Wut? Last Samurai was quite a good movie. What was wrong with that? Absolutely in a different level to 47 Ronin.
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Wut? Last Samurai was quite a good movie. What was wrong with that? Absolutely in a different level to 47 Ronin.
I love the Last Samurai - it's a bloody beautiful looking film.
Bad Neighbours - Bleh, am I the only one who is getting a bit tired of dick jokes? Didn't find it parricularly clever or funny for that matter - some of the physical comedy was okay, but most of that was in the trailer...
Pompeii - As a serious film it's rubbish. As a bit of unintentional comedy to watch with friends, it's a delight. I'm fairly sure this film came about when someone pitched a film idea - that sounded far too much like Gladiator - so the powers-that-be decided they best chuck in a Volcano... as there definitely wasn't a Volcano in Gladiator.
Bad Neighbours - Bleh, am I the only one who is getting a bit tired of dick jokes? Didn't find it parricularly clever or funny for that matter - some of the physical comedy was okay, but most of that was in the trailer...
Pompeii - As a serious film it's rubbish. As a bit of unintentional comedy to watch with friends, it's a delight. I'm fairly sure this film came about when someone pitched a film idea - that sounded far too much like Gladiator - so the powers-that-be decided they best chuck in a Volcano... as there definitely wasn't a Volcano in Gladiator.
It was good except the fact that a westerner goes to Japan to show them their way of life and how to honour their country
Maybe 1 was a bit harsh, I think the ending just totally ruined it.
NICOLAS not Nicholas
Le Petit Nicolas Coppola. My bad.
Nicolas Kim Coppola Cage. I will forgive you this time. Don't anger me again
Anyone seen The Double? Apparently it's Kafkaesque...and transcends into a Terry Gilliam's Brazil type world.
That sounds intriguing. Really like Jesse Eisenberg so I'll have to give it a watch I think.
Dark Floors
A film written by and starring Lordi. As in the band that won Eurovision. Them in the monster costumes. This meant that I went into the film with fairly low expectations, and sadly the film failed to meet any of them. I think it's supposed to be a horror, but it failed to make me jump (or give me the anticipation of a jump) even once. I'm usually too much of a wimp to even watch scary films, so for this to not even faze me can't be a good thing for it. The actors (one of whom was in Aliens once) failed to react to anything with sufficient fear, so if what was happening didn't scare them why should it scare me? There was also a clear lack of effort from them, although one of them did look quite nice. I think I'd have enjoyed it more if the band were featured more. They've obviously gone to some effort to make characters for themselves, so why not explore that? Be much more interesting than focusing on Generic Hero, Generic Douchebag, Generic Hot Chick and Generic Security Guard.
I don't even know why I bothered watching this.
A film written by and starring Lordi. As in the band that won Eurovision. Them in the monster costumes. This meant that I went into the film with fairly low expectations, and sadly the film failed to meet any of them. I think it's supposed to be a horror, but it failed to make me jump (or give me the anticipation of a jump) even once. I'm usually too much of a wimp to even watch scary films, so for this to not even faze me can't be a good thing for it. The actors (one of whom was in Aliens once) failed to react to anything with sufficient fear, so if what was happening didn't scare them why should it scare me? There was also a clear lack of effort from them, although one of them did look quite nice. I think I'd have enjoyed it more if the band were featured more. They've obviously gone to some effort to make characters for themselves, so why not explore that? Be much more interesting than focusing on Generic Hero, Generic Douchebag, Generic Hot Chick and Generic Security Guard.
I don't even know why I bothered watching this.
Did anyone enjoy Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters? While it was a typical OTT action thriller, I did enjoy watching on Netflix. There were four versions made in 2013 bearing the Hansel and Gretel name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel#Adaptations.
I sat down and watched Point Break the other night. My goodness, I never realized how shitty the acting had been and how terrible the story writing was. There is a remake in the works, apparently http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/07/showbiz/movies/gerard-butler-point-break-ew/.
I sat down and watched Point Break the other night. My goodness, I never realized how shitty the acting had been and how terrible the story writing was. There is a remake in the works, apparently http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/07/showbiz/movies/gerard-butler-point-break-ew/.
Jesse Eisenberg is what puts me off watching it.
Richard Ayoade adapting Dostoyevsky with Jesse Eisenberg is what puts me off. I love Mia Wasikowska though so I'll see it.
You're becoming a right film hipster Nilsson!
A filpster.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Can't believe it has taken me this long to watch this amazing film. It's probably one of the best ensemble performances I have seen, great how they got a bunch of heavyweights all to be in the same film and perform equally. Some of the best dialogue I have heard in a while, really quick, witty and funny. Should be on the list of everyone who hasn't seen it 8.5/10
Can't believe it has taken me this long to watch this amazing film. It's probably one of the best ensemble performances I have seen, great how they got a bunch of heavyweights all to be in the same film and perform equally. Some of the best dialogue I have heard in a while, really quick, witty and funny. Should be on the list of everyone who hasn't seen it 8.5/10
Godzilla is getting great reviews on IMDB and rotten tomato. Can't wait to see it
The reviews I've seen are pretty average. Too much talk, not enough monster by the sounds of it.
Excellent review on Frank, explained perfectly how I felt about the film myself. I really wasn't expecting the dramatic change in pace over the second half of the film, especially how dark it went after the rather funny - yet quite odd - first hour of the movie. I think the trailers could easily mis-lead people into watching this film, but none the less it's worth the watch.
Yes, very good film.
I can't stand neurotic actors/characters, one of the reasons I don't care for Woody Allen's films that much. I remember sitting through The Squid and the Whale and absolutely hating Eisenberg but enjoying Jeff Daniels' performance, it was like two worlds colliding there and I never did warm to that film.
Scott Piligrim Vs the world - 8/10
Enjoyed rewatching this the other day. One of the best comic book adaptations IMO. A 22 yr old Scott Piligrim begins dating a highshooler but he soon gets obsessed with the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers. As soon as he begins dating Ramona he is faced with battling each of her seven evil ex boy friends.
I actually prefer this film to any of the cornetto trilogy films.
Enjoyed rewatching this the other day. One of the best comic book adaptations IMO. A 22 yr old Scott Piligrim begins dating a highshooler but he soon gets obsessed with the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers. As soon as he begins dating Ramona he is faced with battling each of her seven evil ex boy friends.
I actually prefer this film to any of the cornetto trilogy films.
Mamet's dialogue never rings true to me. Clever but inauthentic.
It's a play. It's supposed to be 'showy'.
That's like saying Shakespeares dialogue never rings true.
That's just bollox. Mamet's plays are naturalistic, they're supposed to be authentic and they're not to my ears.
Sorry but that's one of the most bizarre criticisms I've ever heard.
The script is the play/film. Whether it's natural or not is irrelevant.
If it was they'd be very little to watch.
For me it is more to do with the fact that it is almost as if they just took a camera into a theater and filmed the stage play. Everyone is trying to be a stage thesp - and actooor. If it had been filmed better it could have been great. But it wasn't.
It is a film based on the state play. It needed adapting and nobody bothered.
A lot of plays to film suffer from that. Roman Polanski's Carnage and the adaptation of the History Boys been two recent examples.
Agreed. I think Glengarry Glen Ross because there were so many actooors trying to out Pacino each other.
Pacino didn't shout nearly as much as I expected him to do, a remarkably restrained performance from him, I mean, it was a glorious opportunity for him to really ham it up.
"You can't close the leads youre given you can't close shit. You ARE shit. Hit the bricks pal, and beat it 'cause you are going OUT. Whooooo-haaa. Whoooo-haaa."
Malik Bendjelloul, the director of Searching for Sugarman died yesterday, sad stuff.
I saw that. Was he a Swede?
I think your keyboard might be broken Wibble.
Not to mention any film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made.
I think people are missing the point. It's supposed to be a showcase for acting and razor sharp dialogue and in that respect it's untouchable.
The plot itself isn't enough to warrant a movie.
Yep. Suicide.
Anna
Decent film. Nothing more nothing less. Mark Strong was good as usual and is very underrated. The film centres on Mark Strong, a mind detective who goes into people's memories to solve crimes but meets his match against Taissa Farmiga, who is a troubled genius teen. Starts better than it ends, and ultimately feels a little rushed. Not bad if you don't have much else to watch 5/10
Decent film. Nothing more nothing less. Mark Strong was good as usual and is very underrated. The film centres on Mark Strong, a mind detective who goes into people's memories to solve crimes but meets his match against Taissa Farmiga, who is a troubled genius teen. Starts better than it ends, and ultimately feels a little rushed. Not bad if you don't have much else to watch 5/10
Not a massive amount I can add to this review really. As the film rattled along I was getting worried that there was going to be some sort of happy ending, but thankfully they didn't do that, or at least not in the sense that some of the audience would have wanted. As WP has said, the most striking this is that Gleeson's character isn't given that redemption at the end. Essentially he becomes a documentary maker who attempts to restore what was in place before he stepped out from behind the camera and interfered.
Surely it's meant to be a film?
And Romeo + Juliet did a good job of not merely being a recorded stage play.
Killer Joe is based on a play, and is a really good film.