Last week Rich and I were back from our trip to Japan (I'll post pictures later) and the cold Korean winter continued to be pretty uninspiring - perfect conditions for crafting and film watching.
First film on the list was "Little Ashes" we were invited to this one by our friend Joseph and I didn't have much idea what it was about, apart from Dali, then I found out Robert "Mr Twighlight" Patterson was starring in the film and immediatly lost all respect for it. I don't like the world hate but I'm in the "strongly disliking Twiglight camp" and I thought maybe I could get beyond that and enjoy the movie but I just couldn't - it won't be in my top ten for 2010.
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The second movie we watched was "Moon" and even though the year is young, this is my favourite movie of 2010 so far. The story runs a little like this, a few years into the future people have worked out how to make a clean source of energy by mining the moon. The movie is the story of a man living on a base, on the moon, by himself. He's about to finish his three year contract and head back to earth, but things become a little weird after he has an accident - I don't want to really say much more but it's a really interesting idea for a film. Plus it pays homage to one of my favourite films, "2001:A Space Odessey", it was directed by Frank Zappa's son and it has Kevin Spacey as the voice of the robot on the ship. Good times all around.
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Movie number three is "Paranormal Activity" which has obviously been in the media a lot and I've been trying to avoid all media about the film as I didn't want any expectations heading into the cinema. People that know me well know that I love horror films and I have for as long as I can remeber, so when all the critics claim that something is the "scariest film of the year" I often find myself disappointed. Paranormal activity wasn't the scariest film of the year but it was a lot of fun for a horror movie fan girl and it had a few good scares - plus watching a horror film in Korea is a lot more fun than in New Zealand. In New Zealand cinema's people try their hardest to show no fear whilst Korean's seem perfectly happy to scream when they get a fright, and I think a whole lot of the people in the cinema got a fright in the last few moments of the film. Basically it's a good little horror film and a fun thing to watch on a Friday night.
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The final movie of the last week was an interesting Korean Horror called "Cello" which we borrowed from our friend Joseph. I really do like Asian horror films (although some do get a little too crazy), it's basically a story of revenge with a few good twists to the plot.
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