Coffee Date: Review

Coffee Date is a brilliant film!!

It's obviously been filmed on a fairly small budget, but the acting is fine and the camera work is great enough for this sort of film.

It's like a gay guy's chick flick. A lot of "in" jokes that are quite frankly, hilarious! It's a must see film for anyone with a fun sense of humour, especially the LGBT communities.

The film follows one man's journey from being single and is set up on a date with "Kelly". Only, when he gets there and meets up with them, he's actually male!

After much deliberation, he realises who he's on a date with and they end up seeing each other as friends. The word spreads that he's now gay and no one will believe him that he's infact straight. After trying out gay sex for the first time, he realises he's not gay. Unfortunatly, Kelly falls in love with him and this is where the emotion takes place.

Overall, a great narrative, great script and a must-see-feel-good movie!

9/10

Gone In 60 Seconds

Watched this film for the first time last night.

I was expecting a lot of car chases, guns and sex... what I got was lots of guns, a couple of car chases and not much sex, but that, for me, was a good thing.

Not being into action films that much, it was quite refreshing that the story line wasn't too in depth and complicated, it was simply "Steal 50 cars and your brother lives". Easy enough to follow.

The car chase at the end was a great sequence, if not a tad over done but I enjoyed watching it and actually found myself quite intently watching it.

The relationship between the main character and his love for cars is frequently refered to, especially at the end when his brother buys him the car he loves just as a thank you for saving his life. A very warm and pleasent ending to an emotional and comic film.

There are various stereotypes that are fulfilled, what with the token black man saying stuff like "my black ass" and "what up?", and of course, the pin-up Angelina Jole working as the bad girl and sex interest.

Over all, I enjoyed the film and found it not too much to take in on a Sunday night with your mum.

6/10

Sex and the City

My partner, his flatmate and myself decided to have a relaxing night in and watch the Sex and the City film the other night. We're all quite different people so I thought it would be interesting to blog their different reactions.

The film's basically about 4 different women living mainly in New York.

My partner is quite a cynical person and his view on the plot was quite interesting. His favourite character, Samantha, is quite promiscuous, portrayed as someone who indulges in a lot of sexual activities and would never get married. This reflects his own beliefs almost exactly. On most of the romantic scenes or anything relating to a love emotion, his reaction was usualy to say "bah, get me a bucket", "puke" or "don't worry love, you'll get over him eventually".

On the other hand, his flat mate (male) would tell him to jokely "shut up" or make comments such as "aww, that's so sweet". His favourite character would probably be Carrie, the one who's finally fallen in love, and is getting married, only to be left at the alter by her fiance. In a discussion afterwards, it turns out that he would love to get married and thought it was going to happen quite recently.

Myself, on the other hand was stuck between the two. Whilst I like the romance and intimacy of a relationship, I also love the promiscuity and enjoyment of the single life. Therefore, the character I related to would've been Miranda. The one who's got a full time job, trying to run around her children and making sure everyone's happy, occasionally slipping up and saying the wrong thing. She loves her husband, but when it goes wrong, she's hard to convince that she should take him back.

An interesting set of prospectives and I think Sex and the City has something for everyone, a character for all of us, no matter what level of cynism your on.