30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 30

Day 30 - Your least favourite movie

I can't choose just one because I don't have an actual "least favourite movie". There are several I dislike but I don't really hate anyone with such burning passion it would be my least favourite movie. 

These are all the movies I've only given one star on IMDb. Note, maybe all of these aren't like the worst movies ever made but for some reason I was super angry with them, and also there's a chance I changed the score after seeing it.

• A Change of Seasons (1980)
• This was so boring and just obnoxiously annoying. Why are people like this?
• Batman Forever (1995)
• I have kind of the same reasoning for this as I have with Spider-Man 3. The movie is absolutely ridiculous and kind of embarrasing, and you don't necessarily realise that when you're a teenager who's grasp of corny isn't as accurate as right now.
• Liar Liar (1997)
• I would like this movie way more if it wasn't such a Family Friendly Fun and blah.
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• To be honest, I saw this years ago and I have no idea if that score would be accurate if I watched this now. 
• Manhunter (1986)
• Not at all how it should be.
• Ruby Sparks (2012)
• I didn't even finish this movie.
• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• Possibly the worst Spider-Man movie out there. It feels like it was written by an angsty 10-year-old, which can be the reason you can enjoy this movie when you're 10 but not really after that.
• Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
• These movies failed to understand what was up with Star Trek. Also casting a white man as Khan? Obnoxious.
• The Mask (1994)
• Again, I have no idea why I've given this only one star. I've only seen it once and that was years ago.
• The Last Heist (2016) 
• Such stupid, disappointing movie that pretty much failed at everything that could've made it even at least a bit decent. Waste of my fucking time

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 29

Day 29 - A movie that changed your opinion about something: After the Wedding

I was so so unsure as to what put in day 29. Have movies changed my opinion about something other than movies? I don't really think so. 

So obviously I had to go with a movie that changed my opinion about a gender. When I watched After the Wedding, a great Danish movie, by the way, I wasn't at all into drama. It seemed boring to be, but hey, I was 17 at the time, wasn't I? 

And still the thing about drama is it can be really boring but it can also be very good if you do it right. It's more challenging than you might think.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 28

Day 28 - Movie with the best soundtrack: Trainspotting

1. "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop
2. "Deep Blue Day" by Brian Eno
3. "Trainspotting" by Primal Scream
4. "Atomic" by Sleeper
5. "Temptation" by Heaven 17
6. "Nightclubbing" by Iggy Pop
7. "Sing" by Blur
8. "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed
9. "Mile End" by Pulp
10. "For What You Dream Of" (Full-on Renaissance Mix) by Bedrock (feat. KYO)
11. "2:1" by Elastica
12. "A Final Hit" by Leftfield
13. "Born Slippy (NUXX)" by Underworld
14. "Closet Romantic" by Damon Albarn

Seriously, name a more iconic soundtrack.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 27

Day 27 - Favourite classic movie: A Clockwork Orange

I guess I keep saying "this one was hard to choose", but this one really was. What counts as a classic? Does a cult classic count, because isn't that what A Clockwork Orange is?

I think this is one of the few movies where I actually managed to read the book first. I read it for Finnish class, and I still remember because first I was going to read a detective story but changed it. My reason for changing that was because it was boring and it's really hard for me to read anything that doesn't interest me - and these days even if they do. Anyway my teacher wasn't exactly correct on why I changed the books.

"Ah yes, I did think if it's a bit hard for you to read. So what are you reading now?"

"... A Clockwork Orange."

I think I watched the movie around the same time, so when I was 14 or 15. Of course it's a rough movie but also really impressive.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 26

Day 26 - A movie that is a guilty pleasure: What's your number?

There are very few romantic comedies I've watched more than once. They usually don't have such a great impact on me. 

Well it's not like What's your number? affected me in weird or mysterious way, it just is a really fun movie. I really like Anna Faris, and the rest of the cast was just as great. I really should watch this movie again, it always makes me so happy.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 25

Day 25 - A movie that no one would expect you to love: About Time

I myself was very surprised when About Time moved me the way it did. When my friend recommended it to me I was a wee bit suspicious about it. It didn't seem at all like the movies I usually enjoy, but it definitely succeeded all my expectations and actually made me cry.

But did none expect I'd love this movie? I don't know, I mean my friend recommended it to me, so she probably thought I would. But I guess I chose this one because I myself didn't expect me to like this movie.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 24

Day 24 - Favourite Documentary

I'm going to have to skip this one. I've honestly properly watched one documentary, so can I really call that my favourite because it's the only one I've seen? 

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 23

Day 23: Your favourite character from any movie: Francis Begbie

I mean this is a hard one since my favourites change depending on what movie I love at the moment. And at the moment I love Trainspotting and T2 Trainspotting and I love Robert Carlyle so of course I'm going to say my favourite character is Francis Begbie.

Don't get me wrong, Francis Begbie is an arsehole. He's absolutely awful, and in real life would be so unpredictable it would be terrifying. So no way am I saying Francis Begbie is someone I'd like to meet and be friends with. No way. But there's always something fascinating about the bad characters, you know? Villains, antagonists, or just that one violent shitty friend who still 20 years later wants to kill you.

And especially when reading the book it's clear that Begbie has a certain charm, it's just that most of the time he doesn't use it since why would he use it on his friends? But there was at least one scene in the novel where he was flirting with a woman and I was like whoa, he's really... charming. Almost made me forget he had been abusive to his pregnant girlfriend in the previous pages. Irvine Welsh has written Begbie so well it's incredible. 

And he's the only man capable of rocking that moustache. 

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 22

Day 22 - Most underrated movie: Ravenous

It's always hard fir me tae say what movie is underrated and what isn't. I'm never entirely sure what's popular and what's not considering I live far in the north, and not always certain what 90's movie was popular in the US since back then I was a little kid and not at all aware of such things. I originally wanted to say the movie Choke here, but there's a chance Choke is more appreciated than Ravenous. Also it might affect that I saw Ravenous last night.

Ravenous is such an incredible movie. It's weirdly hilarious yet dark, mysterious and thrilling and oh, so bloody. And now that I've seen it several times it feels even more better than the first time I watched it.

I love this movie but it seems to be a cult movie and doesn't seem to have a big audience. I know like three people who have seen it, and one of them recommended it to me, and I showed this to another one, so. 

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 21

Day 21 - The most overrated movie: Pulp Fiction

Don't get me wrong, I love Pulp Fiction. It's one of my favourite movies, and it's honestly really great. But the thing is it has become that movie that people always throw out there when talking about movies. It's the movie white straight nerds praise when they want to prove their taste in movies is great. It's not the movie that's annoying me, it's the way it's mentioned in conversations, the way it's used to prove something about what kind of movie fanatic you are. 

The same thing could be said for Fight Club, let's be honest.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 20

Day 20 - Your favourite actress: Mila Kunis 

My favourite actress was hard one to choose. There are so many actresses I love, and so many times have I watched a movie for them. I just never have gotten like really crazy about an actress the same way I have been with Will Arnett or Robert Carlyle. But still I have so many favourite actresses.

Anyway I chose Mila Kunis, becuase I love her so much. She's talented in both drama and comedy. I personally am not a big fan of American Psycho 2, but there's no denying that Mila Kunis was absolutely terrifying and brilliant in that movie. She was also great in Black Swan. And at the same time she has rocked her roles in That 70's Show, Friends With Benefits, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and all these other comedies.

My favourite movies starring Mila Kunis:

- Friends With Benefits

- Black Swan

- Boot Camp

- Forgetting Sarah Marshall

My other favourite actresses include Ellen Page, Zoë Bell (who's an excellent stunt actress but also great at other stuff as well), Uma Thurman, Morena Baccarin, Kelly McDonald, Famke Janssen, Imogen Poots, Chloe Grace Moretz...

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 19

Day 19 - Your favourite actor: Robert Carlyle

My love for Robert Carlyle has taken me to some really weird movies. Weird because what they are about (Ravenous) and weird because they are honestly just so bad (Eragon). The first movie I saw him in was Trainspotting, but before that I had seen one episode of Once Upon A Time, and also that mini series about Hitler that scarred me when I was 14 and we watched it in history class. 

I was going to type "I don't know what made me like Bobby" but I do. He was weirdly hot as Francis Begbie in T2 Trainspotting and that started it all. I wish I had a better reason for this.

Bobby is extremely talented and has done such a variety of movies it's been a pleasure for me to find cool movies starring him. 

My favourite movies starring Robert Carlyle:

- Trainspotting

- T2 Trainspotting

- The Legend of Barney Thomson

- The Full Monty

- Ravenous 

- 28 Weeks Later

My other favourite actors include Edward Norton, Will Arnett, Will Smith, Mads Mikkelsen, Clifton Collins Jr. and James McAvoy. 

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 18

Day 18 - A movie that disappointed you the most: Natural Born Killers

I had such high hopes for Natural Born Killers, mostly since the original screenplay was by Quentin Tarantino, who writes great stuff. While Natural Born Killers managed to satirise the way American media can sometimes glorify serial killers, I think the artistic choices that were made were too much. I was looking forward to something so much more simple instead of some kind of annoying art wank. 

Like yes, it's of course a good movie, I'm not denying that, it just wasn't for me. I just want to read the original screenplay Tarantino wrote. 

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 17

Day 17 - The best movie you saw during the last year: Whip it

It's impossible to choose the best movie I've seen ever let alone from all the great movies I've seen during the last year, oh no. 

But I decided to go with Whip It, because I loved it so much. I actually bought rollerskates because of this movie, and I can't even really rollerskates because the streets near my house are uneven and mostly slopes so... It'd be murder.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 16

Day 16 - The last movie you saw in theatres: Logan

I'm not really into superheroes. The only superhero thing I really, really like (apart from few more independent ones) is X-Men. Wolverine has always been my favourite character, so obviously I went to see Logan.

I loved this movie very much and I need it on DVD ASAP.

Also I have bitter feelings since someone claimed I was spoiling them when I said we wont see Wolverine anymore, at least not played by Jackman, when I was actually referring to the fact that everyone's been quite clear about Hugh Jackman retiring from X-Men. 

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 15

Day 15 - The first movie you saw in theatres: Pippi Longstocking (1997)

My biggest problem is I have no clue what's the first movie I've seen or hat's the first movie I saw in theatres, because I've always watched movies and my dad has always taken me to the movie theatre with him - mostly so he could see animated movies. 

So I've asked does he know which is the first movie I saw in theatres and he's answer has always been "I don't know, maybe Pippi Longstocking". And I've remembered that so vividly I've always been like no, no, it's probably something else. 

But then I checked online and it seems Piipi Longstocking came out in December 1997. And since I remember exactly in which hall we saw it, we probably saw the movie in January 1998. Imagine, I was about 1,5 years old back then, and I still remember it! Huh.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 14

Day 14 - Your favourite quote from any movie

Choose Life. 

Choose a job. 

Choose a career. 

Choose a family. 

Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. 

Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. 

Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. 

Choose a starter home. 

Choose your friends. 

Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. 

Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. 

Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. 

Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. 

Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. 

Choose your future. 

Choose life... 

But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

Choose life was a well-meaning slogan from a 1980s anti-drug campaign. We would add things to it, so I might say for example... 

Choose designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. 

 Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what passes for happy. 

 Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South-Asian firetrap. 

Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand others ways to spew your bile across people you've never met.

Choose updating your profile, tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. 

 Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don't look as bad as they do.

Choose live-blogging, from your first wank till your last breath; human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. 

Choose ten thing you never knew about celebrities who've had surgery.

Choose screaming about abortion. 

Choose rape jokes, slut-shaming, revenge porn and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. 

 Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. 

 Choose a zero-hour contract and a two hour journey to work, and choose the same for your kids, only worse, and maybe tell yourself that it's better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody's​ fucking kitchen. 

Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you'd done it all differently. 

 Choose never learning from your own mistakes. 

 Choose watching history repeat itself. 

 Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get, rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it.

 Choose disappointment and choose losing the ones you love then as they​ fall from view, a piece of you dies with them until you can see​ that one day in the future, piece by piece they will​ be all gone and there will be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. 

Choose your future, Veronica. 

Choose life.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 13

Day 13 - A movie that you used to love but now hate: Party Monster

Is this movie bad? I don't even know. I can't say objectively.

All I know is that I liked Party Monster around the same age I liked The Rocky Horror Picture Show. So around 12-13. And watching it now is just too damn painful. Not that I have any kind of serious sentimental bond to it, it's just that it feels so embarrassing. It seems so corny now, and that's painful.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 12

Day 12 - Your favourite animated movie: The Lego Movie

When The Lego Movie came out, I wasn't really watching children's movies anymore. And I was a bit suspicious because The Lego Movie seemed absolutely ridiculous. Then I finally watched and I think it may have melted my rather cynical heart.

The jokes are funny, the compilation of characters is hilarious, and the cast is incredibly talented. Also, of course, the story is epic and just amazingly great.

30 Day Movie Challenge - Day 11

Day 11 - Your favourite movie from your childhood: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Now I'm not exactly sure if "Your favourite movie from your childhood" means my favourite movie as a child, or a movie from my childhood I still like, so I went with the first one. 

There were so many possible choices for this one.  As a kid I had several different movies that at the time I watched like million times and was obsessed with them until I found some other movie I liked. The movies I liked were Shrek 2 (seriously), Shark Tale, The Lion King 3 and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After that I think my movie taste took a weird turn, since my favourite movie when I was 12 was The Rocky Horror Picture Show. So I decided to talk about a movie I loved as a kid that's actually, you know, suitable for children.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was so magical to me as a kid, it was amazing. But of course now the movie has lost it's magic because I've seen the original movie and read the novel and realised how much useless shite was added to this one, also I cannot stand Johnny Depp anymore.