Maybe I just got bored of coming up with new ways to say rude things about bad films.
Maybe I'm just lazy. Or maybe it's because it takes effort and nobody pays me.
Maybe if my local cinema had been less of building site for the last two months I might have gone and visited it more.
Maybe I'm just acutely aware that all I'm really doing is adding to the incessant noise of the internet rather than doing something creative and worthwhile.
Maybe the monotonous merry-go-round of superhero flicks, franchise movies, sequels, prequels, Pixar, Disney, tv show, reboot, lame horror, space peril and frat boy comedy has just become too wearisome.
Maybe that old cliche about it being easy to say why something is bad is easy... but saying why something is good is hard.... is actually quite true.
Maybe I just really, really needed a break to recharge my batteries.
Some or all of the above might apply.
Which is a way of saying that I apologise for the dearth of recent posts but writer fatigue, real-life and other projects got in the way.
In the interim I haven't seen that much and nothing has particularly excited me.
In summary:
'Legend' - Watchable enough, but only because of Tom Hardy's compelling screen presence....and yes, it prints the "legend" rather than picks apart the dark underbelly of the myth.
'Maze Runner: Scorch Trials'. Loved the first movie, but this outstayed its welcome. Over two hours of teens shouting "Come on! We need to go!" It doesn't even have a maze in it.
'The Martian'. Not as tense as 'Gravity'. Not as emotional or sentimental as "Interstellar'. Not as captivating as 'Castaway'. And, despite what some might tell you, not a return to form for Ridley Scott. I thought it was visually muted, strangely repetitive (here's a problem, here's how we solve the problem.... ad infinitum) and just couldn't see what the fuss was about....but your tolerance of looking at Matt Damon's face for two hours might be higher than mine.
'Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension'. In which we learn that if you fill your house with cameras you will most likely attract paranormal activity. Okay until the CGI kicks in.
....and that's it. That's all I've seen recently.
I know there is better stuff out there: 'Sicario' looks good, I'll maybe give 'Crimson Peak' a go and I should go and see 'Suffragette' too.
And then there is 'Spectre' looming like a.... well, like a spectre on the horizon. I'll almost certainly have something to say about that.
I'm not done yet.
