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Ils (2006)
It Could be You
What Makes a good horror (sorry i mean thriller) story? Well it has to make you scared right?
Lets have an machete wielding maniac killing people on a space station.. mm not gonna scare me cos guess what, i ain't gonna go to a space station any time soon.
Now lets have a couple in a house being attacked by a bunch of bored kids that society wont ever punish, and so can get away with whatever they want.. Uh oh this is a little bit closer to home. Sleeping secure in your home your Gf wakes you up and says she hears something downstairs, drags you out of bed and makes you check it out.. Hang on this has happened to me in real life!! (the waking and checking, not the kids bit)
Yes there were a lot of recognisable bits from countless other horror/thrillers. But it was done nicely and evoked feelings that many of the audience can relate to.
This film attacks the security of your own home and the strengths that we will all think we possess if someone enters your house. It does it very well at a very poignant time in modern day society. The ending sums it all up in that last tagline, basically a note of kids being bored and looking for that next thing to do.
If you watch this to be wetting the bed and not sleeping for a week, sorry its not that likely but if you want to be unnerved by events that make you check the locks on your door that one extra time this film delivers.
I enjoyed it, i would recommend it to anyone.
Had an important message for me and a wake up call to many i would think.
The Covenant (2006)
Where were they going with this?
The story was disjointed, the acting was not of any callibre you can catagorise. More of a serial pilot than an actual movie. I wanted to like this movie but just could not find anything to like about it. Whatever it was that made The Lost boys so likable was obviously absent here. Altho it tried hard. Plot hooks were clumsily placed amidst what could have been an episode of dawsons creek with dark clothes, and the story arc was going nowhere soon. Very disappointing for me. The end scenes were special effects driven convenience and how the villain of the story planned his whole scheme.. who was he (or she) trying to kid, talk about naive. Stick with films of this kind of genre from the eighties, when they had more of an idea.
The Club (1994)
The Worst movie of ALL time
I remember watching this film 10 years ago. It stuck in my memory as the most arduous task of my life. Along with 6 friends we watched a trio of movies rented for the evening.
Not one ounce of pop corn or chips were eaten in this whole time as we all stared pointlessly at the film in its whole entirety.
Some of us tried to sleep but they were slapped and whipped so they could not escape from the torture we all were to endure! Everything bad written about any movie should be applied here, I'm sure at some point it would be justified.
Shame on you... shame
Superman Returns (2006)
Not the epic that was required.
Superman The movie was considered an epic movie and one that broke so many preconceptions and did amazing things. Granted it has been touched upon so many times and in several series he is now a family name and many plots have been done to death with the character. So the route taken was one allegedly different, unless you had seen the first movie.
This is one of the biggest movies in the last ten years it is about to hit the screens.. It should be something special. This movie was not. It was by no means a bad movie but it is an ordinary movie, and that unfortunately is not sufficient.
Was i expecting too much? Yes probably! And why shouldn't i? As for spoilers, its hard to include any as nothing really happens worth mentioning.
Lost (2004)
What makes it work?
Here is the conundrum.. is it sci fi? So many survivors of a plane crash, living on an island full of mystery and wonder. So many coincidences revolving around the characters and it all seems to work..
But it is held together by a feeling of reality. Each character is delved into very nicely and are well thought out.
I personally missed season one and picked it up later in season two. i didn't get into it from the first episode and left it. I picked up the story quickly and it seems to be a fun series for not just sci fi fans. Those that would normally shun such programmes are watching it with interest. The cast is excellent and the interweaving plot lines all make some serious sense out of some serious confusion.. (2 confusions make some sense?!? don't ask me how but it does seem to work!) Each character is important and that is its simplistic beauty. Not a one man show with side kicks!
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Ghosts and pirates.. whats not to like
Did someone actually get something right out there? Swashbuckling at its best. Excellent cast. Depp was as usual extraordinary in the role and it as a whole hit everything the current movie genres are missing. Good Story, good costumes, Great fun, even Keira Knightly couldn't spoil it if you ignored her acting and let her just look pretty.
Please lets not ruin this great story with a sequel of epic nastiness that taints the good name. (you know what I'm talking about you star wars trilogy directors)
Big thumbs up. I have been waiting for a film like this for a long time.
Poseidon (2006)
Definitely a sinking ship
I remember watching the Poseidon adventure as a kid. Some bits stick in my mind now, the feeling of adventure under serious threat.
Whether i am now older and less involved in a movie or if in fact the movie didn't hold any of the awe that the original did, bottom line is i didn't get excited, i didn't particularly care who made it out or not and began to wonder what was trying to be achieved in the whole thing.
Disaster movies in the 70's 80's were all the rage and no matter what the cause the main characters had a lot of screen presence. These characters were hardly explored and little was given into having anyone empathise with any of them. Charlton Heston got you fired up by asking for a cup of water, Kurt Russel played hero, protective father and failed mayor and i truly felt it could have been done by anyone.
Josh Lucas did try and save the movie as the rebel hero figure, but he failed to get it afloat. I wished i got more out of it, but ill stick with the original.
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
A Little Tired
The story was nothing out of the ordinary and the suspense was made up of similar tactics that we have seen time and time again. That being said, it was refreshing to not have to see varied ways of maiming youths to make a 'horror' in this climate of slice and dice shock flicks. The acting wasn't shocking and it did pose the question.. What would be the right thing to do in her situation? I would have liked to give it a higher vote, but even tho it was a remake, i would like to see some original thoughts put into our movies direction and it was hard to find anything that hadn't been used before. (How many times do we have to see the ~~intense refrigerator door obscuring the room trick~~ ?)