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Simon ([personal profile] kneeshooter) wrote2006-05-09 07:34 am
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Chick Flicks

After reading some not-totally-negative reviews in SFX, I thought I'd spend a couple of hours of my life watching Æon Flux and Underworld - Evolution.

Quite unexpectedly neither was a complete waste of time, despite more than one cringing moment with each. I loved the design of the first film and it's nice to see that in the same way that more-beautiful-people-than-others-fly-in-TV-land - in the future we'll all be pretty - or is that only the pretty ones will survive - except for a token Pete Postlethwaite.

It's a complete travesty that Kate Beckinsale's bum didn't win any awards for a second Underworld outing, but she had a lovely self-repairing costume and it has to win "best use of Helicopter in hand-to-hand combat".

Deep and thought provoking they are not - fun they are.

I also watched Episode One of Popetown - The banned TV series they didn't want you to see!. Don't bother. Not because it's offensive against the Catholic Church - just because it's rubbish.

[identity profile] mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Lovely bum or no lovely bum the first Underworld was so rubbish that as I said at the time of it's release "short of Kate Beckinsale turning up at my door, driving me to the cinema, buying me a drink and some minstrels and proceeding to blow me throughout the entire duration of the film I won't be going to see it".

And now it's out on DVD my feelings haven't changed.

[identity profile] mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not hard to please.

[identity profile] miss-perdita.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, there's not much in the world I like more than a shapely lady in a latex catsuit.
That said, I found Ms B to be strangely sexless in Underworld. I was worried I might be broken, but upon viewing other ladies in similar outfits, I realised if was just her.
How queer!

[identity profile] miss-perdita.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'll take your word for it. I think I'd be happier seeing her in just her undies...

[identity profile] gaius-octavian.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
I enjoyed them both too.

A film is a good film if it does what it says its going to do, neither of them promised to be any more than lightweight entertainment and they delivered exactly that. Bad films are ones that promise more than they deliver.

[identity profile] mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
I agree completely, no film snobbery here...but I didn't find Underworld entertaining so for me it didn't succeed even in light entertainment stakes.

[identity profile] toxicpixie.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
I laughed & laughed & through Evolution. It is a comedy, right?

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

[identity profile] miss-soap.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
I liked Æon Flux; it was stylish and nice to look at.
kingandy: (sexy)

[personal profile] kingandy 2006-05-09 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
Never mind all that. How were the coats?

Also does scott speedman get his shirt off again?
kingandy: (Frowny)

[personal profile] kingandy 2006-05-09 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
See, now you've made me want to see it.