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Filmsi - August 2010

Dry Patch

Hey all hope everyone is well and alive and kicking. Well as the title suggests it been a little dry of late I haven’t seen anything recent apart from Inception which is was awesome so much so I want to watch it again at the cinema and that's rare for me considering I'm a poor uni student watching it the first time meant I missed out on eating lunch the next day or a few less items for grocery shopping that week (I kid but I’m sure there are others for this will be true). But since the general consensus for Inception is relatively the same I feel like writing a review would be pointless, beating a dead horse as they say. So in the lack of movies to watch, that is worth watching does anyone recommend some really cool, unconventional but interesting movies that they would like to share with me? Actually anything really as this point I'm quite stumped.


On to another thing, years ago when I was randomly googling stuff as one does regularly to keep up with the rest of the world, I came upon Cillian Murphy (guy from Red Eye & Inception), I must have googled him. I have to admit I find Cillian quite uniquely attractive; he's what you call an acquired taste. So anyway I find on the sources from IMDb that he was going to star in the film about Salvador Dali and I got excited as a wonderful actor such as Cillian will be in a movie about Dali. I mean I thought this would be for sure a hit. However to my disappointment this movie never came. So for some reason I just remembered about it now and therefore maybe it was released and wasn't a hit than what I originally thought. So I googled Dali and instead I get a youtube trailer on a little known movie called Little Ashes with Robert Pattinson as Dali. I was like what? How come I have never heard of this before considering how famous he has become all his previous works have been out to hang for everyone to see right? It couldn't be new as they would have more media coverage right? Doing a little research I found it was released in 2008, was that before or after Twilight? I don't know but if anyone has seen it drop in a comment and tell us what you think of the movie and of course of RPatts acting skills too.


For those who haven't seen it here's the link to the trailer on Youtbe
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And heres the promotional poster for it.

Does anyone else think RPatts looks like Brendan Fraser here?

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New Blog

Hey everyone

As mentioned in the pervious post I was wondering if I should start a new blog about nothing and with ill-advice from myself and just sheer "why-not" and "can-do" attitude which is very much uncharacteristic of me I decided to go on ahead and create one. It is in its infancy hence is wobbling around with uncertainty but eager to get started, so not surprisingly this post is basically cheap self promotion that is usually undertaken by commercial television and politicians. So cheap that it might actually work. I guess at this point I should be throwing words like "awesome", "groundbreaking", "sheer enjoyment", "get a stitch because its really funny from laughing too much" to really solidify what I’m trying to sell just in case you missed it. But in all serious with all the sarcasm aside please check it out, I hope you like it and enjoy it or you could just hate & complain about it (just the way I like it).

Here's the link to the really "awesome" blog
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Enjoy & much love,
Samira
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Fearless, 2006

I'm no expert on Martial Arts or Martial Arts movies therefore I feel my judgment or critique on this film is unfounded and my opinion is completely unworthy to be taken seriously. But then again in retrospect I'm not qualified to have an opinion on any of the films I have reviewed. Hence with that logic in place I shall continue, first I shall start with a sweeping statement and claim that many of you are in the same position as I am in (I would be pleasantly surprised if most my readers are actually keen martial arts movie buffs and know the ancient art well, I have been wrong before actually several times) that they have very limited experience in watching martial art movies apart from a occasional Jackie Chang movies. With such limited knowledge and expertise in the matter and with really nothing to compare it to, I really enjoyed this film. Different in the usual pace of an American or western film, this film had the element of humour and action all in one.

The general premise of the film follows the rise and fall of the Martial Arts legend Hou Yuanjia. In between his childhood and eventual death there moments of drama and comedy. I really can’t say more with out ruining the movie for you really. It’s a simple enough idea and it’s something that does not requires more explanation than that to be quite honest.

Typical of Chinese films (at least the ones that I have seen), it pretty fast paced in certain parts and then the tempo and mood of the film changes usually after a dramatic event (tragic most of the time) has occurred, where the next scene is a slow panning scene of beautiful Asian landscape that is well constructed by awesome cinematographers and playing in the background a slow music score whilst seconds before there was fast paced fighting scene with screaming audience as the backdrop. Based in late 19th century China director Ronny Yu and his team have kept the traditional essence of China during the time. Although it is difficult to say how much of the martial arts scenes are true or dramatised for the viewing pleasure of the audience. But to be quite honest it didn't really matter and I didn't care, because the entire experience of the film was to enjoy the theatrics of martial arts and that it’s not just a fight but a performance. It's not surprising that much of the film is spend on a fight but despite that it was really entertaining to watch. I'm not sure whether or not it’s my ability to be easily entertained and amused or whether this is a really well made film (but I like to think it’s the latter). One might argue that it’s not as good as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Hero (here I'm just name dropping other marital art/Chinese films that I have seen) and frankly I wouldn't have a come back and probably just nod in agreement.

So ohk this isn't like my usual reviews which I suppose is more serious in nature than I totally forgot that this blog was a not so serious look at films, whoops. But then again most of the films (not all) that I have reviewed has usually lead me to write annoyed, highly critically pieces that makes me sound a lot more pretentious than I intended but I can't help if people make shitty films. I know I can't make better films that's not the point, I'm sure there are lots of people out there that couldn't do what I do. Which is laze about and waste time which actually requires an amazing amount of effort surprisingly and skills (again surprisingly)?

I know I'm digressing from the point of the entry but I was thinking of maybe starting up another blog for funnies. It would be a blog based on nothing (sounds familiar?). Mostly it would be my daily musings but nothing in particular. I know I'm pretty new this site and not what you call a regular blogger, but I think it would an adventure I might look into. That is of course if people want to read it. So that being said, please comment whether or not I should consider actually following thru with this. It would be much appreciated.
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