I haven't posted in a little while but I have a very reasonable excuse which is the first part of my title. Hooray, a link to my title!
Yes, I've been to Wales. To Bangor more specifically.
Alice and I left on Monday afternoon at 1pm an embarked on a 7 hour journey to what is the backside of nowhere but is, without the mist, a pretty beautiful place. What with the mountains, beaches and whatnot...
We were greeted at Bangor station, the second to last stop on the line in Wales, by a strong smell of wee. It didn't set the tone for Bangor...luckily.
It was nice to see a part of the UK that I had never seen before all be it a 7 hour stuffy train journey away.
SUCKERPUNCH
During our stay we went to a Cineworld and watched chick-flick trying not to be a chick-flick Suckerpunch. I have some choice words about it. Very choice.
The beginning was clever. Not the camera angles or the acting. I'm going to spoil it I'm afraid.
The opening sequence reveals the background to the whole story. The song used is a cover of Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This by the Eurythmics. Then the main character is admitted to a hospital at the end of the sequence called...wait for it...Lennox House. Get it? DO YOU?! Excellent.
If you don't because you're...slow...then Annie Lennox wrote Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This. Hooray!
Anyway, despite this here is what I thought of this " original film.
Basically it's Moulin Rouge meets Lord of The Rings, Inception, Shutter Island and for a brief period, Call of Duty: World at War's Nazi Zombies...Unfortunately it ruins all of these things.
Despite enough female flesh on show to make any 15 year old stain his boxers it is an ugly film.
The concept is pretty much Inception with a level within a level, or an imagination within an imagination. Partly set it a mental home...Shutter Island. Partly set in a naughty dance club...Moulin Rouge. Cut scenes set in a castle with dragons and ugly manbeats...LOTR's. Another cut scene set in trenches battling the reincarnated Nazi Army...CoD:WaW...
So yeah, it was almost trying too hard. It could easily be a better film if you removed the half naked women (never thought I'd say that) and replaced them with clothed, badass women or even men (in a non-sexist way.) On the surface it's a decent film. The special effects are incredible and there are guns and explosions...so that's always grand. But it almost seems as if it's just using ideas already done, and very well. It's uniqueness is short lived.
So there you have it. I HAVE SPOKEN!!!
As you may well know I am attempting to conquer the top 250 films on IMDB. Film4 is doing an epic film season with the likes of The Godfather and Fight Club which will help me drop the numbers down.
However, I have decided that rather than bore people with what I do, or do not do daily I would dedicate this blog to finishing the top 250. It is much more appealing than when I went to the toilet and what happened when I got there...no one wants to hear that sh*t...get it? Yes, of course you do.
So this will be my final "what I've done" post. The background will change and so will the title...so get ready...
