Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Film’ Category
Run Fat Boy Run
Friday, September 28th, 2007Went to see Simon Pegg’s latest film outing on Thursday, a romcom without any zom. Featuring a supporting cast of actors normally associated with British sitcoms and character’s that were more Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels than Four Weddings and a Funneral it was a lot better than I’d expected. Some of the choice […]
Bond New and Old
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007I picked up the DVD of Casino Royale at the weekend and watched it for the first time since seeing it at the cinema. Definitly still the best bond for a long time, hope they keep their nerve with the next one. Watching it again I was able to pay more attention to the sound […]
The Departed v Infernal Affairs
Friday, September 14th, 2007I watched The Departed on DVD for the first time last night, Martin Scorsese take on the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. Both have their good points and bad points. On balance I’d say I prefer the plot of Infernal Affairs and Tony Leung Chiu Wai’s Chan Wing Yan (as Tony Leung) is more interesting […]
The Bourne Ultimatum
Saturday, September 1st, 2007While I like a Bond film or a Die Hard 4.0 I prefer my spy films to be a little more believable, a bit more visceral more like Ronin or Iprcress Files. The first two Bourne films fell squarely in that camp. I saw The Bourne Ultimatum and it doesn’t wander from the path. Like […]
The Prestige
Monday, August 13th, 2007Don’t ask me why but yesterday I washed all the less used pots, pans, storage containers, utensils and other kitchen stuff. I didn’t intend to but cleaning one pot I needed spiraled into a serious cleaning thing. After that I just wanted to relax and so I stuck on a DVD. I picked up The […]
The Film Ghetto
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Empire (September 2007) has an interesting article “My Week in TV Hell” has an interesting article about films on terrestrial television in the UK. I thought it was a fluff piece at first: Dorian Lynskey watches every film shown on the five terrestrial analogue services in the UK for a week. However once you get […]
Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4.0
Friday, July 6th, 2007It’s been twelve years since we last saw John McClane. Now thanks to an interesting new application of the delete key by a group of bad guys who don’t seem to do things the simple way when there is a complicated way to do it, he’s back in action. This is the kind of popcorn […]
Shinny Hot Fuzz
Monday, June 18th, 2007I’m not one for buying DVDs until they drop from full price to something more sensible but I cracked at the weekend and picked up Hot Fuzz with all the shinny extras. I’ll not rave about the main film again. If you want to know what I thought of Hot Fuzz you can read what […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Just back from watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, the second part of the two part follow up to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Enjoyed it. Plot was twisty and did some interesting things with the characters. Great action sequences. Interesting characters. I would have liked more Chow […]
Spider-Man III
Friday, May 18th, 2007Went to see Spider-Man III and Tsos for dinner yesterday with friends including Kim and The Ent. I’m not a big Spider-Man fan or for that mater super heroes. In the same way I prefer a gritty spy film to a high action one. I suspect this helped me because my expectation of Spider-Man III […]