Cinema Trips: November & December
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kittiwakeSkyline
A science fiction movie about an alien invasion seen from the point of view of a group of friends staying in an LA penthouse. Personally I would have retreated to somewhere without enormous wrap-round plate-glass windows, I wouldn't have made a break for the harbour (what you really think the aliens can't go over water? Unlikely!), and if I had decided to make a break for it, then the SUV (which could easily have held all five of them) would have been much more sensible than a convertible sports car - with the hood down!
I would probably still have been sucked up into the spaceship, but there is no need to make it too easy for the aliens!
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
The third film in the Millennium Trilogy follows on immediately form the second, And if you haven't seen The GIrl Who Played With Fire it would be very hard to follow, but I felt that it wrapped things up well, even though there was a lot less action than in the first two films, due to the amount of scenes set in the hospital and courtroom.
The Way Back
My aunt was over from Spain for Christmas, and as usual we went to Broadway to see a film. Although "The Long Walk" (the book from which this film was adapted) was probably based on a real escape, it did not happened to the book's author. We both enjoyed it, but there were some oddly abrupt changes of scene that jarred quite badly. One minute they were planning the escape from the gulag, and the next they were running through the woods during a blizzard, then later they were sitting in a Tibetan hut discussing whether to cross the Himalayas immediately or wait for three months as they had been advised to, and suddenly they are walking though a tea plantation in India.
A science fiction movie about an alien invasion seen from the point of view of a group of friends staying in an LA penthouse. Personally I would have retreated to somewhere without enormous wrap-round plate-glass windows, I wouldn't have made a break for the harbour (what you really think the aliens can't go over water? Unlikely!), and if I had decided to make a break for it, then the SUV (which could easily have held all five of them) would have been much more sensible than a convertible sports car - with the hood down!
I would probably still have been sucked up into the spaceship, but there is no need to make it too easy for the aliens!
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest
The third film in the Millennium Trilogy follows on immediately form the second, And if you haven't seen The GIrl Who Played With Fire it would be very hard to follow, but I felt that it wrapped things up well, even though there was a lot less action than in the first two films, due to the amount of scenes set in the hospital and courtroom.
The Way Back
My aunt was over from Spain for Christmas, and as usual we went to Broadway to see a film. Although "The Long Walk" (the book from which this film was adapted) was probably based on a real escape, it did not happened to the book's author. We both enjoyed it, but there were some oddly abrupt changes of scene that jarred quite badly. One minute they were planning the escape from the gulag, and the next they were running through the woods during a blizzard, then later they were sitting in a Tibetan hut discussing whether to cross the Himalayas immediately or wait for three months as they had been advised to, and suddenly they are walking though a tea plantation in India.
