h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Went to see Apes last night and it was pretty darned good. B-Movie tastic but a great laugh all the same. Mr Andy Serkis is rather good at this old Mo-Cap lark....

I'm rather with him when he says about how it is an acting performance and not a special effect.

FB

Super 8, highly recommended I don't remember when I last jumped so much and I loved the characters.

10/10

Just watched Twilight, to see if it was as bad as the book. It wasn't but that's not a compliment (I feel like Stephanie Meyer should personally apologise for the book, it's that bad) and it was worrying that the film keeps the "Bella as a willing (and praiseworthy) abuse victim" theme intact.

Good soundtrack though. It's curious how Linkin Park (a band I quite rate and like) keep on providing songs for awful films (this, Transformers 1&2, GI Joe).

Saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Very good I was expecting it to be though as it has almost universal praise. to be honest though it may not quite have lived up to me resulting expectations. It's not the most *amazing* film ever that's for sure.

Fits like a glove into the Planet of the Apes franchise too - which I wasn't expecting for some reason. We both agreed after though that the original is still the best - although that's for the shock value of the scene where you realise it's Earth they're on. Not really possible to have that in the others really. Definitely the second best contribution to the franchise though.

As films like this frequently appall me with the level of bad science in them I was left most impressed by this. Really quite sound (if fanciful obviously) stuff in this film. Although the motivation of Genesys' main bloke is a bit iffy - that wasn't really very realistic I'd say.

Big thumbs up anyway.

Isn't that the movie where they changed bits of the set in mid-film to patch scenario holes?

If you read French, have a look at this gentleman's review: http://tinyurl.com/3blokvv (plenty of spoilers though)

Which? I talked about two movies.

Ah, rise of the planet of the apes, sorry. But I shouldn't comment until I see it actually but that guy's review is just hilarious

Well I read some through babelfish. I think it lost something in the translation but it did seem quite funny. (I liked his comments about the toughened glass - I think you do need to allow some dramatic license though).

Can't win 'em all I suppose.

It's not so much a review as a parody though - from what I read it didn't look like you needed to go and see the film afterwards

He might have included a few exaggerations for comedy effect, yes

Cowboys and Aliens.

Well, it did what it said on the tin, it's Independence Day meets High Noon with a dash of John Wayne. The title was wrong though - it should have been Cowboys and Indians versus Aliens.

Pluses: the bonus of having Daniel Craig in every scene, a hunking great load of Harrison Ford and a small-ish dose of Sam Rockwell. So I'll give it 10/10, just for the ride.

Watched the remake of True Grit last night and loved it. Great cast helped me all but forget the original bar a few key scenes.

Hailee Steinfeld as the young girl Mattie Ross was superb.

Another Coen Brothers success.

Me and a mate made our own double bill today. First film was the Inbetweeners film which was surprisingly good and quite true to the feel of the series.

The other film was The Guard and quite simply go and see this film. You will not see a funnier film this year. Brenden Gleeson plays a member of the Gardai in Galway and also has Don Cheedle as an American FBI agent working on a case. Very funny, very warm, very well done. Go and see it.

Well, there was no way that Mrs P and I were ever likely to agree about whether we should see One Day or The Inbetweeners. We went together and both saw different films.

She enjoyed One Day, but although I nodded, smiled and made all of the right noised, it sounded really dull to me.

I enjoyed The In-betweeners, and although she nodded, smiled and made all of the right noises, she clearly didn't understand how funny The In-betweeners was.

PP

Watched "Rise of..."

'mon the monkeys!

Conan.

Highly enjoyable mix of gore, nudity and non-intellectual story-telling. There are no attempts to be clever or hip or provide some kind of social comment, just a good old-fashioned brainless action-fantasy in which attractive people don't wear many clothes.

Better than the original?


(Not a stringent test of quality I appreciate )

The day the earth caught fire 1961 black and white. Just got the dvd a very good film.

Very much so. It's (I am told) a more faithful recreation of the original stories.

Watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes - good enough but there was a lot of zombie film logic on display. Great CGI and decent performances by James Franco and Andy Serkis.