Denny_Different Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Philomena 8 out of 10! I was surprised at how this intelligent and deeply sad film could also be so funny. Steve Coogan and Judi Dench are brilliant together. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 The Frankenstein Theory ( 2013 ) A touch better than I was expecting this one. Mainly thanks to the way that they hinged everything on the big reveal. Which was about as uninspiring a reveal as you're likely to see, especially in a found footage movie, which is a genre in which an entire movie can be shit, but they always crank things up a notch in the end. This movie just doesn't deliver on that count, but delivers a tense wee number for the rest of the movie before that. Depending on how you see it, this could be a total waste of 80 minutes, but I enjoyed the ride for the most part. 6/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Freddy vs Jason - saw this in the cinema years ago, and don't remember it being particularly inspiring. However, after watching Friday the 13th Part 7, it comes across as a classic. Actually quite enjoyed it, and it's certainly more entertaining than most in the Elm Street/Friday franchises. I'm starting to base my rental habits around this thread - thanks to all contributors! Friday the 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan next *shudder* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambos Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Been in America 12 years. When did everyone in the UK start calling FILMS "movies"?? Has cinema been replaced with "movie theatre" too? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albino Rover Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I don't know if the movie/film terminology actually has anything to do with a transatlantic divide. In a way, "movie" is the more appropriate term because all cinema is centred around movement. Film isn't even needed any more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I tend to just go between the two terms. Is it really anything close to a big deal? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 (edited) Been in America 12 years. When did everyone in the UK start calling FILMS "movies"?? Has cinema been replaced with "movie theatre" too? The theater/theatre thing threw me for a while...I spent a few weeks thinking everyone was surprisingly cultured in the States, considering how often they were talking about visits to the theater. Edit: is it too late to go back to "The Talkies"? Edited June 10, 2014 by BigFatTabbyDave 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurph Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I call it the cinema, never EVER 'the movies' and generally talking call it a film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Aberdeen ( 2000 ) Lena Headey is taking her dad, Stellan Skarsgård, from Norway to Aberdeen to see her mum. It's a properly good road movie, if extremely hard to watch at times, and it's so hard because the two leads are sensational, dripping with their own big problems with themselves as well as each other. Obviously they bond and such things and that side of things is predictable, but that doesn't make this any less involving when things do eventually happen. 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Man on The Moon - 9/10 Andy Kaufman bio pic. Absolutely loved it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottMc77 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Company Of Heroes 4/10 Absolute rubbish, one of my favorite actors in Tom Sizemore, ridiculous in all the wrong equipment and what looked like ginger hair hamming it through a behind the lines raid on a German super weapon factory with crazed RAF Airman Vinnie Jones at his side. Not even the tanks were proper Panzers Totally agree. Great actor, sh!te film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forehead7 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I tend to just go between the two terms. Is it really anything close to a big deal? Likewise. Though I don't think I ever say that I'm going to the movies, just that I'm watching one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the aggressive beggar Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Kickass 2 - 4/10 Searching for Sugarman - 10/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny_Different Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Out of the Furnace - 6 out of 10 I think this could have been a very good film but the script and direction lets it down, and so it is just a good film. The cast is brilliant with Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Willem Defoe, Forest Whitaker, Woody Harrelson, and Zoe Saldana ( ) Despite the great cast, it veers towards being overwrought and the main leads do take turns to chew the scenery. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I thought Casey Affleck was hilariously bad in it. Everyone else was exceptional though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny_Different Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I thought Casey Affleck was hilariously bad in it. Everyone else was exceptional though. Casey was taking subway sandwich style bites of the background, no doubt. I thought Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson were tripping over themselves, and Forest Whitaker seemed to be visiting from a different movie. Willem Defoe was suitably earnest. But, I must say, Zoe Saldana 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I thought that Bale was stunning in it, as was Harrelson. Harrelson's character was genuinely unlikeable to the point where he annoyed me, and a lot of that is down to Harrelson who seems to be at the peak of his powers at the minute. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny_Different Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I thought that Bale was stunning in it, as was Harrelson. Harrelson's character was genuinely unlikeable to the point where he annoyed me, and a lot of that is down to Harrelson who seems to be at the peak of his powers at the minute. I wasn't convinced by Harrelson, even though the character he played was intriguing, and I thought Bale was all over the place in his performance. I think a lot of that may have been to do with the script, right enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMjag Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Equilibrium. Christian Bale is pretty much the only good thing about it, the plot was timid and the bad guy may as well have been a Johnny English villain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runstop Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Edge of Tomorrow 8/10 Impressed X-Men: Days of Future Past 7/10 Decent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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