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 […]
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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 […]
Film: Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds: A Tarantino film, but, I think you could’ve got away with not realising it was. A film set in a slightly alternate reality of the second world war. It’s very violent/gruesome at times, and also incredibly funny, with a few emotional parts too. I also thought that Brad Pitt’s acting in this film […]
TV: Afro Samurai (2007)
Afro Samurai: I initially thought this was meant to be a movie, so was a bit confused, when I realised it was episodes, as it was a mini-series. It’s about a ‘samurai’, who is on a mission of revenge against the man who killed his father. It’s very violent, and our main character ‘Afro’ is […]
Film: The Assassin (1993) (Point of No Return)
The Assassin/Point of No Return: A film about a woman who is taken by the US government to be trained as a killer. That really is about all you need to know about this film. She initially hates the system, because she’s a spoilt brat, but can kind of fight, then she ends up becoming […]
Film: The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird: And, what a wonderfully weird film indeed! It’s a very enjoyable South Korean action western film. It references a fair few Sergio Leone films – including the title that this film is based on. The action is very well choreographed, the characters are quite interesting, but the end is […]
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 […]
Movie: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets: One from the entertainment list… I wanted to watch this, as I enjoyed the first National Treasure. This one was not so bad as I expected it might be, but, the reaching of big conclusions from tiny hints was back in force. It’s an enjoyable movie, if you don’t take […]