FARGO: This Is A True Story

My first impression watching that FX new hit series, Fargo, was... Great! it's a true story and I wonder how the story went.

As I watched, and watched and watched. I was wondering, how the hell it's a true story. I meant, it's too cruel to be true. and, was there a guy who is merciless like Lorne Malvo? I didn't think so.

So, I surfed the internet, and found that Fargo TV Series isn't true. the creator, Noah Hawley said it's just a fictional text that appeared in every episode because he followed The Coen Brothers' decive (the creator of the movie Fargo).

but, afterall, Fargo is as entertaining as a comedy thriller should be. I once tweeted that I love how quirky Martin Freeman picturing Lester Nygaard in the series. He completely different from Bilbo and Dr. Watson. It's like he's this whole new character that is so lame but just so lovable, because, accept it, everyone has been fit in his shoes. and the character Lorne Malvo is evil but there's something interesting about him. he's so merciless yet so lovable. I'm sure you would wondering how Lorne Malvo could stand in his place now. He's just so mysterious.

And about the packaging of the series, you sure you won't doubt FX, right? from the channel who brought you American Horror Story and Louie, you sure you won't doubt them!

So, I sooo recommend you to watch Fargo, if you felt like you're losing Game of Thrones (again, this year) and you're waiting for the whole new fresh episodes from Sherlock (which only have 3 episodes each season, that's a little Benedict Cumberbatch :p). you could watch Fargo. because it's interesting and you just want some more and you'll be addicted to it. it's only 10 episodes in Season 1. so, it's worth to try. 

yeah, that's it.

Happy Friday Night!

(which I will spend my night continuing Fargo)

Bye :)

Coherence: Simple Sci-fi That Would Makes Your Heart Pounds

That's quite a long title for a blog post.
But, it's pretty much what I wanna say.

Coherence.

A simple sci-fi movie that makes your heart really pounds the whole time.
This is an indie low-budget movie, but the story just so good.
They said, James Ward Byrkit (the director) only have 5 days and no script when make this. but I say, no freaking way. I mean, you got to be think a lot when making a movie like this. The story itself was about a comet anomaly that happened in a night when the comet fell to the Earth. And you just gotta know who your friends really are.

Everything was so simple like the sets and the shots, but you just get the suspense. The actors are great. I didn't spot any famous face here, but I didn't mind. They were great! The strenght of this movie was the story, and the theory that supported the anomaly that happened in that movie. It was just so powerful.

It's like, watching a lighter version of Donnie Darko.

But, I kinda don't like the ending. I mean, you built the story, the theory and the suspense. And when we reached an anti-climacs, Byrkit gave an open ending. So hate it. I mean, I want everything to be solved! Don't leave me hanging, please.

Despite the ending, I'm gonna give Coherence 4.5 out of 5. I just love this movie very much. You really should watch it if you miss a movie kinda like Donnie Darko.

I just really love this version of Coherence's poster.

The Double

So they said The Double isn't really that great.

Many reviews pointed out that Richard Ayoade (the director) was a little bit Wes Anderson-y, because of his previous film, Submarine. To be fair, I haven't seen that movie (promise you I will and I will review it) but, I don't care. I think and I really honestly think that The Double is one of a killer movies that I've watched. By killer, I meant super cool and stuffs.

So Ayoade opened with Simon's (Jesse Eisenberg) daily routine which was really boring. And then out of the blue, his doppelgangger came to his life and beat him up in everything, like work performance, how to stole a woman's heart, basically everything. They said this movie was an adapted classic tale by Dostoevsky. But Ayoade wrapped it super nicely.

I love everything! the movie itself is so stylish! I always love stylish movie. How he play the lighting so it affected the mood to the viewers. He play every element (like sets and lightings and angles) to shake your heart up. This is a very nice movie. And the idea talking about someone who people thought he didn't exist but he did was new to me. So I really like the story, and the script was written pretty nicely and not very confusing, since for me, this is a sort of complicated movie. But it's fun to watch! You'll be amazed with the sets and the lighting play, it's like you're watching a play in so many different angles. It's crazy!

So, I love The Double and I'm gonna give 4 out of 5 and I'm responsible for it :)

Just Suck My Eyeballs Out

Okay, Hi everybody (like there's somebody reading my blog) I'm back.
Now I just want to write about a sucky movie, which I sometimes really love wasting my time watching sucky, cheesy and pathetic movie.

Vampire Academy.

Your question, why?

I don't even know. I just like watching any movie with attractive characters (so they said).
my opininion about it waaaas.... horrible.
the movie was super horrible, like you wanna make an epic movie about vampire and breaking any Twilight rules, and you just got slump. The movie itself so pathetic. The director wanted to make sooo many suspense but, yeah... I just didn't feel it. The suspense was forced. too forced. the script was even more horrible, I really just didnt get what they were trying to tell the viewers. Story was all fucked up. It's like I just want to suck my both eyeballs out. And it had too many kinds of vampire. I mean, Twilight one is enough. Don't add anything, please.

And still, I watched that movie (maybe because I love Sarah Hyland, she was pretty though)

So, that's my opinion. I don't wanna give my ratings in that movie. too pathetic.

Three Break Up Movies Which Encourage You To Keep On Living

After a full week of wallowing and self-pity phase, now I’m ready to move on to the next stage of break up, ready to letting it all go. I kinda rewatched all those break up movies which will give me some positive energy to move on with my life. Since he said that “we’re not going to work out” or “you deserve someone better”. Oh come on, you know, we haven’t tried it yet, how come you tell me such things? Well, maybe he’s not brave enough to do all those things with me. Well, I’m kinda still in the denial phase, but today I’m so ready to move with my life and I want to share the movies that kinda motivate me and giving me positive vibes to keep on living.

      Annie Hall

I remember telling him that I didn’t like Annie Hall because it’s too personal. Well, I was wrong. I kinda like this movie. It kinda represents my experience about not-so-working relationship and how to letting it all goes. Woody Allen, made such a good personal film about him, and it made me feel I’m not alone. I’m not the only who have experienced this pain. There are a lot of people before me. About, how we were falling in love in the first part, and then one of us felt that it wasn’t right anymore. How we couldn’t be apart with each other after we broke up, but it’s not right to be together all the time like we used to. In the end, Alvy was having a hard time dealing with his break up, but he managed to fix it all and be friends with Annie instead. I want to be Alvy, I want to move on like Alvy and still be friends with Annie. But I think I need process and the best quotes in this movie that gave me a positive vibe and making me ready to face the reality is this:

“Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; you know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd. But, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs”

      500 Days of Summer

Tom had been madly in love with Summer for 500 days, after a series of phases to get him back to his own feet, in the end, he was ready to face the reality after a bad break up with Summer. I’m Tom! I was madly in love with this guy, well I can’t say I was in love, but it was pretty much almost there. We had our moments, it was sweet for a while and then he told me reality hit us hard and we have to break up.

This movie taught me to keep on living, because somehow in the end, you’ll get your sweet closure and you’d be ready to move on. Eventhough to reach the closure is super freaking hard. But through the process of bad break up, I know you’re going to be someone better and probably smarter. My favorite Tom’s line is this:

“You know what sucks? Realizing that everything you believe in is complete and utter bullshit”

Tom represents me so much, while Summer’s line, which my favorite too, that makes me see through His eyes is this.

“What happened? Why didn’t they work out” “what always happens. Life”

And the narrator’s line:

“Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together"

      

      Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind

This one is a movie by Michel Gondry is always be my favorite breakup movie. I was dreaming I could go to the clinic and just erase all my bad memories with anyone who I’ve broken up with. But, this time, no, I don’t. I don’t want to erase my memories with him, I will always cherish it because I once knew a guy that was so sweet and positive and I want those memories keep on living in my head. The same like Joel didn’t want to erase his memories with Clementine in the middle of the process of memories-erasing. Well I guess it’s good to keep those sweet memories with anybody that once you were falling in love with. To realize, he was once that person. I mean, breaking up doesn’t mean you have to forget what you’ve been through with him, it’s just one of you doesn’t feel like it’s right anymore to date.

I remember Joel said…

“I’m just… happy. I’m exactly where I wanna be”

I was happy. And I was exactly where I wanna be.

I recalled that I still have so many plans with him, like we’re going to watch these movies (most of my favorite one) together. Or that plan about how we’re going to meet, and we’re going to visit Iceland someday. It’s still there; I don’t want to erase it. Because it made me feel how good and happy it was when you’re falling in love. And it doesn’t mean we can’t do our plans together. Maybe someday, if we ever meet, we would do it. But if we won’t ever meet, I’ll just cherish it as sweet memories that I’ve experienced.

That was the three breakup movies, that could totally help you going through your process of breakup. You probably should check that out. And if you ever experienced one, don’t ever feel that you’re alone and maybe don’t think to kill yourself. I know it’s devastating, but somehow, people are experienced it long before us, and they managed to succeed and keep on living with their own lives J

Postcards From The Zoo

I’ve wanted to watch Postcards From The Zoo (Kebun Binatang) for a really long time ago. I’m automatically falling in love with Edwin since I watched his praktika’s film, Kara Anak Sebatang Kara. And two weeks ago Kineforum held a movie screening, mostly they screened the movies from Babi Buta Film Production and Postcards From The Zoo was there! I was like yay! J

So, the story is very simple, about a girl who wanted to touch a Giraffe’s stomach so badly since she was a kid. But Edwin took us to that main goal in the movie very interestingly. I mean, he took us everywhere but you wouldn’t complain about it, because you’d just enjoy it so much. The uniqueness of this movie became its power. Ladya Chery delievered such a class act, she really blended in with Lana, the character she portrayed. As a zookeeper, Lana had to be close with the animals, and Ladya Cheryl gave it to us, she was in a cage with a tiger and feeding a mother and baby hippos. How awesome it was! I always loved her performace since Fiksi. Edwin sucessfully making the viewers enjoy this unique film so much, eventhough you’d think some of the things were weird, but you’d just love it.

I gave 3.5 out of 5 for Postcards From The Zoo. It was a really good movie, and I think Indonesian directors should make this kinda movie instead those crappy horror movies. Seriously? We live in 2014, ghosts are not the only thing that exicte the viewers.

The Beach

So, I watched The Beach a really long time ago, and just now I wanted to finish my writing draft about The Beach. This movie by Danny Boyle seriously didn’t impress me at all. I mean, the first 30 minutes was really intriguing and interesting. You would really curious where Danny Boyle would take you. But seriously, the film should end in the first 30 minutes. The next minutes was just boring and suck. Ugh, I just can’t wait for it to end. I even pause for like many times to kill the boredom. The conflict wasn’t clear, what the fuck they wanted to do? Because I don’t need to watch a 2 hours movie just to finding out what the hell hippies wanted to do with their own lives. To be fair, I watched it because I like Leo DiCaprio and how he always delivers such a class act. But here? Yeah you really wish he was. Although it was him who kept me to watch this movie. So, my verdict is 1,5 out of 5. Like seriously, the scenery was beautiful but the hippies? Really? I don’t understand what they tried to do with their lives.

Even Leo seems like he doesn't know what he supposed to do.