23/07/2007 - Monday

I've watched a few movies recently that I've been meaning to write about, so I might as well do that now. I'll start with Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix. This was OK for a movie, but once you try to compare it to the books it goes downhill pretty quickly and you pick the movie totally apart. It felt far too rushed for me, like I was being pushed through the movie rather than walking along with it. Quite a lot of the good bits were cut out of the movie, and several parts were changed probably to make it more "dramatic". It was good to watch, but just try not to think too much of the books.

The next movie is 28 Weeks Later. I thought this was pretty good, although quite a lot of the lines between the main characters are whispered, which makes them a bit hard to hear, then followed by action, which leaves you deafened after straining to hear the whispers. I didn't think that it was as bloody as the first one (28 Days Later), but the characters are better in this one. The ending of it is great though.

Finally, there's The 40 Year Old Virgin. I thought that this was a hilarious comedy that kept me laughing from the beginning all the way to the end. I haven't laughed at a movie this hard for a while, so it was refreshing. I thought that the jokes were well planned out, and the various scenes that he ended up in were great. I'm glad that I watched it.