Saturday 26 July 2014

Silkwood




I wanted to like Silkwood as it's an activist movie and there is a connection to the whole Israeli nuclear smuggling deal

However in the final analysis, even though there are some quintessential white trash 70's scenes by cute couple Kurt Russell and Meryl Streep, the movie hasn't aged all that well and arguably Cher is the best actor in it.

Friday 25 July 2014

Anchorman




I've included above, the funniest scene for me, but Anchorman is the same joke over and again. ....Television news is dangerously shallow

Which it is...  so the movie is not so funny after a while.

Thursday 24 July 2014

Iron Sky




I've written a ton of stuff about the Nazi space program over at Punk Planning, usually under the Joseph Farrell tag or Douglas Dietrich so I was looking forward to checking out this movie from the conspiracy angle or predictive programming angle.

Sadly Iron Sky drops like lead. 

It's American knock-off cheese made in Finland. You get the picture.

Friday 11 July 2014

Chariots of Fire - What a Shit Movie



I've been curious to watch Chariots of Fire for some time, as the producer is Dodi Fayed who was murdered in a Boston Brakes accident with Princess Diana in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris. 

I wanted to know if this multiple Oscar winning film had stood the test of time and the short answer is, it hasn't.

There's some fine DOP and Merchant Ivory style Englishness in the scenes throughout the film with country mansions, Oxbridge colleges and so forth but all the characters are paper thin 'for he's a jolly good fellow' type clichés. 

The script is a honker with superficial struggles presented for one character as the trials of being Jewish in England as well as an athlete, or for another character, a Scottish Christian who wont run on the Sabbath. Both are easily resolved as being Jewish places no restriction on running and even elicits significantly less abuse than a Pakistani receives in England today, and running on the Sabbath for the Christian needed only a change of races to the 400 metres to be held during the week. The Sabbath is Saturday anyway but don't let quaint lingo spoil the cricket sweaters plot.

It's hard not to think that Dodi Fayed merely picked up this script because it glorifies Jewish struggles perceived or otherwise because that's the only way to be recognised in Hollywood. Good luck to him if that's why he made the film as it won a fistfull of Oscars, but he never made anything recognised globally after.

I'm just calling it as I see it and don't mind being corrected if the film won awards for any other reason.

The other premise for watching this film last night is because Nigel Havers also stars in it. He has recently come out in defence of his Aunty, Elizabeth Butler Sloss as an excellent choice for the VIP paedophile inquiry even though she covered up the Cleveland Child Abuse inquiry to such an extent that she never asked any of the 121 child victims if they had been sexually abused, and undermined all the evidence put forward by all the professionals apart from a discredited American doctor who defended the paedophiles and not the victims.

In short this film exemplifies that all patriotism is ego stoking and pernicious to the ascendant path.