The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
It’s Lord of the Rings… what do you want me to say? 👍
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The Night Before
Utterly ridiculous Christmas film where 3 dickheads action a pact and try to find the most amazing party of the year, parallelled by an “A Christmas Carol”-style subplot, and – surprise, surprise – Seth Rogen getting absolutely off his tits on a variety of drugs. I’ll be honest and say that this yuletide tale didn’t…
Hercules
The thing with a film property based on characters from Greek mythology is that it seems absurd to cluck “Well that’s just RIDICULOUS”. However even the central plot vacuum wasn’t enough to detail this Dwayne-In-A-Wig epic. And don’t be misled into thinking the trailer accurately portrays the film, cos it doesn’t.
The Mummy Returns
We watched this on the strength of the involvement of The Rock, and were you to use the relative size of the characters’ faces on the poster as an indication of their importance/screentime in the film you’d have at least expected him to feature as much as mouldering CG-when-it-suits-him creepy ancient dead dude Imhotep. However…
The Aeronauts
Victorian tale of balloonists pushing the boundaries of science & learning a lot about life and each other suspended in a tiny basket tens of thousands of feet above London. PROPERLY gave me the willies, if only due to the lack of safety equipment.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Utter irredeemable faeces. Nobody needed to make this film. 👎👎
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Impressive if only for the ability of the cast (The Rock, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan) to commit to some utterly absurd roles. I definitely enjoyed this much more than the original Jumanji film, and spent a lot of the time distracted & wondering when it became such a milestone film that it demanded…