Film with Anja, part 3

I spent thursday and friday watching films with Anja. on thursday we walked to the video rental shop and got two films, and we bought some cheap films they had for sale.

first we saw The Strangers

it was boring, predictable and shit. they nicked their plot from Funny Games, which is odd considering funny games is an anti violence-as-entertainment film. half way through it we wished the protagonists would just get killed, so it'd be over with. liv tyler's character was written as the ultimate pathetic screaming woman who can't do anything, while that guy from felicity did all the action stuff. rubbish.

then we watched Mike Leigh's latest film Happy-Go-Lucky

this was so fucking great! i want to see it again right now.

Next, on friday we watched some of the films we'd bought (before you judge; they were very cheap). first, one of mine: Cloverfield!

written by wonderful Drew Goddard, who was one of the writers on the last season of Buffy. the whole film is supposed to be shot by a handheld camera the people in the story carry around with them, and everything just looks incredible. and Janis "dyke" Ian from Mean Girls is in it! everytime i see this i come over all glazy eyed nerd because the monster/s are so beautiful! they look like so many different things, and they're made incredibly well; the way they move, everything. when i saw Cloverfield with Ottar he joined me in nerding, Anja just pats my head and lets me go. as usual when we see films about great catastrophes, we talked about the fact that if it ever happened to us, we would both promptly lay down and die. we're severely lacking in survival instint. if we were in Cloverfield Anja says i would just swoon over the monster whilst she would get drunk. we compromised by raiding a pharmacy and finding the nearest bed in some furniture shop.

oh, and it has one of the best tag lines ever:


then one of Anja's films: The Brotherhood III: Young Demons, which i can't find a trailer for.

no, we haven't seen The Brotherhood 1 and 2. no, there really is no excuse for paying for this. whoever directed it must've been a film student in it for the cash and the cocks, or someone who used to shoot porn. the whole film was a montage of slow running scenes, and then towards the end the entire plot was explained in a five minute monologue/exposition scene. Anja argued that it was worse than Cast Away, and i respectfully disagreed.

another one of Anja's films: Taboo (trailer)

i fell asleep right at the beginning if this, Anja saw the whole thing, but the next day she couldn't remember any of it. i can live without knowing.