Film Review - The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

The Devil Wears Prada stars Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, a Midwestern girl who goes to New York to apply for a job at Runway Magazine under what she will find out to be the boss from hell, played by Meryl Streep.

Now, even though this is a chick flick by design, I did get some good laughs out of this film, mainly due to the performance by Emily Blunt who looks like a drag queen throughout the film and talks like a character from an old British comedy and Meryl Streep’s performance surprisingly made me think of Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget, so much so in fact I was expecting her to be petting a cat throughout the film, the reason I say that is due to the fact that her performance at times crosses into cartoon territory.

Hathaway on the other hand was merely okay, she was better than in Passengers but most of the time she speaks in a snarky and sarcastic tone of voice that reminds you of Alec Baldwin, which I suspect she may become the female equivalent of in the next few years.

As for the film itself, well I did laugh as I said but I didn’t really get with it, so I have to give it a 2 out of 5, there’s a lot to like here from Blunt but Streep bordered on being a bit too cartoonish at times and the rest didn’t do much for me at all.

I would have waited an eternity for this: The Return of James Cameron

As the title says above, December this year sees the release of Avatar, an action sci-fi film starring Australia’s own Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana from Star Trek and Sigourney Weaver, but why am I saying that I would wait an eternity for it.

Well it’s because of who is in the director’s chair, Avatar is the first major movie to be directed by James Cameron since his box office champion Titanic soared to the top of the charts in 1997, Cameron also had a hand in the first two Terminator movies and the 1986 sci-fi sequel Aliens, all three of which are nearly revered by sci-fi fans, myself included due to the fact that they combine heart and hardware effortlessly, a lesson Michael Bay and McG seriously need to learn.

But one question still remains, will Avatar actually deliver the goods and have people like myself jumping for joy at Cameron’s long overdue return, well unfortunately no one can answer that as a trailer hasn’t even been released yet but based on very early word it seems to have more in common with an earlier film from Cameron titled “The Abyss”, which I found to be a very good film that was ultimately undone by its ambitions, but I’ll definitely be watching with intense interest and will try my darndest to see it opening weekend.

Film Review - Knowing (2009)

Knowing stars Nicholas Cage as a recently widowed father who is trying his best to look after his son Caleb, but 50 years earlier a little girl wrote down a series of numbers that have now ended up in a time capsule and handed to Caleb at a dedication ceremony, but as Cage has a closer look at the numbers, he can see within them a pattern, and not a very good one.

And that last part of the sentence could describe this film as it is really one of the worst films released this year, the storyline makes no sense at all and is also laughable, Nicholas Cage really needs to start putting some effort into his acting and the film has no idea about how to end, piling on one ending after another when you’re at the point of “Enough already, just end the damn thing.”

I’m sorry I really am for the people worldwide who saw this as this is one of the worst of 2009, so much so I’m giving this a 1 out of 5.

FIlm Review - The Boat that Rocked (2009)

The Boat that Rocked stars an all star British Cast including Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, Jack Davenport, Nick Frost and others during 1966 which was the golden age of pirate radio in England, but not for long.

I thoroughly enjoyed Boat that Rocked, it contains a sweet story, some great humor and a great soundtrack, Nighy is very funny with his comedy regarding the “testicals”, Phillip Seymour Hoffman totally hams it up as the half breezy American DJ on board the boat and it was really nice to see Nick Frost again, having seem him before in Hot Fuzz, a strong frontrunner to become my favourite film of the decade, sadly though if I have to say something negative about it it’s a little bit long but this time I enjoyed myself that much that I’m willing to let that float aside.

I really don’t want to say too much more other than it deserves a look on Blu-Ray and to close this up, I’m going to give this a 4 out of 5 and after the last few duds, it’s nice to see a film that rejuvenates your interest in movies to begin with.

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James Cameron’s Avatar: Thoughts on the Teaser

At long last, director James Cameron has released a small 2 minute teaser for his big December release: Avatar, but what was my reaction to it?

In a word, I thought it was awesome with many shots causing my jaw to drop, the mechs looked fucking amazing in motion and having seen a picture of the life size one from the Comic-Con presentation a few weeks back, I made the comment that it sat right on the shelf with the power loader from Aliens and the hunter killer tanks from Terminator 1 and 2, it also went a long way as to helping to make the wait for its December release a little better.

But sadly, there are many on the internet who don’t feel that way with some comments saying “He’s made a thunder cats movie”, “the CG looks questionable”, “It looks like halo the movie”, “It’s fern gully 3” and so on leading to an overall reaction of “This is it, come on Jim”, my reaction to that is “IT’S A TEASER TRAILER”, I mean all we’ve seen is 2 minutes of footage and as we’ve seen in the past, trailers can be very misleading, what with the trailers for Quantum of Solace being very average and the main trailers for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen showing us Megatron’s resurrection, which reeks of irresponsible behavior on Paramount’s behalf.

So to wrap this all up, my advice to people would be just to go and get a ticket to see this in December, as I most certainly will, ignore all of the hype, the spoilers and the marketing for this time around, I’m not going to tell you what’s it like, you have to see it for yourself.

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