tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38015173983751312212024-02-07T23:09:29.738+00:00filmsRrussYeah, well, you know, that's, just, like, er, my opinion, man.filmrrusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08242906606942840491noreply@blogger.comBlogger390125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801517398375131221.post-34979971172237497982016-10-10T15:50:00.001+01:002016-10-10T15:50:59.035+01:00Don’t be afraid of the Dark (2010)<p><img class="wp-image-721 aligncenter" src="http://ift.tt/2dWmZsb" alt="dont-be-afraid-of-the-dark_v2approved" width="288" height="422" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes work quite well together in this run-of-the-mill haunted house remake of a 1973 made-for-TV movie. Bailee Madison does well as Sally, the daughter who is harassed by the little critters, and manages to create a bit of empathy for the character; not bad for an 11 year-old. Fun to see serial cameo Alan Dale pop up, otherwise this is really a by-the-numbers horror that isn’t especially scary.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">Produced by Guillermo del Toro (the critters aren’t filled with eyes though) and directed by a comic book artist for some reason (Troy Nixey), not that he does a bad job, it just seems an odd choice. The creatures themselves are quite fearsome little hunchback things and their scuttling puts me in mind of facehuggers, but otherwise there is nothing special about this standard haunted house fayre. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">But, you know, that’s just, like, my opinion man.</span></p>
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<p>Pseudo Underworld, stitched together from the corpses of various horror actioners and given unholy life.</p>
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Almost 65 years on and Singin’ in the Rain remains timeless, a real classic, not only because it tells of an important point in movie history (in that way it almost sits alongside <a href="http://filmsrruss.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/cinema-paradiso.html" target="_blank">Cinema Paradiso</a> (1988) or <a href="http://filmsrruss.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/hugo-2011.html" target="_blank">Hugo</a> (2011)), but because of the empathy we feel for the characters, and of course because of some tremendous dance numbers. <br />
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<br /><br />Formulaic and derivative actioner which lacks the bite of the original, and for which there was no need.<br /><br />Where was the tongue in cheek jibe at modern day excesses? Where was the finger given to the MTV (I guess now YouTube) generation? Where was the commentary on the fact that huge corporations are inherently evil? Paul Verhoeven’s original had all this and more.<br /><br />For one, it had a believable lead role, not even Michael Keaton or Gary Oldman could rescue this. Jackie Earle Haley’s character was fun, but Samuel L Jackson’s talk show spots didn’t really work as a prop to hang the plot on.<br /><br />Not to mention that the way that Alex Murphy becomes Robocop has changed, the EDs are never explained – they’re just there, and Robocop never says “Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.”<br /><br />I suppose comparisons with the original are unfair and shouldn’t really be made; but when a “reboot” is this poor it’s hard not to. A missed opportunity, and a waste of everyone’s time.filmrrusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08242906606942840491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801517398375131221.post-80037341245981676412016-05-16T11:00:00.000+01:002016-06-15T15:22:06.435+01:00Zootopia (2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On the one hand this is a cartoon about a bunny wanting to be a cop, with lots of fish-out-of-water gags as the naive rabbit is variously patronised. On the other hand, the main themes of standing up for what you believe in as well as cultural/racial tolerance are really quite serious.<br />
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<br /><br />With themes of identity and finding your place in the world, Gone too Far is a hilarious window into the young ethnic diversity of London.<br /><br />When his brother arrives from Nigeria it threatens to upset Yemi's comfortable existence. Events force him to assess his heritage and struggle with local bullies and the girl of his dreams in the midst of racial prejudice between Africans, Jamaicans and second generation residents of Peckham.<br /><br />Very witty with sharp dialogue and very very funny.filmrrusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08242906606942840491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801517398375131221.post-23431862136931988902016-04-06T13:41:00.001+01:002016-04-06T13:41:30.892+01:00Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dawn of Justice? Still in the dark if you ask me. There was one good scene, about halfway through I guess; but otherwise there is too much plotting, and when we finally get to the final showdown, it’s all wham, bang, bash, explosion! A a rather run-of-the-mill affair with little to recommend it. Still the creative genius behind the Dark Knight trilogy (Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer) can’t help this turgid series.<br />
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I’ve not heard of director Paul King before, but what he’s done with Paddington is craft a clever, witty and heart-warming film. With a plot which contains a couple of stories from the first of Michael Bond’s book about the bear from Darkest Peru, the main theme is that of wanting to belong and finding one’s place in the world as Paddington comes to London to find somewhere to live.<br />
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A hugely enjoyable film; the cast are all super, there are brilliant bears and there are some wonderful bits of film making. Great stuff.<br />
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Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film (not just setting the historical context, it actually announces it at the beginning of the film) continues his love for the Western. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, in a similar way to <a href="http://filmsrruss.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-good-bad-and-ugly-1966.html">The Good, The Bad and the Ugly</a>; but rather than depicting the dynamic between three main characters, The Hateful Eight tries it with, well, eight. Not as successfully IMO.<br /><br />A further link with Sergio Leone’s masterpiece is the Ennio Morricone score, which incidentally also links it with <a href="http://filmsrruss.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/thing.html">The Thing</a> (1982). That’s not all; let’s face it OB’s character is essentially MacReady (Kurt Russell’s character in The Thing) complete with corks hanging from his hat and snow glare sunglasses. Morricone score is generally excellent, but occasionally strays into odd Hammer Horror territory, particularly in the very first shot.</div>
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Wow, just wow! Following on from the critical success of Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu presents us with another Oscar-baiting film. I have never seen Birdman, but if the Revenant is anything to go by then the 2014 film must have been tremendous too.<br />
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So, one of my New Year's Resolutions, well challenge really, is to watch a film relevant to specific dates. Eg, Halloween on Halloween, V for Vendetta on 5th November etc. I fear the hard part will be trying to track these films down.<br />
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Just watched Waterworld which I thought was appropriate to all the water in Aberdeenshire just now.<br />
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So, here is my list. Any other suggestions for my list would be appreciated.<br />
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In all honesty, The Force Awakens is probably a better film than A New Hope, I just can’t bring myself to admit it. Hitting all the same notes as A New Hope, what it has is style, humour and entertainment in spades. What is doesn’t have is George Lucas dicking about with it, sticking in pointless GG creatures going “Bwaaak” or redundant Hutts, or Rodians that can’t shoot a smuggler from across a bar table!<br />
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Beautifully shot in the Highlands and featuring a solid cast including Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham and David Morrissey; this story of the abortive attempt of the Roman Empire to conquer Scotland promises so much but ultimately falls a few denarii short of an aqueduct.<br />
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While watching the beginning of the second film, actually I might say up to about 45 min or something, I thought it was a bit flat. I thought that this could be because for a lot of these hero-style films, the first film is usually more interesting as the main character discovers their super-powers. Mmmm. I was about to back up that statement with examples, but could only come up with Spider-man really. X-2 better than X-men, Superman 2, Hellboy II!<br />
Anyway, I thought the first 45 min were a bit aimless, until Sam L Jackson showed up and told Tony to stop arse-ing about. At that point the film developed some plot and became a whole lot more enjoyable, though I was confused with why they replaced Terrence Howard with Don Cheadle as Rhodey. Jon Favreau has done a great job with these two films, including a massive cameo for himself (actually I think it goes beyond a cameo).</blockquote>
Though it is undoubtedly the weakest Iron Man film, seeing it again over four years later with far more MCU movie experience under my utility belt, I found more to interest me. Perhaps, initially I had been a little bit dismissive of it.<br />
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Oliver Stone gives us a film that is completely over the top in style, but completely brilliant. He barely gives us time to get used to one style or angle before he’s on to the next one. Now black and white, now colour, this angle, that angle; filmed through a camcorder; animation and a whole section done as a naff 70s sitcom (complete with canned laughter) about child abuse and wife-beating.<br>
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<br />Director Ben Wheatley’s first feature-length film is all about the perils of being unemployed and bored. Couple that to a dysfunctional family and add a bit of the old ultra-violence and we have Kill List.<br /><br /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" />A good little film, well acted and creatively made, with a sucker punch of an ending (though not as bad as <a href="http://filmsrruss.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/the-mist-2007.html">The Mist</a>). I was just a bit thrown by lots of setup but no payoff. There are so many little drip-fed hints suggesting that everything is going to come together and be explained. Spoiler: there is no payoff; nothing is explained!<br /><br />Otherwise, right up until the point when I realised that I wasn’t getting any closure (credits rolling) I really enjoyed Kill List. Well acted, moments of cinematic beauty and bursts of brutal violence. But, you know, that's just, like, my opinion man.filmrrusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08242906606942840491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801517398375131221.post-66409911561382261252015-09-30T13:48:00.000+01:002015-09-30T13:48:32.540+01:00Everest (2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, I haven’t seen movies 2 and 3 of the franchise, but I figured I probably wasn’t missing huge plot points given the nature of the films. I could always say that I just want to see all the Paul W. S. Anderson iterations.<br>
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Afterlife starts off with lots of Paul Anderson’s visual flair, which I happen to quite like (Three Musketeers notwithstanding). It’s all quite silly, but looks quite cool. The problem is this only lasts for about five minutes, the film soon degenerates into a derivative action zombie thriller with some fancy tech.<br>
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It would almost seem an obvious thing to say the The Raid heavily influenced Dredd (which I saw at the cinema upon release in 2012; only just seen The Raid), but it seems that principal photography started on Dredd before The Raid was released, so similarities are pure chance, presumably. You just can’t help the comparison though, even the Dredd music is reminiscent of The Raid.<br>
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I think it’s hard to review La voyage dans la lune in the same way I do other films because of its age and uniqueness. Certainly the film is an incredible achievement for 1902, with some impressive sets and some simple yet ingenious effects created by Georges Méliès. Most striking is the image of the moon and the elegant way the camera slowly zooms in to reveal the face, just before the space rocket crashes in to one eye providing an iconic image of early cinema.<br>
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I don't think that you would ever catch me caving, at least not beyond having a peek into one you happen upon on a walk. Not least because being cold and wet isn't my idea of fun, couple that to squeezing through tight underwater spaces and you may have discovered one of the thing I would least like to do in life. Having said all that, I quite enjoyed Sanctum.</div>
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is an actor who has only made it big in one movie, and is trying to rekindle his former greatness starting with a community production of Jesus Christ Superstar.<br />
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Two years after the amazing success of Jurassic Park (1993), another of Michael Crichton's novels gets the movie treatment. I don’t know who is to blame, distributors and producers looking to jump on the Jurassic-Crichton bandwagon, scriptwriter John Patrick Shanley, or director Frank Marshall. Probably all of them had a hand in this boring, excruciating and generally bad film.<br>
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<a href="http://filmsrruss.blogspot.com/2015/08/congo-1995.html#more">Would you like to know more?</a>filmrrusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08242906606942840491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3801517398375131221.post-945161284792471322015-07-27T22:00:00.000+01:002015-07-28T13:57:15.984+01:00Witchfinder General (1968)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With themes of isolation, helplessness and anarchy, this seemingly silly revenge movie is none-the-less fun and at times unexpectedly stylish. Vincent Price is the eponymous protagonist and as such is a great dead-pan witch hunter who genuinely believes he is “doing God’s work”. He never once loses his cool (until he gets an axe buried in him) which adds to the detached way he views human life, apart from his own.<br>
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