Be Excellent To Each Other

I almost agree but then;



Actual biggest laugh of the film for me was;

Aaaahhhh lolz

Watching Mrs Doubtfire. Kovacs is the Monkey on his show. Ha!!

I watched The Fisher King on Saturday night. I haven't seen it since it was first released on DVD so it was very different to how I remembered it. However, it was still great and far more nuanced than I recall. Fine performances from Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, hell, the whole cast are really great.

For those of you who haven't seen it, it's a Terry Gilliam film, and though it visits some of his usual visual tropes it's more akin to 12 Monkeys than his more esoteric fantasy films — basically it's a story of redemption, love and reinvention. That was my tribute to the sad passing of Robin Williams.

Highly recommended.

I also watched Cap Merkin the Winter Soldier, which was also enjoyable.

I totally binged on Robin Williams films this week (and I'm still upset he's dead, and every time I watch him be fucking magnificent in a film it makes me sadder) so decided to go for a total change of pace tonight.

So it was the 2013 remake of Oldboy with Josh Brolin. (Netflix USA.) Brolin is very damn good in it, Samuel L Jackson plays a properly evil motherfucker, and Sharlto Copley's character works more towards the end.

Seriously fucked up film though, like the 2003 Korean original was. I wouldn't say it was better or worse than the original, but definitely a different take on it.

Don't expect to be left in a good mood.

Tonight's film was 'Assault On Wall Street' by the genuinely insane German director Uwe Boll (this guy challenged and then partook in real boxing matches with some of his critics).

The guy's made quite a lot of films but I've only seen a couple of them (including the unremittingly horrible 'Seed' which features an extended sequence where a hostage gets her head systematically taken apart by a claw hammer) - so I wasn't overly sure what to expect from this.

So yeah, it's basically Banker Revenge Porn, whereby a wholesome and hard-working American everyman gets his entire life taken away from him due to EVIL BANKERS and is eventually pushed past breaking point and decides to kill as many of them as he can.

If I'm entirely honest, I really liked it, it's the howl of anger against the wholesale fucking larceny that took place I've been hoping for. Moreover, genuinely well acted, written and directed in the main too. (There's actually quite a lot of factual stuff in there which has been covered by folks such as Michael Moore.)

It's not a shoot-em-up mindless violence affair either, there's a protracted lead-up to the guy finally going postal (and even then it even doesn't ring true, truth be told, because he's not the type who'd resort to wholesale murder).

8/10 - Not a bad flick at all.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/assault ... reet_2013/

Uwe Boll has made a decent movie?

Yeah, those boxing matches. He was going to spar with Sean 'Seanbaby' Riley at one point, until he realised Seanbaby is a big guy who does Muay Thai and Ju Jitsu and could beat the fuck out of him. According to Lowtax from SA, he was all 'its just a PR stunt, a bit of fun' and then he tried to knock them out.

Bit of a cock then.

An insane cock! (I have read previously that he didn't seem entirely keen on seeing all his boxing challenges through to their conclusions )

But yeah, I quite liked Assault On Wall Street. It's on Netflix USA so if you've got a Netflix sub just use the Hola extension for Chrome (or similar trickery), log in with your usual account details and there it is.

Worth a watch I'd say. (Also you can spot Edward Furlong (Terminator 2) and Keith David (loads of stuff) in there too!)

So I decided to also watch Under The Skin last night.

I can completely understand it being a Marmite kind of film, and I can entirely understand someone hating it, despite the fact that Scarlett Johansson is entirely naked at points in it. Personally I bloody loved it though. Very creepy in places, visually very striking with a terrific soundtrack and tells a good story with scant little dialogue. I totally recommend it. I can already tell it's the kind of thing I'm going to be thinking about for a while now.

I watched Bad Grandpa .5 last night

Its a got a lot of extra footage that they didn't include in the film and is also part documentary.

I was pissing myself laughing at the footage, that said I could watch this sort of stuff all day.

I went to see The Rover and The Congress yesterday. Neither made me particularly happy. The Rover is a future Australia after some kind of collapse into lawlessness. Miserable beardy quiet Guy Pearce's car gets stolen so he goes to get it back. Kills quite a few people along the way. But not in an action movie kind of way. It's more miserable road trip than anything. Well executed but not exactly happy.

The Congress is about Robin Wright playing a fictional Robin Wright based on Robin Wright selling her digital likeness (which in this is impossible to distinguish from reality) to be used in films instead of her so the studio can do what they want with her. It's all about studios getting full control over their 'product' without those pesky actors interfering. And then about people retreating into fantasy worlds instead dealing with reality. And stuff. And again it's not very happy. And half of it is weird animation. And the messages don't quite work or make sense and I have to say I really didn't enjoy it much.

All in all, it felt a bit of a bummer of an afternoon with the atmospjhere of tjhose films. And my keyboard likes to ijnsert random js into my typing and I'm fed up of trying to remove them all now so they have to stay.

I watched Godzilla and was mildy amoosed. It was garbage of course but it did make me think that there's not been a good disaster film in a while. Or ever.

The I watched Divergence which is another of those Hunger Games films. Remember Lord of the Rings came out and then we had The Chronicles of Nardia? It's a bit like that. It's also garbage but, again, I was mildly amoosed.

Maybe I was just in the mood for some stupid crap.

Watched Winter Soldier a few days ago - slightly duller than I was expecting. OK though.

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy last night. First film I've seen in 3D, which was pretty cool. Definitely one of my favourite films of recent years. I'm still giggling over the blacklight line.

Also, ironically, one of vin diesel's least wooden performances.

I read the book after having seen the film. Its incredible.

I read the book whilst knowing nothing about it beforehand. That was fun.

I watched what was dubbed "The British version of The Hurt Locker" called The Patrol. It wasn't. Far, far from it.

Soooo... it was good then?

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - Lots of nudity. Lots of violence. Lots of stylised visuals. I quite liked it.

Lucy - I could almost overlook the horrendously bad science were it not for it constantly bringing it up throughout the film and slapping me round the face with it. The science is horrendously bad. It's not a bad action film for the nice and short 90 minutes it lasts. Nice to see a film that doesn't have to be a million hours long.

The Purge - shit.

The Purge Anarchy is good by the way.

I thought the Universe The Purge was in was fascinating, but the film itself was pretty dull.
I've not seen anarchy.

The Fault in Our Stars is a nice sad melancholy story about two teenagers falling in love.

I decided on a whim to go and see the new Sin City film so walked practically straight out of work into that. Really though it should be called Eva Green Is Really Hot: The Movie because that's blatantly what the producers wanted you to take away from it. Indeed I wouldn't be entirely surprised to find out that it's origin came when they were editing together their already-shot visual paean to her mostly naked body and one of them said, "Hey, y'know we could add some other actors to this, maybe hang a story round it and turn it into an actual film!" Apart from that the visual design of it's stunning, the plot has zero depth, the men are all tortured thugs and literally every single female character is either a stripper, a prostitute or a murdering gold-digger. So pretty much exactly what I expected. Verdict: Eva Green's boobs out of ten.

No, it fucking isn't. It's a steaming pile of horseshit.

In.

Just be aware that, naked Eva Green aside, it's really pretty boring.

I quite liked it. It looks good. That was enough. I can see how it would be dull to a lot of people though.

I just watched THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY.

A sort of old-fashioned, slow-burn thriller set in Greece in the 1960's with solid acting from Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and some young bloke I've never heard of.

Not exactly gripping but well-made and enjoyable. 7/10.

wish id have done that
still there was a lot of mystery stuff even knowing the basics of the premise

Whoo Guardians!

Watched "Gravity" last night. I really don't get why this was so raved about. It was a halfway decent visual spectacle, but honest to god every 5 minutes or so either my wife or I were compelled to say "Sandra Bullock.... IN SPAAAAAAAACE", as it was just so ridiculously that.

Also slightly odd for her to convert from "I'm sick just standing still" to Daft.

Welcome to the world. It sucks.

Highlight - Mrs K: "That's just gratuitous semi-nuddy Sandra Bullock". Me: "There's no such thing as gratuitous semi-nuddy Sandra Bullock". Maybe that was the philosophy for the whole film.

I'm genuinely curious how a film that's entirely about an astronaut in space manages to cram in a scene where the lead actress gets semi-nude. Seriously, what the fuck?

(a) Patriarchy or (b) that astro-people are actually in real life in their kecks under the space suits.

On this occasion I'm going with (b).

Last night I watched Bullet with Danny Someone and Dan go shoots first. I was well drunk so no idea about either.

Danny Dyah? Innit.

Tredhe? He was in son's of anarchy. Mexican looking guy, moustache, scarred face, ponytail.

Oh, him. Any film with him in is guaranteed to be terrible. Trufax.

Trejo

Trejo! I want a Trejo and I want one now.

Daylight come and me wan' go home.

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Name one film, dude. Not TV series, film.

Con Air.

Dusk til Dawn.

Other than that one.

Bad Ass.

Also, where he's on screen for more than 5 minutes.

Heat.