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This show must have been really something. For his age, Mike was really in great form and he prepared for his comeback really diligently. But this is still just a documentary and not a record of the live show. A crying shame. It could have been one of the events of the year.

Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars in a “more modern” package. A nicely watchable genre film. Willis and Walken don't disappoint and the action scenes are top notch. I had fun.

You ask if I envied the presenter? Of course I did. To get the chance to chat away with Jim, Sam, Sigourney and even hold a gun from the movie... that’d be a dream come true. We learn a whole mountain of information in such a short time, and not just about Avatar. A very special special.

Atmospheric sci-fi that won me over just because it begins on my thirteenth birthday :-). The powerful POV beginning either grips you (I was delighted) or not (mom gave up on it after half an hour). Ralph Fiennes plays a (very untraditional) over-talkative gabber who has everything but good luck for most of the movie (btw, it’s pretty cool that Lenny is named after a DVD burner program - Nero :-). Cameron’s signature is very clear, even though the movie gained its form from his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow. Human kind is usually depicted as a gang of evil madmen, junkies or simple jerks and the only positive character here is Mace. A dark vision of the future/past literally drips from this picture. When I look back ten years, I’m quite glad that it didn’t really look like that then. I'm the magic man... Santa Claus of the subconscious. You say it, you think it, you can have it.

You have to think, not just wave an ax around. A great fairytale with an excellent atmosphere. And all with a welcome lightness thanks to Ondřej Vetchý and his one-liners right on target. P.S.: Is it just me, or does the hero have the same poncho on as Clint does in the Dollars Trilogy? :-)

Real... but incredible too. Cameron delivered all I was expecting and much more. He embellished this simple or fairytale story (a dash of Pocahontas, a dash of Beauty and the Beast etc.) with an incredible amount of ideas and details that take your breath away. Of course, I made sure to watch Avatar at the IMAX and I must say that the movie really was created for 3D with a screen as large as possible. Pandora plucks you like a raspberry (parallel with Jake) and you feel the new world in all its beauty and unknown secrets and you want more and you get more. Each animal is more fascinating than the one you met before and every shot reveals new image after new image that remains ingrained in your memory. Luckily Jim didn’t skimp on technique and so we get the best performance from everybody. Militant and reckless humanity (represented by the great Ribisi) for destruction lovers and on the other end of the scale the naturally sweetened Na’vi race for beauty lovers (all the talk about ecological agitation are wrong, nothing specifically stands out, it all creates a whole where questions of racism etc. are also dealt with). All of this forms into a wonderfully working story and a breathtaking experience. I can’t remember seeing anything as intense (and anything that acts on all levels) for a really long time. I just noticed that I didn’t write about the special effects at all. Maybe because they didn’t seem like effects. They seemed real. When Neytiri cried, I felt with her like with a real person, not like with a nine-foot clown. She looks that real. So it should be said here that the effects are of the highest possible quality (if they are revolutionary or not, you’ll have to ask an expert in the field), personally I was completely gobsmacked, and I’ve seen a lot of movies. Almost all the actors shined, but Sam Worthington really was the best of them all. The nice guy who guides us on this wonderful journey without a doubt deserves great praise. As does Stephen Lang. A proper baddy who reels out one tough line after another. All in all, it was worth the wait. I felt like I was dreaming with my eyes open. I see you...

You can see clearly here that Jim had everything that he put in his famous movies in his head way back in ‘78. And, even if Xenogenesis comes across rather silly today, I have to admit that this short had me captivated. On the other hand, I would have welcomed something different than the open ending.

Cage - excellent, Sam Rockwell - excellent, Alison Lohman - excellent. I was rather surprised to fins a movie from Ridley Scott (!) with Cage (!) that I didn’t know even existed. And it was a pleasant surprise. The type of cool movie that occasionally makes you laugh, but otherwise it’s pretty full-on. + unexpected ending.

Sometimes things go right, sometimes not... Herzog shot a very pleasing old-school movie where there’s no shortage of snappy lines, dumb staring and things work out the only right way. Nick Cage is back in form and is GREAT. A perfect dumb expression, constant feet shuffling and crazy, dry laughter. Excellent. P.S.: The close-up “stoned" shots of the iguana is one of the craziest things I’ve seen this year.

Where’s the splatter movie about a woman who bathed in blood? Herbs, after all... how lame. Boring, no atmosphere, nothing worth remembering. The story doesn’t hold together and of the actors, only Roden sticks out, the others don’t deliver anything special, but on the other hand it’s not embarrassing (even Upír Krejčí was ok in his mini-role :-). But mainly I had the feeling that this movie lasted about three and a half hours. Never again.