2012 #1

Okay, yes I'm late. 

Anyhow I will do my 2012 report in three steps: movies I watched in the cinema, books I read and other important stuff.

2012 I watched 33 different movies in the cinema – yes, I'm only counting the ones I've seen in a movie theater – and I enjoyed most of them.

First of all, I enumerate them for you just in case you care, otherwise skip all the numbers and look at my voting/highlights :-)

They are organized by their release date, not the order I watched them. Yes, I mostly watch high-budget, mainstream, no-deeper-meaning movies and I LOVE it.

1. Intouchables

2. J. Edgar

3. Faust

4. Jack and Jill

5. Star Wars Episode I 3D

6. The Devil Inside

7. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

8. John Carter

9. Türkisch für Anfänger

10. The Hunger Games

11. Wrath of the Titans

12. Woman in Black

13. Iron Sky

14. Battleship

15. The Avengers

16. Dark Shadows

17. Men in Black 3

18. Snow White and the Huntsman

19. Street Dance 2

20. The Cabin in the Woods

21. Ice Age 4

22. Spiderman

23. The Dark Knight Rises

24. Ted

25. Prometheus

26. Total Recall

27. Magic Mike

28. The Expendables 2

29. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

30. Killing Them Softly

31. The Rise of the Guardians
32. Cloudatlas

33. The Hobbit

My personal highlights from 2012 and just because some aren't mentioned doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy them. I just liked others better. :

Favorite love movie: Türkisch für Anfänger

Favorite drama movie: J. Edgar, Cloudatlas

Favorite comedy movies: Men in Black, Intouchables

Favorite fantasy/sci-fi movie: John Carter

Favorite action movies: Battleship, Abraham Lincoln

Favorite horror movie: Cabin in the Woods

Favorite animated movie: Rise of the Guardians

Most epic movies: Avengers, Hobbit

Biggest disappointments of the year: Faust, Snow White and the Huntsman, Wrath of the Titans

Seen more than once in the cinema: Avengers (5x), Spiderman (3x), Hunger Games (3x)

Can't wait for:

Iron Man 2, Thor 2, Hungergames 2, Hobbit 2, Mortal Instruments, the Host, Star Trek 2, Hansel und Gretel: Witchhunter, Lone Ranger, The Wolverine

Rise of the Guardians

Last Tuesday I went to see Rise of the Guardians with one of my friends. 

I really wanted to see this movie because I fell in love with Jack Frost. Who didn't?

And I haven't watched a good animated movie this year. 

Close to Christmas the best children movies are released. 

Rise of the Guardians is super cute and funny. 

You basically know all the main charakters - Santa Claus, the Toothfairy, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, Jack Frost - but the movie or the book the movie is based on gave them a surprising, fresh new personality and character layout. 

The main plot is that Pitch - the Boogeyman - returns. He wants to defeat the Guardians and bring fear and nightmares back into the world. I think he is quite scary. Children movies sometimes freak me more out than adult movies do. And Pitch and his freaking black horses are my personal nightmares. But what is scarier than fear itself? Yeah, I kind of quote Harry Potter here. 

A second plot would be Jacks search for his pre-spirit life. He wants to know why he exists and what his purpose in life is. And somehow that's the question we all ask ourselves everyday, isn't it?

One of the other highlights of this movie are the voice actors, therefore i recommend to watch this movie in English. We have Chris Pine as Jack Frost, Hugh Jackman as the Easter Bunny and Jude Law as Pitch. Voiceporn ♡. 

If you like children movies and want to laugh a lot: watch this nicely animated movie. You will leave the cinema with a warm feeling in your tummy, ready for christmas. Even then the movie takes place close to Easter it feels like a Christmas movie. Maybe because of all this snow and Santa Claus. 

I've watched the 2D version so I can't tell you anything about the 3D effects. Sorry. 

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - atmosphere
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - comedy
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - action
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - love
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - horror
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - epicness

Battleship & The Women in black

Finally I have time to post about the two movies I saw at the cinema. 

Two weeks ago I watched Battleship. 

It's a typical American hero movie. So there isn't really a plot. 

Aliens enter the world, they want to call their home planet therefore they take over Hawaii. Only one battleship can save all humans - a hero is born. 

I have to confess I enjoy this kind of movie so much. I loved it. 

 The Americans saved the world - again - and the patriotism in this one is overwhelming. They have a goodlooking blond hero, world war II veterans, a cooperation with the Japanese, a black army guy without legs and even Rihanna!

If you love action and are fine with a lot of BOOM and BANG without real story, you will like it. ♥

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - atmosphere
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - comedy
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - action
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - love
  ☆☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - horror
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - epicness

And last Friday I watched The woman in black with some of my friends.

I can't remember the last time I was so scared. 

The movie is open to everybody over the age of 12 and I can't understand it. 

It's so damn scary. The woman in black is not a classical horror movie. There's not to a lot of blood and it's not so violent. They try to play with your mind and in my case it worked. One of my friends said, she was a little bored the first hour but scared at the end as well.

So maybe you will be bored as well?

The fun part of this movie is Daniel Radcliffe. I coudn't stop to think about Harry Potter. Poor boy will always be a wizard in my mind. But he was acting way better than in Harry Potter. Thanks god.

I think the movie won't be very long in the movie theaters anymore - it's already running since a few weeks - so if you like the Harry Potter cast and horror movies, feel free to watch and enjoy it.

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - atmosphere
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - comedy
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - action
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - love
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - horror
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - epicness

My favourite part about this movie is that the actor of James Potter played the main character - who is played by Harry Potter now - in the first version from The woman in black. MINDBLOW!

Wrath of the Titans

So last night I watched Wrath of the Titans in 3D.
It's the sequel to Clash of the Titans, which I saw August 2010 on my flight to the USA.
Therefore I can't remember the whole plot and while trying to remember I mixed it up with other Greek mythology movies I've seen.
In the end I coudn't figure out what the first one was about and I think it doesn't matter to watch Wrath of the Titans.
Like the name already tells it's a Greek mythology movie.
It doesn't want to tell you the different and awesome stories Greek myths are able to tell, it's more like fighting, killing, bashing different fictional Greek monsters.
I enjoy this kind of movies anyhow I enjoy every kind of movie, did you notice? and it was fun to watch.
If you know a little bit about Greek myths you can figure out what kind of monster is comming next and all this stuff, but that's ok. Maybe it has a litte bit too much different kinds of monsters...
The 3D was nice. It had some great effects and went very smooth.
One last thing I thought was very funny.
Zeus is played by Liam Neeson - who also played Qui-Gon Jinn in Start Wars - and he always talked about "Macht". I think he meant the English word "power" but it can mean "force" as well and so I cracked up a few times. Zeus the first Jedi ever. Haha. Just my humor, sorry.
Oh and today I won't tell you to go and see the movie. It's very nice if you like the genre but Wrath of the Titans doesn't have a deep story or anything special. It's simply a kill and fight movie.

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - atmosphere
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - comedy
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - action
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - love
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - horror
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - epicness

btw IT IS FUCKING SNOWING!!!!

J. Edgar

The movie I saw tonight is different to the ones I mentioned in this blog earlier.
Every Wendsday night the cinema I work for shows the "Filmauslese".
This means, movies with higher standards and deeper meanings are showed. Movies not a lot of people want to see ;-)
Tonight it was J. Edgar.
The movie was in the cinemas in January [first date: 19. January in Germany] so you probably saw it already.
It's a politics and society crtical movie.
J. Edgar Hoover was a real person. He was the director of the FBI for about 50 years. He had a strong will, firm views of politics and state security and I think you can call him a capitalist.
Nowadays you would call him crazy, narrow minded and maybe also a little bit racist, but he was a child of one's time.
He reached a lot - he formed the FBI how we know it now and faught against communism and everything else he thought could jeopardize the American system and security. Edagar's power survived 8 presidents and he was abel to handel and use his power to gather even more.
All in all he was an asshole.
But the movie doesn't only show his political and capitalistic ideas - what we nowadays support or hate - it also showed the difficulties of homosexuality to the time of the early 20. century.
Edgar was gay but coudn't really admit it and he also fell in love with his assistant Clyde Tolson. But Edgar Hoover was raised by his mother with the idea of "better a dead son than a gay son". So the realationship between these two is very touching, dramatic and heart-breaking.
Do yourself a favour, get this movie on DVD and watch it.
You will learn some very fascinating things, you will have to think about some aspects of our society and you can see some very American and captialistic ideologies.
One last information about the movie:
J. Edgar Hoober was a very quiet man, who loved secrets. So nobody knows what is real and what is fiction!

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - atmosphere
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - comedy
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - action
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - love
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - horror
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - epicness

Hunger Games

I'm not going to spoil this movie for you!

Move your lazy ass and watch this freaking awesome movie!
I waited months to watch the Hunger Games and it was so fantastic.
Of course the book is way better and at first I was really scared but it turned out to be a great movie. They were able to get most of the feelings from the book into this movie.
Do yourself a favour: buy the book, read it and go watch this movie.
It's touching. It's so much more, it has such a deep meaning and teachs us a lot.
The Hunger Games are an incredible life lesson, showing the cruelty of human beings, dictatorship and that there is always hope.
Never give up and may the odds be ever in your favour.
Unfortunaly there are a lot of great movies coming up, I will tell you a lot to go to the cinema.
But I promise you will never regret watching the Hunger Games and your life will never be the same...

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - atmosphere
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - comedy
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - action
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - love
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - horror
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - epicness

Journey 2

Belive it or not I've been to the cinema again.

The cinema is probably my favourite place on earth.
I went with a lovely friend of mine - his name is Mirz.
I wanted to watch This is War but unfortunaly the movie runs only on Saturday.
So we had to decide between Journey 2 - The mysterious Island and Türkisch für Anfänger.
I've seen the second movie already and I wanted to see Journey 2 anyway so we went to see Journey 2.
We hadn't seen the first Journey movie but that's fine. You don't need to know the first one to understand the second.
The movie was fun. I enjoyed it a lot.
If you are a fan of children adventure-action movies you need to see it.
The island had an incredible atmosphere - everywhere green and novel animals.
The story is mainly based on the book The mysteriouse Island from Jules Verne.
Actually I only wanted to see the movie because of Josh Hutcherson can't wait so see the Hunger Games!!! and he is awesome!
He is a great actor and kind of cute.

Ah my movie revies are horrible. I tell you all the time: Go and watch this movie, but I can't give you good reasons. Sorry!

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - atmosphere
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - comedy
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - action
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - love
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - horror
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - epicness

Türkisch für Anfänger

Ah~ again a cinema review.

I watched Türkisch für Anfänger with one of my classmates.
She is super cute and I envy her beauty.
And again I simply have to say: GO AND WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!

Türkisch für Anfänger [Turkish for beginner] is a German movie and it's a super cute, funny love story between a Turkish German boy and German German girl - also a Turkish German girl and a Greek German boy.
Germany has lots of Turkish immigrants and the movie makes fun about the clichés, the education situation in Germany and daily love problems. Usually funny movies have a few fun situations but are mostly boring. Not this one! I laughed all the time.
The storyline is so sweet and you can't stop falling in love with the charakter.
It's no problem if you don't know the TV series because the story starts all over again - just different. Lena, Cem, Yagmur and Costa don't know each other and get lost on a desolated island. They try to survive and love is in the air ;-)

oh and I'm so in love with Cem ♥

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - atmosphere
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - comedy
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - action
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - love
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - horror
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ - epicness

John Carter

Due to my work in the cinema I watched John Carter yesterday.

It's an 3D si-fi movie from Disney.
Everybody simply needs to watch it. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a movie so much. It's fun, full of action and even has a little bit of love [in my eyes maybe a little too much but it was ok]
The story is about John Carter, a former Civil War soldier. He escaped his soldier duties and tries to find a gold mine. With a few problems he finds a cave with gold and in there he somehow gets transported to the planet Mars - it's called "Barsoom" by the natives.
Johan Carter is meeting some Tharks. They want to kill him first but seeing his jumping skills [gravity differnce between earth and barsoom, you know?] the decide to arrest him.
Tharks are awesome Martians! They are tall, green, have four arms and a completly different culture.
Tharks are of course not the only inhabitants of Barsoom but they are the most interessting ones. The ofter two cultures look like humans and having kind of a civil war. I don't want to spoil too much of the story just one of the other natives is a good-looking woman with stunning blue eyes.
Most of the time I'm not a big fan of 3D. But this time I enjoyed it a lot. The pictures were clear and I didn't have a blurred picture once.
The world/mars/barsoom was aweesome. They made it look so different to earth, it just seemd really to be a new world. I love the idea of differnt worlds - like middle earth. But they need to do it genuine - and they did!
The story was full of action, fun, love and surprise till the end - I almost got a heart attack in the last 5 minutes. There are moments you want to cry, you have to laugh or you want to hide somewhere because it's getting so intense.
Please everybody, go and watch this movie!

Anyway I think I will buy the books to this movie.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - atmosphere
★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - comedy
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - action
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - love
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - horror
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - epicness