Sunday 24 March 2013

Mini-Reviews



Enough of the Doctor meeting the companions as children! I get that the Smith-Doctor is supposed to exist in fairytale environment (rather than the sci-fi/drama/realism environment of Tennant and Eccleston), but change up the opening. He always accidentally runs into the new companion as a child, so she has a reason to be fascinated by him for a good couple of decades before she meets him again; the formula is getting old, so old that I knew who that little girl on the swing was as soon as she sat down!! The Easter return of the show had better be good; and there’d better be no dinosaurs!

Les Miserables.

This is without a doubt one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. Sure the songs are good, but aside from Hugh Jackman’s character, no one gets developed beyond “in this movie.”

Epic tale of love and rebellion my arse. This is story about a man skipping parole and an overzealous Police officer, with a rebellion and love story happening in the background, but acting as though they’ve been happening the whole time. On that point, the love story is the laziest kind of love story there is; they are two characters that find each other similarly physically attractive and barely speak to one another.

Russell Crowe is horribly miscast and the only good thing about his appearance in he film is the sound effect his body makes when he commits suicide, as a result a result of being an absolute moron.
To summerise, this is a film (not unlike James Cameron’s Titanic) that is all about spectacle, rather than substance. It has been continually marketed as an epic about love and rebellion, when really all it is, is a story about Hugh Jackman skipping parole and being pursued by what appears to be the only police officer in France.  

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