No 211 - Moulin Rouge! Director - Baz Luhrmann I remember very vividly when I first saw this film. I was in sixth form when it came out, and was a student of 'Theatre Studies', so there was naturally a lot of talk about this overtly theatrical piece. However, I was not convinced that I would enjoy it, it looked overtly soppy, a chicks film. Finally I was convinced to go and see it (Tom Done, who was in the year above and who was utterly terrifying, though who is now a good friend, won me over by stating the line I have used as a title. Surely a film MUST be good if it features unconscious Argentinians and cross dressing dwarfs!). So one evening I went to the Regent cinema in Wantage ( now shut down ) with my best friends Hanna and Richard . The film completely blew me away, and is the only film that has managed to firmly grab my attention in the first second, as the curtains open and the conductor arrives to play the 20th Century Fox theme. It uses the production company's
December 28, 2009. Went to see Solomon Kane (Michael J. Bassett, 2009) with Diabolical CBM & her hubbie. Read some of Robert E. Howard's Solomon Kane stories when I was a kid (plus more recently Solomon Kane comics -- and of course I used to be a Conan fan). We had a vaguely good time, since all the clichés we like were there (demons, vampires, damsel in distress, admiring pre-teen looking up at hero, etc.), but the movie is SO BAD. It's really really terrible. One of the worst. What was James Purefoy thinking?
