Simple - because it's often going to be late. I have a wife and child and my visits to the cinema are rare these days. Therefore, many of the movies I will review (or rant about) will a have been released months ago, but I have only just got around to seeing because I had to wait for them to be released on DVD. If you want up to the date reviews, read Empire or listen to wittertainment.
I'm also going to only review movies that I can be bothered to watch so don't expect any reviews of the following:
1. Movies based on the works of Nicholas Sparkes. My wife made me watch The Notebook twice and it was even worse the second time. Sentimental garbage, never again.
2. Anything with Adam Sandler in it. He simply isn't funny.
3. Anything with Steven Seagal in it. The man looks like his brain hurts.
4. Anything to do with Twilight. Never seen one, never want to. I'm not a teenage girl and the appeal is lost on me.
5. Slasher movies. Snore.
6. Anything by Ken Loach.
7. or Mike Leigh. Life is Sweet? Life is too bloody short if you ask me.
8. Spoofs. Airplane was very funny. Everything since is dire, even the ones starring Leslie Nielsen.
9. Modern musicals. There hasn't been a decent movie musical since Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
10. Disease movies (unless the disease leads to zombieism and the collapse of society in which case bring it on. If it's about someone with cancer, no thank you. Save it for True Movies on SKY)
What's my favourite movie? No idea, there are too many. Some of my faves are below. I've tried not to include too many movies by the same director or from the same series (not entirely successfully.) In no particular order:
Jaws
Roberto Rodriguez said that it was way better than any fish movie should be.
Force 10 from Navarone
Not a classic, but it's one of the first movies I ever saw at the cinema, so it's in. It's better than you think.
Battle of Britain
Same director (Guy Hamilton) as Force 10, but brilliant and quite historically accurate (apart from the lack of Hurricanes).
The Empire Strikes Back
Hated it as a child. Seemed so complex after Star Wars. The reasons why I hated it then are the reasons I love it now.
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Best Bond movie ever and surprisingly similar to the Daniel Craig Casino Royale; new Bond, realistic plot after mad excesses of previous instalment (You Only Live Twice/Die Another Day), Bond tries to resign, Bond falls in love, but she dies, very few gadgets and he drives an Aston Martin DBS.
The Wild Geese
I dare you not cry when Richard Burton machine guns Richard Harris.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Of course.
Die Hard
Of course.
Aliens
Of course. Made on a shoestring, something which Cameron has forgotten about.
The Dark Knight
Nolan manages to make Batman seem believable. Astonishingly good.
Gladiator
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.”
...and so many more. Bit blokey, I know, but my Blog, my rules.
Least favourite film? Southland Tales. I have never seen such a load of incoherent, pretentious crap in all my life.
My first Late Review is The Social Network. I'm a huge Aaron Sorkin fan. It's pretty good. I have a lot of sympathy for Eduardo Savarin, less so for the Winklevii. I enjoyed it a great deal, but I need to watch it again to come to a more comprehensive opinion.
Next review will be longer.
