Film 176/365, Day 187/365 – Demons

More than just a little weird!  Legendary film-maker Dario Argento presents Demons, an intentionally mindless horror film packed full of gore and gooey goodness.  One highlight from Demons is the soundtrack, which is excellent.  The most absurd moment has to be the arrival of the helicopter, just wait and see.  Bizarre!

Synopsis:  A group of people are trapped in a mysterious cinema where the events on the screen are being recreated around them.  Soon they are all fighting for their lives against there former cinema-goers who have now become demons.

Film 175/365, Day 185/365 – Transformers: The Movie

Fantastic!  This, Michael Bay, is what the Transformers movie should have been like.  The soundtrack is awesome to say the least.  The central characters are the Transformers not a bunch of humans, who should be additional characters at best.  Put it in space and make the enemy the size of a planet.  And you’ve gotta love Grimlock.  Still brilliant.

Synopsis:  An unsuccessful attempt to take the Autobot Earth base results in Optimus Prime’s death, Megatron still weak from the battle is tossed aside by StarScream who assumes control of the Decepticons.  Whilst this is happening a sinister planet-consuming monster is heading towards Cybertron.

Film 174/365, Day 184/365 – Transformers

Jaw dropping action sequences.  Michael Bay delivers, as always, lots and lots of explosions and fantastic action sequences, more than enough slow motion overly dramatised scenes and a story that is average at best.  It is loads of fun but is not even close to the original animated Transformers movie from 1986.

Synopsis:  When Sam buys a car he gets more than he bargained for as the car is alive, to be more precise it is a transforming non-biological extra terrestrial.  Now Sam is stuck in the middle of a war, a war that will decide the outcome of humanity.

Film 173/365, Day 183/365 – The A-Team

Packed full of action, nostalgia and retro goodness.  The A-Team is everything it used to be and more.  Hannibal’s plans are flawless, Face is slick and smooth, BA is bad ass and Murdock is fantastically insane.  The stunts are excellent if not a little over the top and well worth watching.  It’s good fun from start to finish.

Synopsis:  Hannibal Smith has put together an incredibly successful team, they are a little unorthodox but the get the job done time and time again.  But then they are sent to a maximum security prison for a crime they didn’t commit.  They escape and seek to clear their names and get the people who are responsible.

Review of June 2011

And that is the half way point, six months down and six months to go.  I ended last month eleven films behind and have ended this month nine films behind, although at one point I had got it down to only four films behind but then I went on holiday and wasn't able to fit any in.  Still that gives me plenty of hope that it is possible to catch up before the end of the year.

Here is my progress to date

Here is the new to old film ratio.

I saw fifteen new films this month which keeps me on target for one third of my films being new.

Here are how the films have been rated.

There were eight films that scored five stars in May, but there were four films scoring less than three stars.  Mostly good, but there have some pretty bad stuff.

And here is the percentage of my time that I have spent watching films so far this year.

More and more film stars have joined the list of names at the bottom of each review.  Bruce Willis has jumped back into the front, starring in seven films.  It was a good month for Angelina Jolie who is now tied in second with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Seven

• Bruce Willis

Six

• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Angelina Jolie

Five

• Samuel L.Jackson

Four

• Jim Carrey
• Jack Black
• Karl Urban
• Morgan Freeman
• Seann William Scott

I better get on with it then!