Showing posts with label back to the future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label back to the future. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 August 2013

The Lone Ranger (2013) - Gore Verbinski

I think the other critics are being unnaturally unkind to this film. It's a good movie, sure, a little slow in parts, but the action sequences (mostly on trains) are stunning to view, and amazing feats of filmmaking.
As a big fan of westerns, I noticed references to The Searchers (1956) - John Ford, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Sergio Leone, Back to the Future Part III (1990) - Robert Zemeckis and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - also Sergio Leone, amongst others; they're obvious if you watch them, and shots are made into lovely homages. Go and see it.
Ignore the other critics, if you like Westerns especially, go and see it!
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) - Steve Pink

A lovely bit of silliness for a Tuesday evening. I am disappointed John Cusack hasn't signed on to be in the sequel, but maybe it won't be as good as the first one anyway. I like the part played by Crispin Glover, who is a veteran of time travel movies (George McFly in Back to the Future (1985) - Robert Zemeckis) as it gives the humour, even when it probably shouldn't.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Sunday, 7 April 2013

Back to the Future Part III (1990) - Robert Zemeckis

So ends possibly the greatest trilogy of films of all time. Ha. Time.
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆