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Outside of Toy Story 1 & 2 (I haven't seen 3) and Monsters Inc. I've found pretty much every Pixar film underwhelming!... Cars (well obvisously), Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Up (and Wall-E, not mentioned).

 

 

Not a fan of good films? ;)

 

Up is fantastic. Probably one of the best animation films I've seen. The humour is classic, too.

 

Brave is ok. I wasn't a fan of the trailer, but the actual film has some good moments. Not every film can be as defining as Toy Story, Monsters Inc or Up. Not a bad film at all, I enjoyed it. It has a great middle section.

 

I've seen a few other films recently, Star Trek, Mr Bean's Holiday and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

 

Star Trek was great, I thought. I loved how it co-existed with the already existing films, whilst also clearly doing it's own thing as well. There's a certain few scenes where this is evident and it was just such a fuck yes moment! I thought the "space" scenes were fantastically well done. Really enjoyed it. :)

 

Mr Bean's Holiday is weird. I love it, it's very charming, whilst being unusual as well. It's different to the other film, there's something more attractive about it, the way it is shot and executed. The last scene before the credits is one of my favourite things ever. :D

 

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - I read this book out loud to a class of 13 year old (or so) girls when on teaching practice. Last few pages in particular was a struggle. I thought the film was done in the right way, it took the story from the novel and put it onto the screen, whilst also adjusting a few parts to make it "work." I thought the actress who played the mother was excellent and played the part well. Could have been a story in itself.

 

Pretty sure I've seen a few others, too.

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Brave is ok. I wasn't a fan of the trailer, but the actual film has some good moments. Not every film can be as defining as Toy Story, Monsters Inc or Up. Not a bad film at all, I enjoyed it. It has a great middle section.

 

That's pretty much what i thought. It took a while to get going, with a fairly generic beginning.

 

Then the middle bit happened,

 

which was a massive and nice surprise. Really not expecting that story line at all. So yeah, the whole bit with the bear was great.

 

And then the ending was a bit of a letdown. It ended too quickly and too 'expectedly'....

 

 

 

Also, for a Pixar film, there weren't that many funny bits....usually i leave the cinema quoting loads of funny lines, but it was mainly just slapstick jokes and pratfalling.

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Finally got round to seeing The Dark Knight Rises

 

Thought it was brilliant, the whole story and the casting of Bane was inspired. Enjoyed the more depressed tone of the film and the City of Pittsburgh looked very good on the big screen.

 

Not to mention I cannot stop saying "It's not a car" repeatedly.

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I saw Searching For Sugarman today.

 

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Genuinely great. And likely no one here (or in the UK) will know the twist/story, which is nice. Turns out my mum and her side of the family knew all about it...having lived in South Africa...that's all I'll say. A brilliant little film - gets you so entwined!

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OK so as a producer he's attached to many money-making schemes. That's nice and stuff. But MGS is such a bonkers series of events... and the whole thing is based on a range of ridiculous b-movies, so it's going to be hard to imagine that they do it well! Whether it's more like Resident Evil, Doom or Hitman is yet to be decided... But what I DO know is that producers are NOT the reason anyone goes to see a movie.

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