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IMDB

3/5

So after seeing this the other week I thought why not blog about it?

Basically it’s about a guy who accidentally becomes magnetized and destroys all the videos in a friends video store. They then try and re-make the films on their very low budget and become local stars because of it.

Okay so it is a film written and directed by Michel Gondry, who also directed one of my favorite films, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and that’s why there is a serious aspect to it, going deep into how the art of film-making is dying and the industry is all about making money now. Now I went along to see this film thinking it’d just be a full on comedy film with a loose story and a lot of laughs, well I was happy that this was not the case. Although it is very funny at parts it is also serious in others.

I havn’t ever liked Jack Black, as a musician he was nothing special, as an actor it’s the same, but as an actor he suits being in the comedy role. I feel he let this film down a bit on the serious parts, but did well in the comedy.

Overall I thought the film was pretty good, but I think the acting brought it down. Maybe i’m just not used to Jack Black being in a serious role, but I think he should stick to being the idiot like usual. If you have some spare time and nothing better to go and see then this might be a good choice.

IMDB

3/5

So I went to see this film after hearing all the hype about it and I was disappointed. Okay so it was a semi-decent movie in itself, but all the hype i’d heard beforehand made me think that it would be an amazing film, not just an average comedy that you don’t need to pay much attention to.

Okay so the story if you don’t know it already is that two best friends in high school are invited to a party where they offer to get the alcohol as one of their friends has just acquired a fake ID. They think that if they get the alcohol then they will have a chance of sleeping with the two girls who are having the party. They get split up with their friend Fogell (the one with the fake ID) when he gets taken for a ride with some cops. After this hilarity ensues with them all trying to get alcohol for this party.

Now the acting was pretty good. It seemed to me that the actors have real chemistry from working together in the past and knowing each other as friends for such a long time.

As far as teen movies like this goes the script was pretty well written and moved along at a good pace.

 To say the least I wasn’t that impressed, the hype was too much for what it was, but it was still an okay film to see if you are bored one night. Although I thought previous movies by the same people such as the 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up were much better.

IMDB

4/5

The story is that a man goes into a magical land to retrieve a fallen star (which is a person) but he then finds that he is not the only one who seeks the star, and has to keep her safe. He runs into many challenges along the way (including a cross-dressing sky pirate played by Robert De Niro who I think must have really needed the money to play this role) and his quest changes as he finds himself falling in love with the star.

I thought the movie was a very high budget film which concentrated too much on the special effects than the story itself. Although most other people I know thought it was an amazing story too. I say it was a very high budget film because they have so many great actors (who wouldn’t have come cheap at all), and so much cgi and special effects that would have come to a hell of a lot as well. The story seemed like a bunch of fairytales jumbled together, but it was interesting never the less.

I was surprised that the film ended as it did, it left no open ending for a sequel, which is quite strange for a film of this manor. Other than the surprise the ending was quite pleasant.

IMDB

3/5

The Plot is as thin as any other horror like this. This is one reason why I don’t like horror films, another is that I jump easily. So in this film two college kids go on a road trip during spring break to Mexico and on the way pick up a hitch-hiker (Sean Bean) at a gas station who ends up being a psychopathic killer, blah blah things happen and they end up running from both the psychopath and the police.

As far as horror films go, it was pretty good. It kept me watching at least, which is a good sign for me witha horror film. Sean Bean didn’t suit playing that role though, for a start he comes from here in the UK, and he can’t do a great American accent. But I have to say he did a good job of the role, i’m just used to him playing a different kind of role.

As killers go Sean Bean played a good one. I mean he got straight to the point in the film, telling them that he was going to kill them. After this his role consisted more of sneering and delivering one-liners which were sometimes pretty funny, but his character could have been so much better. I don’t blame this on him as an actor though, it’s more the character in the film being underwritten.

The film seemed quite long to me (although it wasn’t), after 45 minutes I was wondering what they can fill another 45 minutes with, as a lot had happened and it could have finished at that point. But they managed it and with quite a graphic few scenes at the end too.

If you like horror films then you will like this. If not then it’s a hit or miss film, I thought it was okay although I don’t like them generally. I only watched it as I was made to by my girlfriend.