funny in parts, damn boring in parts sol i’ll give it 3 / 7

wait til it comes out on dvd i reckon

click here to view the greater union response to my letter regarding allocated seating

Here is a list of the films i saw this year in chronological order.
half of my goal.

1. Meet the Fockers
2. The Aviator
3. Hotel Rwanda
4. Ray
5. Miss congenialty 2
6. The Interpreter
7. The Extra
8. The Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy
9. Star Wars episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith
10. The Longest Yard
11. Coach Carter
12. Madagascar
13. The Oyster Farmer
14. The Yes Men
15. Mr & Mrs Smith
16. The Island
17. Wedding Crashers
18. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
19. Wallace and Gromit
20. Little Fish
21. Flightplan
22. Four Brothers
23. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
24. The Constant Gardener
25. Domino
26. Fun with dick and Jane

My top three out of the above list would be.
3. Wallace and Gromit
2. Hotel Rwanda
1. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Bottom three.
3. Meeth the Fockers
2. four Brothers
1. Miss Congeniality 2

today after a long day of flying, shopping eating and sitting jenny and i went to see a move at Rhodes Shopping Centre.

I have to say that the Reading cinema complex at rhodes is the absolute bomb. the cinema was comfy and massive and the screen was huge.
And best of all i could sit where ever i damn well wanted.

we saw ‘fun with dick and Jane’

as the title suggests it was fun, and it ws with dick and jane now that i think of it, so this film really lived up to its name.
THe story was a bit weak and as usual jim carey overacted to the point that made me cringe. but on the flip side he was funny in parts and it all ended happily. a good film to escape the heat from and spend an hour or so relaxing.

I just had a comment left on my blog from an employee of Greater Union and here is what they had to say aboout allocated seating. ( i am yet to recieve an official response to my letter to Greater Union)

man, you ignorant people really tick me off.. i work at GU Hornsby and allocated seating, although kinda gay at first, is the best thing ever.. there’s no more waiting 4 hours in a queue for a blockbuster film, we can fill a cinema to nearly 100% capacity as opposed to the previous 75% and you can pick your own damn seat if you can be bothered to take a minute out of your internet-centred “life” for like a dollar extra and you can skip the queue when you pick up your tickets..

next time you go, go with an open mind, pretend you dont know any other way, pick your own seat and have a good time – its here to stay to please get used to it

This year has been an embarissing attempt at seeing 52 films in a year.
As of today I am at 25. less than half of the goal.

and in the last 2 weeks i have seen quite a few movies.
Its sad and i expect you will ve utterly dissapointed in me and you will never talk to me again. But to you i say there is still a few weeks left of this year and then i get to start again next year.

Tonight Jenny and i saw ‘domino’

Af film about a girl who is the daughter of a famous actor and she is fed up with her upper class beverly hills lifestyle so she becomes a bounty hunter.
There is lots of violence, swearing and action.
The whole film is in strange colours and arty camera work. A bit over the top for my liking. THe story was ok but a few parts that made no sense and some charactors that just appeared then dissapeared before you could work out who the hell they were.
I give it 4 / 7

and no we did not sit in our allocated seats.

What a beautiful night to watch a film.

So jenny and I headed off to greater Union after work to see the ‘Constant Gardener’

It was quite a good film, it was emotional and I left the cinema with some hatred towards large corporations who exploit innocent humans in developing nations. And the people have no choice, they die because of corporate greed and corruption in political leadership.
I don’t know if it was based on a true story or not but it follows the death of a British diplomats wife. They are both in Kenya and the wife is delving into the corruption and greed of a large pharmaceutical company whilst the man is a diplomat and is working for the people who help the pharmaceutical company exploit the people of Kenya.
It was a compelling story and it really just highlighted how messed up our world can be and is.
Its sp good that non hollywood films are now being released that really tell it how it is.

I give this film 6/7

Well today the petition to Greater Union was printed off and i attached the comments that you people left.
I’m posting it tomorrow to Greater Union Hornsby and also the head office in the city.

Hopefuly they will take our comments seriously and they will look into the negative implications of allocatred seating.

Last night Jenny and I saw ‘Four Brothers’

It was not bad. Not the most fantastic film I have ever seen. But shoot em up films are always a bit of fun. No explosions but plenty of shooting. The dude from Outcast was pretty good, you normally expect gangsta singers to play snoop dogg kind of roles in films but not thins time.
I wouldn’t go out of your way to see this film, but if you find yourself with a few spare hours and its cheapo Tuesday go see it.
I give it 4 / 7

And No I did not sit in my allocated seat. Stupid stupid seat allocations.

Finally I saw a film again at the cinema. Its been such a drought.

Jenny and I saw Flight Plan.

I Enjoyed it a lot. Quite a turbulent film oh I’m so witty. But really it took off well, Cruising at a nice altitude.
Ok enough with the crappy jokes. It was a great film, it tricked me quite a few times. There was suspense and drama and even an explosion. At times it made me angry a bit and upset, some passengers in the jet gave me the irrates but I think that was the plan. I don’t really think I have seen many films with Jodie foster but she was good. And the plane was soo cool it was big and had a bar and a lounge and stuff.

I give it 5.5 / 7

This afternoon Jenny and I saw little fish at Castle Towers.

I think it was a good film, cool to see big famous actors come home and do a local Australian film, and also good to see some regulars on the Australian screen like lisa Mc cune and noni hazelhurst.

It was a pretty in your face kind of film in terms of language and drug use and the affects of drug use. Which is probably pretty close to the lives of so many people in our city. Cate Blanchett was good as a 32 year old ex heroin addict who is trying to get her life on track and start up her on internet café on the side of a video store which she works in. The problem I found with the film is that it didn’t end all that well there wasnt enough closure and I would be surprised if there is a sequel. So it had potential and could have had a happy or bad ending but in the end it didn’t really have an ending the credits just played.

I don’t often see (MA) films, but I did see this one and I give it 4.5/7

Sunday afternoons are a good time to watch films.
In a bid to catch up on many lost weeks of film watching and to push myself closer to the pinnacle of 52 films this year jenny and I saw “Wallace and Gromit, Curse of the were rabbit”

It was a little beauty. Very clever and funny. I used to love watching the Wallace and gromit short films back in the day and I was a bit disappointed when the creator sold out and went off to hollywood to make chicken run. The poms just seem to make good films and good television and even good radio. But as the Americanised version of ‘the office’ proved. The yanks just don’t cut it and they shouldn’t try to be British.
Anyway yay for making Wallace and Gromit into a feature film. Claymation is very clever. The script is very funny with lots of puns and little wise cracks made by the cast. Its just fun really.
Not really anything negative to say about it.
I’ll give it 6/7

Go see it, it comes out this Thursday!

Last night Jenny and I saw “Charlie and the chocolate factory.”

It was a fantastic film. I don’t know why the cinema was so empty everyone should be sitting in there watching it.

Johnny Depp was fantabulous, awesome. Tom reckons its better than the original “Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory” but I don’t think its better, I think they are very different films. Even though they share the same story.

It was a fun film, a very bright looking film with songs and dancing and awesome costumes, but at the same time it was a bit dark and sinister.
I think Jhonny Depp was a better wonka then gene wilder but the umpa lumpas were not the best in this film because there where CG of one man.

I recommend it to everyone and give it 5.5 / 7

I went into this film not knowing anything about it and I cant recall seeing a trailer for it. So I didn’t have any preconceived ideas of what sort of film it would be and whether or not it would be good.

But it was good, ewan mcgreggor is a bit of a hottie. He does well that boy and being a fellow Scotsman helps.

A film about a bunch of people who have been artificially made but a rich crazy doctor who builds these people so he can sell there organs to rich humans.
The twist is that the people that the doctor built think they are real humans and that they live in an underground paradise. But really they are in a unused army bunker in the dessert.

That’s not the best explanation of it. I’m sorry.

But it was a good film I enjoyed it and am giving it 5 / 7

David and I just saw the oyster farmer.

I know a lot of people say that Australian films are dodgy and they have nothing on Hollywood. But I thinks its just that we have been bombarded by Hollywood and they have explosions and famous actors but really most of the films that Hollywood pump out are just remakes of old films or films that are identical to each other but they give them new names and have different actors.
I think we should support Australian films, I mean it seems they need the support just watching the intro to and Australian film and you see that it has been funded by about 6 film companies.

On to the film itself.
I thought it was a great little film, and it was really fun too see all these places that I know so well up there on the screen. Most of the film was filmed around brooklyn and mooney mooney. A good story that didn’t really go anywhere but that was nice. Some good lines and great characters, I felt like I was there on the waters edge of the hawksberry hanging out with these rough yocals.
There was some continuity issues regardi9ng cityrail trains but I’ll let them pass. The average punter isn’t going to notice the difference in carriage types in different shots and the number of carriages and stuff. A few other little

I would like to give this film 6 / 7

But unfortunately the makes of this film chucked in an un needed quite graphic sex scene.

So I’m bringing it down to 4.5 / 7

Well this eveing jenny and i saw Mr and Mrs Smith.

Right from the outset i’m going to give it 2.5 / 7.
It was a dodgy film, i think i have come to the conclusion that i dont really like brad pitt in films. Ok he was good in oceans 11 but thats a bout it.
It was a poor story, two assasains who have secret identities, they each get a job to kill the other. At first they fight asnd try to kill each other, but then ofcourse they realise they do love each other and end up kissing instead of shooting.

dont bother seeing it, even on cheapo tuesday

Today jenny and I ventured off to the city to see ‘the yes men’.
It is out on dvd in the states now I think but has just hit our shores in the cinema. We saw it at Dendy quays.

Well it was quite a good film. It follows Two fellas and their mates as they pose to be employees and spokesmen of the World Trade Organisation. They have a spoof website that looks similar to the WTO website and sometimes people mistake it for the real thing and these guys find themselves invited to conventions and conferences around the world to be the key note speakers. They manage to be obscenely satirical of the WTO and its practices but often the audiences don’t see the joke and think they are legitimate.
The downside of the film for me was an interview with Michael Moore, it just wasn’t needed and I’m a bit over Michael moore he has only one trick and he has milked it for all its worth I wouldn’t be upset if he disappeared of the silver screen for the next 40,000,000 years.
The film was fun and a bit enlightening, very clever boys indeed. Was made with what looks like an extremely low budget but it did the trick. It would be nice if it got a run in mainstream cinema but it probably wont. So I suggest you take the trek out to a dendy cinema and go see tis film.
I give it 6/7