Sorry I haven't been around much lately, meant to get back to blogging a bit sooner, quick thing before moving onto the bulk of today's blog, got some great news before I broke off for Christmas holiday that I'd be getting the chance to make a film about sexual health for more money then I have ever earned for any film, just wanted to share that.
I've seen a lot of films in the last month-ish, I'm just gonna cover a couple of them (the ones I remember best, minus two that will be saved for later), The Fonzie scores will not be on this page, they'll return later.
Superman: The Movie
It's sequel Superman II (1980) which saw Richard Donner fired as director and replaced by Richard Lester during filming, the original version works - just - thanks to having three interesting stories that of Clark and Lois, General Zod and the other Kryptonians and of course Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor, the film is enjoyable but it's an obvious mix of two director's footage, and by the way it's a shame Ned Beatty is hardly in this. I'll check the Richard Donner cut out later.
It's hard to believe there is now an whole new American Pie direct to DVD trilogy featuring only Eugene Levy (and Chris Owen in Band Camp) as the only links to the original trilogy and all three have got something surprisngly in common, there not awful. Band Camp (2005) sees one of the Stifler's sent to band camp for some sort of punishment, Eugene Levy is Jim's Dad again and the Camp Counseller to boot, like I say not bad, same is said for The Naked Mile (2006) which is just marginally better and introduces another Stifler cousin (two actually), dumb but watchable, Beta House (2007) features a few of the same characters and is more of the same.
After been masterful on the television with Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and a great movie debut with The 40 Year Old Virgin, Judd Apatow had a great year in 2007 with Superbad (which he produced) and Knocked Up (2007) which sees Ben Stone (Seth Rogen - it's hard to believe Seth Rogen is playing a leading man -) who by a massive stroke of luck and lots of alcohol gets to sleep with Katherine Heigl, however their awkard one night stands ends in pregnancy. Like Judd Apatow's other work it's both funny and sweet, some really good lines and career best performance from Apatow's wife Leslie Mann
From my side of the pond is seminal 60's movie If... (1968), starring Malcolm McDowell, set in a boarding school, it deals with a bunch of about to rebel students and it is engrossing from start to finish, Malcolm McDowell is a very underrated actor and their are a lot of great little performances in this movie, brilliant.
Another great British movie from the same year Twisted Nerve (1968) starred a never better Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills. Bennett plays a young man who poses as mentally handicap and manages to weed his way into Mills life, trouble is he's a bit schizophrenic, this film as some great performances including Billie Whitelaw as Mills' mother, cinematography and of course the music (the theme was used later in Kill Bill Volume One, think the whisteling theme). Great little movie.
A Scanner Darkly (2006) based on the Phillip K. Dick story is pretty good with some decent performances, Keanu Reeves ain't bad but Robert Downey Jr. is much better, you can understand why Richard Linklater went for this unique animation style and it works to a point. Recommended for all the paranoids out there.
For Your Consideration
There's probably a few more films I saw and I'll cover the TV stuff in a different update. bye
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