Slumdog Millionaire: Well, this film got a lot of fanfare when it was released. I’m not 100% sure why, after watching it. It’s good, sure, but, that good? The film follows the life of the main character ‘Jamal’, his brother, and the love interest – from childhood, into adulthood. Along the way, there is lots […]
Film Log
Logs of movies I’ve watched.
Film: Paycheck (2003)
Paycheck: A fairly odd premise – a smart guy works for companies, and then has his memory erased of what he did for them. One of the companies he works for, sets him up, and he ends up having to run away, with only a small bunch of items to help him. It’s almost like […]
Film: Ghost Town
Ghost Town: I’m logging this, mainly in confusion. I’m trying to remember where on earth I saw this – it’s not even been that long ago… I actually got a blu-ray of this film from Lovefilm, and assumed that they’d made a mistake, or I had, and that they’d sent me a copy in the […]
Film: The Proposition (2005)
The Proposition: I’m not sure why this was on my list. It’s a kind of wild west film, but, set in Australia. It’s possible someone I was talking to on IRC recommended it to me. It’s been too long on the list, so it’s difficult to remember! Anyway, it’s a bit slow moving at times, […]
Film: The Bank Job (2008)
The Bank Job: I thought this film was very engaging – it’s about a real bank robbery (Baker Street Robbery) that happened in London in 1970, which apparently made the press at the time for a few days, and then was hushed up. According to wikipedia, that’s not strictly true – The Times did report […]
Film: Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005)
Corpse Bride: I didn’t realise this was a musical – but I knew it was an animation, though I assumed it was a 3D animation, not a stop motion one! The detail these animators put into their productions is simply amazing. The film was good fun, and shorter than I thought it would be – […]
Film: Days of Glory (2006)
Days of Glory: A war film about North African soldiers, fighting for France, in world war 2. The discrimination shown in this film is very interesting – it’s apparently based on reality, but, I obviously don’t know that for a fact. The interestingness is that even though these soldiers were fighting to free France, and […]
Film: Juno (2007)
Juno: I’d seen a part of this film before I watched it completely, and I thought the humour was excellent. So, I thought I should watch the whole thing. I know the whole foul mouthed teenage girl might be a bit cliche, but, it works well here. The subject matter that was tackled was done […]
Film: Death Race (2008)
Death Race: An action movie, involving cars, and death. It’s set in the near future, in a world where crime is really high, and corporations run the prison system in the US. With one prison doing races with cars that have weapons, and killing other drivers is within the rules – in fact, it’s all […]
Film: Assembly (2007)
Assembly: I’m not sure for what reason another war movie has made it onto my ‘normal’ list, but, I’m glad this one did – even though I didn’t fully understand what happened in the middle. As the synopsis says – this film is based on reality (as much as you can believe, anyway) of a […]