Category: Film

From modern day flops to the classics you missed.

Marvel and Endings

 

The Marvel Cinematic Universe seems well on course to take over the world.  With each film seeming to build on the success of the last, it has created multi million dollar franchise after multi million dollar franchise and with their most recent release, Guardian’s Of the Galaxy, they look set to take that even further, as it takes us away from the world of superheros and out into a universe that has the potential to go in any direction it chooses.  That doesn’t even take into account the fact that it may also be their most entertaining film to date.  However, there has always been one flaw in this seemingly indestructible behemoth.  That being that they just can’t seem to get a handle on how to end their movies.

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An Intelligent Blockbuster

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is one of the most interesting blockbusters you will see this year.  This is not only because it finally puts Andy Serkis on the top of the billing, acknowledging that his performance in a motion capture suit is equally as important as a flesh and blood actor, but because it remembers that just because you are playing to a mass audience, it doesn’t mean you have to go dumb.

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My Thoughts on Illegal Downloading

So earlier today I read this article after Chris Hewitt, News Editor at Empire Magazine, posted it online.  Now I have verged on talking about the piracy issue in the past, but it is something I generally try to avoid.  I cannot sit here and claim that I have never downloaded anything illegally or streamed it online.  Of course I have.  If I want to watch a film that is not in my DVD collection or on Netflixs I will download it, it is not something I am proud of but when the option is there I am usually found lacking.

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The Return of the Drog

As a Chelsea fan the return of Didier Drogba is a minefield of emotion.  On one hand this is the guy who made our team tick for so many years, he is the perfect Mourinho striker and played a big part in some of the best moments of my Chelsea supporting life.  On the other hand, the old saying states you should never go back for a reason.

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The Joys of European Qualifying

 

Tonight Aberdeen play in the 2nd qualifying round of the Europa League.  Going away from home after a 0-0 draw at home is always difficult, but at this stage it almost feels cruel.  I am a huge Aberdeen fan and last season was quite possibly the greatest I’ve ever experienced as one.  We won a cup, came within a hairs breadth of finishing second in the league and all in all improved on the mediocre nature of our past few seasons.  In half an hour, at least as I write this, we kick off in a game that in many ways, apart from the big shiny trophy, is our reward for doing that well.  We lose and we are out.  We go back to the normal SPL season and have to do it all over again and that is kind of depressing.

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Why I Want a Toothless

How To Train Your Dragon 2 is picking up a reputation as the animated worlds Empire Strikes Back.  Expanding the universe of the first film and taking on a darker more grown up tone, not that it leaves behind it child friendly nature, to become a film that in many ways is superior to the original.  Yet despite all this and the genuine emotional punch the film had, all I could think afterwards was how much I wanted a Toothless.

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Music and Films

Music is integral to films.  It is one of these facts that you do not always realise until you think about it.  Take your favourite film and remove the music and it will be a completely different experience.  It’s also true that movies have always depicted music in a variety of ways.  Whether that be the ridiculousness of Spinal Tap or the freedom and enjoyment of Good Vibrations, music is a ripe subject area to be plucked and enjoyed.

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Boyhood and Plot

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Plot is a pretty important thing in the movies.  Not just movies really.  Books, games and even some music all relies on the idea of a story.  It is something that it is hard to go without.  Yet this week I saw what is probably my movie of the year and if you asked me to describe the plot I think I would seriously struggle.  The answer, it is just life, just make me sound like a pretentious arse (which I may well be, but I should at least try and hide it).  Yet if you ask me to describe Richard Linklater’s Boyhood in any other way, I really struggle.  Because it is just life man.

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A Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide

A Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide is yet another film that managed to gain its funding through the use of the crowd, raising it’s £3000 through the use of Sponsume.  Directed by Graham Hughes and co written by him, Keith Grantham and Graeme McGeagh.  All 3 of whom only have one previous film to their name, 2010s The Big Slick which was made for only £200 and won a BAFTA New Talent Award for writing.  APGSS is a dark comedy and has been shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival, it’s another one that is unlikely to make its way to a wider cinema release, but should at some point be available in one form or another.

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