other languages than English. Well, also if you can't stand movies that don't have male lead, then you probably shouldn't bother. But then again, I can ask, why the hell wouldn't you want to see a movie with female leads?

And for some reason I have nothing better to say. Huh, I don't know why. I guess school has taken its toll on me. Next review will be better and longer, I promise. 

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

7/10  

"That's for if you wanna blow up moons." "No one's blowing up moons." "You just wanna suck the joy out of everything."

Yes. I had to go watch it too.

Young Peter Quill is abducted to space, and 26 afterwards he is a successful outlaw Star-Lord. ... Well at least he'd wish to be. He steals an orb he was supposed to bring to their leader, and he's planning to sell it for good money. However, evil villain Ronan sends an assassin, Gamora, adopted daughter of Thanos to get the orb. Meanwhile Rocket the Raccoon and his friend Groot decide to capture Quill, who has a price on his head. All this leads to all four of them being imprisoned. In prison they meet Drax, and they come up with a plan to escape and save the world from Ronan's plans.

To be honest, everyone was going on about how this is a perfect movie and how 100 % of critics liked it on Rotten Tomatoes and all that. And to me it seemed like just one of those really over-the-top space adventure movies. So basically I was expecting the movie to be really bad, but at the same time I expected to be really good

Well, it wasn't that over-the-top, I'll give it that. But the whole thing was kinda... fiddling, fumbling, bungling... whatever the right term is. And also there were so many different kind of species that we didn't learn anything about. So there's basically all kind of humanoid species that look different but that''s it. Also, names of the planets came and went so quickly you didn't really know anything about the place - well you knew, but you forgot. But then again, you only needed to remember about two planets. So basically they went to a lot of planets, even though they could've managed with a lot fewer. Of course the Marvel universe needs a lot of places, I don't know.

Also well, my friend and I were kinda scared that it would be too funny. Like seriously, just funny and nothing else. Well, it was really serious and dark at the beginning, but from that on it was simple comedy, with a few exceptions of several deep moments that... probably didn't make up for it. Also what annoyed me was how clearly Peter Quill was made the main character. We learnt a lot about him, but not so much of the others. We knew almost all there is to know about Quill, few things about Gamora, few things about Drax, very little about Rocket and almost nothing about Groot. Other characters should've been made at least as interesting as Quill, but of course we focus on the white half-human male. I don't know, if comics are centred on someone specific, but I have a feeling they have told a lot about all the characters. I hope that they give other characters a bit more spotlight in the upcoming movies, and that we don't just focus on "who is the mysterious father of Quill??" Because yeah, he was a funny character but I kinda wanted to know more about Rocket and Groot.

Also, Groot was an amazing character, just saying. I'm just laughing at how Vin Diesel basically had to repeat one line over and over. Well, he probably got a good money out of it, but it just seems so hilarious.

Also I was kinda annoyed with Ronan. Lee Pace is of course marvellous actor, but Marvel seems to have the tendency to take cool actors and put them in a role in only one movie, and they paint their faces and make their voice completely different. This has happened to Lee Pace and also Christopher Eccleston and Tim Roth. Also Ronan's motives seemed a bit vague and boring, like really lazily written.

On the other hand, the movie looked awesome, and the story was somehow interesting - could've been better, but there isn't a story that doesn't have its weak spots. Also the music was the best. I have Hooked On A Feeling playing in my head for a while now.

So in short, I liked the movie, but too many things kept bothering me. And I started to think about Cuba and I missed like three minutes of the movie, which I guess isn't a good sign of an action movie.

☆☆☆☆

4 / 10

"Insanity is wasting your life as a nothing when you have the blood of a killer flowing in your veins."

Oh god that poster is so cheesy and bad. This movie would deserve better. Also I kinda disagree with the "fantasy" genre, but I have to use it. I mean the movie had kinda more "slipstream" feeling (a bit of fantasy themes, but not really fantasy story), but I can't tag movies as slipstream. That is a very, very, very minor genre. I'm not that exact about all the genres. (I don't even use Crime as a genre)

Wesley lives a pathetic life as an account manager - his job sucks, he knows his best friend is fucking his girlfriend and he suffers from panic attacks. Then he finds out he's a son of an assassin, who was one of the bests before he got killed. Wesley learns about organisation called  Fraternity. The man who killed Wesley's father, used to be part of Fraternity. The only man capable of killing this man, Cross, was Wesley's father. This is why Fraternity starts to train Wesley - to kill Cross.

Argh I feel like this summary is not good enough. But then again, looking through the summaries available, nothing is good enough. It's because summaries can't spoil. That's a real shame. Because Wanted seemed to have a very simple idea, so it seemed like the movie would be short. But no, there was always something new, and it went on. I liked that. I like that kind of stuff more than "this is the main motivator of the character, this is it, there's nothing else for you to know". Yeah.

I kinda thought that Wanted would be a simple action movie. That's what I thought because I hadn't read about it from anywhere. So when I realised it was about assassins, I was hyped. Hey, I've been playing Skyrim for the whole summer, and I love the Dark Brotherhood questline. Movie about assassins? Hell yeah.

Well anyway, Wanted wasn't a simple action movie. And I liked that. It was kinda different, which is what you really need in an action movie. Sure, even if an action movie isn't that special, you can watch it several times. But if it stands out, it's really fucking good. That's kinda what I like about action genre. It works almost always. But now... Wanted actually surprised me in lot of parts, because of what I expected. Sure, not all those surprises were good, some were a little bit disappointing and... well, kinda obvious. Obvious in the way of "come on this plot twist is getting old", etc.

But mostly what made Wanted stand out was the progress of the character. Wesley wasn't a "true action hero" from the start, no. He was really bad. But he evolved from that. And it wasn't like. "Now you're kinda bad but whoops, 5 minute footage of training and you are amazing!" It was slower, it was a bit more realistic. Also well, James McAvoy stands out among other men starring in action movies. I mean usually action heroes are tall, very muscular, handsome in the typical Hollywood -way or more like very macho, like Bruce Willis -type. But then there's little McAvoy, 170 cm and cute as fuck. Not a very likely action star, but damn, he played that role well. He's really good.

The music in this movie was really good. Not special, but it was well used. There was one time that the music really stood out, and I liked that. One of those action scenes. It was like BOOM. It reminded me of the Deadpool game.  I'm kinda disappointed that I can't seem to find the soundtrack from anywhere. 

Anyway, here I go with the stars:

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

8 / 10

(Note: The rating was edited on 21st of February on 2015 after thinking more about the movie)