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    #8642
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Battleship, I enjoyed it more than the Transformers movies, there I said it. stupid, ridiculous, basically a 2hr ad for the Navy, but great effects and stupid fun.


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    #8643
    SarahBM
    Registered Users Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    The Avengers Assemble - thought it was brilliant!
    the characters, action, humour, all top class! now Im going to have to out and buy all the superhero movies!

    now watching Aliens.


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    #8644
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Just watched Drive. Badass story. Loved it, love Ryan Gosling and loved the soundtrack. Deffo give it a watch.


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    #8645
    Deliverance XXV
    Registered Users Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭Deliverance XXV


    Old Boy

    Ha, didn't exactly expect what I got!
    Cracking dark but original flick with some serious twists and turns. The movie had a lot of faults but it kept me entertained from start to finish.


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    #8646
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,024 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    I mentioned in the thread but Avengers last night was good blockbuster cinema. The one thing I forgot to mention was how I liked the lack of cheesiness when all the major characters were introduced. Usually there's the annoying set up to the reveal of a character in sequels and a corny line as the camera closes up on their face and luckily Whedon steered clear of that sort of carry on.

    Tonight I researched the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on Blu Ray. Enjoyed it even more second time. I had watched some of the features in the last week so it's great to see the insight and attention to detail as I rewatched it.


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    #8647
    blue note
    Registered Users Posts: 4,505 ✭✭✭blue note


    cantgetright wrote: »
    Have to see this. Big fan of Bob trough the 90's.
    Thanks boards.ie

    I'm not familiar with his stuff in the 90's, preferred his 70's stuff to be honest.

    I saw it on Tuesday and thought it was very good. It was a little bit long, but nicely paced I thought. I was happy to sit through the extra half hour to not have them rush through parts.


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    #8648
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,208 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    88 Minutes

    Normally, these affairs contain elements you can forgive relatively easily - a few cliches, obvious twists, an innocent man on the run tortured soul lead, etc. Here, though, it's pretty much all bad, tedious and flat. There's the unintentionally hilarious 'I'm a forensic psychiatrist with the FBI' *badge flash* whilst stopping traffic routine and Pacino phoning up resources as if he's somehow walking in the shoes of Jack Bauer.

    It was not directed so much as starved of food and water and then kicked around a cage.

    Avoid.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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    #8649
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,150 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Finally got around to watching The Illusionist. Much better than I'd thought it was going to be tbh.

    Young Adult - argh, can I have that 90 minutes of my life back please?


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    #8650
    livinsane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    Watched Animal Kingdom last night [story of a criminal family in Melbourne]. It was excellent, particularly the ending. Nicely paced and great cast.


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    #8651
    grohlisagod
    Registered Users Posts: 1,998 ✭✭✭grohlisagod


    The Incredible Hulk
    Edward Norton version. Good solid comic book film. Thought Norton played the role pretty well. Nothing special but worth a watch.

    The Third Man
    Very good old film. Wonderful cinematography throughout and a good story. Only thing that irked me slightly was the score. It just seemed inappropriate at times.


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    #8652
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    "The Courier" (1988) - tracked down a VHS copy (not released on DVD) eventually on eBay but not worth the wait! Dublin was a depressing place back in the 1980s and this movie certainly captures that but as a crime thriller it is fairly pedestrian. Even the presence of a young Gabriel Byrne in the lead role as a drug lord fails to lift the thing beyond mediocrity. Think Fair City with a bit of added violence and you just about have it. If you want to see Dirty Old Dublin as it was back then...depressing clip below - you've been warned!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1xNCK-uTas


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    #8653
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Watched it tonight for about the 10th time




    I love this film:D


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    #8654
    don ramo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭don ramo


    just watched Haywire, it just could have been so much better, i really expected much more with soderberg behind the camera, but TBH 70% of my hate for it was the score, it was terrible what **** where they thinking its not an art house film it suppose to be a balls to the wall type film, maybe slow the pace a bit for some espionage but that's be about it,


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    #8655
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,150 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    21 Jump Street
    Way better than I expected it to be. I really enjoyed it: perfect dumb comedy.


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    #8656
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    don ramo wrote: »
    just watched Haywire, it just could have been so much better, i really expected much more with soderberg behind the camera, but TBH 70% of my hate for it was the score, it was terrible what **** where they thinking its not an art house film it suppose to be a balls to the wall type film, maybe slow the pace a bit for some espionage but that's be about it,

    awful film, was pissing myself laughing
    at the scene when she appears out of NOWHERE on a beach and fly kicks Ewan McGregor, the whole cinema laughed at that.
    was trying to be an arthouse action film and was as bad as some 80's DTV sh1te. even Fassbender couldnt save it.


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    #8657
    craftypaddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 508 ✭✭✭craftypaddy


    livinsane wrote: »
    Watched Animal Kingdom last night [story of a criminal family in Melbourne]. It was excellent, particularly the ending. Nicely paced and great cast.
    good film, done on a small budget too


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    #8658
    chocolatrose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭chocolatrose




    Best movie I have seen in a long time. The cinematography is spot on. The type of movie I could watch over and over again. It really made me appreciate Ryan Gosling for his acting ability in this one. Not to mention soundtrack. They hit the nail on the head with this one. Know its been out awhile and probably mentioned loads but it's definitely worth the watch.


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    #8659
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    chocolatrose wrote: »


    Best movie I have seen in a long time. The cinematography is spot on. The type of movie I could watch over and over again. It really made me appreciate Ryan Gosling for his acting ability in this one. Not to mention soundtrack. They hit the nail on the head with this one. Know its been out awhile and probably mentioned loads but it's definitely worth the watch.
    Yes, it was a big hit late last year. There's a big, contentious thread about it about here somewhere if you want to read how others reacted to it.


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    #8660
    chocolatrose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭chocolatrose


    I think it may be closed. Hmmm I'm curious now as to how it was received. Contentious :confused: Well I guess I can see how some people might find certain aspects of it hard to stomach :D Oh well great film none the less in my opinion..gore and all


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    #8661
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,095 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    chocolatrose wrote: »
    I think it may be closed. Hmmm I'm curious now as to how it was received. Contentious :confused: Well I guess I can see how some people might find certain aspects of it hard to stomach :D Oh well great film none the less in my opinion..gore and all

    Not closed at all, although unusually far down in the search results:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056385996


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    #8662
    OldeCinemaSoz
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭OldeCinemaSoz


    kingdom of the spiders.

    damn uncivilised of The Shat stomping on
    them arachnids.

    :(

    each to their own.


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    #8663
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,959 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Boogie Nights, first time in years. A truly shocking film for a variety of reasons, some obvious, some not so much. There's a scene of Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg) trying to sing the worst song I've ever heard. Were the 80s really that bad? :eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAAbbuEpnw


    I wonder how much rehearsal it took for Marky Mark, of the original New Kids On The Block, to be that bad?

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #8664
    doctor evil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,114 ✭✭✭doctor evil


    Winters Bone is very good, haven't read the book but I believe the adaptation is meant to be fairly faithful.



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    #8665
    livinsane
    Registered Users Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭livinsane


    On a bit of a sci fi buzz lately. Watched Gattaca the other night. Very slick. Jude Law perfectly cast as the slightly smarmy Morrow. Am always happy to see Ethan Hawke in a leading role. Doesn't seem like it is 15 years old.

    Watched Minority Report last night. Very good. Not as "hollywood" as I had expected.

    Going to watch Sunshine tonight.


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    #8666
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I watched Stay (2005) last night on Film4. A psychological thriller starring a young Ryan Gosling and Ewan McGregor. I was initially intrigued by the story of a psychiatrist and a suicidal college student but it fast became a bit of a pretentious psycho babble. The twist revealed at the doesn't pay off for the hour or so of incoherent mess that precedes it. Its easy to see why this was a box office disaster.


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    #8667
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,208 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    The Dark Knight

    Watching it again, 4 years hence, it's still pretty good. However, I didn't think much of the action
    involving the truck flipping
    and I'm still not keen on the
    technobabbly sonar gadget
    used towards the end.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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    #8668
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    The Lovely Bones

    Peter Jackson film

    Realy liked it a lot

    Stanley Tucci is always good and the young Irish girl was good too, forget her name
    edit, looked it up Saoirse Ronan

    There was quite a bit of CGI which worked for the fantasy sequences

    Touching story

    Reading about it seems it got horrible reviews.
    Screw them all, I recommend this film


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    #8669
    Mackman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Mackman


    Watching Die Hard on Blu-Ray at the moment. Why cant they make movies like this anymore?

    Plus, for anyone who critisizes J.J. Abrams for using lens flare, John McTiernan was doing it 25 years ago to great effect. If only more directors took notes from the classics.


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    #8670
    kevohmsford
    Registered Users Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭kevohmsford


    The Ghost Writer was on last night so watched it again

    21 Jump Street some brilliant scenes, overall pretty good


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    #8671
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Badlands(1973) by Terrence Malick great film

    It's based on the true story but the reality is far worse than the movie.


    Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069762/
    old trailers are gas
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcFx06cBmbk


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