death by man flu!

So I've had a couple of days off work after the new year and, as any sane person would do at this time of year, my good wife and i decided it would be a good idea to go to the beach... its minus two outside and we went to the beach. It seemed to make sense at the time but for the life of me I don't know why! It ended up being a good news bad news situation. Good news i got to fly my new two and a half metre span power kite which was fantastic! Bad news I caught a cold. No not the cold, man flu. the deadly man flu! OK, maybe not deadly but it was bloody awful! so with my nose turning into a one man snot factory, my throat doing its best impression of sandpaper it could do all i could do was sit on the couch and watch a couple of movies! So, here they are:-

7. Omen III: The Final Conflict
Watched on:- Television ( Film 4)

The third and final Omen film. Damian Thorne is now a man and running Thorn industries. He has fully embraced the fact that he is the son of Satan, the Antichrist and has full control over his power. Now he faces the biggest challenge, the second coming of Christ. His plan is simple, find the children born on the specified day and kill them all. It falls to a small group of priests to use the seven daggers ot stop Damian and put an end to his reign on this earth.
Sam Neil plays Damian in this, his first role in a Hollywood film. it would be so easy to go over the top with this kind of character but he manages to keep it just on the right side of madness without pushing it too far. of the three original Omen films I think this is the weakest of them all. It's OK but its not brilliant. It does bring the trilogy to a reasonable conclusion though after three films you'd expect a bit more of a fight at the end! Still, its not bad and doesn't have that freaky scary kid from Omen II in it! (he is EEEVVIIILLL)

So where do you go after watching a serious dram/thriller about the Antichrist....well

8. Lesbian Vampire Killers
watched on: itunes (free download)

Plot ( yes there is one, almost) Centuries ago Baron wolfgang  MacLaren rid the little town of Cragwich of the evil vampire queen Camilla. But, just before he chopped her head off he stopped for a bit and gave her time to place a curse on the village that on their eighteenth birthday every girl born in the village would turn into a Lesbian Vampire. Present day and Fletch (James Corben) and Jimmy (Mathew Horne) are down on their luck. Fletch has lost his job as a clown for punching a kid at a birthday party and Jimmy MacLaren (guess who he's descended from) has been dumped by his girlfriend...again. Bored and skint they decide to go hiking so throw a dart at a map of the UK and head to where it lands. Cragwich.

First, let me start by saying I got this film for free a year ago through the 12 days of christmas app on my wife's iphone and its taken me a year to actually watch it.What can i say about this film.....its shit! Mind you what do you really expect from a film where the writers were challenged to come up with the dumbest yet most commercial title they could think of then write a script based on it! Maybe I'm being a bit harsh, its not completely shit there are some good bits about it like the bit where... nah it's shit!  I think its just trying too hard to be funny and failing. Mind you I'm not a huge fan of James Corben so maybe if you like him you'll like it, but for me I'd rather they just ran the stake through my eyes than made me watch this film again!

9.  Goldeneye
watched on:- Television (ITV2)

When a secret russian base is destroyed from orbit and the key to the weapon stolen, James Bond  teams up with the only survivor a female russian programmer, to get the key back and find out who is behind its theft. Little does he know that the person behind it is a face from his past...

This was Pierce Brosnan's first film as James Bond. There's actually a lot of firsts in this film. The first James Bond film to use CGI for the opening gun shot sequence. The first official James Bond film to not be directed by a British director. The first James Bond film to actually film in Russia.
I love James Bond movies. Always have. I remember watching all of the old ones with Sean Connery and Roger Moore on TV when i was little. loved them! I also had a toy Aston Martin complete with ejector seat and a wee blue man to eject from it! Course I lost the little guy pretty quickly after ejecting him out the window in my bedroom. Still, the car was cool! If only i could get a full size one now. Maybe one day ;)
I liked Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Better than Timothy Dalton i reckon and on par with Roger Moore. Timothy Dalton's Bond was too serious for me. Just didn't seem like a Bond film without the wisecracks etc and that's something they brought back with Pierce Brosnan which is probably why i like this movie so much. It's a cracking theme song as well and a lot more recognisable than some of the dross they've been using lately for Bond films. Can anyone sing the tune from Casino Royale or even remember who sang it? nah, me neither. Little bit of trivia, the Rolling Stones were asked to sing the theme tune to this film but turned it down so Bono and the Edge, who wrote the song, went to their next door neighbour, Tina Turner and played it to her on her piano! I know, useless bit of trivia but I like it.
So, there you go, three films in one day. Do I watch way too many movies? Probably, but I'm back at work tomorrow so it'll probably start slowing down now. Having said that the DVD of my favourite movie arrived today. Had to buy a new copy after I lost the original one I had and I've got another film downloaded that I've never seen before so could be another night of movie watching for me :)
Cya later!