Old Age

It's getting to me as my memory is starting to go, as I forgot to list some things I watched recently. After a 6 week absence I'll be going back to the cinema tonight, I usually go about once a week (I get in free so I will go see most things within reason) but everything recently hasn't interested me enough and the stuff I really want to see hasn't been on. So Munich is finally showing this week so I'm going to see that

Batman

Tim Burton version, some of this hasn't dated particularly well, the prince songs for one but I remember thinking they were shit at the time. Wonderfully dark for what at the time was supposed to be a big summer kids film. In fact its the last film I ever remember queuing for, when I got there the queue was around the block but someone we knew was third in line so we cut in which was lucky as we would have had to continue queuing for the next showing if we hadn't. Thumbs Up

Mr And Mrs Smith

Guilty pleasure from last year, the plot is completely nonsensical but nobody takes it seriously so it ends up being a lot of fun. Thumbs Up

War Of The Worlds

Spielberg version, the sound design and production design on this is fantastic. Watching this on an ordinary TV won't do it justice, the rumble of the machines coming out of the ground alone would convince people to get surround. The Tim Robbins section which some say drags the pace down in the third act flew past a lot quicker this time and there really isn't any other place for it to go. Thumbs Up

here is a pic of it on the big screen










Domino

Not for epileptics, Tony Scotts been using a new editing style for his last couple of films and its either a like it or hate it kind of thing. I think it works, it defianlty makes his films stand out from the pack. This is the supposed true story of Domino Harvey, Actor's daughter turned model turned bounty hunter. The bounty hunter part is the only true bit of this story, unless parts of Las vegas got blown up by gangsters while I wasn't paying attention. Really enjoyed this. Thumbs Up

Shrek

My one year old nephew loves this and as a result I have watched 5 to 10 minutes of this about 100 times over the last 6 months. However yesterday was the first time he was around since I got the screen set-up so we watched the whole thing. Surround sound confused him a bit, he didn't know why the dragon was roaring at him from behind. I had recently thought this might not age well over time but each time I watch it I catch we bits of hilarious dialog I'd never noticed before, mostly from Donkey who speaks ridiculously fast. Thumbs Up

Primer

Low budget time travel film in the same style and vain of Pi, I think I understand what happened, but I'll probably read something that will completely flip this on its head. I don't think I'd watch it again but its worth a watch. Thumbs Up

Alfie

Jude Law version this time, has much of the same problems as the Caine version but this has the added bonus of Sienna Miller getting her baps out. Thumbs in the Middle

New DVD's

Wallace And Gromit in The Curse of the Were Rabbit - more brilliance from Aardman animation