I guess it has aged as well as it has because it’s writing concerns itself mainly with the morality, ethics and traits of humanity, which are timeless. Anyway, here are the movies I’ve been watching recently.

Film:

Defiance: Starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber it tells the story of 2 Jewish brothers who flee to the forests in Eastern Europe around their town during the Nazi occupation and round up for the camps. It follows them as they slowly gather more and more Jews together, and continue to evade capture. I personally really liked this movie overall. I thought I would be jaded by the war epic and felt this might just be another Schindlers list, but the dialogue and general progression kept you interested throughout. I’d highly recommend this movie.

Primer: I’d heard good things about this movie from friends and after finally getting around to watching it I was not disappointed. The movie continually pushes the viewer to fill in the gaps. Nothing is spoon fed to you or insults your intelligence. It’s basically a time travel story done right for once. It was slightly confusing through the middle, as more and more of the plot was left up to the viewer to figure out, but if you had been paying attention then the ending will seem absolutely fantastic. I loved it to be honest. Although watch it when you are prepared to concentrate, don’t expect the hollywood time travel explanations that you see in movies like “Timecop”

Transformers 2 (Revenge of the Fallen): This pretty much sums up the entire film. It’s like Micheal Bay knows he’s stereoty0ped for making movies that are all form and no function and is whole heartedly embracing it. The plot in this movie is non-existent and there is probably barely an A4 sheet of dialogue in the whole thing, so how Micheal Bay managed to stretch it out for 150 minutes I don’t know. The movie basically follows this format: Transformer battle, puerile jokes, Megan Fox pouting and striking a pose… rinse repeat. Don’t get me wrong, I love watching transformers battle, but there has to be some substance or point to it all.

There was a rough storyline, but it was glossed over with too many explosions. I seriously felt jaded by the end of it, I never thought I’d say this, but you CAN have too much giant robot fighting and explosions in a movie. If the movie was an hour shorter I’d be singing a different tune, but it isn’t, it drags out for an hour longer than needed and left me feeling bored by the end of it all.

Also, being a slight Transformers fan there where a few things I couldn’t help but feeling. There wasn’t near enough transforming. For the majority the transformers remained in their Robot form, with little to no use of the vehicles they can transform into. Also, by the end of it I actually sympathised more for the Decepticons rather than the Autobots, as they where only trying to secure a power source so that their race (and that of the Autobots) could live on. At one point Megatron actually pleads with Optimus Prime to think of his own race but he flatly ignores him. Optimus also seemed way too violent in this. I mean he spends most of his time just riping the other robots to pieces. You have to remember, these are his kind. It’s akin to a human just ripping the limbs off of other humans and then expecting the audience to sympathise with this character.

Overall I felt let down as a Transformers fan and bored as a cinema goer.