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Natural Born Killers has aged terribly. It's a snapshot of all the worst 90s fleeting trends.
I thought it was cack at the time, but Henry: Portrait of a serial killer is probably even more disturbing after all these years.
No she wasn't! It was lazy. There's no reason she couldn't have put it on, she's a fecking Saffer anyway, it wouldn't even be a stretch!Yes!I wondered if I was the only one who had noticed this, it was very surprising (especially a moment when he was speaking to Furiosa). To be fair though, given the filming conditions with re-shoots several months after, it might have been difficult to be consistent so Theron was right to choose the safe option and do not accent at all!
Leon is dogshit from minute one. Besson is a Michael Bay level feckwit.
Oh get off your high kangaroo Archie!
I'm going to be in Paris later this year and I'm going to boot you into the Seine, you insolent Irishman!
I'm no ruffian, me and my girlfriend will be sharper than you and your wife.
Shots fired.
Remember really enjoying Henry. I lent it to a mate about 10 years ago and the fecker still hasn't given me it back.
Agreed.
San Andreas basically a load of shit but kind of enjoyable in laughing at it, the rock tries every form of transportation there is except the train, but the best thing about the film was Alexandra Daddario 
that under water scene .
that under water scene .Mad Max - Poor, tumescent stuff.
Mad Max 2 - Much better. A pretty fine action film. Less brainless than the first one and more Western/Kurosawa-esque.
Mad Max 2 - Much better. A pretty fine action film. Less brainless than the first one and more Western/Kurosawa-esque.
I dont agree about Leon, but Blomkamp is fast becoming the new Besson. Impressive and lauded burst onto the scene, but found out with a slew of increasibly postering dumb films that are running on the fumes of good will.
Though Besson has at least 3 solid films to Blomkamp's 1. And 5th Element has a bonkers charm (and costume design) that levels out its admitted terribleness.
Basically my comparisson rests on watching Lucy & Chappie in close proximity and thinking "All that smart stuff I appreciated early on....that could've actually just been me!"
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I'll be honest, I enjoyed this film more than any film in 2014 and from the films I've seen in 2015 too. It's just glorious fun.
Shell
A slightly unsettling tale about a single father and his 17-year old daughter running a very isolated petrol station in rural Scotland. As she matures sexually, the tensions mount between the two and result in a frisson that he can't deal with. Beautiful scenery and a minor twist(s) at the end.
6/10
A slightly unsettling tale about a single father and his 17-year old daughter running a very isolated petrol station in rural Scotland. As she matures sexually, the tensions mount between the two and result in a frisson that he can't deal with. Beautiful scenery and a minor twist(s) at the end.
If he snogged her, he might as well have nailed her.
Fargo
I can see its appeal, but I'm not a fan. 7/10.
I can see its appeal, but I'm not a fan. 7/10.
A Huey P Newton Story - Spike Lee (2001)
Spike Lee creates a fascinating movie out of the award winning one man monologue play written, directed and acted by the incredible actor, Roger Gueniver Smith. Not much for Spike to direct as Gueniver Smith gives a master class in acting as Huey Newton himself, and pretty much spouts a compelling hour and a half of stream of consciousness dialogue as he retells the story of the sixties black radical. Incredible writing and narration. Huey Newton was a very handsome, intellectual, gangster, PHD, convict, black nationalist and founder of the Black Panthers. Whether you appreciate Huey or not, it is a great story and a very valid historical document of the complex personality of a protagonist from the American civil rights movement.
9 cocks up
Spike Lee creates a fascinating movie out of the award winning one man monologue play written, directed and acted by the incredible actor, Roger Gueniver Smith. Not much for Spike to direct as Gueniver Smith gives a master class in acting as Huey Newton himself, and pretty much spouts a compelling hour and a half of stream of consciousness dialogue as he retells the story of the sixties black radical. Incredible writing and narration. Huey Newton was a very handsome, intellectual, gangster, PHD, convict, black nationalist and founder of the Black Panthers. Whether you appreciate Huey or not, it is a great story and a very valid historical document of the complex personality of a protagonist from the American civil rights movement.
9 cocks up
Watched them over the weekend.
Mad Max - 5/10 - Overrated I thought. Some nice car chases but there were too many scenes where I had to force myself to sit through, usually involving the bikers.
Mad Max 2 - 7/10 - I really liked this. Better world building and the weirdness from the first film was toned down.
Mad Max 3 - 4/10 - Hollywood really came along and killed the momentum here. What could have been Mad Max 4, turned into Peter Pan.
Tomorrowland
A confused film with a weak plot line that tries to shoot above it's grade and fails. Implausible plot and weak characterizations is just too shabby even for Clooney to save.
At no point of time, you feel connected to any of the characters of what they are trying to do. The robot girl is made like a caricature and is so robotic, that it's weird that nobody has any doubts. For a supposedly genius kid, to not notice it makes it even weirder.
Rating: 5.5/10
A confused film with a weak plot line that tries to shoot above it's grade and fails. Implausible plot and weak characterizations is just too shabby even for Clooney to save.
Taking all the good scientists of this world and transporting them to an alternate dimension is the most flawed version of creating a utopian world. Hugh Laurie's character is a perfect evidence of this. Clooney just repeats the same flawed principle and hoping for a better result.
Seeing the 'dreamers' are content in their dimensional world, see no reason why they continue to meddle back in old earth.
And the 'dreamers' selected in the climax are just meh!
And I totally don't see what's special with the Casey character? That she refuses to give up? If Nix does not amplify the doomsday thoughts, will that character even be necessary? The film runs in self fulfilling loops!
Seeing the 'dreamers' are content in their dimensional world, see no reason why they continue to meddle back in old earth.
And the 'dreamers' selected in the climax are just meh!
And I totally don't see what's special with the Casey character? That she refuses to give up? If Nix does not amplify the doomsday thoughts, will that character even be necessary? The film runs in self fulfilling loops!
At no point of time, you feel connected to any of the characters of what they are trying to do. The robot girl is made like a caricature and is so robotic, that it's weird that nobody has any doubts. For a supposedly genius kid, to not notice it makes it even weirder.
Rating: 5.5/10
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Locke - Just an elaborate BMW advert isn't it?
Also Tom Hardy's accent
Also Tom Hardy's accent
Two Days One Night - small little human drama the French (or Belgians I guess) do very well. Basically hinges on Cotillard's performance and she pulls it off with aplomb.
The Double - dull and weird in that really manufactured kind of weird.
The Double - dull and weird in that really manufactured kind of weird.
"Increasibly postering"
For a man as fond of edits as I am, that's unusually slap-dash.
Mad Max: Fury Road What a fantastic film. Breathless action for two hours. 9/10
Mad Max: Road Warrior There are some really amazing scenes in this film. The feral kid with the killer boomerang, the Ayatollah of Rocknrolla, and the end chase seen were all great. Given the budget and SFX at the time, it was still very impressive. 8/10
12 Years a Slave One of the more emotionally powerful films I've seen in a while. Some of it was a little rushed but other scenes were purposefully drawn out to be impactful. 8.5/10
Mad Max: Road Warrior There are some really amazing scenes in this film. The feral kid with the killer boomerang, the Ayatollah of Rocknrolla, and the end chase seen were all great. Given the budget and SFX at the time, it was still very impressive. 8/10
12 Years a Slave One of the more emotionally powerful films I've seen in a while. Some of it was a little rushed but other scenes were purposefully drawn out to be impactful. 8.5/10
Christiane F. - Some dodgy acting here and there but gritty and raw with a nice soundtrack. Me likey.
Portrait on Tom Hardy that I enjoyed reading.
Just watched San Andreas. Pretty breathless (and mindless) stuff.
It seems the whole earthquake thing was an afterthought to their dream of filming an hour and a half of large breasts flying about the place! Daddario, Gugino, Johnson, the earthquake nerd girl, the reporter, the bird in the car at the start... nothing below a D cup all round!
I enjoyed it.
It seems the whole earthquake thing was an afterthought to their dream of filming an hour and a half of large breasts flying about the place! Daddario, Gugino, Johnson, the earthquake nerd girl, the reporter, the bird in the car at the start... nothing below a D cup all round!
I enjoyed it.
The author is very keen for us to know that Tom Hardy isn't like any of the other movie stars, not one bit, not even slightly, not even a little bit like the other movie stars, he isn't like other movie stars, except Peter O'Toole, who also wasn't like any other movies stars, none at all, none whatsoever except Tom Hardy and Richard Burton.
He seems almost embarrassed about being an actor.
Mad Max Fury Road - I haven't had this much fun watching a movie in a good while. Basically what I want from an action film, big stunts that are actually exciting. Tappered off towards the end and Tom Hardy seemed to hardly ever speak, probably because George Miller thought he'd try and do a stupid accent. 8/10.
You kind of have to suspend belief in these type of films...San Andreas basically a load of shit but kind of enjoyable in laughing at it, the rock tries every form of transportation there is except the train, but the best thing about the film was Alexandra Daddario
Like when The Rock just heads aimlessly into a devastated city, with hundreds of thousands of people running round, buildings all demolished, and just happens to drive his boat straight past where she is...hmmm
or
when his ex wife is the only one who survives that building collapsing
Also
Poor Kylie, she could have at least had a full frontal scene before she got killed
That was Ji Sung Park's cookery programme...
I've never understood why people love that film so much
Girlhood
Adolescent girl joins a gang of girls, goes through some identity changes, commits crimes. Good stuff. Entertainingly vibrant whenever the girl gang were together before getting a bit murky in the third act. It became a bit unclear what the film was trying to say about 'Vic' in the end. Pulled it quite well in the last shots though.
Adolescent girl joins a gang of girls, goes through some identity changes, commits crimes. Good stuff. Entertainingly vibrant whenever the girl gang were together before getting a bit murky in the third act. It became a bit unclear what the film was trying to say about 'Vic' in the end. Pulled it quite well in the last shots though.
Really enjoyed Chappie. It has the feeling of an extended music video promo. Somewhat amateur at times, with a rambling plot and leaps of logic, Chappie nevertheless charmed me throughout. Loved the robot and the off beat family dynamic. I have always found Die Antwoord to be both compelling and ridiculous and that about sums the film up.
The Rock to star in Big Trouble in Little China remake.
Heads will roll for this.
Heads will roll for this.