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Stranded (2001)
This film keeps you watching...
... but I am not sure why. The first 7 minutes are a total waste of time, suffice to say a spacecraft with crew crashes on Mars.
Other reviews have commented that the dialogue is more real than acted but it gave me the feeling that here is a crew that appears to have no training in basic survival and hardly trained at all to be in charge of a space craft, so I start off wondering why anyone would send this bunch of characters on a very expensive first trip to Mars. The guy left on the orbiter must have had his emotions surgically removed prior to the mission. If this crew had trained together then there would have been some bonding etc. etc. but they all behaved like they didn't really know each other.
The actual story is quite good but should have been thought through a lot more. I felt so much more could have been done with this story. The interaction between the crew is strange but somehow compelling at the same time. I got the impression that there was no strict script as such and the actors were winging it.
All the same this is still quite a watch-able film especially if you are mad on sci-fi.
2012: Ice Age (2011)
Amazing film
This is without doubt the worst of the worst films ever. I have never laughed so much, my eyes were streaming with laughter tears all the way through it.
When the big 6'6" guy full of muscles tried mugging the 5'0" skinny runt guy for his coat I just fell to pieces with laughter, what was he going to do, blow his nose with it.
To be honest I think the director has hit on a great format for future entertaining films, it was so bad I couldn't stop watching it. I didn't think it was possible to act that bad, the actors are either amazingly brilliant or absolutely the worst ever, it is quite hard to make up my mind which.
I thoroughly recommend this film to anyone that has a good sense of humour and is in need of a really good laugh.
It is without doubt the most entertaining film I have seen in a long time but not for all the reasons that the director would have hoped.