The Light Of Daye

So I promised walgesang my thought on Furiosa after I'd seen it. I saw it on Saturday so you can tell I've been slacking!

The problem is I've not got any strong feelings about it one way or the other.

( Spoilers under the cut )

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So a lot of different things flitted through my head for this. HP. Star Trek Beyond, an episode of Star TRek or Avatar Franchises, Marvel's Avengers Film (the circle shot!) and Batman Beyond: Return of The Joker but the first one I thought of and eventually settled on was:

( Justice League (2017) [review and embedded video under cut] )

So for my birthday, (thanks for all the messages and love yesterday btw :) ) My family went to see Age Of Ultron today as in my parents and sister and I. Review probably with mild spoilers under the cut.

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*cue the black sabbath* OH and spoilers. Really big spoilers. I mean it.



So I really don't know what to think about this movie. It really does things different from the previous Iron Man films and Avengers and it build itself up a sort of finale to Tony Stark's tale.

So basically the stress of the attack on New York and nearly dying in the Avengers, I guess is the straw that broke the camels back for Stark and his PTSD. The Iron Man suits are his crutch and he's got issues and everything and at the end he blows up all his suits, gets the reactor out of his chest (out of nowhere), and basically calls it quits.

Big problems here:
1) He calls it quits. Along with Dark Knight Rises last year this really bugs me. Since when do good superhero films have to end with the message that to be a superhero, you have to be psychologically scarred and you should give it up to be better. You should stop being heroic people. Urgh.
2) I don't think the PSTD arc really flows from how he was presented in Iron Man 2, or in the Avengers. It just doesn't scan for me.

So he spends a big part of the middle of the film not in a metal suit, not really superheroing it up but investigating the old fashioned way. While superpower bad guys are after him. It's not really bad persee, quite action packed and exciting in places and RDJ is charasmatic as ever.

But it all just feels off to me. Like I say big mixed feeling on this one.

S0 I was meaning to write today. Instead my friend got off work earlier than expected and we saw a movie/ had a meal. Intially we'd planned to see The Bourne Supremecy, because my friend fancies Jeremy Renner. But its turns out no, he doesn't want to see a Bourne film because he find them forgettable lets go see the expendables instead. (because he also fancies liam hemsworth)

The expenables. Oh Dear. Just Oh dear.

I'm good with mindless action flicks. If i skip past a random scene of martin lawrence and will smith bullying a kid, I can pretty much watch bad boys II constantly. I love The Rock, Con-Air, Face/Off. 

This was not a good action film for me. i mean I guess I get why most of the one-liners are supposed to be funny. But they just weren't. It was too predicatable. The plot was thin on the ground even for this fair and I don't care about the characters, which is bad because they keep having these quiet supposedly poignent character moments between action scenes but it dosn't work because these guys just don't have the acting chops to do it.

I get the expendables shtick is too stick as many action heroes old and new on screen at once and show how manly it is. But really if you cut down the cast of characters so everyone had a decent amount of screentime. you might make a better movie.

So yeah what I have learnt. My friend still has terrible taste in movies. I prefer 90s action movies to the 'classic' 80s ones and that old action stars should now when to quit.  

aka Daye watches movies everyone else saw ages ago. Next I'll watch Sixth Sense, no-one tells me how it ends! :-P

Right King's Speech, what can I say that hasn't been said? Colin Firth, Helena Bonham-Carter, Rush terrific performances all. I'm a bit of a sap really but the scene where Firth's becoming King and is absolutely distraught about it really tugged at my heart strings. Coming as it did so soon after the scene where is older brother absolutely crushes him, taking the piss out of his stutter and accusing him of taking elocution lessons so he can steal the throne.

There's a disadvantage in talking with y'all about Fil Harry Potter so much. It never escapes you, I spent all of George V's scenes thinking, 'that's Dumbledore right?' Even more disconcerting is the idea of Churchil, generally considered a great man and a power prescience being played by Timothy Spahl, aka Wormtail. And when he's not being Wormtail, he's that maintenance man on the VR game in the Red Dwarf episode 'Back To Reality'

Back the film, at the risk of being pretentious, I think one of the strengths of the movie is its ability to switch seamlessly between tones. From Humour to angst and drama and even with in those tones, with the source of humour ranging from the silly antics of Logue's therapy, the Mrs Logue's sudden discomfort at being among royalty. And even within a single scene, there is humour derived from the shock value of Colin Firth just cursing and cursing immediately followed by the quick shot of Logue's kids being the next room listening to it.

Finally, I'll just say intentionally or not, this is a damn good propaganda piece for the royal family. I've been told that it apparently glosses over the royal's support of Nazi appeasement and Churchil is shown as a stronger supporter of George V than he was but still its crowning triumph is that at times I caught myself feel sorry for Bertie and even David/Edward VI (when he wasn't being a total prat) and thinking 'Darn, tis tough being a royal'