Half A Person Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Uncle Buck 8/10 Classic heartwarming 80s comedy. John Candy is great in it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karpaty Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 The Omen 7/10 Quite enjoyed it, the wee boys a wee b*****d in it too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 zack n miri make a pornoextremely predictable plot but a few good laughs 6/10 maybe deserves an extra point for lester 'the molester' cracking character good film for when your feeling a bit cabbaged, no thought required whatsoever, well below the standard of seth rodgers other films though. f**k the pictures now though, could have bought 20 snides for the wallet damage, and wouldnt have to have sit in a room full of asbo merchants I'm assuming you're only comparing it to Donnie Darko? Just because every other film of his I've seen (okay they were all voiceovers) were pretty shit... Oh, and his name is Seth Rogen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwififer Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 The latest Bond, Quantum of Solace - 4/10. The actual fight/stunt scenes were good, but the plots a bit all over the place. Wish I had listened to you lot.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drs Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Tell No One - 8/10 Eight years after his wife is murdered by a serial killer, Alex receives an E-Mail that informs him shes still alive or is she!?! - a superior French version of The Fugitive that suffers from a couple of minor flaws in that it plays the is she/isn't she card a bit too soon and has the villain of the piece being someone we've met for about 10 seconds in the film. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Anyone seen Changeling yet? Kermode was raving about it, and in lieu of a cinema showing Waltz with Bashir, I thought I might take this one in sometime this week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattBairn Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Pathology (2008) Marc Schoelermann does well with his first venture into mainstream cinema (in English anyway), after making a couple of Scooter videos and a few German films. It does drag a tad, although once the forensics kick up a notch from the more obvious and mundane, to the death of Alyssa Milano then it gets far more interesting. Don't read the reviews on IMDb, they are looking for reasoning and motive behind what is a film with none. Did people not realise when after a dozen or so murders we see no involvement from the police, that the main statement in the film was just about the dangers of cults and drugs and has nothing to do with the actual murders themselves. Anyone who has ever any forensics would be simply happy that they kept the APH as close to reality as possible, okay with a bit of poetic justice to make it more entertaining, instead of worrying about such minor details! 7/10 for having an unexpected ending, and an encore with another well delivered finale. *Use the first 45 minutes to finish the housework though* I'd say a 7 was definitely a fair score. I quite enjoyed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Tell No One - 8/10Eight years after his wife is murdered by a serial killer, Alex receives an E-Mail that informs him shes still alive or is she!?! - a superior French version of The Fugitive that suffers from a couple of minor flaws in that it plays the is she/isn't she card a bit too soon and has the villain of the piece being someone we've met for about 10 seconds in the film. I've read the book and enjoyed it. Wondered if they would arse up the film. It's nothing to do with The Fugitive though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerSaint Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 (edited) Anyone seen Changeling yet? Kermode was raving about it, and in lieu of a cinema showing Waltz with Bashir, I thought I might take this one in sometime this week. No, read the book though. Good read. Last film would be High School Musical 3 B) Edited December 1, 2008 by GingerSaint 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sandboy Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Anyone seen Changeling yet? Kermode was raving about it, and in lieu of a cinema showing Waltz with Bashir, I thought I might take this one in sometime this week. I saw it at the weekend, thought it was excellent, would recommend it to anyone. From what I've read since seeing it, it's very accurate to what actually happened. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rab Nesbitt Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 anyone see assualt on precint 13 last nite on 4? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 I saw it at the weekend, thought it was excellent, would recommend it to anyone. From what I've read since seeing it, it's very accurate to what actually happened. Went to see Changeling today. Angelina Jolie puts in an Oscar winning performance in a story you wouldn't believe if it wasn't true. Another excellent movie by director Clint Eastwood. Guy Ritchie ought to be forced to watch Eastwood's movies until he understands that if the story is good enough, you don't need stagger cuts and flashbacks. Directorial minimalism is where it's at. Michael Kelly does another role in which he plays a hard nosed cop with a heart of gold. Excellent stuff, a movie which starts off like LA Confidential then turns all Silence of the Lambs on you, and the two and a half hours fly past. 7/10 I would say, if you already know the story, then there isn't much point in seeing the movie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Went to see "Hunger" last night, the story of primarily Bobby Sands and the 1980s IRA hunger strikers. Some pretty harrowing scenes and quite atmospheric. Best part of the film was a 10 minute dialogue between Sands and his priest. Gave an interesting perspective on The Maze prizon at the times of the prisoner rights protests, interspersed by clips of Thatcher speeches. Some rather bizarrely long scenes with for example a prison officer cleaning the corridor after a urine protest that seemed a bit unnecessary. I enjoyed it, 7 out of 10. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin M Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Went to see "Hunger" last night, the story of primarily Bobby Sands and the 1980s IRA hunger strikers. Some pretty harrowing scenes and quite atmospheric. Best part of the film was a 10 minute dialogue between Sands and his priest. Gave an interesting perspective on The Maze prizon at the times of the prisoner rights protests, interspersed by clips of Thatcher speeches. Some rather bizarrely long scenes with for example a prison officer cleaning the corridor after a urine protest that seemed a bit unnecessary. I enjoyed it, 7 out of 10. The scene with Sands and the priest was absolutely fantastic. It was a harrowing watch, totally compelling though. Mind you, in the hospital bed scenes with the trays of food, I did just think "what a waste of a fry up". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 The scene with Sands and the priest was absolutely fantastic.It was a harrowing watch, totally compelling though. Yep, the direction was terrific I thought. Also, did you see the Sands actor's body at the end? That didnt look like camera trickery to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centralparker Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Beyond the Mat - a fascinating documentary behind the scenes of American professional wrestling. Jake The Snake featured prominently and the former WWF superstar cut a sad figure as he toured the States in a clapped-out van, performing at a series of low-rent events in order to feed his crack habit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Incidentally, went to see Hunger in the Edinburgh Filmhouse. Were about 50 people there maybe, 4 of whom were wearing Celtic tops What kind of minks wear a football top to go to the cinema? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Hutchwright Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Some rather bizarrely long scenes with for example a prison officer cleaning the corridor after a urine protest that seemed a bit unnecessary. I really liked that scene and found it weirdly hypnotic. Agree about the scene withs Sands and the priest, it was incredibly powerful. The whole film was mind you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Agree about the scene withs Sands and the priest, it was incredibly powerful. The whole film was mind you. On that note, I read this on Wiki. The film is notable for an unbroken seventeen minute scene, where a priest played by Liam Cunningham tries to talk Sands out of his protest. In it, the camera remains in the same position for the duration of the scene. To prepare for the scene, Cunningham moved into Fassbenders apartment for a time while they practiced the scene at least twelve times a day, sometimes repeating the scene fifteen times in a single day. It is thought that the scene is one of the longest ever scenes in a mainstream film 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin M Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I really liked that scene and found it weirdly hypnotic. I think the film did well to depict the human element within The Maze, and to depict events as "real" as possible. That scene, plus the one where they're spraying the shit off the wall, did well to show the mundane and routine side of dealing with the events. It was of course "unneccessary" in telling the story, but pretty significant in the overall feel of the film. The whole shot of it was also one of the more artistic. It's a film I could discuss forever, but not exactly one I'd want for the DVD collection! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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