Films

First video of Jobs is out. I'm not convinced.

http://www.etonline.com/movies/129595_Ashton_Kutcher_Becomes_Steve_Jobs/index.html

Oh, god. I had to stop watching that as soon as the gospel according to Apple started flowing.

I watch Django last night and loved it. Best Tarantino since Jackie Brown.
Must agree with the comments about Hip Hop on the soundtrack though, didn't feel right. Some scenes did drag out too, not sure if he did this for tension like he did with the opening scene in Inglorious Basterds (which worked well), but in Django I found myself saying "c'mon get on with it..."

Just for back from The Last Stand.
Don't bother, it's toss.

Zero Dark Thirty

Absolutely gripped from start to finish. I love this sort of thing so was always going to be into it anyway. But BY CHRIST the last half an hour (the actual raid on his compound) is one of the incredibly tense bits of cinema I've seen in a while.

9/10

Watched Mask of Zorro last night. Forgotten how much I loved that film. Great action, choreography and dialogue. Last of the great action films before CGI ruined everything by making directors lazy.

Zero Dark Thirty - fell asleep after an hour, due to tiredness rather than boredom, seemed to be based a bit on Homeland, 6/10, will watch again at a later date.

Argo - a period I remember, but knew nothing of the incident portrayed, not enough Hillman Hunters in what was meant to be 1980 Tehran - 7/10

Essential Killing - Interesting mostly dialogue free, Polish low budget film about Taliban fighter escaping US incarceration, 8/10.

Interesting fact, Zero Dark Thirty is actually a remake of Erin Brockovich

I THOUGHT I recognised the story!

win, win

books tickets for Zero Dark Thirty

Watchings Jackie Chan's Drunken Master.
Serious skills on show(training scenes look like torture...) and a great comedy.
Mans was bare hench in his day(not that he isn't now)

Gonna get a vintage kung fu session on the go this weekend I reckon. Any recommendations?

I like Kung Fu Hustle. Quite funny. Actually, should be funny, I watched it in canto and wasn't reading subtitles so, "should be funny"...
http://youtu.be/kyWhVUCXY1A

I once dressed up as the smoking hair in rollers lady to a pj party, no one got it but hey, least I wasn't looking like a skanky ho...

Sixth Sense just started on More4. Maybe a good Friday mong out film?

Watched Total Recall remake last night.
It was gritter and grimier than the camp colourful original with fewer stand out moments and much more fisty-cuffs and shooting. At least it gave fans of the original enough references to keep us happy. The plot wasn't as tight nor as urgent either.

It was strange to see it set as a conflict between the british and australians with mainly american actors. The geography was anomalous. There was a shot of Ben Ben embedded in a huge sky-high structure with a London bus and a helicopter trip that took ages to get from Big Ben to a place that was an uninhabitable wasteland miles and miles away where the BT Tower stood.

I sort of enjoyed it, well at least the first hour because of the references and the look which was a riff on that film (can't recall its name) about robots or something with indiana jones...

Upside Down's a good film... Similar in theme to the new Total Recall except it's a sci-fi love story...

Ed:
Jackie Chan: Project A, Rumble in the Bronx, Police Story (1&2). Bruce Lee: The Big Boss, Tony Jaa: Ong Bak (not old but feels it), Jet Li: Twin Warriors (one of my favourites).

Also The Forbbiden Kingdom is alright, mainly just for the Jackie Chan vs Jet Li fight halfway through.

Watched Hitchcock yesterday. It's only 1:40 long and I wanted it to be longer. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant!

Source Code on TV last night - rapidly lost interest - what the eff was all that about?!

I really liked it. Interesting idea, well executed.

Zero Dark Thirty..

Very good.. Wasn't sure what to expect.. Gung ho fuck yeah USA! USA!.... ?

Nope.. gripping stuff.. thoughtful, well paced and incredibly well shot. And as Crispin mentions above, the last 30 minutes is so tense..

Did you really believe the story though? The one lone, dogged agent battling to be kept on the case and on the trail of OBL? It's such a Hollywood trope. Complete with scene where she bawls out and browbeats her boss.

But it proves that torture works, right?

#nottorture
#dickcheney

Did you really believe the story though? The one lone, dogged agent battling to be kept on the case and on the trail of OBL? It's such a Hollywood trope. Complete with scene where she bawls out and browbeats her boss.

It is indeed almost certainly horseshit, and a direct ripoff of Homeland.

I saw ZD30 as well this weekend. I liked it - but I had the same problems believing it. But then it doesn't say its a truthful and factual account of how they got OBL.

I did think Jessica Chastain was excellent in it. I really liked the briefing scene about the compound with James Gandolfini. Best line in the film -

'I'm the motherfucker that found it'

Everyone in the room's face is like - 'Did she just say that?' Hahahaha

Did you really believe the story though? The one lone, dogged agent battling to be kept on the case and on the trail of OBL? It's such a Hollywood trope. Complete with scene where she bawls out and browbeats her boss.

Not for a minute.. That part was of course pure Hollywood but I allowed that conceit.. You have to have these set pieces and, for me, it didn't out weigh the quality of the film.