i recently watched a couple of films, namely Date Night on Sky Movies HD and Alien on Bluray.

Date Night was a decent comedy romp, not amazing but certainly watchable, Fey and Carell are the only decent characters though.
Alien, i dont really need to say much about it - other than it looks amazing in hi-def.

will be getting round to seeing the other 3 soon (got the alien anthology bluray for £20 from tesco, top bargain) and i also have the shrek 1-4 bluray boxset that im going to check out since ive only ever seen the first one, and that was around 9 years ago.

I could only really say to keep an eye out for it on More 4, as they might repeat it. Although im sure you can find a copy of it on the internet somewhere.

If you can though, check it out!

Watched Monsters last night. Gorgeous film, if you like your pics a little arty. Easy pace, with lashings of beauty thrown in. Good stuff.

I watched Misery again the other night, i never noticed the first foot bend like that before

Yesterday I watched TRON and Red Eye.

TRON: I have a massive soft spot for the original so when I heard they were remaking it I was a bit worried. Then the teasers came out, I was gripped and started to look forward to it coming out in the cinemas. I never did get to see it and for some reason I wasn't that bothered. Maybe I was a bit scared it would ruin the original for me. So I sat down to finally watch it with Dyllan yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. I did find myself nit picking at the continuity etc, but I do that with everything. Overall I enjoyed it and so did Dyllan.

Red Eye: After watching this film I said to myself 'Good, but not great'. Like I have an imaginary friend who visits after Dyllan is in bed. It's usually the same friend who tells me to open that bottle of wine and who I turn and say 'WTF?' to when I'm skipping around the internet. I found myself conversing with this said friend throughout watching Red Eye. Mostly due to the big question of 'why?' at almost every decision the lead female role made. I couldn't help but feel that Craven constructed this character in a way that would never portray someone in her situation in real life. The person in question would have just said 'ok' (insert okguy.jpg). That said, this is a film and not real life. As far as it went it was good, but there could have been so much more done with it. The acting was great considering the nature of the lead female role, if it was me I would have been saying 'But this would never happen' constantly. Like I said, it's a good film but not a great film.

I saw Thor at the weekend.. I gotta say I'm surprised with all the rave reviews it has been getting. It was silly and camp; I think the cheesiest superhero film so far of the last ten years or so, and Fantastic Four was really cheesy.

It was still fun, but in no way deserving of the praise it has been getting.

The guy who played Thor has the stupidest voice ever. Him and his band of good time buddies were all corny as hell. I found myself thinking about the old Flash Gordon film whilst watching this.

Saw Get Him To The Greek on Friday, it's on premiere this week. It was alright, nothing really special but worth a watch. I quite like Jonah Hill, I think he's pretty good and he was again. Russell Brand was really good in it too as he was in Forgetting Sarah Marshall which this is a spin off from. The black record company boss character is a bit weak and it doesn't really explore Brand's character as much as it might but for what it is it delivered a few laughs and an reasonable hour and half's entertainment.

Also watched Erin Brockovich again, not seen it for about 7 years. Wasn't quite what I remembered but it's still a decent film. Always had a thing for Julia Roberts mind.

Fast and Furious 5 – Rio Heist

I was pleasantly surprised at this one, not a huge fan of the franchise plus this movie runs in at an enormous 2hrs 10mins but the running time is used to great effect ie: the unrelenting action and taking a bit of time to flesh out the (many) characters a bit more and what you have honestly is one of the best action movies of the year mixed in with a great heist sequence.

The Rock vs Van Diesel fight is absolutely brutal and the end chase is just non stop noise and explosions that it would’ve given Michael Bay a hard on.
8/10

What was number 4 like? Quite enjoyed the first one, bit of a Vin fan so I'm thinking of dipping back in at the point he rejoins the franchise.

That wasn't too bad, certainly better than 2 and 3 and there's no doubt having Diesel back elevates the movie into something a bit more special and makes it feel like the 'proper' sequel to the original.

I've been on a bit of a retro kick lately and torrented some of my childhood classics some of which aren't available to buy new anymore. Not only is it a trip down memory lane, its interesting to find out if they still stand up to my older eyes.

The first two I watched were:
1) High Road To China
The 27th highest grossing film of 1983, all I really remembered mostly from back in the day was Tom Selleck shooting a Lewis Gun. The plot involves a spoilt heiress Eve Tozer living it up in 1920's Istanbul, when her aide (played by Michael 'Admiral Ozzel/Mr Bronson/Hitler' Sheard) informs her that she will lose her inheritance to her father's villainous business partner if she doesn't find her father and present him to the London courts before he is officially declared dead. With the business partner sending numerous goons to stop her quest, she recruits O'Malley (Selleck), a drunken rough around the edges pilot and his two bi-planes to help her find her dad.
The relationship between Tozer and O'Malley is in a similar vein to Leia/Solo & Jones/Ravenwood, the film is sort of an Indiana Jones cash in. It features Brian Blessed & Wilford Brimley both seemingly having a blast helping the film roll from a slow start into an enjoyable adventure, Selleck is also fun to watch especially when rowing with the annoying Tozer. The Bi-planes get plenty of action, bombing, strafing and dogfighting against a German ace, the ending features a battle between a chinese fort (where our heroes are shacked up) against an invading Warlord.
The fact its set in the 1920's helps the film not look as dated as it might have done and while not a classic it was quite fun watching it again.

2) Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Also made in 1983 but ranked 44th highest grossing, it unfortunately got steamrolled over by coming out a week before Return Of The Jedi, least it got one week at #1 first. This film is like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Mad Max 2 and the Borg from Star Trek in a blender but having enough originality to stand on its own. The film quality still looks great which has helped it age well and I was more impressed now than when I was younger by the amount of locations and big sets they employed throughout the film that made up for the fact there isn't much going on in the way of outer space stuff.
The movie starts with a galactic cruise ship getting hit by a meteor (Titanic in space anyone) only one escape pod makes out with 3 hot chicks inside they are taken prisoner by some Marauders. Our lead Peter Strauss hears of a reward for recovering those ladies and pilots his ship to the planet they are on with his female android at his side. On his adventures there he gets help from a 14 year old Molly Ringwald and has encounters with rival hunter Ernie Hudson & The Scavs, and battles the Zoners, maggot men, merwomen, mutated firebomb throwing midgets and the villainous cyborg Overdog (played to perfection by Michael Ironside). I can easily enjoy this as much as Star Wars and I appreciate the effort they put into it to make it look good and keep the story moving.
Bit of an early Ghostbusters thing going on with Reitman producing, Hudson starring plus an uncredited voice over by Harold Ramis. Adds to the fun.

I'll post again about the rest.

American Psycho:Not a new film but a good 'un, Christian Bale is great in it and is a great character actor, Im sure most have seen it so wont go into details but its a must watch.

Fast 5: saw it when it came out and really enjoyed it (Rock and Vin whats not to like?), as said its non-stop has alot of action and has a decent story.

The Rock steals Vin Diesels muscley hard man role cause he looks taller and more jakked but vin does hold his own and they have some great exchanges.

One of my favourite films growing up, total schlock but enjoyable and sinister as all hell in places (the mutants mostly), have not seen it in years, I seem to recall it was left nicely positioned for a sequal...
Didn't realise it lost out due to Jedi..life is harsh sometimes.

You should check it out again, its still great fun and I got more respect for it now than ever. If it had a less cheesy title and not been killed by bad timing of its release then it'd probably still be remembered better today.

I went along to Attack on the Block yesterday. Really enjoyed it.

Review in the usual place.

Just got another film on my retro rewatch done.

3) Saturn 3
A 1980 Sci-fi film starring Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett & Harvey Keitel. There isn't a great deal of plot but I like it and I'd quite enjoy a modern day re-imagining of the film if I'm honest. The film starts when the unstable Benson (Keitel) murders a fellow pilot and steals his spot as the captain of a one man ship heading to Titan, Saturn's 3rd moon hence the title. Upon landing at the moonbase he meets his hosts, scientists Adam (Douglas) and Alex (Fawcett). Adam and Alex have been there 3 years alone with their dog and despite an age gap have become a couple. Benson takes an immediate interest in Alex and the fact she has never been to earth, he also announces he has brought the components to build an Android that will replace one of them, hinting it will be Adam. Adam realises his paradise with Alex is under threat and talks about murdering Benson to Alex. Meanwhile Benson continues to try lure Alex into bed and constructing the big robot called Hector. Using a head jack he uses his own thoughts to educate Hector's A.I., unfortunately this means he absorbs his obsession with Alex and his murderous impulses as he becomes more and more independent.
So basically an old bloke, a younger bloke and a big Android all wanna bang the same chick in outer space and none are above considering murder.
The main interest of the film is how cool the above sounds and possibly to see Keitel in space. The bad points are probably the low budget, Lew Grade financed this and 'Raise The Titanic' at the same time, as the latter went over budget the former had to have its budget cut to compensate. The SFX in the space scenes are laughable compared to Empire Strikes Back, this must have been where the budget was cut.
The acting is nothing of note, Keitel looks menacing but his lines are dubbed over and Grade ordered two violent scenes to be cut, in fact there's meant to be 20 minutes cut but I don't know if they'd improve the film, if anything the 83 minute runtime is enough.
The Android is pretty cool and the scenes of them running from him under the grating of the endless corridors not knowing where he is, is reminiscent of Alien but less tense. Not a great film but an interesting piece that I had fun watching again.

And you get to see Farrah Fawcett's tits.

It's a film that I've a soft spot from when I was young (I was allowed to stay up late and watch it when I stayed at my Granparents once), but it hasn't aged that well. Had it been animated better, I think Hector would have had a shot at making the list of classic robot bad guys.

How could I have left the tit shot out of the review.

Yeah Hector is a bit clunky at moving, looks pretty cool though in some shots especially the poster.

The brain tissue in his core, the metal banding echoing muscle striation, the fluid tubes all over him. The head makes him look like a cyborg version of Sockman from Freaked (AKA Butt Ugly Freaks), though.

Last night i checked out:

The Incredible Hulk (*with Edward Norton)

Ok so, for the most part i enjoyed this film. I hadent seen it before, and didnt really fancy seeing it as it was to long since the previous Eric Bana version. Overall they skip briefly over the origin of the hulk, (during the opening credits), and the films starts from there.

I wont spoil the story for those who hadent seen it, but again its a cracking little film, and filled with little tiny bits to keep the geeks (like me) happy. You see the actor who played the original bruce (or David) Banner on a TV show in the movie, as well as Lou "The Hulk" Ferrigno, Stan Lee and other little Nuggets of geeky goodness.

Over all better than the Previous Hulk movie, although I alwasy prefer the old school Lou Ferrigno movies / Tv shows, so make of that what you will. Ultimately this is for the evengers stuff, which in itself lets the movie down as Edward Norton will not be in the avengers, so you kind of get a "Meh" feeling about the whole thing, as you know he wont be in another film.

Either way, as a stand along movie, its ok, not the best superhero job, but by far not the worst.

Worth a rent/borrow, 7/10

I prefer the Eric Bana version. How do other people compare the two?

I Am Number Four - It's essentially Twilight but with Aliens. And more tolerable and enjoyable. It has Timmothy Olyphant & Kevin Durand in it which helps. No tits though.

I actually really liked the eric bana version when it came out yet it got hugely panned.

Again i still prefer the old school lou ferrigno jobbies.

*Sniggers.....*

I have sampled the shit out of that movie. Cool film, and as has been said, Fawcett's tits are specTACular.

I prefer the one with Ed Norton, that Ang Lee/Eric Bana one is terrible.

Last night I finally saw The Social Network. When it was released last year I instantly dismissed it as something I didn't care about seeing and thought it was just a cash in on the popularity of Facebook. How wrong I was. I don't how much artistic license has been taken with the true story, but there's a really great drama here with superb performances from Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake. Definitely recommend checking it out if you took the same idiotic opinion as me previously.

Social Network is excellent.

I watched Collateral for about the fifth time last night. There's something so very engaging about that film. Every time I watch it I gain further appreciation for Michael Mann. The script isn't fantastic and there's plenty of holes if you look for them, but Mann holds everything together with such skill that it's impossible not to admire while also wondering what a hack director would have done with the material. Even the little things like Audioslave appearing on the soundtrack out of nowhere - while a classic Mann tonally-jarring move (see the song that closes Manhunter for another example) work and the acting from the biggest to the smallest role is note perfect.

Saw Mean Girls last night, didn't realise Lindsay Lohan could actually act back in the day, it isn't oscar worthy or anything but it's not too bad. Fun little teen comedy, audience is mainly teenage girls so not aimed towards me but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

Watched two more retro movies tonight, both Roger Corman 'classics'

4) Battle Beyond The Stars
The seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven crossed with Star Wars with trashy results.
The Evil Sador (John Saxon) and his Malmori mutants hover their Warship over the planet of Akir (a homage to Akira Kurosawa like the whole plot). Sador tells the peace loving residents of the planet (or "bunch of fuckin' pussies" as Kenny Powers would call them) that they'll be back in a few days and when they are they better surrender to him or he'll destroy their planet. Why doesn't he demand immediate surrender, he's got all the weapons and an army, its not like the farmers can do much back but no, this procrastinating conqueror will get round to it next week sometime. So after he's gone, they decide they need help and off flies Shad on his own to search out help.
Shad is played by John Boy Walton actor Richard Thomas and is a bit of an annoying dipshit, think even the ship's computer thinks so. Anyway through a series of contrived meetings he has convinced a bird from an Android repair shop (his love interest), Space Cowboy (George Peppard, who has a ship full of weapons he was gonna deliver to a planet, Sador destroys at that very moment, now he's giving them away to Shad, how convenient), Nestor (who is 5 alien clones out to help for a laugh), Cayman (a lizard man and his crew), Gelt (Robert Vaughn pretty much reprising his Magnificent Seven part) and Saint-Exmin (a heaving chested Valkyrie who wants to fight, Shad tells her to sling her hook at first, one minute he's begging for help then next he's turning it down, the thick lump).
Anyway Sador comes back and they raise up to fight him and save the people of Akir.
The SFX are nothing to write home about, everything flashes on the screen in one second cuts to hide the cheapness (cause they blew the whole budget on Vaughn & Peppard). The models are pretty good, they were made by James Cameron (yes that one) who got noticed here and met Gale Anne Hurd on the set, who he married and made Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss with, so some good came out of this film. It also made a tidy profit.
Personally I have a lower opinion of this than I used to, its fun but a bit long and badly written so I found myself taking the piss out of it rather than reminiscing. It still must have its fans, its out on Blu-ray in 2 months.


5)Space Raiders
Made in 1983, 3 years after the above, it saves money in its budget by re-using the James Horner soundtrack, Spaceships and SFX from Battle Beyond The Stars. It also uses pretty much unknown actors as well. It cracks off with a crappy gun battle between Space Pirates and Security Forces, a young lad stows away on the Pirates ship and gets whisked off on the run with them, after he helps repair their ship by getting into a small gap only he can fit in and replace a rod allowing them to escape the security force ships, they agree to take him home instead of ransoming him back, but they have to contend with a Alien gangster they owe money too, bounty hunters, stealing some ships and the Security forces huge robot ship tracking them first.
Its still quite enjoyable even if it is more 80's trash, the story is much more straight forward and the battle scenes are better than the above, not a patch on 'Return Of The Jedi' mind but I've seen worse. Couldn't help but think of Firefly/Serenity whilst watching it, I wonder if Joss Whedon took any influence from it.
They don't really make films like this anymore, fantasy space adventures are sorely lacking in number nowadays.

Insidious

its essentially a film of 2 parts.

the first part is a not too bad thriller/suspense film, similar in style to a 70`s Italian horror. Figures in the background, noises here and there, camera pan following the character through the house. Its not too bad.

The second part is an early 80`s horror film, i`d most compare it to `House`, blackness, smoke, cool creepy monsters and a plot so far gone its not coming back and essentially the complete opposite to the first half.

and that, in my opinion, is where it fails. Its advertised as a paranormal activity style movie from the makers of SAW but essentially its a B Horror which has had excellent advertising campaigns making it look like its a must see horror, but a quick look at the american side and its a PG13! A heart stopping scaring horror thats a PG13? Please!



I`m a fan of both first half and second half styles, seen them done before and find Insidious versions not too bad but I have never seen a film that combines both styles. It doesnt work, the target demographic wont get it and the wife (who was the one who actually wanted to see this) lost every ounce of interest at the cross over point.

This seems to be the new trend, `the last Exorcism` was also a great potential for a horror which nose dived. Make dodgy horror films, make them look attractive and scary, then make a shit load of money before anyone catches on that they`re actually shit.

I would certainly avoid this movie unless you know your getting a B class movie, then grab some popcorn and enjoy a wasted evening.

That's why European Horror stuff is so good, they rarely short change you or try to be overly clever, whereas Hollywood just phones it in most of the time.


Anyway I completed my current retro watch this afternoon with a 1984 Sci-fi film:
Runaway
Written & Directed by Michael Crichton and starring Tom Selleck as Jack Ramsey a cop who specialises in dealing with robots who have run amok (just like in Patlabor but on a smaller scale) and who has a fear of heights. He is teamed up with a new female partner, Karen, who he refreshingly likes, no cliched sexism or arguments, in fact they are both likable characters throughout the movie. They deal with a standard case which is then followed by a murder committed by a housekeeping robot which is an oddity. They soon end up discovering that chips are being added to robots that can turn them into killers. These chips are in the hands of Villain Dr Charles Luther (played by Gene Simmons in his cinematic debut), who has mini robot spiders (like Smythe's Spider Slayers in Spider-man) and a gun that fires personalised body heat seeking rockets. Ramsey and Co. try to take him down and recover the chips before he sells them to terrorists and the mob, meeting along the way Luther's girlfriend (played by Kirstie Alley when she was pretty fit).
Best thing about this film is that its dated well, its not said when its set and the futuristic stuff all looks pretty much like stuff we'd have today. None of the robots are humanoid, they are mainly Robot Wars style stuff with arms or Spiders about the size of a human foot. The Police have flat screen pads to use in the field just like iPads today, nothing seems too silly.
Of course it never became the Sci-fi hit of the year as intended because a B-movie took that honour, The Terminator, but its still a good watch all these years later.
Trailer

Ah yes, another of my childhood classics, and another example of films where I can never remember whether it's Tom Selleck or Burt Reynolds in the lead role.
Anne Marie Martin has a small role as a hooker in it.

Company: Myself and my good friend, Dave Mastiff
Fil...: we saw Scream 4. It was shit.

There, I just saved you money and time. We entertained ourselves throughout, making us bad cinema goers. This is truly how bad the film is, because normally I hate those people. That film made me hate myself.

Rating: -1,111,111,000 out of 2

just been looking to buy that, ive been reading a Sci-Fi book about films that inspired by, and that were inspiration for Star Wars. That came free with Empire a couple of years back, its filled with old reviews, Saturn 3 was one of them.

The Last Starfighter is another movie i wanna get cause of the book.

Do it! The Last Starfighter is great fun.

Sounds interesting, films like Star Wars, Indiana Jones & Mad Max 2 definitely inspired lots of movies, good and bad.

The Last Starfighter is great fun, I went to see it at cinema as a kid, the alien assassins were pretty scary to my young eyes. And to this day me and my mate still regularly do impressions of the "We die" scene. Pretty much a movie landmark in CGI too. Might give that a Download one day as I only have it on VHS at the moment.

A few great looking films coming out in the next few months;

Pirates 4
Hangover 2
X Men First Class
Bridesmaids
Kung Fu Panda 2!
Green Lantern

Looking forward to all of them!

Just got round to Catfish. Just watch it. An absolute joy.

Saw Bridesmaids this weekend. I thought it was hilarious. It did drag on a bit though, it was over 2 hours long.

Just got back from On Stranger Tides, it was decent and entertaining enough. Nothing great, but a solid improvement on the mess that was At World's End. The newer characters, bar Penelope Cruz's Angelica, tend to be a little one dimensional and you don't really care about them. Even Blackbeard lacks the presence of Davy Jones and never really feels like an intimidating villain. Depp himself is brilliant again as Jack Sparrow, plenty of good stuff in there if you like him in the role. The biggest flaw is it just seems to carry on in the same pace through the entire duration, there's no ups and downs, it just follows a straight line until the end. So yeah, overall good enough for a watch, but hardly brilliant.

I watched Vanishing on 7th street. It was weird. A good idea, but very badly executed.

By the end I wanted everyone to die.

I watched that a few weeks ago, would have worked a lot better as a 1 hour Twilight Zone/Outer Limit type episode. Plus the Day to Night conversion was shocking on it and really distracting

Yeah I had heard good things about that, but wasn't too impressed.

I also watched a movie called Ink, which is excellent though. I really recommend it.

I finally got round to watching Australian horror The Loved Ones after seeing it hyped by a few posters on here. Definitely one of the best horrors I've seen in recent years, and one of very few films where I wanted to see more due to being good as opposed to unfulfilling. Brilliant stuff.

Saw Pirates 4 this weekend. It was a bit meh... Watchable and fun in parts. This franchise has passed it's sell by date though, in my opinion.

Good man, more people need to see this. One of the most entertaining and original horror attempts in years, and I'd argue the best since The Descent...maybe not quite AS good as that though. The Descent is fucking great.

Saw Blitz this weekend. It was ok - just reminded me of an ITV drama. Seen it all before really. Most surprising was why Statham was in it. At first you think it could all go a bit Dirty Harry but then it doesn't. With no real action it just shows up that he can't really act. There are some nice little one liners in it. Most entertaining for me though were the bunch of old folks in the Cineworld Ipswich who walked out after about 30 mins. Yep - it wasn't the Blitz they were thinking of obviously!

Just knocked out two films I've not seen before.

Letters From Iwo Jima
While I saw the companion piece Flags Of Our Fathers a year ago, I put off seeing this version of the same battle but from the Japanese perspective until now, maybe cause it seems less interesting on the surface, its about "the enemy" and has no big names in it outside of Ken Watanabe. Upon recently re-watching The Pacific series and FOOF, I thought I better watch this finally. And I'm very impressed with it, its slightly better than the film of the American side of the story, Clint Eastwood has made a great film here. Despite its 140min running time and being subtitled, it seems to fly by. As I'm quite interested in WWII and can lose hours on Wiki reading about it, I was riveted by the story which is pretty much historically accurate. Usually in the battles of the Pacific on film the Japanese are portrayed one dimensionally or inaccurately but this one gives you great characters that you can feel for and respect without portraying the American Marines as the villains so to speak, there is good and evil on both sides.
Watanabe plays General Kuribayashi who is put in charge of the men at Iwo Jima, he spent several years in the US before the war and this leads some officers under his command to think he's an American sympathiser when he rubs them up the wrong way by totally changing the Islands fortifications before the Marines arrive. Unlike some of his officers, he doesn't believe in wasting men with honourable suicides instead of a tactical retreat or in needless Banzai attacks. The story follows him and the army under his command right down to the lowly Saigo who was forced to go fight and leave his wife. Without resupplies of food or ammo and no air support or help from the now decimated Japanese fleet, its up to Kuribayashi and his men to hold Iwo Jima as long as possible knowing its a hopeless situation.
Its a great film and I'm glad I took the time to finally watch it. You won't be rooting for the Japanese to kill Marines but you will see them in a more human light and gain a bit of sympathy and respect for some of them and the situation they were put in whether they liked it or not.


Rampage
Yes its a Uwe Boll movie, the first and probably last of his films I'll ever watch. I always think Brendan Fletcher has a Daniel Bryan look about him when he was in The Pacific, I looked him up on IMDB and this films DVD sleeve caught my eye, I had a closer look and despite it being a Uwe Boll movie it had a decent rating and people seemed to think it'd be given a fair shake if his name wasn't on it. It sounded intriguing so I instantly downloaded it to watch.
Fletcher plays Bill, a 23 year old loser who's disgruntled with every aspect of his life, so donning a full suit of body armour that he's slowly built in the basement, some bombs and a couple of Sub-machine guns, he goes on a massive killing spree through the local town but is there a method to his madness.
I think at worst its a violent columbine massacre type wank fantasy but at best a low budget film that's very watchable (albeit disturbing) and unpredictable. You don't know how to feel about Bill at first but as it goes on you'll quickly make your mind up. I did not like the editing of the film, it lost it some tension I felt, nor did I feel there was any message here other than the world's a violent place and shit like this does happen. While it seems to take ideas from the excellent 'Falling Down' with Michael Douglas and some real life events it has enough originality to not feel like a total rip off. I do worry that some mentals will watch this and think its a great idea. All said and done it was an okay 90 minute time passer that kept me interested. Oh and Max Headroom is his dad. Trailer to help you to make your own mind up if you want to see it or not.

Watched Inglourious Basterds over the weekend. Basically I thought it was okay, and nothing more. Yes there are some great performances in it. but it left us feeling a little cold and not drawn in.

I think that's much to do with with Christopher Waltz basically being a pantomime villain. I know its set in World War 2 and the accuracy goes out the window somewhat, but all I kept being reminded of is Pulp Fiction set in World War II. Yes the story is different, but it felt the same. I know its the same director, but there was an interchangability about it which soured the experience

Also tried watching Zodiac over the weekend. Seems a good, well made film, I liked Robert Downey Jr and The Columbo-esque detective. It just didnt connect and found I was wandering away from it well before it was due to finish. Perhaps that's something that I need to be in the mood for to watch

Christopher Waltz was fucking awesome in that. He's made a fan for life out of me with that performance.