There are so many movies! So, many movies. And I like watching them. Maybe a bit too much. In difference from the times of old, there are so many movies out there that we won't actually have a chance to watch through them all in a regular life-time, even if watching movies is our one and only hobby, or even our work. Even if it's all we ever do. Even if we only watch the movies we expect to like. Well, I don't know about you, but in my case that amounts to an incredibly vast and varied selection of movies.

I've been catching up on old and new titles alike, and every time it seems like I've seen all the good ones - all the ones I want to see, I go looking around and find another batch that would last any normal individual a week or more. Do I watch too much? Well, it's not a waste of time if you like doing it, is it? So I tell myself.

I ponder venturing down a road as a movie critic, yet when I once in a while stop by sites like IMDB to read a review or two, I'm always surprised by how negative the critics are, and that gives me a distaste for the profession. Why can't everyone just enjoy the movie? Why do they have to get stuck on the most trivial details, and let those minuscule things ruin what could have been an awesome experience?

The reviews I read make it seem like the people writing them take pride in finding flaws: in finding reasons as to why not to like the pieces they just watched, when they could instead be having a good time and focusing on what they did appreciate. Optimism grows. Think positive, and you'll become positive, and the world will be positive, and if you like movies maybe the movies will become good. But then again, if all movies were incredibly hyped up and everybody loved everything, maybe I'd be the one standing in front of the sun trying to nurture a shadow in that overwhelming light.

The conclusion I'm coming to here, if there is one: is that I really like movies.

I like the breaks in the routine with which I relate them, that ease with which you can - depending on chosen genre - either learn something, or flee whatever hardships you're currently facing in life, or inspire yourself to make a change. Martial arts. Fighting. Dance. Animation and drama. Even musicals. There are so many different types and tastes to savor and appreciate, that'll empower you to do things! Or learn things! Or simple make you laugh and relax!

Every once in a while I just feel like pointing this out. So I'm writing this little causerie in between the childish but fun Race to Witch Mountain (2009) and Black Dynamite, from that same year, and judging by the cover it seems great. I can't say anything more about it because I haven't seen it yet.

Unless I'm watching movies with friends or on the big screen, I rarely ever watch a trailer, rarely descriptions, and sometimes I don't even need to see the cover to type in a title on my watchlist, one in which every word fills me with expectation and exhilaration. There are so many movies. So, many movies. And I like watching them.

Man am I glad this guy is still sticking a round, what a shame it'd have been to the movie industry if he just split!

UPD: Original removed, found a replacement copy. Also this.

Woah, I just realized 50 is in the movie, along with Robert De Niro. How does that work? 50 can't actually act... or can he? Not to say I didn't enjoy his latest attempt, that one called, *quick IMDB check* Setup. It was good, but he still can't act for shit. Turns out he's been in a whole lot of movies the past few years! I'm surprised! Shocked, even! And I'm looking forward to more of them! He's made a ton of music videos too, around 20 just this year. Crazy. I spent a couple of hours yesterday watching through 50 Cent videos on YT, on just the one official channel. I'm going through them one by one (just skimming, trying not to miss anything important) and I'm not even further back than 2011 yet! I'm starting to wonder if this check-all-old-videos-of-channels-I-subscribe-to plan is going to work. This is going to take forever...

I went to watch Iron Sky today with buddy Bear. It's the debut day for the movie here in Sweden and he had two free tickets. :) Iron Sky is a Finnish movie featuring a disoriented female Nazi, the fourth Reich, a female president and a black main character who turns white against his will. What else does it have? Action, spaceships, explosions, a real doomsday device, a nice twist at the very end (retrospective spoiler alert) and eh... that's about it.

The movie is a mess in many aspects (soundtrack for one, some events-with-huge-chaos-potential just sliding by for another), but it was also a strangely refreshing view. It's no Hollywood movie, and it shows. Not in low quality filmography or bad acting, but rather in how unexpected things can happen, how the hero isn't a stereotype, how the sceneries and effects are creative and experimental, how the... well that's about it, but that's more than enough. Since it's Finnish, I was expecting something with a lower budget, but this was all but low budget. It was a good movie. I'll give it a...

 rated 4/5: fo shizzle

So, I've been thinking, is the 777 just a number or is there some meaning behind that specific choice of numbers? First thought was it's just a step up from 666, evil in a way, but not so evil it'll actually derail and take a thousand lives with it... retrospective spoiler alert btw. ;)

Today I read some interesting info, apparently 7 is a lucky number. Could this have something to do with it? Imagine the luck in getting that train to stop before the, well, you better watch the movie.

A third option could be that it just sounds good, or maybe it's just a favorite, or it could be completely random... or maybe it has something to do with the triple 7's you usually see in casino slot machines, the one armed bandits, you know? I'm curious.

I watched Total Action over at Voddler, rated it and read a few reviews, and 2 out of 8 thought the ending was funny. Funny? It's tragic as hell (spoiler starts here btw)! The hero dies FGS!

Ok, maybe not that tragic... it's satisfying. He has avenged his boss, his dear friend, saved the kids, made them all get closer together, and he wasn't such a great person anyway... but he's dead, and he was the kind of main person you gain sympathy for. I don't get how that can called funny, what twisted sense of humor do people have?

It's the same thing as calling any other movie than Inception epic. Only one movie is granted such a label. If there's more than one there's no longer any truth to it. That's like calling any drama movie a comedy, because it has a happy ending, sure you can play by the dictionary if you like, but the word has grown into something completely different now than what it really is (should I say was?). When you say comedy you mean something that you can laugh at, you don't mean something you don't cry at, that's like pleading to the cops that you're innocent because you didn't kill the victim. I could throw in a hundred more comparisons, but I hope you get the point.

Total Action does not have a funny ending.