Train To Busan (2016)

I doubt if anyone reads this enough to remember anything else that's ever been written on here, but about 15 months ago, I wrote this:

http://filmplop.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/070715-zombie-massacre-2-reich-of-dead.html

Seems someone in Korea thought "Good idea, let's make that film".

And they did.

Sentimental guff in parts aside, it's pretty damn fun!

The main character's called Seok Woo, though. Not Geoff.

Geoff probably isn't a very common name in Korea.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5700672
8.2/10

Perkin.

Kim Un Geoff, yesterday.

Take Down (2016)

The misbehaving children of the super rich are sent to a Scottish island to be taught how to become better people by making fires and killing animals.

Exactly the sort of things that poor children get in trouble for doing.

I dunno, one rule for them, etc.

Anyway, as the combined familial wealth of these little bastards is somewhere in the upper billions, a group of mercenaries decide they represent a profitable ransom, invade the island and take them hostage.

Having to depend in their wits rather than their servants, these little snapchat wankers decide to fight back.

You've already guessed everything that happens after, so I can wind this up now.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2782844/
6.2/10

Perkin.

The Hollow Point (2016)

Small town crime film. All the acting and suchlike is fine, but the story was a little unengaging.

Just, y'know, all the usual.

Want more? Watch it yourself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2918606
5/10

Perkin.

Sugar Mountain (2016)

Another film I had to abandon 20 minutes in due to an early start the next day.
Fucking hell, why can't I actually watch films for a living? Not saying I'd be any good at that either, but at least I wouldn't have to get up at 4.30am during the darkest parts of winter and go and deal with a clusterfuck of company ineptitude that is way outside of my control.

Aah well, anyone who enjoys their job is probably either a fucking idiot, evil, incredibly lucky, or have workmates that are half decent humans.

Anyway, Podd watched his, she said it was alright.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3553378
Alright/10

Perkin.

Pet (2016)

A socially awkward young fellow spots a lady he had a crush on back in school.

Initially he approaches her in fairly conventional ways, turning up at her place of work and offering tickets to a gig etc as a way of trying to get reciprocal interest, but his efforts fail and he moves to plan B, building a big cage and keeping her locked in it down in a basement.

As the film progresses, it turns out she might not be quite the victim she appears and his intentions may be a little different than first assumed.

Actually, for a recent horror, this wasn't too bad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183374
7/10

Perkin.

Macbeth (2015)

I only watched the first twenty minutes as I was on an early shift the next day.

I wish posh people would stop pretending Shakespeare is fun. It's not. Fucking olde-worlde, gobbledegook speaking, Kenneth Branagh, ballbag nonsense.

Opera can fuck off as well.

And ballet.

In the spirit of social balance, for the working and middle classes -football, garden decking, having children, drinking wine, nightclubs, Primark, Channel 5, books about the SAS, scaffolding, The Guardian, pick-up trucks, tennis and Ford Mondeos- can all fuck off too.

Oh, happy Christmas.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2884018
Dunno/10

Perkin.

Burn Country (2016)

Film starts well, about an Afghanistani translator given residence in the U.S. in return for the services he provided in the homeland, trying to adjust to American life whilst working as a crime reporter in a small town.

About half way through it becomes tedious, pretentious bilge where people try and convey profundity by looking into the middle distance as an attempt to cover the absence of logic and plot.

Meh.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3519772
4/10

Perkin.