Alright Party People?

So, last week I blogged about The Martian War. It was good to be back and writing again, even if the film was pretty bloody boring. But I didn’t start this blog to watch good films, I started it to watch bad ones. And by god that’s what I’ll do.

So yes, with last week in our wake, it’s time to set up for another movie! The next standard blog post will be about 2011’s Cat Run starring Paz Vega. I bought this whilst searching through CEX for cheap fodder for the blog. It seems to fit the bill- while not an outright mockbuster like The Martian War, it’s a film that’s obviously not got any prestige behind it. Looks like a by-the-numbers sex and violence job- so it should, at very least, be entertaining in ways The Martian War wasn’t.

The post on Cat Run will be up by Saturday 12th of September. Until then, there will be a bonus blog post at some point, detailing my thoughts upon rewatching The Wizard of Oz! Until then though, here’s some discussion and links to keep you busy!

First, I want to give a quick word about the new Christopher Nolan film Tenet. I went to see the film in a cinema last Saturday. The cinema experience was really not all that different to normal, except with some distancing within rows, and the face masks. I knew next to nothing about the film going in, and am glad I didn’t! The trailer seems to be deliberately vague and that’s a good thing. The central concept of this film is WILD. And it being sprung on me as a viewer at the same time as it was on the main character was the right way to experience it, I feel. And it is quite an experience, a sci-fi action film in a similar vein to Nolan’s Inception, except that I think Tenet is even more ambitious than Inception. It’s so convoluted and fast paced it can be hard to keep up, but the ride is extraordinary. If you feel comfortable going to the cinema, then definitely consider making Tenet the film you see.

In more amusing-yet-also-fucking-horrifying news: Trump’s scheming to try and keep himself in power over in the U.S has made the decidedly improbable happen: people are talking about The Postman: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/the-postman/kevin-costner/

Finally, having mentioned Inception above, I found this quick article on the faults in the central character quite though provoking (content warning for Gaslighting): https://lwlies.com/articles/inception-gaslighting-marion-cotillard-leonardo-dicaprio/

Thanks for reading gang, see you soon for some more flix!

Tom