Film reviews

We have had 2 DVDs sitting in the house for a couple of weeks waiting for us to watch them. We finally got around to it this week and it made a pleasant change from watching our recorded episodes of House MD.

First was Benjamin Button which was really just a soppy old love story which happened to be the life story of someone who was born very old and got gradually youger until he died as a baby at the end. MK cried a lot aven though it wasn't really sad. Perhaps that is too much of a male perspective, but if you tell an entire life story then the character has to be born and die. During his life other people die as well, but there is no real tragedy involved. The fact that he aged backwards really seemed meaningless and overall I think the film was just a very standard sort of love story with a few interesting special aging effects.

Second was Australia (as Mark Kermode says: "Yes, all of it!"). The film as sort of fun as an old fashioned epic tale but it was very long and somewhat predicable. On the plus side, it was nicely shot and an interesting bit of historical drama and Nicole Kidman is as easy on the eye to me as Huge Action probably is to the other half.

Overall they were both too long and both average to be perfectly honest.