Anonymous asked: What do you think of the film 'Sucker Punch' it's just I've heard really mixed reviews about it some say it's brilliant others say it's awful and I just wanted to know what you thought seen as though you said you are unprejudiced. I personally think it's really good :) X
I own both the DVD and the soundtrack, so I enjoy the hell out of “Sucker Punch”, but I can definitely relate to people calling it a ‘bad’ movie. The dialogues, the acting and the plot are rather average and objectively it is not a ‘good’ movie, but the visuals in combination with the music remain to be just mindblowing and in this particular case that is enough for me to really enjoy the film :)
“A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” (2011)
Yes, it has been Valentine’s Day and it was all about “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” (yes the pun is intended, c’mon!)! Admittingly I more or less lost my faith in pure comedies since “Hangover” (it was pretty funny at first, but already bored me the second time around!) and quite honestly, the title “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” doesn’t really hold the promise of cinematic greatness. However, as always, you should not judge the book by its cover because it might turn out to be a fairly cool story about a group of friends in their 30’s attempting to make the last days of summer count by having a naked get-together. “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” certainly won’t be the next “Hangover”, but I had a good time watching it (yes, pun intended) nonetheless.
In terms of story, there is not that much more to “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” than I already mentioned. A group of best friends decides to have sex with each other as an end of the summer celebration. The characters are all kept rather standard, with the cool guy, the funny ‘fat’ guy (not trying to be mean here, Tyler Labine rocks!), the neurotic guy, the married guy and their female counterparts. Basically everything about “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” remains genre-typical, what still might make it worth your time is its incredible easiness. There is nothing deep or meaningful about this film whatsoever, nothing that does not require any effort from the viewer. It may sound like negative point now, but personally I found it to be quite refreshing to watch something so straightforward & deliberately easy going. In the end “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” is neither awesome nor particularly bad; it’s just a solid, amusing film, which remains unchallenged in its ‘lightness of being” and is perfect for a lazy afternoon.
Jordana and I enjoyed an atavistic, glorious fortnight of lovemaking; humiliating teachers & bullies in the week.
I have already turned these moments into the Super-8 footage of memory.
Finally back to writing some reviews after a couple of quiet weeks, and to be honest it wasn’t so much about lack of time, rather than motivation. Sure, things got a bit more stressful with it being the end of the semester, but really, between “Underworld Awakening” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” I mostly relied on my DVDs for a cinematic fix (keep in mind, Germany is one of those country whose technology has not yet reached the level of netflix). Anyway, one particularly desperate afternoon I found myself remembering having read about that one British coming-of-age/comedy film that was supposed to be really good and ALAS, my faith in film had been restored! I believed again! (yes, it actually was that dramatic!)
So obviously, I loved “Submarine”, despite it being a coming-of-age kind of film. I may be emotionally scarred in that department, but whenever I hear coming-of-age my mind immediately goes to Britney on the cliff being neither girl nor women. Luckily with “Submarine” my mind could not have been more wrong as it is sweet & quirky with an unique style that features some ridiculously cool shots (don’t worry, I’ll get more precise later on). Let me just preface this: “Submarine” is to coming-of-age films what “(500) Days of Summer” is to romantic comedies - the one glorious exception in an otherwise mostly crappy genre.
Let’s start from the beginning, what is the story here? “Submarine” presents us with an insight into the life of the 15 year old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts). He’s an intelligent, not entirely unpopular kid (the occasional beat up aside) with a few ‘weird’ idiosyncrasies (like monitoring his parents’ sex life), but altogether just another teenager. The film deals with the two major parts of his life: His parents’ crumbling marriage & the appearance of his mother’s ex; and his first attempt at a relationship with the girl of his choice, Jordana (Yasmin Paige). Now in terms of storyline “Submarine” doesn’t really stray from the norm - Oliver’s mother’s ex is the outgoing, imposing cool guy, in contrast to Oliver’s more quiet father, who has the heart of gold, but just can’t express himself all that well; Jordana is a straight-talking if rather rebellious girl (she is smoking at 15 after all (no pun intended!)) and Oliver even …
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