Iāve never seen a Fast & Furious film before, but I was short of options cos of Hotel Freeview RIP. Do people really enjoy this bilge? I only made it about 10 mins. The opening scene, when they want to free Vin Diesel from prison and come up with the clever plan of following him out into the desert, and then ramming the prison bus with their sports cars, upset me v.badly.
So I turned over and watched a film called The Internship on Other Channel. It wasnāt much better. I would like to bang Rose Byrne.
Iāve never seen a Fast & Furious film before, but I was short of options cos of Hotel Freeview RIP. Do people really enjoy this bilge? I only made it about 10 mins. The opening scene, when they want to free Vin Diesel from prison and come up with the clever plan of following him out into the desert, and then ramming the prison bus with their sports cars, upset me v.badly.
So I turned over and watched a film called The Internship on Other Channel. It wasnāt much better. I would like to bang Rose Byrne.
Iāve seen a few of them, not necessarily in sequence. They are Big Dumb Films with cars in them, basically. If you like cars, and like seeing cars doing insane stuff, then theyāre okay. I find weed helps. Wouldnāt go out of my way to watch one, but donāt actually mind them that much when I do.
One thing I never liked about Paul Walker (RIP) was his aural similarity to Keanu Reeves.
It reminded me of a classic Sci Fi Soap Opera, the type that fills 1000+ pages in a Novel and breeds 5 or more sequels creating a Universe (reminded me of Peter F Hamilton).
So on that score it was a great film and concept.
Except it needed about 4 or 5 Series on TV to tell the story properly, so what could have been a classic Sci Fi movie was cropped into a Disneyland ride crock of shit, made worse by Channing big Ears Tatum showing why he should go back to being a Male Stripper.
What a missed opportunity that was.
Still, it is worth watching with a TV Dinner for some of the action and Mila Kunis is watcheable in anything
I went & saw 10 Cloverfield Lane in the Cinemas. It was Quite Good. It had good Dramas, and only the last 10 mins was capeshit. I was tote facepalming the pre-film trailers tho, it was capeshit, capeshit, capeshit RIP
I have been watching the Dirty Harry films. I quite like Dirty Harry. He is rude to his bosses, ruthless with perps and as Homer Simpson might shout, āhe gets results, you stupid chiefā.
Watching the movies, I kept noticing a specific actor. He has been in all three so far, and in all cases, pretty much plays the most prominent black guy in each movie. In the first movie, heās a bank robber. In the second movie, heās credited as āPimpā. In the third, heās the leader of a black activist cell. His name is Albert Popwell. He died in 1999. RIP.
Now do I give the film makers the benefit of the doubt, and assume that this is some unwritten character arc buried deep in the tapestry of another legend, or do I conclude that they only knew one black bro and thought that the audience would never notice the similarity?
Watched Bridge of Spies last night. It was quite good. There was no sex in it and hardly any swearing. In fact, there wasnāt much in it at all. Of anything. But it was ok enjoyable.
I watched Brooklyn the other week. Maybe would be classed as āchic flickā but about a young Irish woman moving to New York in the 1950s. I quite enjoyed it.
also watched Lilting which is about a Cambodian woman in a older persons home and her son has recently died. She was not aware that he was gay and his partner tries to build a relationship. Some subtitles. Great film.
Lilting which is about a Cambodian woman in a older persons home and her son has recently died. She was not aware that he was gay and his partner tries to build a relationship. Some subtitles.
That sounds like a movie designed to repel bears. The only thing missing is an original soundtrack by Peter Andre.
Timbuktu. About the affect of Islamists on daily life (and beyond) in Mali. Iām not going to review as I donāt do that well. It was interesting though and worth watching.
Not for Bears as you need to be able to read for this one.
Angry Birds - it was an OK way to spend an hour. Few jokes for the adults a couple of which were actually really funny. My 3 year old loved it and always nice to see him laugh.
In other news, Iāve watched the film Spy (2015) three times now. Itās not art or whatever, but itās a v.likeable film. Itās similar in tone to that True Lies film, except without the spank scene where Jamie Lee Curtis Strips Off.