A shame I didn't make it to the cinema for this one, but glad to have finally seen it. So much stranger than the trailers suggested. Indeed part of what made this a lower priority watch was how very... Predictable the trailer made it seem. This is every bit as quirky as Mad Max or Happy Feet - though not I think as effective.
This is a much bleaker film than Fury Road. But then that's the problem with a…
Better than I thought it would be, but as expected more enjoyable if I just stopped trying to apply my LOTR knowledge. Perhaps this is how historians feel watching a historical film?
Brian Cox aside I can't say the voice acting was especially inspiring, although I think this has more to do with the game of thrones-ification of fantasy that required all characters to be have indeterminate Northern accents. Perhaps my memory is clouded by Nostalgia, but Jackson's LOTR has…
Gloriously heightened fantasy, great use of music, fun fight choreography and really charming quirky comic performances. Delightfully gross and horny, morally murky, and with a real darkness to it too. I'm not sure how productive all of the more provocative threads of humour were, but I'm not against the feelings of discomfort or distaste they provoke when considering this film in line with something like Heathers or indeed Fight Club rather than Superbad or The Inbetweeners. I might need to…
It is long time since I've watched such a strange and unsettling film. Perhaps Under the Skin was the most recent? Creepy, upsetting, bleak. A wonderful paranoid occult film that suggests that there is indeed a secret meaning under and behind everything but that interpreting it correctly is equal parts risky and consequential. Little if anything is explained, but there is the feeling of rules and a system behind the events. I think it does magic very well, with all…
