Reina Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 This Year's Love It was on BBC1 last night and I caught in from about 15mins in. Interesting wee film about a microcosm in Camden where a group of people share their partners/ex-partners (sometimes unknowingly) with each other over the course of a few years. I dislike the fact that the mentalist nerd shares my first name though! I think it's touted as a comedy but it's pretty depressive in places. Kathy Burke is fantastic in it as a backing singer to David Gray - who was virtually unknown at the time and plays a pub singer. Because of this, it also features a lot of songs from "White Ladder" on the songtrack (including the title track). Despite it being set in London it does feature a lot of Scottish faces and Catherine McCormack continues using the Scottish accent she used in Braveheart. I thought it was really good. I hadn't seen it before, and was quite amused by it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin M Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Once upon a time in Mexico on channel 5 last night. Second team I've seen it, Depp as usual is superb and looks particularly hot in it. Amusing stuff, with lots of stylised gun battles.... 7/10 I saw that at the cinema, it was utter nonsense but quite entertaining from what I remember. But at the time, I couldn't work out - why on earth did Willem Dafoe's character need to get a face transplant? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermac Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 Airplane 2 on Channel 5 last night Most of the gags are recycled from the first one but it's still one of the funniest films ever. The camp guy seems to get more lines in the second one, his stuff is killer. 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 I saw that at the cinema, it was utter nonsense but quite entertaining from what I remember. But at the time, I couldn't work out - why on earth did Willem Dafoe's character need to get a face transplant? Absolute balderdash so it was but sometimes that can be quite fun - you could tell Johnny Depp was having a ball making it. Wasn't he faking his own death on the operating table so he could run off with all that money? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin M Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Absolute balderdash so it was but sometimes that can be quite fun - you could tell Johnny Depp was having a ball making it. Wasn't he faking his own death on the operating table so he could run off with all that money? That's probably right, I think I had lost track of it and was just enjoying the shooting by that time. Or maybe they ran out of budget and couldn't pay Dafoe any more, so they had to concoct that plot and get some other guy to play him all bandaged up 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 That's probably right, I think I had lost track of it and was just enjoying the shooting by that time. Quality effort at the end when Banderas shot the bad guys knees off! Ouch! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Airplane 2 on Channel 5 last night Most of the gags are recycled from the first one but it's still one of the funniest films ever. The camp guy seems to get more lines in the second one, his stuff is killer. 9/10 "Jacobs! What have you got on Elaine Dickinson?" "Well I'm 2 inches taller, a better dancer, and much more fun to be with!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Watched Kidulthood last night, anyone else seen it? All these films have the same type of ending. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 I finally got round to watching Meet The Fockers - 7/10 Much better than I thought it would be. Best line - "I'd like to fockerise you" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death warmed up Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes! Just about what I expected. 5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fraser_arab Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Executive Decision - 9/10 - Absolute class movie! The Grudge - 9/10 - Pretty strange but still had me sh*tting myself! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Just watched the trailer for the new Rocky film! It looks fantastic! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Watched Godfather III tonight. Why? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 Walk the Line I'd give that 9/10 Thought both leading actors were superb, great vocals with a superbly shot film! Well worth a watching! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Half A Person Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 (edited) Monster House 9/10 a superlative animated film. The animation, or more acurately, the production in this film is amazing...Long tracking shots, seemingly shaky camera work...it really looks natural despite the stylised look of the characters themselves. The story is fine and there are some reasonably frightening moments in it, especially for kids... A lot of children were crying in the pictures when I went to see it. There's a bit with a shadow hand that still gives me the chills. It's a dark film, but not self conciously so. The best bit about this film is the natural dialogue between the characters, almost reminiscent of the Goonies or ET. In fact, the whole film has got a classic '80's movie feel (no surprise from a Spielberg/ Zemeckis production). It's hilarious in some places. The only fault (whichis why it gets a 9) is the finale, the all action 10 minute spell at the end when it all kicks off which is pretty boring after being well entertained by the interaction of the characters for the rest of the film. Edited August 19, 2006 by halfaperson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larbert_Par Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Snakes on a Plane-6/10. Reasonable,Samuel L Jackson was decent but it ended quite abruptly when the plane eventually landed.Some of the snake attacks were a bit far-fetched too. Watched a film on BBC 1 last night after MOTD,some horror film which i forget the name of but it was pretty decent.Some lassie went a bit off the rails after her friend committed suicide and it turned out she had some disorder that enabled her to move things with her mind and she caused a huge amount of death at a party after being humiliated by other folk at her school following the event. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest robbo_214 Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 last movie i watched was rock star on channel 4 last nyt its brilliant would recomend it 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Notorious JMS Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 went to see Miami Vice at the pictures on friday night... Utter pish...Farrell seemed like he was going to break into broad tattiepicker at any second...Foxx was impressive tho...Very little dialougue...too many scenes of nothingness...very dissapointing 3/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Jenkins Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Just Friends. I really enjoyed it, I was not expecting to but I did. I give it a 9.5 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluetooner Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Watched a film on BBC 1 last night after MOTD,some horror film which i forget the name of but it was pretty decent.Some lassie went a bit off the rails after her friend committed suicide and it turned out she had some disorder that enabled her to move things with her mind and she caused a huge amount of death at a party after being humiliated by other folk at her school following the event. Carrie ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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