film review

i have had an unusual amount of spare time this past week. so much so that i have even updated my research student log, which i have supposed to have been keeping all this past year. I havent done anything with it until now, and my supervisor was so shocked when she got the automatic confirmation that she sent me an email saying i had been very noble...but didnt i need to get out more?
i have also watched a number of films, and my unsolicited films are as follows:
da vinci code: ok i read the book and of course i noticed like everyone else that it is badly written...but i still read the book until the end in a remarkably short period of time, so it would be absurd to deny that some part of me enjoyed it, despite its limitations. after all, it doesnt claim to be great literature...so about the film, well it wasnt much better or worse than the book. i did go to see it after all, just as i did read the book. tom hanks is not terrribly inspiring as the professor, and audrey tautou is not much better. the albino monk was pretty creepy though. maybe i will start having nightmares about him (although i dont think so). the film as a whole was trite, predictable and contained no suprises....but how could it when we have all read the book anyway?
Matchpoint: another somewhat disappointment. perhaps i thought so because so many people had liked it. but i also thought it was trite. it did however improve as the film progressed and some parts at the end were good, had it been otherwise i dont think i would have survived it all. great music.
Bareback mountain: not my sort of film...i wouldnt watch a heterosexual cowboy movie afterall....but for its genre it was well done...i am glad someone out there makes such films, even if they are not really for me.
mean girls: ok, i got a free copy which is the only reason i would ever watch such a film....it is truely awful, but i did laugh.
the parent trap: this is the 1998 version with lynsey lohan before she turned into a chav. she was so cute when she was little! the film is impossibly stupid, but cute...
Jarhead: a sharp contrast to the two above. on the whole, i liked it. it seems in many ways the follow up 20 years later of full metal jacket. the kubrick film is much much better, but jarhead had its own merits, and is the best of the list above...
and now i am going to sit back and watch crash....more unsolicited views to follow!