Recently I’ve seen a lot of people on the tube in the morning with copies of Watchmen, eyes darting and brows sweating, as they desperately try to finish it before the movie goes on national release. The trouble with Watchmen is, even if, like me, you have a massive stash of comic books bagged and boxed in your attic, and a decent knowledge of American post-war political history, you are still going to have to read the thing slowly, 2 or 3 times, before you really get it. There is A LOT going on in that thing.
Monthly Archives: May 2009
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Reviewed
0 CommentsMay 25, 2009 – 6:11 pm
The curious case of Benjamin Button should be a great film. It has spectacular cinematography, rounded full characters, with some fine, if necessarily mannered acting from both Pitt and Blanchett that rounds out the characters, and generally steers just clear of showboating throughout. The concept itself is sky high, and is backed up by some fantastic effects. As anyone unfortunate enough to sit through 10,000 BC knows however, CG does not make or break a movie, and this is one case that adds up to spectacularly less than the sum of its parts.
The Wrestler – Between The Rock And A Hard Place
0 CommentsMay 25, 2009 – 6:04 pm
In a nutshell: Between The Rock and a Hard Place.
Seconds out on Aronofsky’s latest, and already big Mickey Rourke is on the ropes. An opening montage of posters and pics shows us he used ta be a contender, but since ‘That Cobain pussy’ came along and ruined music in the 90s, he’s busy getting thrown out of his trailer (Incidentally, is trailer living really that bad? I saw some once and they were pretty big, some even had hot tubs…) and getting moaned at by his pencil neck boss, while former arch rival ‘The Ayatollah’ makes a good living selling used cars. Rather than the “over the hill champion/underdog makes good” flick you might be expecting, we get a nicely drawn character piece, watching ageing fighter Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson getting back in the ring while his body (and his life) slowly crumble around him.
