A raucous good show, particularly impressed with the two support bands. Both brought there own styles to the party, although By Any Means did seem the more confident and assured, perhaps benefiting from home advantage.
I was a little bit worse for wares the last time I caught Orange Goblin, but they did leave an impression and this performance left me plenty satisfied I went, even if it was on my todd, which is nothing new, to be fair.
Mightily impressed. While you can say films have come on a long way from the 1920′s at the same time you have to say they haven’t really.
Mittler zwischen Hirn
und Händen muss
das Herz sein!
Proof for Michael Bay that if you want to make a genuinely thrilling sci-fi you don’t need tonnes of robots in disguise.
Just one.
Purdy good really.
Was worried about watching this, mainly because I’m a little bit precious about Battle Royale. I didn’t want to see a sneaky rip off stealing all its glory. While there are some glaring similarities and I wouldn’t have been surprised to hear Beat Kitano announce coordinates over the tannoy, It does, very much, have its own merits and direction.
In my perfect world this wouldn’t be a 12a and there would be more time invested in some of the other competitors but that would probably just be me pushing it closer to BR. Also I would have killed off Lenny Kravitz in his first scene and given Donald Sutherland a bigger part.
Now, does anyone want to tell me what happens in the next two parts?
That was actually bloody terrifying by end of it.
Reminded me very much of another film that I won’t mention because it might spoil for anyone going to watch it, but feel free to guess, if you have.
Funniest film I’ve seen this year, so far. Go watch it now!
Garda McBride: I’m on it sarge.
Sergeant Boyle: “I’m on it Sarge.” He thinks he’s in fuckin’ Detroit.
Also look out for Tom ‘I shot JR’ from Father Ted.
Love it. Very cool. Well put together.
There’s a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don’t need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes and I’m yours. No matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that and you’re on your own. Do you understand?
Succeeds, I guess where a reboot really has to, and leaves me wanting more. So probably time to go watch the original series of films.
Don’t think James Franco is a particularly good actor tho, in fact I would suggest that the computer generated monkeys show more emotion… sorry, apes!
Bit weird watching some of this, there are a tonne of visuals, sets, characters and even sounds that either through similarities, loving references or blatant ripping off by other films, I’ve witnessed lots of them before somewhere. Wall-E, Blade Runner, Castles In the Sky, Moon, Sunshine…
That distraction aside, cracking film. Even If some of the musical interludes made me laugh. Joan Baez in space, in the future.
Freeman Lowell: You know when I was a kid, I put a note into a bottle and it had my name and address on it. And then I threw the bottle into the ocean. And I never knew if anybody ever found it.
The highlight of this is the frightening preacher and the subsequent terrific acting performance by Michael Parks. Apart from that it never really goes beyond the mediocre.
Brooks: How much do you think a cross like that costs?
Keenan: Do you mean in dollars or common sense?
And its always good to see Dan Connor / Walter Sobchak in anything.
Feels very much like this is a film for kids under 12 despite being a 12 rated film, whatever that maters.
Lots of references to other films and feels especially like its trying to do a new Goonies or just an homage to Spielberg.
I’m on the fence with JJ Abrams, I still don’t think hes the real deal.
