Well, it was so bad that we actually switched it off less than half way through. 20 years from now, our kids will be looking at us in disgust and wonder how we could think this was funny, like I am thinking the same about carry-on movies, Police Academy and Benny Hill.

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Why didn’t they make two movies out of this?
The plotline of the PP/MJ/Harry love triangle plus Sandman would have been movie 1, leaving out Harry’s death and then doing sequel 4 about venom, a villain worth more than just half a plot line. But I guess Spidey had to turn evilesque to make MJ turn to Harry, and Sandman is really good after all, so he had to be Venom’s goon. The tranformation/birth of Venom happened rather late in the movie. I would have enjoyed more action from scary Venom and less silliness with PP trying to be Shaft. Although: PP does look better with his fringe in his face and a bit of eyeliner.

This book was my trusty travel companion for many years. I’ve read it about a dozen times and always tucked it in my backpack for long train journeys and such. The protagonist is on a long journey, too, trying to find himself and his destiny (make people commit acts out of pure love), committing murder while coming ever closer to achieving his goal.
It was also the first book I bought in Dutch to see if I was starting to understand written Dutch when I moved to Holland. I read it to my singing teacher, who had a good laugh at my atrocious pronounciation.

...but trying very hard to bring the essence across, pun intended.
The actor playing Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) is not as deformed as the man described in the book, which I incidentally read about 12 times (I ain’t kidding, this is one of my all-time favourite reads ever). A lot of details came over to the viewer which made me wonder in the past, like how can you show that he can smell people in the next room etc., and I loved the scene in Baldini’s dark perfume lab, when Grenouille grabs all the correct ingredients in a seemingly random manner, to reproduce “Amor et Psyche”.
Even though the book’s Baldini is much more arrogant and greedy, Tykwer did a good job in directing Dustin Hoffman to portray this man. Alan Rickman was also excellently casted to play Laura’s father. But I adore Rickman anyway, so that’s a given.
The only reasons the film does not get 5 stars from me are that Grenouille’s journey between Paris and Grasse was cut short and that, for dramatic effect, Laura’s (Rachel Hurd-Wood) hair was dyed in a so overly dramatic and unnatural red that the true reason for her irresistability, her scent, was outperformed by her hair.

This movie shows Iwo Jima from the Japanese (hopeless) perspective. For once a war movie which does not side with the “good Americans”, but shows how during war, normal people with normal flaws are caught up on both sides, with all their personal history, beliefs, fears, baggage and their country’s customs.
Not for people with a light stomach.

Hilarious 70’s spoof with lots of movie and commercial quotes (the news team rumble for example is totally like Gangs of New York).
I loved the News on Channel 4 team breaking into song: “afternoon delight” and I had to laugh really hard a lot of times. Baxter the Dog rules!

“I believe in life after birth”. Not a quote from the movie, but could be.

If you haven’t read the book, you will not see the brilliance of the author’s ideas hacked to pieces in this movie, where scenes last 15 – 20 seconds.
If you have read the books Eragon and Inheritance: don’t watch this. It is a complete waste of time. Here’s a key sentence: “My name is Saphira and you are my rider!” Eragon’s struggle to find out her name takes up pages and pages in the book! It ends after a fight between Eragon and Durza (riding a dragon!). What a jip. Damn you Christopher Paolini for allowing this atrocity.

...but still a cute movie. And Reese’s southern accent is just great.

Mark Wahlberg’s lines. He’s got a smaller character, but his lines kick ass.