Friday, August 5, 2016

Movies Monthly: July

Our Movies of July:
Schindler's List - directed by Steven Spielberg,
Woman in Gold - directed by Simon Curtis,
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars - directed by Brian Henson
Apocalypse WWI - written by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle.

Trees in July

In July, we finished watching Farscape. We not only managed to see the episodes we had missed, we also watched the final, 4th season. The two parts of The Peacekeeper Wars were like two cherries at the top of a great cake. They were the best of all the series!
Anyway, I think Farscape is the best SF series ever and I do not really know why we had not heard about it before. Maybe it was not advertised much?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - the turtles' costumes seem so obsolete nowadays...

Scream - we usually do not watch horrors. This one could be better, even being a horror. What spoilt the entire film (at least in my opinion), was the age of 'teenage' cast. The actors in their twenties/ thirties pretending high school kids were not convincing to me at all. The worst part of it were the men, who might be 30+, trying to copy 'brainless' teenage behavior. That was why I found the horror funny and rather fake instead of thrilling.

The Tunnel is based on the Swedish series The Bridge which I saw in Poland. Fortunately, the plot of The Tunnel is not a total copy of the original idea. It has been altered in a way which makes watching the series interesting and involving.

Apocalypse WWI - the two part documentary is a compilation of the original movies shot during the war. My great grandpa fought in WWI.  He lived in the part of Poland which was under Prussian rule, that was why he was drafted into the Prussian army. Like many other soldiers, great grandpa never came back home from the war. He was killed somewhere, maybe in some French forests. We do not know exactly where. All in all, whenever I watch video materials showing real WWI scenes and battlefields, I tend to think: ' Maybe one of those soldiers or dead corpses was him - Anton Dybowski, my great grandpa?'

My great grandfather


Colors (related to movie genres) which I use in my diary notes:

Action
Adventure
Comedy
Documentary
Detective/Crime Story
Drama
Biography
Fantasy, SF
Family
History
Horror
Musical/Concert
Thriller
War 
Western
Cartoon


420. Farscape: PK Tech Girl - 1999 (SF, adventure)
421. Farscape: Thank God It's Friday Again - 1999 (SF, adventure)
422. 007: Tomorrow Never Dies - 1997 (action)
423. Gentleman Prefer Blondes - 1953 (comedy)
424. Farscape: I, E.T. - 1999 (SF, adventure)
425. The Rundown - 2003 (comedy, action)
426. Some Like It Hot - 1959 (comedy)
427. In Harm's Way - 1965 (war)
428. Desperado - 1995 (action)
429. Midsomer Murders: Midsomer Rhapsody, part 1 - 2005 (detective story)
430. Midsomer Murders: Midsomer Rhapsody, part 2 - 2005 (detective story)


431. K-9 - 1989 (comedy)
432. Scream - 1996 (horror)
433. A Tale of Two Kittens - 1942 (cartoon)
434. A Corny Concerto - 1943 (cartoon)
435. A Rabbit Who Came to Supper - 1942 (cartoon)
436. The Three Bears - 1935 (cartoon)
437. The Impatient Patient - 1942 (cartoon)
438. The Case of Missing Hare - 1942 (cartoon)
439. The New Three Stooges - 1965 (family/cartoon)
440. another old (cartoon)

441. The Enchanted Square - 1945 (cartoon)
442. Casper: The Friendly Ghost - 1945 (cartoon)
443. Scrapily Married - 1945 (cartoon)
444. The Tunnel - part 1 - 2016 (crime story)
445.  Farscape: DNA Mad Scientist - 1999 (SF, adventure)
446.  Farscape: They've Got a Secret - 1999 (SF, adventure)
447. The Tunnel - part 2 - 2016 (crime story)
448. The Tunnel - part 3 - 2016 (crime story)
449. Shrek 2 - 2004 (family, animation)
450. Triple Cross - 1966 (war)

451. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 1990 (family)
452. Midsomer Murders: The House in the Woods, part 1 - 2005 (detective story)
453. Midsomer Murders: The House in the Woods, part 2 - 2005 (detective story)
454. Seinfeld - Pilot - 1989 (comedy)
455. Seinfeld: The Steakout - 1990 (comedy)
456. Seinfeld: The Robbery - 1990 (comedy)
457. Seinfeld: The Male Unbonding - 1990 (comedy)
458. Seinfeld: The Stock Tip - 1990 (comedy)
459. Seinfeld: The Ex-Girl Friend - 1991 (comedy)
460. Seinfeld: The Pony Remark - 1991 (comedy)


461. Seinfeld: The Jacket - 1991 (comedy)
462. Seinfeld: The Phone Message - 1991 (comedy)
463. Seinfeld: The Apartment - 1991 (comedy)
464. Seinfeld: The Statue - 1991 (comedy)
465. Seinfeld: The Revenge - 1991(comedy)
466. The Brothers Karamazov - 1958 (drama)
467. Paddington - 2014 (family)
468. Seinfeld: The Heart Attack - 1991 (comedy)
469. Seinfeld: The Deal - 1991 (comedy)
470. Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, part 1 - 2004 (SF, adventure)


471. Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, part 2 - 2004 (SF, adventure)
472. Black Mass - 2015 (biography, crime)
473. Seinfeld: The Baby Shower - 1991 (comedy)
474. Seinfeld: The Chinese Restaurant - 1991 (comedy)
475. The Tunnel - part 4 - 2016 (crime story)
476. Seinfeld: The Stranded- 1991 (comedy)
477. Endeavour II: Trove - 2014 (detective story)
478. Endeavour II: Nocturne - 2014 (detective story)
489. Endeavour III: Trove - 2014 (detective story)
480. Endeavour III: Ride - 2016 (detective story)


481. Endeavour III: Arcadia - 2016 (detective story)
482. Endeavour III: Prey - 2016 (detective story)
483. Endeavour III: Code - 2016 (detective story)
484. Shrek The Third - 2007 (family/ animation)
485. Heaven Can Wait - 1978 (comedy)
486. The War - 1994 (drama)
487. The Odd Couple - 1968 (comedy)
488. The Alamo, part 2 - 1960 (history)
499. The Roman Invasion of Britain: Dominion - 2009 (documentary)
500. The Roman Invasion of Britain: Onslaught - 2009 (documentary)

501. Special Agent - 1935 (crime story)
502. The Tunnel - part 5 - 2016 (crime story)
503. We Who Are About to Die - 1937 (crime story)
504. The Roman Invasion of Britain: Revolt - 2010 (documentary)
506. Schindler's List - 1993 (drama)****
507. Everest - 2015 (drama)
508. Still the King: Gues Who's Coming to Dinner - 2016 (comedy)
509. Still the King: Take Your daughter to Your Work Day - 2016 (comedy)
510. Still the King: A Family a Fair - 2016 (comedy)


511. Five Graves to Cairo - 1943 (war)
512. Buck Privates - 1941 (comedy, musical)
513. Entourage - 2015 (comedy)
514. Shallow Water Invasion - 2016 (documentary)
515. The Ipcress File - 1965 (thriller)
516. Wrath of a Great White Serial Killer: Sharkopedia - 2016 (documentary)
517. Woman in Gold - 2015 (biography, drama)****
518. Still the King: The King Has Left the Building - 2016 (comedy)
519. Still the King: Mother Trucker - 2016 (comedy)
520. Still the King: Hands on a Hard Vessel - 2016 (comedy)


521. The Absent Minded Professor - 1961 (comedy)
522. MacGyver: Harry's Will - 1990 (adventure)
523. Nazi Secret Files: Hitler and the Aryan Myth - 2016 (documentary)
524. Trouble Makers - 1948 (comedy)
525. The Love Parade - 1929 (musical)
526. Nazi Secret Files: Hitler's Death Ray - 2016 (documentary)
527. Forbidden History: Hitler: Suicide or Survivor? - 2016 (documentary)
528. Meet the Hitlers - 2014 (documentary)
529. Asphalt Jungle - 1950 (crime story)****
530. Forbidden History: The Real Arch of Covenant - 2016 (documentary)


531. It's Always Fair Weather - 1955 (musical)
532. Sudden Death - 1995 (action)
533. Apocalypse WWI, part 1 - 2016 (documentary)****
534. Apocalypse WWI, part 2 - 2016 (documentary)****
535. Billy Budd - 1962 (drama)
534. The Tunnel - part 6 - 2016 (crime story)


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