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Monthly Archive for October, 2007
Stardust. Beautiful, enchanting. I came out of the cinema thinking that real life was sometimes incredibly boring compared to the story in the film. I guess in real life you have to make your own magic 
I have to admit I do think it may have been aimed at teens younger than me. It was easy to see through some of the effects and some of it did seem quite childish. That said, it was a lovely story to escape with for a few hours once the lead stopped wearing his rose tinted glasses.
Brilliant cast list, I didn’t find myself wondering what other films they’d been in when I was watching - I was too engrossed in the performances. I’m really not a fan of Robert DeNiro - mostly because of the types of characters he plays, but I really enjoyed his part in this film and thought he did it brilliantly.
If you’re looking to escape for a few hours, you love fantasy or you love an entertaining lovestory with sky pirates, this is the film for you.
My reasons for wanting to see this are as follows:
- It has the director of Wrong Turn. Wrong Turn was fantastically rubbish and hilarious. And actually from a visual perspective not bad.
- Eliza Dushku is one of my favourite actresses because Faith was clearly the best slayer and I’ve wanted to be her since however old I was when season 3 of Buffy came out - 13? She also does a better job in horror films than Sarah Michelle Gellar - who was just the worst thing ever in The Return (what the hell was that film supposed to be about? Usually I can at least laugh at rubbish horror but this one, I was just so bored) and alright I’ll give her a little credit for the Grudge, because the Grudge was awesome. But still no.
- The title makes it sound so deliciously rubbish, how can I refuse? Now I’ve read the synopsis I am a little disappointed that it wasn’t literally working through the alphabet, but that’s what you get for basing a film on a true story…
- Which leads me to a curiosity about the ending since in real life they never caught the killer.
The official site is over here –> http://www.alphabetkiller.com/ and it even includes a fantastic “teaser” trailer which shows you all the best bits of the film before you’ve had a chance to see it. Which who knows when that will be because it’s said OCTOBER for at least forever. Maybe it’ll hit the screens around Halloween (Halloween!!!)
Now I need to go shower and do some actual workleton.
Also to note, I disabled comments until such a time as I can find a captcha that works in preventing mass spammage of unsavoury anythings. IP address 195.somethingsomething can go fuck itself.