Films

The Rover is AMAZING!

saw Under The Skin recently.
Can't say I enjoyed it.

really? how so? it is very unsettling I grant you, but I couldn't tear my eyes away for one second

4 films back to back on the plane.

Captain Phillips, Need for Speed, RoboCop, and 3 days to kill.

All brilliant.

Tom Hanks, what a guy! The guys playing the pirates were fucking awesome.

RoboCop. Crazy. Great "re make", brilliant interpretation of the original, I loved the story, loved the questions they raised about man and machine.

3 days to kill felt classic Luc Besson. Nothing to write home about, but hugely enjoyable. Funny and exciting.

I loved the film, and thought the 'flaws' in the protagonist were part of it's charm. Nothing dramatic happened, he wasn't a child prodigy, the movie was just a narrative on what it is like to be an average kid in the US. I certainly wasn't breaking any barriers when I was 18.

FWIW, I realise it's an attempt to show just a regular family. But it's also saying the no families are regular, that every one has subtleties and politics and a story. Is it a documentary? No, so what is saying? For film that has an uncompromising lack of narrative arc, there are one too many moments where it felt contrived. Like when the Mexican thanks the mother for sending him in the right direction with his life and career. And the arresting beauty of the guy's girlfriend, and the borderline comedic drunk second husband (that could almost have been Will Ferrell). I just didn't understand the point of it all.

I usually love films like this, but this just wasn't very enjoyable for me, no matter how earnest its intentions. And the 12 year watch-the-boy-grow-up thing seemed a gimmick. The boringness of the main guy just stopped me from engaging with the film as much as I would have liked to. He is the least interesting part of the whole film and that was a shame for me. I wanted him to seem affected by his situation and the people around him, but he's virtually an inanimate object for most of it, and occasionally an irritating, arrogant dick who doesn't realise how lucky he is.

I really like Alexander Payne's films, they seem real, they deal with ordinary life and they are full of warmth. But they also have a point. I'm rambling and probably overthinking it.

Visitor q - epic wtf home invasion movie where a dysfunctional family gets a visitor. Not for the squeamish despite the matter of fact filmed gory scenes there humour and a happy ending.

Borgman - Funny games meets supernatural touch. Didn't find female lead role convincing some script issues but bad guy and cinematography IMHO make up for it. Unsettling...

The deflowering of Eva von end - A much happier family gets guest movie in which a perfectly behaving German teenager holds up a mirror to a Dutch family.

Saw Finding Vivian Maier this evening...best documentary I've seen in a while

Finding Vivian Maier - Official Movie Trailer - YouTube

American Nomads

Visitor Q is amazing. Takeshi Miike at his best. That and Audition were big favourites for a long time.

the new Mad Max, looks kinda good..

http://io9.com/heres-the-first-max-max-trailer-and-it-will-make-you-a-1611701107

So that's what he's been doing since he flounced.

Locke... Brilliant...

Hallway, followed by the kitchen scene. I couldn't see straight for 2 days after that.

Just watched this, mega scenes. I was trying to dodge each of those strikes!

the new Mad Max, looks kinda good..

http://io9.com/heres-the-first-max-max-trailer-and-it-will-make-you-a-1611701107

Looks cgi-tastic, (and a tad noisy) unlike the amazing first film,. Would be better if they spoke Latin though

Watched Calvary the other night - cracking film. Emotional, amusing, dark.

That Mad Max trailer looks so shockingly shit. Sanitised badly executed computer graphics and a bad mix with live action. I thought it would be a story around an ageing Mel Gibson, with an interesting background generated by the passage of time, and that would have interested me. As it is, it's probably an appalling script with a faceless nonentity for a lead. Won't watch.

i liked the bit where the car crashed.

Won't watch.

Premature.

Happy Guardians of the Galaxy day; thank God I can get out of work early today and see it in peace.

Also, new Interstellar trailer has me weak at the knees

www.interstellarmovie.com
PW: 7201969

Can't wait to see GotG... Can't... Wait...

Mesrine part 1&2.

Can Vincent Cassel do no wrong?

I'll have to watch it again, but I might just have a new favourite film in the MCU. So much fun to watch, they really nailed it so well. Each of them is hilarious but Bautista being as a funny as he is surprised the fuck out of me.

Mesrine part 1&2.

Can Vincent Cassel do no wrong?

The answer is no.

I rewatched point break on Wednesday night. Amazing.

Utah. Get me two.

I watched Captain America 2 last night... Astoundingly entertaining claptrap...

All those films are the same, it's amazing... Don't stray from the formula!?!

^ watched it last night too. Much better than the first one but I am beginning to get a little bored with all these super hero movies.