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^^ That was a very visually stunning film with fantastic use of colours.

Public Enemies on DVD. With Johnny Depp and Christian Bale I was expecting great things but it felt like a long film that lost my interest at times. So many characters and guns firing and at times it was slightly confusing. Not a very smooth running film either and was a bit disjointed. Not one I would watch if it was on TV. Bit dissapointed really.

funkidiva wrote: Public Enemies on DVD. With Johnny Depp and Christian Bale I was expecting great things but it felt like a long film that lost my interest at times. So many characters and guns firing and at times it was slightly confusing. Not a very smooth running film either and was a bit disjointed. Not one I would watch if it was on TV. Bit dissapointed really.

I liked that one rather well but it's definitely not Michael Mann's best. I was actually disappointed most by Depp and Bale; however, I thought the supporting cast was very good.

When a movie is titled Zombieland, you can probably guess that you're not going to be watching high art. Fortunately, Ruben Fleischer's first feature is full of zest and energy that recalls Robert Rodriguez's early films, as well as plenty of snappy dialogue. In a post-apocalyptic America, a handful of survivors try to survive a landscape full of, you guessed it, zombies. Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has never felt himself to have a real family. He has a chance when he meets tough loner Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) and they run into two sisters, Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin). Matters move towards a slam-bang climax at an amusement park, but not before a detour to Bill Murray's house. All four leads get into the spirit, and there are nice cameos from Murray (as himself) and Amber Heard. I enjoyed this one.

I recently watched Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which is directed by Christopher Columbus. I was really disappointed with the movie. It did not follow the book, in fact the last second half is completely changed. The script focused on the unimportant parts of the book. The actors who played Percy, Annabeth, and Grover were ok, but didn't match with the characters in the book-they were much older and not as funny.

Tonight I watched Get Shorty, based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same title. It's a very entertaining crime comedy. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a loan shark who is bitten by the movie bug when he travels to Los Angeles, and decides to change careers and get into producing. Karen Flores (Rene Russo) is the Z-movie actress who he hooks up with, while the cast is filled with excellent turns by a number of top character actors--Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, Dennis Farina, and especially James Gandolfini. Travolta, continuing the mid-90s career revival that began with Pulp Fiction, was a Golden Globe winner for his excellent lead performance.

Avatar The Last Airbender. Jackson Rathbone did a fantastic job playing the part of his character. Its as good as watching Eclipse...

Eclipse

dazzel21 wrote:Avatar The Last Airbender. Jackson Rathbone did a fantastic job playing the part of his character. Its as good as watching Eclipse...

I loved that movie but i didn't like Jackson so much I don't know...he just wasn't really into the charecter.

The Crimson Pirate doesn't quite match up to the best Errol Flynn swashbucklers, but it's a very pleasant film to watch, thanks largely to Burt Lancaster. Captain Vallo (Lancaster) leads a pirate crew in the Caribbean, who find themselves caught up in a rebellion of the locals against an oppressive royal governor. The plot is a little wobbly, and the opposition, Baron Gruda (Leslie Bradley), is sometimes almost a cartoon villain. But Lancaster had the athleticism and charisma to lift an otherwise routine film to near-excellence, and he does just that here. He is ably assisted by Nick Cravat, his longtime friend and onetime circus acrobat partner. Cravat had a thick Brooklyn accent that he couldn't get rid of, so in period films like this he was always cast as a mute, but he, like Lancaster, was incredibly athletic--watching those two go through their paces is always a treat. Eva Bartok makes a feisty heroine and a young Christopher Lee has a small role. Robert Siodmak, better known for his dark thrillers and film noirs, directs with a light, deft touch.

I'm just home from seeing Salt, which is that rarest of rarities, an action film with 1) a woman as the central character and 2) a reasonably serious tone (comparable to, for example, Daniel Craig's two outings as James Bond). That fact alone gives this one extra points in my book, but it's a fairly well-executed film in general. Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) is a CIA agent who, when the film opens, is assigned to interrogate a Russian defector named Orlov (Daniel Olbrychski). Orlov claims to be there to disclose a Russian program of planting specially trained children as sleeper agents in the US, to be activated years later when they are adults. One of them, he claims, is named Evelyn Salt. From then on, it's pretty close to non-stop action, as Evelyn must evade her own agency while trying to thwart a deadly Russian scheme. Veteran director Phillip Noyce is at home in this territory and keeps the suspense high and the action moving; however, this one works because of Angelina Jolie, who is convincing from start to finish. She's clearly a natural for roles like this; what I'd like to see someday is enough pictures like this being made that actresses besides Angelina Jolie got a crack at a role like this from time to time.

My Darling Clementine would be my "desert island" John Ford film (referring to a film-lovers' game where you pick one film each by your top 10 directors to take to a hypothetical desert island). While it's not his greatest film, it's one of his top 4 or 5, and it's the one I'd least want to be without. Ford was always a conscious mythmaker when directing Westerns, never more so than in this film.

It's one of many movies to tell the story of the famous O.K. Corral gunfight and the Earp-Clanton feud. It is at the same time the least accurate historically, and the best film about those events. One of the biggest changes to history is that in real life, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were good friends before either of them came to Tombstone, AZ. In Ford's film, they meet for the first time in Tombstone, and Earp (Henry Fonda) and Holliday (Victor Mature) are initially antagonistic to each other.

Fonda is a great Wyatt Earp and Mature a solid Doc Holliday. Walter Brennan is a superbly malevolent Old Man Clanton. The other great performance in this movie comes from a little-known actress named Cathy Downs, who gave the performance of her life as the "Clementine" of the title, Doc's erstwhile fiancee who comes to Tombstone and ends up falling in love with Wyatt. Downs outshines the far better-known Linda Darnell. Also in the cast are Ford regulars like Ward Bond, Jane Darwell, and Russell Simpson, and the director's brother Francis Ford gave one of his ever-memorable cameos.

Ive just seen the french film Tell No One and it was better than I expected. When a film has subtitles I am put off by it for some reason, however I am glad I eventually gave this film a go as it has a brilliant story. The poor main man in the film has such a bad few days! Great cast, great plot and it certainly kept our interest whilst watching it. Definately recommend it.