Monday, August 07, 2006

Hard Candy

Not a particularly strong film given the rave reviews and critics' stars. Somehow it was more talking than anything else, none of the gore or scary shit stuff that i kind of hoped to see.

Even the pedophile torture bit wasnt particularly exciting (although zm was shit scared hee hee) but i felt that more than anything else, the movie was trying to portray them as playing mind games with each other, but ended up playing mind games with the audience as well (not sure if that was the intended effect? hmm.)

it didnt really hit me then but come to think of it, they tried to portray the female tormentor as a deranged, psycho kid. Like in horror flicks how the psycho is always, well, psycho and crazy and fighting with his inner demons and the like. but somehow ellen page's acting is just not there yet - what do you expect from a 16 year old who's acting deranged and crazy? and the acting just merely covers, very thinly, the psycho character portrayal.

It left me confused anyway, cos i was torn betweeen thinking she was really psycho or if she was serious about doing the stuff she did and avenging the world or something. bah. actually kind of disappointed because me and zm traversed 4 cinemas before we managed to actually even FIND that show at PS, on our 5th try! sigh.

and all arcade freaks please go try house of the dead 4. the gameplay's pretty cool. you have to shake your gun when the enemy grabs hold of you. and instead of shooting out of screen, just shake your gun again and it reloads! cool! haha.

Mrs Brightside at 12:03 am

{xoxo}