Recently Watched Films

Made for TV and it shows. Pretty damn tedious and badly made until the introduction of Earl the detective about halfway through. Then it suddenly becomes like a new movie, and the final discovery and twist at the end is actually very well done. There's the usual unexpected deaths, and while some are repeats of earlier incidents from the series, there's a couple of new ones which are pretty good, involving heavy construction equipment and reptiles.

Good movie, but I never want to see it again! Fucking hell, what a downer!

Final part of the trilogy. This one got lower critical reception at the time, which is weird since the quality never drops and is basically one big production. Maybe the critics didn't like a lot of the legal drama stuff in this one, though the courtroom is one of my favourite sequences in the whole trilogy. When the bastards get taken down it's just so immensely satisfying. 

As brilliant as Lock, Stock. I'd forgotten a lot of this film beyond Brad Pitt's memorable and unintelligible role. Can't believe it's only my second viewing. 

Weird and dreamy, which is fitting, since the premise of the film came to director Robert Altman in a dream. The film felt a bit awkward at first to me, but after a while it can't help but transfix. 

It might be due to the poor copy I was watching (an online upload, the only way I could even find this movie), but I expected more of this film.

As much as I love Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, and Pete Postlethwaite, the only actor to come out of this with any real credibility is Mia Farrow, playing an incredibly sinister and creepy Mrs. Baylock. There's nothing majorly wrong with this movie, it just didn't need to be remade, and while the production values are higher than the original, it doesn't have near the same atmosphere.

Top Gun 1939! A bit lightweight, but quite enjoyable. Olivia DeHavilland smoulders... The best character is the wise-cracking Scat Allen played by Frank McHugh.

Softcore porn masquerading as a movie. Visually quite striking, but the story is a bit shit. (And this was the least NSFW picture I could find on TMDB!)

Saw this at the movies when I was a kid (and my best friend's name was and sill is Darryl!) It's at least as silly as War Games but doesn't have the same sense of peril, and it's a heap better than Megaforce. Still, pleased I've managed to see it again. And I think I may give a copy of this to the real Darryl for Christmas.

What's Lord Of The Rings? Never heard of it. This is just a movie about an unlikely bunch of adventurers going for a long walk in a country full of not-orcs and a giant spider that's definitely not called Shelob, and there's comic relief from a short guy who's most definitely not a hobbit. Oh yeah, and this movie was not a success... (I still quite enjoyed it in my second nostalgia hit of the day though!)