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Black Mirror: The Entire History of You (2011)
For the one of the finest 45 Minutes of Television Drama over the past 5-8 years
This for me was the best episode of the two series of Black Mirror, and also the best piece of Television drama over the past 5-8 years.
As a television production student I am critical of drama pieces, but this episode completely blew me away and gripped me from start to end. If anyone asks can television drama be effective over 45-60 minutes , I will always tell them to watch this episode.
This is a masterclass in directing by Ben Welsh. The direction of the cast was perfect, the camera-work suited the feel of the piece , and choice of locations and props for me really added to this film. How they were able to add this futuristic technology to the characters felt 'scarily' believable (especially these days with the development of Google Glasses)
For me this films shows thats you can make an effective drama without making over dramatic and unbelievable plots. As this films grabs its audience, and using its 'gritty' and 'subtle' style makes it for me as one of my favourite dramas ever broadcasted on TV
Looper (2012)
Un-original crap
Can I just say I am huge fan of Levitt's, Willis's and Blunts past films, so please don't think this is a critique of them as actors .
But I can say this is for me the worst film of 2012. Their was so much hype over this and I am kicking myself for falling for it. Their were more holes in script than a piece of swiss cheese. The camera work was lazy. The editing ignored a lot of basic film making rules.
But the worst bit was the how unoriginal it all was, I could count at least 15 films the director copied bits from. Sometimes it was underlying pastiches in the script and other times it was right in your face such as the landscape shots directly taken from the opening to the new Star Trek film.
This film could have been great with the cast it had, but for me it was huge cinematic flop.