First up, “Around The Sun”, which was surprisingly good. I tuned in out of curiosity, but actually enjoyed it.
There are only 2 actors in the entire film (excluding a 5-sec walk-through), set on a French manse. It’s very talky, and just like the phenomenal “Mindwalk”, it’s one of those movies where you have to pay rapt attention and not miss a word, else go back and rewind/replay.
It’s symbolic, almost poetic, and once you figure out the premise (there are clues early on, actually, and the girl explicitly spells it out later if you miss it), it starts making a lot of sense.
I get the feeling that it’s also best to give it a second viewing later on to catch what you missed the first time around, but now knowing “the secret”.
It’s definitely different, but I quite liked it.
Next up was “Bad Eggs”, an Aussie flick about 2 coppers from the Zero Tolerance Unit who screw up and are bounced back to being unis, even suffering the indignity of getting pelted with water-balloons by little kids on bikes.
Screwup after screwup haunt them, but they end up right in the middle of a vast corruption conspiracy, and have to comedically fight for their lives as well as their continued freedom.
If the first 5min or so doesn’t have you hooked, there’s something wrong with you. Just that part was a hoot, and some quips and gags in the movie actually had me laffing out loud, which doesn’t happen very often at all.
A few times I had a bit of a hard time with the accents coupled with Aussie slang, but I got the gist of it.
That said, it was a hoot. The flick’s 17yo oldie, but is still a goodie.