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Oblivion (2013)
Visually A masterpiece... storyline lacking
I did enjoy this film to some extent. The visuals are absolutely stunning and some of the best i have seen in a while; watching the featurette showed me how much effort was put into the visuals and it definitely shows. The film is polished and the way the action sequences intermingle with the visuals is enough for anyone to go and see this film. But prepare yourself to be slightly disappointed with the storyline if you are a big science fiction fan. I could see a number of adolescent teens finding the storyline to be the best most intricate thing ever seen, but to any hardened science fiction fan there will be a slight sense of disappointment. *spoilers ahead* The film seems to have taken various concepts from many science fiction films and smooshed them together within this film. I saw bits from the matrix (1999), moon (2009) and 2001 a space odyssey (1968). And i am sure there may have been more. The thing about science fiction is it's easier ability to be original, you can imagine anything in the future and thats science fiction. This film does the opposite, it has taken rather then imagined. It has me to believe that this film may of been a homage to science fiction but i can't really tell. The acting is a little weak, and when tom cruise decides to play basketball with a flannel shirt and new york baseball cap on i couldn't help but cringe (and i felt like the rest of the audience felt the same way). There are elements that have made this a reasonable film but to any real science fiction fan you will leave the cinema with an air of disappointment.
7/10. Giddy Up.
The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting (2013)
Its just not funny
I don't want to be a jerk, but this show is just not funny and its not cause Im some old man, i'm only twenty years old. But the thing is I can appreciate good humor, which this isn't. The creators and ABC have told us that this is a darker, surreal comedy. Unfortunately the creators have mixed up 'dark' with vulgar. The show tries to shock the laughs out of us with no success, like with a OH and S safety inspector at a porn shoot. Its not funny its just vulgar and stupid. Sketch comedy should come out of no where and make you laugh, with this sketch i knew what was gonna happen the moment that guy came on screen (and yes i can see how that links with the porn scenario <-- thats actually funny). Again the creators have told us that they wish to create longer length sketches. The whole idea of sketches are they are meant to be short and quick and funny. Packed full of laughs within a short time span. These sketches go for too long and the jokes don't keep up. Many of the sketches you can guess the punchline before it occurs, like when the wife tells her husband (who always wears hats) that she thinks he is bald and when he takes off his hat, oh would you look at that she wants a divorce. That isn't dark humor, its silly and contrived and easily guessable. Overall unless your a 15 year old boy whose watching TV by himself, this show will just annoy you. There has to be better shows out there for ABC, if there's not there is little hope for Australian television. 3/10