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Originally Posted by papayahed
just watched Transformers with my boy, saw it when it first came out and thought it was OK, now I think it's a bit better it's just, that Shia dude is kinda annoying
Jerry Maguire - 6/10
Before Sunset--BORING beyond boring. Ridiculous script. Less than spectacular shots of Paris...
Watched all of The Ninth Gate last night. Because it had Johnny Depp in it, I was expecting it to get better all the time. It didn't, in fact it was like watching the Ladybird Book of Satanism in film.
I've seen loads of crap films, but never one where a premise has been so poorly exploited to the degree that at the end of the film you have no idea what the point is.
-25 for being a complete waste of time. Gah!
Men in Black 3.
Immensely enjoyable nonsense.
Pretty much par for the course.Quote:
Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry
I watched Accident, one of a string of Joseph Losey films in which nothing much happens at all. Set in Oxford and starring among others Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker, it tells how the arrival of a nubile young female student upsets the connubial and socially cohesive grouping of a don, his family, best friend and star scholar. The femme fatale in question was played by Capucine a former French model turned film star who plays off the men one against the other. Unless you like rather pointless shenanigans set in the beautifully photographed surroundings of an ancient university, don't bother. 5/10
The Eye of the Storm...9/10
I watched Prometheus last night, my first visit to a cinema in about 5 years. I was somewhat taken aback by the price of admission and a handfull of nibbles! I think I might go back to waiting until films are released on DVD before I watch them. The 3D effects were subtle - not so much leaping out of the screen at you; more like peering through a window into a room. It was very loud. The film itself was very enjoyable though. As a devotee of Alien films I wasn't disappointed as I was able to make sufficient connections with the established mores of the series and the plot development of the new film. The story's diegesis was logical and I think Scott was right not to make the connections with the first Alien film too obvious.
So, was it worth driving around the carpark for 20 minutes looking for a space and shelling out £25 for a seat and some sweets? Hmmm, tricky. Yes, I enjoyed the film but I'd rather have only spent a tenner. I think I'll be buying the Blue-ray when it comes out. Definitely one for my film library.
8/10. I think it has to be at least that, if only for the cameo clip of Lawrence of Arabia in 3D :D
The amount of money you had to pay is shocking! If I pay full price for a movie ticket and get a drink, popcorn and a small pack of Astros, it will still cost me much less than ten pounds. That being said, the amount I have to pay as it is, is still quite expensive.
I'm on a bit of a Dirk Bogarde kick at the moment and have watched The Spanish Gardener with Bogarde, Michael Horden, Cyral Cusack and a cast of British stalwarts from the days when scripts were well written and understated. Taken from the novel by A.J.Cronin it's central performance of the gardener, played by Bogarde, is overshadowed by Michael Horden's perfectly nuanced acting in the part of an embittered diplomat who is overprotective of his son and becomes jealous of the boy's friendship with the hired gardener.
Horden's performance alone is worth an 8/10 for this excellent adaptation, as is seen in the film's opening.
http://youtu.be/_5n3f73HqKE
I saw Prometheus last night, and was rather disappointed with it, which surprised me as I had fully expected to find it brilliant. The cast was great and giving some incredible performances, but the plot made absolutely no sense - the film felt like it had no idea where it was going or what it was doing, and simply ended without tying up a huge number of plot points. Lots of things seemed to happen for no reason, and huge amount of technical stuff passed unexplained.
The shots of Iceland at the start were probably the best thing for me, even if it was supposed to be pre-historic Earth (I think? That wasn't explained either, come to think of it...). I've stood at the top of that waterfall (Dettifoss) myself.
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Thank you, Paul. :)
New Year's Eve. It was on tv last night. Despite the fact that I have a high tolerance for average movies, this wasn't very good. 3/10
last night I watched Sin City, saw it a few years ago and thought it was time to see it again since they are gonna make another one. It is so good, so very good. So many great actors and so many bad bad guys. It's just wonderful. 9/10
I just finished watching Indiana Jones and the temple of doom and it's OK, not the best Indy movie but OK, now I am ready for number 4 and apparently they are gonna make number 5 soon.
I've heard that as well. Apparently there is also going to be Ghostbusters 3 and a remake of Stephen Kings IT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
I just finished watching "It's a wonderful life". I've always loved it 10/10
Today I concluded watching The Riddle of the Sands, a British film from the novel by Erskine Childers. Set a few years before WWI, it concerns a young British sailor who accidentally discovers a plot for the invasion of England by Germany using barges carrying thousands of troops that will land at a poorly protected part of the East coast of England.
It's pretty much a schoolboy yarn about Brits foiling the dastardly Germans, but quite well done and very well photographed on location along the North German coast.
Ironically, the author was involved in smuggling German weapons to Irish nationalists but was executed by the Irish Free State after he refused to support the partition of Ireland and continued to fight for the complete removal of British sovereignty.
7/10
Just watched Zeppelin in which Michael York plays a British spy inserted into Germany during WW1 in order to discover German plans for the enhancement of airships to bomb British cities. The Germans are developing a giant ship to be used in a special operation to steal historic documents from a Scottish castle where they have been stored for the duration of the war. This unlikely premise gives rise to the usual explosions and gunfire associated with war films but as a 'ripping yarn' it has its moments.
6/10
http://youtu.be/mAjLzfKzXGo
I saw 'Super 8' last Friday. I loved it. I really liked the dialogue and the characters' interactions with each other. The kids who played in the movie were great.
9/10.
I watched Shrink and I wasn’t disappointed with it. Performance of Kevin Spacy was absolutely brilliant. 8/10
Die Hard for the gazillionth time. 10/10 It came on about 10 and I stayed up late to watch it. A perfect movie for a perfect summer activity when you don't have to get up the next day! Yippee-ki-yay!
I watched "A Woman under the influence" directed by John Cassavetes. Brilliant film.
Hamlet starring Kenneth Branagh. Honestly I wasn't a fan of Branagh's portrayal of the main character.
Paul - again, bought it today and my son hadn't seen it so we watched it very funny and Simon Pegg is always awesome.
I love Paul. Especially the girl who swears a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Helga
Simon Pegg eh? They get obscurer and obscurer.Quote:
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I watched Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with nieces last night. Though I’ve seen it hundreds of times before but never got bored. I think it’s the best animation by Disney ever.
I love this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lp1vEs5A4
I watched Villain (don't ask) a typical piece of British 1970s rubbish about a sadistic (ho hum) vicious ( surprise surprise) homosexual ( yawn) gangster played by Richard Burton. Yes, that Richard Burton who went from being a potentially great actor to a Hollywood icon of such overblown nonsense as Cleopatra, The Robe, Alexander the Great etc. while partially redeeming himself in some fairly good roles along the way. Anyhow, Villain is one of a number of British films of the period, specifically designed to appeal to that section of the cinema going public that identifies with lowlife and thinks that its highly coloured depiction by miscast actors gives credence to the imaginative depiction of their own even more pointless existence.
2/10
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Originally Posted by Emil Miller
The piles are giving you gyp again, I see.
Thankfully I don't suffer from them but it's a cinch that you do judging from your picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Got a Tremors project going. I'll be watching all four movies and the TV series. So far:
Tremors: A few clumsy bits where they had to hit buttons and a few bits where the low budget detracts, but this is still a tremendous modern B monster movie. 8.5/10.
Tremors 2: This, on the other hand, is just a B movie, and not a good one. Actors who look like they're acting (even Fred Ward and Michael Gross, who were both perfect in the original), the new characters are all generic, nobody has chemistry, and the script is purely by numbers. 5/10
Except now I can't find the DVDs with 3 & 4 and the show. So tonight was Battle Royale, which is still tremendous. 9/10
I saw Prometheus this weekend. It was watchable, it just didn't leave me astounded or thinking, which was what I was hoping for. 5/10
Meek's Cutoff 8/10 What a beautiful movie. I have to admit that I watched this at home and my attention wandered. I'm not sure I could have happily watched this in the theater. I never would have thought that such an arrid and empty landscape could be so beautiful, and Michelle Williams is awesome, as usual. This movie is based on true events. The real wagon train had a thousand or so people, I gather, whereas in the movie the cast of characters is pared down to nine, the better to create psycological tension, I suppose.
Some of the usual western tropes are present-the lack of water, the presence of Indians, accidents and illness-but there is a complete lack of even the delicate beginnings of an infrastructure for civilization. Just these intrepid settlers, literally putting one foot in front of the other, and the hope that drives them.
I enjoyed 4 in a weird way. It was very nonsensical with lots of bad acting but its perfect when you're drunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Meeks Cutoff is a great movie. Also, Kelly Reichart' other great film is "Old Joy" with Will Oldham. Very quiet film similiar in feel to Meeks Cutoff - I would watch out for her, one of the best on the indy side.Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
I like the way the Chicago Reader critic opened his review of Prometheus: "The plot of this Alien prequel was a carefully guarded secret—so carefully guarded, in fact, that not even the movie reveals it."
Same here. The usual special effects, alien landscape, inscrutable alien purposes and violence, with some predictable characters - including the cowardly Brit. (The geologist). I had hoped for a good film: the critics on the review show had panned it, but I had to agree with them. 6/10 I think all the Alien films were better.Quote:
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From my picture? How do you come to that conclusion, Holmes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I saw Benny & Joon (1993) last night: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106387/
It was story of Benny, who was acting too responsibly, dropping his fear and and his sister Joon beginning to assume more responsibility for her life. Very well done.
I give it a 10 although IMDb gave it a 7.
I once saw a film in which one of the characters was supposed to be a sufferer, and sitting with a lugubrious expression as though his mind were elsewhere was exactly how he was portrayed by the actor playing the part.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I watched Count Five and Die, a film about espionage. Set in London during 1945, it concerns a group of agents under the command of the excellent Nigel Patrick who plays a British Army major in control of a plan to fool the Germans into believing that an allied invasion will take place through Holland. Overlooking the fact that such a plan would have involved many more than is shown in the film, the authentic scenes of a bomb scarred London in the 1950s when the film was actually made, add realism to a story that starts out well enough but degenerates into melodrama as the film reaches its conclusion.
Transsiberian - a US couple meet a pair of dodgy backpackers and end up mixed up in a drugs cartel. An unusual story if a bit predictable. 6/10
The lives of others - about the surveillance of artists in East Germany. Thoughtful 6/10.
:lol: That's funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
And Paul-"inscrutable alien purposes..." so true! YOu know I like a bit of a mystery in a plot, but this was just poorly done. The one question that kept pounding in my head was whydid the robot put the whatever it was in the man's drink? And why did the alien try to kill them when one of his species had given us life (I guess; it was all a little confusing)? None of it added up, and as a narrative, some of it should have.
This was a really good review, and there were some excellent comments, although they're a bit lengthy. Obviously I've got some time on my hands. :D
http://www.juliansanchez.com/2012/06...-partial-list/
I watched the new Fright Night last night for the first time. It was OK, but not a patch on the original 2. 6/10