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Ida

Perfect little film, forces you to just stop, and think, when it ends. The actresses are incredible, the story will overwhelm you, and it's shot as well as anything you'll ever see. I'm now going to dream about Ida's big black eyes...
 
Fury

Good war film, nothing spectacular. The scene in the appartment of those German women was the best bit. 7/10
 
Rosewood Lane
I thought I'd hate this but surprisingly I didn't. The story is intriguing enough to keep you interested but the character motivations and stupid decisions don't help it's cause. The final 30 minutes were also poop but there is a scene where the bad guy pisses in the eye of the protagonists boyfriend through a hole in the fence which was :lol:. For that alone it gets a few extra points 6/10
 
Cheesy said:
I'd agree with that last part. It's a really good film in places and quite funny, but it's a bit too weird for me to enjoy at times and one of the major plot twists towards the end felt a bit far fetched. James McAvoy is superb though, thought he gave a great performance, with a range of being comedic, being a complete arsehole and managing to generate some sympathy.

Enjoyable Scottish movie, but nowhere near Trainspotting overall.
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To be fair, there aren´t many movies in the history of cinema worldwide anywhere near Trainspotting.
 
SmashedHombre said:
Need for Speed

Awful film. Awful plot, awful characters, awful dialogue; awful, awful acting. Just awful from start to finish. And the fact that it clocks in at 130 minutes is laughable.
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Yeah, we're talking about this super driver who can do stunts the transformer can only blush on, waste not a minute trying to get to the race, but hey, he forgot to look sideways when going out from a fecking hotel.

I mean, surely he'll have to give way right? fecking super driver

On the side note, that brits Imogeen Poots.... yeah, shagably cute :P
 
Vato said:
Fury

Good war film, nothing spectacular. The scene in the appartment of those German women was the best bit. 7/10
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Yeah, agree with this. Brad Pitt annoys me in these war movies though. Thought he was crap in this. At least he didn't ruin it like he ruined Inglorious.
 
Biutiful - Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu (2010)

Thought the first half of this movie was brilliant. Reminded me a lot of Amores Perros which I loved. But the second half falls into very heavy handed directing and melodrama. Could've been a fantastic film. I seem to remember his 21 Grams being like that in the sense of starting very well and becoming crap. Once again Javier Bardem gives an absolute masterclass in acting. Anyone else find it sad that for all the incredible acting roles of Bardem, he wins an Oscar for a inane, cardboard, totally unbelievable character in No Country for Old Men. Typical Oscars I guess.

7.5 cocks up
 
Vato said:
Fury

Good war film, nothing spectacular. The scene in the appartment of those German women was the best bit. 7/10
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I agree, good film with some great moments. The apartment scene was brilliant.

Godzilla

Superb monster/disaster movie, much better than the previous effort and I especially loved the way it paid homage to both the old Japanese Kaiju films and the Godzilla cartoon that I loved as a kid. 7/10
 
Saw Foxcatcher the other night. Moments of brilliance interspersed with large swathes of tedium and a completely contrived performance by Steve Carrell. Channing Tatum did dumb well enough and as he usually is, Mark Ruffalo was the best thing about the film. Bennett Miller's weakest but there was still plenty to admire.
 
The Imitation game -

Superbly acted, fantastically directed, great story, interesting dialogue, great flow to it and it covers many different themes. This is one of those movies that has you in suspense the whole time, without actually having the need to fire a gun. 9/10
 
Berbaclass said:
Watched Focus this lunchtime. Was a decent movie. Thought I had figured out what was going on twice only for the rug to be pulled from under me.Relatively runny too.

Also Margot Robbie :drool:

7/10
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Jev said:
Thought it was decent as well but
I thought the ending was a bit too easy. They didn't really give any clue as to what was gonna happen, and then it's not that difficult to trick the viewer
. All in all a fun, enjoyable film with a better Will Smith than we've seen for years. 6,5/10.
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I saw it last night. It was a fun film, although a little cheesy at times. It manages to keep you on your toes wondering who's conning who a few times too.

Nothing special, but entertaining enough to be worth watching. Also, Margot Robbie is incredibly beautiful :drool:
 
Nightcrawler - Enjoyed watching it. Would have been a much better film if the characters weren't cardboard cutouts.

Birdman - Well made, obviously, but the story is shit.
 
Whiplash - Really enjoyed it, bar one scene in the middle that felt so contrived I almost turned it off (I hate that shit in Hollywood, and this film didn't deserve such tripe). Glad I stuck with it, though; it was very good. 8/10
 
Silva said:
Nightcrawler - Enjoyed watching it. Would have been a much better film if the characters weren't cardboard cutouts.
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What? Louis Bloom is an awesome character.
 
Count Orduck said:
Whiplash - Really enjoyed it, bar one scene in the middle that felt so contrived I almost turned it off (I hate that shit in Hollywood, and this film didn't deserve such tripe). Glad I stuck with it, though; it was very good. 8/10
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Out of curiosity, which scene?
 
Berbaclass said:
Out of curiosity, which scene?
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The whole:

Oh, the bus has broken down. Oh, there's no taxis. Oh, the car rental place is shut. Oh, you forgot your drumsticks. Oh, you were in a full-on fucking car accident and now you're covered head to toe in blood but no one gives a shit. It gets more and more absurd with each passing second!
 
Count Orduck said:
The whole:

Oh, the bus has broken down. Oh, there's no taxis. Oh, the car rental place is shut. Oh, you forgot your drumsticks. Oh, you were in a fecking car accident and now you're covered head to toe in blood but no one gives a shit. It gets more and more absurd with each passing second!
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Yeah I thought you would say that one and I agree really, felt a bit too forced. Still a brilliant movie though and that ending was fantastic IMO.
 
I watched a few recently:

The Imitation Game - I just really didn't like how the character of Turing was portrayed, possibly because I'm not BC biggest fan. Was a okay movie though, great story too and was tragic what happened to the guy. 6.9/10

The Theory Of Everything - I found this to be a really fascinating story and I'm sure like many people I had little to no idea about Hawking's backstory and his wife etc. Redmayne was fantastic and I though Felicity Jones was pretty good also. 7.7/10

Following - Being a big Nolan fan I felt obliged to watch this as this was the only one of his films I'd never watched. Enjoyed it, kind of confused me at one point alight it may have been intentionally like that. Really reminded me of memento the way the story was unfolded but not identical obviously. 7/10
 
Kingsman -

James Bond meets Men in Black. Tremendous movie. I hope Vaughn continues directing this franchise. 9.2/10
 
Paranoiac, an Oliver Reed Hammer title.
Typical tale of a woman who thinks she sees her dead brother at her parents funeral. her other brother - who is having an affair with the woman's nurse - is attempting to get her committed in order to receive the full inheritance. He is also trying to blackmail the lawyer - who's son has been stealing from the funds. An imposter set up by the lawyers son enters as the dead brother and saves the woman (supposedly his sister) from drowning and in turn they fall incestuously in love. The living brother then kills the nurse and attempts to kill his sister. Then the aunt in a mask and imitating the dead brother attacks the imposter dead brother with a hook. The imposter then finds the body of the real dead brother behind an organ/shrine set up by the living brother. Then they all live happily ever after.

It's actually a pretty good film.
 
Whiplash - Nowhere near as good the caf said it was. Quite good but nothing great IMO.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest - rated as one of the greatest Hollywood films, I wasn't blown away by it. It was quite cheesy really with a whole lot of cliched characters and exaggerated performancesm (especially nicholson's). Also why the hell did the actress playing the nurse win best actress? All she did was make serious faces.
 
Count Orduck said:
The whole:

Oh, the bus has broken down. Oh, there's no taxis. Oh, the car rental place is shut. Oh, you forgot your drumsticks. Oh, you were in a full-on fucking car accident and now you're covered head to toe in blood but no one gives a shit. It gets more and more absurd with each passing second!
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Hmm. The bus broke down, but there were taxis - just not right there immediately - the lady he spoke to said they were on the way but would take a while, time he didn't have. The car rental place was open, which is how he got the rental car immediately. Yes he forgot his sticks, but given that he is rushing around it's not that unbelievable, especially when he later gets there and says he can just use Tanners sticks. After the car crash the guy involved wants him to wait for police/help, he runs off, goes on stage and those around him and Fletcher are looking at him like wtf are you doing, you're bleeding everywhere, but he doesn't offer an out for them to stop. Then he fecks up and the first thing Fletcher does is react to his failure, not his excuse, which we know is all he cares about anyway.
 
Focus - decent film, worth watching but I expected slightly better. Thought the first half was better than the second half of the film, although I liked the ending and how it played out. Some laughs, Will Smith good, Margot Robbie :drool: - 7/10.
 
Imitation Game - 8/10
Really enjoyed watching the film. The narrative was very well structured and engaging.Very well made biopic. Keira knightley was scary as feck when she had a entire monologue without moving her jaw.
 
amolbhatia100 said:
Whiplash - Nowhere near as good the caf said it was. Quite good but nothing great IMO.

Not everyone

One flew over the cuckoo's nest - rated as one of the greatest Hollywood films, I wasn't blown away by it. It was quite cheesy really with a whole lot of cliched characters and exaggerated performancesm (especially nicholson's). Also why the hell did the actress playing the nurse win best actress? All she did was make serious faces.

It's not 'one of Hollywood's greatests'. I quite liked it even though Nicolson hammed up McMurphy, nowhere as good as the Ken Kesey's book or the dramatised version I saw.
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It's always interesting to see different media versions of the same text (usually this is the book/film probably experienced years apart). I read the book, saw the play and saw the film in the space of about 3 months. It had the effect largely of deepening and enriching my experience of the book.
 
amolbhatia100 said:
Whiplash - Nowhere near as good the caf said it was. Quite good but nothing great IMO.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest - rated as one of the greatest Hollywood films, I wasn't blown away by it. It was quite cheesy really with a whole lot of cliched characters and exaggerated performancesm (especially nicholson's). Also why the hell did the actress playing the nurse win best actress? All she did was make serious faces.
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Your unflinching dismissal of the opinions of others is admirable. For some reason it reminded me of an old quotation: "All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thee art a little queer."
 
A Clockwork Orange - 8/10

Didn't really capture my imagination at the beginning. The language and the setting was just over the top. However, it slowly grew on me and then it really kicked off when the lead went to jail. Loved it from after that. The performance of the lead actor was brilliant and I enjoyed it a lot.

Whiplash - 9.5/10

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Loved it from start to finish. What performances by Simmons and Teller. Simmons, as the eccentric and ego-centric orchestrator was mind blowing. Teller's journey from "Sorry, Sorry!" at the beginning to defying Simmons and finally getting his approval with a brilliant on-stage performance as an act of defiance was just awesome.

Kingsman: The Secret Service - 8/10
A James Bond kind of movie with enough comic moments. The actions sequences were very good. Kept me hooked on right till the end. Colin Firth and Samuel Jackson were the best performers, with a special mention to Mark Strong. Thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

Nightcrawler - 7/10
A good movie. The plot seemed too thin with not enough substance to continuously hold my attention. But the performance by Jake Gyllenhaal was excellent.
 
Will Absolute said:
Your unflinching dismissal of the opinions of others is admirable. For some reason it reminded me of an old quotation: "All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thee art a little queer."
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You seem to be taking my opinions personally. Huge fan of those films?
 
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