Films 2008

[hils]

Films I've seen at the cinema this year

1. Sweeny Todd
2. Iron Man (x4)
3. The Incredible Hulk
4. The Happening
5. Prince Caspian
6. Wanted
7. Hancock


The reviews of this were actually pretty accurate in that this film can't really make up its mind what it's supposed to be. I correctly guessed that all the funny stuff had been included in the trailer. Really, this film isn't a comedy. It's a mix of stuff, but sadly it's not done very well.

The main problems I had were twofold. Firstly I really didn't understand the stuff with Hancock and his wife. The whole 'made in pairs but have to be kept apart or they both die' thing makes no sense. Well, it made no sense to me anyway.

Also the villains seemed to be just tacked onto the end. There was no real character development for them and overall the whole plot just seemed massively rushed.

Will Smith was good though, despite the fact he seems quite happy playing angst-ridden characters these days. I really hoped Hancock would see him breaking away from that.

Ah well. Not good but not bad either.

Comments

[dametokillfor.livejournal.com]

Aw, I was looking forward to this one.

I was reading about it in Empire actually and they were saying how the script for it was originally a much darker, very serious tale.
He couldn't find someone and fall in love because he would kill them whenever they had sex or something like that, I can't quite remember exactly what.
But they changed that so that it'd be more family friendly and this is what they ended up with.
It's a shame because the original story sounded so good.

I'll probably wait until this one's on DVD then.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it sounds like they kept elements of that but it's so choppy it doesn't really make sense. Whoever edited the script needs to be fired.