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Saw V (2008)
Another stab at something twitching
The first Saw movie was a horror-thriller. Its opening scenes contained a shocking surprise of blood and death which prepared you for an exciting film. This opening and idea that the people had to find a way to escape before time ran out all made Saw an unusual and novel horror film.
You know how sequels go, not so good, then worse with trilogies usually. When you have 5 films! Scraping the barrel isn't a sufficient description. By now its going through the motions or parting blood by numbers. The real horror of this movie is the lazy textbook way it tries to get to the audience. As franchises go on they get cheaper and cheaper directors and it shows. They really on the fame of the first movie to keep on flogging it.
There are some merits to these movies in that they broke new ground and the cinematography is surprisingly good. A film of r film students and sinew lovers.
Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)
Doing what Hollywood does to history
This was on TV a last week. When it was in the cinema it received lukewarm reviews. I'd recommend this film as its bold, funny and knows how to hit its targets.. Clearly a spoof it relies on making continuous references to Hollywood style heroics and puts itself in a straitjacket as result. Preventing the film from stretching out to further plot ideas. The script written by the team who did a series of previous films and famous for 4 Weddings and a Funeral know how to write jokes but it suffered from their problems in their last films of needing more production money and another writer to give a different angle on the humour.
One very good recurring joke is Hitler being confused for Charlie Chaplin but even that wasn't used to its full potential. The biggest let down with this film is that you can see that it needed more money pumped into the filming of it.