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Ian’s Short Film Roundup

Another little posting about films, in advance I do realise I am a very harsh critic on films and have no actual knowledge about films but here goes anyway

I watched both "Drag me to hell" and "Layer Cake" this weekend. Starting with Layer Cake I thought over-all it was great, totally believable performance from Daniel Craig and better in terms of the smoothness of the stories twists and turns and complexity than both 'Lock Stock' and 'Snatch'.

Layer Cake

The only thing that bothered me after a while is that it seemed to basically be the exact same story as Carlito's Way, even with the appearance of a Benny Blanco style character who eventually even goes on to carry out the exact same final role.

As for "Drag me to hell" well its yet another gross out waste of film really. It's tedious in parts and overly vile in others, with poor acting throughout particularly the performances of Alison Lohman and David Paymer and carried barely by the performances of Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao and Justin Long.

Drag me to hell

I think the only reason it isn't languishing in the 5 star region on IMDB is because it is an attempted return to 70s / 80s style horror. I should also say at certain points it's cringingly grinding and slow and obvious actually prompting me to want to fast forward through the bits I had already out-thought to get to the next bit of mild interest, particularly the dinner scene and the scene where the button is dropped in the car.

Ah well at least one out of two is not too bad really. At least I got the chance to chill out today while it snowed heavily outside watching "Three men in another boat" far more civilised and amusing and relaxing.