Constitution Hill

So, last year was a bad year for many things, watching films being one of them. I saw fewer films last year than in any other year of the last dozen. I thought for a while it was because I was watching so much TV I’d downloaded from the net instead, and maybe it was. And watching films isn’t quite the joyful thing it used to be – diminishing returns, perhaps. And so, a new year, a folder full of unseen films to start things off, and a continuing list behind that little tab under the clouds to help things along.

• The Illusionist – Slight, and slightly predictable.
• Borat - I love you, Sacha. I want your babies.
• A Scanner Darkly – Eye-candy. Now do Ubik.
• Match Point – Jonathan Rhys Meyers is entirely unlikeable in everything, but he seems to despise Tom Cruise, so he can’t be all bad.
• Little Miss Sunshine - Steve Carell saved this film from indie mawkishness.
• Rambo: First Blood – This most recent viewing tainted the nostalgia. Never again.
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – Not ‘not as clever as it thinks it is’, more ‘just about clever enough to get away with its stylistic tics.’

[and yes, this post is a remake.]