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Reviews
Mediastan (2013)
My beard is my passport
OK I got here after Fifth Estate - a Hollywooded fairy tale story about WikiLeaks - well depending where you sit on the fence I suppose. So I thought I'd give Mediastan a shot, WikiLeaks own documentary. A journey with Julian's "Remote control" team trying to wheel and deal by "giving away" the diplomatic cables. Giving away the unredacted diplomatic cables after signing a Memorandum of Understanding which is non-binding and represents nothing more than a gentleman's agreement between the two parties - not my words - the remote teams words - that seems bloody irresponsible because once the cables are given to these outlets where else would they go unredacted? You have lost all control – was that the point to this whole exercise? This demonstrates by itself to me how wreckless Assange truly is. Oh the MoU appeared to be in English and these Newspaper editors didn't seems to have a good understanding of English - ie probably didn't understand what they were asked to sign - simply irresponsible by all parties involved. Filming quality was not bad in general, for an amateur. Much better than I expected. As was sound quality. But the documentary itself was lacking with little or no substance. So there we open with Julian in Northfolk reviewing one presumes a US cable with a college and they fall over themselves laughing at "...is already in correspondence with Karl Rove".. Excuse me, Hello?, Over here? Let me into the joke please, I had to go and Google Karl Rove – it didn't help. Some context would be awfully nice chaps. Then we move to the 5 "tourists" otherwise known as Jullian's remote control. The opening gambit about printing or re-printing positive American material in the local press. They were stating that the press would be paid to re-print this material - but he read it out loud at verbatim - yes there was an incentive - but nowhere did it say they would be obliged to re-print anything. It was very interesting how the "boss" of these newspapers were not in central asia but somewhere else like Czech republic or the US itself. What I have to say at the end of all this is Julian Assange is just someone who "lucked out" With Manning but left the poor guy high and dry for what is it? 35 years?? And for what? To put Wikileaks out there and hope to catch some other poor unsuspecting poor soul.
Finally if you are going to cross a boarder, and get intercepted by gits carrying rifles then telling those people "my beard is my passport" deserves to get you some time. Admittedly 5 years at Guantanamo Bay is harsh, I mean it was an impressive beard after all.
The Interview (2014)
What is all the kerfuffle about ?
The Interview - 5/10 (OK - but not really worth the effort)
- rated almost a 9 on IMDb currently but why I have absolutely no idea whatsoever.
This film makes as much fun about American chat shows as anyone or anything else.
Cameo's by Eminem, Rob Lowe and Jo Gordon-Levitt where fun. James Franco as the talk show host was excellent (including the dress sense otherwise known as "fashion risk") as was Seth as the jealous/ambitious producer.
The film is actually good fun right up to the interview itself - but from then on its like a different script writer was brought in and it took a sudden unrecoverable nose dive.
I Origins (2014)
Lost focus
An unimaginative plot.
An unimaginative script.
Kind of felt sorry for everyone else in this film to tell you the truth. These people have potential - but in this film they were chained and couldn't develop the way they should have been allowed to.
Its a film that takes you on a journey to nowhere - slowly and in parts painfully. Together with some very poor balancing of audio levels between dialog and music (which was awful by the way). It makes it a very difficult movie to sit through.
Pity, on paper it had some legs but utterly failed to deliver.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Bone Idle script writers
Yes, nice acting, good CGI - we expect that, and more. We also expect great scripts. Who ever penned this one needs shooting, that has to be the most bone idle script and imagination I have ever had the misfortune to come across JJ sorry - you started well but you have badly let the Trekkies down here. Time for you to move over pal.
As a Trekkie we expect deep meaningful story lines, moral issues to comer across. Some dedicated and original thoughts behind the script.
Am I the only one who feels badly let down here?
Jeez don't want to write anymore about the film, its summed up - why the hell IMDb thinks you need 10 lines I don't know
Furious 6 (2013)
Just plain silly
Doesn't seem to understand a Jenson Interceptor is NOT an American Muscle car, went down hill from there.
Also gotta be the longest runway in the world by ohh about 3 major sized countries I look for action films which stretch the imagination - this was just stoopid. This Franchise should have stopped at #3 Tokyo Drift. I don't mind that Li tries to mess with the sequence of the movies - but I do care when he gets its badly wrong. #6 is definitely the low point in the franchise.
Bitterly disappointed by this film, think I'm done with LKin now. I don't see how Jason Stratham will save FF7.
Avoid at all costs
Oblivion (2013)
Strange case of Déjà vu
Yes, nice CGI, a cast comfortable and working within its limits, and a story line very familiar, very familiar indeed Its strange its not too disappointing in the end, but its lazy writing with virtually zero imagination, its what a school kid devoid of ideas would dream up when tasked to write a Sci Fi story.
I wanted to like this movie, I really did, I still do, but sadly a bone idle writer wrecked it - good and proper.
Its not an avoid at all costs - but you wont get your money worth if you've seen some Sci FI movies.
May be better to wait for it to get to the TV channels and save your money for a different film