Too Many Ideas - Archive for May, 2012
The Raid Notes for Role Players
Friday, May 25th, 2012With some films I find the fun is trying to pick a game that would best fit gaming the film. The Raid isn’t one of those films. With the raid the question I find myself asking is how many games can it be fitted into as a scenario? At the most obvious level it’s a […]
The Raid Movie Review
Thursday, May 24th, 2012Some films do exactly what the trailer tells you they’re going to do. The trailer for The Raid (or The Raid: Redemption in the US) made it pretty obvious that this was a film where there were going to be: A crime lord. Violence. A 30 floor tower block. 20 Elite Cops. Violence. A […]
Safe
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Safe is a film that tells you pretty much everything you need to know in the title. It’s like one of those dishes that used to turn up on Great British Menu where an ingredients done Three Ways. It’s a Safely handled action film, in which Statham’s character has to keep a girl Safe and […]