Thor wasn't that bad, for an action movie. I thought it was going be shit from the previews I saw. 

not up to that one yet, so far the Mountains and Ice Worlds episodes have really got my attention as well as the Fresh Water one. 

For the first time last week. What an amazing piece of film that is aswell. Jaw dropping. I had to watch it twice. That mountain is the coolest most scariest mountain evar! 

seriously, wtf?

I havent seen the first but I doubt that would make this seem any more logical. Utter gibberish of a plot, some very nifty effects sequences and a suitable score from Daft Punk.

But at the end of it all, wtf is all that came to mind. 

The king's speech
I did not expect to like it at all and instead I got the most wonderful movie I've seen this year (unless I am forgetting something). Very likable characters, a to me interesting story that was exciting and full of strong tension all the way. Some minor annoyances but I won't mention them wo noone gives them involuntary attention. 

why is this so hated? I thought it was quite fun with its campy parody style. 

It's weird for sure. Seems pretty disjointed. Maybe the tone is a little off also. It possibly is taking itself a little too seriously, because when it gets to the bit when -- SPOILER(?) SPOILER(?) HONESTLY WHO CARES -- hot Tron assassin girl steps out of the computer and turns from lines of code into a real flesh and blood person, it just seems absolutely ludicrous. Nowhere near campy and fun enough for that kind of thing to pass by unchallenged. This isn't Weird Science, I wish it was. 

didn't hate it or anything, but sometimes it was just really weird to be funny (if it was supposed to be) and there was the general sense that it was imitating sin city.

just my impression, of course. 

it definitely imitates Sin City visually but I dont think the tone is the same at all. Sin City was kind of like hyper noir, this was definitely in the parody mould. And it does get weird funny, but I liked that part :)

Unlike what I just finished, Scott Pilgrim, I dont think I 'got' this at all. Possibly the worst movie I've seen in a long time. 

From the trailer I described it as "Groundhog Day meets Speed meets The Matrix". And watching it it was pretty much Groundhog Day meets Speed meets The Matrix. Cool film I liked it a lot. Just nicely done and interesting how it pans out. Manages to do a lot with very little (a train, a small room, a science lab, and 5 main characters), the army girl is cool, and the feelgood ending is pretty nice too. Could have been slicker in places and possibly deeper but still good. 

I dug that movie (Source Code). You could go cross-eyed permanently if you spend too long thinking about the plot. Which I like!

I watched a movie called:

Enter The Void

Fucking wierd movie. Most of it is filmed from the perspective of a dead dude's spirit, and its kinda set in Hong Kong, ergo there is a lot of dirty sex and drugs and violence in it. But it's definately a 'different' take on a movie to the norm......... 

I though it was Japan? I have that in my pile, should get around to that.

So on my last day off before going back to work, I saw Greenberg and Mother and Child.

The former is a dramedy with Ben Stiller playing a neurotic a-hole trying to sort out his life. It's by Noah Baumbach so if you've seen Squid and the Whale or Margot at the Wedding, you know what to expect. Finely etched characters but pretty uncomfortabel viewing.

The latter is one of the great films of last year with excellent writing (albeit with a few obvious contrivances) and even better actign from Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Samuel L Jackson. 

Japan. It's from Gaspar No�, go figure. Pretty psychedelic in parts. But also an hour too long for what it's worth. And the number of sex scenes seemed excessive. 

oh look it's on Amazon 

Trolls!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEo7H9tqSM 

I actually like this movie. 

the korean action/thriller The Man From Nowehere a while back.

Finally saw it and its a simple, predictable, but stylish and solid genre flick with terrific action sequences and some nice regular black humour. Dont expect anything more and you'll have a very good time. 7/10


Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours on the other hand is a film that slowly creeps up on you and then full on hits you in the gut in its final scenes, a meditative, unsentimental look at family, death and memories that is just a treat to watch. 8/10 

The Dilemma (2011)
Painful to watch (because it is so bad), avoid at all cost. 

Well now I'm torn, do I listen to Spirit and avoid it, or ignore him and watch it???? 

seen quite a few recently but these stand out:


attack the block (2011) - great fun. imagine shaun of the dead meets kidulthood; predominantly action/horror with smatterings of cultish brit comedy. does both elements well and the laandan roodbwoi dialogue is brilliant. trust fam, believe

moon (2009) - very similar to source code in terms of themes/mood but works better due to the story being less convoluted and more logical. add a strong lead performance and great clint mansell score and you have one of the best sci-fiers of the last few years. keeper!

black swan (2010) - good. great, even, but with me being a bit of an aronofsky fanboy i kind of expected it to be awesome, which burdened it slightly with the weight of expectation. still, i guess it didn't disappoint and had about the right mix of everything.

nitin, out of interest have you seen the wrestler? i ask as it features almost none of DA's token 'smart arsery' (as you put it :) ) and imo still stands tall as a touching character piece (with some notable parallels to black swan) 

Aeon Flux.

Pile of cheesy gibberish music-video catwalk-strutting style TOSS. Even as a trashy pointless slice of "veg in front of the tv for a couple of hours" it was a waste of time that could have been spent scratching my arse. 

yes I have. And I liked it but, as a film, I didnt find it great even though Rourke, Wood and Tomei tried their hardest to turn it into one.

The plot and characters felt far too familiar IMHO. 

Time Crimes - Don't know if I already mentioned this, but I finally saw and quite enjoyed this - slightly less than I had hoped to, but definitely worth a watch if you like Movies involving time travel, dark comedy, English subtitles. A nice, fairly low key movie with a pretty funny meta-commentary on approaches to time travel paradoxes in film

Predators
Very uneven. I'm in love with all those old arnold sci fi movies from the 80's, and in many ways this movie pays homage quite well to those, but it's super uneven. pretty meh/enh/etc in the end. 

The Hurt Locker
Got 30mins in and decided it's another plotless middle eastern movie filled with various bomb scenes. What a bore. I'm sure a story would eventually come into it, but I'm not waiting.

Spanish GP
Awesome 

Hurt Locker's scenes can be pretty intense, but yeah it's not so much plot-based as it is a character study. A series of increasinly tense situations involving this main guy and how he affects the people around him, and how basically he's an adrenaline junkie.

At least that's what I got from it.