SodjesSixteenIncher Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 I quite liked This Is The End. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Amazing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Only if by "Amazing" you mean self-aggrandising w**k-fest 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev23 Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Only if by "Amazing" you mean self-aggrandising w**k-festIt's hilarious. Get over it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cracowjambo Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 I watched lone survivor last night it's a good film f**k knows how he survived all they falls 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 The Frighteners - enjoyable supernatural thriller from Peter Jackson, most recently the author of a series of successful adverts for the New Zealand Tourism Board. A clairvoyant Michael J. Fox teams up with some ghosts to scam money out of the unsuspecting, until a mysterious supernatural being turns out to be responsible for a series of suspicious deaths. Who will survive and what will be left of them? It's a moderately fun romp that could easily have been a movie for kids, if not for Jackson's then-predilection for grue. Kind of a smaller-in-scope Ghostbusters, with smaller returns. Oh, and JEFFREY COOOMBS! The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - nothing to do with Royston Vasey, but an effects heavy (and apparently hamfisted) adaption of a literary gangbang comic book. Fictional characters from various novels are assumed to be real and team up to save the world from a fictional villain at the dawn of a steampunk 20th century. Big, dumb action flick, with a surprising amount of dull exposition in an attempt to develop character. Still, it's vaguely watchable if you turn your brain off and, I suspect, if you aren't particularly attached to any of the characters involved. Two thumbs up from the children present, if that's any help. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 The Frighteners - enjoyable supernatural thriller from Peter Jackson, most recently the author of a series of successful adverts for the New Zealand Tourism Board. A clairvoyant Michael J. Fox teams up with some ghosts to scam money out of the unsuspecting, until a mysterious supernatural being turns out to be responsible for a series of suspicious deaths. Who will survive and what will be left of them? It's a moderately fun romp that could easily have been a movie for kids, if not for Jackson's then-predilection for grue. Kind of a smaller-in-scope Ghostbusters, with smaller returns. Oh, and JEFFREY COOOMBS! The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - nothing to do with Royston Vasey, but an effects heavy (and apparently hamfisted) adaption of a literary gangbang comic book. Fictional characters from various novels are assumed to be real and team up to save the world from a fictional villain at the dawn of a steampunk 20th century. Big, dumb action flick, with a surprising amount of dull exposition in an attempt to develop character. Still, it's vaguely watchable if you turn your brain off and, I suspect, if you aren't particularly attached to any of the characters involved. Two thumbs up from the children present, if that's any help. I quite liked LXG, as you say it's a bit of a "Switch off and enjoy"-type film with some clever ideas that don't quite work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caveman Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 I quite liked LXG, as you say it's a bit of a "Switch off and enjoy"-type film with some clever ideas that don't quite work. Yeah, a lot of ridicule seems to be thrown it's way but I remember quite enjoying it as well. Haven't seen it since I was about 10 though to be fair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted May 4, 2014 Share Posted May 4, 2014 Blues Brothers - solid 8 or 9/10. If you haven't seen it, like me before, you're missing out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caveman Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Blues Brothers - solid 8 or 9/10. If you haven't seen it, like me before, you're missing out. One of my favourite films of all time. A classic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Senna Documentary on the life and untimely death of the great Ayrton Senna. 3rd time iv seen it and I find it a superb watch. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Scream of the Banshee - terminal SyFy channel movie about a banshee loose on a university campus. Full of cheap and boring dialogue-heavy scenes that go nowhere and, when something does happen, it's of little note. Very much like every other SyFy movie you've ever seen - dross. Oh, and somebody have a word with Lance Henriksen's agent, for God's sake. The Blair Witch Project - I originally saw a leaked pirate copy of this before release; the picture quality was dreadful, and a key plot point was missing. Put the shits up me pretty well. Easy to wonder why when viewing the release DVD these days. It really is just three kids wandering around in the woods bitching at each other. Almost every found-footage film released since has been more interesting. And it doesn't hold a candle to Cannibal Holocaust. Mystic River - engaging drama about three kids whose adult lives are scarred by a kidnapping. Plays like a Greek tragedy and doesn't leave the audience with a satisfying ending, something that Eastwood the director seems to enjoy. Very good, albeit a tad depressing, and a stellar cast to boot. The Abandoned - full-grown orphan heads back to her birth country of Russia to claim her mother's estate, which consists of a large farmstead in the middle of some very ominous woods. Obviously, bad things are afoot on the ranch; who will survive and what will be left of her? The film makes some attempts to provide some disturbing images and plays around with space and time, but it's a very straightforward ghost story that fails at anything beyond the bare bones of the limited script. There's very little to feed your imagination with here, and it becomes boring quite fast. Feels very tired, frankly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Mystic River - engaging drama about three kids whose adult lives are scarred by a kidnapping. Plays like a Greek tragedy and doesn't leave the audience with a satisfying ending, something that Eastwood the director seems to enjoy. Very good, albeit a tad depressing, and a stellar cast to boot. One of my favourite films. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyTON Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Robocop (2014) 5/10 Disappointed. Lost a lot of the tongue in cheek of original and anything new they did add seemed heavy handed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glasgowlichtie Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Heard the new robocop isn't that great from quite a few people also. Last movie i watched was Goodfellas 9/10. Don't really get better than Goodfellas for me, one of my favorite movies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.C Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 Seen it a few months ago, no where near as bad as i thought it would be, cant remember the rating i gave it at the time tho 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lichtie23 Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 The Worlds End Found this quite funny. Plenty of laugh out loud moments from Simon Pegg. Got a bit silly towards the end but still an enjoyable watch 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 5, 2014 Share Posted May 5, 2014 The Maze - Bought this by mistake thinking it was this infamous piece of dreck, but it turned out to be something far blander. A group of idiots decide to play hide-and-seek in a field of corn (as we've all done, of course) and are picked off by a mysterious killer. Entirely by-the-numbers slasher and is so uneventful you'd swear those involved had no interest in making a film, but were just contractually obliged to do so. Great for insomniacs, I'm sure. The killer isn't related to any other character and appears to have no real motive. WTF? Donnie Darko - troubled high-schooler finds himself experiencing hallucinations that point to the imminent end of the world after a jet engine destroys part of his parents' house. Didn't follow the story entirely on the first viewing as I lost interest in the middle. Found it more engaging this time round, but it's still a bit of a mindfuck. It's practically guaranteed to leave the viewer with questions, but (from recent Googlings) it appears that you're always going to end up having to accept that certain things happen just because they do, which left me a little unsatisfied. Still a good film (with a quite incredible cast), but it's hard to escape the thought that Richard Kelly was perhaps more concerned with chasing numerical bunnies down metaphysical rabbit-holes than with creating engaging narrative. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrestersKTID Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Captain America the winter soldier 8/10 Yet another Marvel blockbuster. Really enjoyed it, plenty of humour and action. Good to see more of Samuel L jackson as Nick Fury. Even though there was all this futuristic technology shown throughout the film it didn't seem over the top. Robert redford was a good addition as was the inclusion of falcon. Favourite moment/scene - fight scene and escape from the elevator. Really well filmed. Really like chris evans as the captain, he plays the character really well. Plus anything with Scarlett Johansson is always fun Can't wait for Avengers 2 now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LBC-91 Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Just watched Pain & Gain. What a lot of bollocks. Can someone explain to me that has seen it why a true story about murders, kidnapping and torture is a Comedy movie? 4/10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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