Nicolas Cage wig, Chuck and a film on Film4.

Well I watched The Sorcerers Apprentice last night and thought it was a decent family film but there were three big negatives.

1. Nicolas Cage has another wig in this film.
2. The main character is so bloody annoying and the actor fails terribly at trying to add some kind "dopey average guy" comedy, the only time I have really liked a dopey average guy" is Chuck Bartowski in the comedy/spy TV show Chuck.
3. It's a little bit too cheesy and feel good but I did expect this as at the end of the day...it is a Disney film.


But other than that I sort of liked it in a guilty pleasure sort of way with Nicolas Cage and Alfred Molina holding the film well, stopping it from falling apart like domino's.
I also like the element of magical realism in the film but they ruined it at the end with a really bad cheesy bit of dialogue which basically went "Don't forget my friend science". I have always hated it in films where they force a "And the moral of the story is" in a film.
Oh yeah, loads of kids are gonna be queuing up to buy a bloody science set when the film's finished Disney...


The other film I watched was a film on Film4 (Yes I know they show a lot of shit) called Stop-Loss which I had never heared of before to suprise.
It had a good cast of Ryan Phillipe, Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing the leads and a really good supporting cast but I have no idea what their names are, well except for Timothy Olyphant.
If you have no idea what a Stop-Loss is let me (well Wikipedia) explain it for you.


"Stop-loss is a term primarily used in the United States military. In the U.S. military, it is the involuntary extension of a service member's active duty service under the enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond their initial end of term of service (ETS) date and up to their contractually agreed end of obligated service (EOS). It also applies to the cessation of a permanent change of station (PCS) move for a member still in military service."


So there you go and the film it self started off really well with a nice bit of characterisation and some conflict in Iraq but after an hour tried to be typical Hollywood thriller, when originally it started off really well as a drama. The ending was also a bit of a cop out and just felt like someone while making the film was forced to give that ending, rather than the one they intended.