Spidy 3

I have just wasted for what seams like a whole day watching the pathetic film Spider Man 3. I am annoyed at my self that I committed to watching it when I had so many better films I could have watched. I only watched it because as I was flicking channels it came on and started. The story dragged on forever and only came to a tiny climax in the last ten minutes. It was filled with little pockets of story lines that where weak and boring. I couldn’t feel anything for spider man because I didn’t like him. He was selfish and general not a nice person to his girl friend. He was treating her like dirt and living in his own wee bubble so I was quite glad when Harry tried to kill him and make MJ stay away from him. I thought that she would be better off with out him.

Also peter parker is such a whiny geek. I really did not want to hear him complain for over two hours about how hard done by he is and how his life is so hard. Your Spider Man your life should be freaking awesome so stop complaining and just rob a bank and live a life filled with money and woman.

The only park of this dier film that I remotely enjoyed was the fight scenes. I could imagine that they would have looked good in the cinema. However the novelty wares off very quickly. So over all I strongly suggest that stay away from this film and if you must watch a comic book film pick up V for Vendetta or the Dark Knight

Words Words Words

That is all a book is to me. A bunch of words on a a bit of paper. I have never been able to love books as other people have. I have given it loads of attempts but could never find that book that I could not put down. I envy people that can lose themselves in a book. I wish I could share views and thoughts over authors with my family who are all bookworms. I would love to be able to say that I have read all of the classic novels like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway and the works of Shakespeare.


However the only books that I have read outside of school are the Harry Potter books. My dad read me and my brother the first couple of books and I listened to all of the other books on tape up to the last two books. They are the only two books that I have been able to read all the way through. I did thoroughly enjoy these books and if I can only love those books then so be it. I have moves which I can enjoy but if I am forced to into a situation where I must read a book I do not mind if it Harry Potter.

My Christmas Movie

This is harder than I thought it would be. But if I had to pick one film then I think it has got to be Home alone. (the first one)

This film always gets me into the christmas sprit and puts a smile on my face. I have memories of watching this on my sofa wrapped up in a duvet. That is what Christmas is for me. Being warm and cosy in your house as a family.

Das Cabinet des Dr. what's his name.

So Dr Caligari.


What an incredibly strange but intriguing film. I felt very confused at some points but still captivated by the strangeness of the actors themselves but most of all the weird set. I could follow the general plot of the film no problem. Scientist makes monster which kills some people. I think I did miss the undertones of this film. I would never have thought that this film was representation the time when Germany was sleeping in between wars. I could not figure out why the set was as strange. I now know because Andy told us and it does make sense. Maybe I was just taken a back by this weird silent German horror film I could not properly put on my film making glasses and see this film for what it really was.

I am taking the series link off

I have never watched Coronation Street because I never saw the attraction. I did not think that I would be able to relate to what I was watching and that it would overly dramatic but also quite dull. I think that I was kind of right. After watching it I will not become a regular. In order to do that you would have to persevere to be able to care about the people in the show and start getting all the wee references that they make to one another. This would also take a lot of your time. I recorded one episode and put a series link on it and now my planer is filled with them.

However you are able to watch one episode by its self and follow it with no problem at all. The episode I watched was quite clear. Every character that was introduced I could tell a lot about them. I knew what the people around them thought of them and what they were like as a person. If they where a bady or goody and you knew exactly who they where cheating on and how they were feeling about it.

It all sounds exiting, fights, affairs, rape, alcoholics and all sort of terrible secrets just lying under the surface just waiting to explode. What I can't understand is why it wasn't exiting. I was bored when I was watching them. If any one of these things happened in my life it would be huge but watching it happen to a bunch of people I don't care about defuses my feeling dramatically. Maybe if I was a regular I would be screaming at the TV and crying when dreadful things happened to the wives, friends, brothers and all sorts of characters.

One thing I could enjoy and appreciate it the way that it was made. To think that four of these a week are churned out is kind of amazing. The quality of the show its self was good technically. Far better than any episode of river city I have seen. It was also interesting to think that there must still be millions of people that watch this show up and down the county. So many people have loved this show for so long so it must be doing something right. I will not love this show. I will admire it and appreciate it but if I must watch a soap it would have to be Hollyoaks.


This may not be the best Corrie blog in our class but I have the best picture!

Blade Runner

Blade Runner

This was a beautiful film with stunning special effects for its time with massive religious undertones. In this film the main antagonist actually kills god.

The reason I love this film so much is because of they way I watched it. I was able to lose myself one hundred percent in it and take in every small detail that it had to offer. I found my self being captivated by the beauty of the script along with music. After watching this film I now have a favourite line from a movie. When Rutger Hauer is talking to Harrison Ford for the last time I was totally in sync with both of their emotions. I could feel Hauer’s pain and sadness when he said his last words.

“I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain...Time to die.”

I does not sound as good when you read it but when you see it in the film and the music is playing and its raining it makes it so much better. I think that at this point in the film you absolutely sympathise and feel sorry for Hauer even though he has just been trying to kill Ford. You can understand how scared he is and that is why has done what he has. All he wanted to do was to live like a human. He has seen so much beauty and is upset that he will not be able to share it and keep those memories alive in his head.

Tears in the rain 

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

I did not have high expectations for this film because the cover of the box looked quite rubbish. I don’t really know what it was but it just didn’t have a big draw to it. The only reason I bought the film was because Gregory peck was in it, I had just watched To Kill a Mocking Bird and thought he was brilliant.

So this film was about a man who was stuck up a mountain as he has gang green and is slowly dieing. He reminisces over his past loves as he waits to find out if the doctor will come in time. The film starts off slow but does eventually pick up about half way through. I was getting very bored; I didn’t really care about Peck because he was not a nice character. He was snobby and didn’t care about anyone apart from himself. So I couldn’t feel sorry for him when his relationships went down the drain. This went on for about an hour, we just saw him build a relationship and then see it fail. I felt cheated that I had not seen a powerfully acted scene with Peck.

However the flashbacks did start to link to the present day as he got more sick. This made me care more as he was on the brink of death. There was a line that a voice over said at the beginning of the film which made sense about 20 minutes till the end of the film. This was probably the only exiting bit of the whole film.

This film was made in 1952 and it showed. When he got his first pay check he went on a holiday to Africa to hunt Rhinos with his girlfriend. I very much doubt you could do that now with out landing up in jail nowadays. Also the way he treated black people was so racist. He would yell their name if he wanted a drink and just treated them with no respect at all.

Overall I thought this film was all right. There were some good points in it and the occasional laugh. It was also interesting to know what sort of films where being made at the time. But it did not have any wow factor about it so I would not recommend you watch this film.

Dvds

My parents have been pestering me for a while now asking what I want for my Christmas. I can never think of anything apart form films I want so I told my Dad to just go along to missing and get me lots of dvds. I decided to check out what ones I all ready had and try and think of ones I wanted.


I have looked through my dvd collection and found 33 dvds that I have bought and still not watched. I couldn't understand why I had bought these films and just put them on my shelf for display. So I have decided that I will put them to good use. I have not been up to date on blogging so I am going to blog about each of these films. This will make me watch my films I have paid for and also get me better at blogging if I force myself to write something about these film. So be prepared for some serious blogging as I try to get my way through these dvds so I can get more of them for my Christmas.


The blogs to follow will be :


Inglorious Bastards 1977 ish version
Kramer vs Kramer
Defiance
Then There Were Giants
Annie Hall
13 Tasneti
The Wild One
Three Colours Trilogy
28 Days Later
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
All Quite on the Western Front
All About Eve
Gentleman's Agreement
How Green Was My Valley
The Grapes of Wrath
Zorba The Greak
Passport to Pimlico
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Men in the White Suit
The Lady Killers
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Longest Day
Shadow of a Doubt
Topaz
Family Plot
Frenzy
The Trouble with Harry
Marnie
Saboteur
Psycho
The Birds






I have no Idea where to start!