I watched 2 films on my death bed yesterday, of somewhat varying quality.
The Deer Hunter
Yet another 'how the hell have I not watched this before?' films. This is amazing. The fast pacing, the transition from happy-go-lucky kids to severely mentally scarred Vietnam veterans. The tension, the claustrophobia, the emotion, everything.
I really don't know what else to say about this. To begin with, I thought it was going to be overly long, but there's no way the Vietnam sections would have been anywhere near as effective without the build up to them, and to show just how far removed from their everyday life they became.
Gripping.
5/5
He's Just Not That Into You
Have you ever hated a film with a passion from the very first scene all the way to the very end, yet somehow couldn't stop watching? I'm sure some of you have - enough of you listen to Talksport regularly which is a similar comparison.
This is just a horrible film, with horrible characters in horrible situations, horribly acted and horribly directed.. Yeah, it might be an all star cast, but no cast on earth could have saved this. The script is silly, it's incredibly sexist, the characters are so incredibly 2 dimensional it's untrue. With rom-coms, you're supposed to feel a bit 'awwwww' at the inevitable happy ending. But I can't feel happy for these people. They're almost all intensely unlikeable. I think the only praise I can give the scriptwriters is that at least they found several different ways to make them intensely unlikeable.
How to summarise this absolute dreck? Love Actually meets Freddy Got Fingered, but far worse than both. I'm not anti rom-coms at all, but I am anti-sexist, cheap, 2-dimension, trashy, predictable sacks of shite.
I wasn't keen. I'd rather recommend the man flu I had over this film.
0/5
