Cinema Times for The Vue (Swansea) for weekend 8/8/2008

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (12A)

Fri-Sun 2.50, 5.05, 7.30, 9.50

The Dark Knight (12A)

Fri-Sun 10.10, 11.00, 1.20, 2.15, 3.10, 4.30, 5.30, 6.30, 7.45, 8.45, 9.45, 11.15 (Fri/Sat)

The Fox And The Child (U)

Fri-Sun 11.30AM

Hancock (12A)

Fri-Sun 9.20PM, 11.30PM (Fri/Sat)

Kung Fu Panda (PG)

Fri-Sun 10.30AM, 12.40PM

The Love Guru (12A)

Fri-Sun (Audio Description Available) 10.40 (FRI), 1.00 (FRI/SAT), 1.00 (SUN, Subtitled)

Make It Happen (PG)

Fri-Sun 10.05, 12.10, 2.10, 4.25, 6.50, 9.00, 11.10 (FRI/SAT)

Mamma Mia! (PG)

Fri-Sun 11.20, 1.50, 2.55, 4.20, 5.20, 7.00, 7.50, 9.30, 10.30, 11.50 (FRI/SAT)

The Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor (12A)

Fri-Sun 10.15, 12.15, 1.15, 2.05, 3.15, 4.15, 5.15, 6.15, 7.15, 8.15, 9.15, 10.15, 11.00(Fri-Sat), Midnight (Fri/Sat)

Space Chimps (U)

Fri-Sun 10.2AM,12.35PM

Star Dust (PG)

Sat/Sun Kids Club 10.35AM

WALL-E (U)

Fri-Sun 10.20, 10.50, 12.45, 1.25, 4.00, 6.45

The X-Files: I Want To Believe (15)

Fri-Sun Audio-Description Available 3.25, 5.45, 8.25

Cujo

 

Book:  Written by Stephen King.

Film:  Adapted from book writing creditors Don Carlos Dunaway and Lauren Currier.

Directed by:  Lewis Teague

Main characters Cujo ……… The St Bernard.    Donna Trenton………Dee   Wallace Stone.

                 Vic Trenton…..Daniel Hugh Kelly.   Tad Trenton………Danny Pintauro

 

Cujo was written first as a novel by Stephen King in 1981 and later released as a film in 1983.  It’s all about a great heavy St Bernard dog called Cujo, who chases a rabbit into a bat cave which disturbs them and in the excitement of them flying around and Cujo  trying to catch them he gets bitten by a rabid bat.  Cujo lives with garage mechanic Joe Cambers at Castle-Rock Maine, a peaceful idyllic area where the Trentons, Donna and Vic have come to live with their young son Tad.

Vic is a high flyer in the city and is away at work a lot.  This puts a lot of strain on the marriage and leads Donna to have an affair with the local handy man.  One extremely hot scorcher of a day Donna and Tad take the car to the garage for some minor repairs, here also is Cujo who’s about to go berserk.

Book in my opinion better than the film, also not the same ending.  Neither for the faint hearted.

After reading or watching! ……….Bet you never look at your dog quite the same again.

From this to this in just one bite.

FIGHT CLUB !

Fight Club was released in 1999 it is an  adaptation of the 1996 book by Chuck Palahniuk. Starring Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden) and Edward Norton as the nameless (narrator).The narrator  who cannot match society’s requirements for happiness.He also suffers from insomnia. his doctor refuses to give him sleeping pills and suggests he visit a testicular cancer support group so he can appreciate real suffering. After attending the group he breaks down and is able to sleep! So he starts to fake more illnesses so that he can attend more groups on doing this he meets another impostor, Marla Singer(Helena Boham Cater). He then meets Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) on a business trip who is a soap salesman and they exchange phone numbers. When the narrator arrives home his flat has been destroyed by an explosion.With this he calls Tyler and they meet up. Tyler agrees to let him stay with him on one condition, that the narrator hits him.The two end up having a fist fight outside the bar which they enjoy. The narrator moves in with Tyler. They then return to the bar and have another fight this is when “fight club” is established. I don’t want to give to much away,but there are a lot of metaphors this is one of Brad Pitt’s

“Fight Club is a metaphor for the need to push through the walls we put around our selves and just go for it, So for the first time we can experience the pain.”

The director intended the bathtub scene to represent a homoerotic moment.To make the audiences uncomfortable and unprepared for the film’s coming events.

The twist at the end of the film left me with a lot of unanswered questions, So a second viewing is definitely recommended .Tyler  Durden’s recitation of the rules of fight club is one of the most quoted monologues in film “

“    The first rule of fight club…you do not talk about fight club…The second rule of fight club is…you do not talk about fight club..”

                               

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Maggies Film Review

 Hello my name is Maggie, I enjoy a wide selection films especially psychological thrillers such as  Jacobs Ladder.  I  love a film that stays with you  hours after you have watched it . I also like a good spy movie full of espionage and suspense such as the fantastic Bourne Ultimatum with the gorgeous Matt Damon.I think a film should be like a good book that you don’t want to put down, That keeps you guessing till the end.