The Good, The Bad and The Horrible Movies: February 2015

Thursday, February 26, 2015

My new Paintings

(by Stian Nielsen)

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Top 10 Favorite Animation Movies

10. Castle In The Sky

Another fun and great Hayao Miyazaki. Fun characters, beautiful animation.

9. Grave of The Fireflies

This is the most powerful movie on this list. This is the saddest movie I have ever seen. It's a fantastic movie, with a griping story.

8. Princess Monoke

Awesome, epic, this movie is spetacular.

7. Howl's Moving Castle

6. Toy Story 2

One of the best movie sequels and the best of the franchise.

5. Up

My favorite Pixar movie.

4. The Nightmare Before Christmast

3. The Wind Rises

2. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut

This is one of my favorite movies, it's really funny and all of the songs are great.

1. Spirited Away

Monday, February 9, 2015

My Top 6 Favorite Fantasy Movies

6. The Wizard of Oz

This is a timeless classic with beautiful imagery, and even more beautiful songs. If you are a fantasy fan, this is the movie for you. If you have not watched it yet, then you are truly missing out. Go give it a watch!

5. The Nightmare Before Christmas

A movie with catchy songs, beautiful stop-motion and fun characters. This is a great Christmas movie as well as a fantastic Halloween movie. It is great in every possible way, this is truly one of the greatest fantasy movies EVER.

4. Howl's Moving Castle

One of my favorite Hayao Miyazaki movies. The animation is beautiful, the characters are fantastic and the voice acting is very well-done. What really makes me love this movie is because of all the creativity, I can really not compare it to any other movie.

3. Mr. Nobody

IMDB classified "Mr. Nobody" as a fantasy, I'm not completly sure of what it is. But what I do know is that it's a fantastic movie. This is one of the most underrated movies of all time. I truly adore this movie and I think everybody should watch it. Mr. Nobody is now available on Netflix, so you better watch it while you have the chance. This is one of my favorite movies of all time, but the next two movies on this list are even better.

2. Spirited Away

This is the BEST Miyazaki movie, that is just a fact. I do not know what to actually write about this movie, it is just amazing. You just have to see it to belive it. "Spirited Away" is one of my personal favorite movies and it is my favorite animation movie.

1. The Lord of The Rings-Trilogy

The Lord of The Rings: Return of The King is my alltime favorite movie. This is THE greatest movie trilogy, and it's just amazing. The charaters are amazing, the story is fantastic and the casting was spot-on. The first movie was a great and beautiful start, the second part was gritty and action packed, and the final movie was an emotional and epic ending to a great franchise.

The fantasy genre has many fantastic movies, here are some that bearly didn't make my list:
Castle In The Sky, The NeverEnding Story, Princess Mononoke, Army of Darkness

Sunday, February 8, 2015

My Top 6 Favorite Movies of 2014

6. How to Train Your Dragon 2

I did enjoy the first one, but this is clearly the superior movie of the two. It's a great continuation of the story, the characters are a little older and the story is a little more complex. This is a very epic movie with great characters, and the most important thing was that it was a really fun experience.

5. Still Alice

This movie was really a tuching and interesting film. Julian Moore was fantastic and she really deserves an oscar. I was not expecting a great movie (and it wasn't) though what I got was a good and well acted surprise.

4. Boyhood

Boyhood was a great depiction of what it is to grow up. It was well acted, and it was a very interesting way of making a movie. By filming over a duration of about 12 years, really makes the movie seem more realistic and beliveable. A really good and interesting movie.

3. Gone Girl

This was a movie that was under my radar for a long time, and when I saw the trailer for it I was mildly interested. The maine reason I wanted to see this movie was because of David Fincher. And that was a good enough reason, it is a really cool and awesome movie. It was exciting and kept me on the edge of my seat throughout the whole movie.

2. Whiplash

A good movie that becomes great because of the performances from both Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons. J.k. Simmons should win the oscar and he was fantastic in every possible way. An exciting and unique story which I really enjoyed. Check it out!

1. Birdman

Michael Keaton is back, and he's better than ever! He deserves an oscar, Alejandro Iñarritu deserves an oscar and the freaking movie deserves the oscar for best picture! This is the movie with THE best performances, it was brillianted filmed and edited. This was the most enjoyable and unique experience of the year. The best movie to come out in years!

This year had some good movies, here are some that bearly didn't make my list: The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Nightcrawler, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Selma.