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Last Film You Watched

Bernie.

Based on a true story of an assistant funeral director who murders his wealthy companion but they have to move the trial 50 miles away because he's so well liked in the town no one would find him guilty.

Jack Black is as good as always when he's not being an idiot. Bit slow paced but a decent watch.
 
Les Miserables.

Hard to judge because I've seen the stage version three times and absolutely love it.... some of the characters were cast brilliantly in the movie - in fact, virtually all the supporting cast were very, very good. However, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe were not. Neither quite have the voices needed and Crowe in particular failed to convey any emotion. I also thought the film suffered from proceeding at far too rapid a pace. However, I'm saying all this in direct comparison to the stage version so perhaps that's unfair.

Sacha Baron Cohen was brilliant as Thenardier, Eddie Redmayne was surprisingly good as Marius, Anne Hathaway's Fantine was very, very impressive and Samantha Barks as Eponine was simply perfect (she has played the same role in the stage version). I'm glad I went to see it, but I prefer the stage version.
 

SlimyPete said:
Watched Looper over the weekend. Fairly decent, not something I'd buy but still worth a watch.

edit: Oh just remembered the one thing that bothered me about the film. So the fella from 3rd rock and inception is playing a young Bruce Willis and instead of just letting you get in to the film and believe that fact they tried to alter his face to have similar looks to Willis. It took me out of the story a few times because it just seemed so odd.
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I thought that was quite excellent, and they did look like each other. Theres a few scenes where he mimics Willis perfectly. The Music made that film good.

The Hobbit - After a slow start, with Freeman not really stepping into Ian McKellans shoes properly, it was a really good film. Much better than I've been led to believe. I liked the extra Wizards and the Goblin King stuff. And that shot of the Necromancer down that passage was brilliant.

Dead Europe - Okay so when you watching this and realise this is a Gritty Gay Sex Drama rather than a Zombie movie, you'll know what to do. Not watch it anymore.

The Dead Pool - Classic Harry, but well dated. So 80's it's almost 70's.

The Apparition - Terrible Film. Awful. Don't bother. Fails on every level possible.

The Artist - Finally sat down and got to watch, and I may be biased here but i absolutely loved it. I'm now in love with Berenice Bejo and want to be Jean Dujardin. Absolutely Quality film, if you can do the silent thing.

Really good article here on why Django is Tarantinos worst film ever.

OK, let's get this over and done with. I'm going to talk about Django Unchained, the new Quentin Tarantino movie out in cinemas on Thursday and I'm going to use the 'N' word. Oh yes I am, and you can't stop me. Nonsensical.
There, I've said it. Read it and weep, fan-boys; this is a film with more holes in it than a crocheted bikini. Does Tarantino not have anyone around him who can say, without fear or favour: ''I'm sorry Quent, but that's a load of rubbish?''
Perhaps the absence of Tarantino at this week's red carpet premiere in Sydney was a blessing in disguise. Because someone, surely, would have had to have asked him, in the post-show Q&A, ''when was the last time you heard the word 'no'?''


Overlong, overcooked and underdone (not an easy thing to do), this is not up there with Tarantino's best. That it's being considered for a best film Oscar beggars belief. Even Jackie Brown made more sense than this unoriginal mishmash of cliches and non-sequiturs.


It's probably too late. Someone should have stepped in on the set of Inglourious Basterds and told him that the ridiculous denouement in the theatre belonged to another, not very good, film.
But perhaps there comes a point in every auteur's success story when those voices are either silenced, or silence themselves. It's why rock bands can get away with demanding only green Smarties in their dressing rooms.


As any journalist/writer worth their salt knows, everyone benefits from a good editor. But try telling that to Neil Gaiman, whose wonderfully inventive 2001 book American Gods was re-issued as a 10th anniversary special with 12,000 extra words. The original paperback came in at a massive 501 large format pages.
The 12,000 extra words are called ''the author's preferred text'', also known as all the stuff the editors wouldn't let the author put in the first time around.
Stephen King, too, has gone down the reissue road with his book The Stand. His ''director's cut'' turned an 800-pager into 1100 pages. Again, to no great advantage.
Of course, King's publishers could print the man's shopping list and it would sell its socks off so why even bother editing anything he does?
Well, perhaps to prevent the debacles of his last two books, Under The Dome and 11/22/63, his J.F.K. assassination time travel romp. In both of them, King gradually paints himself into a plot-line corner and has to resort to utterly unlikely and unsatisfactory endings.
These otherwise excellent books could have done with a brave, experienced editor writing ''B -, could do better'' in the margin.
That same editor could have been redeployed to work on A Dance With Dragons, the latest 1000-page instalment in George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones franchise. A great, sprawling breezeblock of a thing that would choke a sperm whale, it cried out for a firm hand from someone who could perhaps have said: ''George, seeing as it's called A Dance With Dragons - maybe fewer feasts and a tad more dragon?''
As it is, even rusted-on Game of Thrones readers have come away disappointed. As one online review site, The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, put it: ''For a thousand or so pages almost nothing happens and then we get a bunch of cliffhangers. The End.''
Are these hugely successful creative writers victims of their own success? Can they just disregard editors, or have editors become mere pipelines to the public? As the League of Ordinary Gentleman site added: ''I just can't imagine reading a manuscript of this book and thinking 'This is good. This is ready for publication.'''
Tarantino is reported to have said he would like to release a director's cut of his spaghetti western that is five hours long. Good, then we might find out some more about Django's wife Broomhilda, who seems to have been dropped into the plot from a circling spaceship (maybe King helped out there); and maybe it will solve the mystery of Zoe Bell and her bizarre eyeballs-only appearance. It certainly had better explain the stupid dancing horse, that's for sure.
All of which should have been picked up and corrected before we crammed into the State Theatre to watch Tarantino strained through Tarantino.
*This story has been brought to you by me, followed by my partner, the opinion page editor, a subeditor and, with any luck, a final proofread. And it's all the better for it; the first draft read like a Tarantino movie.
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Gave Prometheus a bash tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. It did seem like it had the same structure as Alien still bloody brilliant. Also talk of a sequel being in the works. Aslong as the fit bird playing lead is back in it, im game.
 


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