Films

And Hello Dolly.

...and Grease 2.

If they've got proper songs in them like Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Bugsy Malone, Grease, they're good.
If it's just talking in 'song' form I don't like them.

talking in 'song' form

Singing?

Singing?

Let's call it Songing.

So, Midnights Children. All I can say is a brave attempt at a fantastic book. A well crafted film but ultuimatley disappointing (it was always going to be really given how much I love the book).

Despite Rushdie writing the screenplay it just lacked all the magical element of the book, which, for me, are largely interior rather than visual.

The decision to have Rushdie narrate it was a bad one. It added nothing, not even a novelty aspect. It was well crafted and acted.. But lacking..

Avoid.. And read the book.

On the Subject of Ryan Gosling.... Just watched Crazy Stupid Love on recommendation of a friend.
Oh man... what an awesome film! I was expecting it to be total romcom piece of shit. So many laugh out loud moments!

Yeah bwoi!

You cunts. It was unbelievably shit. Wasted nearly 45 minutes on it before giving up. If this wasn't a case of me misinterpreting sarcasm on both your parts, you are fucking dead to me.

Thank fuck for your review Scarlett.

You cunts. It was unbelievably shit. Wasted nearly 45 minutes on it before giving up. If this wasn't a case of me misinterpreting sarcasm on both your parts, you are fucking dead to me.

That's about as far as I got too. I think it was the 'asshole' scene at the school that finally made me want to gouge both my eyes out and pour acid in my ears.

I watched Django Unchained and thought it to be Tarantino back to his best.
The way he tackles genres is just ace, with a great soundtrack too this is my fave of the year so far.
5 Bikes out of 5
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Just watched Lincoln. Afterwards I read through a few reviews; there is an excruciating one by Alastair Campbell where within a couple of lines he turns it in to a critique of David Cameron.
The main thing that surprised me was that Daniel Day Lewis had chosen to make Lincoln sound as if he was Bill Clinton impersonating Grandpa Simpson. Once I had *that *Abe in my head it wasn't so easy to take all of his speeches so seriously.
The opening is clumsy - this is an Oscar film, for Americans, and there is quite a bit of clumsy exposition to make the mechanics of Washington politics comprehensible to foreigners. Those mechanics are what occupy the film. Some reviews call it a political thriller but the thrills were lost on me. Perhaps because the outcome is known the will-they-won't-they get the votes plot is lacking in tension.
I hated the music. Soupy and soaring at the key moments that otherwise, apparently, we are too numb to realise are important and epochal. Spielberg always prefers to make a point visually rather than verbally, which is fair enough, he is a director not a screenwriter, but this is a very verbal film and his adding his directorial tricks to it is a bit corny. He certainly doesn't trust his audience's intellects.

I watched Django Unchained and thought it to be Tarantino back to his best.
The way he tackles genres is just ace, with a great soundtrack too this is my fave of the year so far.
5 Bikes out of 5
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couldnt disagree more. tarantino is over. vanity project is all it was.
Shalnt be wasting the bafta vote on django

Just saw Les Mis and I thought it was truly brilliant - not left the cinema feeling like I've got more than I paid for in a very long time.

Just watched Django Unchained:

juxtaposition of urban/old/soul/hip hop/R&B with slo mo shots? check
tense stand off scenes? check
verbose and unnecessary dialogue? check
bloody dénouement (times 3)? check

yawn

couldnt disagree more. tarantino is over. vanity project is all it was.
Shalnt be wasting the bafta vote on django

Django Unchained is of course self indulgent, that's what he has always been about. For example, if you swap the release of Django Unchained with Pulp Fiction, people would be saying the same thing about Pulp Fiction.
Tarantino is probably predictable in his delivery, but to me, he is predictably brilliant. Art is simple, but art is for artists, this is why not everyone can write screenplays an direct good movies.

I have nothing but admiration for Tarantino's ability to bring to life and enhance scenes with his dialogue. Too many writers are stuck writing functional scripts with as least as many lines to get to the point as possible.
When in real life does this ever happen? Never, that's when. When I am out with friends, most of our dialogue is filled with meaningless, over acted and over worded reparte. Tarantino knows people talk like this, and therefore brings a reality to his films that I for one love.

A case in point of Tarantino's ability is the scene of the 'Rat Catcher' at the start of Inglorious Bastards. To even start to write a scene with the premise of making someone give up a family he is hiding in wartime circumstances, under his floorboards, with just a seemingly informal chat is hard as hell. To actually make it believable to the point where you can see that the guy is going to crack and give the family up, is really nothing short of a masterclass.

The problem is that nowadays its cool to dislike Tarantino, so it's nice and easy to brush off his works. I first encountered Tarantino when I watched True Romance and followed his works ever since and to be fair, he has had his dips in form, but to suggest that Django is anything but a return to form, is laughable.

same old same old

On the Subject of Ryan Gosling.... Just watched Crazy Stupid Love on recommendation of a friend.
Oh man... what an awesome film! I was expecting it to be total romcom piece of shit. So many laugh out loud moments!

Yeah bwoi!

Watched it on these recommendations. OMG i loved it!

I may be over thinking this - which is a shame when dealing with Tarantino (the director/film maker), but perhaps there are three eras developing. Tarantino's early stuff (up to and including Jackie Brown) still stands up. It also comes together as all being part of a similar genre.

The middle stuff (Kill Bills + Grindhouse) are self indulgent rubbish (imho), but are also part of a particular type of genre that I'm not much of a fan of (post modern internet age wank material? Is that a genre?).

Perhaps he's finding a new stride and he's started a new era. I didn't hate Inglorious Bastards. It had some pretty good moments. And I haven't seen Django Unchained (and I'm looking forward to it as a fan of westerns). From what I have seen, though, it doesn't fit into the Grindhouse/Kill Bill era nor the early stuff.

Enjoyed Django. Another badass movie from Tarantino.

Death Proof was his lowest moment by far - 2 hours of people with QT's words coming out of their mouths, and no plot

Django isn't any near the same league of shitness (and I agree about the post-modern ironic internet fanboy genre thing) but it is still ridiculous dialogue and yet again a remake of a relatively obscure cult film, same as IB, which was at least quite funny. Django is just tedious violence for the sake of it

Watching Sweeney.
With Ray Winstun and Plan B.
It's shit

Anyone wanna see Gangster Squad tomorrow eve?

If you buy me lunch too, I'll let you put it anywhere you want.

Plan B

Megalozzles! I made this mistake.
He is like a toddler struggling with its first words.

King of Kong

awesome documentary about video gamers. one of the best things i have seen recently.
Amazing characters and they are real!