I can't be bothered searching back to see if anyone has mentioned Due Date yet. I went to watch it the other day and was very disappointed. I think I only laughed twice.
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Kandahar Break Competent but nothing special with a very ordinary and unimaginative end. Contains the bloke from Ashes To Ashes.5/10]
No wonder you wrote a pretty crap review.
Ok then. A wee bit sensitive on Harry Potter.
RCDR07, I'm not being bad or anything, but how old are you?
Old enough to drive and old enough to drink.
Why whats up? Were you going to say I m too old to be interested in Harry Potter if I said I was 21?
No, but you're a bit defensive about Harry Potter for a not-11-year-old.
Of course I am. A lot of Harry Potter fans found the movie very nice and interesting. The people who read the book are not complaining even though we know what the movie was missing from the book, but people who don't read the book are complaining.
A lot of people of who don't read the books and who haven't watched any films so far, watched the 7th film and said it is a stand alone film and they kinda knew what was happening.
Why get defensive? You enjoyed the film, others didn't. Why do you feel the need to defend it at every possible opportunity? I've read all the books. It was an okay book and an okay film. Nothing more, nothing less. Seems a bit pointless to get annoyed when someone didn't particularly like it.
I m not annoyed at anyone. They have the right to express their opinion and I have the right to express mine. I m not forcing anyone to like it.
I didn't say you were forcing anyone to like it. Just seems a bit odd to be defensive.
Anyway, has anyone saw Restrepo yet? The war documentary in the Korengal Valley?
When they are ambushed and one of the soldiers is killed, his friend runs up and finds out, it was hard to watch. His sobbing sounds like complete dispair.
I agree mate. I love Twilight and I won't have a bad word said about the franchise. But yeah, you can't truly understand Harry Potter till you've read the books, bought an Emma Watson sex doll and performed fellatio on yourself dressed up as Harry Potter's ginger side kick.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives
Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year. By Apichatpong Weerasethakul, director of Blissfully Yours and the brilliant Tropical Malady and Sydromes and a Century.
The first three shots of this film are possibly the most beautiful I've ever seen. And the last sequence is terrific, pretty much as good as anything he's done.
Aside from that, it was quite disappointing. There was nothing really new, everything seemed to be regurgitated from his other films. And whereas before he's always had an interest in pop culture, this time it veered towards kitsch and cute.
That said, the guy's a phenomenal talent, and this film's still better than most I've seen this year.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year. By Apichatpong Weerasethakul, director of Blissfully Yours and the brilliant Tropical Malady and Sydromes and a Century.
The first three shots of this film are possibly the most beautiful I've ever seen. And the last sequence is terrific, pretty much as good as anything he's done.
Aside from that, it was quite disappointing. There was nothing really new, everything seemed to be regurgitated from his other films. And whereas before he's always had an interest in pop culture, this time it veered towards kitsch and cute.
That said, the guy's a phenomenal talent, and this film's still better than most I've seen this year.
I've seen/read a couple of reviews that said it was beautiful but dull. Is that fair, or did the reviewers fail to understand the film?
I think that's pretty fair.
I Saw the Devil - fecking brilliant. An unsettling thriller with an all-star cast who give great performances (Choi Min-sik particularly). It did have it's flaws but the main point in the film was the battle between the two main characters and the sheer, relentless visceral violence (a few scenes had to be cut or else the film wouldn't have been released at all...and still, it's one of the most goriest thrillers I've ever seen). The revenge theme was familiar but it had more of a horror feel to it than like say the Vengeance Trilogy.
That sounds great, I shall now find it to watch.
Spirited Away (2001):
I'm not one to write reviews for movies but I really want to share this film. It's an anime so I was a little apprehensive about watching but I'm glad a did. The story follows a 10 year old girl who, with her parents, explore a seemingly deserted place. Things get downright bizzare from there, but that only adds to the art that is this film. No character is one dimensional, even two dimensional - like the rest of the film which is so multi layered and has so much depth. The musical score is one of the best I've even heard from a film; it never steals the show - only adds to the scene. I read that this made 200 million dollars before even being released in the states and even won the oscar for best animated feature. It deserves it.
I won't be forgetting this film any time soon: 10/10
I'm not one to write reviews for movies but I really want to share this film. It's an anime so I was a little apprehensive about watching but I'm glad a did. The story follows a 10 year old girl who, with her parents, explore a seemingly deserted place. Things get downright bizzare from there, but that only adds to the art that is this film. No character is one dimensional, even two dimensional - like the rest of the film which is so multi layered and has so much depth. The musical score is one of the best I've even heard from a film; it never steals the show - only adds to the scene. I read that this made 200 million dollars before even being released in the states and even won the oscar for best animated feature. It deserves it.
I won't be forgetting this film any time soon: 10/10
DEVIL : 6/10 not a bad idea but a bit slow
THE LAST EXORCISM 6/10 very very slow , and the ending was very much an anti-climax
THE LAST EXORCISM 6/10 very very slow , and the ending was very much an anti-climax
The movie was a bit dull though, it was expected to be...it's a filler movie. They market it as a way of 'telling the full story', 'doing the last book justice' and all that jazz but it was never anything more than a very obvious money-making scheme. Don't really blame them, but it was a bit of a pointless movie. The fact that I knew that it would be and still went to watch it proves it was the right move, even if it was an obvious one.
Enjoyable all the same because it's nice to see how the director translates the book into a film (always is for me, even though it's always a worse version), and it's nice to be reminded of the story given it was read like 3(?) years ago and I've a rubbish memory, but it wasn't much more than that I thought. Nothing was particularly well done, the movie didn't show any of the story in a different light (besides some nice scenery at points) and the cut-off point was when the book really got interesting (besides the bits that they cut out that were actually interesting when they were camping out, I think) - again an obvious ploy but explains why some people didn't really enjoy this movie. It just about met the minimum requirements.
That's my opinion though, I'm glad you really enjoyed it. Unless you think you've got an in-depth knowledge of movies - like some on here do, and I'd imagine ole is one of them - though, I can't really see why you'd react so strongly to someone not liking it (regardless of whether they are or aren't Harry Potter fans).
It's very fanboyish.
I've never understood Schrodingers's cat while having claimed to have some minimal understanding of quantum mechanics (I think someone (after googling furiously possibly Bohr) thought the same). Don't you think you're getting a bit mentally overheated if you can't watch an OK Cohn Bros film without erecting a great explanatory superstructure or tell a bloke in a pub he's talking crap about god without a masters in epistemology?
possibly. You say mentally overheated like it's a bad thing.For the record I wasn't saying you needed the masters for the pub/Caf-level conversation. But yeah.
I loved A Serious Man though, whether or not the S's cat stuff is intentional (it is though). Usually with their films I come out feeling it was funny/clever but lacking heart and ultimately a kind of sleight of hand that won't stand the test of time. This one I didn't at all, I thought it was a very honest, warts and all film, and deep, man. Plus there was the stoned barmitzvah scene.
EDIT: the shtetl prologue was surprisingly badly realised though. I know it was meant to be mythical not realistic but all I could think of was the boom operators and Yiddish specialists standing just out of shot.
No, it is bad thing. The mind should run cool like an engine with topped-up oil and water not with the gauge in the red. Is your missus up the duff or something?
I've been thinking she might be - she's in a foul mood at least a week and a half early.
It might be to do with me leaving her to do all the filing though...
It might be to do with me leaving her to do all the filing though...
I thought it was indulgent in the sense that I was never going to 'get it'. I thought maybe you needed to be Jewish and possibly that helps but even then I still think it's a film that only makes proper sense to them.
Or, Plechazunga, it could be because you, like Jonny Evans, don't know where to put yourself.
I reckon most of that is surface level. The important stuff they did generally gloss, even to the extent of weakening the dialogue: "I want a get." "What?" "A ritual divorce." It's easy for me to say as I knew the references, but then I see lots of foreign films where you have to go with the flow a bit but it's not a major issue. I don't think it was a film only for Jews, but it was certainly meant to portray the very insular, exclusive, pretty much dreadful social world the Coens grew up in, so they didn't mind letting some words and traditions go untranslated.
Yeah I tend to leave gaps until it's suddenly too late.
Harry Potter & The Wizards Sleeve (whatever)
Took me 3 nights to watch this as I kept falling asleep. Predictably dull version of a book with a very dull first half. None of the 'kids' can act and the decent actors that are in it (Rickman, Gleeson, Fiennes etc...) are wasted.
Good cure for insomnia.
Took me 3 nights to watch this as I kept falling asleep. Predictably dull version of a book with a very dull first half. None of the 'kids' can act and the decent actors that are in it (Rickman, Gleeson, Fiennes etc...) are wasted.
Good cure for insomnia.
I should also point out that it's partly funded by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool). This cracked me up during the credits, to general bemusement.
Black Swan is excellent
The lesbo scene is probably worth the money on its own
The lesbo scene is probably worth the money on its own
Predators - Very boring and didn't make any sense. I expected at least a few decent explosions and fights but it's all so dull. Without any sense of pain or peril that the original had.
District 9 - Enjoyed this. The aliens were a little too Men in Black and the apartheid allegory was obvious and heavy handed but the strange mix of serious themes with cooky characters in absurd situations worked for me. Usually I would be rolling my eyes at the
but I found myself willing him on.
District 9 - Enjoyed this. The aliens were a little too Men in Black and the apartheid allegory was obvious and heavy handed but the strange mix of serious themes with cooky characters in absurd situations worked for me. Usually I would be rolling my eyes at the
little alien fella saving the day
A Fistful of Dollars I finally got around to seeing this a few days ago as a start to the Dollars Trilogy that I have somehow not seen. It was very good.
For a Few Dollars More I just finished watching this and thought it was even better than Fistful. I think the story had more content and more depth than the original, plus the music is amazing.
Now, I should get The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on Monday or Tuesday.
For a Few Dollars More I just finished watching this and thought it was even better than Fistful. I think the story had more content and more depth than the original, plus the music is amazing.
Now, I should get The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on Monday or Tuesday.
Yeah Predators was total shit, which was too bad because they could have made the premise work, but well in the end it was boring as feck
Heh, got them in a box set myself, Clint is a favourite of mine. Excellent films.
The Class - Exceptional film, deserved the Palme d'Or, somewhat reminded me of Prez's story with his class in the The Wire, which was also exceptional as it wasn't your typical happy ending fix-it-all drama, it's just a simple real story with flawed characters where their problems aren't fixed by the films end. Very impressed with the kids also, also like in The Wire, took on tough roles, and nailed them. 9/10
Skyline - One of the most unintentionally hilarious movies I've seen in the last few months whilst also simultaneously being one of the most painfully dull...which is quite an achievement, cos I usually find laughing at bad films hugely entertaining.
It's a appallingly written and never ends, re-playing literally the same two scenes over and over (if they're on the roof, you can be damn sure they'll be back in the flat pretty soon, and if they're in the flat, well the roof's always a good place for a scene) and it uses slow motion "nooooo"'s (quite seriously) to either increase the tension (which it doesn't) or simply to differentiate between which roof scene this is ...and did I mention it's appallingly written?
It begins with a long and needless exposition about some greasy twat and his mrs visiting Turk from Scrubs who does some amazing famous job which is never explained, for no reason, which isn't relevant to anything anyway, and is so badly acted you don't care...It numbers the days (Day One..Day Two) despite there actually only being two, probably because they've seen it on 24 and think it looks really cool and nothing really actually happens in it until the very very end and when it does it's bat shit crazy and isn't explained either..Not that that matters cos by that point you couldn't care less...Plus it has the sense of humour of a dead pretentious horse.
At one point...
Pointless. Utterly.
I'm watching The Town now....This is also painfully dull and I don't care about anyone in it either.
One of the most unintentionally hilarious movies I've seen in the last few months whilst also simultaneously being one of the most painfully dull...which is quite an achievement, cos I usually find laughing at bad films hugely entertaining.It's a appallingly written and never ends, re-playing literally the same two scenes over and over (if they're on the roof, you can be damn sure they'll be back in the flat pretty soon, and if they're in the flat, well the roof's always a good place for a scene) and it uses slow motion "nooooo"'s (quite seriously) to either increase the tension (which it doesn't) or simply to differentiate between which roof scene this is ...and did I mention it's appallingly written?
It begins with a long and needless exposition about some greasy twat and his mrs visiting Turk from Scrubs who does some amazing famous job which is never explained, for no reason, which isn't relevant to anything anyway, and is so badly acted you don't care...It numbers the days (Day One..Day Two) despite there actually only being two, probably because they've seen it on 24 and think it looks really cool and nothing really actually happens in it until the very very end and when it does it's bat shit crazy and isn't explained either..Not that that matters cos by that point you couldn't care less...Plus it has the sense of humour of a dead pretentious horse.
At one point...
..while they're resting and recouperating (in the flat) after yet another identical chase with alien beings who are killing all their friends and destroying the city, a character lights a cigarette only to be told by a main character - completely seriously and without any hint of it being a comic irony - that she's got to put it out because (dramatic pause) she's pregnant!! - ...Eh? You've just been chased all over the shop by fecking aliens and you're bitching about a fag? All the other characters treat this request with the complete seriousness it doesn't deserve too..not to mention it's a fecking massive flat and she could just go and stand a couple feet away and not be bothered by it...not that any normal person would mind one cigarette being smoked near them particularly anyway...certainly not when they're being chased by fecking killer aliens!!!...
Pointless. Utterly.
I'm watching The Town now....This is also painfully dull and I don't care about anyone in it either.