Sequels
Monday, June 11th, 2007Spiderman 3 — sucks arse! What are the odds of a meteorite carrying some sort of sticky black xenomorph crashing right next to Toby MacGuire in the same week a surprisingly buff Thomas Haden Church stumbles into an open air particle experiment?
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End — also sucks arse! But visually splendid so I would at least deem it watchable. Seeing Keith Richards as Johnny Depp’s dad is almost worth the price of admission (ok no it’s not, but they do look good together).
28 Weeks Later — This was surprisingly good and largely in keeping with the style of the original, even though it’s from a very different perspective (the US military forces and even to a degree that of the "infected"). What was disappointing was that there is no middle act; it just kind of begins and then ends… They go from "everything’s fine" to "code red" in just one scene, where instead we could have had a gradual (excruciating) breakdown of containment.
June 12th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Frittered away two hours yesterday watching POTC:AWE (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End). 60% kids in audience, who I’m sure couldn’t possibly have followed what the hell was going on, unless they’d been studying their crib notes for POTC:COTBP and POTC:DMC beforehand. Really liked the first one, and the second had me starting to wane. Not sure if this movie was bad per se, or it’s just that it’s difficult to genuinely care about pirates for this long. Drove me to purchase shortly afterwards a two-disc package of Network and Broadcast News that was on special in K-Mart.
June 12th, 2007 at 3:19 am
Re Spiderman 3 - you have of course factored in the odds of a man bitten by a spider and subsequently turning into a Spider/Man chimera in the first place? ;-)