People, that user comment from that swedish guy is pure envy (you know, they're envy people). This is absolutely great film with great plot and acting. Actually, if you like Guy Ritchie's 'Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels' and 'Snatch', this is definately worth watching.
shareAbsolutely a superb movie. I think that guy with the user comment values the wrong things when watching movies. In my eyes, Kim Bodnia is the best actor in Scandinavia. He is great in both "Nightwatch" and "Pusher", and he kinda saves "Himmelfall" with some help from Bjørn Sundquist and Kristoffer Joner, since it's screenplay is pretty bad. I can't wait to catch the sequel to "I Kina Spiser De Hunde". I bet it's good.
Lian from Norway
Yeah, this movie was great, "arty", violent, but really entertaining. I loved the way the movie was so "Dry" realistic, especially arvids brother. But its just not the kind of movie that is appealing to everyone. I think snatch and lock stock.. are rather appealing to a broader field of audience. I didnt enjoy the second part of in china... as much as the first.It was a bit worn of. The movie wasnt really opened for a sequal, i think.
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First of all, I'd thank you not to make ignorant, discriminating and spiteful remarks, especially not based on the opinions of one person.
There are 9 millions swedes to go around, if you think you can blanket-statement qualities on 9 million people then you need to rethink quickly.
"We" are not envious people. I for myself loved the movie, and I would have loved it just as much if it was of norwegian, english, french or swahili origin. It's a good movie, simple as that.
But in the end, it's all about opinions. You can (oh my gosh, imagine that!) actually dislike a movie WITHOUT having some ulterior motive for it. It's quite possible.
So next time, please, think before you post, it makes for a happier world.
Cheers
Oskar
resident mildly offended swede (you know, one of those "envy people" as it were)
While it doesn't matter where the guy is from, I find it strange that the good people on imdb saw fit to make this the first user comment you see when looking over the page, considering that almost all other comments are very positive and that the movie has a pretty good rating.
shareI agree, the user comment on this movie isn´t very fair, this is a great movie which i enjoyed a lot. The prequel Old men in new cars or Gamle mænd i nye biler, is a good movie too, danish or not. Very much like Hcane says, like Guy Richie.
What i really dont agree with it that swedish people would be envious of it... but i guess its nothing but another single minded danish guy, you know... they are single minded. ;-)
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I agree this is a great movie, and so is "gamle mænd i nye biler", "blikende lygter" and "De Grønne slagtere". Danish movies is doing very well to keep up with the international stadards even going past them with a brutally honest vision on the human nature.
Sweden on the other hand is making "art-films", made by boring people to be watched by boring people. A good example is *beep* Åmål, it is a neverending story of the troublesome life of to homo-sexuales girls there lives in a small insignificant town. If U want to see something that boring, then paint a dot on the wall and look at that for a a hour or two, i promiss you will find it more insigthfull and learning than waching *beep* Åmål. (the sad thing is that *beep* Åmål is propaly the best swedish movie i have seen)
The only entertantment the swedish people can offer me is to look at the mass amount of swedes that come to denmark to get drunk, each weekend because the swedish goverment has branded alcohol as evil, and put insane amount of taxes on it.
- Mads (don't get me wrong i don't hate sweden, just find the people boring, and don't think they have any place in the entertament buisness)
"im sry my english isn't very good, hope you understand it anyways"
Indeed they are, probably because they're so conservative minded (not political) and ultra traditional.
shareHave any of you narrow-minded, self-absorbed danish people even been to Sweden?? I'm Swedish, most of the people I know are Swedish, and still I don't think I know more than a few "conservative minded and ultra traditional" human beings. Though, I have some danish relatives who are very conservative and even a bit racist.
I can totally agree that Danish cinema has been superior of Swedish for the past 10-20 years or so. Even though I don't think that this is best movie that Denmark has to offer, it was certainly not bad at all. The raw view on human nature was very appealing. I guess that most of you guys are into action movies. Sweden has never been able to produce good action.
What I can't understand is the guy critizising "*beep* Åmål" when this thread was about just that - not critizising movies because of its origin. Or that was what I thought anyway. I think that "*beep* Åmål" is a great movie. One of my favourites. Of course, it's more appealing to you if you are familiar with the often despised "smalltown people" of Sweden. The same thing has to be said about many Danish movies - you like what you understand. But still, "*beep* Åmål" is just one of like 5-6 Swedish movies the past 10 years that has kept up with the standard set by Danish filmmakers. Anyway, Scandinavian movies overall is in my opinion much superior to most crap coming out of Hollywood.
/Max
Depends on what you like to watch i guess.
Personally i thought F.....G Aamaal was a great, both strory wise and acting wise.
I for one, don't consider the swedish movies i have seen lately to be of any less quality than the danish ones.
I think that we are just happy we dont't suck at making movies anymore, like we did for a long time before Pusher.
So now we can make quality movies, like Sweden has benn doing for decades (and stil does).
I for one, just hope that we can continue to make make good movies, and not fall back to the 70'ties, 80'ties sloap again.
Englegård (dunno if that's the Swedish title as well) was also a decent movie.. I liked *beep* Åmål too.
Danish movies are on a roll, and have been so for a few years now. Blinkende Lygter, I Kina.., Gamle Mænd.., De Grønne Slagtere, Pusher, Pusher 2, Klatretøsen, Fakiren fra Bilbao just to mention a few.
Den Gode Strømer I thought was a bit too much of the same as I Kinda and Gamle Mænd - and worse action scenes than Klatretøsen to boot..
To be honest, I'm just glad to see good movies come out of Scandinavia - and even better so, it's movies with their own style, instead of mere Hollywood-copies plotwise.
Fakiren fra Bilbao ? Pardon me for exclaiming a small laugh. Sorry... back to the point.
I'll just want to say a few words of comment on some of the posts in this thread. I enjoyed most of the movies listed here extremely, and found them very fun, cool, entertaining and intruiging. However, the comments made by both Swedes and Danes in this thread disturbs me. Funny how a feude this old still lives. It saddens me. Sweden and Denmark have battled for nearly a millenia, and while there is no open war these days, it is still blatantly apparent, that we each have our ideas about the other. I come into contact with both Swedes, Danes and Norweigans in my line of work. Daily contact. And I can safely say, that all are as bad OR as good as the other. The ideals presented here, by some, are ancient and outdated. Both Norweigans and Swedes come to Denmark for the cheap alcohol and beer. Sure some can't behave themselves. But I am certain that can just as easily be said about Danes in whatever country they travel to. I know Spain and Greece are probably rolling their eyes at us every chance they get, dismissing us as "fat flatulant bastards". Truth be said, I don't blame them. Each country has its flaws. But it also has perfections. And in filmmaking, this become apparent in as much, as it gives the country a unique chance to display whatever interesting thoughts they might have, in a media, where virtually everything is possible. For my part, I've not seen many Swedish movies lately, and as such, I would say Denmark has the upper hand. But my ignorance in the matter should not have me put down any notion of seeing a Swedish movie, just because it is Swedish.
I hope Sweden will put out some good movies in the future as well. Onskan was certainly interesting, and I think that movie has set a small standard which others might adhere to. I hope they do.
Stereotypes are so often cast about willy nilly. Very seldom are they true anymore. And even if there are a few cases that proves them, they should never be allowed to become the rule more than the exception.
Nuff said. Now back to the show !
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It basically gets down to this: you either get busy living, or get busy dying.
I really liked I Kina, mainly because something like this hadn't been made before here. Gamle Mænd i nye biler sucked badly however. Blinkende Lygter was plain good, but De Grønne Slagtere was horrible and Inkasso was unspeakably bad. Adam's Æbler shows that Jensen can still put together something funny, even if the plot is ludicrous.
And the only thing the swedes envy us danes is our beer. We can't touch them when it comes to movies. At least not until Bergman dies.
lol and danes go to germany for even cheaper beer. hehe
I think whether we like it or not scandinavians are kinda alike.
Movie was great by the way. Arvid rocks ;)
I dunno about us beating them in movies or not. We're totally different when it comes to things like that, imo. But they do come here for beer, s'true.
I didn't see Adam's Apples yet, but I saw Inkasso once. It was mostly awful. A few good laughs, but nothing I'd care to own on any sort of media. Blinkende Lygter was pretty good, imo. Since Søren Pilmark did Jarnis in De Skrigende Halsen, I've had deep respect for him. He's one of my fav characters from a danish movie ever.
I work weekend nightshift at a hotel in Copenhagen, as a support job for studies, and one night, a saturday, Dejan Cukic (Arvid) enters the hotel, with a few girls and another actor, a controversial guy named Robert Hansen. They wanted the suite, and wine and cigarettes etc... He didn't seem quite as sympathetic as Arvid there :p But hey, it was at 6 in the morning :)
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It basically gets down to this: you either get busy living, or get busy dying.
"a controversial actor"
Haha, nice touch. I used to run into him all the time, because some pals of mine lived in the same building as his ex (actor Mira Wanting). One evening when I was hanging out with my pals in the building, we went out and saw splinters of wood from the front door scattered all over the floor, inside and outside. We didn't think much of it at the time, but next morning I saw the front pages of Ekstra Bladet (Crappy, Danish sansational rag that masquarades as a newspaper) proclaiming: "Robert Hansen: Wanted by the police. Went amok in girlfriends building"
Dumbass. I can't believe they're pouring over 4 millions kr. of tax payers money into his next movie, the fourth Anja & Viktor movie. Makes me wanna quit films and become a hitman.
Please don't tell me he's somehow managed to acquire tax-payers money for his film.... Not 4mil.. I mean, I guess Nodisk Film receives money from the state and all, but somebody would have to put their foot down somehow... Anja & Viktor... I never even saw the first one, and now there's a fourth installment. I am shaking my head in disbelief.
Controversial... yeah I know it scarcely covers the truth, but.. it was the best I could come up with :) I remember the case of the broken door. Oddly enough, Robert seemed very quiet... almost subdued when he arrived at the hotel. The three girls (all platinum blondes and somewhat binged up of course) were giggly and coy, as some girls tend to get, when "stars" pick them up. Anyway, one of them asked the subdued Robert if they could call him Viktor. The girls all giggled, but he didn't think it was that funny. He just said: "No Robert will be fine"... haha.. amusing indeed. Then he asked us if we'd care to keep his name secret if the press came along, and we replied that we'd never inform the press of our guest's names. He seemed impressed.
Later on, he gave me 50kroner in tips for bringing them wineglasses, while Dejan was raving and ranting over the fact, that I didn't want to walk to the nearest 7/11 and buy ciggies for them. Robert was in a weird mood... but he seemed a cool enough guy as such.
Oh well.. enough rambling.
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It basically gets down to this: you either get busy living, or get busy dying.
Det Sjunde inseglet VS. Idioterne.... hmm, it's a toss-up.
Mogambo... khush hua.
Ok guys A good movie is a good movie , and I need some help here Two movies And I cannot remember the names and I don' remember if they are Swedish, Dutch or what.
One, is about a guy trying to make a movie with no money, in the end he robs a bank is shot dead and there is a bit with him with angel wings and he is still the same "scamer"
Two, A guy is in prison when the "sexy girl Doctor" tell him her is going to die with a termial Brain tumor, he escape's taking her with him, and he go's on a killing spree getting even this his old gang ? turns out he does not have a brain tumor the "girl Doctor" is madder than he is
This either needs to be started as a new topic or you need to post it in a movie identification forum. It has zero to do with my comment. Thank you.
share"Please don't tell me he's somehow managed to acquire tax-payers money for his film.... Not 4mil.. I mean, I guess Nodisk Film receives money from the state and all, but somebody would have to put their foot down somehow... Anja & Viktor... I never even saw the first one, and now there's a fourth installment. I am shaking my head in disbelief."
I mean, it's not like danish citizens pay directly to Nordisk Film but AFAIK they do recieve financial support from some branch of the gov't (cultural department, I guess). I mean, commercial sequals are always a safe financial bet in Denmark, even if the movies suck (just look at the endless string of Olsen Banden and Far til Fire movies, not that they're anywhere near as horrible as the Anja & Viktor movies but they certainly aren't masterpieces either).
I read that the fourth installment is going to be about Anja getting pregnant. Yes. With those kinds of pitches they could keep making A&V movies well into the 2050ies.
have you ever heard og ingmar bergman,staffan hildebrand,vilgot sjöman?? World wide known directors..and what about "Beck" tru action,not that kuind of american bullsh*t.. As far as i can see it the only good thing that ever came from denmark is....well,to be honest nothing...
shareWell, Dreyer was pretty damn good.
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I'm swedish, born and raised, and I can honestly say that sweden is, without a doubt, no where close to being as capable to produce as good films as Denmark. And I can say, first hand, that in the last 10 years not one film from our industry can match this one.
But I can realte, we should be envyous, since we - and I say this with years of experience both in theory, writing and most importantly watching films from many varied nationalities - are at the bottom of the list.
Thank GOD for Denmark, the only nordic country that actually stands for genuine consistancy in standard when it comes to film.
This is a good film, filled with the blunt danish gem. Love this flick.
Are you on drugs?
"That´s fly,Negro!"
Are you on snus? Jackass.
"Yeah right...Denmark is just a lousy third world country.."
If I were on drugs, I'd still prefer it over being a complete *beep* idiot.
"This new Danish vigor (since the mid to late nineties) could have brought some inspiration and a new freedom to even the traditionally trained (e.g, vT) and helped Danish cinema as a whole."
Yes, it could have. It should have.
But it didn't.
Denmark fell back on the "film school as the ultimate merit of a budding director"-thang and reverted to formulaic and bland movies with a total absence og guts and/or cojones.
Sure, danish filmindustry is, as far is I can tell, thriving right now, emulating Hollywood (meaning: give the people what the television tells them that they want).
That's why it's so frustrating. The moneymen behind danish cinema, of all people, should know how much a little experiment now and then can really pay off (Dogme, anyone?).
But instead they play it painfully safe.
I'm not saying that Sweden is film heaven. Especially since Bergman died. But hell, they still have Roy Andersson, so I guess there's that.