Day 337: The Czech is in the post

I have watched a number of films since I last gave some film opinions on this blog, so here comes a much needed update.

Open Water: This is simply the worst film that I have ever seen ever. This was in the DVD charts in Asda which meant people had actually gone out an bought it - how they must have regretted it later. I am glad I only rented it. The only reson it gets a 15 certificate is because of the nudity near the beginning and there was absolutely no other reson for it being there. Apart from that nothing happens apart from 2 people being in the water for a while. What a boring film.

The Village: I really enjoyed this film and I am glad I bought it rather than rented it. I pretty much got the twist early on, as I also did with "The Others", but it didn't detract from the enjoyment at all. When I watched the 6th sense I didn't get it until right at the very end and promptly had to watch the film over again right away. I would like to live in some sort of village like that (but in Sweden).

The Bourne Supremacy: The reason I ended up renting Open Water was because my local video shop was all out of this film. The following weekend I tried to rent this again but they were still all out. There was nothing else worth renting so I ended up buying it, and fortunately it was very enjoyable. I had rented the first film in this set, but can't remember much about it, so I'll probably need to go out and buy that too.

Gorky Park: This film is one of my all time favourates of all time - I may have even mentioned this fact to a few people before. Apart from the fact that it is really good, it is even better because some of it is set (and filmed) in Sweden. In fact some of the bits that are set in Russia where also filmed in Sweden. When Adrian and I went to see Sting play at Skansen a few years ago we went to Sturebadet for a sauna and a massage on the Sunday. Adrian commented that it was one of the nicest health spas he had been to. One of the stiking featutes was the main room which contained a swimming pool. Some years after this I bought the DVD of Gorky Park (which I had first seen in the ABC cinema in Harrogate with Adrian and a few other friends) and on watching it I noticed that the scenes set in the Russian health Spa looked very familiar to me. So the next moring I had a look at the Sturebadet website and low and behold that was where they had filmed those scenes. I wonder wether we will get chance to pay a visit again on our next trip in may.

While typing this post Al mentioned that he had a friend from Prague and added that he was his Czech mate, but I said "no you've got that wrong, don't you mean flat mate?"