She's the female Hugh Grant.
Shit at acting, overrated by movie studios, stereotypically diffident and a little bit too English.
Shit at acting, overrated by movie studios, stereotypically diffident and a little bit too English.
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Has she been in a film with Hugh Grant? That would be a tough choice between watching that and putting my own testicles through a pasta roller.
Love Actually. The pasta roller sounds like the better option!
Horror film are my favorite, good or bad I will watch them , just that most I am watching are not very good right now, Devoured is the best I have seen for a while.
Will look out for it. Love horror and don't mind a bit of psychological horror for a change, like the Japanese stuff.
Watched The Omen remake again last night. Is ok, but with the usual boring but true caveat that the original is obviously better.
Watched The Omen remake again last night. Is ok, but with the usual boring but true caveat that the original is obviously better.
John Wick - absolute shit. Who thought this was a decent film???
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Apart from one or two funny moments, this was complete and utter useless shit 2/10
Apart from one or two funny moments, this was complete and utter useless shit 2/10
American Sniper - had the look and feel of a TV movie and from what I can tell it's mostly bullshit. A poor man's Hurt Locker. Bradley Cooper was very good though. More Lehane novels, less biopics please Clint.
fecking hellRIPD.
RIPooD more like.
17/12227
RIPooD more like.
17/12227
Taken 3
How does Megaton keep getting work? Story was bad enough anyway but you watch this film for the action, yet all the action parts were rendered impossible to watch because of quick cuts and shaky cameras. They changed his ex-wife's husbands actor therefore completely changing his character in the process, in the first film he was the rich average white man who shit his pants when the going got rough and now suddenly he's an international mastermind villain with Lloyd Christmas in white pants as his henchman.
Terrible/10
How does Megaton keep getting work? Story was bad enough anyway but you watch this film for the action, yet all the action parts were rendered impossible to watch because of quick cuts and shaky cameras. They changed his ex-wife's husbands actor therefore completely changing his character in the process, in the first film he was the rich average white man who shit his pants when the going got rough and now suddenly he's an international mastermind villain with Lloyd Christmas in white pants as his henchman.
Terrible/10
Real Steel.
Set in the near future, where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling promoter feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
Only watched this because my lads liked the sound of it and I have to admit it was pretty good, OK so it is really just Rocky with robots.
Hugh Jackman was decent Dakota Goyo has Max was very good.
Gets a solid 6/10
Set in the near future, where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling promoter feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
Only watched this because my lads liked the sound of it and I have to admit it was pretty good, OK so it is really just Rocky with robots.
Hugh Jackman was decent Dakota Goyo has Max was very good.
Gets a solid 6/10
300: Rise of an empire
Must admit, I have only been half watching it, distracted by the excitement of the awards. For some reason the Spartans now seem to be fighting for Greece (although I could be wrong, it's hard not to zone out during the melodramatic voiceovers).
The Spartans are now led by a bloke who looks like Gerard Butler and may also be called Leonidas. As stubbornly as LVG perseveres with 3-5-2 despite its failings, the Spartans have shunned the idea of expanding their army. Plus the two armies kind of look the same, all rippling muscles, olive skin and loin cloths. It was much easier in WW2 when the Germans considerately wore grey to contrast with the allies' green outfits.
Edit: score 5/10. You know what you're getting, let's face it.
Must admit, I have only been half watching it, distracted by the excitement of the awards. For some reason the Spartans now seem to be fighting for Greece (although I could be wrong, it's hard not to zone out during the melodramatic voiceovers).
The Spartans are now led by a bloke who looks like Gerard Butler and may also be called Leonidas. As stubbornly as LVG perseveres with 3-5-2 despite its failings, the Spartans have shunned the idea of expanding their army. Plus the two armies kind of look the same, all rippling muscles, olive skin and loin cloths. It was much easier in WW2 when the Germans considerately wore grey to contrast with the allies' green outfits.
Edit: score 5/10. You know what you're getting, let's face it.
The Imitation Game
Please tell me this isn't up for any awards? Besides taking the term 'based on a true story' to ridiculously tenuous extremes it couldn't even be bothered to imitate a good movie. Talk about boring. I turned off when it was revealed that the unbreakable code that they'd needed to solve by building the computer from Superman 3 was no more than a basic Sunday Mail supplement puzzle. I mean honestly, they work out the letters becausethe Germans always sign off there messages 'heil Hitler'.
The film was terrible on the detail of the actual codebreaking. There was no eureka moment because the machine was built to find common phrases to massively reduce the quadrillions of options. That was Turing's brilliant idea, not the machine as this was an adaptation of a simpler Polish machine. Well that was brilliant but not as brilliant. It is a great story but it hasn't been properly told yet. Neither this nor Enigma did the story justice.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/..._helped_break_the_unbreakable_nazi_code_.html
IIRC : The Beast
Was too harsh on Fury, it's quite enjoyable. And pardon them for acting like they do, I don't think anyone can jump into the madness of war for a few years and still be sane at the end of the day. They're killing people on daily basis mind you.
cheers, that's the one! most def im watching it soon. (wtf the name haha)
i gave them a 6/10! that's not that harsh.
Ex Machina - A highly enjoyable little Sci-Fi, that - whilst not overly new in it's ideas - keeps things pretty simple and relies on it's actors and methodical (though some may find it too slow) pacing to ramp up the tension and deliver a good story.
Also, Oscar Issac is brilliant - but then this is nothing new.
Also, Oscar Issac is brilliant - but then this is nothing new.
Alicia Vikander
Really enjoyed Frank - Quirky and comic when it wanted to be, poignant when it needed to be. The music was also uncustomarily good for a film about a shit band. Still not too sure why Domnall Gleeson is getting so many roles, but he's alright, and everyone else is fantastic.
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I really liked it until it got to Texas. The final scene was very sweet though.
What We Do In The Shadows
Pretty fun vampire based comedy. Not too 'laugh out loud' but humorous and amusing for sure 7.5/10
Dracula Untold
Luke Evans is quite good in this Dracula origins story but if you took him out of the equation, it would have been pretty dull. The action sequences looked decent but the entire film was too dark. Nice to see a badass portrayal of Dracula again though 5.5/10
Shadow Of The Vampire
Damn, didn't realize I went on a vampire binge. This one caught my eye as it was produced by the great Nic Cage. It's about a film crew during the making of Nosferatu and the director (John Malkovitch) hires a real vampire and offers him a feed of a beautiful woman if he plays the part of Nosferatu perfectly. Great performance by Malkovitch and overall it was really well made albeit a little boring in parts. Worth a watch 7.5/10
Pretty fun vampire based comedy. Not too 'laugh out loud' but humorous and amusing for sure 7.5/10
Dracula Untold
Luke Evans is quite good in this Dracula origins story but if you took him out of the equation, it would have been pretty dull. The action sequences looked decent but the entire film was too dark. Nice to see a badass portrayal of Dracula again though 5.5/10
Shadow Of The Vampire
Damn, didn't realize I went on a vampire binge. This one caught my eye as it was produced by the great Nic Cage. It's about a film crew during the making of Nosferatu and the director (John Malkovitch) hires a real vampire and offers him a feed of a beautiful woman if he plays the part of Nosferatu perfectly. Great performance by Malkovitch and overall it was really well made albeit a little boring in parts. Worth a watch 7.5/10
Looks like everything Alex Garland touches these days turns into solid sci-fi.
Can't wait to see this.
Kingsman: The Secret Service
I didn't really know what to expect from this film, I wasn't aware of the source material beforehand, but the trailer was good enough to make me want to watch this. And I'm glad I did. Matthew Vaughn has a great little directors résumé on the go, but this is his easily best film to date. At the heart of it a British spy film; but mixed in with over the top action (a la Kick-Ass), gratuitous violence and (although sometimes dirty) plenty of humour this results in a bit of a batshit crazy spy thriller with a modern twist. The film even has fantastic performances from a strong cast: I really didn't expect Colin Firth to do justice with this role but boy I was wrong, he portrayed the gentlemen spy exactly how you would expect of him, but he also held his own in the demanding action scenes too. Samuel L. Jackson is great, as per usual, in his comedic villain role and seems to have a blast doing the film. The only downside to his performance is the characters lisp can get a bit too much at times. Mark Strong & Michael Caine provide a strong support cast as Kingsman members and pretty much unknown Taron Egerton taking on a leading role is brilliant as a trainee Kingsman. Overall I thought this was fantastic film and nice to watch something light-hearted during "awards season". I admit it won't be for everyone, but if the audience I seen it with are anything to go by, it will be a big hit.
9/10
I didn't really know what to expect from this film, I wasn't aware of the source material beforehand, but the trailer was good enough to make me want to watch this. And I'm glad I did. Matthew Vaughn has a great little directors résumé on the go, but this is his easily best film to date. At the heart of it a British spy film; but mixed in with over the top action (a la Kick-Ass), gratuitous violence and (although sometimes dirty) plenty of humour this results in a bit of a batshit crazy spy thriller with a modern twist. The film even has fantastic performances from a strong cast: I really didn't expect Colin Firth to do justice with this role but boy I was wrong, he portrayed the gentlemen spy exactly how you would expect of him, but he also held his own in the demanding action scenes too. Samuel L. Jackson is great, as per usual, in his comedic villain role and seems to have a blast doing the film. The only downside to his performance is the characters lisp can get a bit too much at times. Mark Strong & Michael Caine provide a strong support cast as Kingsman members and pretty much unknown Taron Egerton taking on a leading role is brilliant as a trainee Kingsman. Overall I thought this was fantastic film and nice to watch something light-hearted during "awards season". I admit it won't be for everyone, but if the audience I seen it with are anything to go by, it will be a big hit.
9/10
Yeah, I might be biased because I really like or love pretty much everything he's done... but I did really enjoy it.
One of my friends who I saw with it commented that it felt like a big budget longer episode of Black Mirror... not that that's a bad thing!
I really didn't like the Beach, or the end of Sunshine, but I've got a lot of time for Garland.
It got a bit OTT to ram home the point, but I didn't mind it. I loved that the hero's central journey was realising he was a useless twat, so I could see why they did what they did. I also found it's portrayal of mental illness as uneasily explained was refreshing in the wake of the praise Silver Linings Playbook got for seemingly pushing an uber simplistic Hollywood tragedy/love cause/cure narrative.
And yeah, the final scene was great. The cast promoted the film by playing that song live too.
It got a bit OTT to ram home the point, but I didn't mind it. I loved that the hero's central journey was realising he was a useless twat, so I could see why they did what they did. I also found it's portrayal of mental illness as uneasily explained was refreshing in the wake of the praise Silver Linings Playbook got for seemingly pushing an uber simplistic Hollywood tragedy/love cause/cure narrative.
And yeah, the final scene was great. The cast promoted the film by playing that song live too.
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That's true. He often operates on modest budgets and what he did with Dredd for less than 50 millions made look Avengers look pretty much like a cartoon for kids.
Books, scripts, games, movies... He pretty much mastered all forms.
Avengers is a cartoon for kids. I'm not sure it's trying to be anything else.
Talking of Ex Machina, Dom Gleeson seems to be putting himself abit and putting in some good performances (haven't seen this yet)
It's definitely his time and he got a chance to become what Mark Hamill was in the 80's and even better than that... depends if Disney will not feck up Star Wars.
Fingers crossed.
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras (director) accompanied Gleen Greenwald (Guardian journalist who published the stories) to meet 'Citizenfour' (Edward Snowden) in Hong Kong due to claims of an intent to disclose and prove the current ongoings at the NSA. Poitras films the events as they transpire. The film doesn't really explore the details of the leaks, but more show the man behind the leak. Not in a 'he is the real story' way or to portray him as a hero, but simply to add a more personable touch to the leaks and help to perhaps put the thought-process behind them into context. He comes across really well. Not someone trying or wanting to be the hero.. he seems completely believable when he explains that he doesn't want to take over the content and 'be the story'. I really enjoyed it. 8/10
Laura Poitras (director) accompanied Gleen Greenwald (Guardian journalist who published the stories) to meet 'Citizenfour' (Edward Snowden) in Hong Kong due to claims of an intent to disclose and prove the current ongoings at the NSA. Poitras films the events as they transpire. The film doesn't really explore the details of the leaks, but more show the man behind the leak. Not in a 'he is the real story' way or to portray him as a hero, but simply to add a more personable touch to the leaks and help to perhaps put the thought-process behind them into context. He comes across really well. Not someone trying or wanting to be the hero.. he seems completely believable when he explains that he doesn't want to take over the content and 'be the story'. I really enjoyed it. 8/10
Largely unemployed?
He's never been the best thing in anything I've seen him in but he's largely inoffensive. He's half the actor his dad is though, literally.
He's pretty good in Harry Potter to be fair!
Dom Gleeson's success is almost as inexplicable as Jason 'slightly more average than your Everyman' Clarke.
Especially as he seems to be being groomed as a sort of geeky Hugh Grant-proxy.