Dark city is good. It's a little slow, and the film making isn't quite up to the slow pace, but it's really not far off. So yeah, well worth watching, but just not quite good enough to be a "great" film.
I watched a lot yesterday, hangovers and Sundays full of films FTW!
With the kids we started with
Stuart Little, which is still pretty rubbish. Even the kids didn't like it. Hugh Grant is immensely irritating in it, and Geena Davis not much better. The film just waddles along being cute and stuff, but it's just not quite there.
A bit later, and it's time for
Clash of the TItans. One of my all time favourite films as a kid. I must have seen it four times at the cinema! Ray Harryhausen at the top of his game, producing fantastically dated SFX :lol:
At the time, it was utterly mind blowing. Now it look sawful, but the film is still great fun to watch. It IS exceptionally long for a kids film though. It's also a bit too complicated, with lots of sub plots and sub quests. It never really focuses on much other than being fantastical
The last thirty minutes or so are the real highlights, with the defeat of Medusa and the scorpion attack. Both kids lapped it all up and it's an excellent use of over two hours of a hungover Sunday
Max Payne next. I loved the games to be honest. I loved the way that the games took a real cinematic approach, and the style of the games was lovely. The film mimicked that style, which was actually brilliant when it was doing it. Sadly, the film just lumbers along without any real direction. The game was a simple (but gorgeous) walk in room, kill baddies, walk into next room, repeat ad infinitum. Oddly, this only happened in a few short spates at the end of the film. They should have forgotten about being cerebral at all and just made it a stylistic high body count action film. As they tried to be clever, it failed over all. Some lovely bits, but generally a big fat meh!
Finally, I rounded the evening off (like Peep) with
Poseidon. I loved the original 1970s (or was it 80s) film. It was cheese on a stick that was done so well in those days of the disaster movie. This was a disaster movie in all senses, in that it sucked. It didn't have the cheese appeal of the original, so lost out because it was too professional, but complete rubbish. Poorly made rubbish is good, well made rubbish is bad
The biggest issue is, when the people die, you should be cheering because they're annoying, or laughing because it's so badly done. I just didn't care about any of the characters. Ah well...
