Giving American Hustle a half-point more than Her is a travesty, and only giving Her a 7 is bad enough as it is. Please elaborate on your opinion.

Goodness me, a couple of those got 8s. They must be really good!

Landfall was good, but it felt more like a proof of concept. Might be because of budget or something, but the CG to me felt very early 2000s. "Look, we can do CG!" Or something, not quite sure how to put it. Whereas Unto Dawn *worked*.

That being said, pulling funding for the Halo movie gave us District 9, and in the end I was okay with this.

That's because it was a proof of concept, and why I said him making a feature length (with full funding) "would" work.

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Probably the fact that the moment Master Chief shows up on screen in that movie, it instantly falls apart and looks like a huge joke. That costume on screen looks like a cosplay kid from a video-game convention just walked through the door, instantly loses whatever reality or believability they've been trying to set up.

All studio/Microsoft politics aside, that's why no-one's figured out how to make a Halo movie. If it was just about normal space marines, they could just write whatever character and make it work, but Master Chief is the center-piece of that franchise, and is one of the worst protagonists in any media-form. Looks dumb, has no personality (practically no dialogue), and you never see his face.

Dredd would probably be the closest model to follow, but at least Dredd has a chin to emote with.

I watched The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and I've decided I just don't care how it all ends.

Saw that French film Intouchables a few days ago. It's pretty bland. Standard paint-by-numbers buddy movie. Omar Sy is great though.

Captain Phillips was one of my favourite films of last year

I saw a 25 second clip on Craig Ferguson and it spawned an inner monologue where I was pretending to be the Director of Photography of the film and explaining why they shouldn't do what they just did... I guess it maybe wasn't confined to those 25 seconds?

There are choices in the film which I would not have thought a professional cinematographer (Haris Zambarloukos - also did Thor) would make, so I have to put those back on Branagh. Shots with overdone motion blur, others which are out of focus, and action sequences which are pushed in so tightly, and cut so quickly, that you literally don't know who's doing what to whom. There didn't seem to be a uniform stylistic choice to the film, which can work with characters, but this felt haphazard and unfocused.

Visually it's a bit of a mess.

I really liked watching Costner and Pine together, despite some memorably bad dialogue, they had a good dynamic and they both have an earnestness to their delivery which is engaging. Knightly though, is never the right choice - she has no depth to her performance.

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Heartbeats in English/Netflix.

So great. This frame:

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