Death Becomes Her +The Eye (original)

So then, I've been on the waiting list for a while now to get my nose fixed (I can't breathe properly, and it's all lumpy), and was set to be on it for a while longer, but the surgeon phoned me today, saying that there had been a cancellation, and I can have it done on Thursday! Absolutely terrified about having an operation unconscious and staying overnight at hospital, but it'll end up good.

Also, I'm starting a job on Sunday; not a major one, just directing traffic at the exhibition, but it's money until I can find somewhere in town...

Yesterday I saw Death Becomes Her; it was pretty good - The effects were, given the film was made in 1992, excellent. Only one scene really seems to have dated; the rest were still very convincing. Bruce Willis was cleverly cast as a boring, henpecked husband, completely against his Die Hard typecasting. Goldie Hawn was very good at the variety of scenes she had to play, but Meryl Streep tends to annoy me ever since I saw Mamma Mia... She did play her somewhat limited part well, but I can't help noticing the odd over-dramatic movement or emotion she makes, reminding me of her flapping her arms around in "The winner takes it all"... *shudders*. Back to the main film though, the story was very clever, even though I found it quite slow at times, but that's possibly because it was trying to combine two completely different types of film; a love-triangle romantic comedy and a slapstick horror. At the same time, combining these two genres and creating a coherent, enjoyable film must be unimaginably difficult, so the makers were very successful in that. None of the jokes really fell flat to me, and most of the film was entertaining. However, the ending was very very strange; leaning more towards the slapstick side than the rest of the film tended to. Overall, 7/10.

Tonight I saw the Eye (the original Chinese one). From the DVD case and a few other vague sources I was under the impression that it was a very scary and/or gory film (especially when you look at the cover). It was in fact very sparingly gory and the frights were more tension and suspense than jump-scares. I was pleasantly surpsied by this, as this gave way for a very interesting and intriguing plot. It came across to me as a low budget film, as all the suspense was created by very simple means such as camera angles, sound, focus, and slow reveals. To me this is often scarier than the american style of scaring you. I was constantly guessing throughout the film as to what would happen next, and certain changes in direction really surprised me, and the DVD case's promise of "a spectacular finale to rival any blockbuster" is not wrong in rivaling hollywood, but the ending is not what I would call spectacular; it fits in with the rest of the film by focusing largely on the characters and their feelings (albeit with one shot of rather poor cgi). All the cast played their parts really well, and the girl playing the main part was very good at playing someone who had just regained her sight; she conveyed the confusion, and emotion of the experience. 9/10.