In the Movies

The Crazies have been seeing lots of movies lately :-)

First up - Ironclad.

Here we have a retelling of what happened after the Magna Carta. This is Men Behaving Badly in medieval times ... Lots of blood, gore, things getting chopped off and stones being thrown at castles. It really doesn't hold back. Well worth seeing if you're not put off by Lady Of Manor throwing herself at the helpless Templar knight. This is no Hollywood Robin Hood let's get the people in the castle siege, it's properly done with :

Trebuchet's - yey !
Undermining of the keep
Thieving of the King's munchies
More big knifeplay than on Masterchef

Will be picking up that one when it comes to dvd/bluray.

Limitless wasn't as good. It's about a writer who needs to pop the pills in order to get anything done. One day he's a wreck, unable to get any words on the page and about to lose the girl. One pill later and he's in bed with the landlord's missus, finishes the book in 4 days and is about to launch on to a roller coaster ride.

Not a terrible film, it's actually quite well made. You're left feeling very uncomfortable about the message though. Do drugs & succeed. Not sure what I think of that, I see drugs as somewhat of a crutch and avoid using them wherever possible. (Except coffee & chocolate & E-numbers) I do recognise that people need the drugs to help them through but taking drugs as a short cut ? No.

Ok film - worth watching. I suspect you're supposed to feel uncomfortable about that message.

Sucker Punch is a very schizophrenic movie. The action sequences are awesome. The narrative that binds the action sequences together is pants. I'll end up buying it anyway for the occasional watch because the action sequences are That Good. And I'll fall asleep through the bits in the asylum.


Tonight's movie was the movie which I'll never buy because I just cannot remember that it's called Source Code (I honestly didn't have to look that up). Jake Gyllenhall stars as USAF Captain who is being sent back in time to the body of a fella on a train that's about to blow up.

This one is pretty well made too, with plenty of little touches dropped in that come up again later. I'll not say much more because pretty much anything said about this one is SPOILERS! And we know what the Doctor and River Song think about those. However ... It's been done before multiple times, although last time I saw something similar ... AKAKAKSPOILERDELETEDAKAKAK ...

It's just come to the cinema and it's the pick of the bunch above.

One last one which I've just seen is Kick-Ass. This one came to the cinema last year and I've just finished watching it off SkyMovies. The star of the show here is little Chloe Moretz, who does an amazing job as the pintsized HitGirl who tears (literally) her way through the mob people. I may well buy this movie ...

So - of all the movies above :
Ironclad - buy it
Limitless - meh
Sucker Punch - buy it for the action sequences, meh at the narrative
Erm...???...ohyeah-Source Code ! - watch it but won't buy
(think it's one that's only good if you don't know what's going to happen)
Kick Ass - buy it