What have you watched recently?

Just listed these on that Letterboxd site but I've been putting off going through them here as I've been watching a lot of junk. Seeing them ordered there by poster art is worse.

The Golden Compass - Can't remember it to be honest and haven't read His Dark Materials for comparison. Recall thinking the CGI was nicely done. Apparently New Line recut the film and the intended ending is missing?

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - "...but there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name." Yeah, it's 'Liam Neeson'.

Taken - Okay action movie but it's far too easy to mock it for its flaws. Half expected the horse to show up at the airport as support and events just happen to play into Aslan's hands. Good thing the right guy spoke and he didn't arrive too late, huh?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 - Meh. Lost interest in the books after the fifth one, thought the sixth movie was decent. Movie 7.1 is a glorified hike just like the novel.

The Slanted Screen - Not really a movie but I'm counting it. Hour long documentary about the portrayal of Asian men in American film/TV. Liked it. Could have done with more visual examples rather than just stating it though. The so-called tribute to Mako in the DVD extras is just some of his interview that didn't make it into the finished documentary.

Captain America: The First Avenger - Liked it a lot. Good fun. Some CGI I found unncessary (could have done without the digital shrinking of Evans' height, just take away his muscles), Hugo Weaving's German accent is questionable and I think the film would have been better off without the opening . Star Spangled Man is easily my favourite part of the film though it got tainted somewhat when, about an hour later, someone in my Twitter feed posted the rape figures in the US military.

Gulliver's Travels - Terrible affront to cinema that's beneath even Jack Black to have agreed to it. The most disappointing thing about the movie was seeing WETA in the credits for the incredibly fake CGI that's only two years old at this point. Movie gets the honour of being the third worst film I've ever seen. What's annoying is getting another film I can rank on that scale so soon after THC.

The Illusionist (2010) - Good watch. Nice animation and I particularly enjoyed the rabbit. Rather odd that it's been said Jacques Tati wrote the story to reconcile with his estranged daughter when her equivalent in the film seems so selfish. The moral of the story is to go into the back end of Scotland to be successful. Just like in...

The Eagle - Roman-American Channing Tatum ventures into Scotland with Jamie Bell to retrieve the aquila of the Ninth Legion and regain family honour lost by his father. Film was alright but I'm not sure what the point of the whole thing was in the end. Seemed to have mixed messages. Nice to see Alan Moore leading a tribe of Celts into battle though.

Little Fockers - Next.

Tales from Earthsea - Made by the wrong Miyazaki. Good to look at but it's oddly flippant about death in some ways. To the point where I didn't realise the protagonist had killed his father. Thought he'd winded him to swipe his sword (of course, that could have been obvious to everyone but me ). Plus a lot of establishing the fantasy world which ultimately didn't matter in the end.

Green Lantern: First Flight - Merge this with the live-action movie and that should have been the film the cinema got.

Stargate: Continuum - I like Stargate and I like time travel stories so it works for me. After getting past my dislike of the Stargate being used for time travel...

The Muppets - The Muppets get their groove back. It's not perfect (to my ear, Frank Oz is sorely missed when it comes to Miss Piggy's singing) but at least for now the franchise redeems itself from the like of Muppets in Space. Funnily enough they don't mention that "people forgot" about them because of that stuff.

District 9 - Not sure what to think of it, really. I don't dislike it at least. First half is not-too-subtle mockumentary (and yet I still read people calling the aliens by their derogatory names) then it becomes an action film. Not particularly interested in a District 10 should it come along.

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Just went to se 21 Jump street.......good for a laugh if you don't want to use too many brain cells working out a plot line.

Watched "TT3D: Closer To The Edge" this morning.

The Isle Of Man TT Races are familiar to motorsport fans around the world as the Holy Grail of roadracing, an astonishing course set over, in, through and around 37 and a bit miles of the Isle Of Man's countryside, mountains, towns, villages and 'road furniture'. Riders blast through narrow country lanes with stone walls, lamp-posts, kerbs...at speeds approaching 200mph.

To some people in this risk-averse age, the obvious question is "Why do these men (and the odd woman) risk their lives?". The majority of the non-racing scenes in the film give the riders point of view on this; it will not spoil anything to say that the consensus is that riding is a thrill like no other; riding at the extreme is something else beyond that. The passion for the race is all-consuming.

When considering the risks these riders take, it is worth bearing in mind that for many of the riders (and their crews) this is not a full time job. They are not millionaires like formula 1 drivers. While other people get a look in, the focus and star of the show here is Guy Martin, the part-time lorry mechanic, part-time superbike racer, full-time charismatic rebel who has the talent, drive and popular support of a great champion but has never won a TT. Will he do it this year ? Those who follow the sport know the answer, those who don't will be willing him on during the film's race scenes.

I would recommend this without hesitation to anyone who is into motorsport, anyone who wants to understand why other people are into it, and most strongly I would recommend it to anyone who has the slightest interest in learning about other people, what makes them tick, and what you can learn from them.

Dark House (2009)
I was expecting something like Thir13en Ghosts (2001) , Which I really like.

This movie start of with 3 girl going pass a house and they start talking about the haunted house, one of the girls goes into the house. She see dead bodies (No She dose not leave) Yet she carries on further into the house, where more dead bodies, yes she still stay in the house, then she a mother who killing her self and stay's and watch and she get scared and faints., Then movie fast forward something years later, the girl as woken up from a bad dream.

After really Unbeliever start of the movie we have sit thought 20 minutes of very annoying and abysmal acting from the whole cast.

The Ghost in this movie was really disappointing, I did not find any of them scary at all.

I love each second of Death scenes, no, that they were great or anything as I was happy they were being Killed off. As I hated everyone in this movie.

From first kill scenes, which after the 35mins of rubbish, it get a bit fun for next 20 Mins and bit gory scenes at time,. I should have just fast forward the first 35 mins of the movie.

The ending did not make no sense what so ever, you will need ignore what you saw at the start of movie.

This like really bad version of The House on Haunted Hill Meets Thir13en Ghosts (Remakes) put into one big MESS!

3 out of 10

The Task (2011)
I was excepting this movie to be really poor.

I found the start a little odd, people are being kidnapped, only to be told they going to be spending the day in abandoned prison.

They did not seem to care that were kidnapped expect for one of them, who soon leaves.

I found move really entertaining and did not find it boring at all, nothing much really happens and people in this movie did not annoy me at all.

There also had just hint of descent atmosphere, if they tried a little hard, it could have made this movie creepy.

As this movie was not scary or creepy and it wasn't even that bloody, yet I still enjoyed it!

I was shocked with that twist, , I had no idea that would happen, I think it worked really well with the rest of the movie. after that twist. it's easy to predict what happens for rest of the movie.

I going to give this movie 5 out of 10 descent horror movie

Terminator: Salvation on TV. Seriously flawed, I thought. The storyline was conventional to a fault - after an interesting start it turned into another "storm the fortress" tale, complete with archetypes from Central Casting. Square-jawed heroes in long coats? Check. Feisty female fighter pilot / love interest? Check. Hard-boiled General with no soul, happy to sacrifice civilians, but who gets what's coming to him? Check. Photogenic kid with big eyes, straight off the set of a Mad Max or The Matrix instalment? Check.

Some vague Holocaust references (not really explained) - was that really what was going on? They assumed the worst, but I don't remember seeing any explanations.

Plot hole: what happened to all those civilians that were released from Skynet? They didn't have that much time to get clear before Connor detonated the nuclear charges. Collateral damage?