Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category
The Thing
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011Just back from seeing the prequel come remake of The Thing. Not a bad film with some pretty landscape shots. Unfortunately far too keen to show off the alien, the alien human hybrids and the space ship. Also suffered from too many clichés. Most of the “shocks” were very effectively spoilt by an overly obvious […]
Johnny English Reborn Review
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011Johnny English Reborn is mildly amusing throughout occasionally managing to actually be funny. More polished than the first Johnny English film and with far less reliance, thankfully, on toilet humour. The supporting cast do a good job of being the straight guy to Rowan Atkinson’s English. Only the characters played by Tim McInnerny, Daniel Kaluuya’s […]
Killer Elite
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011There isn’t anything specifically wrong with Killer Elite somehow it just manages to be ordinary. Its the film equivalent of Magnolia Paint – a bit safe, a bit ordinary and not at all threatening. Hence the lack of a spoiler warning as there isn’t anything really worth mentioning that you’ll not get from the poster. […]
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Film Review
Friday, September 16th, 2011Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Short Review: Brilliant Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Longer Review: Bloody Brilliant Ok I give in but really the first two reviews say everything I have to say. Just back from the new, film adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Gary Oldman (Smiley) doesn’t chew the scenery instead he achieves a zen […]
Colombiana
Saturday, September 10th, 2011I’m not sure what film some of the people who had reviewed Colombiana had been to see but it’s not the same one I went to. Colombiana is not a classic film but its been given some really harsh reviews that often seem to amount to it not being Leon. Colombiana is the latest Luc […]
Doctor Who: Night Terrors
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011Last week on Doctor Who we had pulp with Let’s Kill Hitler, this week we got horror with a twist of British Social Realism. The horror is scary, fairy tailish horror rather than gross horror. It mixed up lots of classic horror elements of abduction horror, body horror with the transformation of people into the […]
Cowboys and Aliens Film Review
Friday, September 2nd, 2011A film with a title like Cowboys and Aliens you have to hope does what it says on the tin. Cowboys and Aliens does just that and not a lot more so it comes down to if that’s enough for you or not. The reverse of last weeks The Guard was true of this film: […]
Doctor Who: Let’s Kill Hitler
Saturday, August 27th, 2011Tonight’s Doctor Who, Let’s Kill Hitler, was a cracking fun episode from the start. Now I’ve been known to complain about certain issues with illogicality and this episode certainly started with plenty – writing Doctor in a corn field, introducing Amy’s best friend who’s never been so much as mentioned before with a montage and […]
The Guard Film Review
Thursday, August 25th, 2011The Guards is a film that isn’t bad but doesn’t really manage to be more than a pleasant diversion while it was probably hoping to be a cult classic. The characters, setting and story have the potential to be interesting: an unorthodox, slightly corrupt Irish policeman, Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) in […]
Rise of the Planet of the Apes Movie Review
Thursday, August 18th, 2011The Planet of the Apes franchise isn’t one of my personal science fiction classics – I always found the actors in ape costumes distracted me. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to see this addition to the series like X-Men First Class though this proved to be well worth the price of admission. However I’m […]