As a film geek I was pre-programmed to like this movie. It’s fast paced and edited to within an inch of its life, so be warned that disorientation will probably be the first emotion you feel. It settles down after a while though and that’s when you hit the first problem. Scott Pilgrim isn’t a likeable character. He’s a bit whiney, a bit cold and although we’re forced to believe he loves Ramona, you never quite buy it. You kind…
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I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle 1990
My god. This was so odd that I can’t decide whether to damn it to hell, or recommend it to cult classic heaven. The plot is bonkers, with a motorbike absorbing some kind of demon soul only to then be bought by Neil Morrisey ('Tony' from the BBC comedy 'Men Behaving Badly' to all you Brits out there). It involves decapitation. It involves a talking poo (Seriously). It has rockers with crossbows and axes. It has atrocious dialogue. But this is such a low-budget spoof with a lot of home grown charm that you can’t help but recommend it to people.
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RED 2010
Bruce Willis tries to revive his action film star status with another action film, this one perhaps an explosion-fest too far. It does make allowances for his age and casts him as the ‘retired’ CIA operative, but it just feels like a last stab at regaining the throne he once sat upon. The strange thing is; we all know he can act, we all know he can carry deeper films (check out '12 Monkeys' or 'The Sixth Sense'). Red is…
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Fright Night 2011
A waste of a premise from a cult-classic this remake gets so many things wrong. Firstly it squanders Colin Farrell’s undoubted talent for playing broody and creepy in a film which has no tension at all, something which the horror genre needs to make it watchable. This is more a ‘what-could-have-been’ experience than a horror classic.
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