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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Take My Life, Please (2010)
Welcome back, Greg Sanders!
Not so long ago I read somewhere that one of the things the original CSI needs to get back on its feed is Greg Sanders' funny comments, and I could not agree more! The character has become way to sombre - what happen to our beloved wisecrack?
In "Take My Life, Please" we don't just look back to the good old days of Las Vegas, but we get some of the good old Greg Sanders back! How he's been missed! Its actually a perfect story to re-introduce him, because of his love and knowledge of Vegas' Golden Age, even if it is only hinted at with Knuckles comment on how Greg can possible know why Knuckles and Nash stopped their first performance run thirty years ago.
Let's hope fun man Greg don't go into oblivion again - we do need some Papa Olaf ;o)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
True Star Wars
This Star Wars movie is simply fantastic. It definitely lives up to my expectations of it. George Lucas is really good at building up stories and I cannot wait to see how the last of this trilogy ends - well, I know how it ends but I cannot wait to see how Lucas describes it. And then I must say that Yoda is THE MASTER!
Fever Lake (1997)
Maybe he is cursed :o
Why is this movie only #99 on the bottom 100 list?! This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen. There is absolutely no connection between incidents - and the ending sucks. And who have ever heard of a wolf that kills without being there, but it still feeds of its victim??? This is the only non-comedy I have laugh all the way through.
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Tim Burton does it again!
'Planet of the Apes' is yet another example of Tim Burton´s excellent director skills. When Burton gives us a movie we can be sure not to get another Hollywood show of their big special effects. Instead we get a movie where the superb effects are just minor details that support the story´s substance.
Burton´s "remake" of 'Planet of the Apes' is as surprising as the first because the story is different. Yet the themes are the same: racism and equality being the most important. Another theme in the movie is the complexity of time travel that Burton deals with in the same way as e.g. ex-Python Terry Gilliam did in '12 Monkeys'.
The apes are outstanding e.g. because of their walk and their interactions in general. Another thing I truly love about this movie is that the music score has been kept in the same stile as the score in the original Planet of the Apes.
All in all an exceptional movie that is a must.
Gladiator (2000)
It was the sword the women liked!
Gladiator is not just a display of how perfect special effects can be a giving part of a movie - the effects of Gladiator give you a chance to follow a splendid story of a man who puts honour and friendship above ambition. What I especially find so amazing is the details - for instance how both the ageing emperor, Marcus Aurelius, and his son, Commodus, have a harelip or how the colour of the light chances: warm and red in Marcus Aurelius' tent as he speaks with Maximus - cold and blue as Maximus steps out of the tent. And historical facts make the movie so much more interesting; how the emperors kept the people happy and in the hollow of the hand with food and entertainment or how the gladiators kept wealthy women "happy" (it was the sword the women liked).
Altogether this is not a movie anyone should let go unnoticed.