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On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
Oh dear just woke up after large intake of ethanol and not very good film
And so to bed
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And so to bed
Savages. Fairly decent but over-stylised. The tanned, sexy, righteous American drug dealers vs. the brutal, cliched, hammy Mexican drug dealers is a lazy trope and the ending(s) are crap.
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Going in reverse order of recents...
Outlaw Blues (1977)
Peter Fonda and the uber fox Susan Saint James. It's a 70's country and western romp, engaging for late night Insomnia. Fonda is a con who plays a song he wrote inside to country star Garland Dupree. Dupree steals the song and flogs it off as his own. Fonda gets out of jail, tracks him down and confronts him, with Dupree getting accidentally shot in the process. Zany chases follow, but it's Saint James savvy marketing skills which allows Fonda to take back the song and promote it while the man hunt for him is on. Kind of implausible but it's done very well. Fonda does let the film down somewhat, the 'hit' song is terrible and he can't actually sing. Came out the same week as Star Wars.
Despite that, 3 out of 5 for the effort.
R.I.P.D (2013)
A clear case of 'what were they thinking?'. If you haven't heard of it, it only cost $130 million to produce. Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds as partners in the afterlife hunting down Deado's, who I can't quite work out how they stay on Earth. I'm sure they explained it, but I must have missed it in Bridges thick accent. He's usually the best part of any film and here he play a wild west sheriff saddled with a 'Rook' partner Reynolds, who lets face it can't make a hit film if his life depended on it. Reynolds has all the ingredients but put together don't quite work. it's a special effects film that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Not that this kind of film should, it's just Men in Black with Undead. Kevin Bacon rounds out the headliners and it's a shame he allegedly lost all his money to Bernie Madoff and has to resort to this. It's watchable, but forgettable.
Fifteen to twenty years too late. 2.5.out of 5
Boyhood (2014)
I can't doubt the quality of the vision for this film. It's pushing a boundary set by Michael Apted among others to capture what film makers must cheat consistently. The Passage of Time. On that level it works brilliantly, each age passing by as the characters grow up. But fundamentally nothing actually happens. Families do lots of things and every single one of them has been explored to the death. Rather than using the opportunity to tell us something special, the film drags on with each scene reflecting really nothing other than normal life. That was the point, i suppose, and the supporting cast of Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hunt are good. In no way shape or form Oscar-worthy, but good. You'll either love it or you'll hate it, or if you're like me, you'll see the intrinsic value of the Production process but held with no more appeal than that.
Good performance from the kid, 3 out of 5
Kidnapping Mr Heineken (2015)
Rank and file kidnapping heist, but one I'd never heard of before. It saunters, never really explaining the Kidnappers backstory and ultimately you don't really care about them. Couple of Aussies in Worthington and Kwanten, Jim Sturgess seems destined for bigger things and Anthony Hopkins with his hands out for the paycheck.
1 out 5 Heineken
Big Eyes (2014)
Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams have been the breakout stars of the One 'Ohs. Do we have an informal name for the decade? We're half way through it someone should get on that. Big Eyes is without doubt the most un-Tim Burton film you'll ever see. It's almost like he's taking over from where Woody Allen has been for the last few years. Although in so far as Blue jasmine being another Blanchett masterpiece, Adams isn't in the same dimension. Adams is a small time Artist, selling her 'big eyes' paintings at the market. Waltz is the Artist, lapping up the Art Scene and forging a place for himself in the Art World. It's a good film that uses character juxtaposition successfully; when the dynamics of the relationships start to change it can be riveting. You get see the true nature of the underlying motivations in a very solid framework. I won't give anything away, but it will make you think.
4 out of 5
Outlaw Blues (1977)
Peter Fonda and the uber fox Susan Saint James. It's a 70's country and western romp, engaging for late night Insomnia. Fonda is a con who plays a song he wrote inside to country star Garland Dupree. Dupree steals the song and flogs it off as his own. Fonda gets out of jail, tracks him down and confronts him, with Dupree getting accidentally shot in the process. Zany chases follow, but it's Saint James savvy marketing skills which allows Fonda to take back the song and promote it while the man hunt for him is on. Kind of implausible but it's done very well. Fonda does let the film down somewhat, the 'hit' song is terrible and he can't actually sing. Came out the same week as Star Wars.
Despite that, 3 out of 5 for the effort.
R.I.P.D (2013)
A clear case of 'what were they thinking?'. If you haven't heard of it, it only cost $130 million to produce. Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds as partners in the afterlife hunting down Deado's, who I can't quite work out how they stay on Earth. I'm sure they explained it, but I must have missed it in Bridges thick accent. He's usually the best part of any film and here he play a wild west sheriff saddled with a 'Rook' partner Reynolds, who lets face it can't make a hit film if his life depended on it. Reynolds has all the ingredients but put together don't quite work. it's a special effects film that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Not that this kind of film should, it's just Men in Black with Undead. Kevin Bacon rounds out the headliners and it's a shame he allegedly lost all his money to Bernie Madoff and has to resort to this. It's watchable, but forgettable.
Fifteen to twenty years too late. 2.5.out of 5
Boyhood (2014)
I can't doubt the quality of the vision for this film. It's pushing a boundary set by Michael Apted among others to capture what film makers must cheat consistently. The Passage of Time. On that level it works brilliantly, each age passing by as the characters grow up. But fundamentally nothing actually happens. Families do lots of things and every single one of them has been explored to the death. Rather than using the opportunity to tell us something special, the film drags on with each scene reflecting really nothing other than normal life. That was the point, i suppose, and the supporting cast of Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hunt are good. In no way shape or form Oscar-worthy, but good. You'll either love it or you'll hate it, or if you're like me, you'll see the intrinsic value of the Production process but held with no more appeal than that.
Good performance from the kid, 3 out of 5
Kidnapping Mr Heineken (2015)
Rank and file kidnapping heist, but one I'd never heard of before. It saunters, never really explaining the Kidnappers backstory and ultimately you don't really care about them. Couple of Aussies in Worthington and Kwanten, Jim Sturgess seems destined for bigger things and Anthony Hopkins with his hands out for the paycheck.
1 out 5 Heineken
Big Eyes (2014)
Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams have been the breakout stars of the One 'Ohs. Do we have an informal name for the decade? We're half way through it someone should get on that. Big Eyes is without doubt the most un-Tim Burton film you'll ever see. It's almost like he's taking over from where Woody Allen has been for the last few years. Although in so far as Blue jasmine being another Blanchett masterpiece, Adams isn't in the same dimension. Adams is a small time Artist, selling her 'big eyes' paintings at the market. Waltz is the Artist, lapping up the Art Scene and forging a place for himself in the Art World. It's a good film that uses character juxtaposition successfully; when the dynamics of the relationships start to change it can be riveting. You get see the true nature of the underlying motivations in a very solid framework. I won't give anything away, but it will make you think.
4 out of 5
Amazing Spiderman 2. Dull, and far too long.
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X-MEN Days Of Future past, confusing but entertaining. 7/10 - I don't like Wolverine at all, waste of space.
Watched Hot Tub 2 a few nights ago. Not so good to start, and nowhere near the original, but does get better after that and isn't as bad as people make out I think.
Watching Cuban Fury atm. Fun rom com about Nick Frost who used to be a great Salsa dancer as a kid but now is just your typical lonely office drone, until the new boss turns up, with a really good cast, great little cameo by Pegg. Defo worth a watch with the missus
Watching Cuban Fury atm. Fun rom com about Nick Frost who used to be a great Salsa dancer as a kid but now is just your typical lonely office drone, until the new boss turns up, with a really good cast, great little cameo by Pegg. Defo worth a watch with the missus
Sapie88
Hi @Donald Twain
Thanks for reminding me I don't have a missus.Watched Hot Tub 2 a few nights ago. Not so good to start, and nowhere near the original, but does get better after that and isn't as bad as people make out I think.
Watching Cuban Fury atm. Fun rom com about Nick Frost who used to be a great Salsa dancer as a kid but now is just your typical lonely office drone, until the new boss turns up, with a really good cast, great little cameo by Pegg. Defo worth a watch with the missus
Prick x
Watched Iron Man 3. I liked the second one, so I'm easy to please. This didn't please me. So much wrong with it. Poor scripting and pacing, annoying s**thouse kid, War Machine's suit getting hijacked AGAIN, and veerrryy little actual Iron Man. They just sort of threw away plot points like they were nothing. Oh, this gadget keeping the shrapnel from my heart? Let's just remove that altogether because it's that easy. Oh yeah, I have an army of automated Iron Man suits, just didn't bother deploying them when my mansion was being blown up. Nonsense.
Sapie88
Hi @Donald Twain
It's an absolute dog egg of a film. As you've pointed out, if he had all those suits why wait so long in the middle of nowhere for one suit to work again. Get in your car and put another one on you bad turd.
I know it's not right to ask in here but has anybody seen the new Helen Mirren film .... Woman in Gold.If so is it any good.The story line seems to be similar (by a long way) to The Monuments men.
Haha sorry! Went 4 yrs between gfs, so making the most of it now. In terms of mentioning that I've got one I mean. Not in any other way....
Sapie88
Hi @Donald Twain
Enjoy it brother.Haha sorry! Went 4 yrs between gfs, so making the most of it now. In terms of mentioning that I've got one I mean. Not in any other way....
Boss_Blue
I will find you and consensually bum you
Sapie88
Hi @Donald Twain
I'll be out in 5 x