Being There: A film with Peter Sellers in it. I was expecting Pink Panther type humour, which was probably my first mistake. A friend of mine thinks this film is amazing, but I found it very very difficult to get interested, or follow. I understand the character was not all there, but what I didn’t […]
Documentary: Religulous (2008)
Religulous: I think I misunderstood the synopsis on Lovefilm when I read it. It said something about Bill Maher’s commitment to never pulling a punch – which I understood to mean ‘doesn’t go for low blows, or insulting ones’. However, this documentary is rather crude (a friends described it that way, and I think it […]
Film: Hostage (2005)
Hostage: I have to give this film credit – it wasn’t quite what I expected from the relatively lame synopsis. I thought it was just going to be any old action flick, with shit blowing up, and Bruce Willis being an arse kicker. He was, but, not in the way you might have expected. There […]
Film: Terminator Salvation (2009)
Terminator Salvation: It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen this – I’ve just realised I never logged it at the time I watched it in the US, in June 2009. Anyway, I can’t remember a great deal about it anymore, apart from shit blows up, there’s a bad guy, who kinds turns into […]
Hall Painting
Movie: 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
3:10 to Yuma: One thing amused me about this film – the lead parts were played by an Englishman (Christian Bale) and a NZ/Australian man (Russell Crowe) in an American wild west film. Christian Bale’s character is a rancher, who is rather poor, and is being pushed off his land. He comes across an opportunity to […]
Movie: Equilibrium (2002)
Equilibrium: I have no idea why IÂ ever added this to my list of films to watch. Even the premise sounds really stupid. The premise is that in a world after a third world war, emotions are banned, as they cause war, murder, rape, etc. Christian Bale’s character is one who enforces this system. And halfway […]
Movie: Hard Boiled (1992)
Hard Boiled: A John Woo fim with no pretentions – and that’s what made it good. It’s an unrealistic action film, with a cop who is a real tough guy, and has brains too. I don’t mean that part is unrealistic – I just mean the story itself, and how it plays out is unrealistic. […]
Movie: Babel (2006)
Babel: IÂ found this film just felt a bit empty, and a bit pointless. I found ‘Crash’ far more interesting, and the interlocking stories were a lot more, well… interlocking. There are apparently 4 stories in this film. Supposedly linking together, but, hardly, in my opinion. The only good thing about this film was the depiction […]
Movie: Glory (1989)
Glory: This was a film about an all volunteer black regiment in the US Civil War. It says it is the first, but I’m confused by the other black regiment they meet in the course of the story. The film is based on the letters that Col. Robert Gould Shaw would send home to his […]