Films I have enjoyed : Repo Men and Black Lighting
I have watched two films yesterday, enjoyed both, but thought both were flawed.
“Repo Men” (a film about two “organ repossession” men) have left me slightly more disappointed because it started truly great: dark humour, macabre situations, characters of moral greyness (or even blackness) that felt real , interesting POV, but as it went along the film has become cheesy, acquired clichéd romance and ended extremely predictably. But what has to be said is that Jude Law is marvellous. I have always been a fan, but this is the first time that I got that “OMPH!! This man makes my every hormone sing” feeling. I must embark on huge Jude Law watch-fest as soon as I can!
“Black Lighting” was a flawed movie from the start, as it took and borrowed from every single superhero movie known to a man (especially from “Spider-man”), but nonetheless I liked it quite a bit. I find that Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov’s movies often win with me because they are very cultural context heavy. They can look like films about crazy flying cars, but they are films about Russia, and this is what “gets me”. Unfortunately all the cultural context tends to evaporate with subtitles.
“Repo Men” (a film about two “organ repossession” men) have left me slightly more disappointed because it started truly great: dark humour, macabre situations, characters of moral greyness (or even blackness) that felt real , interesting POV, but as it went along the film has become cheesy, acquired clichéd romance and ended extremely predictably. But what has to be said is that Jude Law is marvellous. I have always been a fan, but this is the first time that I got that “OMPH!! This man makes my every hormone sing” feeling. I must embark on huge Jude Law watch-fest as soon as I can!
“Black Lighting” was a flawed movie from the start, as it took and borrowed from every single superhero movie known to a man (especially from “Spider-man”), but nonetheless I liked it quite a bit. I find that Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov’s movies often win with me because they are very cultural context heavy. They can look like films about crazy flying cars, but they are films about Russia, and this is what “gets me”. Unfortunately all the cultural context tends to evaporate with subtitles.