I was so looking forward to seeing The Social Network, perhaps a little too much. Yes, it was an engrossing and interesting movie, and very well crafted, given the director was David Fincher and the writer Aaron Sorkin. But in the end, these two heavyweights could not disguise for me what was two hours in the company of some pretty obnoxious people. This made it a rather uncomfortable to watch. And because the final resolution in court was obviously kept confidential, there is no satisfactory ending. What would have been better was if they could have constructed an invention of something like Facebook and gone for a story that was entirely fictional. Now that would be a great movie.
The Swedish movie Let The Right One In was one of my favourites of last year. So it was only Claudia Winkleman, the new presenter of Film 2010 who persuaded me that the American remake, Let Me In, was worth seeing. And she was right. If anything it does surpass the original which is really surprising. Much of the remake is identical to the original, but I found the dialogue to be really good, the young actors outstanding and Richard Jenkins terrific as the father. Matt Reeves did a fantastic job, sympathetic to the original, but with lighter touch combined with some sudden dramatic shocks. One of this year's favourite films.
Humans in peril from alien invasion. Nothing new here and nothing new in the scifi cgi movie Skyline. A film based around the special effects woven by the the brothers Colin and Greg Strause has little in common with Cloverfield and District 9 in that it has a rubbish script, poor acting and only one location. That is if you ignore the extremely silly ending. You have been warned.
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