Not every film we watch we like, as you may already know, but a few don't even make the cut because we never actually finish watching them. This can be due to our tiredness (we can't stay awake through them), their boring-ness (we can't stay awake through them) or our hyper-activeness (we talk all the way through and watch only 30% of the film).This post is dedicated to those films, gone but never forgotten x
First up is He's Just Not That Into You which is a pretty below average rom-com. One of those types of films which star all the A-list celebs you can think of (Bradley Cooper, Drew Barrymore, Scarlet Johansson, Ben Affleck, the list goes on), but aren't actually very good. Hence why we never finished it, if I remember correctly we were just too chatty and the film did not excite us at all. Usually if a film doesn't do this by 40 minutes in (i.e half way through) we give up on it. I have seen this film before all the way through and it is pretty boring until the end, when all the story's come together for a big happy ending. I really wish Hollywood films would stop using loads of big names as a selling point. They are just there to cover up the very boring script.
Body Of Lies, Ridley Scott's 2008 action did not excite us either. We only watched this because our mate Leo was in it, and even he couldn't make the film any better. It was an average action, which is the genre we dislike the most. I do think however if we sat down and tried to watch this again we would find it okay. I don't think its a bad film, it just had a slow start and for whatever reason neither of us were really 'feeling it' at that current time. We'll probably give it another whirl in the near future.
The last and most recent of the batch is Mud. We tried watching this film at the weekend but just could not get into it. It has a lot of rave reviews and people loved it when it first came out but I can't really see why. Maybe because Matthew McConaughey plays a different role to his usual hardened characters. We did sit down and concentrate on the film for 40 minutes but nothing really happened. Two boys found a man on an Island and brought him some food. That was it. We had no idea what direction the film was going in and no idea what the point of it all was. So we turned it off. We had also already watched a film that night which also wasn't great - The Kids Are Alright, so we were already in a no more films mood. Mud is on Ollie's Lovefilm list so we are going to give it another try.
UPDATES UPDATES -
Wow its 2014.
Such New Year.
So excite.
This may be the last year of Rollie films (bombshell) as myself and Ollie will both be parting ways around September for different Universities. We will of course still watch films together in our holidays, and we will probably do something with the blog - we're thinking to update it when/if we watch films separately while we're at Uni.
27 films is also coming along, we know its been very anticipated and we are getting around to watching our secret 27. I now have Netflix so it has become a little easier for me to find and watch films. I'm setting a deadline of the end of March but I'm sure that wont be kept to. Also Ollie knows a lot of mine already which wasn't really the plan. OH WELL. (If you don't know what 27 films is click here.)
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