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In 2019 this tale of peoples’ willingness to go along with instructions from authority figures seems near-impossible to swallow against the context of social-engineering-awareness which we live day to day in financial services careers. And yet it’s a dramatisation of a true story. Not an enjoyable film, and often it feels like not a well-made…
Post-apocalyptic thriller in which Michael Jackson (played by Sandra Bullock) runs away from NOTHING to try to get to safety. Meanwhile the story zips back and forth in time explaining why everyone’s afraid of NOTHING (haven’t been so scared of NOTHING since The Neverending Story…). Didn’t have that much going on story-wise, so seemed to…
Bruce Willis goes on holiday to Russia, and then some bullshit happens, and I don’t really know because I fell asleep a few times during it and it was nonsense. McClane protesteth many times that he was “only here on vacation”, and even managed to squeeze in a few “motherfuckers” – presumably to try to…
We only watched this to counterbalance the craptasticness of a couple of the Die Hard films and to get us prepared to accept the final load we’d get in Part 5. But aside from Anna Kendrick being nearly expressionless throughout, PP#2 remains ACA-MAZING! 👍👍
Was this Justin Long’s first film as a grownup? Eurgh. What a mess. Gripping grimly onto the premise that COMPUTERS CAN CONTROL EVERYTHING we’re on a rollercoaster to disaster, which goes via an inexplicable Kevin Smith cameo to eventually Bruce Willis trying to converge his Christmas Die Hard-y-ness with that of Australia’s equivalent, True Lies…
Everything’ll be fine, as long as you’re a rich white man. (Godammit, isn’t Emma Thompson wonderful though?!) 👎
A return to form, which is bound to happen once you get SAMUEL L. JACKSON in the mix. This felt *much* more like it fit with the original Die Hard in terms of character, and it also provided a plotline which could be ripped off variously in Batman films of the future. Jeremy Irons did…
So, taking the famous concept of using a character from a well-loved film and then plonking them in the middle of something that shares almost no DNA with the original is what’s happened here. Less of a slightly-above-average-Joe pushed by circumstance into a perilous situation, and more of a one-man-wrecking-ball. It’s like John McClane wants…
The quintessential Christmas film. What else need I say? Although definitely worth a rewatch, because it’s easy to forget what Bruce Willis looked like with hair. He must’ve been just on his way out from Moonlighting on this film – this really was his breakthrough role, before there was such a thing as Bruce Willis…
Schumer taking absolutely no prisoners in her usual way in this standup show, however it’s fair to say that the set wasn’t her “usual” style – instead getting pretty clinical about sex. Kinda felt a bit like Eddie Murphy’s “Raw” and “Delirious” shows, insofar as it’s the sort of thing that adolescents might clandestinely quote…