What did I accomplish during Day 18 of this challenge? Well, I watched the following:
18th January 2012 - CLASH OF THE TITANS
This is the 2010 remake, not the stopmotion 80s classic with Harry Hamlin that had something this remake didn't...BOOBS! That was a rare thing to find in a PG rated movie back in those days. To compare the 2, this is a flashy remake of a film that really hasn't aged badly (at least in my opinion).
Firstly, greek mythology has always intrigued me. Plus as a kid I was scared witless of the original Medusa, so I was looking forward to what the noughties could do with her. What did I think? Well, she wasn't scary at all, and you saw way too much of her than you did in the original, but I liked the layout of her lair. I did regret that they didn't have the giant hound from the original, but it was good to see Bubo (the mechnical owl from the original) get a cameo. Also, I felt Calibos was a much scarier baddy in the 1st film, but thats just minor griping.
2010 was obviously the year of Sam Worthington as this, Terminator Salvation & Avatar made him a household name. I think he is worthy of the Perseus role though, despite his one major flaw, which is not being Harry Hamlin with the Penguin training him to be invisible. Or something along those lines. I just remember Burgess Meredith dying in Rocky 3. I have tears forming now. Someone give me something else to watch. Oh look, Tank Girl...I wonder what that will be like?
18th January 2012 - TANK GIRL
What utter drivel. I understand that upon its release this may have been a good "conversion" of a frankly dated comic strip, but my god its awful! I wish I still took drugs as thats probably the only way that I can get through this with anything other than a look of disgust on my face.
Lori Petty is, to be fair, cute. I loved her in League of Their Own, maybe because it was my equivalent of soft-porn (especially the changing room sequences), so at least I could perv on her in this film. Wrong. She looks awful - that hair job made her face look manly. Plus, she doesn't get naked. Whats up with that?
Ever wondered what Ice-T would look like if he were a white kangaroo? Or where his career went? Look no further. Listen to Bodycount instead of watching him try to act, or at least watch Trespass, that was a great film. Ideally, if you have any plans to watch this film, please break the DVD in half & shove it up your backside. That would get you more pleasure then watching this.
18th January 2012 - DOG SOLDIERS
After watching the tat that was Tank Girl, I knew I wouldn't be disappointed with Dog Soldiers which - if you have read my earlier blogs - you will know that I consider only 2 werewolf films as highly watchable & classy for their generation. Along with American Werewolf in London, THIS is the other film.
Granted, the main star (and survivor) had only really played a priest lost in the lingerie department of a high street clothing chain (Father Ted), but dang did the werewolves look amazing, and Sean Pertwee (yep, the son of Wurzel Gummidge) was amazing as the platoon leader who's guts had to be superglued back into him after a particularly nasty clawing by the big doggie woggies!
The only gripe I had with this was that it was way too predictable as (Spoiler alert - though this film has been out for years so actually, I retract the spoiler alert - if you havent been bothered to watch this til now then you deserve to know what happens) you knew you were in the home of the werewolves & that the woman was one. I guessed that on my first screening of this film.
I have nothing else bad to say about this film (remember the above was only a gripe, and not a negative deconstruction of the film) & advise you to watch the start of the credits to see the full werewolf costume in all its glory...
So far, my tally for the week is 16 films watched, leaving me with just 3 more to watch to keep up with my weekly average of 19 films to watch. Will I do it? Keep an eye on the blog!
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