Eating Crap and Watching Films

That's what I've been doing all night. Watching 4 films and eating crap that I bought from Tesco's at midnight. Hot Fuzz, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions topped off with the best film of all time, Inglorious Basterds.. Now for a bit of film reviewing!

Hot Fuzz is one of my top 3 films of this decade. Fantastically well written, starring one of the best comedy double acts of recent times, this film has the japery and comedy aspects that always make a good film. The element of surprise at the end makes it a fantastic watch and the storyline is just phenomonal. Topped off at the end by a thrilling and almost comically gruesome finale, this film is perfect to start my movie marathon is. Corrrr, im good at this!

After watching that, I thought I'd move on to The Matrix Revolutions. Then I thought, lets go a step back and watch the 2nd one first. The 2nd film, The Matrix Reloaded is the best film of the trilogy. Neo is now used to the idea of being "in the real world" and having successfully fought off an agent at the end of the 1st film, is now inundated by them as that program has developed significantly. The performance of Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith is truly amazing and certainly deserved an Oscar. The film weaves from high and low points for Neo and his new love, Trinity and a good, but maybe could of been better, finale, sees the real world prepare for the final war with the machines.

The Matrix Revolutions on the other hand is distinctly average and has a bit too much full-on action instead of softer moments to develop the storyline. The whole film is practically set over a few days, during the final war with the Machine world and almost the whole film is devoted to lots of gunfire and rocket launching fighting and it just got boring after a while. I was wishing it to end, (despite knowing when it was going to end, having seen it before), and then when it did, the ending is probably one of the worst I've ever seen. You have no idea where Neo is and the film finishes with The Oracle, (an old, wise woman who predicts the future), sitting watching the sunset with the little girl. It couldn't get any more anti-climatic.

My final film of the night, left deliberately till last, was the Quentin Tarantino directed, Inglorious Basterds. THE best film of all time. Leuitenant Aldo Raine and his set of Jewish troops waltz into occupied France to complete a geurilla-style massacreing of the Nazis. The battle between the Nazis, (mostly Colonel Hans Landa, played by the phenomonal Christophe Waltz, of the S.S instead of the usual crowd) and the story develops perfectly until the epic finale. The story is based over 5 chapters, mostly based in Central France, the film is mainly about a German soldier's story of Nazi-championism and his "feat" of slaughtering Italians from a bell tower. His story was made into a film directed by the Nazi 3rd-in-command Joseph Goebbels. The film is being shown at a french cinema, owned by a woman attacked by the Nazis, and Waltz, in her youth. The Basterds hatch a plan to murder the whole of the Nazi command, but the owner and her lover get there first and blow up their cinema with the Nazis locked inside. Hans Landa had already escaped however, which gave the opportunity for the Basterds to get their man and blackmail him into giving the Nazis up.

My food of the night is completely irrelevant, but it cost me £8, (that I don't really have) and was highly unhealthy. But who cares!

Oh wow, it's 7:30am. I'm not tired, having woken up at 10pm after my much-needed 14 hour sleep and I'm back into a normal sleeping pattern! Now I just want Thursday to hurry up.. I might watch The Terminator to pass the time...

Bye x