Felicia Fredlund

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Great Movie: Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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This series of posts are about entertainment that I recommend when people ask me for recommendations. It also includes place-specific “entertainment”, such as beautiful gardens; it might be stretching the definition of entertainment, but I enjoy myself in the places I recommend.

They are not universal recommendations. I wouldn’t recommend a dark thriller to someone looking for something nice and happy; I’d recommend a romance.

They aren’t perfect or without mistakes.

Art is never finished, only abandoned. ~ Leonard da Vinci

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, great action, and a fun (if implausible) story: What more can you ask of a great movie?

This is something of a theme with me. I love a lot of the big Hollywood action movies.

When I heard the plot for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, I knew it would be a blast. Two assassins unwittingly married to each other going through marriage counseling.

Plus I enjoy watching those two actors and several of their movies are my favorites.

I also enjoyed how the story was told. When they switched between different times in the couple’s life and when it went to the counseling.

Admittedly, I really don’t know much about how to make a great movie. Like camera angles, when to cut, how to cut, what to leave out, how to… everything.

All I know is I really loved how they did it in this movie. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Take it or leave, but if you tend to like Hollywood action movies and haven’t seen this one? Go see it. Then come talk to me so we can gush about it (I can hope!).

Great Movie: Swordfish

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This series of posts are about entertainment that I recommend when people ask me for recommendations. It also includes place-specific “entertainment”, such as beautiful gardens; it might be stretching the definition of entertainment, but I enjoy myself in the places I recommend.

They are not universal recommendations. I wouldn’t recommend a dark thriller to someone looking for something nice and happy; I’d recommend a romance.

They aren’t perfect or without mistakes.

Art is never finished, only abandoned. ~ Leonard da Vinci

Swordfish

If a movie have John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Barry in it, what more can you ask for?

Swordfish is a hacker/action movie that plays with the question of morality.

I don’t want to say too much because I don’t want to spoil the movie if you haven’t seen it.

Like all action Hollywood movies, there is also a lot of play on sex. As well as some funny moments.

However, when they speak “Finnish” in the movie, it is actually German. Not sure what is up with that, but then it often happens a lot when they speak “Swedish” too.

I find the movie a fun ride that also adds thinking of morality.

The DVD version also includes multiple endings, which I found a lot of fun. Not that the ending they choose didn’t work, because it does, but so do the other endings.

I regularly rewatch this one. The mix of all the elements works extremely well for me.

Great Movie: Die Hard and Die Hard 4.0

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This series of posts are about entertainment that I recommend when people ask me for recommendations. It also includes place-specific “entertainment”, such as beautiful gardens; it might be stretching the definition of entertainment, but I enjoy myself in the places I recommend.

They are not universal recommendations. I wouldn’t recommend a dark thriller to someone looking for something nice and happy; I’d recommend a romance.

They aren’t perfect or without mistakes.

Art is never finished, only abandoned. ~ Leonard da Vinci

Die Hard and Die Hard 4.0

My movie taste runs primarily action. And a classic action movie that I like to rewatch regularly is Die Hard. I also love rewatching Die Hard 4.0 (while double checking the name of Die Hard 4.0 (as I know it), I learned that the North American name for the movie was Live Free or Die Hard).

(Die Hard 2, Die Hard with a Vengeance (3), and A Good Day to Die Hard (5) are also good, but if I’m not planing to rewatch all Die Hards, I always pick 1 or 4.)

I don’t know that there is much to say about Die Hard (1) that hasn’t already been said.

Christmas, great action, and fun interplay between characters.

Basically feel good with explosions.

Instead I’ll talk about Die Hard 4.0. If I have to pick between watching 1 or 4, I might actually pick 4 because it hits a few more of my favorite things.

I like hacker/action movies.

So what 4 adds is a sidekick that I find funny, a bit sweet, and just the right amount of snark/wit. There are also strong women, a villain that is very Die Hard, and one specific one-liner from the sidekick that I love.

I watch action movies for relaxed fun. Give me some entertaining characters and great action and I’m good. That is what I look for in my action movies. So if that is your thing, Die Hard (all of them) are a good choice.