Friday 11th of January 2013. A day that may mean little to some, means to me everything. Universal studios - have finally announced that the dinosaurs are coming back...in 2014. A blog post alone does not really express my excitement or joy at this news. Therefore for the next week onward I shall be doing the dinosaur jig, (right foot, left food, back back back decapitate for those of you wondering).
Sure it will have plot holes, and the human actors may not be all that we wanted, and Spielberg won't be directing but for all you naysayers I would like to point out that there will be dinosaurs, that alone is justification enough for making a the film.
Sequels find a way...
Other film news that caught my eye this week included Quentin Tarantino's blasting of Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy. It was largely predictable - Channel 4 go in for the heavy hitting question that really doesn't need asking and Tarantino's response makes us all laugh. Krishnan attempting to prod some kind of admission of guilt for the connection between gun crime and violence in Tarantino's work. I suppose by implication everyone who watches Schindlers List and the Pianist has uncontrollable urges to commit genocide, but do you see anybody asking Stephen Spielberg whether his films have influenced the likes of Slobodan Milosevic - I jest. The good people at youtube provide us the flesh:
All that aside Django unchained is in my view fantastic and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone with a thirst for action, great dialogue and some brilliant acting performances. Ignoring Tarantino's obligatory cameo Foxx and Walz pair up superbly, and DiCaprio makes a convincing villain without giving anything away it was a film he literally bled for. Django deals with the dark and horrid Slave Trade, whilst finding time to bring to us characters we can get behind, admire, and loathe, all the while offering comic relief reminiscent of Blazing Saddles. In all - Tarantino still has the gift, listen out for some great songs here as well, whilst theres nothing as memorable as Steelers Wheel, or Brothers Johnson, or Misirlou the soundtrack is apt, and a tasteful mix of modern and old.
On another note I turn to Lincoln. A film that will surely win Daniel Day Lewis another Academy Award, and deservedly so - but I personally can't help but feel its another ordinary film made fantastic by a stellar cast. The film itself is similar to watching BBC Parliament for nearly 3 hours, as a political/historical buff I found it enjoyable but perhaps not worthy of some of the accolades it will most likely receive in the coming award ceremonies. Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic and the cast in general pull out all the stops in recreating Civil-War USA.
So - Dinosaurs are back, Django is a must see and Lincoln whilst well exectued, is a tad caught up in the paperwork. I'm off to watch Chrisopher Walken do as Chrisopher Walken does, 7 Psychopaths await. When it comes to slave-freeing Abe's how can anyone out do this all round nice guy- be happy and remember - comments welcome.
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