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Lethal Weapon (1987)
Watched Lethal Weapon With My Eldest Daughter
The slightly extended directors cut.
What a MASTERPIECE!!
My 11 yr old was transfixed by the rampant badassery on screen. Mr Joshua was her favourite character. This confirms for me that Zoe will go far in life ha ha ha ha ha
Awesome film. I won't do a review, because we have all seen it a million times, but this film is flawless. I now rate it above Die Hard, whereas before tonight Die Hard was higher on the ratings scale. The action is so believable and the characters have so much depth. Plus of course, the acting and directing and writing is sublime. The film also has immense heart. Fact.
Riggs contemplating killing himself with the gun = Gibson acting genius
11/10
the schoolyard scene should never have been left out of the original film. Having Riggs kick off his law enforcement with the Xmas tree drug dealers did not show you the depths of his psychosis, depression and the power of his death wish. Though it is touched upon later with the trailer-gun-in-mouth-near-suicide scene, the school-yard REALLY drums it home! It sets a completely darker tone for the first two acts. You realise the guy just doesn't give a toss and will do the job as hard as fast he can do play it until he receives the welcome relief of death.
A badass and awesome scene. Loved it!
What a movie
Gibson = GOD!!
Super 8 (2011)
Lame
If I could submit a one-word review of Super 8, this would be the word I would use.
"Lame"
It sums it up perfectly.
The story, (much like the lame super-magnet the lame alien builds to attract its lame cubes), is a Frankenstein's monster-mish-mash of a number of (far superior), films that came before it.
E.T, Stand By Me, Goonies, Cloverfield all spring to mind when watching this.....and not in a good way. A poor man's attempt at recapturing the magic of each of the aforementioned movies. But instead of achieving this goal, all they ended up with was a bowl of unappealing, forgettable slop, that had only one taste....................................cheese.
The casting is lame. The acting is lame. The script is immensely lame. The alien is lame.
There's that word again....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
And I will not venture into the almost bottomless abyss that is the almost countless plot-holes/leaps-of-logic. Everybody in this film appears to have some sort of mental defect that precludes them from acting in a logical and believable fashion. Everybody.
After Cloverfield, (which I enjoyed immensely), this film disappoints in all departments and on all levels. Lucky it was selling for only 6 bucks on Amazon. I might be able to resell it for that on Ebay.........
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Letters From Iwo Jima = Masterpiece!!
I hadn't seen this for a few years. It gets better and better
After watching "The Pacific" with my daughter in March, (she was learning about WW2, so we watched Band Of Brothers and as well, so she could get a grasp of what war really is about), she asked were the Japanese really that horrific. I told her that we would watch a film from the Japanese point of view which would answer her question.
She loved it
The film cost a relative pittance, but looks 10x better than its companion piece, Flags Of Our Fathers, (which cost considerably more).
Ken Wanatabe is a great actor. Very manly
A pure 10/10 and one of the top 5 war films ever made.
PS, Nothing sounds better than Japanese yelling at each other. Great sounding language if you are angry ha ha ha ha
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Preposterous Rubbish!
Yes, I know its a fantasy kid's movie and therefore gets a greater degree of leeway when it comes to plot-holes and over the top events. But this.....this......THIS.... was beyond anything you could possibly imagine. Simply the WORST writing I have witnessed for many a moon.
The first film had a certain charm. No, it was very far from a masterpiece, but it was somewhat engrossing and humorous for the most part. The sequel, however, was corny, stupid, illogical, absurd, confused, erratic and worst of all, boring.
How did the writers of this abomination ever screw it up so bad? Did they become addicted to meth between the first and last film? Were they under instructions to write the worst story possible...............as a joke, (often referred to as the "Wimp Lo" method)?
I rarely write film reviews.....but this one was so painful to watch that I felt I had no choice.. Even my 10yr old kid spotted plot holes. Yep.....when a 10yr old starts spotting plot holes, you know the film is in trouble.
1/10
Casa de mi padre (2012)
Watching This Is Like Eating A Dodgy Enchilada
It looks good when you gaze upon the promo and the menu picture.
It initially tastes good when you take the first bite.
Then, halfway through, you realise something is just not right.
Towards the end, you can barely finish it.
And you feel sick and nauseous afterwards *gack* Not recommended.
I can see what Ferrel and the film makers were trying to achieve but they failed at Omega levels in reaching this goal. The film was an absolute mess and about as entertaining as an ingrown toenail. Not even worth renting.
Unfunny. Confused. Boring. Weak
2/10
Battleship (2012)
Preposterous Rubbish! Utterly Annoying!
Took the daughter to see Avengers, but as she went shopping with her Mum for Mother's Day until well into the evening, we were running behind schedule and so turned up 15 minutes late to the planned session.
We saw this instead.
My 11 yr old loved it, but even she said it was ridiculous how the old veterans were there, on the Missouri, waiting for the ragtag bunch of retards to return to Pearl. I didn't argue, because I too almost vomited from the syrupy cheese being poured down my gullet.
The aliens were retarded. Their technology was incredibly fragile and inadequate. They were like the keystone cops of alien invaders. Their design lacked imagination. The aliens were incredibly annoying.
The plot was ludicrous and annoying. The Japanese/US alliance was clichéd and PC-annoying. The black guy with the cyborg legs was hackneyed and cheesy and annoying. The bimbo was annoying. The coward geek was annoying. The battle tactics were annoying. The homage to the board game on which this terrible film was based was immeasurably annoying. The protagonist was annoying. Hell, even Liam Neeson was annoying.
The film, at no single stage, held my attention or conjured up any positive emotion in me whatsoever. I was entirely numb the entire time, except for a growing and all encompassing feeling of annoyance.
I am befuddled and bemused how this stuff gets greenlit. In fact, I am entirely bewildered.
I hope this fails and fails hard. Films that are bloated with CGI and stuffed with cardboard characters and brimming with corny clichés deserve to sink without a trace.
NOT recommended
3/10