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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:
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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.
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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