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For Christmas this year Rowan and I both got unlimited cinema passes and we’ve been using them! So while I’ve got a few minutes to kill on the train on the way home I thought I’d tell about what we’ve seen:

First there was The Golden Compass:
Not a bad film at all, bit like a girls Lord of the Rings, but is obviously being dragged out to a trilogy (yes I know there’s loads of books that actually make up the complete story, but I’m talking movies) and that’s a pain - no-one makes single good standalone films anymore it seems…

That said the next film we saw was I am legend:
This was pretty good though it was very much Will Smith does 28 days later. Best bit has to be the "ARE YOU REAL FRANK???" scene - fantastic!

Then St. Trinians:
What can I say about this other than brilliant! I liked the original black and white St. Trinians film, but this was something else. Colourful, funny, up to date and hammed to the hilt. Up until this point I’ve not been able to stand Rupert Everett, but seemingly as the driving force behind this film I don’t think I can honestly say a bad word about him again!

Following that we saw Sweeny Todd: 
Not bad, but not good either - was expecting a lot more from this and got a lot less. It was weak, badly sung and the set design really wasn’t as inspirational as much of Burton’s other work has been. Nightmare Before Christmas meets Pirates of the Caribbean - simple as that.

And most recently we saw Alien vs. Predator Requiem:
Utter rubbish, no plot, very literally just AVP and nothing more. Though I though it may have been a flawed concept, the first AVP was actually quite good as it added something to the foundations of "The Company" as well as being an decent though utterly derivative horror film. This bucket-o-junk added nothing to the story, aside from a hint in the last two minutes that something else may be going on here in what seems to be desperate clutch at a seed for a third movie, but it really wasn’t worth sitting through the first 2 hours or so to get to that point.

And that’s about it for now - movies seem to be the flavour of the month for us at the moment and we’re not looking at letting up any time soon, and with the much anticipated Cloverfield out on Friday can you blame us??

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