Cronos

Posted on March 26, 2012 by thedogspollocks

Pretty Good but, of the Guillermo del Toro films I’ve seen, go watch Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth and even the Hellboy films before you bother with this.

Also, the box cover is misleading, there are no fit women in this film.

Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within

Posted on March 26, 2012 by thedogspollocks

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Eithne woke me up on Saturday morning, barging into my room to borrow some films. We went through the DVDs and this turned out to be one of the few, age appropriate ones, that she hasn’t already seen. So we watched it.

When I first watched this film when I was 18 I guess, I think I was still riding a high from Final Fantasy VII and was so impressed with the computer generated visuals that I might have missed some of the faults with this film.

I like the story and really like the ending, the visuals were and still are outstanding but the CG characters do really suffer from uncanny valley, and some of the dialogue is just crap. Distractions that really spoil a film more now than they did when I was 18.

TT3D: Closer to the Edge

Posted on March 24, 2012 by thedogspollocks

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This film does for road racing what When We Were Kings did for boxing, for me at least. Two sports I have just the slightest of passing interests in. Where by a least the 60 minute mark, I’m engrossed, teetering on an emotional tight-rope with every punch or wheel-spin, expecting disaster, wishing triumph.

Its exciting, gripping, amusing and emotional and at times brutal. To paraphrase and probably belittle something mentioned in the film.. If this doesn’t excite you then you must be dead.

Super

Posted on March 22, 2012 by thedogspollocks

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Should have been called ‘Mediocre’

bam.

Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors

Posted on March 22, 2012 by thedogspollocks

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Hawk and a Hacksaw played accompanying music to this film at the ATP gig earlier this month, so I suppose I should add this to my film reviews. Although it should be stated that I could only see the subtitles farthest to the right of the screen and my understanding of Ukrainian isn’t the best. Especially when I spent the film thinking their speaking Czech.

Sooo. Don’t really know what film was getting at, but the music was good, and I imagine if you were looking for something spiritually or philosophically marvelous, you are probably the kind of person who can do the mental gymnastics to convince yourself that it’s here, in this film.

6 Stars for the film. 10 for Hawk and a Hacksaw.

Swing and a miss

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It really is the little things in life, and there’s not much better than finding a mangled misshapen savoury snack. That has got to be the Elephant Man of Hula Hoops.