I'm Swedish. The thing about Swedish movies is that they usually don't make too big a splash, and when they do get some attention they're completely forgotten a year after they came out. The fact that the only genuine cinematic success that Sweden has created since 2009 was the Millennium trilogy, which was based on the already massively popular books, and as the novel-based Let the Right One In, is telling.
Swedish movies can be divided into these categories:
* Action-thrillers with much more focus on the "thriller" part and not that amazing action. Usually as low-budget as they look. There was this movie called Jägarna 2, which means "The Hunters 2." A reviewer wrote about it that "some people have said that it looks as good as an American movie. It does. It looks as good as the kind of American movie they shown on TV at 2:30 AM on a weekday."
* Unfunny comedies. Oh, sure, occasionally there'll be something genuinely funny, but in my opinion Swedish comedies rely way too much on cringe comedy and never feature the kind of genuinely witty dialogue you hear in good American movies. The movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen is generally regarded as the worst Swedish movie ever, and surprising nobody, it's a comedy. Or meant to be one, at least.
* Dramas. And some of these are genuinely good (while others are just pretentious), but they're the kind of thing that only movie enthusiasts care about.
It's very rare for Swedish cinema to release a movie that anybody remembers, let alone cares about, a couple of years after it came out. All anybody really cares about are the big American movies, and if you've watched a few Swedish movies you can sympathize.
So how about your homeland? How much do people care about the movies made?
Swedish movies can be divided into these categories:
* Action-thrillers with much more focus on the "thriller" part and not that amazing action. Usually as low-budget as they look. There was this movie called Jägarna 2, which means "The Hunters 2." A reviewer wrote about it that "some people have said that it looks as good as an American movie. It does. It looks as good as the kind of American movie they shown on TV at 2:30 AM on a weekday."
* Unfunny comedies. Oh, sure, occasionally there'll be something genuinely funny, but in my opinion Swedish comedies rely way too much on cringe comedy and never feature the kind of genuinely witty dialogue you hear in good American movies. The movie Reine och Mimmi i fjällen is generally regarded as the worst Swedish movie ever, and surprising nobody, it's a comedy. Or meant to be one, at least.
* Dramas. And some of these are genuinely good (while others are just pretentious), but they're the kind of thing that only movie enthusiasts care about.
It's very rare for Swedish cinema to release a movie that anybody remembers, let alone cares about, a couple of years after it came out. All anybody really cares about are the big American movies, and if you've watched a few Swedish movies you can sympathize.
So how about your homeland? How much do people care about the movies made?
