Total Films 50 Most Hated Movies Ever Made: Part 1

(by Simon Kinnear for Total Film)  Read it here

50. Daredevil (2003)
49. Superman Returns (2006)
48. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
47. Teminator Salvation (2009)
I remember watching Daredevil years ago, I don't really remember what happened all I remember was that I didn't like it at all.
With Superman Returns it was alright I just wasn't taken with Brandon Routh's performance, but from what I remember it did quite well and this poster is pretty awesome. I haven't seen the last two but I really don't think Terminator Salvation is hated.

46. Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
45. Halloween (2007)
44. Fantastic Four (2005)
43. Resident Evil (2002)
The only film I've seen in this bunch is Fantastic Four and I loved it and I love Chris Evans too.

42. Jersey Girl (2004)
41. Constantine (2005)
40. Swept Away (2002)
39. Epic Movie (2007)
Out of these for, I've only seen Swept Away and I didn't even watch it properly so I think I'll have to give it another watch. I've only seen Swept Away out of these four and I didn't even watch that properly, I actually want to again but properly this time.

38. Clash Of The Titans (2010)
37. A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)
36. The Matrix Reloaded/The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Ahh Clash of The Titans, a baby brought up around people with British accents and raised by English parents and yet sounds Australian. That aside I liked the film but it wasn't the greatest.
Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions were awful sequels, such letdowns after the amazing original but then again the sequels business is a tricky one.

35. Godzilla (1998)
34. Van Helsing (2004)
33. The Spirit (2008)
32. Crash (2005)
I actually quite like Godzilla but I feel like it's constantly on TV. Van Helsing I don't really remember apart from it being confusing and just all around strange.
I loved Crash and I thought it was brilliant but apparently it's hated because of it's "over-the-top racism" but that's one of the most important parts of the story.

31. Sucker Punch (2011)
30. Alien Resurrection (1997)
29. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
28. Sex and The City 2 (2010)
I actually really liked Sucker Punch (check out my review here); however the story was confusing and the characters weren't properly developed at all, but the fight sequences were pretty cool.
I never had any interest in watching Sex and the City, not the show or the first film but my sister started watching this one on TV so I thought I would give it a go and it wasn't that bad.

Spider-Man 3 I don't really remember so it's one I'm going to watch again soon.

27. Pirates of The Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)
26. Planet of The Apes (2001)
25. The Avengers (1998)
I didn't get At World's End at all, I've only watched it once and even though I have the DVD I have no interest in watching it again, although I probally should because I don't actually know what happened. Now Planet of the Apes I loved because I love Mark Wahlberg and that may have been the only reason.

Any films you hate?
Part 2 in the New Year.

The Best Movie Posters of 2012

(according to Empire)

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Dark Knight Rises

Dredd

Frankenweenie

The Hobbit

Killing Them Softly

Man of Steel

Paranorman

Skyfall

We Need To Talk About Kevin

Argo

The Dark Knight Rises

The Expendables 2

Haywire

The Imposter

Lincoln

The Man With The Iron Fists

Prometheus

Stoker

The Wolverine

The Cabin In The Woods

Django Unchained

Flight

Hitchcock

John Carter

Looper

The Master

Seven Psychopaths

Ted

Zero Dark Thirty

I'm loving the Cabin In The Woods labyrinth like poster, both The Dark Knight Rises ones and the Elvish Hobbit poster, come on what's not to love. The whole idea of The Imposter is just amazing and the poster is absolutely amazing, showing how little resemblance there actually is between the two.

There are a few posters I don't like one of them being the Skyfall poster, I think the layout is odd and it looks more like an advert for some sort of manly aftershave.

I'm a pretty bad film student, the only films here I've seen The Cabin in the Woods, John Carter, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises and Ted. I know I'm awful.

Hopefully I'll be better next year.


Any favourites here?

Hope everyone is having a great Christmas :)

It's Christmas Eve

So tomorrow is Christmas (Merry Christmas to those who celebrate today).
I've been a busy little bee seeing friends and family.

Friday I was my firends annual christmas get together, Saturday was my cousins 25th birthday and yesterday was our family present swap. Three days of too much drink and rain and now I'm ill :( so today will consist of feeling sorry for myself and watching awful Christmas movies on the couch with my mum.

Later I will be watching The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, one of my favourite films and my yearly Christmas Eve film.

What will you guys be watching?

Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Jason Flemyng, Jessica Barden, Michelle Dockery, Eric Bana

Summary: A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Back in August (I know, that was a while ago now) I finally got round to watching Hanna after having it on my shelf for months, and I absolutely loved it!

For me Saoirse Ronan was perfect as the teenage assassin Hanna. Usually cool, calm and collected, her emotions are completely believable when she is put into totally unfamiliar surroundings, especially when she begins her journey and when she meets the outgoing British family on their holiday.
Personally I love Ronan as an actress especially after seeing her in The Lovely Bones and Atonement, which is also directed by Joe Wright.

I have to say that my favourite scenes are the ones with the abandoned theme park and the amazing Brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel themed house.
The film also features the soundtrack debut of The Chemical Brothers which I think is pretty cool after watching Tron Legacy, which of course was the Daft Punk’s soundtrack debut. Just in case you’re wondering, yes the Daft Punk soundtrack is brilliant.

Finally Ian Nathan sums up the film perfectly for me in his Hanna Review saying its “Hans Christian Andersen refitted with glocks, smart phones and satellite surveillance”

My Rating: 9/10
One Final Word: Brilliant

Christmas Break

After working my butt off for the last few weeks yesterday I handed in my script and today I handed in my essay so now I am officially finished for Christmas!!! But this freedom won't last for long as I have to write two essays that have to be handed in when we go back in January, so next week shall be my week off before I get back to business.

Are any of you guys at university or college and if so what do you study?

Have a great weekend :)

Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (Bill Condon, 2012)

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Peter Facinelli, Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene and many, many more…

Summary: After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.

Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Drama

So I took a trip to the cinema for the first time in months on Saturday (I'm poor wahhh), my lovely aunt paid for me and we went to see Breaking Dawn Part 2.
Now I know there's this massive love/hate relationship with the films and books, but personally I love Twilight. It's by no means perfect and I didn't like all the films, in fact I only watched the first film on DVD a year after it came out.

I remember when I found out the final book was being split I was excited because it meant one extra film, but when the first part came out I wasn't really impressed. I knew I would like the second half more because I knew there would be way more action to keep me entertained, and I was right!

I loved it, loved it, loved it, I thought it was a great end to a crazy ride. The cinema we went to was absolutely rubbish though, I missed a little bit of the film because the people working at the cinema were complete failures at their job, and they also left the lights on during the trailers and the first 10 minutes of the film. Never going there again.

There were a couple of things that I really didn't like one of which being Renesmee. The effects used on her in the first half of the film are terrifying and make her look a bit evil. I remember constantly thinking that her face doesn’t look right, her eyes were either slightly too far apart or too close together and they were too low down on her face. She just looks extremely fake.

But enough of my rambling, what did you guys think of Twilight and do you love it or hate it?


My Rating: 7/10

Film | In the Cinema - December

Welcome to the first In The Cinema post with some films that are released this month.

The Man With The Iron Fists – On the hunt for a fabled treasure of gold, a band of warriors, assassins, and a rouge British soldier descend upon a village in feudal China, where a humble blacksmith looks to defend himself and his fellow villagers.

I, Anna – A noir thriller of a femme fatale who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – A curious Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, journeys to the Lonely Mountain with a vigorous group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by the dragon Smaug.

Smashed – A married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.

Life of Pi – A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor, a fearsome Bengal tiger.


West of Memphis– An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.

Jack Reacher – A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.

Zaytoun – Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn Lebanon back to their home.

November Films

I literally spent the whole of yesterday lazing around, if I wasn’t on my laptop insisting that I was going to write this post I was playing Xbox, but from tonight or tomorrow it’s back to business as I’ve got another script and essay to write.

So here’s the list of films I watched in November


My Summer Of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2004)

The Thing (Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., 2011)

Bring It On (Peyton Reed, 2000)

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (Don Roos, 2009) - (This is a must watch)

Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

Deep Red (Profondo Rosso – Dario Argento, 1975)

A Fistful of Dollars (Per un pugno di dollari – Sergio Leone, 1964)

Max Payne (John Moore, 2008)

Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)

Indigénes (Days of Glory – Rachid Bouchareb, 2006)