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"Batman and Robin isn't just bad by comic book standards, it's bad by the standards one applies to getting hit in the face with a festively-decorated baseball bat."

The seven least faithful comic book movies.

I must admit to liking Constantine (though that could well be because of Rachel Weisz) and also Hulk, which was pretty decent until ( Read more... )

2) Insanity / Pregnancy / China

Raise The Red Lantern.

Guess the films from their IMDB tags:

1) Remake / Martial Arts / Belt (Fist Of Legend - guessed by ajr)
2) Insanity / Pregnancy / China
3) Based On Comic / Post-Apocalyptic / Exploding Head (Hokuto No Ken/Fist Of The North Star - guessed by memetic_glutton)
4) Teeth Extraction / Post Hypnotic Suggestion / Octopus (Oldboy - guessed by despotliz5) Tap Dance / Gambling / Sword ( Read more... )

I managed to nuke the file containing my books and films of 2005 so I can't do much in the way of comparison. I have no idea whether I've seen more films this year or not, though at a rough guess I would say that I have since by May 2005 I had only seen 22 films compared with 55 this year ( Read more... )

67) DOA: Dead Or Alive - exploitative, mindless, excessive wire-fu, and yet oh so very entertaining. Probably bears no resemblance to the source material, but who cares? Also, Devon Aoki is not remotely attractive. Seriously. Whoever cast her should be taken out and shot. I would have happily settled for a Chinese actress to play the Japanese ninja ( Read more... )

The plan to post every day for a month has died a miserable death already as I failed to take into account the weekend, so here's a general catch-up ( Read more... )

Just to show you how inept I am in the morning, I just managed to delete a comment from greyarea on my last post. In other news, the London Film Festival has announced its programme and I will be doing my usual thing of seeing all the Japanese films, in particular Hana, the latest film from the director of Nobody Knows.

My attempt to purchase tickets for the Firecracker Asian Film Festival turned into something of a farce yesterday ( Read more... )

I'm back from four days in Budapest spent sight-seeing and attending the wedding of an old uni mate. Photos and a vague report to follow. Note to self: cheap flights before 9am are a waste of time because one invariably gets about two hours sleep, arrives at hotel in a zombie-like state and wastes the first day sleeping ( Read more... )