CAMcleod
Bio: Like anyone worthy of interest, my life is a work in progress, so let us do a biography in a few years. I have always loved film, though, so let us hope that doesn't change...
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Tron: Legacy (2010) - Rated 22 Dec 2010
"Proof not only that a sequel can be better, but that effects pictures needn't be crap! Jeff Bridges eats up the screen as the zen master Kevin Flynn, with marvellous turns from Garrett Hedlund, Michael Sheen and all the cast, while the director shows us exactly why CGI was invented! Daft Punk's score throws Wendy Carlos score for the original out of the window quite rightly, and all of these elements combine to make a masterpiece! 5 points deducted for CGI C.L.U. and narrative lulls, however."
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King Kong (2005) - Rated 28 Nov 2010
"Every single lesson Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens learned about screenwriting and narrative for LOTR, they quickly forgot in the process of making this hugely overstated, moist and wobbly edged remake. With a forgettable cast and a score to match, the story could have been told in an hour and a half, and yet, nigh on three hours after the film started, I couldn't help but think that the dead Kong was the lucky one; at least he didn't have to see "The Lovely Bones"!! Utter trash."
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Black Swan (2010) - Rated 18 Feb 2011
"Every part played to perfection, be it the part of the director, the Swan Queen, 2nd Violin 3rd desk or any other you should care to mention; the closing act of the film immerses one in a way 3D can only dream of until, with the climactic sequence, one is enveloped by the pure Artful abandon of this picture. It left me breathless."
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Road to Perdition (2002) - Rated 28 Nov 2010
"Masterpiece of the highest order. Sam Mendes shows everyone how it's done with the perfect cast, the perfect story, some of the best cinematography ever committed to celluloid and an absolutely mind-bendingly excellent score by Thomas Newman. This piece - capturing perfectly the feeling of 1930s Depression America - is simply, in my opinion, the greatest film ever made, and why? Because it is the most complete work I have ever seen; a frame of difference would be offensive. A must watch."
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