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Recent films..
Mar. 28th, 2006 11:14 pmV for Vendetta - bloody good I thought, contrary to all previous anti-PR. Then re-read graphic novel (not read since early 80s) and thought changes to plot etc made perfect sense - especially removal of 50s style 1984-style Multivac Big Brother computer-love in favour of distributed Internet style omnisurveillance. Keep meaning to write more on it. Also approve of change of Evie from 16 year old vaguely pedophilic victim to more appositely 20something political appeaser, subsequently transmuted to politicised proto suicide bomber. The ethics (and practical results) of torture remain the weak point - as discussed on many LJs. Also, Stephen Fry is great, but would a gay man with a Koran in his store room really have been so blithe? The LOOK - is absolutely stunning , as you'd expect from the Matrix twins perhaps, but more reminiscent of 70s Brit cop grittiness than twirly kung fu (and thank god for that). No wonder David Lloyd pleased, even if Le Moore isn't. I want to see it again..
Maid in Manhattan - enjoyable chickflick about Republican senator falling for Jennifer Lopez's bodelicious latina maid and being reminded of the rough side of life (him, not her) as a result. Complete rubbish politically, but fun.
Syriana - like someone else just said, pretty much Traffik, only in the Gulf and about oil. Except that Traffik had characters I cared about - even at this distance of time I remeber Michael Douglas's daugher, and the good though corrupt Mexican cop - while Syriana is an OU documentary with better cinematography. I'm glad I saw it but it ain't a Saturday night "movie". Whereas, oddly le George's other recentGood Work, Good Night and Good Luck, *is*. Always the lawyer, I tore my brain apart with trying to keep up with the plot: where IS this country? why didn't the Emir make the good prince his heir? what's Kazakhstan got to do with it? when everyone else I saw it with seemed quite happy to go, Americans bad bad BAD kittens. Details are the hobgoblin of the reviewer's brain.
The Constant Gardener - V and me got this out, bizarrely , on DVD, when it's still playing here in some of the local cinemas. No 3 in my recent canon of Worthy Films (2 X La Gorgeo Georgio, and this). Strange in a way that it's Rachel Weisz who got all the awards - yes, she lights up the screen while she's on it, but really, it's Fiennes who does all the actual acting. Poor old Ralph - ther's no Oscars in being under-stated. Not sure about this one really - I loved the opening, the camerawork, the colours of Africa, the daring of their sudden love affair - but after a while , it's Bad Pharmaceutical Company Plot 1A, hello Erin Brockovich, and NO TWISTS and TOO LONG and TOO SLOW. In the end I had to leave just before the end ,and to be absolutely honest, I didn't care - tho I must ask V if anything unexpected happened..). Along with no more books about Irish childhoods and no more TV dramas about abuse as a child,I really don't want to see any more films about Bad Pharma Companies making Money The Bad Way out of Poor Black People - unless they CAN fill in more plot twists I don't expect..
Maid in Manhattan - enjoyable chickflick about Republican senator falling for Jennifer Lopez's bodelicious latina maid and being reminded of the rough side of life (him, not her) as a result. Complete rubbish politically, but fun.
Syriana - like someone else just said, pretty much Traffik, only in the Gulf and about oil. Except that Traffik had characters I cared about - even at this distance of time I remeber Michael Douglas's daugher, and the good though corrupt Mexican cop - while Syriana is an OU documentary with better cinematography. I'm glad I saw it but it ain't a Saturday night "movie". Whereas, oddly le George's other recentGood Work, Good Night and Good Luck, *is*. Always the lawyer, I tore my brain apart with trying to keep up with the plot: where IS this country? why didn't the Emir make the good prince his heir? what's Kazakhstan got to do with it? when everyone else I saw it with seemed quite happy to go, Americans bad bad BAD kittens. Details are the hobgoblin of the reviewer's brain.
The Constant Gardener - V and me got this out, bizarrely , on DVD, when it's still playing here in some of the local cinemas. No 3 in my recent canon of Worthy Films (2 X La Gorgeo Georgio, and this). Strange in a way that it's Rachel Weisz who got all the awards - yes, she lights up the screen while she's on it, but really, it's Fiennes who does all the actual acting. Poor old Ralph - ther's no Oscars in being under-stated. Not sure about this one really - I loved the opening, the camerawork, the colours of Africa, the daring of their sudden love affair - but after a while , it's Bad Pharmaceutical Company Plot 1A, hello Erin Brockovich, and NO TWISTS and TOO LONG and TOO SLOW. In the end I had to leave just before the end ,and to be absolutely honest, I didn't care - tho I must ask V if anything unexpected happened..). Along with no more books about Irish childhoods and no more TV dramas about abuse as a child,I really don't want to see any more films about Bad Pharma Companies making Money The Bad Way out of Poor Black People - unless they CAN fill in more plot twists I don't expect..
