Death Race

Death Race

 

Again I went to the Sneak this week. Me and my friend where sitting exited in our seats, the regular trailers started, and then, the movie... Well, my friend next to me kept saying for about five minutes: "No no, this isn´t the movie, it´s obvious that this is just another trailer." She was wrong and we were a little schocked even by the start. Just speed in some fucked up cars with guns and whatever other stuff that had a race and the drivers were trying to kill each other. And that´s more or less the story. But I will get a bit more detailed of course:) Ít´s 2012, the financial markets had collapsed, concerns rule the world only with the desire for profit, and not to forget the criminality rate is unbelivable high but for the movie itself this is really not important at all). So we have our innocent but keen main actor Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) whose wife gets killed but he goes to prison for it. It´s all an intrigue against him and for the quotes of death race. This death race thing is an invetion of the female director of the prison, who by the way is wire puller of the murder of his wife. Jensen has to win just one race to become a free citizan again. Ah, this I should mention, the clue is, that after a prisionor wins five races he is free. And the whole battle is coveraged live on TV. Great. I can only say, it was horrible, I never watched any car-race-no-brain movies before and I won´t watch one again. Just senceless. Waist of time.

Nordwand

Nordwand

 

This is also a movie I watched in the Sneak Preview´, it´s very good made, it´s a true story and it´s a german one. The Eiger Nordwand is a difficult and dangerous wall to climb and it lays in the Alps in Austria. To make this clear, this ascent has nothing really to do with climbing anymore, because the weather on the Eiger is very insecure, it changes from day to day and even faster. It takes about two days to reach the top when the weather is good and stabil, this weather thing makes it so dangerous to go on this wall because it doesn´t matter that you are a good climber when you have to fight with extreme coldness, lawines and rockfalls. To the story: It´s 1936. Toni (Benno Fuermann) and Andreas (Florian Lukas) are friends since they can think, they live in the same village and during their free time they go on climbing tours. An old friend of them, Luise Fellner (Johanna Wokalek), visits them, because she wants to write an article about the first ascent of the Eiger Nordwand. She wants to convince the boys to go to the cpmpetition that´s taking place soon, and they could win Olympic Gold for Germany with this. Before nobody was able to reach the top, many tries ended deadly, the second name of the Nordwand is Mordwand (murderwall). Anyway, they go there, everybody is exited, there are other teams from different countries, in the end only two teams start the climb :Toni and Andreas and the other team Willy and Edi. Not long after Willy gets hit by a stone but despertly wants to go on. The weather changes after one day, the four guys are stuck together, lawines, rockfall, snow, storm and freezing temperatures. Willy falls and is injured with an open fracture. They decide to turn and get back. But this is not as easy as it sounds like. They all die. What I liked especially was that the movie was so close to the characters, you get to know them, you feel with them, and the two extrems are very clear: lively and full of impulsive delight in a realistic way in the beginning, and the struggle they have in the end, the fear, hope and hoplessness, death. The pictures are beautiful, the Nordwand seems to be son inviting when they start but changes to hostile place from one moment to another. It´s a sad film and not easy to watch, but very good.

The Accidental Husband

The Accidental Husband

 

Emma Llyoid (Uma Thurman) is a woman that knows what kind of men women need. She moderates her own talkshow in the radio and gives advice to all the unhappy women. And well, they listen to her, take her serious, do what she says. Because Emma is an expert according to true love, you know, there is no prince charming. So one day Sophia calls, she is going to get married on the weekend, but all the five point whatever stuff didn´t fit to her potential husband. Emma is shocked, so Sophia is not getting married and her ex-boyfriend kind of angry about this radio-lady. He takes revange by changing Emma "unmarried status" into a "married status" with a friend of  him who is a hacker. This is a dramatic step, because Emma wants to marry the perfect man, but now first she has to get divorced. She gets to know her husband Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) better, and guess what, she falls for him, he for her, and so on. I watched this movie in the Sneak Preview, I was laughing my head of. All clichees existing about men and women and love are packed here, and of course it´s Hollywood style, it´s a light entertainment, nothing to take serious or to think about. In the end it becomes so horribly sweet and wonderful that I just couldn´t believe people would pay money for this. The actors look extremly good, both men worth watching and Uma Thruman is dressed just great all the way long. There are some funny scenes too, and the indian friend of Patrick is really nice´and smart, but I can´t remember the soundtrack, so this could not have been any special. So in conclusion, I wasn´t convinced.