Saturday 7 January 2012

NEW FEATURE ---->>Dvd Box

Each week probably Saturday or Friday night, i will give you a dvd from my dvd collection, this will be picked a random so it may be my favourite, and will possibly belong to someone else in the residence, but hopefully it will open you up to some new/old films and may make me revisit some awful film. soooo this week it is..............Attack the Block

This is a relatively new addition to the DVD collection, and don't just think, because it begins with an A I am going through my DVD's alphabetically, because I can assure you there is no order to my collection!!! I was really excited to see this film, but sadly missed out at the cinemas, so this was really my first encounter.
I found the film quite entertaining not perfect, but entertaining, and thought the characters where all well developed and was particularly impressed by the lead actor John Boyega (Moses), he will certainly have a good future. The aliens/creatures were also well designed and original, and  liked some of the hints of ET, with the youths riding on there bikes etc. However I felt the film was hard to place, as it was not that scary, but it wasn't that humorous, and either a greater focus on one of these or a better combination of both of them may have improved it somewhat.
But this aside, I found Attack the Block an exciting film from newcomer Joe Cornish, and look forward to his future projects. So you should definitely give it a watch.

Friday 6 January 2012

Micheal Kiwanuka --> Sound of 2012

All this week has been the countdown of the BBC's sound of 2012, and today was the release of the artist in the number one position, and it goes to Micheal Kiwanuka.
His voice is soulful and his music his highly relaxing, and I urge you to check it out, you will not be able to resist the soulful charm. Check out this video--->> Home Again


This is only a quick update and will get a full analysis of the line up later

Bourne First Image


So we have been given a small, (and I mean small) taster of the new Bourne film, starring Jeremy Renner. It basically gives nothing away and could just be a still from his current film Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol!!! Lets just hope the film fills us with more excitment.

Monday 2 January 2012

3D YAY OR NAY


It seems only a year ago that 3D was being hailed as the new frontier of cinema,  advertised as offering viewers an increased immersion and overall better cinema experience.  But desaturation of colour, headaches, annoying glasses, and also increased prices have meant that the audiences are revolting against the studios and rejecting what is essentially a money making endeavour.
   Firstly the cost must be considered; a typical cinema ticket is around £8.00(varies per establishment), £2.00 for 3-D and the glasses at around £0.80,  a price which for many means a trip to the cinema will become an avoidable expense. Colour saturation is also a problem, and if you are familiar with film critic Mark Kermode you will be well aware of his rants about the "nonsense" that is 3D and importanly the the loss of foot candles of light. This is certainly something i have noticed when attending 3D screenings take Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part 2 and Fright Night both in 3D and both containing scenes in near darkness, in which many of the forms on the screen were hard to make out!! An additional issue is retrofitting, where films filmed in 2d are then transferred in 3d for the cinema release, meaning that the film was not meant to be in this format, but changed in order to apparently make the film more immerrsive?? More likey to create more money for the studios, but to be honest this is unnecessary as the main thing that makes a film immersive is a strong storyline well directed, and interpreted by good characters; and when you have seen the same film on both 3D and 2D personally i find it hard to distinguish, only maybe that the 3d gave me a slight headache.

It doesn't stop there i am now seeing adverts for all these 3d TVs, phones and cameras i find my self shouting at the TV its unnecessary, just STOP IT.

What are your views on 3D??