The Guild - Season 1 - Episode 8: Tipping Point

District 9

I've kind of mixed feelings on this film. The first half an hour (ish) is filmed in a documentary style, similar to The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield. Now I hate this type of film, and I particularly hated it in District 9. In fact after I saw the style in the trailer I was kind of on the fence about whether or not I wanted to see the film. But one of my friends wanted to go and see it, so I went too.

After about half an hour the film just abandons the documentary style of film and switches to the normal style. Once it did this, I loved the film. But it was also when it switched style that the films story seemed to switch. It started out as basically being about racism, but when it switched it turned into a fugitive film, full of awesome guns and technology as well as exploding people.

But it wasn't just all about the exploding people or the guns because the story was great as well. The ending though I thought was a little disappointing as the film builds up and up and then delivers something else. I wouldn't say the ending was bad at all I just would have preferred it to have ended a different way, as the one it did end with kind of does the whole sequel set up.

They could definitely make a sequel, but in a way I kind of hope that they don't, because the film does work on it's own.

I still don't know whether I'm going to watch this film again, just because I really did dislike the beginning. I think the film didn't know what type of film it was, or what style it wanted to be shot in, because it's kind of all over the place when it comes to both. Blomkamp is definitely a good film maker, although unfortunately just not of the kind of film I love watching.

No Internet :(

Apologies but I currently have no Internet due to recently moving house, so there won't be any posts this week. Although hopefully I will be back online by next week when they'll resume as normal.

The Guild - Season 1 - Episode 7: Home Invasion

The International (Soundtrack)

Another soundtrack from the trio that is Tom Tkywer, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil. This soundtrack whilst perhaps not there best is still very good and has a few nice themes.

I didn't find there were really any outstanding tracks but what was there was very listenable. I'd be happy to just put this CD on in the background, but I'd also be happy to just listen to it on it's own and there are some definite tracks I would go back and listen to.

If you've heard any other music by Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil then it is similar to their usual stuff. I found this album as a whole was very strong compared to their other work, however, as for individual tracks, some of their other albums have some better tracks that stand out, such as with Run Lola Run and One Hour Photo.

The Guild - Season 1 - Episode 6: Total Wipe

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Origin

If you've seen the original 1992 Buffy The Vampire Slayer film then this comic pretty much retells that story. However, the film version was altered from Joss Whedon's original script.

Now the television series carries on from Joss Whedon's original script and not the final altered film version. This comic book tells the story according to Joss' original script and therefore is slightly different to the movie.

If you're a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer the television series then this is the official prequel. As a result this comic is viewed as canon whilst I believe the film is not.

Having seen the film quite a while ago I didn't really notice that much difference in the comic, other than the look of the characters. However, I still found it a good read and would definitely recommend it to any hard core Buffy fans.

The Guild - Season 1 - Episode 5: Rather Be Raiding