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The Acid House - Paul McGuigan (1998)

Film based on the Irving Welsh's collection of short stories, The Acid House (excellent book, btw). Welsh wrote the screenplay as well and appeared in the first segment. Very Trainspottingesque - psychodelic, druggie, boozy, Ewen Bremner, Hibs, etc, and filmed in a similar manner. The last segment, the actual Acid House, with Bremner was fantastic. Absolute madness and funny as feck.

I would say, you might want to download English subtitles, as the Edinburgh accent is quite thick.


8 1/2 cocks up.
 
Randomly caught The Motorcycle Diaries on TV yesterday. A far more entertaining and incisive look into what inspired Che Guevara in 120 minutes than in that 4 hour bloated epic from Soderbergh. Definitely recommended. Although Bernal is a ridiculously beautiful man and it therefore gets docked half a point for that. 8/10
 
Prophet_of_Doom said:
Randomly caught The Motorcycle Diaries on TV yesterday. A far more entertaining and incisive look into what inspired Che Guevara in 120 minutes than in that 4 hour bloated epic from Soderbergh. Definitely recommended. Although Bernal is a ridiculously beautiful man and it therefore gets docked half a point for that. 8/10
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He might not have been the ideal choice for the role but I think he put in a really good performance.
 
Demons Never Die

A British Horror film, with no horror, not much plot and dreadful acting.
The headline star is billed has Tulisa, she is in it for the first 5 mins and is just awful.
The plot is a group of teenagers make a suicide pact, but before they can carry it out, a masked killer strike at them.
You will guess who the killer is very early.

3/10 , barely worth watching.
 
Who produced that film? Aldi?
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Demons Never Die

A British Horror film, with no horror, not much plot and dreadful acting.
The headline star is billed has Tulisa, she is in it for the first 5 mins and is just awful.
The plot is a group of teenagers make a suicide pact, but before they can carry it out, a masked killer strike at them.
You will guess who the killer is very early.

3/10 , barely worth watching.
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So, to summarise, a group of teenagers decide to kill themselves, but a killer takes umbrage to this and teaches them a lesson by killing them?

Makes sense!
 
Prophet_of_Doom said:
Randomly caught The Motorcycle Diaries on TV yesterday. A far more entertaining and incisive look into what inspired Che Guevara in 120 minutes than in that 4 hour bloated epic from Soderbergh. Definitely recommended. Although Bernal is a ridiculously beautiful man and it therefore gets docked half a point for that. 8/10
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The Soderbergh effort was abysmal...a gigantic waste of talent and time.
 
Is there one film that for you symbolises awful films - the definitive bad film, by which the shitness of other films is measured?

I have two. One is Pee Wee's Big Advanture. My mum took me to see that when I was a kid, we walked out of the cinema after about half an hour. It remains the only time in my life I have walked out of a film at the cinema.

The other is Life Is Sweet. Though that one I think I was also just too young for, probably 14 or 15, I suspect I would not find it so mind-bogglingly rubbish now. Though I am in no hurry to watch it again.

For me the awfulness of those films has taken on a mythical quality. I go through life convinced that by my mid teens, I already had my worst film-watching experiences behind me.
 
Looper little action, underwhelming plot, anonymous performances with little to recommend the film apart from a vaguely satisfactory ending. 6/10
 
Rust and Bone - Another thoroughly good Audiard film spearheaded by two strong central performances. Very raw and evocative film, but it didn't grip me as much as his earlier work did.

Shallow Grave - Quite an entertaining black comedy/crime/mental/splatter film. It really screamed the 90's, just like Trainspotting.
 
The Yellow Sea

Nobody makes these type of films as well as the Korean's. From the start I was interested in the plight of the main character, the first hour or so is excellent gripping stuff. It lost its way towards the end and the plot became overly confusing when it need not have, it also felt about 20 minutes too long. It also had that thing Korean films tend to have in that the main characters can take on hoardes of enemies and escape or survive or take ridiculous punishment.

That aside I thought it was great, didn't quite match the level of The Chaser but it was a thrilling watch.

8/10
 
After the talk of it recently, Godfather III's on More4 at the moment. I didn't mind it before too much despite the obvious flaws, but it's actually a lot worse than I remembered it to be.
 
Cheesy said:
After the talk of it recently, Godfather III's on More4 at the moment. I didn't mind it before too much despite the obvious flaws, but it's actually a lot worse than I remembered it to be.
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It is beyond awful. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. The first two are comfortably in my top 10.
 
Jeff, Who Lives at Home

From the guys who made Cyrus (which I thought was great,) this one stars Jason Segel doing his usual doofus routine, but with a noticeable melancholic edge. Up until the hour mark, I thought it was very well done. Funny, and strangely moving.

However, the final act devolves into absurdity, transforming the poignantly mundane journey of the first hour into a pointlessly melodramatic (and incredibly contrived) finale.

It is the cinematic equivalent of Anderson - good for 60 minutes, but any longer than that, and the wheezing begins...

7/10
 
Adebesi said:
Is there one film that for you symbolises awful films - the definitive bad film, by which the shitness of other films is measured?

I have two. One is Pee Wee's Big Advanture. My mum took me to see that when I was a kid, we walked out of the cinema after about half an hour. It remains the only time in my life I have walked out of a film at the cinema.

The other is Life Is Sweet. Though that one I think I was also just too young for, probably 14 or 15, I suspect I would not find it so mind-bogglingly rubbish now. Though I am in no hurry to watch it again.

For me the awfulness of those films has taken on a mythical quality. I go through life convinced that by my mid teens, I already had my worst film-watching experiences behind me.
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Serendipity, Amelie, Love Actually, The Notebook, Happy Feet (although my son loves it...)
 
God Bless America
Written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwaite (Zed from the Police Academy films)
A middle-aged cynic finds his life falling apart (what's left of it), and is about to swallow a bullet, before deciding to take his frustration out on the vapid, soul-less society that has alienated him. If you hate Big Brother and X-factor, you'll side with him straight away.
Think Natural Born Killers, with Breaking Bad style black-humour.

As memorable opening scene as Ninja Assassin.

9 cocks up
 
jem said:
Serendipity, Amelie, Love Actually, The Notebook, Happy Feet (although my son loves it...)
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You haven't watched many films if those are your worst.

Try "The Age of Sexual Innocence" but don't ask me for that 1.5 hours of your life back.
 
And I don't really remember Serendipity and the others are pretty inoffensive if not exactly Apocalypse Now.
 
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Quirky or annoying? I couldn't finish it. Was hoping this would be a good film to get me interested in Paul Thomas Anderson but that definitely backfired. The less said about Adam Sandler the better I guess...
 
Adebesi said:
I didn't like Amelie at all but it was nowhere near my worst. Dull but inoffensive I thought.
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Yeah but movies like that annoy me far more than movies that make no claims to being good (any number of awful 80's horror movies, for example.)
 
Brwned said:
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Quirky or annoying? I couldn't finish it. Was hoping this would be a good film to get me interested in Paul Thomas Anderson but that definitely backfired. The less said about Adam Sandler the better I guess...
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I despise Adam Sandler. I fail to find anything funny about him, and I judge those that do.
 
jem said:
It is beyond awful. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. The first two are comfortably in my top 10.
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I still wouldn't say it's that bad, but on a first proper re-watch, there was so much I noticed. How bad his daughter is, how inaccurate Michael actually is, how uninteresting a lot of the plot is, some bits that are blatantly ripped from I and II in their style instead of any originality, the way Vincent rises from nobody to Don, and the old villain falling into the worst trap in the history of traps. So many flaws in it.
 
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