Not Up To Scratch

The Town
Ben Affleck's acting was superb and the story was compelling. It wasn't the best film ever but it was much better than some of the others this term. It wasn't clever bank robbery in the way that Hustle or Oceans or Lucky Break manage it but it was swift and well planned. Also, Pete Postlethwaite was the florist who they used to get their money into the system.

The Social Network
I really liked this film, it was dramatic and compelling and the characters were so well crafted and acted. It ended abruptly and I'm not sure I could watch it again soon. Overall it is worth watching, especially if you've ever had anything to do with Facebook.

Proof
This one was on iPlayer, it was Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal and it was pretty good. Few characters, a plot about maths and madness.

Mary and Max
An animation about pen-pals. An 8 year old girl and a 40something man, she Australian and he American. She inquisitive and chocolate loving, he Aspergers and chocolate loving. It told the story from their first letter until Mary was in her 20s. At times it was depressing and creepy and downright odd. I wouldn't recommend it but it wasn't the worst thing ever.

Buried
This is the first film we ever walked out of. I don't regret it at all.
We watched the first 30 minutes or so and then it broke, we waited thinking if they got it fixed soon then we might as well see how much worse it could get. After a 5 minute wait we decided that the start hadn't been good enough at all so we'd just look up the plot online.
Seriously, a guy buried in a box with a phone and a lighter and some pens. He's constantly burning the oxygen and he somehow has signal underground. He is rude to all the people on the phone who might help him. Apparently later on he finds a bag with a knife in it that somehow he hadn't seen before and a snake gets in. I wasn't remotely bothered about if he lived or died, (he dies) and it's all just dramatic rubbish. For the first 30 seconds the screen was entirely black while you heard heavy breathing. Worse than Goodbye Solo. So that makes it the worst film ever!

We might re-watch Inception tonight. Or just Hustle...
Anyway.

That's all folks.