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HMV’s 3 for £20 offer caught me out again the other day and I acquired myself Sweeney Todd as one of my three. I knew this was a musical but I was still surprised when everyone started singing. Don’t ask me why, I’m just like that. The singing is pretty good, though the cynic inside me knows it’s been digitally remastered. It’s not a stand out film, or groundbreaking in anyway… it’s just entertaining.

I watched this at the flickers weeks ago, but I’ve been too busy and too lazy to update the blog. Life story to one side, I found the film pretty average. Enjoyable, but average. It’s more of the same from Casino Royale and not really as good. The product placement does reach new and ever reaching levels, though. I think Sony have a few new monitors/TVs they’d like to shift and Ford have a wide range of vehicles for all occasions. All flashy and shiny as you expect from Bond, but it lacked depth and a decent villain.

I went to see RockNRolla at the flickers over the weekend. It’s CRAP. To be fair, though, it had some funny jokes and lines. Some of which were that good they were used more than once. You know you’re onto a winner when you’re reusing lines and jokes in the same film. Toby Kebbell as the rock star/junkie Johnny Quid was the highlight of a pretty dull film. RockNRolla on to the planned sequel…

Well, it lives up to its hype. But I was more interested to see if Heath Ledger‘s performance as the Joker was really as good as people were saying, or just some Hollywood PR man’s attempt to sell the film. I’ve got to say that Ledger steals the film for me. It’s a great performance as the Joker. Dark, funny and very sinister. Should he get an Oscar for it? Probably and I think he will.