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May 20, 2011May 31, 2011

Melancholia [REVIEW]

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Is Nazi lover Lars now feeling “Melancholia” (ha!)?

With wit, reviewed by guest critic Kimmo Mustonenen

Impacts Cannes: The apocalyptic drama “Melancholia” are pushed into the background – of a provocateur Lars von Trier and his statement that he was a Nazi.

The man is 55, but his reputation as the eternal enfant terrible of cinema, he apparently wants to do justice to all eternity. Not only in his radical films for which he is loved all over the world and feared, but also outside in a lot more confusing life (is his).

At the press conference in Cannes on Wednesday afternoon to his apocalyptic drama “Melancholia”, he was – unfortunately – in this respect too great shape.

He said not only to gentle horror of his leading lady Kirsten Dunst, she was suffering from depression, but claimed this week to shoot on the request of his actors a porno. Yes!

What?

And when this was not enough, he outed himself as a Nazi even – after his family had German roots. Hitler was indeed made “a few bad things”, but “I can imagine him in his bunker, in the end, sad.” Lordy.

The manager of the Film Festival will take place this kind sardonic submissions not funny. In the early evening, they said in such a short communiqué as sharp, they would never allow such submissions become the stage of Cannes.

Lars von Trier had to ask an explanation for his behavior, now apologized, saying he had “carried away by a provocation” to.

The most peculiar tendency to self-promotion was already in the press release for “Melancholia” are visible. There, Lars von Trier makes ado self insult to the principle.

“Cream of the Cream,” his film has become, and only the poster, the film stills, the trailer: The see everything “sort of shit” from. Likely to say the enfant terrible with the fact that his new film is a great place. In any case, somehow.

See? I am not afraid to say it.

At least it is pleasing – or so it seemed up to the press conference – that Lars von Trier has made a deep depression, he set two years ago with “Antichrist” is a frightening monument, found apparently.

“Melancholia” but told by an identically-giant planet speed towards the earth and swallows them, of nothing less than the end of the world – by swallowing (what?).

But instead of torturing his film characters, as then, his audience physically and mentally, Lars von Trier celebrates its fatalism and nihilism in a disaster film, as we have seen him in such peace before. And for his concise history, he needs only one scene with highly transparent personnel.

What?

Justine (Kirsten Dunst in fine forming, but no Ginnifer Goodwin) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard) celebrate their wedding in a castle, one with an adjacent golf course on the lake, Justine’s sister, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her husband John (Kiefer Sutherland).

With the hand-held camera filmed nervously close to the people (like “Cloverfield” – awesome!), the party, not least through active support of the embodied by Charlotte Rampling bride’s mother, similarly gruesome next, as was the family party in Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogma classic “Festen” (1998).

The couple separated on the wedding night, and the mentally unstable Justine remains with Claire’s family on the property alone. Meanwhile, the planet is approaching inexorably Melancholia: In five days he should, say the optimists among scientists, just pass by the earth.

Only Justine (turning whiter)- or rather, feel – better. And she suspects the reason the reverse story of creation. The earth is as evil as the earthlings, and a life out in space after the big bang, there is not anyway. But this is too much.

If I say again, why see it, no?

A new masterpiece by Lars von Trier? In “Dancer in the Dark”, which he won the Golden Palm in 2000, reaches “Melancholia” not approach (“Melancholia” to “Dancer in the Dark” – I’m not clear). But even if the movie almost seems to shrink in proportion as the light blue shimmering star grows into full-length canvas size, it remains a suggestive impressive experience.

Just like the astronomers, because if the human race should flourish once a similar fate, please call the killer planet differently. Like Conan. Or Jack Bauer.

“Melancholy” does not kill, but is a worthy temperament that helps understand life.

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P.S. Ginnifer Goodwin to make fun in new television serial this fall on television! More news when known!

May 12, 2011May 31, 2011

The Beaver [REVIEW]

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With wit, reviewed by Kimmo Mustonenen

“The Beaver” is nearly successful, despite the condition of his film script, which was capable I simply do not (cannot) to assume. I confess it is possible, too, that a man could be in the lowest point in the situation, to be healed, by project engineering his psyche into a hand puppet.

I am not it am possible safe, or even advisable to form a serious film over. What? We go through the film with Mel Gibson, which he carries one toothy beaver on its left hand, and which an entire lot of dis-believingness causes, so that we shift. Over.

Nevertheless is here different of Mel Gibson’s-fine achievements, an announcement that he is finally a great actor.

His personal life is in the ruins because of the illness of dipsomania (and Russians), which fights it still with (and with the Russian). He I thinks, which is responsible for his impudent acts and statements, that this is not the good man, who I saw many movies in.

Of, which I know over alcoholism, I believe that he goes through personality conflict that it is content on some days and by rage and crazy head on others used up, and that such changes are symptoms of the illness. Form your own diagnosis. I did.

It took something courage of master Jodie Foster to refer this film in Gibson. I believe that her Gibson knows, his good side and respect its talent. It was certainly the right choice for this material.

Everything, his troubles, summed by looking by her opening shot, an exhausted man, who swims on a raft in a swimming pool, his arms broad like crucified the Christian.

A voice (later uncovered, around the Beaver to be had, what?) informs us that this dark Walter is a man, thus deeply in the lowest point, it his family alienated and nearly his business destroyed. Bummer.

We meet his much-suffering Mrs. Meredith (Jodie Foster), its applied son carrier (Anton Yelchin) and its doubting colleagues. Meredith throws him finally out, not without love, but love with.

He buys a bottle, bangs into a motel, tried to kill himself and by the hand puppet (Beaver) is interrupted. It finds that the puppet has a voice, he lets it speak for him and begins to again enter his life of the previous past.

Brillianter even still, Gibson and author Kyle Killen do not form you the slightest attempt to use the illusion of ventriloquism; Gibson manipulates the puppet and speaks of its own mouth, in an admirable if unexplainable Cockney accent.

His life improves in kinds, which I leave, so that you discover, yourself. I leave you also to surprise around me if Matt Lauer in wait on a material “Today” program quite became with a hand puppet interview, as it does here. What?

A parallel plan refers carriers, which son also, whose gift, papers for schoolmates is to be written, who read, as if they were written by those class participants themselves. What?

The category Valedictorian asks it to write you a speech. If she’s (she’s a she, if that is unclear) that intelligently, why can’t write it? She’s however, that interesting to go through problems, the carriers in one discovers lateral history, bending those, to lead us away from the film’s through-line.

Which kind of the film with the same letters however “The Beaver” does not result to be? We never know.

But without “The Beaver” we would have never witnessed a sexual threesome, a hand puppet with including. Juicy.

Maintaining Gibson must be serious several times, with the production of this film, but don’t you think when filming this sex scene, the urge to suppress laugheter had too much pain? That is the deadly error in this sincere effort.

So well, as Gibson is, his character is gotten caught still between the tragedy of the man and the absurdity of “The Beaver”.

One thumb waiving high. Two, but for the missing of Ginnifer Goodwin. She should be in every film.

Even Fast and the Furious Five, which I will be reviewing soon.

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May 11, 2011May 31, 2011

Priest [REVIEW]

Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily Collins, Brad Dourif, Stephen Moyer, Christopher Plummer, Alan Dale, Madchen Amick, Jacob Hopkins, Dave Florek, Joel Polinsky, Josh Wingate, Jon Braver, Casey Pieretti, Theo Kypri, John Griffin, David Backus, Roger Stoneburner, David Bianchi, Tanoai Reed, Arnold Chon, Henry Kingi Jr, Cory Goodman, Scott Charles Stewart, Min-Woo Hyung, Austin Priester, Marilyn Brett, Kanin Howell, Julie Mond, Michael D. Nye, Reiner Schone, Kevin T. McCarthy, Boyuen, Anthony Azizi, Pramod Kumar, Lafayette R. Dorsey, Josh Bratman, Michael De Luca, Joshua Donen, Glenn S. Gainor, Steve Galloway, Stuart J. Levy, Mitchell Peck, Sam Raimi, Nicolas Stern, Christopher Young, Don Burgess, Lisa Zeno Churgin, Rebecca Weigold, Rick Montgomery, Albert Cho, Aaron Critchlow, Steve Danton, Charles Gibson, Cecilia Mak, Jennifer Blair, Dawn Turner, Zia Bales, Matthew Cuny, John Graham, Manka Bros., Khan Manka, Kyrle Lendhoffer, Kimmo Mustonenen, Behind The Proscenium, movie blog, movie reviews, Rotten Tomatoes

Priest

With wit, reviewed by Kimmo Mustonenen

Another comic, another fairy tale, everything is so commonplace that one can only sit back and anticipate the events of the film.

Even the trump card – an explanation of all that is happening on the screen, issued at the beginning of the tape.

What?

And, apparently, the authors rely on the most stupid – you are no parables, all shows pictures, against which the voice of simple monosyllabic sentences, explains:

“There have always been people, and have always been vampires.”

Thanks Voice!

In the distant future, the remnants of civilization are concentrated in cities surrounded by wasteland. In the desert, scattered small settlements and numerous colony-reservation containing vampires.

About how the U.S. turned into a desert, why in the towns, settlements, all seem to the Wild West, and big cities are more like dungeons that hold the power of the totalitarian-minded priests – come on now! Not reported!

In the comic, the previous film, showing only the Middle Ages and the recent past, but says nothing about what needed nuclear carpet bombing.

However, one detail still unknown – the vampires have helped overcome the guys from the church SWAT called “pastors.” These brisk as worms, priests, nearly all suppressed the rebellion of vampires, but after all that they needed neither the church and were dismissed.

Everything changes after one town attacked the vampires and kidnapped relative of one of the pastors. That, of course, goes against the decision of the church council and sent to rescue a girl who suddenly (!) turns out to be his daughter. Well, the church council also not be a fool after sending him to the other shepherds with orders to return to the apostate dead or alive.

I always want to look into the eyes of filmmakers, who took off one of squalor, not complacent, and immediately, the very next day after failing to hire them to be taken to create a new epic movie.

What?

I must admit that Scott Charles Stewart learned a lot since his debut – sadly, nauseating film “Legion“, the most interesting aspect of which was an advertising trailer.

In the “Shepherd” Scott realized that, firstly, the religious themes are already not too terrified minds, especially those viewers that they believe in the Buddha and other Bhagavad-Gita, and secondly, two billion potential viewers on Christian motives for and large, do not care.

Therefore, hastily changing the archangels with the priests uncertain religion, only the cross (and even then – not canonical) reminiscent of Christianity, and all sorts of adversity Doomsday – and also vampires.

Still, the film is ready. Especially handy is the sidekick Paul Bethany, has played in a masterpiece of “Legion” of the main good-natured person that went against God’s will.

“What’s next?” – thought Scott Charles Stewart. Indeed, one priest, struggling with the vampires, does not go far, and in general – “Blade” is still fresh in memory (tax evasion). Means it is necessary to add something, right?

The main villain invented obviously under the influence of the film “John Hex“- yet another monstrously miserable comics masterpiece, as a vampire in a cowboy outfit (with a dog, and a fox… Megan Fox that is. What?) – it’s sort of cool, not un-sucky. It turned out funny film – it is not clear to whom it is intended.

Fans of horror and vampire fighters will spit on the pathetic dialogue, causing a gagging impulse, whereas these impulses should call the cruelty of prohibitive. Kids watch this film – though there’s no nudity and vulgarity, to sleep after such horror, kids will, quite frankly, bad. BAD!

Mass audience? It is unlikely that someone decides to go on a date for this movie here. There are only fans of the “Legion “, but judging by the collections, such – not enough to swear by.

And then there was unbearably serious Paul Bethany. In his companions gave Maggie Q playing the protagonist in love with a colleague on a religious commandos, and Cam Gigandet in the role of the local sheriff who helps the protagonist. All of this trio looks absurd – well, they did not seem like to a team, no chance to meet people of liking.

Somewhere that does not sink or float.

Or swim, by floating.

What?

And when they start talking … well, about the conversations I have already mentioned.

The only thing I can not praise this film – the visual design. Locations quite a lot you see, they are interesting and varied. Plus a few scenes where the pastor and his comrades destroy the vampires and their minions are well supplied. With regard to 3D – a help for him very little, and watch in 3D there are not at that and no one else.

Verdict : Compared with the “Legion” – this film is a real breakthrough. No “Fast and the Furious Five“, but yes. But Bethany is still dull, and Scott Charles Stewart, whatever.

Just add Ginnifer Goodwin, and at hand is a classic.

Ginnifer Goodwin. What?

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May 5, 2011May 31, 2011

Something Borrowed [REVIEW]

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Ladies and gentlemen, dear loving readers. As I, Kyrle Lendhoffer, put finger to keyboard today I am thankful that I have a wonderful friend like Kimmo Mustonenen. While I work (and play!) to accommodate myself to my new Los Angeles lifestyle, I can fill my column with the witty stylings of that Fabulous Finn Fan-tard – Kimmo. He’s been using my press credentials to good effect. And with that – BEHOLD! Something Borrowed. Go, Kimmo… GO!

Something Borrowed

With wit, reviewed by Kimmo Mustonenen.

Rachel and Darcy have her whole life long best friends. The two could not be different.

While Rachel has, in recent years, studied law and taught like to make their life into something decent, to Darcy has hung around at parties, looking for Mr. Right.

This blonde has found the ultimate in Party Queen Rachel’s fellow students Dex.

Rachel actually had his eye on the budding lawyer, has left her best friend, but then the field and accepted the freshly baked love happiness in the years to come without comment.

At Rachel’s 30^th birthday and only weeks before the wedding of Darcy and Dex admits she Dex in a moment of weakness, however, that she was in love, as a student up to his ears in it.

Dex must have had similar feelings for Rachel, as it comes, as it had to: the two end up in bed.

How could this happen? Fishing in foreign waters – and then another in which her best friend? What?

It fits not at all to the faithful and generous Rachel, or does it?

With Something Borrowed the screen is once again haunted by a romantic comedy.

No other genre is to satisfy the female audience easier and faster than this one.

Nice must it be romantic, a bit humorous, though sometimes exciting, a little tragic, or a touch kitschy. In short, a romantic comedy, with the right ingredients, baked quickly.

Unfortunately, one can, however, Something Borrowed not rush into the category of film, cinema halls and untroubled win hearts in no time for themselves.

Luke Greenfield’s adaptation of the novel by Emily Giffin relies on familiar genre patterns, adds the elements together, however, failed particularly to a film.

The well-known game to conquer the heart boys is “foreign fishing” by playing far too long. 110 minutes of film wind whipped the two opposite players, disguised in the best of friends costume, a constructed story corner after another.

The whole structure looses more credibility and calls for an ever longer a breath from the audience. “She gets it, they do not get it …” The flower is plucked from the earth, has more petals than it can bear on its delicate stem.

Even the most interesting, though not necessarily a new idea, to have two best friends who secretly mutate to rival inside the race for the dream man, saves the romantic comedy is not over its verbosity and lack of wit.

Something Borrowed must ultimately be satisfied to be a film that has a nice feature that in the highly competitive genre can not compete, however.

Too bad, because with Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin is Something Borrowed not only on two well-known, but also look at two talented leading ladies. While Kate Hudson, for her role as bitchy Liv from Bride Wars, expands further, there Ginnifer Goodwin, the chubby girl who longs for nothing more than to love and affection skillfully, lovingly, please.

Unfortunately, the monotonous script does not provide a good platform for the interaction of the two. While one would have liked to see from Hudson also got another aspect, one can permanently dreamy/sad quickly to a Goodwin only partly borne.

While everything is threatening to Borrowed a lengthy and unimaginative uniformity to blur, Ethan (John Krasinski) appears in the only bright spot imaginative character structure.

The few funny scenes to his credit – that is, given the short screen time that has Krasinski, but ultimately filled only half as good as it could have been. A bit more “Ethan” if Something Borrowed certainly been good, and for more variety in the otherwise rather dull, if in between time and again, provided nice entertaining narrative flow.

If only.

But Goodwin is real cute.

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May 2, 2011May 31, 2011

Thor

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Dear readers, as I am still under the weather – and still getting used to living in sunny (too sunny) and beautiful (too beautiful) Los Angeles – I am happy to, once again, allow Kimmo Mustonenen to write a guest review. Here is Kimmo with a very brilliant take on Hollywood’s newest 3D blockbuster – THOR! Go, Kimmo… Go!

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Thor

By Kimmo Mustonenen

The film follows the powerful but arrogant warrior Thor, who is diagnosed from hubris at the beginning of the film. When he puts the entire Asgard in danger as he becomes manliest and refers to the earth in which he loses all his powers and becomes merely a human being again.

To begin with, I think that Thor was a very entertaining action movie, not too many working one-liners that otherwise very often seen in American action movies. The leading role in Thor played by Chris Hemsworth is a relatively new actress with not too many films under his belt, some may recognize him from the Star Trek movie? Or A Perfect Getaway? The role of the arrogant Thor is he doing well in all cases and is looking forward to see when he takes the role of Thor again in the upcoming movie The Avengers.

The girl in this film is played by none other than Natalie Portman, as you probably memorable seen in films such as No Strings Attached or Black Swan, and soon you will be able to see her in the comedy film Your Highness. But Thor, Natalie Portman plays the role of a physicist who studies the theory that they may arise portals “wormholes” between our world and other worlds. In the midst of her studies she runs goes without saying at Thor when he is sent off to Earth and the sparks hit almost directly between the two.

Then, we must not forget the wise Anthony Hopkins, who may assume the role of Odin in the film, however, he is active only barely half the movie. But he takes the role of the strict parent who just wants best for their children very well, much better than he did with his role in the film The Rite. Last and almost least, has Stellan Skarsgård a role in the movie Thor, not the biggest but not the least, he played Eric Selva in the film is friends with Natalie Portman’s character.

One last thing about film is that it really did not need to be in 3D, there is nothing in the film directly, which brings together a “wowie” feeling just because it is 3D.

In my opinion, was the movie where as good if not better without 3D. So you went and saw the movie, arrived late and tell me what you thought? Was it good? Lived it up to your expectations? Was it necessary that the film was in 3D?

Please comment!

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April 26, 2011May 31, 2011

Rio [REVIEW]

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Rio by Kimmo Mustonenen

The title is the River of Rio de Janeiro, the “Marvelous City” which returns a macaw to mate with the last female of her species.

The problem is that the parrot said, Blu her name, was kidnapped in a child’s jungle home, ended up in cold Minnesota, does not fly and got used to a comfort level that Brazil can not give, not to mention the having to do with a future girlfriend dust cleaned, a tribe of monkeys with kleptomania and a psychotic cockatoo.

Blu is the star of the new long animated Blue Sky Studios, author of Ice Age which confirms the extreme solidity and consistency of style “house” is the construction of dialogues and intelligent characters that makes the difference and raises the story of four “fish out of water” (or, rather, “parrot out of the jungle”) above the banality derivative.

The rest is the high quality animation, here overseen by Carlos Saldanha, a veteran of the studio, capable of introducing an ecological agenda and refresh the clichés of Corcovado tour, carnival, samba and football without that thing in the tombe postcard.

Above all, there is a lush use of color and texture that explodes in the extraordinary musical numbers written by Carlinhos Brown and choreographed as if Busby Berkeley had risen to draw geometries possible with exotic birds.

Rio is a delight that, without reaching the heights of Pixar confirms that Blue Sky is earning points to the competitor Dreamworks.

Children will not have mind confusion – whole family fun will make family fun, fun again. This is Rio!

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April 22, 2011May 31, 2011

Water For Elephants

Greetings, faithful readers. There is much news (and much change!) at Behind the Proscenium. We have moved – emotionally and physically. Physically, from New York (the Big Apple – I love Appletinis) to Los Angeles (The Big ? – but I’ll take the margaritas). Emotionally, from despair, to hope, to triumph. More on that later.

Since I have been so busy, I have chosen a guest reviewer (to review our first motion picture!) – a delicious man from Finland. Kimmo Mustonenen is very well known in the critical community as a critic’s critic. So today, as we emerge from Behind The Proscenium, I present to you Kimmo Mustonenen’s brilliant review of “Water For Elephants”.

Take it away, Kimmo!

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“Water For Elephants” Review – by Kimmo Mustonenen

It all started when I saw the Twilight Saga, familiar to Robert Pattinson a magazine for young women pages.

No, I do not usually read those magazines – it just happened to come accept a job in the coffee room. Really.

Pages of a magazine was waiting for a surprise, which caused almost obsessive interest in young Mr. Pattinson’s new “Elephant Water” films.

Robert Pattinson – hysteria & circuses, cried the magazine title and the star of the picture proudly displayed a big smile while both hands onto a giant elephant intrusive nasal.

Article caused great wonderment in my mind and raised questions. Is it that today’s teenage girls no longer enough just beautiful boy charming smile? If further adolescent really so blatant metaphors? Questions puzzled my mind, rather than later published in the trailer gives no answers. I got my hands on the Artichoke Film catalog and introductory text encapsulates the film hooks maximal manner:

“Together with Jacob and Marlena are trying to find common ground on a new entrant to the circus, Rosie, an elephant – and with each other.”

In the three pieces of our time immoral triangle, unless I have not understood the whole movie’s point completely wrong.

Now the long wait will be rewarded when the “Water Elephants” will be premiered. “Constantine” director Francis Lawrence to combine “Twilight” star Pattinson, “Walk the Line” decorative Reese Witherspoon, Oscar-winning actor Christoph Waltz, and an elephant named Rosie horse shit stink, but his film. Rumors say that in real life Pattinson took the role against the 42-year-old, more than 4000 kg elephant due.

“When Robert saw the elephant, he loved it so much, that definitely wanted to play the role of Jacob“, one of the R-Pattz actress friend says.

We are living in the 1930s Depression-ravaged America. Jacob will be orphaned of his parents died in a car accident. Veterinarian Studies of disruption and the bank seized the home because of debts. Jacob ends up accidentally falling within the party of the circus train and befriends a circus with the people dear to quickly support a number of star brightness, Marlena (Witherspoon).

Circus manager is Marlena’s quick temper and a violent husband, August (Waltz), which takes Jacob wings Rosie-trained elephants, the latest entrant to the circus. Jacob and Marlena’s secret relationship came to light the following problems.

“Water For Elephants” is not just a dirty metaphors studded ultimaaattinen karsanhyvailyelokuva or even Pattinson naamavarkilla equestrian circus camp.

Sara Gruen of the same name based on the novel worked screenplay manages to cover almost completely beneath the smoldering invisible ink written kaksimielisyydet that subtitles do things, if it is to take a closer look.

Movie barking is unnecessary, so focus on the good aspects.

Story told in flashback and frame the story in retirement Jacob (Hal Holbrook), accounting for a young history ringmaster. The best part of the scene where Jacob says the young man’s ear and is beautiful.

Soon the “Water Elephant” really gets started and we hear tell Pattinson veterinarian studies, and how he has been too many times to push his hand cow ass. Jacob end of year later, the circus comes to him under more specific use. Man adapts very well in all kinds of wild animals and sirkusfriikkien population, although the typical characters – such as the bearded woman – not the movie nahdakaan. As a counterweight to the state of residence divided Jacob, Kinko called dwarf (Mark Povinelli), whose raksyttava Jack Russell terrier is aptly named Queenie.

Soon Jacob is seen lapioimassa sweaty circus tent in front of the manure. Photo by Rodrigo Prieto, the camera moves to the same sample during a natural picture of a little aside and attached Marlena and her white horses. A few scenes later, Marlena singing children’s songs, while Jacob bang the horse to death with a pistol.

Prieto and director Lawrence keep good care of the fact that often the pictures are carefully portraits. Teen out of the theater audience is familiar with the brainwashing and cult Pattinson already in full swing.

Pattinson and Witherspoon are movie stars, but in smaller roles are Waltz, and Rosie, the elephant, play a much more convincing. Waltz, August-likeness is the same as the oppressive cold Hans Land Below “Inglourious Basterds”. Rosie charms every scene is no wonder that he went to Pattinson’s messed up. The permit is warm and dirty karsaromantiikkaa attention when James is released to manage elephants. Rosie is thrilled once even a bit of splashing face hanging elimellaan.

“Water for Elephants” contains something for everyone. Pattinson having comfortably beaten by a couple of times, but something even better happens. Movie is the best section Jacob gets prank victim and wake up wet after a night out from the barrel pelleksi masked yesterday without remembering anything. A bit later, he discovers something even more shocking, but I am leaving it a secret in this context.

“Water for Elephants”, this time, may be graded at four stars out of five. However, it is good to note that the score is given, at least potentially Pattinson fans the human or other creature’s point of view. Under normal circumstances, like a nihilist could approach it in a slightly different way, and bend up to hold it in a bad movie, but for me, the brainwashing has already occurred.

If the score does not feel right or you are otherwise hurt just reading your text, so can not do anything. Bad luck.

Kimmo Mustonenen
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