Misplaced your values, forgot the importance of being right
I'm five films in to the new year. One great, two good, two that I didn't like but everyone else either liked or didn't mind. I didn't like Daybreakers. Vampire films are all the rage at the moment, so it's easy to accidently drop a cliché or two into the mix, and I'd forgive that except if you took all the clichés out of this film what you'd be left with is a five second movie of a dude not wearing sunglasses looking at a camera and asking "What if everyone was vampires?" 'cause that's a relatively orignal question to ponder and I'd be interested in a film exploring the possible consequences. Shame we didn't get it, eh? I left before the end because I didn't want to miss any of The Road, which is one of the good films.
It's really bleak so don't go watch it if you're after some cheering up, but it's very well done. Apparently it's quite a faithful adaptation of the book of the same name, by Cormac McCarthy. The world is dying. It's never really explained why, but nuclear winter is probably the best bet. Humans are reduced to scavengers at best, cannibals at worst. Viggo Mortensen is a father struggling to teach his son, Kodi Smit-McPhee, how to survive in this world. Nothing and no-one is happy or ever will be again.
Another one that just wasn't for me is Nowhere Boy, a biopic of John Lennon's early years and the formation of the Beatles. I think the problem here is that if that was Lennon, I didn't like him and I couldn't identify with him, like, at all. The actresses playing his Aunt and Mother - Anne-Marie Duff and Kristin Scott-Thomas - were both very good, but everyone else kind of sucked.
Up In The Air is pretty good. It's the latest by Jason Reitman, director of the excellent Thank You For Smoking and Juno. It's every bit as slick, witty and poignant as you'd expect, except there's something missing. I know what it is and it's to do with the ending so I don't want to spoil it, but given all the Oscar buzz this film is recieving, and the praise being levelled at it by critics everywhere, I think I was expecting a little more. Thank You For Smoking and Juno are both five star films, and you haven't seen either or both then get on it, but this one's a star short so don't go too far out of your way for it.
Sherlock Holmes is brilliant. I swear Robert Downey Jr could take any role and play it in his usual style and it'd still be fresh and fantastic. He's said himself that he'd happily spend the rest of his career just doing Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes films, but I'd like to see him in more classic roles. The next Bond. The next Doctor Who. I'm looking forward to Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and I have no problem with it being Russell Crowe playing the lead but imagine if it was RDJ. That would be cool. Holmes and Watson have such good chemistry and the slow motion fight scenes you saw in the trailer are not quite what you'd expect and are perfect for the character of Holmes. I will be buying this on DVD.
Okay so sometimes I go to celebrate stuff and there's alcohol and games and its a pretty awesome and other times I go out and people punch me in the face and that's not so cool. Sometimes these things happen on the same night. Other days I go literally hours without being punched in the face but I still have a pretty bad time. Like Saturday where I was supposed to finish work at 23:30 then go rock out at the Waterfront, but it was crazy busy at the cinema and I ended up clocking out at 01:00.
I really want to go to the Waterfront again soon. It seems like every time I plan on going there something gets in the way, like work or other places to go or just being really fuckin' drunk. Guys, maybe this Saturday? Maybe the Saturday after? One of them. Soon. Let's do it.
It's really bleak so don't go watch it if you're after some cheering up, but it's very well done. Apparently it's quite a faithful adaptation of the book of the same name, by Cormac McCarthy. The world is dying. It's never really explained why, but nuclear winter is probably the best bet. Humans are reduced to scavengers at best, cannibals at worst. Viggo Mortensen is a father struggling to teach his son, Kodi Smit-McPhee, how to survive in this world. Nothing and no-one is happy or ever will be again.
Another one that just wasn't for me is Nowhere Boy, a biopic of John Lennon's early years and the formation of the Beatles. I think the problem here is that if that was Lennon, I didn't like him and I couldn't identify with him, like, at all. The actresses playing his Aunt and Mother - Anne-Marie Duff and Kristin Scott-Thomas - were both very good, but everyone else kind of sucked.
Up In The Air is pretty good. It's the latest by Jason Reitman, director of the excellent Thank You For Smoking and Juno. It's every bit as slick, witty and poignant as you'd expect, except there's something missing. I know what it is and it's to do with the ending so I don't want to spoil it, but given all the Oscar buzz this film is recieving, and the praise being levelled at it by critics everywhere, I think I was expecting a little more. Thank You For Smoking and Juno are both five star films, and you haven't seen either or both then get on it, but this one's a star short so don't go too far out of your way for it.
Sherlock Holmes is brilliant. I swear Robert Downey Jr could take any role and play it in his usual style and it'd still be fresh and fantastic. He's said himself that he'd happily spend the rest of his career just doing Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes films, but I'd like to see him in more classic roles. The next Bond. The next Doctor Who. I'm looking forward to Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and I have no problem with it being Russell Crowe playing the lead but imagine if it was RDJ. That would be cool. Holmes and Watson have such good chemistry and the slow motion fight scenes you saw in the trailer are not quite what you'd expect and are perfect for the character of Holmes. I will be buying this on DVD.
Okay so sometimes I go to celebrate stuff and there's alcohol and games and its a pretty awesome and other times I go out and people punch me in the face and that's not so cool. Sometimes these things happen on the same night. Other days I go literally hours without being punched in the face but I still have a pretty bad time. Like Saturday where I was supposed to finish work at 23:30 then go rock out at the Waterfront, but it was crazy busy at the cinema and I ended up clocking out at 01:00.
I really want to go to the Waterfront again soon. It seems like every time I plan on going there something gets in the way, like work or other places to go or just being really fuckin' drunk. Guys, maybe this Saturday? Maybe the Saturday after? One of them. Soon. Let's do it.