A Potpourri of Gillis

You know at some point I am going to stop starting all my posts apoligizing for my delays in posting. So here it is, your last one...sorry for taking so long.

Not loads going on, I have a few brief Gillis patented film reviews, which I am sure everyone has already seen so humor me.

Superman Returns - Surprisingly decent. I am a Batman fan so I went in with a biased attitude but it was a good simple narrative (All the best stories are). A fantastic dark scene where the henchmen (Who only have one line between them, I swear) of Luthor attack superman like a pack of dogs. I was a bit put out with superman's big return to public view scene. Now I am a patriotic American as much as Chavez is, but...*sniff*, when America's favourite hero comes out of the sky and lands in the midst of America's favourite pastime, a baseball game...*choke*, well, about nine of us stood up in the theatre and sung the Star Spangled Banner...*oh*, those stars and stripes...

whoa, enough of that...

Pirates of the Caribbean:...something - Ok, just far too much, the film just went on and on with new plots of characters coming in every few minutes. I swear it was like watching Revenge of the Sith again. Pointlesslessness and onwards. Once again Orlando 'Let's see if I can have a full film career without ever learning how to act' Bloom and Keira 'AAAHHH a lens of some kind, I must pout' Knightly provide no onscreen value of any kind. On the plus side for the film, Johnny Depp, unlike what some 'accredited' critics say, was great with even more flounce and parry. Meh, my personal thoughts I know, as I am no actor. In the end though, just too long with too much plot, and to top off the cruelty played by disney, in the final moments of the film (SPOILER ALERT), a brief glimmer of hope is given in some tarnished boots coming down the stairs...OH YES let the rumors be true, let dear of Keith be here, oh please...AAAHHH, but no, no Richards, at least not until the third one.

Lady in the Water - Now I just saw this one last night, so my thoughts about it are much more fresh in mind, and I was rather more conflicted about it as well. Another M. Night Shyamalan hoper, maybe, just maybe this one will, while having a nifty secret, will turn out at the end that the secret will not also wreck the whole experience. Honestly, I have not enjoyed his other work all that much. But this one...very different. It was Comedy/Thriller/Drama all in one. REALLY difficult to do I think. And it is sort of obvious why he came up with this story, he even gets the film critic character to say it, that there is no originality left with stories, that they are all the same. Now I disliked this film most of the way through because I went in expecting to be scared, but almost at first you find yourself laughing, so it throws off your whole sense of what all his other films have done...but you will get chills, don't worry. I am now going to say that I actually really liked this film. If you go into it with no expectations you will hopefully enjoy it despite being a PG rated flick.

Well, once again I postpone any pictures, perhaps next time, which I will promise, yes promise, will be a week today.

Clicking off,

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