Maps To The Stars

[stuartboy]

Ghastly.
Unentertaining.
Pointless.

Totally unnecessary gratuitous bad language. Totally pointless name-dropping constantly.
Rubbish ending.

I have a hatred of films about Hollywood and films about film makers making films and about actors being actors in films etc. The one exception to this is Argo. Otherwise they end up being so self-indulgent.

I was expecting a lot more from a David Cronenberg film. This fails to deliver on every front.
Potential...wasted.

3/10

[biggins]

Utter rubbish!!! Couldn't stand almost 2 hours of this so walked out after 40 minutes as couldn't see that it would improve and reading stuartboy's review it appears I was right!!! Two women sitting in front of me walked out after 20 minutes. Wasted Sunday morning. 0/10

[asamaic]

Ran into LCN at the cinema and pxc and elski on the train. Apparently there were a good few more FMUKers there at PH Hackney - apologies for being completely oblivious as per!

I am still digesting this film. It's probably the first 18 I've seen in a while and goodness, it did its best to earn that rating. Sometimes it was artistically necessary, other times just gratuitous.

My plus one didn't follow all of it - he missed a name at the start, so it took him longer to unravel the plot - and whilst I got the story its entirety, I'm still mulling over what the actual point of it was. Hrrrm. I'm also not sure how satisfying the ending was.

[prettyxcool]

Weird, grim and horrible! And it was so boring, tedious and very, very dark. 2/10

I arrived in good time, but started wandering around the Picturehouse at Hackney, and found that on the top floor is Hackney Attic, an intimate space for gigs and events and on Sundays, they have an Evangelical Church! I lost track of time and before I knew it, it was only 5 minutes before the film was due start, but did not even realised that until I sat down and the lights went down and the trailers started. Luckily, when I arrived in the screening room, lovely shmile waved to me as she had spare seats next to her and when I sat down it was also next to ejwrank. So lovely to have some unexpected company and really good seats right in the centre of the screen too.

Lovely to see rawsalsa on the way out of the cinema. Also as there was only one way out of Hackney Central and we all seemed to have got on the same train, so lovely also to bump into asamaic, elski and her friends.

But shame about the film! John Cusack seems to be doing a lot of these weird films lately.

[asamaic]

First Thursday of every month they run Scratch That in the attic, pxc. It's artists trying out new jokes, songs, plays, spoken word, short film... Pretty much everything. Worth going sometime!

On reflection, I think it's a 6/10 for me. It was executed well for what it was, but there just wasn't enough of a message/bite for it to score any higher.

Really won't be to everyone's taste!

[RAZORBACK]

Looks like I'm going against the grain with this film as I ended up really enjoying it.

To be honest I wasn't expecting it to have much in the way of an actual narrative so the fact that there was a coherent & really quite twisted storyline meant that for me at least watching this ended up being a pretty compelling experience.

Admittedly there weren't any characters in this that you could describe as likeable but performance wise I thought everyone involved was on top form so overall this did just enough to get an 8/10 from me...

[The Sparrow]

Looks like I'm going against the grain with this film as I ended up really enjoying it.

To be honest I wasn't expecting it to have much in the way of an actual narrative so the fact that there was a coherent & really quite twisted storyline meant that for me at least watching this ended up being a pretty compelling experience.

Admittedly there weren't any characters in this that you could describe as likeable but performance wise I thought everyone involved was on top form so overall this did just enough to get an 8/10 from me...

What about Robert Pattinson's character (Jerome)? He wasn't unlikable?

[RAZORBACK]

What about Robert Pattinson's character (Jerome)? He wasn't unlikable?

He didn't win any brownie points with me because of his liaison with Julianne Moore , I will admit he was the least unlikeable character (probably because he was just dopey more than anything else) but there really wasn't anyone I could root for in this movie...