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 […]
Film Log
Logs of movies I’ve watched.
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 […]
Movie: Bugsy Malone (1976)
Bugsy Malone: Well, this was a fun movie – made for kids, with an all child cast, but it’s in the top 250, so it was on the list. I’m surprised I’ve never come across it before on TV as a child.Jodie Foster was recognisable quite easily – and she was the only actor/actress that […]
Movie: Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Silence of the Lambs: Apparently I’m one of the few people in the world that hasn’t seen this movie. I think I’ve done well, and not let the hype that surrounds this movie get to me, and I really enjoyed this.Some scenes, or parts of scenes I’ve seen previously, but not enough to know what […]
Movie: Firewall (2006)
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 […]
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 […]