Apocalypse Now

"The Horror, The Horror" no patient readers the reports of my death where incorrect but almost true, the story of which will be passed down through the generations as a warning to stop the young from wanting to travel now that the grand epidemic has arrived upon the world. Now over the years several "minor" atrocities have probably been carried out in the city we like to call Berlin but none where as horrific as those that befell upon me on Saturday 3rd February 2007, a date that will go down in history, small kids will be heard saying to there parents, "tomorrows the day mommy isn't it, does that mean we can't go out?", "Yes, son its the safest solution, the grass producing monsters are out there and may drown us in the carrot, pea and grass concoction" Mr Struthers recalls the events here, but that is his comical side of the story that's purely propaganda to hide the real horror that happened.

So lets go back to that night, I had one or two beers and decided to go to bed early (To be read as I cannot remember how many I had, it was a free bar with waiter service, I find without having to walk to get the beer or actually pay for it I lose track of how many I had, it might have been a lot, plus 4:30 in the mornings early is it not). So an hour into my beautiful sleep I hear a roar similar to Godzilla when he wakes, followed by the beautiful restrains of the early stage of regurgitation. My instincts kick in and I immediately duck and cover (Read, through the covers round myself and went into the fetile position and prayed for survival). Being the supportive friend that I am I lay there pretending I didn't hear comforted by the gurgling sounds that indicated that he wasn't doing a Hendrix, I probably would have spewed if I tried to help and that would have been weird. I would go on but it's to hard on me to recall it all, but just look at this, its about an hour and half before it all happened, look at the evil look in his eye, I think it was all pre-planned



Some good has happened I finally got a HD DVD player and I loves it, the difference at first was not too noticeable until I switched back to ordinary DVD and realised how blurry it is compared to the HD discs, here's hoping my side wins though I may just back down later in the year and pick up a Blu-Ray player to get the films that are exclusive to that format, it has shitty region coding so it may result in importing a machine from the US so I can get the biggest choice of titles.


Mission Impossible 3
V For Vendetta

Re-watched in HD, you can go searching though the archive for my original thoughts and they are much the same as both stood up well to a rewatch

Clerks II

Haven't laughed at a film in so long, where else will you get a confession of love while a donkey show is going on in the background, this scene much like the rest of the film is oddly touching, good unnecessary random dance sequence as well which I always love. Two thumbs Up

Harold and Kumar go to the white castle

Why do I torture my self, only Doogie Howser playing himself was mildly amusing in this so called comedy. Thumbs Down

Superman

People have complained about the lack of action in the new film, as if the originals where action packed which is not just the case, the films have always been about the character and less about any real threat and the action. I still hate the winding back time ending which is a complete cop out and makes no sense and stops the film from being truly classic to me. Thumbs Up

Superman 2: The Richard Donner Cut

I always preferred part two as the three bad guys actually posed a threat to superman and you thought he may actually be in trouble, but I always hated the slap stick moments in the film. This has all changed, Donner's cut has little of the slapstick that was in Lester's version though it also has the windy back time ending as it was originally planned for this film before being switched to Superman 1 and Donner never got a chance to come up with a new ending. With all the changes the film feels more like a part 2 than Lesters version and it feels like a better film. Thumbs Up

Superman Returns

Having watched the first two right before this I think I enjoyed it more than had I gone in cold as there are several small moments that mirror parts from the first two that might of noticed. The whole supermans child thing brought up a question though, was superman unlucky that he got Lois pregnant the only time he slept with her or did his super semen make it an inevitability. Thumbs Up

United States Of Leland

American indie that wastes a ridiculous amount of acting talent on a rather dull story that I can't even remember now. Thumbs in the Middle

Hitch

The torture continues, shitty rom com. Thumbs Down

Art School Confidetial

Good quirky film as should be expected from Terry Zwigoff that's very similar in style to his first feature, Ghost World as it should as both are written by and based on comics by Daniel Clownes, the main character responses to the arty twats trying to express how some of the shitty paintings make them feel is priceless. Thumbs Up

The Departed

Scorsese remake of the wonderful Infernal Affairs, is fantastic but maybe not quite up to the original, though both are quite different in style. The hong kong original was memorable for its tense set pieces while I found this more memorable for the charachters and performances, the changes in the story are minor and I feel they worked well and its good in this day and age of PG-13, 12a rated watered down bullshit to see some good violence and a lot of swearing. Two Thumbs Up

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

I groaned when I first heard about this, then one or two reports said it was a lot of fun, always listen to your instincts I say, bag O shite. Thumbs Down

The Last Kiss

Had high hopes for this as it looked similar in tone to Braff's own Garden State which I really liked, but the scripts so heavy handed and pretentious, which isn't a surprise as its written by the king of subtly himself the writer of the lovely touching Crash, Paul "Racism's bad MKay" Haggis. It helped fuel my Rachel Bilson obsession so it wasn't all bad. Thumbs in the Middle

The Family Stone

Another shitty Rom Com, why is it that that they are never romantic or comedic. Thumbs Down

Clockers

A Spike Lee Joint, I always find his work hit or miss, this was somewhere in the middle leaning towards hit mostly due to the acting as the story is almost secondary to the actors. Thumbs Up

The Black Dahlia

Brian DePalma always seems to fly under the radar with the mainstream as he always is the last mentioned in his group of friends, Spielberg, Lucas, Coppala among others. But his work is almost always the most visually stunning of the whole lot. This is one of his more middle tier films in that at times it stunning but then a moment creeps in that completely jar's you. Thumbs Up

New HD DVD's

The Matador

The Departed

New DVD's

The Host

New CD's

The Shins - wincing the night away

Bloc Party- A weekend in the city

Tilly and The Wall - Wild like Children

Johnny Cash - American recordings IV