Day 97: Moonrise Kingdom

Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward) are young kids in love who just want to be together. They decide the only way that can happen is if they run away together. But naturally the adults involved are worried and they make up a search party to find them, which is populated by khaki scouts, a lonely police officer, an unhappy married couple, and Social Services. Runaway children would be bad enough but there’s a storm coming that makes it all a tad more dangerous.

The acting in Wes Anderson films always takes me a little while to get used to but once I do, I end up enjoying it. The film isn’t too flashy, it’s just a simple story of love and friendship. With a twist of scouts and a secluded town to make it a bit more interesting.

“I love you but you don’t know what you’re talking about.”

7/10

Day 73: Planet Terror

A bio-weapon is accidentally released in a town in Texas and it infects those who come into contact with it, making them pus covered zombies. I’m not really sure how else to summarise this film? Oh, Quentin Tarantino’s dick sort of… oozes off of him. That’s definitely an important plot point.

The film is meant to resemble the horror films of the ‘70s and it does it well. The dialogue is overly dramatic and cheesy, the plot is mad, and the special effects are terrible. Anything to do with zombies is good in my book, even if I have to suffer Tarantino being his creepy self. Don’t think I have much to say about the film, Rose McGowan’s character summed it up pretty well when she said, “This is fucking ridiculous.”

6/10

Day 64: The Fifth Element

Pure evil has come to destroy Earth and Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) is tasked with helping to save it. He meets the supreme being, Leeloo (Milla Jovovich), who is the fifth element and the only creature that can stop evil. Korben helps to recover the four stones that represent the four elements while battling with some very unhappy aliens and a possible psychopath, Zorg (Gary Oldman). Ultimately love saves the day. And a lot of explosions.

We open in a temple in Egypt in 1914, where there’s an Italian man attempting to discover the meaning behind some symbols on a wall. He’s uncovering too much however and must be stopped so the Mondoshawan, aliens that defend against evil, have to come and remove the element stones before they are found. Pretty sure my favourite bit of the whole film is when this great big hulking robot-alien ambles into the room and the Italian man asks, “Are you… German?” I just laughed so much, it was great.

In films, the people in charge always want to shoot first and ask questions later (it’s even said by one of the military guys) and it always drives me mad. I understand you have things to protect but you can’t just go around attacking and killing things when you don’t know what they are. If nothing else it is just rude. That’s probably why if there is other life out there in the universe it hasn’t shown itself around here, they know they’d be killed on sight. Humans are hopeless. When Leeloo learns about war you know right away how it’s going to go, that she’ll not want to help humanity because all we do is kill everything. But then obviously Korben convinces her otherwise, he says that there are some beautiful things worth saving. Love, namely. He tells her he loves her and so she stops the advancing evil. Love to the rescue! How sappy.

I really wish I lived in the time of proper space travel. Living on a ship and exploring space sounds so brilliant.

“Everything you create is used to destroy.”

8/10