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If you havent seen it already watch this!!! one of the best films over the last few weeks

It was alright..... slightly above-par "yuppies in peril" sort of film really, which benefits greatly from having someone like Samuel L Jackson be the one doing the imperilment... Not Neil Labute's best film (that would be a toss up between the incredibly bitter and twisted "In The Company of Men" or the even MORE twisted "Your Friends and Neighbours"...), but at least he's back on some kind of form now after that godawful "Wicker Man" remake he did.... What the HELL was he thinking.....?

 

I was far more impressed with "Waltz With Bashir" and "Changeling" tbh over the past month.....

It was alright..... slightly above-par "yuppies in peril" sort of film really, which benefits greatly from having someone like Samuel L Jackson be the one doing the imperilment... Not Neil Labute's best film (that would be a toss up between the incredibly bitter and twisted "In The Company of Men" or the even MORE twisted "Your Friends and Neighbours"...), but at least he's back on some kind of form now after that godawful "Wicker Man" remake he did.... What the HELL was he thinking.....?

 

I was far more impressed with "Waltz With Bashir" and "Changeling" tbh over the past month.....

 

as for Labute The Shape of Things is good too....Haven't seen Changeling yet - asked dad if he wanted to go see it on the 241 but has either been tired or in a mood on the last couple of occasions (i guess its the stress of xmas arriving :lol: ) and its still around for another week so i might go and see it this week. "Waltz With Bashir" was good tho was thinking of it as a documentary more than a 'film' of which i really meant 'movie' if you want to be pedantic about it, and seeing as everything else i've seen recently have been things like scar and the children - much better in comparsion and also towards things like the secret life of bees...which i guess could be brought into the conversation here as its to do with race (tho at the time of the civil rights movement years ago) but thats like a five afternoon movie something my dad would actually sit and watch at 3.30pm in the day...probs rather than the 'coming soon to film4 vibes' of the metaphor laden Lakeview Terrace...(which he might watch but might take offence if theres naughty language in it)...of which at this point it might be intersting to read the american posted comments on imbd...a site thats really has nothing to do with films..as it seems to be about race most of the time (with 95% of commenters wondering how jewish scarlett johansson is most of the time)...and a couple of years ago loads of criticsm from the african-american posters because Kerry Washington dared to date a white dude at the time (the boy from big who would turn into tom hanks when he went to the zoltar machine)...and maybe it could be seen as interesting that she was casted in that part with all the bad vibes from imdb...and seeing as she was Ben Grimm's lady in F4* and ended up with James McAvoy in Last King lets hope she doesnt get typecasted as the 'Black Chick who loves white dicks' or she will end up playing Sinitta in the Simon Cowell story :lol:

 

 

 

*tho obv Ben Grimm ended up looking like a large loaf of bread (but i guess The Thing looks better on Michael Chiklis CV than crusty tiger bread man)

as for Labute The Shape of Things is good too....Haven't seen Changeling yet - asked dad if he wanted to go see it on the 241 but has either been tired or in a mood on the last couple of occasions (i guess its the stress of xmas arriving :lol: ) and its still around for another week so i might go and see it this week. "Waltz With Bashir" was good tho was thinking of it as a documentary more than a 'film' of which i really meant 'movie' if you want to be pedantic about it, and seeing as everything else i've seen recently have been things like scar and the children - much better in comparsion and also towards things like the secret life of bees...which i guess could be brought into the conversation here as its to do with race (tho at the time of the civil rights movement years ago) but thats like a five afternoon movie something my dad would actually sit and watch at 3.30pm in the day...probs rather than the 'coming soon to film4 vibes' of the metaphor laden Lakeview Terrace...(which he might watch but might take offence if theres naughty language in it)...of which at this point it might be intersting to read the american posted comments on imbd...a site thats really has nothing to do with films..as it seems to be about race most of the time (with 95% of commenters wondering how jewish scarlett johansson is most of the time)...and a couple of years ago loads of criticsm from the african-american posters because Kerry Washington dared to date a white dude at the time (the boy from big who would turn into tom hanks when he went to the zoltar machine)...and maybe it could be seen as interesting that she was casted in that part with all the bad vibes from imdb...and seeing as she was Ben Grimm's lady in F4* and ended up with James McAvoy in Last King lets hope she doesnt get typecasted as the 'Black Chick who loves white dicks' or she will end up playing Sinitta in the Simon Cowell story :lol:

*tho obv Ben Grimm ended up looking like a large loaf of bread (but i guess The Thing looks better on Michael Chiklis CV than crusty tiger bread man)

 

I kind of think that it's impossible to discuss a film like "Lakeview Terrace" without discussing issues of race tbh, I mean, it IS what that film is about at the end of the day.. What disappointed me about this film was this -

the fact that it copped out at the end and killed the Sam Jackson character.... Far more interesting, I feel had he been arrested by his own and put on trial. Still, maybe this was a point that LaBute was trying to make as well, that the Black Cop will always in the end be turned on by the whites who continue to dominate the LAPD...