What's worth watching at the moment?
Not a lot if the cinemas anything to go by. The only film I've thought a cut above the rest recently was The Machinist, but then Christian Bale seems to pick his films well (and should embody the Dark Knight very nicely). The film made me think of Kafka's short story the Hungerkunstler. Constantine was awful, but enjoyable trash - Keanu dialling in a performance again (quite how Rachel Weisz manages to come out of this sort of film - think "The Mummy" - untarnished, I have no idea), as was Ring 2, a shame as the first re-make was on the money for me - although I do think Ringu 2 was weaker than the first in the cycle anyway. Hostage was a giggle for a bit, but a damp squib later. Melinda and Melinda was amusing Woody Allen (and a return to form for Will Ferrell, why on earth was the execrable Anchorman being praised to the hilt?) but far from his best. Both Robots and Valiant showed that a lot of the creativity lacking in mainstream films is being channeled into animation at present. When is somebody going to release something decent to watch?


0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home