This weeks movies...

Sweety
One of Jan Chapmans first flicks.
I really liked the weird little shots throughout it. Reminds me of David Lynch.
Lots of 'normal type people' tested by extreme events.

I Robot
Aussie director and I remember it being OK.
It's still OK.
I'm kinda getting sick of seeing Will Smith in films. Getting as bad as Tom Cruse (or Tom Hanks) in that he is in so many films that I don't see the character anymore, I see Will Smith being chased by aliens or shooting gangsters or giving away money.

The new Star Trek thang
It was a good ride. Bit boring cause you know that there is going to be a happy ending.
Nother 'time travel' type script device which really gets on my tits. Such a unimaginative and overused device to use in a Star Trek flick.

That said, they deliberately mention a parallel time stream, and make no effort to put history back on track, so I reckon the studio is using this movie to completely reboot the franchise.

They re-wrote Trekkie history so that they can take liberties with the characters and the environment.

There will be a lot more product (I heard rumours of a new TV show) arising from this little maneuver.

Went to see this cause I've been following the career of J.J. Abraham. Liked Alias when it was on the tele.

Ages back I heard that John Cussack agreed to do Con Air, so that the studio would sign off on his personal project Gross Point Blank.

I reckon J.J. has done that same thing with this flick. Possibly so he could make Cloverfeild, or maybe there is something else up his sleeve???

Moulin Rouge
We had a class recently where we were asked who hadn't seen this flick. I was the only one to put up my hand, so I thought that maybe I should make an effort.

I'm I the only one that found the adapted songs really distracting? I spent a few seconds at the beginning of each piece of music wondering where I had heard the song before. It was like a cinematic trivia night.

I don't mind musicals, and I think it's a shame that new songs weren't written specially for this show.

commercially it's genius. No need to wonder if the audience will like the songs or not.

Also, it's set in Paris, but where were all the Froggy accents?
The art design, and the music arrangements were inspired.


Last King of Scotland
Ok film. I remember when when I was a kid, and Uganda and Amin were always in the news.