Films of my 2008 Christmas break
Get Carter: A 2000 Stallone film. He sports a mafioso beard and beats people up to avenge his brother’s death. Micky Rourke is in it and so is Queen Elizabeth from Blackadder. A remake of some old film. I was actually kind of surprised this wasn’t as good as I’d hoped.
Lethal Weapon 3: Hey, look, it’s Mel Gibson’s mullet out to get some bad guys again. First Lethal Weapon I’ve watched from beginning to end. Being 20 years late to the part doesn’t help.
Rescue Dawn: It is impossible for Christian Bale to act badly. Recommended if you’re after a Vietnam prisoner movie that’s interesting.
In Search Of A Midnight Kiss: Independent-ish film, shot in black + white (ugh), takes place in L.A. on New Year’s Eve. The usual twenty-something people out to find love and the meaning of life, the universe and everything. I’d like it more if it were in colour.
Juno: Had been wanting to see this one. It was very enjoyable! Lots better than the similarly-marketed Little Miss Sunshine.
The Wackness: Ben Kingsley is some kind of emperor of awesome among actors. This girl is hot. She was also in Juno, as Juno’s best friend. And she’s hot.
Wanted: Over-the-fucking-top ridiculous. Angelina Jolie still fails to be hot but scores the raddest single-bullet multi-kill ever. Don’t watch unless you have nothing better to do. Recommended only for the Sin City/300/Frank Miller kind of type.
Ratatouille: I’m filling my Pixar gaps, so I rented this and, while it’s certainly as good as any Pixar film, it wasn’t the OMGWTFBBQ animated film to rule all other animated films, as everyone seemed to think. I think the critical response to this one was a bit too enthusiastic, kind of like what happened with WALL-E. The trailer to their next film, Up, looks very promising.
Conclusion/Assessment/Notes: You should probably watch everything on this list, apart from Wanted, that Stallone film and the Lethal Weapon, because, honestly, those are not good movies and you should probably read a book instead.
I also watched The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on TV on some random lazy morning and, um, the actress who plays Trillian was also in The Happening. (I won’t even bother to link this film on IMDB. If you don’t know what it is, consider yourself lucky.)
I should also mention 10 To Midnight, which I didn’t get to see, because my MacBook Pro wouldn’t read the dirty and scratched disc the rental store clerk gave me. The DVD wouldn’t even eject, because apparently OS X can’t eject discs unless it mounts them first. So I ended up restarting and ejecting the thing manually by pressing down the trackpad button during startup. I don’t know why you’d want to know this, but hey, now you, too, know how to fix this problem, should it ever appear.
