Monday, September 01, 2003
Stuff from the weekend......
Alistair Campbell resigns. One down, many more to go.
As well as being a lying coniving talentless ex-tabloid hack who brought about the death of a scientist and backed an illegal invasion, he's also a Burnley supporter!
Is there no end to this man's evil!!??
Charles Bronson has died aged 81. He will probably be remembered mostly for the Death Wish films. He should be remembered mostly for his good ones instead. The Magnificent Seven (go on, hum the theme tune for a bit, it always makes me feel better) and The Great Escape.
I'm not a huge Bronson fan, but in those 2 films (and I'm sure many more) he was just superb.
Speaking of films, I watched a couple this weekend. Firstly, Ocean's Eleven, the new version. This film really is a lot of fun. It's got action, humour, suspense. Brad Pitt is very very good in it, very funny and a great performance from George Clooney (who i don't normally rate). The only downside? Julia Robets' character is pretty much superflous to the whole plot and the thing between her and Clooney just irritated me as you could see exactly where it was going from their first scene.
Secondly, Scream 3. This was on last night and is basically the closing part of Wes Craven's trilogy. How to describe it? Well it almost seems to be 2 films. The first hour is terrible, completely uninteresting and just seems to be scene-setting in case I forgot who anyone is. The second half is however much much better. The film is not a serious horror film and as such doesn't take itself too seriously. Wes Craven does know how to have fun and he seemed determined to make sure the trilogy finished with a bang.
I'm never going to own it and may not even watch it again when it comes on TV but it wasn't too bad.
Thirdly, The Avengers. Now, this film got the slagging of all time when it was released. I can see why. Firstly the good points:
The film has a certain charm which seems to have carried over from the TV series.
It also has wonderful moments of surrealism which fit in well with the series as I remember it.
Uma Thurman looks absolutely stunning in black latex.
Bad points:
Everything else. Really, the acting is incredibly bad from everyone involved, Sean Connery is really, really bad especially.
But Uma still looks good in latex. Hmmmm.
As well as being a lying coniving talentless ex-tabloid hack who brought about the death of a scientist and backed an illegal invasion, he's also a Burnley supporter!
Is there no end to this man's evil!!??
Charles Bronson has died aged 81. He will probably be remembered mostly for the Death Wish films. He should be remembered mostly for his good ones instead. The Magnificent Seven (go on, hum the theme tune for a bit, it always makes me feel better) and The Great Escape.
I'm not a huge Bronson fan, but in those 2 films (and I'm sure many more) he was just superb.
Speaking of films, I watched a couple this weekend. Firstly, Ocean's Eleven, the new version. This film really is a lot of fun. It's got action, humour, suspense. Brad Pitt is very very good in it, very funny and a great performance from George Clooney (who i don't normally rate). The only downside? Julia Robets' character is pretty much superflous to the whole plot and the thing between her and Clooney just irritated me as you could see exactly where it was going from their first scene.
Secondly, Scream 3. This was on last night and is basically the closing part of Wes Craven's trilogy. How to describe it? Well it almost seems to be 2 films. The first hour is terrible, completely uninteresting and just seems to be scene-setting in case I forgot who anyone is. The second half is however much much better. The film is not a serious horror film and as such doesn't take itself too seriously. Wes Craven does know how to have fun and he seemed determined to make sure the trilogy finished with a bang.
I'm never going to own it and may not even watch it again when it comes on TV but it wasn't too bad.
Thirdly, The Avengers. Now, this film got the slagging of all time when it was released. I can see why. Firstly the good points:
The film has a certain charm which seems to have carried over from the TV series.
It also has wonderful moments of surrealism which fit in well with the series as I remember it.
Uma Thurman looks absolutely stunning in black latex.
Bad points:
Everything else. Really, the acting is incredibly bad from everyone involved, Sean Connery is really, really bad especially.
But Uma still looks good in latex. Hmmmm.
