Thursday 14 October 2010

Machete

Right, speaking of ridiculous.... If you are the kinda guy who looks at a film and says "that car chase would never happen because the power to weight ration of the escaping car is blah blah blah blah blah..." and "he would never survive the crash because his head has the same density as a watermelon and blah blah blah.." then you are better off going back to your lab, because this film is simply ridiculous.

No joke, it's sort of Once Upon a Time in Mexico meet Shoot 'Em Up, plus added ridiculousness.

Sadly the opening fight is the best in the film in my opinion and there is a greater chance in every member of the film crew being hit by meteorites while they are equally distributed across the earth than the final battle going down as it did. However, combine Jessica Alba, Lindsey Lohan and Michelle Rodriguez in the same film and we, my friends have got a movie on our hands!

No, seriously, go and see this, its freakin' amazing! Totally absurd and brilliant at the same time. (just make sure you have a few beers before and have plenty of snacks and you're sorted!)

Clash of the Titans

What I don't understand is why we have to make stupid. Yeah, its all about crakens or however you spell that, and medusa etc. but even taken that into consideration, I felt it was stupid. Secondly, I didn't get the feeling like it was a quest. Maybe I have been spoiled by LOTR and Star Wars and other endless trilogies, quadrologies, gadzilliologies, but there was no sense of occasion. When when the main guy was on the pegasus to the final fight, I thought to myself - "Already? All you did is have two fights before and slapped some witches' eye around."

Only thing I liked about this film was the lead. I really like Sam Worthington now. Alas, there wasn't much else in there. Even the battles made ma wanna go make tea instead.

So what you can really do is give this one a miss and watch 300 or Troy again instead... they are far far better.