[Closed] Recent Viewing Part III

I remember that!

Just saw Her Cuteness Jane Fonda in

Barbarella. (1968)

A madman named Duran Duran,
a winged angle (whose relatives De Lauretiis would later cast in "Flash Gordon")

and 30 years old Jane Fonda in skin tight clothing and various degrees of naketness for a trippy duration of 90 minutes.

Did I mention that legendary zero gravity strip tease that opens the movie?

Quite a nice pastime.

Oh, and I just realized they made another game in the series called STASIS INTERUPTED which accounts for why [spoiler]Hicks is alive[/spoiler] in the aforementioned game. Guess I have to watch that gameplay too.

These games are made in collaboration with Fox and are officially part of the ALIEN canon, so that means [spoiler]Hicks is now alive in the series[/spoiler]!

- I don't half miss Ringo.
- He's far out there.
- Always was.

MAMA ( 2013 )

Apart from an appallingly drawn out tear-drenched ending that went on far too long this was a very entertaining 'old school' horror movie filled with creepy atmosphere and old fashioned shocks over violent gore. It's nothing anyone hasn't seen before but it's all done very well and is co-produced by Guillermo Del Toro.

From what I noticed, I liked the score by Fernando Valazquez which had a Young/Elfman vibe to it.

Yes, I've heard nothing but good reviews for that film and would like to see it. Douglas performance in particular has been repeatedly cited by critics as exceptional, it's a shame he'll not be eligible come Oscar time.

p.s. I vaguely remember seeing a TV made Bio of Liberace many years ago with, I think, the guy who played Scorpio in Dirty Harry?

EDIT: just googled wiki. Andrew Robinson was the actor...

" In 1988 he portrayed Liberace in a television biopic. With one of Robinson's acting trademarks being his effeminate voice, he was well suited for the part. Robinson had described it as one of his favorite roles, and that, "The most fun was wearing his furs and jewelry and singing 'I'll be Seeing You.'"[10] The New York Times review wrote that, "Robinson does rather well in the leading role."

Just saw PAIN & GAIN. Loved it! It's great to see Bay do comedy and go over-the-top -- even parody -- with his own style that influenced so many.

I've already said that Jablonsky's score is one of my favourites this year, and it was cemented further by seeing the film. Absolutely SUPERB stuff! Cool use of songs too -- esp. "Gangsta's Paradise".

Crumbs! Has it really come to this!?

House of Cards trilogy

The BBC originals (recently issued on Blu Ray). I'd forgotten how enjoyable these are.

Star Trek Into Darkness

The movie sequel to a re-boot to a film franchise based on a TV show that's a loose remake to the refresh of the original film franchise.

I saw this in the cinema, and admittedly I was fooled by the impressive visuals and quick pace. I came out thinking it wasn't a bad film. Dumb, sure, but pretty entertaining. But having watched it again in the comfort of my own home, I have concluded this is a pretty fucking terrible film. My biggest gripe isn't the fact that it isn't really Star Trek, I actually don't mind the appeal-to-the-masses-action-movie approach they inevitably had to go for, or that the plot has more holes in it than my old socks. No. It's the fact that they can't manage anything ORIGINAL, they have to rely on references and hope that the general audiences' vague knowledge of Star Trek will fill in the gaps of the screenwriters' piss poor attempt at story writing. It just goes through the motions. Rather than trying to do something of their own creation, instead they try to cram as many references to the old films as much as possible.

For example, if you took away everything Star Trek related in this world and just kept these films, there's absolutely no reason why Kirk and Spock should be friends. Spock is essentially a giant asshole who either gets angry or just comes off as a cold, heartless cunt. And Kirk is this hot-headed, frat boy who disobeys every order ever given to him. Without the real friendship of Shatner-Kirk and Nimoy-Spock we see in the original films, these two should really just hate each other. But we're forced to conclude that they're really friends, because that's what they were in the original films and TV show.

But here's the problem with its main attraction; Khan. When it's revealed that John Harrison is actually Khan, other than what fans know of this character due to the original Wrath of Khan, it's essentially a meaningless plot "twist". New audiences don't know who Khan is, and even worse, neither do the characters in the film itself. Their reaction, as with the audiences', should be "Okay, so what?" What's the point of 'revealing' Khan rather than just say it's Khan from the beginning? The only reason is so they can have a reveal half way through the movie to, hopefully, shock the audience. But even to those who are familiar with the character are pretty much poised to work it out as soon as Kirk starts beating him up. He's a Super Human.. oh, it's Khan.

There are also countless plot holes which, to be fair, wouldn't be so bad if they actually tried to do something original with the story. It all just ends up coming off as excuses to have the new young and sexy crew of the Enterprise do things so that people will pay money at a cinema to see them, you know, do stuff.

I am not looking forward to another sequel if this is anything to go by.

FU.

Yes, I know. As I said, I don't mind that. But that doesn't excuse bad writing. Die Hard is not made for thinking, but that film is brilliant.

Although I'm not really sure where you got that idea?

Prequels-syndrome.

More like Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof syndrome.