09 December 2009
The Box
Wow, so I’m finding The Box a difficult movie to really know how/what I feel about it. I left the cinema slightly bemused as to what I had just seen, had the previous 2 hours been a complete waste of time or was it genius….
As I sit here the morning after the night before trying to write some kind of review I’m still in the same position.
The Box follows a relative normal family who are visited one day by a mysterious man who brings them a box with a button in it They are told if they push the button two things will happen 1. Someone they don’t know in the world will die, 2. They will get 1 million dollars…
So there are some really interest moral dilemmas to discuss in that situation and to be honest that should have been the movie right there, but it’s not. The decision is made far too early on in the plot and what then unfolds is a story that twists and turns but with out any particular focus or direction (trying not to give too much away!). The Box is an odd and confusing movie which is why I’m
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I’m not going to mess around and sugar coat this review. Planet 51 could have been a pretty funny movie but it just isn’t and I’ll tell you why…
An astronaut goes to a new planet and finds it inhabited by ‘aliens’ but how about we view it from the ‘aliens’ point of view, i.e. flipping it on it’s head so the human’s are the aliens, seems a pretty good idea. I can imagine some one pitching that idea to me for a movie and I would think ‘I can see where the comedy would be in that situation’…I wish the film makers for Planet 51 could have only realized that.’ because that’s the set up for the movie.
What they’ve done though is produced a movie that is so busy trying to poke fun at other movies it ends up missing the fun in itself. There are a lot of references to the 50s era and sci-fi movies including the standard E.T. reference – how many times has that been done, it was funny the first few times but it’s now old and boring. That one reference sums up the whole movie for me, there are some funny moments
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So it’s been ages since I wrote a post about eyes when I said I would do it regularly, I’m such a bad blogger! I thought I would continue my basic introduction to eye conditions, so after my basic guide to what a cataract is I’ll try and give you the basics of Glaucoma.
Glaucoma is quite a big topic and it can give complicated very quickly. There are a quite a few different forms of the condition, but in simple terms Glaucoma is damage to the optic nerve head (this is the the point at which the connect between the eye and brain joins the eye). The damage is usual caused by raised pressure within the eye (which is not the same as raised blood pressure). If you think of the eye like a football (bear with me), if you pump a football up too much then the pressure causes the stitching to be put under tension, instead of the the stitching (which your eye doesn’t have!!) in the eye the tension is put on the optic nerve head and if this happens for a long time it causes damage.
The pressure in the eye is controlled by a
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I quite liked the idea of Law abiding Citizen and to be honest the trailer didn’t look too bad but I just had a niggling doubt before I went to see it that perhaps it wouldn’t be that great, perhaps the effect of ‘Gamer’ is still with me. If Gerard Butler thought making that movie was a good idea I will have doubts about any movie he ever makes.
The basic plot of Law abiding Citizen is that an ordinary man’s family are killed and he sees it all happen so knows who and what exactly happened. Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) the ‘ordinary bloke’ in question feels let down by the justice system due to bargaining with one of the accused, he feels justice isn’t served and that the outcome was more about keeping good statistics than about trying to get justice. This is a good comment on modern society who seemed to be obsessed with stats in all walks of life e.g. how quickly are you seen at hospital, what’s the pass mark of an exams, etc. So may be it’s actually an action movie that also has something worthy to comment about.
I think underneath all the killing
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02 December 2009
2012
2012 is an action movie with an apocalyptic theme. My very short review will contain a spoiler or two I don’t particularly like to talk to much about the plots of movies when I write reviews but it’s very hard to talk about the movie without talking about it’s content altogether. I can assure you it won’t effect your ‘enjoyment’ of the movie, I’m sure I won’t give away anything you don’t work out as the movie unfolds or as the case may be you’ve already worked it out before seeing it (it’s so obvious!)
It gets 5 stars (out of 10) from me purely because even though it has a stupidly and unnecessarily long run time for this kind of movie I was surprisingly not bored so I suppose I must have been entertained. As for the story itself (I’m fully aware that a plot isn’t supposed to be the point of this kind of movie but I still think it needs one!), well it’s absolute rubbish. It has no depth to it at all, it’s just an excuse for the action. Why am I supposed to care about a load of rich people who can afford to be
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