Iron Man 3 - good enough diversion, awesome action scenes but like all the Marvel movies apart from maybe Iron Man 1 and Captain America, it lacks soul.

Party Down Season 1 - bit hit and miss mockumentary type comedy series but when its funny, its hilarious!

The Misfits Season 1 - Love it, the humour is right up my alley and the drama works well too.

Sons of Anarchy Season 1 - I dont get the appeal of this, will probably give another season a try before totally writing it off but came across as a much dumber Sopranos to me. Actually, the show is just dumb in terms of plotting and character motivations full stop.

Baby the Rain must Fall (1965) - From what I have read this was a critical and commercial failure but almost every review I have read spends more time discussing the fact that Steve McQueen does not actually sing in a few scenes of the movie, rather than rest of the movie itself. Anyway I thought this was an excellent film, evoking small town Americana very effectively and also doing a commendable job of hsowing a tortured soul whose life is invariably under the shadow of his abused past. Lee Remick as McQueen's wife is outstanding.

Hustle (1975) - Another one that seems to have been a critical and commercial failure and while its nothing new crime drama wise, I thought the characterisations were fascinating, and the look and feel were also excellent pulled off. One of the few good Burt Reynolds films I have seen.

Beyond the Hills (2012) - easily the best movie I have seen this year, Cristian Mungiu's followup to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is even better. Warning : Heartbreaking and Devastating and slow. 

 

Predators - utter shit. 

Misfits - very cool stuff. I have a weird chav-crush on Kelly, mostly because of her swearing.

Predators - utter shit. 

could have been a perfectly good slab of classic macho 80s style action bullshit. 

They got the bullshit bit right at least. 

and clearly no one wrote a script. 

its better than the last couple predator movies though. 

that's a)not a hard task and b)hardly some sort of good threshold. 

All these action remakes such as Predators need to have a long hard look at Dredd. 

To learn how to make a remake dull, rather than just cheesy. 

Tosser. You are dull :D 

- bit too much heavy breathing
- ending a bit drawn out
- got a bit sappy at the 'if you meet a girl with knots in her hair...' part (can't remember the exact wording)

otherwise awesome. tense and very original, definite benchmark film for breathtaking effects (seriously, those debris collisions!)

and i liked the scene that bothered nitin. it didn't seem right at the time but everything clicked afterwards 

World War Z: Great beginning but shallow illogical shit from then on.

Red 2: As good as the first one. Yay! 

The trailer for 7th Son looked pretty badass (yes yes I know) so I was in the mood for some magic type fighting movie.

witches, pirates, scientists, whiskey-drinking talking polar bears, and cowboys, join forces to battle the Catholic Church and their shock troops, Nazis and Eskimo warriors. Lol.... Almost seems like a caricature of fantasy and the ideas to be found there. I found the weird ideas and the portrayal of the church as this giant parasitic, nefarious organization bent on stomping out free thought and the imagination, quite amusing. 

 

Who watches the watcher doing the watching? 

Crime Story
www.imdb.com/title/tt0108656/

Serious Jackie Chan thriller which is really nice until the last ~1/4 where everything explodes. 

Oh man, that was pretty bad iirc. I liked the books though. 

Lot's of stuff to nitpick about, but I wasn't bored for a sec.
Also lots of mapping inspiration! 

I actually watched a movie ON TV! For the first time in must be 5 years. Pretty good, got the impression about 20 minutes before the end that they didn't know how to end it, only to find at the end that they didn't know how to end it. I was hoping that Elise was some kind of counter-plan revolutionary for a while... 

Rewatched Dredd, yup still as good. FUCKING good. Mr (ahem Judge) Dredd is just beyond balls to the wall awesome, they really captured the dudes vibe. I heard rumors of sequel ?

Otherwise Europa Report very neat recovered footage space mission movie, liked it, had not heard of it even tho Moon and Gravity and other space themed scifi seems to have had fair publicity going round.
Good in any case. 

BSG Final Season - Finally finished this series off, the last season was definitely the most uneven but there's a quite a few really good episodes (Sometimes a Great Notion comes to mind) and I was reasonably satisfied with the ending because it could have totally fallen apart but managed to actually not just avoid that but be reasonably consistent with what went before.

Mad Men Season 5 - This show is now up there with The Wire and Deadwood for me (oh my god shock horror no Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones in the top 3), there are 2 scenes in this season (between Peggy and Don) that stayed with me for days.

Boardwalk Empire Season 2 - I liked the first season but didnt love it, the second season though is a very noticeable improvement IMHO. All that setting up in s1 is carried through with in this season and its very involving. They kind of have to reset and restart going forward though so not sure how that will go. 

Haven't seen BSG, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones or Boardwalk Empire... am I missing out a bit? haha. Ah well I did actually watch the BE pilot and found it utterly boring. BSG I wouldn't mind watching one day.

I watched The Hunger Games last night. Pretty much as expected, a gameshow movie where players have to fight for their lives etc. Oh how many times have we had this before, I can think of about a dozen. fuck I hate them. Although Battle Royale was actually pretty good. I assume Hunger Games will get good though in the follow up movies, the proper Dystopian future, hot chick vs the evil government type dealie. I guess at least it's realistic and she's not a Jason Stratham killing machine. 

yeah right ;-)