(Not) A Film Buff

I’m looking an honest opinion regarding the new Batman film. Surely there’s someone out there who didn’t like it.

Holler here because I’m not going to spend a good sum of money (Ushs 11,000 on a ticket, 5,000 on Cineplex ebigenderwako, 20,000 on fuel and 15,000 on a cheap bottle of wine to cure the certain headache I will get driving into town) without having a balanced review of the film. By the way, all the hoo-ha about it makes me think the film should have been called The Joker instead of Dark Something Or The Other With Batman and Michael Caine In It.

Hey you,

I finally found something that helps explain my feelings about the recent offerings at Cineplex Cinema in Kampala.

This cartoonist, Fighting Words (whose work I haven’t asked for permission to use but I am begging please, please, please don’t sue me) is part of a really cool group called Cartoonists with Attitude. I learned about them on this week’s BBC Radio 4 choice podcast, available for download here.

Kakati,

Does anyone know someone who knows someone who is of any influence at Cineplex?
Can someone tell whoever is reponsible that the cinemas smell of dead milk and mould?
Is anyone there aware that running a movie like Wanted for three week is an insult to anyone with a brain?
Could you pass on the word to the powers that (don’t) be that animated films are not ‘childish’ and should be shown after 4 pm.; that Eddie Murphy is creepy, that Jack Black is bleak; and that although post-colonial Uganda didn’t quite understand the meaning of the word ‘independence’, independent films are not a bad thing?

Posted on July 28, 2008 at 5:31 pm in Cineophilia | RSS feed | Respond | Trackback URL

14 Comments to “(Not) A Film Buff”

antipop
July 28, 2008 at 6:43 pm

i wish i could help, but i am not into superhero, superhuman, superficial things. so i can never watch a movie with anyone that flies in it. even Jesus ever did it once, and we have never seen him again since. so please, no, i will not sit and be manipulated by hollywood for all of what, 3 hours?

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rockthis
July 28, 2008 at 6:52 pm

these cartoons are to die for. oh yea. and jack black is a bit too much! it is too much even for him to try and act crazier than he already is. you spend all that on just one night of movies? whose daughter are you? ezra?

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Sean Blaschke
July 28, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Loving the blog! Makes me wonder what I am doing so far from Kampala in dusty Nakasongola…

Just got my Jinja Agriculture Fair pics up…

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darlkom
July 28, 2008 at 9:11 pm

This is the truth about the Dark Knight;
It is not just a super hero movie and this is largely because of Heath Ledger’s performance. It is deep and layered and truly disturbing and it stays with you. While you watch this, however, remember that it is a comic book movie and so it has that dialogue that is expected of one about heroes and villains and good and bad. The difference is this movie tries to be more than just that. Watch it for Heath’s last performance because I seem to remember you being as touched as I was by his death.

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Tandra
July 29, 2008 at 12:33 am

eh dee! u being paid? share ko, nawe!

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scotchie
July 29, 2008 at 4:10 am

Dark Knight was my way of saying, ‘see baby, we are not watching a chick flick this time’
earns you relationship points:) if nothing else.

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Mr. B2B
July 29, 2008 at 8:46 am

@Dee
Eh…
Some reviews at yours…

@Tumwi
Even if you did know anyone of influence at Cineplex….
what would you do that would help change the smell of milk and moulds?
Hmmmn

Independent movies are quite deep.. some are really well written, but their exposure is limited, and the peeps who actually watch them are few and far between…

You know any from last year!

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Heaven!
July 29, 2008 at 9:05 am

Oh come on guys!i was planning to watch Dark Knight this weekend!!

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Sybella
July 29, 2008 at 9:11 am

i am a comic book and sci-fi movie buff so definately cannot be objective…

independent movies would not attract a big audience in uganda and that’s why cineplex don’t really bring them… would not be a money maker for them…

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Gish
July 29, 2008 at 10:00 am

I tend to watch movies in my house vis a vie the theater that way the cost is less plus it hurts less if the movie is not worth it.

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Baz
July 29, 2008 at 10:52 am

Tumwi, you snob!
Okay, superhero flicks may not be “cinemaaahhrr”, they are just movies, and movies were made to be spectacle, not art.

If we want an unflinching look into the tortured psyche of a broken man that can and really should be done in theatre or in novels. When I see it on film, I keep thinking I wish I could have read the book, or seen the play instead.

The only reason they made films is so that they could do stuff that isn’t done in theatre.

Like make dudes fly and shootlasers out of their eyes and stuff.

BTW, I am the press. I know people at Cineplex. I will holla them if you scratch my back by Taking me to see Hellboy II.

Antipop, a guy flying is an automatic star. That is the only way Superman Returns got a one-star rating. Otherwise it would have been zero.

Movies are about attractive people uttering cool quips and flying.

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Kobayashi
July 30, 2008 at 7:07 am

I don’t think it is Cineplex that has issues. This year has had the most pathetic of movies premiering throughout. I don’t know whether the screen writers have a hangover from their strike but movies like Hancock, Hell Boy, and Indiana Jones have forced me away from the cinema.

My craving for a good new movie is like that for using…

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Gloria
July 31, 2008 at 1:22 am

Reh-cho!Reh-cho!Reh-cho!

There is an independent movie coming out that I think you would LOVE. I appreciate movies that don’t have yukky stars!

ANYWAY it’s a movie about a documentary and the relationships that develop between the observers and the subjects. It’s also about art…

Lemme not write an email here. I’ll send some links to you!

I haven’t seen Sex and the City (how overdone is it?! YUKK), Indiana Jones (C’mon now, whatever the f* his name is? He has one expression on his face. $8 to see him do the same face. Nah), Batman (I think it’s creepy watching Heath Ledger be creepy).

Ah well!

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Mo
July 31, 2008 at 7:12 pm

‘Wanted’ is just pure shite. And to think that my pal said it was the best movie of the year. He is pretty daft though…

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