Really banal time-wasting chat on movies.
* Curse of the Golden Flower - Ninjas. Chow Yun-Fat. More ninjas. All the ingredients for an awesome movie. And, to be fair, it was awesome. But there are certain conventions of Western filmmaking that were (no doubt inadvertently) subverted by Curse of the Golden Flower, like making sense. No wait, that's not fair either, it's just that the movie just ended rather than finished. Some people would say, "Oh, but the idea is that you keeping thinking about the movie after it's done, rather than forget about it." Keep thinking about how shit the ending was, yes. Which brings me to:
* The Science of Sleep - I've been looking forward to this fucking film for almost a year, reading reviews from the states and all the rest of it. Like many people, I was expecting Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2. What I got was Eternal Who Cares of the Shitty Movie 2. Everything that worked in Eternal Sunshine - the ambiguity, the dreamlike vibe, the pathetic protagonist - fell flat on its face this time round, since Charlie Kaufmann wasn't around, I'm guessing. Turns out Michel Gondry isn't a genius after all. And if I see that fucking Daft Punk film clip one time...
* Priceless - NOT the French Breakfast At Tiffany's. Both leading ladies are named Audrey, and that's about it. Speaking of Breakfast At Tiffany's, how much does Blake Edwards love the song Moon River? He only uses it 5,000 times in the movie. I mean, it's a great song, but I was dreaming that song for weeks afterwards. GETOVERIT!
* Spider-man 3 - I'm not qualified to give this film a critique in the context of the trilogy - having missed (not bothered with) the other two films - but it seemed to have three movies' worth of material in it anyway. Anyway, it was nice to see a Marvel movie with a storyline that goes a little beyond the whole saving-the-world thing. No, I didn't see X-Men 3 - piss off. Spider-man turning into a badass was awesome, and Topher Grace is infallible, except for his retarded name.
* The Host - So good! Who new the Korean film industry had it in them? No one, that's who. This had three movies' worth of material in it, but in a good way: monsters, twists, the whole one-man-against-the-world vibe, satirical commentary on the American military, Asian schoolgirls, and subtitles (so you can feel sophisticated-like for seeing a foreign movie). Alas, no boobies.
* Hot Fuzz - What were you talking about, Kieren? A great film. What's-his-name was great.
Okay I've just lost interest in this post.
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11 comments:
Hot Fuzz wasn't a bad film, it just wasn't a funny one.
Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy The Science of Sleep. It didn't really get good until the last scene, where it all kind of fell together. You did see the ending right?
Kieren, watch Shaun of the Dead for christ's sake, he died to bring you this movie.
Is The Host that movie you've been talking to me (Darryn that is... I'm not Darryn, Darryn was the one talking to me.) aboot?
I just saw 'The Number 23' I thought the guy's descent into madness was too rushed and the enigma could have been looked into a whole lot more but it was still a good film.
Only Kieren and Jackie will understand this but I loved the part in the first chapter where he said 'I didn't remember what happened in the book, all I remembered was the name: Fingerling, I wish that was my name, and now it is'
For some reason that gave me goosebumps
Which brings me to another point, the narrator says that he doesn't remember what the book 'Fingerling goes to the Zoo' was about...
I could take a pretty good guess.
NUmber 23 was a little contrived for me.
And about Curses of the Golden Flower - i like that the films by this director is getting attention for CHinese film makers but they really would be so easy to well, 'make no sense'.
They're always set in some distant, mythical past with values that, well, unless you're Chinese, find hard to comprehend. Even I go ' what the fuck?'. Then it doesn't help the translation means things get lost...
But good on you for seeing it! Some fat arse whose name starts with Kie and ends with Ren won't go!
If Hot Fuzz requires that I've seen Shawn Of The Dead to be funny, then I submit that it's not that good a film.
Sure, it can enhance my understanding of what's going on... but to take another example, Naked Gun 2.5 is still a very, very funny film, even if you haven't seen the first one.
Hell, Club Dread was pretty funny, and I haven't seen Super Troupers.
All I can say is that, honestly, I probably laughed three times throughout the whole movie. That's one laugh every thirty minutes. Looking at my own ballsac is funnier than that.
Enlighten me -- what were the funny lines? The funny scenes? Please?
("The Dude abides" -- now there's a line that will last the ages. After nuclear winter, all that will be left will be cockroaches, Pamela Anderson's boob implants, and that line.)
Nick: 'I just knocked the big baby into the freezer.'
Butterman:'Did you tell him to "cool off"?'
Nick: "Earlier, I threw a big cuddly monkey at him and said 'Playtime is over' before hitting him over the head with my Japanese peace lily'
Butterman: 'You're off the chain!'
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oh, and Darryn. You wrote 'who new' as oppose to 'who knew' in the last paragraph.
I forgot to mention earlier...
Never ever watch X-Men 3. Try and conjure the worst-tasting balls you've ever sucked on and multiply by the power of shit and that's how good the movie is.
so pretty good huh?
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