The Way Back

Ace film.

Best described as an 'Epic' film, very fun to watch. It somehow maintains a 'feel good' humour to it, even though there are people dying left right and centre, and hints of cannibalism. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and recommend it to all.
Almost had a heartbreaking end, but fluffed it (for me) due to some odd editing choices. (spoiler: not showing the actor at the end for a decent time...). Could have been stronger if it was kept a bit simpler. The act of walking home is so strong, you shouldn't need to hide the face for so bloody long.
Still...
Cracking.

Walker Space Laughs

Watched a pilot for a new comedy panel show. Will smith was the white one though. Big let down. Bit lame comedy, not as good as previous ones I've been to.

Location:Walker space - Rave

D-Neg

Went to D-Neg, on goodge st, for an event with BYOA.
Watched a presentation specifically for animation and effects in Iron man 2 and Hellboy 2.
Some really excellent playblasts and WIPs. Stripped back some of the effects plates, and showed a few custom mel scripts they'd written to make some of the animations more interesting.

Also found a nice place to get free criticism for work. But shhhh. Ooh, also free drinks. drink. :/

The Tourist

Quite a fun film. Nicely shot (though has some odd lens distortion when pulling focus).
Some really quirky dialogue. Good to listen to, but nothing to buy :)

We're Back

Watched it after a contextual studies lecture.
Nice to see Mike's name in the credits.
Have distant, fragmented memories of it. An odd story though, some strange peaks.
Not very 'classic hollywood'.

Monsters

Rubbish. Tedious.
Just don't watch it.

Skyline

I'd read on AWN that Skyline was specifically well done, considering a paltry 100million$ budget.
There were apparently 3 guys that lit all of the sequences.
Shame the movie was a bit rubbish. It might be an american thing, as the characters you're forced to follow were shallow, self loving and not empathetic with each other, or the 'end of the world'.

Effects: This was more the point of watching the film, as the story became dry and stale. They were quite epic, and detailed with some lovely special effect (smoke, heat blur etc), but i felt a few of the ambitious shots were below par. Perhaps this was because i'd seen how these shots had been put together, and that two animators quit at the prospect of these shots.
The design, however, was really fresh. Really enjoyed some of the monster and ship designs.
Especially the 'monster' at the end..no spoilers though :D