The first Big Day Out I ever attended – tickets were just $69.50 (an absolute bargain, by today’s standard). I went to the concert with my friend David Rummery – we decided to get dressed up for the occasion, so I was wearing black shorts, a black X Files t-shirt (which I loved), and my beloved Converse skate shoes (even though I can’t skate). As well as all that, I had half my hair dyed bright red. I looked like an idiot. But I can remember seeing the following bands:
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par·am·ne·sia (prm-nzh) n.
– A distortion of memory in which fantasy and objective experience are confused.
Such is the basis of the movie The Forgotten, starring Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Linus Roache and Gary Sinise, and directed by Joseph Ruben (whose previous best movie was 1995’s Money Train).
Its been said that when a butterfly flaps its wings, somewhere in the world a typhoon is started. This sounds like absolute gibberish to me, however The Butterfly Effect takes the core principle here (“change one thing, change everything”) and uses it to great effect.
Secret Window caps off the third film in a row where Johnny Depp is absolutely fantastic in the role that he plays (following Pirates of the Caribbean and Once Upon A Time In Mexcio) – this time around he plays author Mort Rainey, who is being stalked by a crazed man (played by a fantastic John Turturro (who played the butler in Mr Deeds)) who claims that he has stolen one of his stories.
Paycheck is directed by John Woo (director of Mission Impossible 2 and Face/Off) and is pretty much standard fare for him, with the exception that the storyline is absolutely fantastic – Ben Affleck stars as Michael Jennings, an engineer who does ‘reverse development’ (that is, he takes existing technology, and takes it apart, then puts it together again, in order to sell it to his employers as ‘original’ technology).
Well, I finally got to see the best movie of the year last night (no, I didn’t go and see 13 Going on 30).
I, Robot stars Will Smith (… good!) and Bridget Moynahan (… bad …) and about a million robots – and if you think I’m joking, you need to go and see the movie. The robots were real!
Well, I’ve been looking forward to Spiderman 2 for quite a while – its been one of the movies of the summer I’ve been amping about for quite a while, along with The Day After Tomorrow and I Robot.
The first time I saw Shrek (the movie, not the sheep) I was entirely surprised by what I saw. I was not expecting to see one of the funniest movies around.
The premise of The Day After Tomorrow is a simple one – the polar ice caps melt, causing the oceans temperature to drop considerably, in turn causing nasty storms (and other weather phenomenon) and bringing the world into a new Ice Age.