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As previously mentioned I went to see Never let me go.

It stars Carey Mulligan (An Education), Keira Knightly and Andrew Garfield (Social Network & next spiderman). The basics of the story is that Carey Mulligan's character loves Andrew Garfield's character but their friend Keira Knightly sees this, gets jealous and ends up going out with Andrew Garfield. Yeah seems basic "we've seen it all before" type love story. However its set in like an alternative version of 70s, 80s and 90s Britain with a random sci-fi twist that is never fully revealed, you just kinda accept it. It was really odd due to the circumstances the characters go through during this love story but it made it feel very original and different. The performances from all three actors is absolutely superb and the film is very emotional and watchable. It's definitely a film I wouldn't mind seeing again and I recommend others to go see it when it's released.

Rating: 4/5
 
Just saw Paranormal Activity 2. It wasn't really through choice, but more of a "haven't got time to hang around so what's on right now?" kind of thing.

I haven't seen the first one, but it made no difference at all seeing as this is basically a prequel.

It did nothing for me to be honest. It's the kind of thing that would have s**t me up a bit when I was a teenager and gullible enough to believe in ghosts and stuff, but since I just don't anymore, the whole thing was a bit crap really.
 
The other day, I caught One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for my first time on Film4.

As any film-lover must surely know (but for those of whom who don't), the film's about a character called McMurphy (played by Jack Nicholson) who is sent to jail for "raping" his 15-year old girlfriend, but thinks he can get out of prison work by acting mad. However, instead of getting out of the prison work, he's sent to a mental institute, where he meets the other mental patients along with the bad-gal of the story, Nurse Ratched, who runs the ward with an iron fist.

In this situation, instead of treating the other patients as actually being mental, he treats them all like normal people, and refuses to go with the normal hospital routines (much to the annoyance of Nurse Ratched). By treating the other patients as normal people, some actually begin to progress, and none least so than a "dumb and deaf" native American-Indian nicknamed The Chief. This character helps McMurphy to escape during a Basketball match, and McMurphy then figures out a plan to break the rest of his ward out of the hospital to go on a fishing trip, and do what "normal people" do.

After everyone is returned to the hospital, several other incidences occur before the shocking (in more ways than one) ending, which, I for one, definitely didn't see coming...

Normally, films like this don't interest me too much; I find them slow, long, and often boring, and these are reasons why I haven't really seen many films, let alone films some people call "the greatest ever made".

However, OFOtCN captivated me like not many films have ever really done before, and I was glued to watching it, just wanting to know what was going to happen next, and see McMurphy's relations with the other inmates and Nurse Ratched develop. Everything was so believable, and I felt like I could have been in the hospital watching the events take place for myself.

This is also the film that kickstarted Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd's careers, who brilliantly played 2 of the inmates.

If you've never seen OFOtCN before, then I definitely recommend it.
10/10.
 
So earlier this evening I saw Archipelago.

Wow, what a load of mouldy turd. I nearly fell asleep so many times, only just about managing to keep awake trying to hold on to the small hope that something might actually happen. However we got to the end of the film and I found a good thing about it, it ends! I really didn't think you could make a film that boring, if there was a plot I'd like to know what it was. All I could gather was that a disjointed family were on 'holiday' and there was some form of story as to why they were all so miserable and dull. When you do finally find out why they were all so dull its not exciting, doesn't add anything to the film apart from an "oh" moment. I know it's a cliché but watching paint dry would be so much more exciting. The direction was as dull as the 'plot' in which it would appear they placed a camera on to a tripod and then ran away hoping a film would be made. It occasionally cuts to other scenes (sometimes to a random shot that has no significance what so ever) and moves a whole, get this...one time! Wow, when it happened I thought I was imagining something because it looked terrible, like they had a 2 year old operating the bloody camera. I think I can safely say it was the worst film I have ever seen and although I haven't seen the famous The room I have seen the nostalgia critic review and I can see that it is a "so bad it's funny" film and not just an abysmal excuse of a film.

Rating: 0.5/5

Annoyed as I paid to see that as part of the film festival, what a waste of time and money. Oh and we had a q and a session, I almost felt like asking as to why she made such a cr*p film, but I didn't. However she mentioned that it was about a British middle class family and said she didn't like lots of fast cuts and moving cameras and films about either upper or lower class families. Oh I am so staying far away from every film she ever makes then. I like the idea of middle class families being portrayed on film but not in such a boring manner that I just want to fall asleep. Urgh.

Oh wells, cinema day tomorrow so hopefully I'll be writing up my reviews tomorrow evening.
 
Recently I've been a bit bored with film. I've always been a lover of shocking cinema and slasher movies, things like that, and have recently upped my game a little bit because the films I was watching just haven't been shocking me like they used to. So I decided to watch a little ditty called A Serbian Film.

Now, I had briefly heard of this a while back, I think I read a piece on it in Total Film or Empire, but it didn't really make an impact on me until a fellow Film student I know called Ollie, who has an equally unsettling taste for film as me, told me I had to watch it and that it would 'make Sam cry'. Naturally I went and got my hands on it straight away.

Anyone wishing to see this film, I suggest you prepare yourself for literally anything. It is really quite horrendous and there are clues straight away as to what you're going to see, but in your mind you tell yourself that surely not, no way.....well, yes way. Sam and I both said that we felt like we were watching something illegal and have since been racking our brains as to how the hell this thing didn't get banned, even in the rather lenient times of censorship we now find ourselves.

I'll give you a brief plot outline so you can have some kind of idea what this piece of evil is about: an ex pornstar is low on cash, he has a friend who offers him a role in his next film for a lot of money, the only catch is he can't know of anything that's about to happen to him. Then bad things happen. And, like I said in my Facebook status, it makes Oldboy look like Bambi.

So yes, if you fancy being made to feel like a criminal in your own home, I suggest you watch A Serbian Film, anyone who argues that it isn't the most shocking thing they've seen this year is just wrong.
 
Saw Pretty Woman today, which was very sweet for a romantic comedy. Admittedly, the film was about 90% rom and 10% com, which was disappointing, and it did look rather dated. However, it was a film that brought a smile to your face, and one I wouldn't mind watching again.

7/10

I watched Despicable Me on Wednesday, which was an okay film. It was funny at times, hilarious at others, but most of the jokes were a bit childish. I did fall in love with the Minions - they were awesome and provided a lot of humour even if they couldn't speak English. The film overall was enjoyable, if a bit cliché - to be expected from a family animated film however. I would recommend to all, though it isn't spectacular.

7/10
 
On one of my extremely rare trips to the cinema last night I went to see The Social Network.

I loved it. It passed what I call "the watch test", meaning that I didn't check my watch at any point, something that I tend to do both in the cinema and theatre. It kept my attention for the whole thing, partly due to the clever scene order.

I was also impressed with the acting. I had expected to be distracted by the fact that it contained Justin Timberlake and Andrew Garfield (who went to the same youth theatre as I'm at), but I found them to be very good.

I found it funny, which was good, but mostly I was impressed that it remained vaguely intellectual. By that I mean that they could have just turned this film into another film aimed at teens to try and make a lot of money, but they actually had some parts where you really had to think about what was happening.

9/10

By the way, I disagree with Ciall that it made out that Zuckerberg is arrogant. I think it portrayed him as an incredibly intelligent man, who knew he was clever and was slightly immature and naive.
 
Paranormal activity 2
7.25/10
*spoilers*
There were things that were good and bad about this movie lets start with the bad
first thing is that I thought the ending was kinda of rushed and it stopped scaring me. it just got repetitive. Half the movie was just staring at security footage of nothing. but one thing that really stood out is the sound security cameras don't have sound but these do and can hear out side of your house if some one is yelling and the snapping of a neck.when people fall on the ground to it doesn't make that loud of a bang either.

good
It was kind of scary but mostly suspense. I also like a lot how it tied into the other movie very well. other than that there was really nothing else i really like in the movie.
 
I finally saw Buried.

Had to drive two hours to see it, well I was leaving the airport and it was on the way home, but I loved it. I can't understand why it does not have a wide release, but the only reason I can come up with is its JUST Ryan Renoylds.

Absolutely fantastic.

9/10
 
Quick catch up again.

First, the last film in the IMDB top 50 I hadn't seen:
The Seven Samurai
This film is quoted all over the place as the[i/] film that influenced so much. It even was apparently the reason Star Wars happened. It places int he top 50 films ever, so it must be something special?

Well, not really, no. While other films I can give excuses for being "early" or "first of their kinds", this I just can't. Okay, the story is good and the characters are all there, but the film is just a chore to watch. Acting is really awful and the film is just really cheaply and badly made. For the period, Hollywood production values are so much higher. It's just really, really difficult to watch. Any enjoyment you may get from the plot and characters are completely lost by the poor acting and editing. Actually, the plot isn't even that good.

It may be one of the "most influential films ever", but it's really not good at all. Sorry everyone, but this is the first of the top 100 films where I don't just think it should be in a top list, but it should probably be in a bottom list instead. Long, tedious, poorly produced rubbish. 3/10 if I'm generous.

Secondly, a bit of an odd one Network. A 1970's film about a news network and a broadcaster who goes out live saying he'll kill himself as he's been sacked. The film follows the crazy TV network then turning him from a drunken flop to a TV prophet. It's a tough film to watch again to be honest. There's a lot of verbose detail about corporations, TV networks, production divisions, etc, etc, etc. It's not very interesting for a lot of the start of the film.

Then you kind of get into the pace of the film. It's verbose, but clever. The characters are all unreal, making long, complicated speeches rather than conversing. It's really captivating though and you get dragged into the world of madness that surrounds the main players. Acting varies between absolutely rock solid to deliciously over the top. Mixed with the dialogue and script it's a seriously fun ride of a film. No explosions, no deaths (well, no killing), just lots of mad people talking and making political moves to increase ratings.

If you like things a bit different, it's worth a look at. I guess it reminds me of films like No Country for Old Men. Just a rambling tale with a great story to tell somewhere hidden away. 8/10
 
Well as previously posted, Saturday was my cinema day. First up was Easy A.

I thought this could go one of either two ways. It could either be really fun to watch or be really bad where all the jokes fail. Thankfully it falls in the first category. I found it really fun and very funny apart from the odd cringe moment. The cast were really cool and it made me very jealous, I wish I had Malcolm McDowell as my headmaster, although I'd be scared he'd rebel and go on the roof of the school and start shooting everyone :p (not sure what the hell I'm on about? Go watch if). It may be full of clichés but it uses them to its advantage and the story is told in a cool way.

Rating: 4/5


I then saw Africa United.

It's a fun film, basically a road movie meets Slumbdog Millionaire. It has some deep issues which it doesn't shy away from but never makes the film depressing or distracts you from the story of these kids trying to get to the World Cup in South Africa. If you don't like football, don't panic there is more to it than just the World cup. So yeah, fun film which is enjoyable for the whole family.

Rating: 3/5


The final film of the day was Red.

Great cast just having fun playing ex-spies. I enjoyed it and there were plenty of laughs throughout. However I would have preferred more Morgan Freeman and at times it just felt a bit odd. However Malkovich and Helen Mirren were epic.

Rating: 3/5
 
I saw Buried a few weeks ago, overall I have to say it is a very good film, I got immersed in it, laughing and crying.
For a film in one set location, it really kept my attention, seeing as in most films I'll zone out for a bit.
Well, I can't think of anything else to say without repeating someone else.

9/10
 
Just came home from seeing Paranormal Activity 2 after seeing the first I wasn't expecting anything to happen or for it to be actually scary. I was wrong so horribly horribly wrong. It was really ****ing scary, and I dont scare easily. Maybe it was because I wasn't expecting much but it's much better than the first one, A lot more happens, and it's actually scary. It's a better kind of scary it messes with you, it builds up to end and thats one hell of an end.

8/10
 
Just got back from watching SAW VII (Or Saw 3D for non-fanboys) It was fecking amazing!!! Seriously, I'm still off my head on a Saw high, so I will write a full report tomorrow...

That is all :)
 
Saw Kaboom last night as part of the London Film Festival.

What a totally bizarre film. I can't really tell you what it was about as I'm still not totally sure myself. It was funny, scary and very sexy and "nuttier than squirrel turd". It was just like someone got very high and turned their experience into a film, from what the writer/director was saying afterwards I think most of it probably was lol. About 3 quarters into the film the plot is kinda revealed but its just so random that it's just hilarious. Even the scary jumpy moments were hilarious to us, I swear they must have put something in the air con lol, there was a delayed jump reaction and then everyone just laughed, totally weird experience. I can't even rate the film out of five because it was just bizarre, totally watchable and fun but I think you have to be in the right mood.



Tonight I got a ticket to see a preview of Tron: Legacy.

WOW. What a beautiful looking film. The CGI is incredible and young Jeff Bridges is terrifyingly amazing. We also got a glimpse at Daft Punk and Michael Sheen, omg this film is going to be amazing, December can't come quick enough.
 
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