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Generation P (2011)
Good, and maybe even best adaptation possible
If you have read the book, then you will like that movie did not tried to "improve" or "rethink" the original story, but stayed quite close to original, sometimes quoting parts of the book's text entirely.
Cast is fine. Don't let the sucky trailer full you, actors are playing fine and their characters are quite believable (except for maybe, Litvinova, but she has around 30 seconds on screen, so it does not matter).
Visuals are good. Not great, but good. Its "slightly better 90s", with slightly more human bandits, and slightly cleaner streets.
Sound is fine, and music is even good enough to wonder about buying a soundtrack.
.. but. There is always "but", and in this case - you MUST have lived in ex-USSR 90s, and you must speak Russian, to understand the movie. It's very tightly rooted into post-soviet discourse, and without "cultural references" (c), i am afraid, the movie will be hard to grasp on.
alternatively, if you have ever wondered about, or experienced altered states of consciousness, you might find it fun ;)
Insidious (2010)
Ruin your ears
Cliché "family moves to haunted house" story, video is bleak, washed out, and boring overall. actors play bad, but that is OK for horror movies,
my verdict would have been 5/10, if the authors just realized their mediocrity.. but they decide to be special. And this is the very worst kind of special, that you can think of.
from audio standpoint the whole movie is just silence, mumbling, silence, generic ambient noise, silence, BOOM! with boom being around 90 decibels or higher. My ears actually started to hurt after second such effect, and after 4th or 5th, i decided to leave the theater.
Highly not recommended, avoid at all costs.
Death Race (2008)
The true film-adaptation of Carmageddon games !
Don't let the movie title fool you, this movie has nothing left from boring 1970ish "original", except for the name and prison-arena with drivers fighting to death with each other for their freedom ;) The spirit of it belongs to the Carmageddon and Twisted Metal series of video games. Smart concept, no-nonsense, full graphic violence and pleasant action sequences will give a good entertainment for all fans of the genre. Minimum plot, minimum story, just cars, guns, gore and FUN :P
Clear 9/10.
p.s.: P.W.Anderson did it again - after 13 years since The Mortal Kombat, we have another solid game-to-video flick ;) Kudos to him!