Been watching a few films.
21 which is apparently based in the book Bringing down the house. The film is terrible. Shallow in every respect. Avoid. The book is excellent though and is highly recommended.
Hackers. Angelina Jolie. Mildly diverting in parts and if you have a clue about computers you need to forget them. Dated. [...]
Archive for the Film Category
Been watching - Posted 18:59 Thursday 21 Jan 2010
A film list - Posted 17:12 Saturday 21 Mar 2009
Some people believe that seeing what books and films people have gives them more of an idea about that person. If you do, here is what you need …
On 5 films briefly. - Posted 06:23 Sunday 28 Dec 2008
The Dark Knight. Not my genre and this proved why. The Joker? Can’t see the performance myself. I swear there was someone other than Bale in the Batman costume. I can understand that Batman is meant to have a darker side but the voice as an indicator was pretty poor. Not a good film.
Hancock. Poor [...]
Film truth - Posted 19:18 Friday 28 Nov 2008
It was great to be Catholic and go to confession. You could start over every week.
A Bronx Tale
Playing one - Posted 11:57 Friday 6 Jun 2008
So Apple lock the mac down at the firmware level so it can only play a single DVD region. And they do this to get into bed with the film studios. Stupid on many levels. But I have Region 1 DVD’s – right now the uncut Leon (which is infinitely better than the theatrical release) [...]
E not U - Posted 12:27 Monday 26 May 2008
The very start of Lord of War disc after clicking Play – at least on the region 2 DVD – shows a letter E (white background, mechanical animation). It is moved through the animation and it appears to stay as an E. But it’s shown as a U (in Manufacturing). I have no idea how [...]
Stalingrad - Posted 21:07 Sunday 11 May 2008
Stalingrad. It may well get a good write-up at IMDB. It might even be a good film, it might live up to “Excellent” and “A Masterpiece” on the cover. But this DVD has a HUGE fault similar to ‘Tell No-one”. That one was in French with English subtitles. I really don’t like subtitles for most [...]
Tell No One it's in french - Posted 15:52 Tuesday 1 Apr 2008
I see a film called Tell No One. I check the sleeve – one heap of praise on the front, two on the back. Blurb is in English, it is created in partnership with among others BBC Four. It says nothing at all about what language it is in. It mentions 1 french actor, 1 [...]
A DVD trio - Posted 15:23 Saturday 15 Mar 2008
Monster: It was okay. I was familiar with the backstory so it held no surprises. The thing that stopped me really getting into it was the forced downturn of the mouth in Theron’s character. It seemed false throughout. Watch again? No.
blow. I liked Depp in this one (though he was superb as Willy Wonka) and [...]
About Zoe - Posted 13:15 Friday 7 Mar 2008
I said a week ago that I ‘really enjoyed’ The Wind That Shakes The Barley. I changed my mind. I would now say it’s ‘okay’. Partly this is a result of reflection, and partly because I watched Killing Zoe. Now this I really did enjoy. Great fun from start to finish. It’s not a deep [...]
