Vertigo: I’m not sure how to describe this movie. The movie is a mystery one. The first half had very little dialogue for fairly long periods, which made it very slow for me, and kind of put me off a bit.The story is based around an ex detective in San Francisco who is scared of […]
Month: December 2008
Movies: Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), The Third Man (1949)
Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer: Well, this was a movie I have wanted to see for a while, but knew it had very poor reviews. I can see why now. Even with all the really good special effects, it could not be saved.How Doctor Doom got to Latveria was not explained. Why the […]
Movie(s): The Boys from Brazil (1978), Chinatown (1974)
The Boys from Brazil: Lots of German accents in this movie. The movie starts off with a Jewish kid investigating a neo-nazi group in Paraguay. It’s all going fairly slowly until he uncovers a plot that is being hatched by the group.This movie kept me in suspense for a long part of it, because (to […]
Movie(s): Outsourced (2006), Signs (2002), North by Northwest (1959), Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Outsourced: This is a film that I’ve been trying to get hold of for some time.Basically, an American company wants to outsource their call centre to India, and this is the story of the American guy tasked to go out there and improve things. It’s a comedy drama, and it’s simply very good. It’s mostly […]