The 5 Obstructions blogathon: Thank you!

The 5 Obstructions blogathon

With November now underway, it means that my the 5 Obstructions blogathon, which took 5 months has come to a close. I have to say that I am very happy with the amount of people who have joined. As expected with such a gruelling and challenging blogathon not all participants have me it through all 5 obstructions, but a nice amount did. I want to thank everyone who participated in this blogathon in making this a success. I appreciated you taking on the challenge and sticking with it, it has resulted in a lot of interesting articles and I hope you have picked up some new ideas to make your own blog even better.

I am happy to announce that I am already working on my next blogathon (which will probably kick off either in december or january) together with KaramelKinema.

If you are looking for another blogathon to jump into, you can as Mettel Ray has just announced her blogathon on Friday and it will start tomorrow. You can find details about it here.

If you participated I would like to know what your experiences was like with this blogathon and things which you think might be improved during a next blogathon (so I can make the experience even better)?

For those wanting to check out all the articles which have been written, you can find those after the jump. Continue reading

Obstruction 1: Movie 43 (2013)

The 5 Obstructions blogathon

This is my own entry for the 5 Obstructions Blogathon: Obstruction 1. I have chosen to go with a movie I did not like, which is Movie 43 (I don’t suggest anyone to watch it. My real score: 1

Review of Movie 43 - Part of the 5 Obstructions blogathon

It’s been a long time since there has been a movie in which so many famous actors and actresses participate, but in Movie 43 the list of celebrities seems unending. Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Dennis Quaid, Naomi Watts, Anna Faris, Emma Stone, Kieran Culkin, Greg Kinnear, Seth MacFarlane and Richard Gere are just some of the picks for this comedy. Movie audiences have grown to like the Apatow inspired gross out humour and Movie 43 is full of it. The question is, will you be able to enjoy it? Continue reading

The Five Obstructions (2003)

Review of The 5 Obstructions

With the 5 Obstructions blogathon about to kick off this Saturday (June 1st) I thought it was only appropriate that I’d review the documentary that inspired me to start it.

Director Jørgen Leth made the art film The Perfect Human in 1967. It looks at a man and a woman and what makes them perfect. It shows how they dance, eat, what their ears and other body parts look like. The movie is considered an art house movie which almost feel like an anthropological study. I have never seen it myself, but this documentary/film hybrid shows parts of that original film. Director Lars von Trier had the idea to work with Jørgen Leth and asked him to remake parts of The Perfect Human, but each time with an obstruction in place. Working with restrictions can push people to come with ingenious solutions (as the movie Apollo 13 shows) and The Five Obstructions also shows the results of that. Continue reading