Anton Bjurvald

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Favorite films

  • Jurassic Park
  • The Last Waltz
  • The Adventures of Picasso
  • Moneyball

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  • The Departed

    ★★

  • Running Scared

    ★★★

  • Geronimo: An American Legend

    ★★★½

  • True Grit

    ★★★★½

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  • Iron Man 2

    Iron Man 2

    ★★½

    Iron Meh

    Good: Sam Rockwell and Mickey Rourke have a weird "who is really the bad guy"-subplot that I think is this movies greatest strength. Also the action is really good. Black Widow should've been given her own movie.

    Bad: Totally backhands "Demon in a bottle" for 15 minutes, a story that arguably should've been it's own movie. But Marvel didn't do dark movies/shows at this time. To quote the immortal bard that is Joey Gladstone - Cut. It. Out.

  • You Were Never Really Here

    You Were Never Really Here

    ★★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    The essence of filmmaking, distilled and delicious. This is why I love movies.

    Phoenix's beard, body, clothes, movement, speech pattern, reactions, tics and just about everything else is perfection.

    Such effective story telling, what your average tv drama does in a season, Ramsey manages in 90 minutes. She completly trusts the audience to fill the gaps between the frames.

    The kitchen floor scene might be my favourite part.

    Last, but far from least, the razor solution is so brilliantly inspired. It cuts through every "lone man fixes things with violence"-trope the genre has buildt up over the ages.

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  • The Departed

    The Departed

    ★★

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    I will just do this half baked remake gangster derivative off hand with no new ideas or inspiration. The only new thing is that instead of the five burrows it is set in Boston. I’ll score with the most obvious Dropkick Murphy song, put some uninspired establishing shots (the same multiple times) of the golden State House dome, give Maahk Waahlbeehg the worst haircut, shoot everyone in the end and you Massholes will still just lap it up - and…

  • Running Scared

    Running Scared

    ★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    It is pretty weird that this is the first time for me with this movie, it is a type of movie I would see about 100 times. As a 43-year old I really am harder to charm with casual but definite police abuse. I do like the Florida montage a lot and therefore I was very disappointed with the ending.

    This also might be the worst display of bad action choreography (especially in the shooting scenes) I have ever seen.…

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  • The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell

    ★★★★

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    How disjointed are the two episodes smushed into one tv movie? Honestly, I didn't spot the seam.

    Story: Somme ★★★½ - A "horrors of the trenches"-story where people die from mustard gas and flame throwers, with a interesting sub-plotline of a mutinous soldier who may or may not be a murderer of officers. Germany ★★★★½ - The Great Escape light with comedy, ingenuity, elegance and De Gaulle! The castle prison gave me so many ideas for future role playing game…

  • Dragged Across Concrete

    Dragged Across Concrete

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    Boring, bad and the worst kind of slow.

    Good: Saw this at the "Surprise" screening at the 2018 Stockholm International Film Festival and suspected it to be an Uwe Boll movie. When the credits proved me wrong I felt kind of sad, as I hoped Boll was the only "provocateure" left making this kind of tripe with a cinema audience in mind. That's the only true emotion this movie provoked from me...

    Bad: ...and this movie has a scene where…