lol @ Gibbon.
Haven't posted in here for a while. Then again, I've not really watched many films in the last few months. (Or rather I've rewatched a lot of stuff I'd seen before, but I've not watched much new stuff...)
Recent stuff off the top of my head:
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - looked right up my street in the trailers, but I was disappointed. Good action scenes, with beasties dispatched in glorious fashion, but a really weak script.
In this spin on the fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel are now bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.
Argo - didn't fancy the look of this, but was swayed by the hype. Didn't enjoy the first half. Couldn't comment on the second half, but when I looked up from my tablet to see the end credits rolling and asked the missus she confirmed it didn't get any better.
A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.
Mama - the first hour and a quarter was really good. The last half hour was weak. When you were only catching glimpses of something scary moving fast in the background it was spooky, but in the final half hour you see more and more of the Mama character, and it just doesn't work.
Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest for 5 years.... but how alone were they?
American Mary - good premise, and one or two very gory moments, but some of the worst editing I've ever seen in a film - big plot holes, no explanation for several key scenes, and (quite laughably) people speaking while their lips clearly aren't moving.
The story follows medical student, Mary Mason, as she becomes increasingly broke and disenchanted with the surgical world she once admired. The allure of easy money sends Mary into the world of underground surgeries ...
Django Unchained - really enjoyed this. Great script, locations, cast, and acting - and palpable clouds of bloody mist. Nobody who watches it will be any doubt it's a Tarrantino film!
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Cloud Atlas - intriguing idea, and much fun can be bad just trying to identify everyone, but I found my attention wandering more and more as the film progressed, and gave up about an hour in. I was intrigued enough with the story, though, that I looked up a synopsis afterward - and thought it quite compelling. Clever story, but badly told.
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Jack Reacher - decent flick, this. I didn't have very high hopes, as I've not really enjoyed a Tom Cruise film in about a decade (aside from Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and Tropic Thunder, which was all rather "meh" apart from Cruise's character dancing in a fat suit.) Decent story and acting throughout. Has a definite feel of being a franchise - hopefully we'll see more. And hopefully Cruise is back on form, and it's not just an anomaly. His new one, Oblivion, looks good from the trailers...
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.
