#Kristoffer Joner

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kristoffer joner in kjære pappa (2020)

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Mother, I know

That you're tired of being alone

Dad, I know you're trying

To fight when you feel like flying

But If you love me, don't let go (hold)

Whoa, if you love me, don't let go (hold)

— "Unsteady", X Ambassadors

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Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (2014)

My rating: 4/10

Honestly not that bad given the basic premise, but still not very good either

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Skjelvet (2018) dir. John Andreas Andersen

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The Quake (2018)

I never thought I’d see a sequel to The Wave - one of the best disaster movies I've ever seen. When I heard about The Quake, I shook my head. “How often can one man find himself in the middle of a disaster?” Nevertheless, I gave the film a chance and now, I’ve got to hand it to writers John Kåre Raake and Harald Rosenløw-Eeg. This is a good sequel. It follows the characters’ stories in a believable way. While it isn’t on the same level as the first, fans of the 2015 film should check out this second story.

Following the events of The Wave, Kristian Eikjord (Kristoffer Joner) is hailed a hero by newspapers but remains paralyzed by guilt - he failed to save so many. His marriage to Idun (Ane Dahl Torp) has fallen apart, he and his son Sondre (Jonas Hoff Oftebro) have become estranged. While trying to make amends with his daughter, Julia (Edith Haagenrud-Sande), he looks into some notes an old colleague sent him. They warn of an impending quake that’s sure to hit Oslo.

I should clarify Kristian's now-deceased former colleague sent him the notes knowing - based on his previous exploits - that he would take them seriously and investigate whether the numbers made sense. They do, meaning there is a quake coming… eventually. One of the reasons this film isn’t as good as the first is the pacing. On its own, it’s fine. All of the time spent with the characters allows you to know them and care about their safety when they are in peril. The pressure builds as the numbers are tallied and the scale of the catastrophe is measured. It’ll be beyond anything the country’s ever seen. Problem is, we’ve already kinda seen these scenes in The Wave. Not quite, but kinda. You know the characters, you “get” them. When’s the titular quake going to start?!

The drama featured throughout is genuine and often, heartbreaking. As someone who's seen Kristian at his most heroic, it's hard seeing him broken. Julia isn't so little any more. Story-wise this means she can be a more active character, which ups the stakes. For Kristian, she's the one member of his family he might be able to hold onto. Oslo is much bigger than Geiranger and there’s personal drama among the Eikjord family. We want them to be a family again - maybe this disaster will be just the thing to do it?

Everything you want from an earthquake disaster film is here. The scale may not be as big as something like San Andreas but that’s what makes it better. You believe this scenario. The characters make logical decisions and you can see that they stand a chance. At the same time, the realistic scale makes the danger genuine. Most of the post-quake peril is found in a partially collapsed building - a great setting for one nail-biting sequence after another. It’s so big and nerve-wracking it winds up throwing you off. When the film cuts to Sondre off on his own at the University, I was certain it was to set up a big second calamity… but it really doesn’t. It's more realistic but I might’ve liked a bit of fantasy to get three big scenes, instead of just two.

In this pair of disaster films, The Wave is the main course. The Quake is a nice follow-up; the desert. It’s got all the pieces required to make a great disaster movie. The destruction, the drama, the writing, the tension, the special effects and the performances needed to make it both convincing and engaging. If you see one, check out the other, with the caveat that the first is the better movie. (Original Norwegian with English Subtitles, July 5, 2019)

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Inspirado em uma história real: "Inferno na ilha" (King of Devil's Island, 2010)

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super late but i just saw the gif related asks in my likes that u rbed, so: 1, 8, 9, 32, 34, 36, 41, 49! i'm nosey as shit and love hearing u talk about ur gifmaking skills 🥰💝

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1. What are your top 3 favorite sets you’ve made?

This is such a tough question because having to choose three sets out of everything that I've ever made?! I've made hundreds of gifsets in different fandoms, how could I possibly choose only three?

Okay, okay, here goes:

JJ/Emily from Skins UK. I thought they were so cute and I just really like my coloring here. :3 I really miss this show and I keep thinking about making new Skins (gen 2) gifs every once in a while.

Sarge/Cleo from Cleopatra 2525. This remains one of my all-time favorite sets because a) it took me several hours to make it b) it was actually my first 2-gifs-in-1-canvas set ever and c) again, I just really like my coloring here. :)

Billy in purple. My favorite boy in one of my favorite colors. :) I just really, really like this one.

8. What gif trend do you hate?

I can't exactly remember what year it was when people used to make those colorless/washed-out gifs all the time? 2014? 2015? Anyway. While I kind of liked the look of some of them (and I made a few myself so I'm not so innocent heh), when literally everybody was making them, it made my dashboard quickly look so fucking dull and lifeless. I kept asking: where are all the colorful gifs / why do you guys hate colors so much? Ugh.

Also some of the recent trends... You know when people make those transitional b&w glitchy gifs? I go back and forth about it. Like, in a way, I kind of like the look. I think the effect looks cool and I can tell it's taken a lot of time & effort to make it happen. But I also have this thing called astigmatism in my eyes, and that glitchy effect makes me go all 😵. So I'm not a huge fan of that trend because of that. I still think it's cool though.

9. What/who inspired you to start making gifs?

Honestly, I can't even 100% remember anymore. XD I think I always just thought that gifs are cool and I guess I was just hoping to see more gifs about X and Y and couldn't find them, so, I figured I gotta do it myself. I made my very first gifs in the J-rock fandom and later, as a fan of the Norwegian actor Kristoffer Joner (who has like 5 fans on Tumblr, including me haha), so, I'm guessing I got my original inspiration from there. And here we are.

32. What is your favorite tool/adjustment layer in Photoshop?

Color Balance! :)

I nearly always use the same tools for my base coloring (curves, levels, b/c) and then finish it off with vibrance and curves. But obviously, coloring/color correction is my favorite part of gif-making. And I love Color Balance because you can make such powerful changes to your gifs with a minimum of fuss - also give them depth if you adjust Shadows and Highlights as well (and I nearly always do that).

I also like using Photo Filter, especially before Color Balance - especially when scenes are strongly tinted in yellow, blue, or green (ugh). It generally works great as a color neutralizer (or an emphasizer) and saves you from a lot of cursing and swearing most of the time.

34. A set that took you a long time/was really hard but you’re really proud of how it came out.

There are quite a few of those sets and some of them really didn't do quite well in the sense of popularity. XD

I would honestly say that most of my color palette, fake scenes, and lyrics edits all took a fair amount of time and most of them are something that I'm quite proud of.

In my less popular fandoms - Young Hercules, Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, Fear the Walking Dead, Z Nation - I spent hours, even days to rip them & convert them from my DVD/BR, not to mention the whole process of finally gifing them and all, so. They definitely took me a lot of time to make and I am still quite proud of them. Even if some of them are very old now and don't necessarily look as good anymore (thus why I've already started working on some fresh remakes :D).

36. Do you gif with something specific in mind or do you just wing it?

Both. Sometimes I have such detailed plans for gifsets (even now I have so many different projects in mind, just very little time or energy for all 🙃) and I spend so much time planning them and working on them (and then they get 30 likes and 2 reblogs, one from me lol). Then sometimes I just want to make something, fuck details and plans, I don't want to think about it all lmao. So I just make these simple character episode gifsets or random scenes that I liked etc.

41. What is your least favorite part about your gif making process?

Oh, let me see. Using software that requires at least 16GB RAM to run effectively, and my poor laptop only has 8GB, so. 🙃 Not always being able to run other programs (like Spotify) in the background - or having to restart PS - or occasionally having to wait for several minutes for it to even fucking import anything, then having to wait a few minutes more for it to crop and resize the goddamn thing - yeah, I love it so fucking much. 😎🤗 Not.

Not to mention how PS keeps crashing occasionally (especially CS5, which I no longer really use for that reason + crappy fonts and it's a shame because it actually works faster on my laptop so kjkgjkggk), plus countless other, lovely errors that may occasionally pop up with this otherwise lovely, "user-friendly" Adobe feature. Thus, I am so 🏴‍☠️☠️ this shit. Not sorry. 😇🤭

49. How much would you say you’ve improved since you first started giffing?

Some of the first gifs I've made (somewhere between 2012-2014 I think):

I think there's a clear improvement compared to my most recent ones 1 & 2. :) I try to pay more attention to the speed of my gifs now - I no longer try to make them slow or skip any frames if I have to. I also strive to use mostly HQ videos these days (albeit sometimes you really just can't find them anywhere and that's something you just gotta deal with 🙃😎).

Albeit I actually still do like even some of my older colorings, I no longer usually have to spend hours and hours (except on very rare occasions) fiddling with different coloring settings and feel depressed every five minutes because now I have more experience and knowledge with different PS tools. Of course, now that Tumblr also allows us to upload even bigger gifs (from 1MB to 10MB ftw), it's obviously given me more freedom to explore and improve myself as a gif maker. :D There's still much to learn ofc, but then again, there are still people who make such awesome gif tutorials here, so I love to take new tips from them whenever I can.

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All 3 episodes of unflinching new Netflix Epic WWII Series “WAR SAILOR” reviewed!

The Netflix three-episode miniseries “War Sailor” (including subtitles) is a gut-wrenching saga of mostly Norwegian civilians thrust full force into the fire of savage battle during World War II. Though not soldiers, these remarkably courageous men and women fought with pride and ferocity in defense of their families and their country. The toll taken would devastate these lives far beyond war’s end. All 3 episodes of the unflinching new Netflix Epic WWII Series “WAR SAILOR” reviewed! Streaming Series Review by John Smistad Episode 1 Young people of Norway, America, and the balance of the free world. If not already fully aware, please come to understand this. Liberty didn’t just happen. It is not the way it has always been. It was fought for. It was bled for. In buckets. By those whose soul mission it was to protect and preserve a way of life, God intends for all of us. Many of those who valiantly rose up and resisted evil with all their might selflessly give their very lives in the fray. They did this so that we could be free. You could be free. I could be free. But our freedom wasn’t free. It never will be. It is precious. Know this. Value this. Embrace this. For those you love. And for all time. In the riveting debut installment of “War Sailor”, Norwegian best friends Alfred and Sigbjørn (summarily spectacular performances by Kristoffer Joner and Pål Sverre Hagen, respectively) leave their loved ones behind in Bergen to set sail on a merchant ship bound for New York City even as World War II rages. Soon after departure, and despite Norway's formal declaration of neutrality, their home country is invaded and occupied by Nazi forces. Almost immediately the vessel and crew are surrounded and attacked at sea by German U-boats. Engulfed suddenly by death and destruction, Alfred and Sigbjørn become wary leaders of a group of common folk, altogether ill-prepared to battle back against the vicious war machine mercilessly assaulting them from all sides. As we see time and again, from now on even the most brief of lighthearted moments are fated to be shattered, violently exterminated by the jarring explosions of relentless attack. Episode 2 It is said that war is hell. If you’ve ever needed confirmation of this stark truth then I invite you to watch Episode 2 of “War Sailor”. Writer/Director Gunnar Vikene (“Himmelfall”, “Here Is Harold”) pulls absolutely no punches here, plunging his audience full force into an unrestrained and unflinching eyes wide open nightmare rife with the savagery and brutality of war. This is perhaps the most spirit-crushing, dismal, and depressing stretch I have ever personally experienced in my decades of watching cinematic productions. Friends, comrades, and fellow countrymen were all reduced to little more than primitive animals in a barbaric struggle to survive the humanity-shredding ravages of war. I must warn you that it is enormously difficult to witness. Yet herein lies the point. Freedom isn’t free. Alfred is given the news in as cold a manner as is conceivable that his life has effectively ended. Already severely psychologically scarred and brittle, we watch as a man emotionally leaves us, disintegrating into detached madness before our eyes. And as the harrowing opening scenes of Episode 1 have already revealed, Alfred as we once knew him may never again return. Episode 3 This powerful limited series finale turns what we have gathered thus far in “War Sailor” completely on its ear. It is impossible, not to mention unfair, to share the shocking revelation Vikene stuns us within the final hour of the agonizing journey this supremely talented filmmaker has so ingeniously taken us on. It is nothing short of masterful. And nothing less than overwhelmingly heartbreaking. The final frames of this profoundly affecting story are as emotionally stripped bare as I have ever processed in a motion picture. Without uttering a single syllable, Alfred and Sigbjørn, now in their 70s, are sharing a drink together at a dining room table. As with most elderly Norwegian men, they soon run out of things to say to each other. Then, without uttering so much as a single syllable, the pair “speak” to each other only through their eyes. Eyes that lock with shared recollection. Eyes that begin to blur with mutual sadness that will never let them go. Eyes that convey the spirit-vanquishing memories of unspeakable atrocities. Of that devastatingly traumatic time in their lives when everything changed. For them. For the world. Forever. Again, as gifted to us by Joner and Hagen, these moments are so astonishingly real, so emotionally arresting, that while moving beyond words, they are hard to watch. As Episode 3 concludes a series of grim statistics are presented detailing the mammoth losses and staggering death toll suffered by the vast Norwegian merchant marine fleet during World War II. Just before the closing credits roll, the critical and egregiously under-recognized role these ships and their crews played in the Allied forces' victory is made startlingly, and in no uncertain terms, resoundingly clear. Such haunting reminders serve to accentuate the heroic and everlasting legacy of those who sacrificed so much for so many they will never know. And for those alluded to previously who may not heretofore have been fully cognizant, we shall all know now. Freedom isn’t free. Fun Film Reviews  PLUS  Top Indie Entertainment Interviews! 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absolutely screaming at this

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Mama, come here

Approach, appear

And Daddy, I'm alone

'Cause this house don't feel like home

If you love me, don't let go (hold)

Whoa, if you love me, don't let go (hold)

— "Unsteady", X Ambassadors

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Skjelvet (2018) dir. John Andreas Andersen

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The Wave (2015)

Roar Uthaug’s The Wave is a disaster film done right. If you think it’s a tad slow at first, stick with it. That time spent on the characters means you care about them when their world starts falling apart. The whole planet may never be on the precipice of collapse but you’ll be so invested it might as well be.

In the real-life tourist destination town of Geiranger, the cliffs surrounding the nearby lake are constantly monitored. Kristian Eikjord (Kristoffer Joner), an experienced geologist is about to leave Geiranger with his family, but unusual sensor readings compel him to stay and keep watch. An avalanche would trigger a tsunami and quickly wipe out everyone in the vicinity.

Make no mistake. This is a disaster movie. For better or worse, you’re going to see some of the clichés we’re used to, particularly towards the end when Kristian, his wife Idun (Ane Dahl Torp) and their two children, Sondre (Jonas Hoff Oftebro) and Julia (Edith Haagenrud-Sande) are hanging on the edge of life by their fingertips. These are forgivable because of the way the tropes are used. It doesn’t feel cheap that Kristian’s last day is the day the titular disaster finally takes place. You get to know him. You understand his dedication to his post and why he takes it so seriously. In a way, it adds a layer to the film. In a place like Geiranger (a real place by the way), everyone knows that someday, it’ll all be over. The people who look at the sensors know that once they press that alarm, people will panic and begin running. This makes them hesitant to set off false alarms, lest they become Peter crying wolf. Only someone with nothing to lose - perhaps someone who is leaving tomorrow for another job - would be able to make the split-second decision to ring the alarm and be unbiased about it.

The buildup is only slightly hampered by you knowing that this is a disaster movie. Following Kristian and his family, learning how they all fit together as a unit and in this town is so lovely it’s almost a shame it all has to be turned upside down once that wave hits. At least when it does, it's a spectacular disaster. The special effects are so good you’d never guess this was a Norwegian production with a budget of $6 million. What I’m trying to say is that the best way to see The Wave - and this is an impossible fantasy but if you could somehow pull it off it’d be great - would be to go in not knowing what it’s about.

In the second half of the film, everyone is either running for their lives in that 10-minute window before the tsunami hits (what a tense ten minutes it is) or surveying the wreckage and trying to find missing people or get their cries for help heard. It’s terrifying and suspenseful. Each scene puts you right in the moment thanks to that first half you spent getting to know the people. You’ve probably seen the likes of The Day After Tomorrow, Geostorm or 2012 and yeah, it’s cool to see that extravaganza of special effects as the entire world is torn to pieces… but deep down inside you kinda know things are going to be all right. No Hollywood production would REALLY wipe out the entire world. What about a Norwegian film though? Could it erase a town of small people that are not important to anyone but the audience? I dunno. Maybe. That uncertainty is what makes this film so good.

Even if you don’t speak Norwegian, you'll recognize that each performance in The Wave is top-notch. Combined with the well-written, likeable characters set in a world that effortlessly transforms from an ideal tourist destination to a nightmare scenario and you have one of the best disaster films out there. The Wave uses the tools at its disposal so effortlessly and so well that you'll embrace them with open arms. It's more than a great disaster movie. It's just a great movie. (March 24, 2018)