Movie mini reviews

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » October 13th, 2010, 8:02

Shutter Island (2010)
Tedious

Post by **deject** » October 13th, 2010, 11:48

Au revoir, Shoshanna!

Post by **Grimmie** » October 13th, 2010, 12:14

Roman Totale wrote:I really enjoyed. The guy who plays the SS Colonel is absolutely fantastic - completely stole the show.

Post by **FatherJack** » October 23rd, 2010, 18:40

Another round-up:

Shutter Island
Tedious and obvious

Astro Boy
2009 CG remake of the classic anime. Quite fun in a Wall-E type fashion. Nick Cage reprises his oft-seen role of crap Dad clumsily and belatedly trying to be a good one.

Survival of the Dead
Less about the zombies, more about the conflicting attitudes of the people left alive. The kid is smug and annoying, but then the other characters aren't exactly likeable. Bit disappointed by the silly ending, though I did like the very final scene.

Clive Barker's Book of Blood
Nice adaptation of the first and final stories in the short story collection that helped to launch the author's career. A lecturer/author in the occult is desperate to find some real material for her next book, so persuades a student to stay in a very haunted room in a house she is renting nearby.

Legion
Uses a battle between angels Mike and Gabe to disguise what's in my view a rather tiresome zombie defense movie based in a single location.

The Contract
Implausible tale of a father and son on a hiking trip who encounter an assassin on the run. Morgan Freeman as the assassin with a heart almost carries it, but often seems like a puppet of the narrative.

Disturbia
Voyeristic kid under house arrest spies on his neighbours and fancies one is a serial killer. Pretty dumb ending.

Let The Right One In
Best thing I've seen in a while. Weird-looking blond kid passively takes beatings from the bullies at school, until a pale girl moves in next door and persuades him to stand up for himself. She has a rather unusual relationship with the man living with her who people assume to be her Dad. Swedish with subtitles.

There's an english-language remake, called Let me In (a less misleading title in my view, though since the original title's based on a song by Morrissey I can't fault the author's taste). Normally I'd poo-poo US remakes, but as it stars The Road's Boy and Kick-Ass's Hit-Girl and as the author himself says both versions are great then who am I to judge? The story in both is indistiguishable, though miss a number of themes present in the book upon which both are based. It's worth reading the wiki on the book after watching - some things are only very obliquely hinted at in the films.

Post by **Roman Totale** » October 23rd, 2010, 18:45

FatherJack wrote:the original title's based on a song by Morrissey I can't fault the author's taste

I did wonder if that was the case when I first saw the name of the film. "Let Me In" just sounds clunky in comparison.

Edit:

The American version is called Let Me In because the publishers believed that the original title was too long

Yeah, they should have just called it "Bite!"

Post by **FatherJack** » October 23rd, 2010, 18:54

Roman Totale wrote:I did wonder if that was the case when I first saw the name of the film. "Let Me In" just sounds clunky in comparison.

It does a bit, but "the right one" indicates there are two - I was expecting evil twins until about half-way through.

Post by **Joose** » October 24th, 2010, 13:12

FatherJack wrote: Shutter Island
Tedious and obvious

Tebvious!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 24th, 2010, 14:15

Joose wrote:
Tebvious!

Obvedious?

Post by **Roman Totale** » October 24th, 2010, 14:19

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Obvedious?

I like it - sounds vaguely Latin.

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 24th, 2010, 16:25

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, obvidious.

Yep, Latin is no longer a dead language. Berk has revived it.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » October 24th, 2010, 18:46

Preoccupante è inoltre la crisi in cui versa la famiglia.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » October 24th, 2010, 18:55

Diligo ferrum, potissimus bestia, meus amicitia es

TheJockGit · Post by **TheJockGit** » October 24th, 2010, 19:37

Serpentes sunt damnati in plano Deus

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » October 24th, 2010, 19:44

Alea iacta est.

TheJockGit · Post by **TheJockGit** » October 24th, 2010, 19:48

Saját Google Fu erős, hatékony használatát teszi nyelvi eszközök

Wiggy · Post by **Wiggy** » October 24th, 2010, 20:54

何が性交のすべてについての叩いてですか？

TheJockGit · Post by **TheJockGit** » October 24th, 2010, 22:14

אני באמת לא יודע

friznit · Post by **friznit** » October 25th, 2010, 13:25

Ваша маці гучна смяяцца

friznit · Post by **friznit** » October 29th, 2010, 21:25

I just watched a film about clones with some Scottish cupcake and a blonde chick with big tits. I can't even remember what it was called. Terrible.

Post by **Joose** » October 29th, 2010, 22:30

RED

For the sake of full disclosure, I should probably start by pointing out that this is based on a Warren Ellis graphic novel, and I am a total Warren Ellis fanboy. Having said that, the mrs went with me, and she thought it was excellent too. Seeing as she doesnt really like fight scenes (and there are some pretty good ones) I think that says a lot. As is often the case with Ellis based stuff, the overall plot wasnt that interesting. It wasn't bad as such, but it certainly wasnt the films strong point. Besides, it was more than made up for by the interesting, richly detailed characters, the sharp dialogue, the top notch acting, and the tight direction. It starts kinda slow, but only for maybe 10-15 minutes, after which the pacing is bang on.

I'm probably going to go see it at the cinema again. That's fairly unusual. The mrs also wants to see it again. As memory serves, that's unprecedented. Go, watch it.