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Oct. 23rd, 2010 09:18 pmI took Evie to see Despicable Me 3D this morning. She enjoyed it and so did I. The studio clearly know they're onto a winner with the legion of comedy green minions, who get lots of laugh-out-loud moments (We both did!). The other gags and all the characters were good - the three girls all had distinct personalities, the annoying nemesis was suitably annoying, and you've got to love a bad guy intent on stealing the moon to impress his mum. Recommended.
I also saw The Other Guys recently, which was surprisingly good. I thought it would have a really dumb sense of humour, but every time I thought it was going for the obvious gag, it pulled out something unexpected and much funnier.
Made in Dagenham was last Monday's film, an entertaining feel-good movie about, er, inequality, industrial unrest and the evils of giant corporations. Hooray! It ends with a significant political victory. Is it bad that I watched that and immediately thought, "Yeah, but you're gonna have all sorts of fun with DTI and the Treasury when you get to Cabinet clearance stage"?
By the way, all three of those films had credit cookies. I thoroughly approve. They should all do that :o)
I keep seeing the trailer for Let Me In, which apparently isn't terrible. I'm vaguely tempted to watch it just out of curiosity to see what they've done, but I haven't decided. One of the great things about the original was that the characters were kindred spirits - the monsters were usually very human, the humans could occasionally be quite monstrous, and they were all struggling to get by in the cold and the dark. I'm worried that will have been lost in the remake, which is after all a Hammer Horror flick...
I also saw The Other Guys recently, which was surprisingly good. I thought it would have a really dumb sense of humour, but every time I thought it was going for the obvious gag, it pulled out something unexpected and much funnier.
Made in Dagenham was last Monday's film, an entertaining feel-good movie about, er, inequality, industrial unrest and the evils of giant corporations. Hooray! It ends with a significant political victory. Is it bad that I watched that and immediately thought, "Yeah, but you're gonna have all sorts of fun with DTI and the Treasury when you get to Cabinet clearance stage"?
By the way, all three of those films had credit cookies. I thoroughly approve. They should all do that :o)
I keep seeing the trailer for Let Me In, which apparently isn't terrible. I'm vaguely tempted to watch it just out of curiosity to see what they've done, but I haven't decided. One of the great things about the original was that the characters were kindred spirits - the monsters were usually very human, the humans could occasionally be quite monstrous, and they were all struggling to get by in the cold and the dark. I'm worried that will have been lost in the remake, which is after all a Hammer Horror flick...
