The Lion King

Despite countless spin-off's, merchandising and Blu-Ray and 3D remasters to boot, The Lion King is still a brilliantly Drawn, Emotional Movie, truly one of the classics in the Disney Vault!

9/10

Thor

Pretty damn solid for a superhero film. Definitely one of the better Marvel ones.

6/10

Battleship 8/10

Ok so there's not a lot of story, it's a standard Action Film and the bad guys look like master chief but the effects are brill the action keeps coming and it has Rihanna in it, what more do you want

oh and the Japanese [spoiler]kick america's ass at football[/spoiler]

So, better than the last one?

what last one?

So I wasn't the only wondering about that.

Dark of the Moon, duh! :p

last i checked battleship wasn't part of the transformers franchise ilmae

Kull the conqueror 1997 6/10

nothing like a cheap version of Conan with half the script taken from the empire strikes back

they don't make cheesy movies like this anymore

Pff, could have fooled me!

Avengers Assemble

Oh lawdy. I don't want to over-hype this movie, but it was really, REALLY good, in just about every way a fan would want. Everyone gets a kick-ass action moment, almost everyone gets a few humourous parts and while the plot is fairly straightforward it doesn't really detract at all. While I fully expect TDKR to blow me away with a great story, I doubt it can hope to match Avengers for spectacle.

9/10

Green Lantern

Let's just say it was no Avengers =P

The Oa-based stuff was great, but there were a lot of questionably placed cuts/edits and I thought Blake Lively was terrible as Ferris. Spoke almost entirely in a monotonous half-whisper and Hal's characterisation was that of every rom-com protagonist ever... "Guy who is a jerk but thinks he's cool, is late for important event, is a love-em and leave-em type, but hides a secret insecurity and has, oh surprise, surprise, an ex girlfriend who is really his one and it only takes becoming a superhero to discover that.

5/10 It wasn't the worst film in the world but it was heavily flawed in many ways.

The Cabin in the Woods

Very good film, saying anything about the plot would be very spoilery, but it's definitely worth a watch if you're into the more classic horror genre as opposed to stuff like Saw/ Hostel yada yada.

It's also got a fair few funny moments too, not unlike Severence for the balance of horror/comedy (I personally don't think Severence is really funny enough to be called a horror-comedy in the same way Shaun of the Dead is, because it seems much more focused on the horror and just has the odd laugh, it's much the same with CITW)

7.5/10

Men in Black

8/10

I love this film, ever since I first saw it as a child. I think what I've come to appreciate is how and why it's so much better than its sequel.

The simple fact is that it plays itself, less as a sci-fi movie about alien police and more like a detective movie that happens to be detecting aliens. Also the fact that it generally is a very serious movie. Seriously, take away Will Smith and the film would be tonally a lot darker; that's the reason the humour works. Since the world of MIB is treated with such deadpan seriousness by Tommy Lee Jones and co, WIll Smith is able to be the guy who says "Am I the only one seeing this? What the hell is going on here?" while everyone else just replies "I have no idea what you mean" while shooting a multi-headed alien in the face and grabbing coffee with a bunch of worms. I also want to say I think TLJ is underrated as a comedic actor. His severe lack of humour in his performances is what makes him such a great comedy actor. Something that was also evident in his role in "Captain America".

MIB2 was a much sillier, sci-fi romp and much less a detective film. Also due to the fact J is now an MIB veteran, the humour cannot come from him being the 'only sane man' and is not just his normal humour. Don't get me wrong, Will Smith is a very funny actor, but the fact that they try and ellicit comedic performances from the former straight men too just makes the film ridiculous and I hope is something they catch on to in MIB3.

Darkness. Starring a young Anna Paquin.

In many ways a Shining wannabe, but in other ways the kind of thing that would fall into the 'Bargain bin couple of quid what the hell' category.

It was okay. A haunted house film that actually canters off in an unexpected direction. A little sloppy in places, and obvious in others, but the ending was also rather different.

2/5. It got panned, but... it passed the time.



I always thought this, too. Destroy what made the original so good. Odd.