Fight Club.
Nah, Fight Club is one of the best.
Lost in Translation. That was unmemorable shit to be sure. The kind of movie where you want to press pause, step into the frame, grab the actors and yank them out, and then re-insert them with nothing more than two pairs of inflatable armbands into Jaws: The Revenge before telling them to swim.
I gave up watching Fight Club. Too silly.
Mr B thought Lost in Translation was very clever, in that it was an American film with Japan portrayed as disconcertingly alien, but very Japanese in theme & style. She quite liked it.
I found the two lead characters dull and rather indulgent, to be honest. I couldn't find much sympathy for their predicament and generally, given the circumstances, I think the film would have been more entertaining with an injection of sharks. Admittedly, many movies would be improved by sharks. Or robots. Or robot sharks. Alien robot sharks, preferably.
OK, it was a film where I saw what they were trying to do (I'm a regular traveller to Japan, and I've stayed in the Park Hyatt – once, till my boss saw the expenses and turned a shade of puce), but it was all a bit laboured. I think the Japanese would have done it better. And the odds of an giant alien robotic shark monster would be far, far higher.
It occurs to me that I've never seen
Battleship Earth, which is an astounding omission on my part.
Saw the new version of
Total Recall at the weekend. Meh. Probably passed muster as a generic actioner, but seriously, why bother?
