Sucker Punch
Tries to merge Black Swan, Inception and Brazil with comics, anime and videogames and the results are....... unsurprisingly vapid and sterile. Total pile of crap. 2/10
A madman's diary.
Sucker Punch
Leon Morin, Priest
Swan Lake (1968)
True Grit (remake)
Let Me In - okay, curiousity got the better of me and I checked this one out for a lark. Hammer Films, huh? Now that's a name I haven't heard in ages. It's structured more like a traditional horror film, with a detective and the caretaker looking more like a bogeyman. Also emphasises the vampire's feral sides whereas the original is ambivalent whether she really is a vampire or just suffers from porphyria. And thx for making the boy androgynous and a pervert and a thief and a coward. Now I CAN really emphatise with him. The girl's more of a girl. The bullies are more menacing although the lead bully looks like a young Brian Wilson.
Let The Right One In - After all the hype, I decided to check it out myself. And yeah, it deserves the hype it got. Atmospheric and creepy, and quite possibly the most realistic interpretation of vampires as seen through a kid's eyes as it could get. And no, I'm not checking out the American remake, Let Me In. I found the mutilated organ flash scene creepily erotic. As subtle as it gets. My only problem? Its dialogue is dubbed in English and my copy doesn't have the original Swedish voices. This generation's Vampyr or Martin, easily. 8/10
The Green Hornet (3D) - Forced to watch it in 3D as the 2D version isn't available here. Superfluous and I don't even notice it after a while. Seth Rogan is just dreadful - unfunny and overactiing. The visual effects revolutionary? Multi-layering cars for a comic book effect? Split screen for "spreading the news"? You have to be forewarned that this is a Rogan movie and not a Michel Goundry movie - there's none of his quirkiness except for the strange poetic justice. The rose in the bed of thorns is Jay Chou - restrained, very funny and cool as ice. Thank God they didn't cast haggard washed-up Stephen Chow as Kato. As for Van Johnson's degrading of this movie, yes, you can say bad things about Rogan, but you need a seance to ask Bruce Lee what he thinks of the new Kato. 6.5 out of 10