Patience

I hate waiting,
Lateness is fine,
As long as it's mine,
Lateness in others is awful,
I shall try harder to be later and later so I never have to wait !

::::::::::' The Other Guys' (2010) dir: Adam Kay

 

                                               This film made me cry, on more than one occasion.


At the beginning of this film I thought that I was watching the wrong film as that prick the Rock and Samuel L. Jackson were in a car chase. Seriously I actually did. I had to imdb it first and by the time the page had loaded my answer was given. Walberg and Ferrel play the other cops in the this fictional New York, there are rockstar celbrity cops then there are the other guys who dont do much; Ferrel enjoys doing paper work for other people and Walberg has an unstable personality after he shot a sports star. Sadly Jackson and the Rock die ( this part imp articular actually made me cry with laughter. My face cheeks hurt as I was laughing so damned much!)  This is when the other guys take on a case that involves finacial stuff that frankley i did not really understand something about the selling of stuff and I dont know really but it was bad, and someone did stuff wrong and pissed of many investors.

I would advise anyone with eyes to watch this film possibly with working eyes, failing that if you have ears give it a shot. It is fucking funny. Somehow Will Ferrel can manage to make anything funny. As much as I am used to his type of character that he enjoys playing it always almost unbarably funny at points. Look out for the part in the film about his job whilst at college. I think if you miss out on this film that your doing your self an injustice. Will Ferrel is a living Comedy genius and Marky Mark is okay .. but Ferrel stole this as per usual.


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'Bunny and the Bull' (2009) dir: Paul King

 Possibly one of the most innovative and unique films that I have seen in a long, long time.


This little independent British film is about a man who has not left his house named Stephen (played by Edward Hogg) he sits at home watching wildlife survival shows on video and eating the same food at the same time each day all by him self. Until one day this very precise schedule is interrupted by mice eating his microwave meal. It causes him to re-live a heck tick and, in the end, disastrous jaunt in to Europe with his gambling and girl addicted friend Bunny ( played by Simon Farnaby).

When this film was re-leased for the very very short amount of time that it actually was I feel that they played much too much time with emphasizing that the duo from 'The Mighty Boosh' are in the film, they are but hardly. They are in it for only a few minutes. With hindsight I would say that the more interesting and artistically relevant influence in this film is Paul King who also directed 'The Mighty Boosh' and wrote the script for this film. This film is touched by ridiculously perfect , cute and amusing animation. The backgrounds for the most part are all animated, from the scenery in shops to the cars and roads. The animation is familiar to that of 'The Mighty Boosh' in that it does seem simple almost like a money saving addition but the film seems better of for it. I would compare it more to a 'Gondry- esk ( director of eternal sunshine) style of using animation but also special effects. The moments when Stephen is in his house by him self and is imaginig large amounts of things going on around him and people popping up out of odd places is pretty amazing and is hard to work out at first.


All together this is a very unique and special film. I think it is a tradigy that it was not in the cinemas for longer. I would have greatly enjoyed seeing it on a large screen and would have rather have paid to see this than some of the rubbish that is on at the moment, deffiantly worth supporting indepentant British film buy purchasing a copy of the dvd.


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' The Dissapearance of Alice Creed' Dir: J Blakeson (2009)

I get to see my friends wife nude, sweet.

It is a very awkward scene but Gemma Arterton is naked in this film. Not in an erotic way at all. The plot to this film is rather short, simple and easy to explain. To characters kidnap the daughter of a rich businessmen. Thing's naturally get more complicated though, as they would obviously have to too actually as there would probably not be that much of a film in the end if it did n't. There are a lot of twists in this film, some more obvious that others, I counted about five.


Stupidly I watched this film while I was in a bad mood, in a fragile state and just generally not 100%. This did not help my mood. The general feel of the film is rather morbid and eerie.  The cast is only of 3 and the music is a  repetitive  violin piece which didn't actually put me on edge, it just really annoyed me.

Eddie Marsan gave an amazing performance as one of the kidnappers, he has scared me since 'Happy Go Lucky' and managed it again in this film. I think I would probably leave a pub or bar if I saw him there, I just cant actually imagine him being anything more than a emotionally imbalance psycho. One that you never actually know where the hell you stand with him.

Gemma Arterton is also rather good in this film too, this is the first time that she has been in a film where she can flex her acting muscles and does rather well,  crying alot. We all love women crying don't we ! But I think she and the other guy, Martin Compston, are both dominated by Marsan who is truly terrifying.


This is obviously a character piece, one in that the characters are all played rather well and you do start to find them to be partially believable. The plot is sweet and short and punchy yet I did feel there was a real lack of 'umph' and real gusto behind it all so as to make me actually care about the outcome from the film. It all seemed to happen, yes I was scared of Marsan and the music made me feel nauseous but that was it really.


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Scenes that blew me away..

 'The Sea Inside' (2003) "Flying Dream Scene"

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This gave me goose bumps, actually it still does. At first I was confused and thought that he was faking the whole leg thing all along and then he suddenly fly's out of the window. Beautiful cinematography combined with the ridiculously well chosen song make it. The fact the song kicks in to a surround sound of not just being the speaker but actually being all around you once Bardem's character is out of the window is immense. Plus the richness of the greens and the yellows of the outside contrasting with the mellow tones of the inside is awe inspiring. Obviously we are flying too which is always unusual. And then we arrive on the beach which is calm, the music calms. And were hit with the peaceful yellowish tones from the sand and the sun and the ladies hair.   Pretty perfect.

 'Badlands' (1973) " Kit and Holly going to hide in the Woods"

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Kit and Holly finally go and hide in the woods in this scene. This scene is another one made perfectly by the music and by the shots, also the narration is rather amazing. You do also see the characters gradually go slightly mad in it, down to Kit running around the woods with a gun in his hand. And them dancing all beautifully narrated absent mindedly by Holly. nice.

' Leon' (1994) " Final Swat Scene"

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This is the penultimate scene from 'Leon' it is pretty much what the hole of the film has been building up to. A lot of Swat men have gathered outside Leon's flat, with the knowledge that he is there. He knows that they are there and that they have Matlida the girl that he has been looking after. The violence is perfect in this scene, it is not over the top or ridiculous. At the beginning you simply feel as if there is no way that Leon is going to win this or get out alive.



 'Amelie' (2001) "Blind Man Scene"

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This scene occurs just as Amelie has decided to help others as much as possible. Walking down the road she see's a blind man and decides to help him across and down the road but also to describe as much of what is going on as possible. And she does it beautifully.




- I will do another one of these soon or add to this one soon, I promise.

'Kenny' Dir: Clayton Jacobson (2006)

Before we watched this we were not sure if the guy introducing it said it was a documentary or that it was not a documentary. In a way that was perfect.


This is a mockumentry or fake documentry ( think 'The Office' or ' This is Spinal Tap') which focuses around a man called Kenny (I had to write it, that is just how reviews work ! ). Kenny works for a company that supply portable toilets to events such as festivals and corporate events. He really loves his jobs and takes it extremely seriously. One of the first extremely funny points are when taking a quote he mentions that if the event has alcohol or curry being served then the price of the toilets will be higher. I like to never really comedy as a genre, ever. This is a mockumentry. Kenny has a child who is a rather cute and has a divorced wife. A father who doesn't seem to love him all that much and keeps asking him to look for a proper job.  Kenny then gets the opportunity to go to America 'shit conference' ( I would call it something else but find that a little too funny). Oh yeah the film is set in Australia, I should have shoved that in somewhere else but forgot. Kenny goes this is where the film really lifts off and becomes something more than just a guy going about his business ( sorry!).


All in all I found this film was rather sweet to be honest. I did'nt expect anything seeing as I had'nt actually heard of it before and naturally this caused me to sink further in to it as it got funnier and more layered. I really really enjoy the mockumentry genre as a genre as you constantly have the thought of "wow, is this real" even though it doesnt actually seem in the slightly possible way real, as it is within the well known and played out set out of the documentry film (i.e hand held cameras, lack of lighting, non progressive dialouge ect. ) it can seem 'real'. Another part of this film that I found extremely amusing was the non stop toilet humor. I don't care who you are or how old you are, but use of the word "pooh" and "crap" and the constant mention of the process of emptying your bowels is always really funny. If you dissagree with this please get of off your high horse you pretentious twat.
I mainly started really enjoying the film when 'Kenny' had his love interest come in, that combined with his son being there was lovely. I mean he is clearly bit of  simple guy, but he loves his son and isn't ashamed of his work. He is also not particularly slimy or over the top with his love interest. He in many ways is just extremely sweet.

In a few ways this film was lovely, if for no other reason that the ending is nice despite the film being mostly about shit. Watch it. You most probably will not regret it.





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' When Your Strange' Dir: Tom DiCillo 2009

Documentary on this new upcoming band that seemed to have ripped of ' Spinal Tap' in many ways.

If you've never heard of The Doors then your a twat. An uncultured retard. Your most probably death, you can not even use living in Siberia or being in jail for the last 50 years as an excuse as there are radios and there is the Internet and magazines and newspapers and people talk. Actually if you were just born say in a few days ago then you have a decent excuse ( but well done for being able to read though!). This is a documentary about the band The Doors. That's a lie actually it is a documentary about Jim Morrison. Not James Morrison that prick who shares his name but sings crappy songs. I say it is about Morrison as it is, in many ways he was The Doors. The documentary is narrated rather well by every ones favourite man Johnny Depp. His voice is divine i tell ya'. Gifted fellow, he can act and talk. Impressive. Anyway it begins with Morrison's death then starts with his birth then how he met the band mates then how the started performing la de da da you can guess the rest. There is alot of acid alot of drinking and alot of songs. Not bad. If you like The Doors, if you dont then I am surprised your watching it to be honest.


I have never ever been one to worship rock stars, to consider them to be super human or people to aspire to be. I have a firm belief that anyone can take drugs at rather aloof, hyper and do outrageous things but still pause and say almost insightful stuff like " What is sound, it is all just vibrations, lets vibrate." See I just made that up but if one of these guys said it I am sure some twat would get it tattooed on their back or something. I am not saying it is a bad thing, I just think that if we start to put people on a pedestal we start to care too much about stuff that isn't really that amazing. I like no LOVE The Doors but I came away feeling that is exactly what happened to Morrison. Rather tragically, people started thinking that he was almost a god. Worshiping his every word and movement to the point where he shows his penis to a large crowd. Naturally it does not go down well , to be fair I would not be too happy about seeing it either.  On a brighter note this film is sure to re light the fire (nice) that is The Doors and maybe bring them to newer generations. Naturally the producers and record company are not retards and are releasing a C.D to go with the film, clever fuckers. It has songs by the band on it though just covers.


I say watch it, either way you come out winning I mean if you like The Doors then you will enjoy it and probably learn some stuff. If you dont then actually yeah dont bother. If you do not really know them but have heard of them then watch it, it shall educate you. If you dont care then at least you will have seen some moving colours and heard some loud noises, also Johnny Depp's voice is ace !

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