DomDom Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Breakdown One of the better career choices Kurt Russell has made. Everything is well done, and brilliantly understated untill things REALLY start going tits up. Then they throw everything at you at 100mph. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laid Back Maverick Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 (edited) Ladder 49. A firefighter is trapped and lies injured in a burning warehouse, the film splices the rescue effort with flashbacks of his life. The emotion is laid on a bit thickly at times, but I thought it was a decent enough film. I still don't get the "Irish-American" obsession with kilts, tartan and bagpipes though. 7/10 Edited March 20, 2008 by Laid Back Maverick 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest saintslad Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Saw 4- 7.5/10. Basically for the amount of blood in it you know what is going to happen on it though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Booth Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 (edited) Watched LA Confidential again a few nights ago, it is utterly superb from start to finish. A stunning performance by Russell Crowe (especially in the interrogation scene) ably backed by Kevin Spacey and Guy Pearce (with Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito and James Cromwell also excellent). A couple of scenes are obviously to make the connections The young gay guy freely blabbing to Spacey and Spacey uttering "Rollo Tomassi" with his dying breath but they don't detract from a cracking story with excellent direction and dialogue. It was an absolute joke that the film lost out in the Oscars to Titanic, not only for Best Film and Direction but also that none of the male actors were even nominated for Best Actor / Best Supporting Actor. 9/10 Edited March 20, 2008 by Frank Booth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Hellraiser: Deader (2005) (V) Pinhead in Bucharest, the modern home of horror. This time Rick Bota went for a no-name cast to support the world's best loved Scouser, and it worked well. Better than the last one, but nowhere near the levels reached by Bloodline and my favourite Inferno. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Meet the Spartans. Worst film ever made. 0/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 (edited) Flesh & Blood. Mid '80s Rutger Hauer flick set in medieval times. The story line is garbage but there's enough nudity and violence to stop it from being too boring. 5/10 Edited March 20, 2008 by tongue_tied_danny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattBairn Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Hellraiser: Deader (2005) (V)Pinhead in Bucharest, the modern home of horror. This time Rick Bota went for a no-name cast to support the world's best loved Scouser, and it worked well. Better than the last one, but nowhere near the levels reached by Bloodline and my favourite Inferno. 7/10 I used to love the Hallraiser movies when I was a kid. How many are there now? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I used to love the Hallraiser movies when I was a kid. How many are there now? 8 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005) (V) 10/10 A perfect way to end the series, spoofing internet RPG, making you believe right to the end that Pinhead was a figment of the imagination right through the entire series, Katy Winnick in tight leathers, the American Rutger Hauer (Lance Henriksen) as the evil party host. Just perfection. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Back to the Future Part II (1989) 5/10 A bit tedious, and they just should have stopped after the first one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Good idea, I'll post my top 20 without films to have sequels (or out-and-out comedies)...1) Ned Kelly 2) The Shawshank Redemption 3) Oldboy 4) The Da Vinci Code 5) Pan's Labyrinth 6) Natural Born Killers 7) The Last King of Scotland Tears of the Sun 9) Saving Private Ryan 10) 300 11) Severance 12) World Trade Center 13) Black Snake Moan 14) Blood and Chocolate 15) Se7en 16) The Terminal 17) The Negotiator 18) Hotel Rwanda 19) A Clockwork Orange 20) Deathwatch Christ that was hard, quite a few are just in the order they came to me...and I had to scrub quite a few like RHPS and Along Came A Spider as they had/were sequels! EDIT: Transformers has to go as sequel made next year... Updated list... 1) Ned Kelly 2) Heat 3) The Shawshank Redemption 4) 1408 5) Oldboy 6) Million Dollar Baby 7) The Da Vinci Code Pan's Labyrinth 9) Natural Born Killers 10) The Last King of Scotland 11) Tears of the Sun 12) Saving Private Ryan 13) 300 14) Severance 15) World Trade Center 16) Black Snake Moan 17) Blood and Chocolate 18) Se7en 19) The Terminal 20) Primal Fear 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Airplane: 10/10 This does not require an explanation. Probably the funniest film ever, certainly up there with Life of Brian and Blazing Saddles. Me and my brother have been trying to have a film marathon but never have time to do it, but on Friday we got two films in. The General: 8/10. A classic silent film, probably Buster Keaton's best. Hot Fuzz: 6/10. Good fun and an enjoyable watch, but not many real laugh out loud moments. Not as good as Shaun Of The Dead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Name Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Back to the Future Part II (1989)5/10 A bit tedious, and they just should have stopped after the first one. I challenge your 5/10, at least a 7. Great vision by Zemeckis and his team to light heartedly tackle the tricky premise of parallel universes. Plus ive liked 1 and 2 since i was a wee guy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 BreakdownOne of the better career choices Kurt Russell has made. Everything is well done, and brilliantly understated untill things REALLY start going tits up. Then they throw everything at you at 100mph. 7/10 That's one of my favourite films, ever. JT Walsh was a terrific character actor. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Watched LA Confidential again a few nights ago, it is utterly superb from start to finish.A stunning performance by Russell Crowe (especially in the interrogation scene) ably backed by Kevin Spacey and Guy Pearce (with Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito and James Cromwell also excellent). A couple of scenes are obviously to make the connections The young gay guy freely blabbing to Spacey and Spacey uttering "Rollo Tomassi" with his dying breath but they don't detract from a cracking story with excellent direction and dialogue. It was an absolute joke that the film lost out in the Oscars to Titanic, not only for Best Film and Direction but also that none of the male actors were even nominated for Best Actor / Best Supporting Actor. 9/10 Indeed. That film merely highlighting the terrific talent that is Guy Pearce. One of my favourite movies, ever. But as if we didn't know before, this year's oscars go to show how fraudulent and corrupt the whole shebang is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomDom Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Michael Clayton I like how this movie never changes pace, no matter how long it goes, and no matter what's happening. It keeps the same pace, and ends when it's supposed to, which very few movies actually do. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Name Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 The Prestige - 8/10 Great movie, feel a bit cheated with the ending. Thought it delved a little into fantasy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluetooner Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 No Country for Old Men. 5/10. What a fucking dissapointment it turned out to be. It wasn't doing badly (certainly not worth the oscar, especially for Bardem whose performance was average at best). Worst thing for me - They built the film up nicely enough to the "scene" at the "airport". Then suddenly it is over, the guy is dead and that is it. They didn't show any of it..... bollocks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 The Prestige - 8/10Great movie, feel a bit cheated with the ending. Thought it delved a little into fantasy. It's a rotten, cop-out ending to what is an excellent movie otherwise. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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