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Kingsman - absolutely brilliant. Genuinely, it's really wicked. Which is still a word I use and not in reference to the movie.
I haven't come away with any gripes about. I'm sure there are plenty but it has that self aware tone that simply makes you enjoy the ride rather than question or properly analyse it.
I thought it looked shit but it's great fun. I actually think it has potential to gain a notable cult following. Highly recommend it.
I haven't come away with any gripes about. I'm sure there are plenty but it has that self aware tone that simply makes you enjoy the ride rather than question or properly analyse it.
I thought it looked shit but it's great fun. I actually think it has potential to gain a notable cult following. Highly recommend it.
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I'm seeing it this week
There's been no other mention of it on the forum it seems. Shame. I really loved it. Let us know what you think.
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Watched Rebellion last night. French Docu-drama about the Ouvea hostage crisis in the late eighties and the role of Philippe Legorjus in trying to find a peaceful solution, against a backdrop of a French body politic that wanted immediate results.
Fascinating film. Would definitely recommend.
Fascinating film. Would definitely recommend.
Selma - interesting history, weird that Martin Luther King hasn't really had a film made about. Mostly British cast is excellent, especially David Oyelowo, great soundtrack.
The Raid 2: Berandal 10/10 This violence, the fighting, the blood 
Amazing movie, more gruesome the first movie.
Amazing movie, more gruesome the first movie.The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - 8/10. Beautiful hand-sketched animation, wonderful score and a very sweet and ultimately very sad story. You definitely need to know more than I do about Japanese customs and society to fully appreciate it but I thought it was great regardless. Right up there with the best films I've seen this year.
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O'rly?
Glad you enjoyed it mate.
Journey to Dinosaur Island:
Kids movie, on Sky at the moment. Watched it with my 8 year old as we both love dinosaurs. I don't mind low budget kids movies, some of them turn out to be absolute classics. I will especially always give low budget Australian kids movies the chance because of the classic BMX Bandits. Journey to Dinosaur Island though.... Well i'm lost for words. I think people have to watch it to appreciate how truly piss poor it is.
3/10
Starred Up
It seems to be getting a lot of credit on IMDB for offering an interesting insight in to life in a British Prison. As a former Prison Officer though, I was shaking my head in disbelief for most of it.
Not that it's a bad film, so long as you accept it as a work of pure fiction. The acting is pretty good and the surroundings are realistic. Everything else is utter bollocks though.
5/10
It seems to be getting a lot of credit on IMDB for offering an interesting insight in to life in a British Prison. As a former Prison Officer though, I was shaking my head in disbelief for most of it.
Not that it's a bad film, so long as you accept it as a work of pure fiction. The acting is pretty good and the surroundings are realistic. Everything else is utter bollocks though.
5/10
Just watched Gone Girl, that movie is crazy as feck at times but I absolutely loved it, pretty weird and annoying at the same time ending and very nice narration. Definitely better than Taken 3 that seems like to be a typical sequel that shouldn't have happened.
To be frank, I think most professionals whose job is getting on screen is going to say the same.
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It struck me as written by an American and then transposed to a UK prison.
I don't think that "better than Taken 3" is much of a claim to fame.
Kingsman : The Secret Service
Absolute beauty, I don't know if they're being serious or it's a slapstick, but they got the balance right. It really is Kickass in Bond universe. Firth was very british gentlemen, and I believe he can still pull it as James fecking Bond if they decided to do a proper reboot it back to suave brits. And did I mention suit? Yes.. their suit got me drooling, and eggsy really look stunning with his suit at the end. Can't wait for the sequel.
PS: Tilde's bottom's... /droool
9/10
Absolute beauty, I don't know if they're being serious or it's a slapstick, but they got the balance right. It really is Kickass in Bond universe. Firth was very british gentlemen, and I believe he can still pull it as James fecking Bond if they decided to do a proper reboot it back to suave brits. And did I mention suit? Yes.. their suit got me drooling, and eggsy really look stunning with his suit at the end. Can't wait for the sequel.
PS: Tilde's bottom's... /droool
9/10
The Raid 2: Berandal 10/10 This violence, the fighting, the blood
Couldn't agree more, and the story wise wasn't so bad, reminiscence of the Hongkong Gangstar cinema in the 90s. They're doing the third installment now.
The story is good tbh but for this type of movies it's not the most important thing. You combine a good story, with amazing fighting scenes (the baseball bat guy, the hammer girl, the blade guy were all awesome) and with some actors who aren't the same old "famous" hollywood stars, then you have satisfy me fully.
I read one of your posts maybe saying that watching other fighting scenes, specially from Hollywood productions, feel like shit and that I couldn't agree more.
This movie, I feel like I could watch it over and over and never get bored. I loved the first and its closed space environment, I love this second movie and I cannot wait for the third.
It was back to back with Captain America : Winter Soldier, and yeah it does make CA:WS seems cartoonish
Yea the comparison was a bit random as I've simply watched it the same day so.
Yeah, could well be. Just a lot of little things that they exaggerated or made up really.
For example, when the three riot officers rush him in his cell. He would have absolutely no chance against them, especially a man of his size. There are always three big guys with riot protection gear and a big shield to ram them with. They are also well trained in restraining moves. I remember one guy on our wing who was an absolute monster and he gave them a run for their money, in that he put up a fight for about five minutes. That was more just them unable to restrain him properly though, rather than him ever having a chance of winning. Not to say the prisoner wouldn't beat them in an actual one on one fight of course, but in this situation they never win.
Also, the idea of the Prison Officers being so corrupt that they'd attempt to hang a prisoner and make it look like suicide is completely laughable, especially when the governor is in on the act. With media scrutiny, job expectations, health and safety laws, etc, their worst fear is somebody killing themselves in their prison. There are corrupt officers, but that's usually just involves bringing things in for the prisoners or having sexual relations with them. Of course that shouldn't happen, but it's hardly murder, and these days they almost always get caught, sacked and even sent to prison. One of the guys on my wing was a former Prison Officer who had been paid to bring things in for the cons. The worst I ever saw was a couple of prison officers beat up a prisoner in his cell for giving them a load of attitude. Both of them were sacked. I'm not sure if all prisons have them (although I'd assume they would these days) but our prison was fully fitted with CCTV, so any officers attempting to go into a cell at night would have been seen. Not to mention that with the hugely excessive amounts of paper work for every tiny incident, Officers would much rather not get involved with anything needlessly.
The prisoners were also allowed to get away with far more than they would in reality. When I was an officer there were three tier levels for prisoners. Basic, Normal and Advanced. Advanced was for well behaved prisoners who earned extra perks, basic was for those who misbehaved. Sure, you get prisoners kicking off, but they'd likely end up on basic or on the segregation wing for it. The idea of a prisoner threatening to stab the officer on one occasion and nearing biting his nob off on another, and then being allowed back on the wing is just silly.
Almost everything about the rehabilitation group was, in my eyes, a load of rubbish too.
I've seen movies with the officers are portrayed as brutal and corrupt, and then ones were they are soft and the prisoners run amok. This film tried to make an even more unlikely combination of the two.
TL;DR I know, but you did ask!
Yeah, but some portrayals are more realistic than others. As I say, this was pure fiction in many ways.
Sounds about right. I suspect the reality of prison is far more mundane but no less depressing.
Fair enough
Kingsman - Really fun movie that doesn't take itself seriously at all. Really entertaining and pretty funny.
That Free Bird scene
Roxy
8/10
That Free Bird scene
Roxy
8/10
Really want to see this one. Where did you see it? Didn't realize it's already released
It was released last week in France. We got a lot of the major releases later than the US or UK (Birdman isn't out yet for example), but for smaller films, the distribution channels are quite good and we tend to get them quite soon. IMDB indicates it's released on February 27th in the UK apparently.
I think you'll like it, it's an intelligent horror film.
Will Rama still be the focus though? I read somewhere that his story was done.
So it wasn't that bad in the prison I gather?
I remember reading somewhere that the third installment will take place 3 hours before Rama's final showdown, I would guess it's the Japanese gangs, but they never says it ends in 3 hours, and I don't think they'll omit Rama, it's not cast in stone as this is not a novel or something, they can simply wrote another version.
Rest assured, they won't stray far from the bloody realistic silat though (I hope they don't)
On the side note, It was more practical than silat, his basic moves are silat, but comes fighting it's more like practical martial arts they used in military
Max and Paddys Road to Nowhere offered a better insight into the UK prison system than a film wanting to be a "gritty drama".....who knew?
Dunno why you'd take it so serious really, it IS a work of fiction. Though the Prison(s?) you worked in doesn't represent them all either, so don't just assume everything is the same in them all, regardless of tales you heard on the job. Though it is clearly going to exaggerate a lot.
I though it was okay, decent british film. I'm also clearly not it's target audience either. Give me A Prophet for my prison films any day of the week. or In The Name of the Father or Hunger or Dead Man Walking or whatever. You get the drift.
I watched Top Five ..... it was pretty good, far better than I expected actually. Rock draws heavily on his experience in his own career clearly and what he's seen in the celeb culture. Works well, some cliche romcom goings on, but the chemistry between him and Dawson is great, Dawson is always great. He's growing as a film maker, hope it continues rather than this being the peak.
Dunno why you'd take it so serious really, it IS a work of fiction. Though the Prison(s?) you worked in doesn't represent them all either, so don't just assume everything is the same in them all, regardless of tales you heard on the job. Though it is clearly going to exaggerate a lot.
I though it was okay, decent british film. I'm also clearly not it's target audience either. Give me A Prophet for my prison films any day of the week. or In The Name of the Father or Hunger or Dead Man Walking or whatever. You get the drift.
I watched Top Five ..... it was pretty good, far better than I expected actually. Rock draws heavily on his experience in his own career clearly and what he's seen in the celeb culture. Works well, some cliche romcom goings on, but the chemistry between him and Dawson is great, Dawson is always great. He's growing as a film maker, hope it continues rather than this being the peak.
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I didn't mean to insinuate that prison is easy. Ignore what you hear in the Daily mail or whatever, prison isn't a nice place to be. At all. It is however, much more professionally run than the movie would have you believe.
I don't take it particularly seriously. Consider though that they made a movie in whatever line of work you are in, and made an absolute hash of it. You'd probably be inclined to point that out, even if just casually so.
No big deal though, it was a decent enough film. The black lads and the main lead were believable as prisoners, even if they were acting an unrealistic script. The prison officers were almost unanimously poor though.
Boyhood
Cool idea and Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette were both great. Also thought the kids were great, when they were still kids. First hour or so was really engrossing and watching them grow up on screen felt like a genuinely novel experience.
Once the kids hit puberty, though, the fatal flaw in the whole premise was revealed. Child actors don't often make good adult actors. Last hour was spent in the company of a bland and charmless teenager who couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. Doing not much. Which was exactly as dull as that sounds. Disappointing.
5/10.
Cool idea and Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette were both great. Also thought the kids were great, when they were still kids. First hour or so was really engrossing and watching them grow up on screen felt like a genuinely novel experience.
Once the kids hit puberty, though, the fatal flaw in the whole premise was revealed. Child actors don't often make good adult actors. Last hour was spent in the company of a bland and charmless teenager who couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. Doing not much. Which was exactly as dull as that sounds. Disappointing.
5/10.
BIG HERO 6
I took my boys to see this tonight and all three of us were pretty unmoved. It looks fantastic and has real attention to detail, but the story is pretty much uninspired, the ending very predictable and it lacked any real humour to suit either adults or children. It's ok, but I wouldn't rush to the cinema for it.
6/10
I took my boys to see this tonight and all three of us were pretty unmoved. It looks fantastic and has real attention to detail, but the story is pretty much uninspired, the ending very predictable and it lacked any real humour to suit either adults or children. It's ok, but I wouldn't rush to the cinema for it.
6/10
I'm currently going through a phase of watching old Brittish films
The Ladykillers - Pretty dated humour, bit of a drag actually.
The Ladykillers - Pretty dated humour, bit of a drag actually.
Well I watched it and 6/10. Typical French film. Very passionate relationship, with plenty of graphic sex until it turns sour. Enjoyable enough and gently funny here and there until the headstrong Beatrice Dalle starts to lose it.
So and so- feels such a common plot in Gaelic cinema.
9/10 for Dalle's body, which you see plenty of and frequently. She loses a mark for having hairy armpits.
Lovely colours, not much else to admire.
Gallic