Ponderous Personal Projects

I’m not going to make any scholarly claims here, but were there really trolls in the bible 1?  Or cannons? Or corrugated iron?  Or jeans?  

Title:	Noah
Director:	Darren Aronofsky
Score:	1/6
Positive point:	Hermione.  Still legal.

I tried to like it.  I really did. 

Title:	Being Flynn
Director:	Pauk Weitz
Score:	3/6
Crack:	Bad, hmkay?

Professor Jonathan Venkenheim believes the mythical samsquamtch is the actual Frankenstein’s monster, and sets out to find him. This film documents his journey. 

Title:	The Frankenstein Theory
Director:	Andrew Weiner
Score:	4/6
Points for:	Obscuring the REDACTED

I don’t get it….

Title:	Upstream Color
Director:	Shane Carruth
Score:	?/6
?:	?

Comedy-thriler-drama-crime.  Not my favourite genre combination, so I’ll let the female unit roll the dice.

Title:	Dom Hemingway
Director:	Richard Shepard
Score:	5/6
Plusses for:	Music.

Scripted by the numbers as only Hollywood can.  Still, surprisingly watchable.

Title:	Real Steel
Director:	Shawn Levy
Score:	4/10
Annoyance level:	Moderately moderate.

What’s that coming over the hill?  Is it a monster?

Title:	Cockneys Vs Zombies
Director:	Matthias Hoene
Score:	3/6
Awards:	Best title sequence.

Old school horror plot in a modern wrapping.  Likes.

Title:	+1
Director:	Dennis Iliadis
Score:	4/6
Watch at:	Itunes. No DVD, I think.

“Why did he kill his parents?”
 

Title:	The Kite Runner
Director:	Marc Forster
Score:	1/6
Aborted after:	30 minutes.

Some Will Ferrel movies are funny, but this isn’t one of them.

Title:	Land of the Lost
Director:	Brrad Silberling
Score:	1/6
Aborted after:	40 minutes.