The Brown Note Movie Review

Looking back I wonder if 6/10 for this frankly insufferable rom-com is a tad high. You'd expect Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston to be top tier as far as the worst genre in movies goes but it's pretty poor, and my affection for Rudd has waned, possibly because he keeps stinking up the Marvel universe.

This Saddam Hussein curio features a superb early turn from Dominic Cooper as Saddam's hellish son's double in a play on real life events but totally over-eggs everything. Directed by Kiwi Lee Tamahori, who stunned with his debut Once Were Warriors, possibly the greatest Kiwi film ever and has had a weird ride ever since.

Given it was one of the biggest and most important films of the decade and ended up in my films of the decade list, what a curiously small review.

Seth MacFarlane is his own worst enemy when it comes to writing and directing films. If he stuck to the funny, things would always be so much better, but he insists on trying to write actual full length screenplays, which I think we've enough evidence now he is terrible at. Ted, Wahlberg and Kunis are fantastic in an oftern hilarious film but sadly way to much story gets in the way of those moments and 7.5/10 is pretty generous.

Well writer/director Sarah Polley doesn't seem to have a full feature film after this and she was on the crest of a wave at the time. Truly one of the most problematic times I've had reviewing a film and there's an awful lot here that fills me with revulsion. One of my favorite actresses Michelle Williams being case in point, wonderful, searing performance but here character made me genuinely angry. Lots of terrible dramatic and narrative decisions really clouded what ultimately was a pretty powerful film with a killer last shot.

Well I can understand completely forgetting dire films exist but this Korean slasher film sounds awesome and very extreme, especially as it stars no less a luminary than Choi Min-sik as a serial killer (Oldboy himself!) definitely re-watching this, this could end up the best reason for doing the podcast! The director Kim Jee-woon doesn't seem to have done much else of note.

Holy crap I gave Battleships 7.5/10. Jesus. Look I kinda enjoyed it and I really like Taylor Kitsch, he just keeps getting shafted by bad movies. I liked John Carter too.

Wow, how did I ever give this mindblowingly atrocious film 5/10?! If you've ever hated Sean Penn for taking on roles full of mannerisms, this will have you longing for I Am Sam. Truly one of the worst films that of that decade. Jawdroppingly terrible and inept and bizarre - how someone ever though even the idea of the screenplay (or three or four screenplays as its such a jarring mess) should've been possible to make into a film. Its something like Robert Smith of The Cure lives in a mansion in Ireland, goes to watch a Talking Heads concert and is inspired to shoot Nazis. Seriously not even making that up. Def the worst Sean Penn performance of all.

After Fear and Loathing, Johnny Depp returns with another crack at worthy Hunter S Thompson adaption, this time his straighter, slightly less hallucinogenic autobiographic remembrance/recreation in his early years as a journalist in Puerto Rico. Like it's predecessor, I'm glad it exists but it's not a great film. Most notable today for the love interest...

Perhaps a touch harsh here. Ryan Reynolds and Denzil Washington are a great central pair is this very sub Bourne spooks-n-gadgets espionage thriller. It aint great but worth a punt for fans.