Forgetting all you couldn’t do today

[hestia8]

I thought I’d posted about Dredd, but apparently not, and I have a couple of other films to mention. I’m in a real action movies phase at the moment, as it turns out.

As mentioned, I had Dredd from Lovefilm recently, which I really enjoyed. I thought Karl Urban was very good, and I liked the set up (although have never read the comics so have no idea how close it was to the source). It reminded me a bit of The Raid: Redemption (the lockdown plot), which I loved (I think I posted about that but if not, it's amazing and everyone should watch it). Worth watching, I think.

When I came back from France, it turned out Lockout had arrived. Initially I couldn’t remember what this film was or why I’d ordered it, but when I looked it up I realised that it was the prison ship film that came out last year and that explained it all, really.

There were some really good people in it – Lennie James, woo! – and I enjoyed the nonsense plot (president’s daughter is doing human rights work on a prison spaceship when shit goes very wrong, and then a wrongfully-convicted man is sent to go get her back), and Joe Gilgun was entertainingly nuts (I particularly enjoyed how on an American prison spaceship where the worst of the worst were being kept, the two main prisoners were Scottish, OKAY THEN). There was also a lot of fighting and shooting, so that part of my brain was happy. I thought Maggie Grace did pretty well as the main female character too.

Oh, and I had been hoping for a Jason Statham film from Lovefilm, but turns out Lockout is a Luc Besson film, which is enough of an intersection (he was behind The Transporter and District 13) that it basically gave me what I wanted. Woo! I am so easy sometimes. 

I also watched You’ve Got Mail, which I haven’t seen for years but which I really, really enjoyed. It reminded me that I need to search out her writing.

I haven’t been to the cinema recently but I would very much like to see Pacfic Rim and The World’s End, so we’ll see if that comes off. I wanted to see Hummingbird but it wasn’t on anywhere convenient at any convenient time, so that’ll have to go on the DVD list.

Attack the Block is on 4 right now, which I recommend if you have not seen it (presumably it'll be on 4oD) and [Rec] 2 is on afterwards, so might try to watch that online at some point as [Rec] was excellent.