What movies have you seen recently?

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A double bill of Cary Grant were the last 2 movies I saw recently: The Last Outpost and Mr Blandings Builds a Dream House. Not a bad pair.

TV boxset wise, I am still watching series 1 of In Plain Sight and House series 3.

Saw Due Date last night. It was kinda outrageous

I saw Skyline on opening day.

C+ at best.

This movie was riddled with cliche upon cliche.

Rats. I was hoping it'd be good, I love the idea and the trailers look good, but then it by the same people that did Alien V Predator, so I wasn't getting too excited about it.

The new Clash of the Titans with the gorgeous Gemma Arterton and Personal Services with Julie Walters,

Saw How to train a dragon because my little brother insisted on doing it with him. Actually pretty good.

The Road, too. Just as great as the book, and mind blowingly sad.

Saw "Antichrist" by Lars Von Trier (AKA "Things you shouldn't do with yours or anyone else's genitals")

I think it was a good film trying desperately to escape from the self indulgent and un-disciplined director's clutches.

It seems to me that the core idea that was really interesting is guilt for wanting personal pleasure. The couple's child falls out a window and dies while they are having sex. This could have taken off into an exploration of sacrifice and selfishness. But Von Trier forces the story onto an irrelevant tangent about the potential evil of women. Frankly I didn't see where there was any sort of logical connection. Watching the film, I got the impression that Von Trier felt he was expected to make a shocking, brutal film and so he forced a story that could have been a complex, small drama into an indulgent, rambling, gratuitously violent and incoherent mess.

The film is beautifully shot and there are aspects to what Von Trier does that are quite good. He gets decent performances from the actors. He mostly keeps the story moving along so you don't get bored. But that's something that any director should do.

And if you are going to have a talking fox in a film, make sure the effect works well enough that it doesn't look ridiculous. Also try to give it better dialog.

It's definitely not a film for the squemish. It is graphic on many levels... at any rate, I don't think it would get a PG-13 in the US. It's one of those films that I wouldn't necessarily say "don't watch it" because maybe you'll get something out of it that I didn't. I just wish the director had been more interested in telling an honest story and not in shocking the audience.

Strangers, with Liron Levo.A really heartbreaking yet somehow existential and slightly relatable film.

Scary Movie 2. Okay. They make fun of other scary movies

Scary Movie. Okay. They make fun of other scary movies but it felt like they retold Scream all over again but they made it funny and had new parts.

Watched the remake of Journey to the Centre of the Earth at the weekend. Pants. I'd give it a generous 4/10 as although there were plotholes the size of volcanoes and bad CGI it was still vaguely entertaining.

I watched an advanced screening of that 3D movie megamind last Sunday, it was for members of the scout assosiation and I was surprised that it is not actually getting released to like the 9th of next month. It was a movie that I wanted to see when I saw the poster, and I did enjoy it, something fun about a main character being a supervillain, and it kept me laughing and there was even some little jokes dotted around for the adults too. It was mostly familly friendly, of course a couple of things that are a bit scary, but still all in good fun.
The 3D was also fun, they didn't really use it to push things out of the screen, I think it was probablly done well in just makeing it more enjoyable. Also liked some of the music, not flashy but fun.

Yesterday I watched How to train your Dragon. Brilliant movie. Love the film's score.

Over the weekend I saw the The Princess and the Frog (quite good but incomparable to the older Disney 2D cartoons) and the remake of The Karate Kid, which was so much better than I thought it was going to be and I now prefer it to the original. My slight peeve with it though is that it's got nothing to do with Karate and is instead about Kung Fu, but I'm guessing they used Karate for marketing purposes as it's more widely known

Descent II - Liked the first one, liked aspects of this one but - ending was horrible. There are good ways to indicate further movies and then there are 'we don't even feel like trying' ways, they went the later route.

The Last Airbender - Was never a big comic book guy so this is all new to me, I like the idea - and at my age I'm starting to like it when I see a wholesome/redeeming element in movies, even if it designates them more for kids categorically.

Ip Man - Liked the Wing Chun, liked the history. Think they could have gotten it more interesting if they'd gone over more of his life and initial training in the art though.

You know, I saw preview for that on Youtube and quite honestly, after watching it felt like I'd eaten a weeks worth of McDonald's in five minutes. It philosophically made me wonder if its possible for certain types of horror to clog arteries.