Press Screen of 'Paul'
Loved this! Free pizza, beer and wine and we even saw Mr Mark Kermode just behind us at the first screening in the UK of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's first foray away from Edgar Wright and a usual UK base.
Set in and around the Comic Con in San Diego, they stumble upon an Alien - with the voice of Seth Rogen - and everything that ensues around it. It's not stacked in originality but it is a homage to many, many sci-fi movies but done very well. Those two do have a particular gift and where it could falter, I found it very entertaining!
Elbow - Tuesday 29th April, 2011 - O2 Arena
WOW. I'm happy to report that the O2 arena is no-way as large as I thought. Having done various arenas around the country including Manchester, Belfast, Dublin and Birmingham...I was worried. BUT, it's actually quite small! The sound is impressive but I'd recommend either standing or the two section either side of the stage.
Elbow were fantastic! Guy Garvey is a top class front man, sing-alongs, chats and perfect renditions of their back-catalogue but not just a copy across from the records. They took those and made them even bigger and more special. I had a lot of shivery moments, that's what Elbow do and that's what makes them so special.
Tweet: Ooh, the Setlist from Elbow at the #O2 last night: http://ow.ly/4pp3h #geeky #elbow
There's some photos due up on FB veeery soon! =)
IMAX Screening of Sucker Punch with Zack Snyder, Waterloo, Thursday 31st March, 2011.
Right. Sucker Punch. Yeah. Firstly, the director of Sucker Punch, Watchmen and 300 did a little talk before it started. My god, that man can ramble. Jen summed it up well by saying that he's very Californian/LA. I think the ability to ramble on...but not exactly excitingly...makes him what he is but by god man, get on with it!
Anyway, he's a nice chap really and signed lots of things at work and also took the shop lot out for a pint, so I hear!
The film? Yeesh. I think visually that Snyder does do something very special but he can't write a script to save his 'awesome' film. He also went on about how he makes 'genre films' an awful lot or that people say he does. I'm not sure he knows what genre means or that it means something particular OR maybe that was the point, it's everything in one.
Sucker Punch is too much, disarray, random plot lines and generally everything in his head on a MASSIVE screen. It made me angry during it but only because it's a big load of bollocks. I didn't hate it but essentially it's nothing, there's nothing there that makes me want to praise it beyond the visuals of girls in cool costumes fighting random scenarios. Effectively it's about 6-7 music videos. Which is where he began he career.
Anyway....
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