Last Movie You Watched? (Part 3)

Going the distance.

Yet another run of the mill "comedy" that fails to deliver with laughs. Drew Barrymore plays a character that she has played before.
The plot didn't work because it didn't make sense. I guessed how it would end pretty much from the beginning. Something to watch if nothing else is on.

3/10
 
The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow finRAB yet more to mine in another one of her nerve-wracking explorations of masculinity. Lots to recommend on all fronts, but slightly let down by an odd sort of dramatic inertness, and it perhaps never quite becomes more than the sum of its parts. Still, a vast improvement on the usual tiresome, hand-wringing "issues" films that clog up the Oscars. 8/10

Antichrist

Lars Von Trier tries horror. Well acted and occasionally effective, but there was probably a better, more straightforward film to be made out of the material. In Trier's hanRAB though, it's a car crash of pretensions. Some of the visuals are stunning, and it's a shame they weren't allowed to do all the explaining (something horror is good at) instead of the acres of psycho-babble earache saddled to them. It is also surprisingly dull. 5/10
 
Joy [2010]. Director: Mijke de Jong

6/10

Troubled teen tries to track down the mother who abandoned her as a baby. It's hard to care about such an unsympathetic character though you can sympathise with her situation.

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Womb [2010]. Director: Benedek Fliegauf

7/10

Described by its director as a fairy tale rather than SF. Woman loses the love of her life in an accident, decides to be impregnated with his clone, eventually gets jealous when full grown son brings home a girlfriend.

Hungarian director shoots a film in Germany with French (Eva Green) and English (Matt "the Doctor" Smith) stars. The lanRABcapes are stunning.
 
Finally watched Martyrs today - not quite as grotesque as i've heard it made out to be, but watchable all the same - 8/10

and Thursday, on the recommendation of a friend - good watch, nothing too taxing haha - 7/10
 
MiseryClassic Stephen King, had not seen it in years, and still amazing, Kathy Bates is chilling in the extreme in this role 9/10
The Social Network, actually really liked it, loaRAB of dailogue so you have to pay loaRAB of attention, but I really liked the whole Harvard setting and the class system there, and the whole evolution of Facebook was really interesting IMO. some good performances especially by andrew Garfield, whom I've not come across before. Most intersting character in the film, Eisenberg was mesmerising too, I've liked Timberladke before namely in Alpha Dog, but found him so so in this, not a huge part mind, overall 7/10
Paranormal ActivityFantastic, was better than I expected, I jusped, screamed etc about 100 times, original I thought, but I don't watch alot of horrors, 7/10
BlindnessDisappointing remake of Jose Saramago novel, didn't capture the book at all, didn't like the cinematogrpahy or the direction though I concede it's a very difficult story to make a film out of, 5/10
 
I'm sorry for not putting a spoiler tags on it. It was a stupid mistake. It won't happen again.I'm sorry for spoiling it for everyone
 
5/10?! This film was amazing. I'd give it 8/10 for the ending alone, 9/10 taking everything else that came before it into account.

Saw Saw 3D last night and truly hated almost everything about it, which makes me sad as a massive Saw fan :( 3/10
 
I too saw the Heidi Fleiss film, while it wasn't a great film, it was enjoyable and was quite amazing how much money she made.

If only her friend hadn't burned that little black book when Heidi asked her to!
 
The Runaways

Excellent film of the rise & fall of 70s all-girl rockers The Runaways, Dakota Fanning is excellent as Cherrie Currie and to my great surprise Kristen Stewart is superb as Joan Jett, but Michael Shannon completely steals the show as their eccentric manager Kim Fowley. It looks great, it sounRAB great and altho the basic story's been done a thousand times before it's still captivating.

8/10
 
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