The DaVinci code

Posted by Katharine on May 19th 2006 to Films

As anyone who reads this will know, i am not very good at giving a bad review. But today is different! The DaVinci code deserves every bad review it has recieved. I went in with not very high hopes due to the poor reviews it had received, but still managed to come out dissapointed. Harry Potter was adapted to film better than this, and that is really quite something. The book is more dramatic than the film, and you would have thought from the style in which it is written it would have been reasonably easy to adapt, however you would be mistaken. Tom Hanks is wooden and gives the impression that he is following a script - which i guess he was, but he shouldnt show it. Sir Ian McKellan was good, but then i have never seen him act poorly. The true star of the film was Paul Bettany as Silas, he was nasty and definatly gave the best performance of the film.

People who hadnt read the book did not think it was so bad, in fact Paul thought it was good. I will therefore say do not go see it if you have read the book. You will be dissapointed.

2 popcorns (1 to Paul Bettany, 1 to be shared between Ian McKellan and the girl who played Amelie, forgot her name)

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Confetti

Posted by Katharine on May 15th 2006 to Films

This was suprisingly entertaining. I wasnt too taken with the idea but it turned out to be very funny. A lot more ugly nakedness than i was expecting! It is a british film, and it is done in a documentary style and has a very real feel. I thought it was definatly worth seeing.

4 popcorns

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So many new films….

Posted by Katharine on May 13th 2006 to Films

I have been to the cinema a lot recently! I have just got back from seeing Prime, i have seen of course Mission Impossible 3, i have seen 16 Blocks and i am pretty sure there was something else, but i cant remember so i may just be imagining things! I will start with Prime. A good film, funny and definatly entertaining, but there were 2 problems. First, the opening song was the same opening song as Wimbledon - i was horrified! I kept on imagining tennis balls and sketched people looking backwards and forwards, but instead we just got a look over the city of wherever its set - im not actually sure. The other problem is the ending - SO lame, it was actually shocking, if they cut out the last scene of the film it would be ten times better! So go for the middle but just ignore the copy cat beginning and pathetic end.

4 popcorns (without the beginning and end of course)

Mission Impossible 3. I am a huge fan of the Mission Impossibles, which is funny cos i really very strongly dislike Tom Cruise in real life but he does make a good action man. THis was good cos he had a bit more personality, or maybe not personality but certainly a life. It is in the same type as the other Mission Impossibles, in fact i would say a good mixture of the two, it had the action and good bad guy of 2 and it had the team playerness and the betrayal and humanity of the first. I would say the best of the 3.

4 popcorns (i feel generous today)

16 blocks. This was a suprise. Me and Paul went to the cinema and he told me we should go to one that we knew nothing about, which i hate doing in case it turns out i saw an advert and thought it was rubbish, or it is just simply rubbish! But this one was very good. It has Bruce Willis as a drunk cop who is depressed. Whoop di doo. anyway he turns out to be a good cop and has a moral story behind it of some sort. It is exciting, Brucie has to get this guy across 16 blocks (hence the title) to court, however it turns out a little more complicated when it turns out the guy is going to testify against a cop and all the cops want to kill him. I was very pleasantly suprised and i would advise you go watch it.

Again with the 4 popcorns!

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