Inception Gives Everyone A Film Erection

Inception, the latest film by Chris Nolan (y'know, that super awesome guy behind Memento and The Dark Knight) is doing just as well as everyone expected and now officially stands as the only Summer blockbuster worth seeing this year.

Still awaiting release here in the UK (roll on this coming Friday) the movie is doing exceptionally well with critics, holding a 100% rating over at Metacritic (though it only currently has four official reviews at the time of writing) and a 94% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

If you somehow haven't seen or heard anything to do with the film then firstly; you're a god dang fool (seriously...) and secondly, check the sex-tastic trailer below.

Review: Get Him To The Greek

Love him or hate him, Russell Brand is here to stay.

Two years ago, I might well have sat on the latter side of the two but slowly, very slowly, the man is winning me over. Gone are the awful hair styles, skin tight drainpipes and high-heeled boots, now replaced by a genuinely funny, surprisingly eloquent man who still talks like a dick but can pull it off pretty damn well.

So, after precariously dipping his toes into the murky Hollywood waters with bit-parts and secondary characters in a fair few big-budget comedies (the awful Bedtime Stories
and the actually quite funny Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Brand has been given his first major role in the form of the new Apatow-produced Get Him To The Greek.

More of a spiritual successor to the aforementioned Forgetting Sarah Marshall than a full blown sequel, Greek goes a little something like this: Aldous Snow (Brand) is a huge British rock-star who, after releasing an awful (and not to mention racist) new single and album by the name of 'African Child' swiftly spirals uncontrollably into a critically hated has-been. He doesn't take it too well, turning to drink, sex, drugs and the party life once again (he was completely clean beforehand) and it is here that we are then introduced to Jonah Hill's character Aaron. A savvy record label assistant working for none other than Mr P. Diddy himself - or Sergio as he is named in the film - , Hill is given the task of bringing Snow to Los Angeles to perform a ten year anniversary show at the Greek Theatre, hoping to earn money for the label and reignite Snow's career as a result.

That's really about it as far as the story-line goes, unless you include the small 'love' subplots of Snow still yearning for ex-girlfriend Jackie Q (a still-famous singer who likes to sing about her own arse-hole...) and Aarons constantly tired nursing girlfriend Daphne. Shallow it most certainly is but thankfully, the actors more than make up for the lack of anything meaty story-line wise.

I tend to be extremely critical with about 99% of the films I watch and though I can't say that I truly 'liked' this film, it did have me genuinely laughing every couple of minutes. Punch-lines and ridiculous scenarios are thrown at you constantly and whilst a bulk of them don't really hit their target (I'm definitely done with anal-rape dildo scenes forever), most of them do, even when P.Diddy is involved (which I never thought would work). Brand and Hill work great together and it's the scenes where the two of them are just chatting, arguing or dicking around that garners the most laughs. A brief scene in an airplane where Brand explains how he feels about Hill's character ("respect peppered with a sense of hate") or a drunken night in a club where Hill tries to imitate Brands laid back, English accent to a passing woman; these are the golden moments of the movie and they're probably the bits the actors actually ad-libbed themselves.

It's that comedic spontaneity that truly brings the characters to life and though it's smothered by a long running time (OK 109 minutes isn't that long but the end drags like a one-legged dog), a rather flimsy story and a smattering of terribly made music for Brand's character, it's still most definitely worth the price of admission if you're in the mood for something a bit crude, pretty damn silly but actually laugh out loud funny.

Best Bit: The Geoffrey/Furry wall party

Worst Bit: The music

Overall Rating: C+

Let The Right One In Gets The American Treatment

Remember that fantastically awesome Swedish vampire book from John Ajvide Lindqvist by the name of Let The Right One In? Pretty damn great wasn't it?

Now, remember the equally as brilliant 2008 movie of the same name? Yeah, pretty special wasn't it?

So what happens when you have a great foreign book that's been transformed near flawlessly into a great foreign film? Why you hand the rights over to Hollywood of course!

Now sporting a new and shorter name titled 'Let Me In' (apparently America isn't cool with two more words in the title), the film is the latest bastardisation from the US and will be on its way to your cinema screens October 1st of this year. The trailer can be seen below.

Directed by Matt 'Cloverfield' Reeves, the cast includes new face on the block Chloé Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) as protagonist Eli (though they've changed the name to Abby) and Kodi Smit-Mcphee as Oskar (now known as Owen). I just love it when original material gets raped by the fat cats, don't you!?! (High-fives self).

Whilst it does look to be a semi-solid recreation, i can't help but feel pure hate for this type of thing.

100 Of The Greatest Film Insults

As is common practice these days, some clever old bean by the name of Henry Hanrahan (nice name, chum) has stitched together another video of film clips, this time collating what he deems to be the 100 greatest film insults of all time.

Sure some of the six billion internet memes clogging up the web run themselves into the ground after a while but at least this one has balls (and by balls i mean gratuitous swearing and a whole bunch of classic movie quotes).

As if it wasn't clear already, the video is more than likely going to offend someone somewhere so we'll slap a NSFW warning right here, just in case.

Hello There Fellow Film Enthusiasts

Do you love film? I mean really love film? Both platonically and physically?

Well then consider yourself lucky my new and nerdy friend as you've just so happened to stumble across one of the newest and most film-obsessed blogs to ever hit the interweb (or whatever you so wish to call it).

First things first, here's a brief rundown of what we are and aren't allowed to talk about here on Film View:

1. If Twilight or anything to do with Twilight is ever mentioned by anyone ever then I'm afraid that's an instant ban...I'm super cereal. (Excluding this mention...)

2. Each and every one of you must immediately admit upon entering the site that Phillip Seymour Hoffman (or PSH as we shall now call him) is the single best actor to ever hit the big screen. If not, well, that's another instant ban I'm afraid.*

3. And that's about it...

Basically i just wanted to create a place where like-minded people can read and talk about genuinely interesting movies that push boundaries and provide actual entertainment to the viewers. Unfortunately that rules out about 99.9% of every big-budget blockbuster ever made so we'll mostly be sticking with independent movies if that's OK with you (it better be).

There'll be wild rants, trailers, reviews, news and even a little bit of humour thrown in there too if you're lucky enough so kick back, pour yourself a brandy (who cares if it's the afternoon?) and enjoy.

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