I rented three DVD's over the weekend, none of them were brilliant.
Asylum, based on some book with Gandalf in a supporting Role, one of the Tree Elves in the lead along with some Richardson bird I've not noticed before but she's married to Liam neeson. 1950's England, a new psychiatrist starts at an asylum and his wife takes an interest in the Gardener who's also a patient. Don't want to go into spoilers, it was quite good really, all about obssessions and Jealousy, wasn't afraid to be a bit nasty.
The Island, What can I say, I liked it, it was dumb but fun, the overly stylised look wasn't too annoying, I think if he knocked it down just a notch it would have been better for it but it all looked rather nice and had good energy/momentum, I'd definitely watch this film again some day to whittle away 2 hours. SHould have shown Scarletts funbags though
Domino, what a load of shit, it is hard to find any redeeming qualities in this film, most of the actors do a fine job, Keira is just weird in it, talking in some posh false English accent, overly complicated plot that just wasn't interesting, I kept falling asleep towards the end to get my eyes away from Tony Scotts inability to film a scene in a normal fucking manner, I liked Man on Fire and the way it was shot, Domino is turned up to 20 on the overly stylised dial (and it's only meant to go up to 1-10), I can handle it for the odd bit of montage or to bridge gaps between scenes but here i's non stop, you can never settle and are contstantly aware you are watching a film, I actually turned it off just as the film reached it's climax, I've never ever done that before but it felt like my brain was going to explode. The Critiques on modern living (Reality TV, Jerry Springer etc) felt like they were 7 years too late, we live in a very self aware age and it just made what was already a bad film worse. If there is ever a mesculine fad with the youngsters I can imagine this film being embraced as it did do that well I suppose, I felt like I was on some horrid drug watching it, I got it Tony, her minds a mess because of the Drug, couldn't you have just told us the Story without it being all from her point of view Richard Kelly, I suppose it looked like a good idea on paper but it certainly a good film does not make, honestly unless you are masochistic or like taking horrible mind altering drugs just stay the fuck away from Domino, I feel abused.