Firewall: Not a particularly great movie – I think it was added to my Lovefilm list a few months ago purely because it had Harrison Ford in it. It did have an amusing thing for people who know Cisco’s IOS command line interface where Harrison Ford stopped a hacker by entering an access-list. I wonder […]
Author: Sid
Movie(s): Double Indemnity (1944), and, Hellboy (2004)
Double Indemnity: An IMDB top 250 movie, this was enjoyable to watch. The character development was rather rapid at the beginning – it did feel like the insurance salesman was a bit of a sap and just fell a bit too easily for the woman. The investigator character ‘Keyes’ was excellent – and the way […]
Movie: Black Sheep
Black Sheep: Black Sheep is a comedy horror movie, made in New Zealand and it is rather surreal. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, which in a comedy horror needs to be the case! It’s probably easiest to describe the horror as zombie/were-sheep.I’m not even sure how it got onto my Lovefilm list – I […]
Movie: The Omen (2006)
The Omen: Firstly, I did not realise I had picked the 2006 movie in my Lovefilm subscription, so was a bit surprised at the start. This was a more interesting movie than I expected, so in that way, I was pleasantly surprised. The cat out of bag moments didn’t really catch me, and I don’t […]
Movie(s): Vertical Limit, and The Bridge on the River Kwai
Vertical Limit: Excellent scenery in this film, but the story was just… forced. The climbing scenes did hit my fear for heights though. I’m not really sure it’s worth watching, unless you’re into climbing, perhaps.I give it 5/10. The Bridge on the River Kwai: An interesting movie about prisoners of war held by the Japanese […]
Movie(s): The Lives of Others, 21 Grams, and S.W.A.T (2003)
The Lives of Others: Simply – very good. I’m not sure how I can describe this movie – it really is something that I think must be watched. It’s an interesting view of how the Stasi treated people (artists in particular) within East Germany, and the fear they caused within people. 21 Grams: This was […]
Movie(s): The Shining, and A Few Good Men
I totally forgot – I watched The Shining on Friday night (Halloween!) with a couple of friends. Absolutely fantastic scenery, and a pretty damn good story. Great acting too, perhaps a little overacting by Jack’s wife, but then, who wouldn’t be freaked out in that situation? 9/10 I think! Tonight I watched ‘A Few Good Men’. […]
Movie(s): Malcolm X, and Wall Street
Watched Malcolm X last night. Still find it tough to describe really. Denzel Washington looks scarily like the real Malcolm X in later life too. It was tough to like Malcolm X in the first part of the movie – but I think that was the point. He really was a rather immoral person. I […]
Movie: Alien
Just watched it, 29 years after it was originally released. I’m so with the times, man. I think this could be an interesting way to keep track of my movie watching habits… When I figure out how many imdb top 250 movies I’ve seen (as of a random grab I did a couple of months […]
Electricity…
… did not get the better of me today, and I’m still alive. Though I imagine the next person who works on what I did will say what I said "God damned idiot has wired this up previously". I should put a note in there saying something like "God damned idiot wired this up previously […]