Our favourite soundtracks

1)
Twin Peaks
Angelo Badalamentis eerie and well-known theme song is one of the best in the history of television; if you don't get goose bumps from the opening scene, there's something wrong with you.

See how the song was made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_9D5PiOjog&feature=related from 03.30.

Badalamenti is mainly associated with David Lynch and have in addition to TP, made the soundtracks to Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. He also has a fantastic cameo-role as the mafioso Castigliani in the espresso scene in the latter movie. It may be a bombastic statement to say that David Lynch' movies wouldn't be that good without his music, but well...it's probably true.

Twin Peaks soundtrack can be downloaded here: http://www.box.net/public/1iy072723y

Farenheit download: http://omikrongame.blogspot.com/2006/07/fahrenheit-angelo-badalamenti.html

2)

Clockwork Orange

The title song Music for the funeral of Queen Mary composed by Henry Purcell and synthesized by Wendy/Walter Carlos is extremely funky. The rest of the soundtrack is an eclectic mix of classical music and synth tunes who perfectly complements the picture.

It's also worth mentioning the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the epic Strauss composition. It seems like Kubrick really knew how to pick the right soundtrack to make an iconic opening scene.

Kubrick's sountrack can be downloaded here: http://www.angelfire.com/film/skmidi/Midi.htm


3)

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Wes Anderson always puts together good sountracks, and his choices ranges from the Stones to Eliott Smith.

The original soundtrack, made by Mark Mothersbaug, is perfect for any movie where Bill Murray fights against pirates in a speedo. Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op is probably among my five top songs ever. Seu Jorge, who plays Pelé Dos Santos, also makes a contribution with the acoustic portugese versions of David Bowie songs - priceless.

Dotson is GOD!

We love Chris Dotson/slæsh/The Dotman A.K.A. the best David Lynch inpersonator ever.
He's God, as far as we're (minus ingrid) concerned...

Check out hi's blog, site and youtube accounts:
http://dotsonsalutes.blogspot.com
http://youtube.com/user/dotman76
http://youtube.com/user/notdavidlynch
http://mynameischrisdotson.com/

Who'd ya gonna call?

So me and some friends had been planning to see the remake of Funny Games, and friday the glorious day had finally arrived. We had already bought tickets a couple of days in advance so we were assured to get great seats, and waited quite tense and overly-excited. But then, for some cruel reason the theatre didn't have a film to actually show us. It's an understatement when I say we were crushed.
The day ended in refunds and free movie tickets to Be Kind, Rewind, which was kind of a dissapointment and not what we expected from Mr. Gondry. Too sentimental, not funny and the story line was kinda weak. And some bitch was screaming behind us every time Jack Blacks face showed up. Luckily Mos Def saved the movie from total disaster. Plus for using my favourite quote from Ghostbusters: We're gonna show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown


Conclusion: We hate Norwegian movie theatres... And Jack Black.

Verste Oversettelser Fra Engelsk Til Norsk

1) The Party - Høyt Skum i Hollywood (HAHA) (eller som det så vakkert heter på dansk: Kom Vask Min Elefant)!!

2)The Shawshank Redemption - Frihetens Regn

3) The Philadelphia Story - En Nydelig Historie

4) Reservoir Dogs - De Hensynsløse

5) Batman - Lynvingen

Og noe vi fant på avforum.no:

10. You must leave your iron outside - Legg igjen strykejernet ditt på utsiden
9. From what I saw on the tube, this is.. - Fra det jeg så på t-banen, er dette
8. I'll be right behind you, wathcing your back - Jeg står rett bak deg og kikker på ryggen din
7. He's got a nice bum - Han er en likandes boms.
6. Oh no! Bonedaddy is coming - Å heisann, hoppsann! Her kommer Knokkelpappa
5. You fucking fuck- Din nissefjomp.
4. Luke, take my lightsword ? Luke, ta mitt lette sverd
3. Yippikayey motherfucker! - Hipp hurra din kødd
2. wanna have makeup-sex? ? Vil du ha sminkesex?
1. He worked as a navy-SEAL ? HAN JOBBET SOM MARINESEL

Since Otar Left

The director, Julie Bertuccelli - a former documentarist, debuted in 2003 with the georgian/french movie "Since Otar Left". It's a beautiful portray about three generations of women living together, depicted in a down-to-earth and humoristic way.
Otar has left Georgia and the misery, to work illegaly in France, while his mother Eka lives on his regular letters and phonecalls. Suddenly Otar dies, the letters stop, and the two younger generations doesn’t have the heart to tell Eka, so they conceal the truth by writing fictional letters.

You may think this sound like a boring and dull plot, but it surprised me with it’s charm, beautiful character descriptions and everydaylife details. The most pleasant surprise was Esther Gorintin who plays Otars mother Eka with so much life, tacitunity and strength. A solid movie I absolutley would reccomend !

The Ugliest Hairdos

In our opinion this is the ugliest hairdos in movies (and series):

1: Spock from "Star Trek"....

2: Cameron Diaz in "Being John Malkovich" - doesn't need any explanation


3: Javier Bardem in "No Country For Old Men" - it's trendy in L.A.

4: Macgyver: You can't really see the brilliance of his mullet here, but it really is

5: Bob from "Twin Peaks" - more disgusting than ugly, but yeah....

Watchmen

Pia is not looking forward to the film remake of Watchmen.
The guy directing it is the same lame-o, Zack Snyder, behind 300 (never watched it, and never will) and Dawn Of The Dead. Can it get any worse?
Oh, yes! it's not enought to perhaps ruin the all time iconic graphic novel by letting a dumbass directing it, but one of the writers, David Hayter, wrote the X-Men, the sequel AND The Scorpion King! I can't belive it!


The cast is a chapter for itself. Only a guy that would cast Gerard Butler as a spartan warrior is capable of miscasting actors this... bad. For starters; how can Billy Crudup play Dr. Manhattan!?! And it get's worse if I have to watch "The Heartbrake Kid's Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk and this looser Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the one and only Comedian himself.
I'm getting used to the idea of Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg, with the image of a little belly action. I hope they're not trying to make the new Nite Owl fit and in shape, he's supposed to squeese the old suite on. I guess Matthew Goode will make an ok Ozymandias, don't really know, don't really care...
The one arrangement I'm happy with is the casting of Jackie EarleHaley as Rorschach. I have no idea what this man may do, but I'm sure I'll love it.

Check out this link for more information on the watchman casting:
http://movies.ign.com/articles/810/810207p1.html


It's all I think about at nights... Should I take the chance of watching it and perhaps ruin my perception of the book for all time; or do I got the courage to see it through?

What The Fuck?

We loved Ben Stiller in Zoolander and The Royal Tenenbaums, but he is directing/writing a new movie about "a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie who are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying". Can be interesting, but probably not since Tom Cruise AND Jack Black are starring too.. but the poster is pretty nice

Funny Games U.S.

This is the remake of the German 1997 version of Funny Games, but it's not really a remake. Or is it?
The psychological thriller is directed and written by Michael Haneke in both the 1997 and 2007 version. The remake is starring Tim Roth, Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet and Devon Gearhart. It's filmed shot by shot after the original film, the only visible diffrence is the actors and language.

This is the first and only film I've ever had bad dreams after watching. Acting performances doesn't get any better than this. I can't get around the fact that one of the reasons it's so scary is because it's in german. Germans are scary!






Other recomended Michael Haneke films:
- La Pianiste
- Benny's Video
- Cachè








Michael says; "Check it out"!

Typecasting

We discussed how alot of actors get these typical typecastes, like somehow every role is the very same. Unfortunate (as we like to think of it) actors/actresses like these are:

Judy Dench - Her usual typecast is the powerbitch or the very equal portraited powerdyke.










Tim Roth - Mr. Roth is an extremely versitile actor, but especially in America he usually gets the part of the bad guy.














Hugh Grant - Especially after the hooker-sex-blowjob-scandal he often plays the sleazy, but lonely british guy.














John Malkovich - For some people it may be hard to see how this guy's not versitile, but again, in America he often plays the mean guy (or the artsy gayish guy).














And of course Bill Murray - The decadent casanova who seeks real love, himself, or simply the funny casanova guy.














And needless to say, actors like Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell and Sandra Bullock, but we're not aiming that low.

Good Morning

We finally decided for a name inspired by The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We're gonna post alot of random movie-trivia, recomendations, news, lists and so on...