I was so busy organising a teen film festival last week that I completely forgot to mention what a bonkers clocks week it was for new teen movies. Young Adult, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Chronicle all more or less fit the profile, and two of them already feature in my Best Movies of 2012 list. Cinemas showing all three are few and far between, but if you happen to live near the West India Quay Cineworld then there’s a hell of a triple bill waiting for you one night this week.
Christopher Tookey is a film critic. He currently writes for the Daily Mail. He was known in the past for his staunch views on censorship (he was at the forefront of the anti-Crash movement in 1996) but he is not a bad film critic. After all, he liked Let the Right One In and disliked The Love Guru. He is fairly unremarkable as a reviewer of movies.
However, there is one thing that Christopher Tookey does better than almost anybody else in the game: titles. Here are just a few of his best…
I tried to write a humourous caption about the above image but nothing struck me.
Premise:Liar Liar in reverse. Length: Too long, gets a bit tedious after the first hour. Cast: Amazing. Peep the IMDb. Themes: Too much religion. Gervais: On form. Best bit: The first ten minutes (most of which is in the trailer). Worst bit: Taking the piss out of advertising and product placement and then featuring Budweiser in the background/foreground of almost every shot of the movie.
After a month of forgetting it was happening eager anticipation, the Rage premiere finally went off last Thursday at the BFI Southbank.
As previously discussed, the whole thing was incredibly ‘interactive’ and seemed to incorporate Skype, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, Babelgum, Youtube and about a million other social networking formats, all allowing audiences in cinemas across the country to simultaneously express their boredom.
BECAUSE RAGE IS 98 MINUTES OF THE DULLEST SHIT I’VE SEEN IN MY LIFE.
And Lily Cole is rubbish.
And the whole notion of a premiere is belittled by the fact that it was already available online and on phones and on DVD in the US.
[Incidentally, Taxi Driver was not 'cunted' upon its release. It was a critical and financial success, was nominated for 4 Oscars and won the Palme D'Or.]
