Man from Earth - 9/10 - loved this. Simple story telling. No special effects or stars. The way the story unravels is just brilliant
Started to watch Inception. Now I know it's had great reviews, but after 15 mins the missus was like "this is crap". Must admit I wasn't too impressed with it either. It reminded me a bit of Existenz - watch 10 minutes...turns out to be a game, watch another 10 minutes......also turns out to be a game.
Does it get better?
watched the town as well today, thought it was pretty good, perhaps you just have to be in the mood.
Nope, Tried to watch it three times and couldn't do it lol.
I watched Restrepo on Thursday, I thought it was one of the most compelling, insightful and disturbing war documentaries I've ever seen, thoroughly recommended. 9/10
I've also watched The Other Guys and Resident Evil Afterlife in the last few days. I thought Afterlife was complete rubbish. I didn't expect much after the previous Resident Evil films but this was even worse. The Other Guys was a watchable film, but it completely depends on if you can put up with Will Ferrell or not. I did think some of the humour was really strange, but the general storyline of two bungling cops was pretty enjoyable.
Fight club, found out the gf had never seen it.
Final Fantasy - Spirits Within
Well being a big budget CGI film 9 years ago this surely looks dated now not that I remember if it looked that good back in the day when I saw it in the cinema all those years ago. The story is absurd and ending even more so, plot wholes come in bucket loads as do the stereotypes and fact that this was made by the Japanese is obvious. However, the little boy in me just loves it for some reason so this manages to be watchable.
5.5/10