But having mixed reviews of them. First was Black Swan; I'd started to watch it when it first came out, but couldn't get in to it. Finally sat down to watch it, and have to say I wish I didn't. Although visually, it's a gorgeous film (the costumes are to die for), and Mila Kunis makes a brilliant appearance as Lily, I felt the storyline was lacking in any real entertainment value, and just seemed to get in over it's head with it's very 'deep' issues. Didn't enjoy it too much - a film definitely set out solely to win awards rather than entertain. To be fair, I didn't expect much of it - Aronofsky's The Wrestler was pretty appalling.
However, after someone spoke about it in class, I did watch The Social Network, and was incredibly impressed. Entertaining throughout, a few laugh out loud moments and just a very good film. Fantastic performance from Jesse Eisenburg (who I thought was Michael Cera for most of the film), really interesting take on the set up of facebook. Loved it, had high expectations because Fight Club is one of my favourite films (also found out the writer, Aaron Sorkin, did a few series of West Wing, another bonus).
Re-watched the 2004 Jude Law film Alfie. Good light hearted film, realised this time round not too much of a plot, but pretty much the same as the original. Can't really go wrong with this film, pretty bog-standard romcom.
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