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Warrior (2011)
Indescribable.
I usually write very long winded, very analytic psychosomatic reviews of films. However, words just don't do this one justice.
Hardy is quite quickly becoming one of the best actors on the planet and if you thought he was good in "Bronson", you ain't seen nothing yet. Nick Nolte delivers an Oscar winning performance that would put most of the Hollywood "Elite" to shame and Edgerton is so brilliant that I forgot I was actually watching a piece of fiction.
Don't download it or watch a poor copy, don't rent it, hell don't even buy the official Blue-Ray. Watch this on the big screen. It will be the best thing you ever do.
How I Met Your Mother: The Sexless Innkeeper (2009)
Infuriating.
I really didn't enjoy this episode. I have recently been watching the entire Box Set from Season 1 through to where the show is in Season 7, and my hatred for Lily's character has slowly been building. I'm usually very perturbed by the control freak dynamic in any TV show anyway, so this may not apply to everybody, but I found Lily to be very annoying in this episode especially.
Barney and Robin are an absolute train wreck of a couple; they both hate relationships, loathe commitment, have serious childhood abandonment issues and will look for any and every reason to avoid commitment.
So after waiting 9/10 months for Robin and Barney to finally stop looking for reasons not to admit their feelings to each other, Lily is euphoric when the two finally do concede that they love each other. And how does she celebrate this?, she invites them to an incredibly awkward, incredibly forward night that displays EVERYTHING that Barney and Robin hate about relationships and gives the couple a massive reason NOT to be together. Lily and Marshall then react, whence realising Robin and The Barnicle didn't enjoy the evening, as if they are the couple that has been mistreated. Lily then dumps Robin and Barney without so much as a phone call and plays right into the pair's issues of abandonment.
I appreciate it's just a TV show and the writers will never be able to fill in all the grey areas and plot holes that do emerge if you look closely enough, but it really is frustrating to watch a character that is so adamant that they are always right, they become so oblivious to the things they do wrong.
The Inbetweeners Movie (2011)
Fantastic Movie
Ignore the critics that slam the movie for being far too crude and lambaste the simple creative aspects, for they are the people that do not truly understand what this movie, or indeed any movie, is actually made of. The very reason that the TV show has done so well is exactly because it is outlandish, crude and extreme at times. By very definition the act of progressing through adolescence is an awkward stumble full of moments that make you feel sick and moments that make you wish you weren't born. Its like criticising the 'Saw' movies for being too violent or gory. Or saying you didn't enjoy 'Donnie Darko' because it's too macabre and surreal. Those are the exact characteristics that make the movie exactly what it's meant to be.
Yes the romantic-comedy aspect of the Movie is bordering on cliché, the character development is rather minimalistic, and the themes and roles that the leading actors play very rarely differ from their displays on Television, but do we actually care that it isn't in the league of 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca'?. People who go into this movie expecting to see a sophisticated masterpiece of wit and bewilderingly fantastic acting are setting themselves up for a disappointment.
The movie is an absolute blast, and anybody who enjoyed the TV series will absolutely love the Movie, and it is well worth the effort to go and see. Though I will say that i did have one gripe after leaving the cinema, but it was not to do with the film, it was to do with the vast majority of the audience completely missing the reference to the 'Dead Poets Society'.
Disturbia (2007)
Turner's character misunderstood.
Major Spoilers. Please do not read if you HAVE NOT seen the movie.
Without wishing to sound patronising, I think a lot of the reviews posted about this movie have almost pointed out something that isn't actually true. Creating a problem where there isn't one.
To quote a few other reviews; "The murderer will suddenly and stupidly (after years of calculated planning of all his murders) start attacking all of his neighbours." "why would someone who was so calculated and precise just start sloppily and obviously killing neighbour's?" Surely that part of the movie shows just how deranged and surreal the character of Mr.Turner truly is. How do you know that he has been an incredibly intelligent serial killer for years, there is no clue as to how long his killing spree has lasted, the news reports within the movie on TV are incredibly recent. Granted the movie does allude to a slightly smarter than average man with the numerous vehicles he uses, his ability to tell when he's being followed and his seemingly natural friendly persona, but he also makes a lot of noise, hides the bodies within his own home, leaves the personnel effects of his victims lying around and openly implies from an early point in the movie that he knows the kids are watching him. Hardly a Hannibal Lecter level of intelligence.
Why is he killing?. The film makes absolutely no reference to identity fraud or Turner making a profit from his crimes, perhaps his character is actually meant to appear as though he kills for sport. Maybe this is a man that enjoyed hunting animals, I.e the Rabbits that he traps and the Deer that he kills, and simply grew bored and moved onto bigger prey, humans. The way I saw his character was when he does turn savage towards the end of the movie and attack/kills without thought, he is overcome with his animalistic urges and is simply gorging himself on something that he only usually experiences in small doses. One of the major examples of this is the fact that he does not instantly dispatch Julie (Carrie-Anne Moss) but binds her in the basement for him to deal with later. It's a source of entertainment for him.
The writers/producers didn't have him turn psycho during the films climax because they ran out of time/ideas, it was because that's exactly what Turner's character was meant to do.
Overall, the film was a fantastic portrayal of what a modern day thriller should entail. Clever writing, mood, suspense, tension and drama. Seen it twice now and still amazed at how the directors managed to create a very real sense of horror without resorting to mindless violence/gore.