Movies have changed over the years, extensive advertising campaigns with various trailers lure us in but sometimes the film ends up being a massive let down The biggest example for me of recent years was Prometheus, a fantastic no voicever trailer promised great things and whilst the film was not awful, it never lived up to those hopes I had going in Alien vs Predators 1 … [Read more...]
From Pop to Flop or Greatness: When singers want to act
Sunday night at Barking Mad About Films HQ is movie night and this week was the turn of Mrs Barking Mad to choose (I went there =) she chose Box She chose Box Office smash 50 Shades of Grey, the ‘naughty’ romantic drama to put it lightly. Now who should pop up as Christian’s sister, singer and talent show judge Rita Ora Whilst the film just about kept my attention, my … [Read more...]
Not Another Movie Trailer
I recently saw the great fun film Minions, but what would have made it better had been the fact that I had seen quite a few of the best laughs in trailers before, from the great Geoffrey Rush narrated opening with dinosaurs to Minions sharing baths with fire hydrants, sequences had also been seen via promotions, sky broadband and McDonalds The problem with my argument is that … [Read more...]
Fears or Cheers: When the Book You’ve Read is to Become a Film
In a world where every other film appears to be a sequel and original scripts seem to be harder to come from as the worry is they won’t find an audience, the next best option is to find a best selling book and turn that into a film normally with a mixture of good or bad results Over the recent years, I’ve seen books that I have read become big screen blockbusters (Harry … [Read more...]
Don’t let Subtitles put you off!
Last weekend on our regular movie night at home, I introduced my wife to one of my favourite romantic films ever, the French film Amelie, my wife has partial hearing loss so I knew suggesting a film with subtitles would not be ruled out by her, but does it rule you out? I recall seeing the film at the cinema thanks to free tickets from a newspaper promotion and seeing numerous … [Read more...]