Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

As a fan of the cartoon series I was really excited to see this film. I missed it in the cinemas for whatever reason and so I manage to catch it on sky.
I was super disappointed by it- I just found it a massive let down. The plot was so boring and nothing particularly convinced me. I remember loving the cartoon series and thinking that there was so much to offer but this film just became another X-men 3 type film... a waste of time, effort and money.

You know that feeling you got with Spider-man? It was like that. I want to watch it again and just be able to watch it as a random film instead of a TMNT film having loved the cartoons. Sometimes it's hard to not just compare with the others that you have seen and I think that I did that this time around so I would like to see it again and write a better post about it.

I was sorta impressed with Megan Fox... in a weird way. I wasn't particularly convinced by her but i didn't hate her half as much as I have done in other things and that made me happier.

The Lady in the van

When it has Maggie Smith in it, it has to be worth watching. She never disappoints either.

I do love a film in which you kinda have to work out what had happened before the end- like with Poirot but this wasn't meant to be a detective film. The film itself just flowed really nicely with the plot unraveling as the film went by in a somewhat carefree manner. The advantage that this film had was that it really didn't have a huge cast and so the smaller characters were being played by well known people like James Corden.

This film was thoroughly entertaining. I laughed throughout. I was slightly expecting a keeping mum like film and although it wasn't quite like that and perhaps not as funny it was still great. I admire this woman so much because she has spent the last x amount of years filming downton abbey and in the meantime making fabulous films such as The Quartet and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. From the way that she was playing the piano in the film it is clear that she could really play the piano but where she got the time to practice in between filming all the films and series that she has been a part of I have absolutely no idea.

I salute this woman and have enjoyed every role that she has ever taken on. This woman should be given an award for achieving everything that she has achieved in her career. It is extraordinary and something that every actor should aspire to imitate.

Light humor and very easy going. Easy to watch and the kind of film that makes you come out of the cinema with a grin on your face knowing that you just had a very pleasant and enjoyable afternoon watching one of the greats at her best.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Hey all, I know that things are kinda going slowly on the blog but i don't have many films left to watch and I don't want to end it with like a month of nothing so i'm taking my time about posting. There should be two other posts following this, one in mid week and the other next weekend.

So I've been working my way through and I've come to the latest Jack Ryan film. For those of you that know a thing or two about it then you will know that this is kinda a latest addition to the character that was made so famous by Alec Baldwin. It's more of a reboot of the franchise and very different from all the other films.

Starring Chris Pine and Keira Knightley. I am not Chris Pine's biggest fan. Seeing him in Star Trek was great, i thought that he could act after i had seen those films but after seeing a few others such as Into the Woods and a few other things I realised that he couldn't act, he just used his eyebrows and looks to pretend that he could act.
I felt that he was different in this film. I was happier with his performance, it was almost worthy of high praise and certainly worthy of praise. Next to him was Keira Knightley who was surprisingly good, so good that i almost couldn't tell that it was her. I normally think that she can't act and is fairly rubbish but she was really good in this film. I think that when she isn't playing someone that every man is after then she gets to showcase some talent. She has come a long way in this film.

There were some great scenes and I think that what i liked the best was that the fight scenes weren't overdone and weren't too long. I didn't feel like he was taking too much damage for it to be real and i didn't feel like he was being completely overpowered. Everything about it was fairly solid and I'm kinda glad that they made the film in the way that they did.

300: Rise of an Empire

Where to start?

Everyone told me that this film wasn't very good. Compared to the first one it was absolutely shocking. They were correct. There was eight years between these films and it really showed. People have forgotten 300, it is one of those films that we all remember and yell SPARTA but hardly every sit down and watch it- it wasn't particularly 'classic' or funny or even moving like Gladiator but Gerard Butler made it something better than it otherwise would have been.

I found everything about it boring. I expected more from this film and it failed to deliver. Gerard Butler was a huge presence and with the lack of his character they needed someone to step up and create another character like that who would drag the film along and set the standards.
Lena Headey was impressive. Since first seeing her in 300 she has just continued to amaze me with her different characters in St. Trinian's and Dredd. I know that she has been in both 300 films but she was kinda a supporting role in the first film cos we were all watching it for Gerard Butler. She was allowed to rise as her own star this time around and over the years she has just got better and better.

The only thing that I will say for this film is that the lack of Butler gave room for the female characters to show us a little of what they can do. Feminists would be slightly happier with the characters in this film and the roles that the women got to take on. Strong characters that didn't need a man to protect them and this would make a lot of women in the world very happy.

Lost in Translation.

Had a copy of this film in my house for years and never watched it.

It's a little weird, kinda like... what's the point? It doesn't come across as a pointless film. I didn't sit there going WTF? But I still had to think back at the end and go... well okay, it's over, what was the actual point of that film?

Scarlet Johansson does not look good with pink hair.

The whole point of it is that going to a different country and not speaking the language makes everything difficult but I personally don't feel that that idea is enough to make a film on.
I liked Bill Murray in Ghostbusters and that really was his breaking moment, nothing he has done since then has been as good and he just doesn't have it. I don't know what it is that he doesn't have exactly, I don't get the same feeling about him as i do about Pierce Brosnan or Johnny Depp if they were to play his part in this film. The lonely older man takes a certain quality to produce and he just doesn't have it.

The scenery is wonderful but location isn't enough to make it a good film. I would suggest that it isn't something that you must see. It is not likely to impact your life in one way or another by watching this film so don't bother wasting the time.