More than a day in the air gives you plenty of time to watch movies, unfortunately there don’t always have a great selection to choose from. Here are some of those I saw.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
A bit of modern boys-own macho fun with all the elements covered – robots, shiny cars, sexy girls, explosions, more robots.
‘With the help of the Autobots, Sam and Mikaela must uncover the secret history of the Transformers presence on earth as they prepare for the return of an ancient Decepticon’.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
I haven’t seen the original, but this seemed to be quite well conceived and was certainly well executed. The story was gripping and the main characters were very well played.
‘A New York subway dispatcher has his day thrown into chaos when a subway train is hijacked by a criminal mastermind who intends to kill passengers unless he receives a large ransom.’
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
More madcap adventures with those lovable prehistoric characters.
‘When Sid the Sloth gets into trouble after creating a makeshift family from hijacked dinosaur eggs, the rest of the Ice Age gang attempts to rescue him from a mysterious underground world.’
The Hangover
A fascinatingly disturbing movie with a potential cautionary tale about the dangers of alcohol and drugs that all seems to be ignored with the unsatisfying ending.
‘Doug and his friends head to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. However, the next morning his friends soon realise Doug is missing and that they have no recollection of the previous evening.’
Safari
A mad French comedy that relies on slapstick humour and very little plot.
‘When a tour organiser loses at poker to a feared mob, he is blackmailed into allowing an extra tourist to join his upcoming safari, and must ensure the safe delivery of a locked briefcase.’
EX
A soppy chick flick with a very saccharine aftertaste to it.
‘EX looks at a series of intertwined episodes that revolve around matters arising from the end of a love affair.’
Fermat's Room
This French film I liked very much for its outrageous concept and intellectual conceits.
‘Four mathematicians invited to solve a great enigma at an abandoned house discover they are in a shrinking room that will crush them to death if they do not discover what connects them.’
On a return journey from one side of the world to another there was plenty of opportunity for watching films and there were quite a few more that we saw that we have ignored either intentionally or by accident.
In addition to this we went out as a family and saw a new release at the cinema.
Surrogates
We saw this in NZ on the day it was released and being a Sci-Fi nut I enjoyed it very much. Sue was quite disturbed by the initial appearance of Bruce Willis’s surrogate. The world is well realised and the supporting websites are fun to trawl through.
And recently we saw at Dorking
2012
This is a bonkers movie so full of CGI effects that I guess it could have been made in a film lot just about anywhere. The effects are so wild that they lose all credibility and in doing so lose any impact too. Even so there is a certain satisfaction in watching wholesale destruction (primarily of America) knowing it is all fake – and as it takes a while to destroy the earth it is probably a large tub of pop-corn sort of movie.
And at Guildford
Men Who Stare at Goats
This was a mad and not all that well thought out story that suffered from a lack of direction. Even the all star cast could not lift the film above the mundane. The title refers to several experiments that the US and Soviet military were supposed to have been working on (though I understood these were back in the cold war days) to try and determine if it could be possible to use extrasensory powers to tactical advantage.
Rather than just explore the historical farce that surrounded these experiments in a historical context, the film makers tried to update it and make a political point – I think they missed the target.
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