Silent Hill: Revelations... about what you'd expect
Leon: The ProfessionalForgive me father but I have sinned; I hadn't seen this until now. Great film, maybe a little flabby around the middle, wonderfully uncomfortable in all the right places. Feel really bad for the set department having to rebuild and redress every set after Garry Oldman finished eating them in his performance, but good God is it great to watch.
Went on a found footage binge:
V/H/SIf you're like me and sometimes find yourself looking up creepy videos on YouTube late at night, this'll be right up your alley. A bit too long, and two of the five shorts should've been cut, but I really got into the mood of the film and enjoyed it quite a bit. Only one of the shorts made me question why they were still filming -- the others came up with good enough conceits to explain why the camera was rolling (usually due to a wearable camera, such as glasses or a nanny cam).
V/H/S 2Wanted to turn it off after the first short, but persisted because I heard the third one was great. It was -- but the first and third shorts really stretched the found footage. The first film was pretty grounded in the found-footage aspect, but the first short here is a dude with a cyborg eye. The third short is pieced together from documentary footage and really might as well have been shot normally for all the "found footage" aspect did.
V/H/S ViralHonestly didn't make it to the first short.
The Poughkeepsie TapesI liked the concept. I thought it was one of the better conceits for a found footage film. The VHS effect they applied to the footage was horribly overdone and drew far too much attention to itself. The more obscene the movie tried to get, the more ridiculous it was. But some of the scenes were wonderfully composed nightmare fuel, so props to it.
