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Marvel has outdone itself again, with Ben Kingsley, who gave his played his most iconic role since Gandhi, bringing us the most entertaining ever bonus short. Anybody who knows at least a little about the comic book mythology of Iron Man will be thrilled. The ending then opens the door into the distant future where this metal guy tries his strength against a pissed magician.

A perfect introduction to the comic book world for all those interested. The historical context, reasons why, how and where, including the most important comic book works. The only but relatively logical problem arises because this is a great celebration of everything produced by DC, but all of the rest is missing – I mean European comic books and Marvel.

Neat action and cool lines. Both John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat are on their best form here. Technically almost perfect action scenes, ingenious and still surprises after all these years. I’m telling you, this movie suited me down to the ground. Tequila’s apt remarks were really to my taste. A classic that I plan on watching again soon.

A realistic and chilling drama that says a lot about human nature. Mads is superb as always. The film never slips into cinematic clichés and despite this, or perhaps because of it, it remains suspenseful.

I sort of see parallels with today’s society in this and not an anti-racist fairytale with a happy ending, which they obviously seemed to want. McQueen has disappointed me for the first time, probably because he couldn’t be sufficiently detached from the topic and he forgot to spice it up with something. These torturous 12 years seem fairly relaxed and Platt doesn’t experience proper slavery until he’s with Fassbender, who is cutely eccentric and interprets the Word of the Lord in his own special way. And eventually he alone really deals out punishment. Chiwetel Ejiofor (how the heck do you pronounce that?) acts well, but he honestly doesn’t have that much to do and the nomination for an Oscar is a little bizarre. The concept of time passing was poorly intimated, it’s hard to tell how long he was where and if it wasn’t for the title and the granddaughter, it could have easily been like four years. Lifelessly filmed and if it weren’t for Fassbender, I just don’t know. Nothing exceptional, but it’s watchable. P.S.: Hans Zimmer sometimes shines, but the music is mostly pretty ordinary and the gospel overkill is just awful. I said dance! Come on! Get goin’, Platt!

Matthew is on damn good form and he’s delicious in this winning movie. We’ve seen the topic of AIDS and struggling against villainous corporations (“Fuckin’ FDA") many times before, but I can’t remember that it’s ever been served up with such style before. The life that his sickness brings with it is surprisingly fuller and more interesting - after all, he went to Japan and founded a fairly successful business. In terms of acting, this is top league on top form, Jared Leto was more convincing as a woman than as a man! It’s for personal consumption.

We left the comedy part behind us and now we get the sad part. So the viewer isn’t entertained, but he’s still curious. Of course, there’s a touch of S+M in the movie, but it’s an act of despair, not lust, and so the controversy somehow fades. The story of Fido’s life was certainly worth telling and I really liked that scene with the tree. The worst tasteless slap in the face of the whole story is the ending which more or less ruins the catharsis and doesn’t shock but revolts. It seems very forced. Or the loose ends with Jamie Bell and Willem Dafoe. Is it Lars’s work or the censor’s? Shame, maybe the director’s cut will make more sense. Hey Joe.

I’m no expert on online internet games, I don’t even know how to play that dumb, online poker, so I didn’t get any of the references (but I know they were there), the action at places didn’t make sense, and mainly it’s too slow. I didn’t enjoy it and the fact that Ben enjoyed playing this motherfucker simply doesn’t make it for me.

Perfect, movie of the year. For the first time in a long time Marty does a comedy, and he can swim in this medium several times better than today’s would-be Kings of Comedy. The Wolf of Wall Street is a new generation Goodfellas, however strange that sentence sounds. A classic rise and fall of one menial swine with the gift of the gab (and a stock trader license), is served in a lively, entertaining form and the three hours in the theater pass by like nothing. Cocaine, hookers, the language of money (fuck, shit, cunt), all entertainingly delivered, also of course due to the involvement of DiCaprio who found himself here in terms of acting after all those years and gives the best performance in his career. Hill is an incredible slob - in a good way. In terms of effects, a little wobbly, partisan cutting, but it’s hard to say if that wasn’t Marty’s intention. Otherwise, the scene with Matthew McConaughey, where the two of the best actors of last year are in the restaurant... A hymn to capitalism is resounding in my heart. Hmhmhm... boom-boom, hmhmhm... boom-boom, hmmmhmmmhmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmhmh... oh yeah. P.S.: Yes, of course they were incredible swines, I condemn what they did and they should rot in the hole till they’re dead, if they robbed the state like that, they’d get the electric chair. But they don’t mind regular people being robbed.

Berg serves us with cool action in another bungled Navy Seals raid in Afghanistan. Because it’s based on real events makes the movie that more powerful. Especially the number of hits the heroes take before they really expire. The fairly realistic treatment then slips into Bay-isms, but that doesn’t bother me so much, it’s just that Lone Survivor doesn’t turn out so naturalistic. The cast is excellent, especially Kitsch and Foster are outstanding.