Last Movie You Watched? (Part 3)

About Schmidt

Fairly good film, even if a bit slow at times, starring Jack Nicholson, in which he plays a man recently retired whose wife soon dies unexpectedly. His new found loneliness brings him to the conclusion that he must save his daughter from her plans to marry a man that he doesn't approve of, so off he goes in his motor home on a trip to Denver to try to change her mind.
 
The Cat's Meow. 2001.

Film based on the death, in mysterious circumstances, of film mogul Thomas H. Ince in 1924. It all happened on the yacht owned by William Randolph Hearst and one of the main characters was Charlie Chaplin.

Enjoyable and well filmed.

The cast included Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley.

6/10
 
Clive Barker's Book of Blood [2009]. Director: John Harrison

7/10

Haunted house yarn given extra atmosphere by the Edinburgh locations.

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Brideshead Revisited [2008]. Director: Julian Jarrold

7/10

Another BBC-funded period drama.
 
Cabin Fever [2002]. Director: Eli Roth

5/10

Too busy paying homage to (far better) 70s/80s horror films rather than coming up with a decent plotline of its own. The gags are more miss than hit.
 
I saw it a couple of weeks ago when it was shown on the BBC. It's a great film. The DVD arrived today so I watched it again. It has some brilliant music too.
 
Despicable Me

A poor film that didn't know what it was trying to say and the direction is was supposed to go.
I saw the 2D version and wasn't blown away by the animation. This wasn't because it was in 2D more that all these CGI animations are starting to look the same. The heaRAB lack character because the skin is usually flat, smooth looking, often bulbus. They tend to look like PS2 games.

4/10
 
The Young Victoria

Period drama about the early life and reign of Queen Victoria. It's the late 1830s and King William IV is soon to depart the earth, but his successor is a teenage girl that many feel isn't up to the task to be monarch and who seek ways to either deny her the position or marry her off for political gain. That's when Albert steps in. Quite a reasonable drama that kept me interested through most of it. There were moments in the second half of the film that did seem to lose direction, but thankfully these didn't last too long before the film was back on track. Thought that Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend were quite good in this, particularly the former, whose energy moved the film along.
 
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