Inception by Christopher Nolan

To all my peeps do not watch or read anything to do with this film, instead go to it and experience it a new for yourself.

It is astonishing. And I can't wait to watch it again. Tune in again in about two to three weeks once you have seen it and I have been able to ingest it a couple more times.

This film is the real deal.

Knight And Day

I don't know what to say about this film, apart from the fact that it is luke warm at best.

Directed by James Mangold who brought me one of my favourite films of all time in Copland, a film that had depth and character and life.

Now sure Knight and Day is meant to be breezy, so depth can be left at the door but it sure as shit is meant to have some character to it and definetly should have some life and it had nothing of either.

Now, I'm ready to admit that I'm a huge fan of the Cruiser, I think his choice of film has been brilliant up until recenlty where it seems to be he's choosing projects now on what will keep him number one instead of focusing on the character and the story. I mean thi sis the guy from Risky Business, Who was brilliant in Rain Man, remarkable in BOrn on the 4th of july and astonishing in Magnolia and lets not forget transformative in Tropic THunder. He really is a character actor stuck with leading man parts. But he seems to be just seeking out the leading man stuff and forgetting about anything else. But to be honest he is the one saving grace in this film, he has just enough quick remarks that make you chuckle to make the film bearable.

As for everyone else in the film they all seem to be mildly switched on.

To be honest was I expecting much from this film? Not really? But with the talent on display I really should have got a whole lot more.

Watch it for the first 40 minutes the rest is all just a bit.... bleh.

Peace out.

Get Him To The Greek

I thought I was going to really love this film but ended up walking out of it frustrated as all fuck.

I didn't love nearly as much as I should and didn't care about the characters at all. Not to mention there are so many superflous scenes at the back of the film that I just wanted to rip the chair from under me.

Russel Brand, Jonah Hill and P Diddy all are wonderful in a number of their scenes but this was really a film where the premise was so rich of possibility and not much of it was seen.

Wait till the DVD where they will release most deifnetly an uncut version of the film which no doubt will be longer and maybe a hint funnier.

Predators

I was treated to an adanved screening of Predators.

Now as a fan boy of the classic 1980's film with Arnie in it and with Robert Rodriguez at the producers helm I thought some sort of miracle was going to be bestowed on me.

I was mistaken, while the opening throws us right into the action free falling through the sky and is really quite spectacular, the film is weighed down by too many scenes trying to explain why they are all there and who all these people are, it made me fall asleep.

By the time I woke up a few of the people were dead, I won't say who and my guess at what was going to happen at the end had come true. Sure there are some cool blood letting moments but I really was expecting more. Lets hope Stallone doesn't let me down with The Expendables.

2001 by Stanley Kubrick

Just last week I was able to watch 2001 on the big screen for the second time in my life.

And all I can say about this film that has already be seen is that it is MEZMERISING AND BRILLIANT!

I have watched upwards of fifteen times but I am still scared by this film and left in wide eyed wonderment by the end.

The Chauvel really pumped up the sound on the night and it made me rattle in my chair when all the wonderful music kicked.

All who haven't seen, MUST, MUST, MUST see this film.

Thank you chauvel and thank you to Kubrick for leaving a lasting legacy of filmaking that is truly in the realm of art.

Eclipse By David Slade

Eclipse the third film in the franchise is as boring as the last and there isn't nearly as much care put into the film as there was with the first one.

Really I kind of had high hopes for this film they had cool director, David Slade who directed the wonderful Hard Candy and the pulp film 30 Days of Night. So I was hoping they were going for a real horror tone but no, nothing like.

Just a whole bunch of cop outs. People who say this is the best of the lot are kidding themselves. It really does seem that people are fooled by the bigger special effects budget. Even though Jacobs werewolf is never the same size.

Don't bother my peeps. Don't bother.

Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni

A couple of weeks ago now I had the great pleasure to watch Antonioni's classic Blow Up. And since then I haven't stopped thinking about it.

Again it was shown at the Chauvel, so thank you for that.

Now the film itself when I think about it, isn't great, it has a lot of superflous stuff in it that just makes you wonder why you would put it in the film. But the core dilemma of David Hemming's photographer who stumbles onto shooting a murder, is sublime. The sequence where he goes about blowing up his photo's to search for clues is mezmerising. This is what cinema of today is missing. Suspense through story not by tricks or music. The film's dilemma was later remade into one of my favourite films Blow Out with Travolta and directed by De Palma.

Do yourself a favour and try and see both these films and go back to find a time when cinema was worth something to the people making it other than trying to buy themselves a big house.

Thank chauvel for showing these great films and thank you Michelangelo Antonioni for making them.