Watched the RUM DIARIES last night. Kind of slow moving, I didn't really enjoy it. There didn't seem to be any ending to it also. Throughout the movie his plight was to take down the evils that be and nothing really occured.

I think it's good to have films still in my to watch pile, hopefully it means I can keep finding good films. There is a boxset with all his classic films in that has been on my to buy list for about 5 years. One day...one day.

I'm putting some of the Jodorowsky titles mentioned here on my to-do list :)

Some memorable movies I've seen lately are ..

Watchmen (2009)

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I saw it in the cinemas of course, but this was the HD complete director's cut version including the side story about the black freighter. This was my third time watching it, although the first time I see this version, and I have to say I just love this film and thoroughly enjoyed myself watching it yet again. It's not 100% true to the comic, but I don't think it lets it down in a way which hurts the story. At well over 3 hours in length, I love the daring ambition and how it dares to take it's time in creating a well-spun story.

Brilliant!


Carrie (1976)

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One of those films that have been on my to-do list forever and one of the few horror classics from the 70s that I had yet to see .. that I can think of anyways. I read the book when I was a teenager so the story was familiar. Still, I somehow thought the movie would feel cheap compared to the book, but it may actually be the other way round. I had a lot more sympathy for Carrie watching the movie than I did the book, although that could have something to do with age as well.

In the end, it's a well made film, exciting, spooky, engaging and entertaining from start to finish. Recommended to all who think they might like that sort of stuff.


Finally, I watched Brazil again because it's come out in HD, but unfortunately it was a shredded version with several scenes left out and so I wasn't too happy about that. :(

I just cannot get on with Carrie. I have watched the film twice and I find it horribly dated and Sissy Spacek (whom I admire as an actress) just annoys the frig out of me throughout.

meh - it's bollocks compared to the graphic novel - a literal reading of the comic just didn't do it for me, and this is compounded by the fact that the actors were mostly B-List or even C-List

the cartoon was alright, though - but i watched it after a night of non-sleep, so that added to the dread

Yes, I can imagine that would be a sort of breaking point or how you'd say it. You have to empathize with Carrie for the movie to be effective.

I happily disagree and thought the casting was great. You could say much the same thing about The Lord of the Rings. I like that people try to get actors right for the parts rather than actors who will simply draw a large audience to the cinemas.

huh? wha? LOTR had people like Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood

most of the actors in Watchmen I don't even know, nor could i care to remember, besides the guy playing Rorscharch who also played the new Freddy Krueger (both roles which had the actor in masks most of the time, anyway)

Lol Elijah Wood.

LOTR was full of B/C-List actors like the guys playing the hobbits, Orlando Bloom who was fresh out of school or the guy who played Gimli. I'm not even sure Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood could be considered A-listers before Lord of the Rings.

I did recognize some of the actors in Watchmen, like Patrick Wilson who played Nite Owl who's also played in movies like Hard Candy. Billy Crudup who played Dr. Manhattan also played in my favourite Burton movie, Big Fish. Jeffrey Dean Morgan who played The Comedian was in P.S. I Love You.

Not that it matters much to me. I think they all did good roles, particularly The Comedian and Rorschach. The only casting I didn't like was Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter, but it was a small part.

Ian McKellen was a pretty esteemed Shakespearean actor in Britain

Elijah Wood starred in some blockbusters