Film shorts
Despite watching loads of films lately, I haven’t reviewed any here because I seem to have committed myself to wittering on about 20 video games that I like rather than writing a couple of posts to summarise all of them like more sensible people have and so therefore tying myself up in a never fucking ending series that only two people are reading and that isn’t really that original anyway.
So here as a brief list of films that I’ve watched lately that I thought were pretty good and worth watching. Here’s a run down with an ever so brief synopsis of what they’re about:
Crash (2006 version): Racism is bad, mkay!
Requiem For A Dream: Drugs are bad, mkay!
21 Grams: Life is bad, mkay!
The Proposition: Australia is bad, mkay!
Stranger Than Fiction: Tax is bad but cookies are good, mkay!
John Carpenter’s The Thing: Shapeshifting creatures from another planet that disguise themselves as dogs or humans are bad, mkay!1
Not the most cheery bunch of films but there we go. I’m sure I’ll try to discuss them individually soon.
1Yeah, okay, I haven’t just seen this for the first time but I still think this film carries an important message that we ignore at our peril.

I rmbr watching that dog transformation scene when I was about 9 and being really scared and amazed… Watched it recently and laughed my head off what with the tentacles and whatnot. Funny how perceptions change.
Comment by Lucy — December 20, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
The effects have definitely dated. Still a good film though.
Comment by Tom — December 20, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
I wasn’t keen.
But you knew I was going to say that. I hate everything, right?
Comment by Lucy — December 20, 2007 @ 1:36 pm
I’m beginning to think so, yes. But you did once say that you didn’t think Resident Evil was entirely bad.
Comment by Tom — December 20, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
Oh it was shit. But enjoyable. I like ALIEN. But everyone likes that. And actually, there was that shit scene that doesn’t go anywhere between Parker, Brett and Ripley in the steam filled corridor.
Comment by Lucy — December 20, 2007 @ 4:45 pm