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Viimeinen kapinallinen (2010)
Surprisingly good!
I think the movie was originally shot in 2008 or something like that and finished and published in 2010. So it was made just few years before the DSLR cameras changed indie filmmaking forever. Thus this movie still has that early-2000's vibe to it, clearly having its own style and most of the time feels like a bigger movie than it actually is. Of course one can't do everything with limited budget but the compositions and art design etc. Works really well. And it looks pretty filmic considering being shot on a small sensor regular video camera without dof-adapters or any special lenses.
Acting is great but some of the acting is very over-the-top at times, I think entirely on purpose to point out that the characters are pretending to be something they really aren't. There is some satirical elements which the viewer may not catch and may thus seem a bit weird but that does not matter.
Checking out the background of the filmmakers, for almost everyone it was their first "real project" and it is incredible that they managed to get this good end result.
Most of them continued on small budget indie productions or have no imdb credits after this movie, but there seems to be few who got quite successful. Hearwarming to see that it really is possible to get somewhere making indie films, or at least was back then before the dslr craziness messed up the whole indie filmmaking all over the World.
I have seen multiple versions of the movie and the original 2010 edit was the best by my opinion, the director also made the later altered edit which is on YouTube and misses some of the small scenes and nuances the original 2010 edit had but is still working pretty well.
Loved the music btw, really raised the movie to the next level! And the lead women was fantastic!
Christian Dreadful (2011)
Could have used bigger budget
The movie is entertaining but it clearly could have used bigger budget if that would have been possible. Some of the scenes are kind of too long because of the low budget (lots of talking, not enough stuff happening) and there is some scenes which don't feel to advance the story enough to justify their length even when they give some background information about the characters.
It is a satire about pop culture madness and it has some good jokes and scenes but on the other hand some of the humour does not work as intended and there is couple of these "add-on extra scenes" which don't kind of fit the story perfectly making the movie a little bit incoherent at times.
Clearly a very ambitious project with funny script and it has its moments. Kind of sad that they had to do it with a shoestring budget (probably the real budget was even lower than the 8000 euros listed on the imdb) , if would have been much bigger movie if they just had even a little bit more resources to raise it to the next level of epicness.
They got it pretty good looking and sounding even with the small budget and limited amount of locations.
The movie is possible to watch for free on YouTube, it just seems to be a little bit re-edited version compared to the original but works just as well.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Turkey sandwich with infinite air
Cave diving with no scuba diving experience and totally unsuitable equipment would be scary enough. But it has sharks and tight spaces too! It is somewhat entertaining (most of the time you can't wait more bad stuff happen to the characters because they are so stupid and careless and kind of deserve it) but has way too many shortcuts to be intelligent enough so that you could care what happens next.
It could have been much better, though, if the filmmakers would had wanted to. They could have had proper cave diving equipment without hurting the story. The characters could have had more diving experience which could had made it scarier when they would had been skilled but still screwed by the circumstances. They could have had the proper amount of air a single scuba tank could hold at a time (they use like 50 times that amount out of the tank or more) and that could had made it more interesting instead of this "infinite bullets" type of stuff. There could had been decompression stops and all that, in the middle of panic and low air that could had been very intense. Proper use of guide lines in a cave and so on. For example The Cave (2005) did the diving scenes pretty well to be believable and there were creatures there too to hunt them down, there is no need to make diving scenes stupid to make the movie somehow "easier" to watch.
Just using fins and double tanks could had made the movie so much better even withouth changing anything else. Or even just adding the fins. It must have been a nightmare to shoot the underwater scenes with the actresses and actors wiggling around like shrimps trying to get forward when with fins they could look like proper scuba divers. They must have had really bad time doing those scenes, it is incredibly exhausting and you get pretty much nowhere.