#Ander Thomas Jensen

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Films Watched in 2023:

26.  Mænd & høns/Men and Chicken (2015) - Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen

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Mads Mikkelsen, Retfærdighedens Ryttere (2020)

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Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas reteam with Anders Thomas Jensen for ‘Back To Reality’ (exclusive) | News | Screen

I AM SO F@&KING EXCITED!

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A Mads poll with a difference!

A poll of Mads Mikkelsen movies where the selection is based on range of factors, including but not limited to: genre, writer/director, country of release, date of release and 🎉vibes 🎉

Some of the movies may fit in more than one category, so vibes have mostly informed those decisions.

Round Two:

Choose your fave!

Nicolas Winding Refn Vs Anders Thomas Jensen 

Valhalla Rising is a 2009 Danish historical movie set around the 12th century. The story follows One Eye, a Norse warrior captured by a Norwegian chieftain and forced to fight, until he escapes along with a young boy, a fellow captive. Mads plays the ill-fated and hard-done warrior One Eye.

Mænd og Høns (Men & Chicken) is a 2015 Danish black comedy about two brothers who go in search of their biological father, only to find the most bizarre of secrets. Mads plays Elias, one of the brothers, he is an insecure, rude, chronic masturbator who makes a startling discovery about his parentage.

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Wilbur begår selvmord (2002)

Character: Horst Film: Wilbur begår selvmord (eng. Wilbur wants to kill himself) Year: 2002 Language: English Lenght: 111 minutes

Is he alive at the end? YES

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The Dark Tower (2017)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Stephen King began The Dark Tower series in 1982 and concluded in 2012. It incorporates elements of fantasy, horror, western and fantasy. Some consider it his magnum opus. Even if you haven't read a single page, you'll recognize this film adaptation has simplified it to death. It's Unimaginative but promising, complex to the point of being confusing but so simple you can foresee every development coming from universes away. In the end, you’ll wonder if maybe you weren’t paying attention or if you missed something but there’s just nothing here.

11-year-old Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) dreams of a strange world, of a Man in Black, of a gunman who seeks revenge against him and of a tower under attack. The man, a sorcerer named Walter Padick (Matthew McConaughey) is real and seeks to use Jake’s psychic gift to destroy all realities. Only Roland Deschain (Idris Elba), the last Gunslinger, stands in his way.

A lonely boy is thrust into a big adventure and learns the world's fate rests in his hands while sinister forces seek him out. His youth and wide-eyed optimism are exactly what the now-jaded hero needs to put him back on the path of righteousness. When you take a step back, the plot is familiar, so how can so much of The Dark Tower be indecipherable?

Most of the time, when a film’s length is brought up in a review it’s because the movie is too long. This movie is too short. Way too short. We’re never allowed to dig into the world, characters or mythology. Walter seeks to use the powers of psychic children to launch beams of light that will topple the titular Dark Tower, destroy the barrier which surrounds all worlds and allow legions of demons in. Why? So he can rule. But why? We see what abilities he possesses. With them, he's able to do nearly anything his heart desires. He can mind-control people, make objects levitate, has access to stargates and can communicate telepathically. How would destroying everything improve his situation? You don’t understand his motivations and watching McConaughey, you wonder if he doesn’t realize how flat and uninteresting this character is. This might explain why he gives the peculiar performance that he does. I wouldn’t call it bad but you almost expect him to turn towards the screen and say “Ain’t I a stinker?” after every line.

Similarly, there’s little to Idris Elba’s Roland Deschain. At least you understand his motivation, which is a step up from Walter but he doesn’t spend enough time with Jake for you to feel a bond of friendship between them. When someone tells Roland he’s just “using the boy to get revenge” it should be a tower-toppling reveal but you won’t care. Little about this story will surprise or move you.

This movie feels as though it’s hitting you with big inflatable boxing gloves, the kind that have no impact on you but are so big they hinder its movement. The action scenes are either too dark, too frenetic, feature opponents who aren’t menacing, or are paced in a way that makes you go “Oh! Is it over? I didn’t realize it had started”. So much of this movie feels like it’s building up to something that never comes. Well, unless you’re waiting for references to Stephen King’s other works, which are plentiful and in-your-face. The first scene features a reference to The Shining and it isn’t the only one. It’s a way to keep you entertained, I guess.

Utterly forgettable, bland and generic, I can’t imagine any fans of the book series being satisfied with The Dark Tower. Newcomers are likely to be confused or unimpressed. Will they be turned away from the novels? Probably initially but in the long run, they’re unlikely to remember they even watched the film so King's books are safe. The ending hints at a sequel but that's not happening, not in a million years. (June 5, 2020)

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Anyway. Otto as Mathilde's stepdad and getting a second chance at fatherhood

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Genial überdreht - Lars von Triers Abschluss von »Geister«

Der dänische Regisseur Lars von Trier hat nach 25 Jahren seine legendäre Horror-Serie »Hospital der Geister« abgeschlossen. In »Geister – Exodus« lädt er noch einmal in das Königliche Reichshospital Kopenhagen ein, um in grandioser Manier den Kehraus der Dämonen zu betreiben. Seien Sie bereit für das Gute und das Böse! Continue reading Untitled

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Zseniális! Így harmadjára is.

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sorry but george clooney with his silly little robe and slippers and bandaid on his nose in 'the men who stare at goats' is rotating around in my brain like my dinner in a microwave and when i am home i am going to Gif👏That👏Man

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Riders of Justice (Retfærdighedens ryttere) (2020) Anders Thomas Jensen

February 6th 2023

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You have to have a license and papers and all kinds of shit just to buy an airgun but people can have as many brats as they want. It should be the other way around!

—Flickering Lights, Anders Thomas Jensen

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i think a coffee with Ivan from "Adams æbler" (2005) would cure me

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"The Promised Land"

A brutal, bloody, and complex story of savagery and ambition, this epic Danish historical drama is styled like an old fashioned American Western.

Epic period film “The Promised Land” is a Danish historical drama styled like an old fashioned American Western. Adapted from the best-selling Danish book “The Captain and Ann Barbara” by Ida Jessen, director Nikolaj Arcel’s tells the story on a fittingly grand scale. It’s a brutal, bloody tale of savagery and ambition, a story of a man who must endure both the hostile elements of his…

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Currently Watching

MEN AND CHICKEN [Mænd & høns] Anders Thomas Jensen Denmark, 2015