Sometimes if someone searches it, someone else will. But considering it was back in the day, and all I was doing was saying I thought the trailer looked better than Skyline? Well... there would be better things I've written for people to revisit.
Oh well.
I'm looking forward to this. Even if the script, "drops bricks down the toilet". Which may be my fave quote ever.
The One Where It’s Not So Much A Review, As A Plea To You To See It, So I Get A Sequel
OK, shit just got real. Phil over at LFF, (my second Home), is helping by posting this tonight... but I need a favour. I need you all to go see The Green Hornet. 2D/3D whatever. I want a sequel to this more than I want to break Eva Mendes' hip... Grandpa style.
The first five minutes of Green Hornet were appalling I turned to my cinema buddies and called it. “Worst five minutes to a movie… ever”.
Then, and I had managed to avoid this, there is a cameo. And everything felt like it was settling down.
Then, and I am pleasantly surprised by this, I ended up really enjoying it.
The energy from the opening credits alone is more than most films can muster - but lets be honest. This is Danny Boyle. One day he may get the credit he deserves. I know that sounds crazy after Slumdog, but not a huge amount of that praise was for him.
So why am I not sure if I'll ever buy the Bluey...?
Having finished with my top five movies of 2010, I thought I would put up the films I'm most looking forward to in 2011. I'll run it this week, in no particular order.
First up is True Grit, which looks the real deal for me.
I'll take Papa to see it for his Birthday, as he's rightly bemoaned the lack of a classic Western since Open Range. (I still have all of Deadwood and haven't touched them yet. I'm not sure why. I'll remedy that in 2011).
The thing about True Grit is the Coens very rarely get it wrong. They've made some brilliant films.
I thought No Country For Old Men suffered from a bit of the Shawshank Sheep Effect, but I love how it tails off at the end. I just never saw that coming at all.
Jeff Bridges is having a decent spell, too.
I thought he was great in Tron: Legacy, and got the send off he deserved. Again, he got an Oscar as a token gesture for me. But I'd rather he had a token Oscar, rather than no Oscar, so I'm OK with that.
Matt Damon? If I thought about it properly, with Departed, Bourne, he probably overtook the far more work shy Ed Norton in my fave Actor list a while ago.
So this all points to a Classic. Well, that and the fact I've not seen it get below ***** so far...
Downside?
Well, I get the same vibe from the trailer that I got from Tommy Lee Jones The Missing. Which was meant to save the Western genre, and instead turned out to be shite.
Also, with two exceptions I can think of, I hate child actors. I know the girl is meant to be immense, but... I'm not sure.
I don't really talk about work on here, and that won't change. You need to know that I had a terrible day at work though. The reason for that is if you see Tron, after my gushing review, and thinks it's rubbish... well, I'll just tell you that I really needed cheering up.
That said, I think it holds up in it's own right.
In fact, I think it's a little gem.
Not quite Top Five material, (More on that next week, as we close the door on 2010), but close.
Visually stunning. Well acted (Jeff Bridges... twice!). And the soundtrack of the year. No question.
Tron opens with the Disney sign being illuminated, " Tron style". I immediately felt comfortable. This was going to be smarter than I'd been led to believe.
Then, my jaw dropped. In what I thought was a bad way.
Thinking they were going to do a Scott Pilgrim style gag, some computer style type, tells us that some parts were shot in 2D. And that Disney were aware of this. But to wear your glasses anyway.
What the fuck??
I turned to JMcG and said, "This £1.50 surcharge is a joke... it should be 75p".
Then something strange happened. The first fifteen minutes, including a brilliant cameo, are in 2D. And it suddenly makes perfect sense. The Grid, when Sam is transported is in 3D.
It shouldn't work, but it does. I almost wish that computer type had said... "Don't need your glasses yet... when you do, it'll be frickin obvious... and you'll forgive us".
Because it does work in 3D. It looks stunning. And because of the context of the story colours, it loses nothing.
But the most startling thing about this, save from the incredible Daft Punk soundtrack, is what they've attempted with Clu. You see Clu is Jeff Bridges 20 years ago. And for the most part, it's incredibly well realised. Don't get me wrong, you know it's motion capture. But if you didn't know that... you might be fooled.
I have to say, out of everything I've seen in 2010, that excites me most.
My favourite actors aren't getting any younger. What if, in ten years say, they've perfected this. Maybe they make a sequel to Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke as he should look. Maybe Clint gets to make that western with Costner Dad and I always talked about. Maybe they go one step further. Maybe Brandon Lee gets to star in the remake of The Crow. The possibilities are endless. And for that reason, I'll always love Tron.
The soundtrack?
Unbelievable. Journey kicked in, and until I got home and watched the original (on YouTube of all places. Who knew.), I hadn't realised they had done the song for the original. But this is Daft Punks show. And they nail it. They get a cameo too, in the club, and I can't think of a better soundtrack in the last few years. It tops Zimmers work on Inception. And I got it as soon as I got home. Like the film or not, I think you'll do the same.
Any bad bits?
Well it's pure hokum. If you can't get past the idea of a computer generated world, where people race light cycles... well. It 'aint for you?
Jeff Bridges channeling The Dude? Why not. Just why not.
And Martin Sheen. Well, you'll either just see Nigel Clough (I did!), or David Bowie.
I have to say though, the bits I thought I would hate weren't even issues. I liked Sam. Obviously I liked Olivia Wilde, but thought she suited the part too. I'm just impressed.
Is it possible that this is my most anticipated Bluey of 2011? Is this the film to force my hand towards a 3D TV.
Yes, and... *looks at Mrs T with lovely puppy dog eyes*
Oh, come on Ju. You're messing with my Zen, maaaan.
When it launched at Sundance, it caused a massive stir.
The reason?
Well, essentially it is the story of someone in NY, falling in love with someone on the Internet. He meets her after getting some paintings from an 8 year old. The girl he falls for is hot, so you can't blame him. But then, flaws in her story start to appear. She sings. But Nev finds the exact same song on the net.
Bloody internet. It's as bad as it is good, isn't it?
The reason for the stir?
Well, that's the secret of Catfish. And I won't tell you.
But the reason you will want to know, is that this is a documentary.
So the whole time, we see this unfurl as the characters do.
And if it is true, if that final third really did happen, well, it's the greatest anti-internet movie ever.
Brilliantly made. Fantastic "acting". Likeable.
This got seriously close to my Top Five. Talking of which, next week each day is a count down of my top five, ending on NYE, with all of ours (Ledgers).
Oh. And just because I made me do a laugh out loud, this... But no. Sadly. That isn't the "twist"
