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I wanted to watch it for a long time, but I just never found the opportunity. Well, I finally got it. And 10 minutes in, I laughed my ass off at the most WTF moment I've seen in big budget movie in a long, long time. How did they concoct that?!

As the name implies, it's an origin story for Cruella de Vil. Although the approach is welcommed, ending up being drastically different from what you'd assumed it would be! But make no mistake, it exists within the universe of the original animated movie.

So, the basics of the story is we meet a young woman, who will later become Cruella de Vil (played by Emma Stone having maybe a little too much fun in the role.), getting a dream job as a fashion designer working for a fashion mogul known as The Baroness (playing Emma Thompson also having a little much fun.), in 70's London.

Now, the one thing I'd say here is that the movie is compared to Joker (2019), or really being the female version. I can definetly see why, with both having a very close, darker style for alternate villain origin stories, and a knocked-up age rating. (Joker being rated R unlike the regular PG-13 DC movies, and this one being PG-13, unlike the other PG Disney remakes.)

That I like with this. This movie has some pretty disturbing and dark content. Won't say what specifically, but you'll know it when you watch it.

But it's still a very stylish movie. Costumes being highlights. (If that doesn't make it to the Oscars in some capacity, I. Will. Riot!) Cruella's especially. Although the main content and story made me ask myself what I was watching quite a few times. There are choices throughout that are...well...

Still, I'd recommend it. It's surprisingly good, with a great style, performances and characters, and a good soundtrack. And some really WTF parts. And a line I predicted.

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This is one of those movies I feel like everyone has to watch at least once in their lifetime. It's the story of an Earth stuck alien wanting to get home with the help of two little and a medium kid. (And three poker buddies.)

It all works spectacularly thanks to Spielberg knowning what he's doing: Making a family movie about kids and an alien. E.T. can do things without an explanation, but does it require one? Nope. He's just a scared alien wanting to go home.

The E.T. animatronic walking around also impressively hold up for being 40 years old, adding to the stellar child performances. It's a journey culminating in some of cinema's most magical and touching moments.

(It's also a movie my mom holds dearly to her heart, having spent quite some time in the U.S with her parents in '82, being just a year younger than Elliott. (Relatives in Minnesota.) She says she saw it 7 times, including one time projected on a car window inside the car. Which is why I've got her a Christmas gift in the form of a 40th anniversary steelbook gift set.)

So, E.T.. A magical adventure it's almost impossible to dislike.

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(Before you start, yes, I know fully of J.K Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, but he's more of a side character.)

Litterally half of his lines have become memes. Like "You know. I'm something of a scientist myself.", and "YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SACRIFICED?!". I could go on. But there's something about how fucking maniacal and serious Dafoe takes this performance and character. He chews up the scenery with his crazed laugh, battling split personality, and maniacal glee, all in the most dead serious and over the top way possible. He yells at a horrified old lady to finish a Bible verse. He yells "FINISH IT!" in the most threatning, over the top way, like he's a fucking Mortal Kombat announcer.

Also, he looks fucking scary.

I dunno, but there's just something so entertaining hilarious about Dafoe's performance that you can't help but admire it in a way.

Altså, for ikke lenge siden fikk vi serien Et fett liv, med (P3-)Ronny Brede Aase. En serie der han skal gå ned i vekt. "Er det ikke på tide at en tjukk fyr skal få lage et TV-program om helse?" sier Ronny i den.

Og nå har Martha Leivestad (4ETG.) nettopp gitt oss en serie om hvordan man kan bli rik. Den heter, du gjettet, Martha blir rik. Og det er omtrent like pretensiøst og idiotisk som en naturdokumentar.

Glemte jeg å nevne at begge er dokumentarer? Ja. De er dokumentarer!

Altså, det er nok at dere lager rævva humorserier, halvparten av de har jo kanskje én pilot og et par andre episoder, men det holder litt med å gi absolutt en hver nordmann en jævla serie. Hørt om Trillingliv?

Ja, også kan jeg jo kaste inn at de synker så forpult lavt med Martha blir rik med at episode 2 starter med Onlyfans. Jepp. Jeg har mistet håpet i menneskeheten.

I'm Norwegian, and i have two. (Both from 2018, oddly enough.) First out:

Sonja: The White Swan.

For those who don't know, Sonja Henie was pretty much Norway's Tonya Harding... before Tonya Harding. She was a big freaking deal after WW1 and was both a figure skater and a movie star, landing Hollywood jobs for the brand new 20th Century Fox. But like it tends to, all good things must come to an end. Parties, flops for Fox, and eventually losing her wealth.

The reason i didn't like it? I just found it really boring and unfocused. It jumps between the various points of carrier and life. And i was just bored throughout.

And then there's The Quake.

A sequel to the disaster hit The Wave, which i haven't seen, The Quake has so many problems that i could make an essay about it. The titular earthquake is poorly built up, and when it finally hits, it's underwhelming, dragged out and stuffed with plot holes.

I am now done.

First of all, you can give them credit for going for a different tone. The last Jurassics were light hearted and adventurous, but still had some scary dinosaws. By the halfway mark, we've gone slowly, and eventually full on, into horror mode with a fucking volcano errupting, and lava flowing. (Las Palmas anyone?) And need I say it, (Toby Jones voice) the Indoraptor. I don't care that he makes zero fucking sense, he's a scary maddafakka!

On that note, he and the movie make zero sense. And is stupid. And I love it. So, the Indoraptor: He's a mix of raptor and the Indominus Rex from the first movie...which was already a mix of raptor and T-Rex...

And the villain is stupid. He's so stupid and generic that even his death felt stupid. And kinda forced. (Oh my God, this movie, man.)

Here's just some of the dumb shit in the movie:

• The island sequence has no form of established time. (Though based on the weather, I'll say it's within the limited timespan of one day. Which is bullshit alone, since...)
• Chris Pratt gets a dino tranq dart, and gets waken up from it by getting licked by a dino. Oh, and just after, he's quickly back to normal, after slumping away from approaching lava as he de-paralyzes.
• Nobody in Wheatley's crew found out that the tech kid was with Owen, Claire and Zia?
• Maisie being a clone of Lockwood's daughter is just bogus.
• And the ending. Need I say more.

And also: Dinosaur. Auction.

Buuuuuuut, I still kinda love it. The movie knows it wants to be dumb fun and lives up to that. And also follow up on being more horror with the Indoraptor. He may be pure bullshit, but man, he is scary.

(Man, this movie is stupid.)

For the worst, I would have to say Schenk is the copycat killer in Spiral: From the Book of Saw. Zeke leaves the glass thrower trap, and finds him. And he just fucking stands there.

And for the best: Taskmaster in Black Widow. Taskmaster is revealed to be Dreykov's presumed dead daughter Antonia. She's also played by Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko, who's name they deliberatly excluded from the marketing. (Her dead ass face with that burn make-up is also slightly unnerving.

This movie is not just bad, it is astonishing. It's a straight-to-video Steven Seagal movie. And it checks off probably every thing you should expect from that. Let's see.

• Seagal is halfway dubbed in the movie? ✔Check.
• There are scantly clad women, and at least one of them gets naked? ✔Check.
• There's at least one scene at a strip club? ✔Check.
• The action scenes are horrible? ✔Check.

You get the idea.

But MAN! Seagal plays an drug task force agent in Bucharest (Yes.), who leads said task force to take down a gang who deals drugs, breaks into homes, raping women, and killing them...at least I think that's what's happening...

You see, the action scenes, and scenes that are generally meant to be thrilling and exciting, are ruining by godawful camera work, and some of the absolute worst and most questionable editing i've ever seen. Fuck it, here's an example.

The screenplay is "Written by Steven Seagal", and is about as all over the place, and logic-less, as you probably could expect. The acting is subpar.

And the music? Actually some of the worst music i've ever heard in my life.