chaplin (1992). directed by richard attenborough.

captured the life and times of the great silent comedy star, charles chaplin. after watching this movie do i begin to appreciate the seemingly unfunny slapstick moves of chaplin, that it was hard work to create all that. that he sacrificed his personal life through various divorces because he was addicted to working and a perfectionist when it comes to film making. it is particularly interesting that the movie touched his technique of improvising-as-you-film, which would definitely run for a much longer time and at higher costs.

whlist RDJ is a good actor and i love the man since heart and souls (1993) and have loved him even more ever since, i find him a tad too young for the role eventhough he was 27 at the time. but that by no means disparaged his talents and wealth of sensitivity in bringing chaplin alive to the big screen.

after the wedding (2006) (original title efter brylluppet). directed by susanne bier.

this is the reason why sometimes you have to watch other than hollywood crap feeding you more hollywood-crap-like-values. the scenes in this film will never be found in hollywood movies, to the very last detail, when jorgen was bowling his eyes out to helene, it occured to me, a scene from stepmom (1998) in which they all gathered during xmas and then susan sarandon shortly died after that, that people dont die like that. unless you are a cow about to be slaughthered during aidiladha, even them go beserk after seeing their frens bleed. people grieved deaths and the impending ones. they are in pain when they have to make difficult choices like that of jorgen and jacob.

may be much less movie-like drama, but life's like that, not the other way round. may be a bit of realism doesnt not hurt. and mads mikkelsen is hot.

tropic thunder (2008). directed by ben stiller.

this film is incredibly funny-stupid. or stupid fun. some things that blows me over are

- the fact that the black RDJ stayed in character at all times

- RDJ sported blue contact lenses

- RDJ sported fake oz accent that sounded totally shit but that's the whole point

- the satan's alley trailer and calls for it to be turned into a proper movie (and i havent got around watching happy together (1997) whlist my sister frowned upon looking at the cover: 2 guys rolling on the floor, you get the drift)

- tobey maguire and RDJ - hot

- tom cruise as the jewish head of studio muthafucka

- the fact that ben stiller got around to make this

brilliant.