Made me want to hurt myself, and not in the 'Hey lets try some of that kinky stuff you see on the internet' kind of way.
Rating: U
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
A Knights Tale
Surprisingly good, there are a few genuine lawl (note my witty use of interweb vernacular) moments but it admittedly does lack substance. Makes for a fun night in (I surpressed the urge to add the 'K' there) if you don't feel like watching anything too serious.
I'll do a proper review at some point.
Rating: B
I'll do a proper review at some point.
Rating: B
Superbad
The scenes with the cops are good, apart from that Superbad is indeed super bad. Yes I fucking went there.
Rating: E
Rating: E
No Country For Old Men
Has a pretty awesome antagonist, apart from that I can't really see what all the fuss is about.
I'm being brief because this movie really is that uninspiring, and Tommy Lee Jones is more or less completely superfluous to the entire film.
Rating: D
I'm being brief because this movie really is that uninspiring, and Tommy Lee Jones is more or less completely superfluous to the entire film.
Rating: D
Sunday, 3 February 2008
Alien Versus Predator: Requiem
Far better than AVP.
AVPR picks up immediately where AVP left off but then proceeds to apologise profusely for the continuity errors glorified by Paul Anderson (10 minute aliens anyone?).
One thing worth mentioning is that AVPR has the feel of a survival horror, the aliens are proper badass as opposed to being a threat to everything but the main protagonist.
The lone predator is a nice allusion to the Predator franchise, and like those Predators doesn't look like a brick shit house with a head but instead like a body with a brick shit house on top. The concept for this Predator appears to be something along the lines of an Elder or security operative cleaning up a hunt that has gone badly wrong.
There is some genuine tension in this movie and the film makers clearly weren't afraid to push the envelope when it came to showing just how genuinely horrible the aliens actually are, though they might only have been doing that to be gratuitous.
Overall I would have to say that I enjoyed AVPR, it has left some hope for the franchise.
Rating: C
AVPR picks up immediately where AVP left off but then proceeds to apologise profusely for the continuity errors glorified by Paul Anderson (10 minute aliens anyone?).
One thing worth mentioning is that AVPR has the feel of a survival horror, the aliens are proper badass as opposed to being a threat to everything but the main protagonist.
The lone predator is a nice allusion to the Predator franchise, and like those Predators doesn't look like a brick shit house with a head but instead like a body with a brick shit house on top. The concept for this Predator appears to be something along the lines of an Elder or security operative cleaning up a hunt that has gone badly wrong.
There is some genuine tension in this movie and the film makers clearly weren't afraid to push the envelope when it came to showing just how genuinely horrible the aliens actually are, though they might only have been doing that to be gratuitous.
Overall I would have to say that I enjoyed AVPR, it has left some hope for the franchise.
Rating: C
Cloverfield
Cloverfield seems to be getting a somewhat mixed reception, I believe that people having been making unfair parallels with The Blair Witch Project.
Overall I would have to say that I found Cloverfield to be a very immersive film, and was enjoyable to watch. There are a few genuinely tense moments and you really do want the protagonists to come through in one piece. I liked how the cameraman for most of the movie 'Hud' (a nice gamer allusion I thought) was accidentally recording over a home movie about the lead dude being so in love and now ultimately heartbroken.
I'm trying not to spoil anything because a movie of this nature really needs to be appreciated with a blank slate, just so that the illusion is maintained.
Particular note should be paid to the the end credit sequence, it works well with the tone of the movie.
Rating: B
Oh, not an alien.
Overall I would have to say that I found Cloverfield to be a very immersive film, and was enjoyable to watch. There are a few genuinely tense moments and you really do want the protagonists to come through in one piece. I liked how the cameraman for most of the movie 'Hud' (a nice gamer allusion I thought) was accidentally recording over a home movie about the lead dude being so in love and now ultimately heartbroken.
I'm trying not to spoil anything because a movie of this nature really needs to be appreciated with a blank slate, just so that the illusion is maintained.
Particular note should be paid to the the end credit sequence, it works well with the tone of the movie.
Rating: B
Oh, not an alien.
Thursday, 10 January 2008
I Am Legend
You wouldn't think that a movie involving crazed sub-human vampire cannibal monsters could be drab, but I Am Legend has managed to succeed against all odds at being just that. There is no problem with the acting, Will Smith has been around for long enough now to do it well, but the general pacing of the movie left me wanting more. And the ending was a cop-out. You can pass the tedium though by playing 'Spot the Product Placement', it doesn't quite surpass Transformers 2007 but bless it, it really does try.
Without spoiling things, there is a point about 70mins (give or take) into the film in which they really should have added an extra 20 minutes of despair just to really show how bad things had gotten for him, either that or cut about 20 minutes of pointless babbling from earlier in the movie and stick it into the part I am referring to.
I also thought that the cannibal vampires deserved more screen time, if only to elaborate on the developing culture of the Infected that was only hinted upon by the male mutant recognizing Will Smith's character as the fellow who had captured his mate. The whole point of 'I Am Legend' was supposed to be that in the end Robert Neville was the monster who was killing the 'Still Alive/Infected' while they slept during the day, he is a monster of legend to them as vampires were to man.
Rating: D
Without spoiling things, there is a point about 70mins (give or take) into the film in which they really should have added an extra 20 minutes of despair just to really show how bad things had gotten for him, either that or cut about 20 minutes of pointless babbling from earlier in the movie and stick it into the part I am referring to.
I also thought that the cannibal vampires deserved more screen time, if only to elaborate on the developing culture of the Infected that was only hinted upon by the male mutant recognizing Will Smith's character as the fellow who had captured his mate. The whole point of 'I Am Legend' was supposed to be that in the end Robert Neville was the monster who was killing the 'Still Alive/Infected' while they slept during the day, he is a monster of legend to them as vampires were to man.
Rating: D
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