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Tuesday
09Mar2010

Alice In Wonderland

Why is it that every 3D film is so popular that it takes ages to seat everyone and they keep the sound down and lights up for the fucking trailers. I look forward to seeing those trailers on the big screen especially in 3D. But you can't see shit with the lights on. Start letting people in earlier you twats so I can watch the trailers in peace.

Right. Alice in 3D from Tim Burton - on paper that alone means this film will be awesome. Unluckily it wasn't to be so. It's a shame because I'm a big Tim Burton fan and don't think he's done much wrong really in the past, but this film is a real let down.

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Friday
05Mar2010

The Horseman

It's fucking Friday so I thought what better way to start the weekend than with a review of nasty Austrailian revenge flick The Horseman. Before I get started I thought I'd show the sypnosis that's on IMDB. "A tender drama unfolds between a grieving father and a troubled teenage girl as they drive northbound along the quiet outback roads of Australia..." There is more to it than that and when I read that I was like fuck did they watch the same film? It does mention that she doesn't know he's stopping off to kill people along the way but to be honest that is a fucking understatement.

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Tuesday
02Mar2010

Bitch Slap

Now I think it's important to clear a couple of things up before we go any further into my review of Bitch Slap. On the surface Bitch Slap is pretty shit and if you're a big fan of mainstream cinema then I really wouldn't watch this and I have to add I'm sick of repeating myself on this Fuck Off from our blog you're not welcome here. Yes we like the mainstream but for fucks sake how many more uneducated pricks are there out there. I always judge a film on what it is i.e the money spent on it, the quality of the actors etc etc. An example would be Avatar. Now I thought it was a fantastic piece of cinema but for the cost that is equivalent to the debt of a third world country I wouldn't expect anything fucking less. If however you strip away it's prettiness it's actually got a rather turgid storyline and as is common place in Mr Camerons films some of the dialogue is just fucking shite. You could not for example compare Avatar to John Carpenters 1974 low budget sci-fi film Dark Star although they're the same genre. I hope you simpletons therefore understand that I will judge a low budget film on it's merits compared to other low budget films and not to a multi million dollar film.

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Monday
01Mar2010

From Paris With Love

Unless you live in a box under a motorway flyover you'll know that John Travolta catapulted to fame in the 70's with the likes of Carrie, Saturday Night Fever and Grease but by the late 80's the roles had dried up and come 1993 he'd completed the worst fucking trilogy known to man with those fucking shite films with talking babies in. When Tarantino cast him in Pulp Fiction Travolta was once more on the fame bandwagon and began to make good films again. Of course since he raped the arse of the world with that bollocks about Scientology his career has been up and down. Now From Paris With Love is no classic by any means but fuck me it's good to see the man enjoying himself again and From Paris With Love is the first ridiculous fun film of 2010.

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Friday
26Feb2010

Legion

Well I've just finished my daily visit to the gym and after sweating like the Snake did in the Sasha Grey interview I thought it was about fucking time that I did a review. Being generally a lazy shit who recently has found it difficult to tear himself away from his PS3 I knew that I'd been letting the side down so I promise a few reviews in the next few days but I'm kicking off with human vs angels action flick Legion. Now lets get it out of the way from the off. If you're expecting a clever piece with religious undertones that discusses the whole armageddon and God debate then you are going to be very fucking disappointed. If however you're looking for guns, explosions and an angel vs angel setpiece fight like no other then Legion is the film for you.

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Wednesday
24Feb2010

A Single Man

I didn't think I'd find anyone to come and see this film with me, but strangely last Wednesday I had a selection of Orange Weds partner offers. In an attempt to look vaguely straight going to see such a film, I took up the offer from an attractive lady. This being A Single Man, and the cinema being in Brighton, there are no exciting stories of chavs in the back row of the cinema shouting anything I'm afraid - it was a wholly uneventful cinema trip!

Anyway the film. I wanted to see this film purely because the reviews had been so positive and I have to say I'm very glad I did. Everything I'd read was true. This film is wonderful. There are two different reasons that I leave the cinema thinking films were great - far more than good. One is because I've been interested by plot, because it was intriguing / clever / exciting and interesting. The other, and reason why I loved this film, is simply because I was captivated by them, because I left with a feeling of wow! The last film to do this so well was There Will Be Blood. So many times in both I was just watching enthralled by a beautiful emotional scenes.

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Thursday
04Feb2010

Ninja Assassin

I'm sure we all remember those formative years of our childhood when we dreamt of being actors, astronauts, doctors or rather unusually in my case a Ninja. That's right people between the ages of around ten and fourteen I wanted to be a fucking Ninja. Actually fuck it I still do. I put this down to an old babysitter who got me into Kung Fu films and the time we sat up and watched a fuzzy VHS copy of Enter The Ninja starring Ninja legend Sho Kosugi. The year was 1981 and since then I've had a bit of an obsession with the shadowy assassins. I can't lie I was really looking forward to Ninja Assassin and the fact it's directed by James McTeigue who gave us the excellent if slightly flawed V For Vendetta added to that. Fucking Ninjas on the big screen! What could go wrong? Well fucking everything actually.

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Thursday
21Jan2010

The Book Of Eli

Do you know what you fuckers? Fuck Off Film ruins my cinema going experience for the first 15 mins every time, because I've always seen all the trailers here. It used to be exciting - Oooh I wonder what's coming up? But now that I've seen all the trailers before on FOF it's boring and I talk through them. Mainly to annoy people who haven't seen them, because they should be reading this fucking Blog!

So Book of Eli. Well having seen the road, a lot of this film is very similar. There are grey scenes of concrete roadways that end abruptly, streets filled with the carcasses of cars, gangs on the rampage, houses in the middle of nowhere etc etc. But the look and feel of this is far more like that of a music video. Shots of Denzel looking cool like Kanye against the steely sky are common and when he unleashes that blade it often plays out like something on MTV! The trailer gives you a hint of the action you're in for, but you're very aware that the directors want to make it look cool as well as post apocalyptic, which was not the case in The Road.

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Monday
11Jan2010

Sherlock Holmes

Ok so I said I was taking a bit of time out but what can I say? The lure of the keyboard was too much? I missed you bunch of cheery fuckers? Actually the reality is it makes me fucking feel better and right fucking now I don't feel fucking good at all and where the fuck is there another fucking blog where you can fucking swear as much as you fucking well bollocks want to and you fuckers actually think it's fucking literature! Anyway back to the film. I can't lie I rarely visit fucking cinemas in school holidays. The very thought of sharing a room with a bunch of skinny kids wearing My Chemical Romance t-shirts or fat spotty chavs in those fucking silly tucked in tracksuits makes me want to fucking hurt people. Teenagers are what set off my Hulk rage. I actually wanted to go watch Avatar but that's a trip to MK and that's a hundred times fucking worse.

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Wednesday
06Jan2010

Blood: The Last Vampire

Saya (Gianna Jun), a 400-year-old, half-human, half-vampire samurai, working for a secret society called The Council, is sent to a school on an American military base in Tokyo to track-down, and kill, Onegin (Koyuki), the demon that killed her father.

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Wednesday
30Dec2009

Avatar

A disabled ex-marine, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is asked to take the place of his deceased twin brother in a mining expedition on the distant moon of Pandora in an effort to infiltrate and gain the trust of the indigenous race, the Na’vi. Jake spends more and more time in his hybrid alien body, called an avatar, and soon finds himself battling against humankind when he falls in love with the ways of the Na’vi and a native girl, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana).

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Friday
11Dec2009

Where The Wild Things Are

So how do you take a classic children's book full of pictures and containing about ten sentences and make it into a feature length film? The answer to that question is get Spike Jonze of Adaptation and Being John Malkovich fame to sit down and write a screenplay with Dave Eggers who wrote Away We Go. Now you could be mistaken into thinking that Where The Wild Things Are is then in fact a children's film but that couldn't be further from the truth. Where The Wild Things Are is without exception this years most adult film seen through the eyes of the child. I cannot urge you enough to go out and see this film and if you are not reeled in by it's magic then your life is in fact effectively over.

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Monday
07Dec2009

Funny People

Judd Apatow is the main comedy writer in Hollywood right now and he's given us everything from the funny Pineapple Express to the unfunny Don't Mess With The Zohan so when I saw he'd reteamed with Adam Sandler I wasn't over excited. I also expected a film with funny in the title to be fucking funny but then I remembered Funny Games and that wasn't funny at all but Funny People was nothing that I expected. It's strange that for all the films Apatow has written he doesn't actually direct that many and Funny People is only his third feature. Come on you all thought he did more.

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Friday
04Dec2009

The Box

Richard Kelly is a director I admire in modern day Hollywood as unlike most out there he's anything but formulatic. Ok so he doesn't always quite hit the mark but I feel that in a world of simple films for really fucking simple people that's not a bad thing. The Box has not received the best of reviews but as you know I don't really give a monkeys toss what others say. After all I'm yet to read a bad review of Paranormal Activity and I fucking hated it but that's just me. In 2001 Kelly gave us the weird and freaky masterpiece that was Donnie Darko and I fucking loved it. He followed this with Southland Tales a rather confusing multi character piece which although not as shit as they made it out to be it fell somewhat short of what I expected, so does The Box mark a return to form for Kelly?

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Wednesday
02Dec2009

Bad Lieutenant-Port Of Call-New Orleans

At FOF we're generally pretty fucking mean to old Donkey Cock but if he's going to turn out shit like Knowing and Next then it's his own fucking fault. However we should maybe remember that he made films like Raising Arizona, Wild At Heart, Fast Times At Ridgemont High and Leaving Las Vegas all of which are fucking brilliant. When I first saw that he was to star in an update of the 1992 Abel Ferrara classic Bad Lieutenant I was a little fucking sceptical to say the least, however when I heard Werner Herzog was directing I was actually interested even with Donkey Cock attached. So I guess the question you're all asking right about now is "any good?". We'll get to that answer in a minute because first let's look at the film itself.

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Monday
30Nov2009

Exhibit A

As you will be aware Paranormal Activity is raking it in at the box office on the back of it's hand held camera work and the so called scariness of it. I saw it of course and fucking hated it. It was about as frightening as a box of abandoned kittens and to be honest it kind of drove the nail in the coffin of the hand held genre for me and then some very kind person sent me a copy of Exhibit A to watch and review. Straight up from the start, fucking forget PA and hunt down a copy of this fucker. It arrived in the post to me in a Police evidence bag which was really fucking cool and property of West Yorkshire Police was on the disc. I'd only seen the trailer last week so I wasn't quite sure what to expect.

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Monday
30Nov2009

The Girlfriend Experience

More a series of moments in time than having an actual plot, The Girlfriend Experience recounts a few days in the life of high-class escort, Chelsea (Sasha Grey), who offers her wealthy clientele a “surrogate girlfriend” service. She assumes the role of a temporary romantic partner, expressing an interest in the client’s life and work rather than just fucking them for money.

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Friday
27Nov2009

Law Abiding Citizen

There are two ways in which you can choose to watch Law Abiding Citizen. You can watch it as some kind of social commentary on the failure of the justice system which is maybe how the film maker wants you to watch it or you can watch it as I believe it to be, a good action thriller that says very fucking little about the justice system. If you want to watch it the first way may I suggest watching Harry Brown instead or just stop being a pretentious twat. If you watch it my way then I guarantee you will enjoy it much more than if you take it seriously. One thing is for certain though and that's it deserves its 18 certificate as it's very fucking violent.

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Friday
27Nov2009

The Road

The apocalypse is something that film makers love to portray, from the machine wrecked landscapes of the Terminator series to the vicious gangs of Mad Max they all seem to have their own visions of the future but let me tell you only John Hillcoat director of The Road has captured my vision of it. For those of you out there with tiny little brains and absolutely fuck all knowledge The Road is an adaptation of the book by Cormac McCarthy and for once I hadn't read it so for the first time in a long time I was able to enjoy a book to film with no expectations. Now I use the word enjoy loosely as to be honest there is little to enjoy about The Road as it is not a happy tale. Feel good film this is not so if Love Actually is your type of thing then I would avoid this like a sailing holiday around the coast of Africa.

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Thursday
26Nov2009

A Serious Man

For those of you who are regulars to our dark corner of the internet, you’ll know that we like to indulge in some “colourful” language. Fuck balls! Well, I’d also like to think that we try and get our facts correct before throwing expletives all over a film willy-nilly. Without fail, every review I’ve seen of A Serious Man has said this film is set in 1967. However, if you know anything about music at all, you’ll know that Santana’s album “Abraxas” was released in 1970 (don’t worry, all will become clear). Now, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter a whole lot, but it’s the little things that count. Plus, if you’re gonna review a fucking film you should at least do the fucker properly.

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