I saw This is the End and some of the scenes were quite funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Also watched The Three Musketeers, it was good and I enjoyed it. 7/10
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I saw This is the End and some of the scenes were quite funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Also watched The Three Musketeers, it was good and I enjoyed it. 7/10
This 1998 effort is the kind of film that gives conspiracy theories a bad name. The film has enough car crashes, explosions and gunfire to satisfy the most juvenile mentality while purporting to be about a rogue NSA officer's attempt to recover a tape of his henchmen murdering a non-compliant senator of a bill for massive surveillance powers to be granted America's security agency. I kept expecting Bruce Willis to show up but his shenanigans were taken over by Will Smith as a lawyer who is surreptitiously passed the tape by an old college friend before the man is killed trying to escape the henchmen. Using unbelievable surveillance techniques, including a satellite and helicopter to track down the lawyer, the film ends with a ludicrous shootout reminiscent of the battle of Stalingrad in which the villain of the piece gets his comeuppance. There is a good film to be made of the misuse of power by the security forces of the USA, but this isn't it. 2/10
This is another of those 'Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper' films set in an imaginary fog-bound Victorian Whitechapel.
John Neville plays Holmes and Donald Houston, Watson in the way that countless others have before them.
Even by 1965 the theme had been overplayed and nothing new was added to this production. It just about holds one's interest so it gets 4/10
http://youtu.be/dgMXQOnW0VE
I watched Conjuring with friends – another horror film. It has the same old story; a family moves to a haunted house and strange things start to happen. This time victim is poor mum with 5 kids. To me she already seemed possessed by some evil spirit, honestly! The funniest part is when Patrick Wilson performs exorcism and in the process she bites one of his helpers. I was expecting the bitten man to become a zombie in less than 10 seconds but unfortunately that didn’t happen. The film has a happy ending though. 5/10
Needless to say we enjoyed it.
I am definitely going to watch this movie Snowqueen. lol !Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
I saw an animated movie named Turbo and enjoyed watching it. 7/10
The greatest movie ever sold- advertising in movies are interesting and everything that goes with it but it wasn't the greatest documentary on advertising,not that I've seen many.
I was planning on watching this one with my wife until my daughter told us that she heard it was the most terrifying movie ever made. Since I spent the $1 to rent it I figured I had to view it although I don't like seeing doors slamming on their own or expecting a monster to pop out of nowhere. Initially, I kept giving them updates like, "Even their dog won't go into that house."Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowqueen
What I liked about the movie was that it was based on true events and from searching it didn't look like it strayed too far from the truth. However, the Annabelle doll looked more wicked in the movie than in real life. There was a documentary short with the movie about the Warrens that describes the events without building up the terror.
What I didn't like about the movie was the fear of the unknown that seemed to be an underlying message or that one needs a Catholic exorcism to resolve these experiences. That being said, if I were ever possessed, I would not object to an exorcism (except the possessed part of me probably would). Whatever happened to Casper the friendly ghost? But this wasn't a ghost. It was a demon. Whatever happened to angels?
Since the movie got us thinking, and was creepy, I would have to give it a score of 10/10.
I haven't done any research on the film, just watched it for sheer enjoyment, but my friends later told me that it was based on true events. Glad to know you liked it.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Watched Pacific Rim at the weekend. It's not exactly thought-provoking, but it doesn't try to be. What it is though is beautiful. Del Toro has such a wonderful eye for design. Big, silly and beautiful.
Watched "Life of Pi" the other night and enjoyed it!
I watched Man of Steel yesterday! I throughly loved it. Now watching The Amazing Spider-Man.
Amazing Spider-Man was much better than I thought it was going to be. Pleasantly surprised (nice profile pic by the by, Morrison's X-Men is untouchable).
There is no resemblance between the real Jamaica Inn and the studio mock-up used in this film, but for the purposes of this contraband story it suffices. Scripted from the novel by Daphne du Maurier it is held together by Charles Laughton's majestic performance as Sir Humphrey Pengallen, ostensibly a pillar of the Cornish establishment but secretly the organiser of a gang of wreckers who draw ships to their doom off the Cornish coast before killing any survivors and pillaging the cargo.
I read the book long ago and remember it as being a bit of a yarn and that is how this film version comes across despite it being directed by Alfred Hitchcock who made a much better job of the same author's Rebecca.
6/10
I recently watched Pulp Fiction again - excellent, and it seemed different to the first time I saw it. I also watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in, which made a lot more sense having read the book first.
My predisposition for picking rubbish is still with me though. Rites of Spring is a kidnap drama tagged onto a horror movie. Complete rubbish being marginally better than one of he worst horror films ever Ogre.
I saw The Conjuring recently-5/10. It got good reviews, not sure why.
Life of Pi. Better than I thought it would be. Wish I'd seen it on the big screen. 9/10
Dallas Buyers Club. I liked it. It's always good to see someone transform into a better person. 9/10