What have you watched recently?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 19-03-2012 8:26pm

The chaser

absolutely fantastic

god damn I can't believe the girl died at the end, I know korean movies aren't as bad as hollywood when it comes to happy endings but I still believed she'd end up ok
god damn

Technocentral · 19-03-2012 8:29pm

krudler wrote: »

I hate the ending, love the rest of it though. the sound of the tripods is superb, especially in the cellar when they're hiding and you can just hear the machines stomping around off in the distance. I liked how it didnt go down the global Independence Day style route of having Tom Cruise fight aliens, he's just a bloke trying to keep his family alive.

If by the ending you mean the soppy, inevitable reunion I agree (why didn't they let the son die or at least not make it to Boston), always has to be a happy, clappy finale in Hollywood films.

CarlJones · 19-03-2012 8:33pm

The Help was very enjoyable, didn't expect it to be as good. Great drama elements mixed with comedy. And the undertone of the viciously racist southern states of 1960's USA is a good backdrop for the story.

The Vow It was my girlfriends turn to choose, so...

Love and Other Drugs again see above!

CarlJones · 19-03-2012 8:36pm

The Artist more than just a gimmicky hit, stands up as a really good film in my opinion, regardless of whether it had sound or not.

The Descendants Another surprising one. George Clooney is brilliant as well as the actress playing his daughter. But the stand out guy is "Sid" he's absolutely hilarious in it!!

Judgement Day · 19-03-2012 10:57pm

krudler wrote: »

I hate the ending, love the rest of it though. the sound of the tripods is superb, especially in the cellar when they're hiding and you can just hear the machines stomping around off in the distance. I liked how it didnt go down the global Independence Day style route of having Tom Cruise fight aliens, he's just a bloke trying to keep his family alive.

I thought it was one of the worst sci-fi movies I've ever seen - poor old Tom Cruise just can't act to save his life. As for trying to keep his family alive - apart from his ludicrous attempt at making 'jello' sandwiches for them, they eat and drink nothing during their whole time on the run. I think that the 1953 version stands very favourable comparison with Spielberg's effort but ,perhaps, with a more capable actor in the central role it could have been better. For my money the Richard Burton/Jeff Wayne musical version from 1978 is still the most haunting and true to the original story.

Auvers · 19-03-2012 11:05pm

The Woman in Black *remake with harry potter*

I loved the TV movie made in the 80ies but was really hoping Hammer would give this a good remake

but boy was I disappointed, the director went overboard with the amount of times the woman appeared, it was like every five minutes you went "oh here she is again"

Radcliffe was a bit wooden although Ciaran Hynes is always watchable, I find

the mood and suspense was quite good up to when he got to the house then it went downhill fast with to many in your face shocks

and less said about the sickly ending the better

if you are thinking about seeing this movie go for the TV movie first, its far far superior

krudler · 19-03-2012 11:32pm

Judgement Day wrote: »

I thought it was one of the worst sci-fi movies I've ever seen - poor old Tom Cruise just can't act to save his life. As for trying to keep his family alive - apart from his ludicrous attempt at making 'jello' sandwiches for them, they eat and drink nothing during their whole time on the run. I think that the 1953 version stands very favourable comparison with Spielberg's effort but ,perhaps, with a more capable actor in the central role it could have been better. For my money the Richard Burton/Jeff Wayne musical version from 1978 is still the most haunting and true to the original story.

really? 3 oscar nominations would disagree. I think he's one of the most underrated actors around, he's given exceptional performances in Born On The Fourth of July, Rain Man (played a harder role than Dustin Hoffman), Interview With The Vampire, Jerry Maguire, Collateral, Magnolia to name but a few, and he throws himself into blockbuster roles like few other A list actors do in regard preparation for roles and stuntwork. I may disagree with his lifestyle choices but it doesnt take away from me enjoying his films, he is one of the few actors whose name alone can make a movie successful.

Sir Gallagher · 20-03-2012 12:48am

krudler wrote: »

really? 3 oscar nominations would disagree. I think he's one of the most underrated actors around, he's given exceptional performances in Born On The Fourth of July, Rain Man (played a harder role than Dustin Hoffman), Interview With The Vampire, Jerry Maguire, Collateral, Magnolia to name but a few, and he throws himself into blockbuster roles like few other A list actors do in regard preparation for roles and stuntwork. I may disagree with his lifestyle choices but it doesnt take away from me enjoying his films, he is one of the few actors whose name alone can make a movie successful.

Haven't you heard it's cool to diss Tom Cruise?

Auvers · 20-03-2012 2:08am

I like Tom Cruise

but War of the Worlds is terrible

CarlsBurg · 20-03-2012 4:58am

I used to like Tom Cruise. But the more I found out about scientology, the more I disliked watching him in something. Not to mention that fake plastic smile and "nice guy" persona he potrays in interviews. Comes off as an uber false and 'strange' bloke. But hey, he is still drawing at the box office. So there's still people who like him.

Auvers · 20-03-2012 5:15am

CarlsBurg wrote: »

I used to like Tom Cruise. But the more I found out about scientology, the more I disliked watching him in something. Not to mention that fake plastic smile and "nice guy" persona he potrays in interviews. Comes off as an uber false and 'strange' bloke. But hey, he is still drawing at the box office. So there's still people who like him.

wasn't that due to him firing his agent (two days before the sofa incident)

and then hiring his sister to do his PR, but the unfortunate thing is his sister is far more rabid about Scientology then her brother, so the rains where loosened for the world to see what kind of nutjob he is, but he is still capable of a good performance

MagicMarker · 20-03-2012 9:17am

I love the first 40 minutes or so of WotW, but once they get out of the city is turns to shít.

krudler · 20-03-2012 11:28am

MagicMarker wrote: »

I love the first 40 minutes or so of WotW, but once they get out of the city is turns to shít.

It has some brilliant moments but some dire ones too, the initial appearance of the tripods, the ferry attack and the scene where the mob tries to take the car are all brilliant. visually its great too.

charlie_says · 20-03-2012 11:38am

Sound of Noise

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278449/

2010, Swedish language film. Absolutely hilarious impromptu musical performance crime caper. Six unorthodox drummers gang up to perform four very special, weird and illegal percussion performances using various instruments made up from the environment they are performing in. It is quite hard to accurately describe the film so I post the blurb:

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

The musically untalented cop is from a family of famous musicians and conductors, and as a result really can't stand music. The drummer characters are an absolute bat**** insane hoot, they all have serious expressions throughout the mental rhythms they produce using just about any kind of surface/material to bash on, including other characters. They hold up a bank with a metronome shouting "Everybody freeze, this is a gig!"

Although I felt the final performance and end of the film wasn't as entertaining as the rest of the movie, it still was very, very funny and the music was just plain mad. Highly recommend it especially with a few friends. You would have to be tone deaf and really grumpy not to enjoy this!

4.1/5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSYQ0IbNsBw

Try not to watch the other trailers/videos as they give too many of the best scenes away.

clappyhappy · 20-03-2012 11:39am

Watched The Devil's Double, based on the body double for Uday Hussein, Saddams son. What a messed up person he was. Really enjoyed it, remember seeing the guy who was his double being interviewed on RTE some years ago, what a story he told. Would love to have a drink with him.

That_Guy · 20-03-2012 1:37pm

Pay Day:

Charlie Chaplin's final short film. Really excellent short film and visually brilliant especially the

brick throwing scene on the building site.

Really simple gags that left a smile on my face. It's only about 21 minutes along but it's a gem of a short film.

Mike Litoris · 20-03-2012 5:49pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

I love the first 40 minutes or so of WotW, but once they get out of the city is turns to shít.

Bingo! I thought it was epic up until this point. The Emo kid and the god awful ending ruined the film.

mcmacness · 20-03-2012 8:52pm

I've watched a few films recently:

Breaking Dawn: I've seen it before and we just got it because one of the girls still hadn't seen it.

Dont be Afraid of the Dark: watched this with two of my friends who are also female. It started out seeming to be creepy enough but once we found out that the "monsters"

[were sprites or fairies]

[/SPOILER]the creepiness wore off. I still found it good enough though.

Last night we watched The Awakening: this looked really good in the ad, it was also scary enough, at one point my friend screamed and nearly scared the life out of me. But as with the latter, once the story unfolded it wasn't scary anymore.

Seems to be a recurring thing in a lot of horrors lately, they're scary for the first 2/3's of the film and it loses it in the final bit, I found the same with Insidious too.

Think we're gonna watch Tower Heist tonight. Looks like it might be funny enough.

Tipsy McSwagger · 20-03-2012 9:37pm

CarlsBurg wrote: »

I used to like Tom Cruise. But the more I found out about scientology, the more I disliked watching him in something. Not to mention that fake plastic smile and "nice guy" persona he potrays in interviews. Comes off as an uber false and 'strange' bloke. But hey, he is still drawing at the box office. So there's still people who like him.

You dislike him because of Scientology? That's ridiculous. Catholicism is just as nuts as Scientology but if you upset the god fearing Americans you're pretty much done for. Tom Cruise keeps his beliefs to himself unlike a lot of actors, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn etc. Plus Cruise is actually a genuinely nice guy unlike assholes like Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foxx and Val Kilmer. Im definetely a fan of Cruise and love his performance as TJ Mackey in Magnolia and can't believe he didn't win the Oscar for it.

Technocentral · 20-03-2012 10:00pm

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

You dislike him because of Scientology? That's ridiculous. Catholicism is just as nuts as Scientology but if you upset the god fearing Americans you're pretty much done for. Tom Cruise keeps his beliefs to himself unlike a lot of actors, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn etc. Plus Cruise is actually a genuinely nice guy unlike assholes like Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foxx and Val Kilmer. Im definetely a fan of Cruise and love his performance as TJ Mackey in Magnolia and can't believe he didn't win the Oscar for it.

Three of my favourite liberal icons, we need more like them.

kumate_champ07 · 20-03-2012 10:01pm

just saw moneyball, good story, ****e movie

Tipsy McSwagger · 20-03-2012 10:12pm

Technocentral wrote: »

Three of my favourite liberal icons, we need more like them.

Susan Sarandon called her son Jack Henry after a convicted killer:rolleyes:

Marty McFly · 21-03-2012 1:56am

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

You dislike him because of Scientology? That's ridiculous. Catholicism is just as nuts as Scientology but if you upset the god fearing Americans you're pretty much done for. Tom Cruise keeps his beliefs to himself unlike a lot of actors, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn etc. Plus Cruise is actually a genuinely nice guy unlike assholes like Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foxx and Val Kilmer. Im definetely a fan of Cruise and love his performance as TJ Mackey in Magnolia and can't believe he didn't win the Oscar for it.

Know them all personally do ya?

Personally I couldnt care less about any actors religious views or personal life, I just enjoy watching films and letting myself get lost in them once the film and performance is good thats all that matters, and Cruise has made some great films like Born On The Fourth Of July. Likewise with Mel Gibson I couldnt care less about his anti semitic comments once when I see a film its good enough to make me forget about everything else and just focus in it.

21-03-2012 2:00am

Judge the ART not the ARTIST.

krudler · 21-03-2012 2:02am

Technocentral wrote: »

Three of my favourite liberal icons, we need more like them.

Sean Penn comes across as a complete knob though, he's one of those actors that takes themselves way too seriously

Technocentral · 21-03-2012 2:06am

krudler wrote: »

Sean Penn comes across as a complete knob though, he's one of those actors that takes themselves way too seriously

Anyone care to take a go at Robbins too, or are you'se going to leave me with one to admire

krudler · 21-03-2012 2:09am

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

You dislike him because of Scientology? That's ridiculous. Catholicism is just as nuts as Scientology but if you upset the god fearing Americans you're pretty much done for. Tom Cruise keeps his beliefs to himself unlike a lot of actors, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn etc. Plus Cruise is actually a genuinely nice guy unlike assholes like Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foxx and Val Kilmer. Im definetely a fan of Cruise and love his performance as TJ Mackey in Magnolia and can't believe he didn't win the Oscar for it.

This always makes me laugh, people decry Cruises beliefs, but not people who thank god for helping them win oscars. so god=does nothing about children starving to death but answers celebrity prayers to win gold statues. ones as nonsensical as the other.

krudler · 21-03-2012 2:09am

Technocentral wrote: »

Anyone care to take a go at Robbins too, or are you'se going to leave me with one to admire

Robbins was in Howard The Duck, hes the worst offender of all

Mickeroo · 21-03-2012 2:16am

Deleted User wrote: »

Judge the ART not the ARTIST.

hate the playa don't hate tha game :pac:

21-03-2012 2:24am

Technocentral wrote: »

Anyone care to take a go at Robbins too, or are you'se going to leave me with one to admire

Robbins gets a lot less slack simply because he comes across as and is supposed to be a down to earth and decent bloke. Penn on the otherhand has a reputation for being something of a twat and his method acting rubs a lot of people up the wrong way. The whole notion that you can only refer to him by his characters name when he's shooting a film makes him seem like something of a tosser. Still he's a great actor and a fine director who isn't afraid to take a risk.

indough · 21-03-2012 2:59am

Technocentral wrote: »

Anyone care to take a go at Robbins too, or are you'se going to leave me with one to admire

well seeing as you asked and war of the worlds has already been mentioned i will say he was the worst thing about that film which is no small thing

johnny_ultimate · 21-03-2012 4:01am

Bellflower - directionless, romantic hipsters drift through yellow hues, dreaming of dystopias, with ambiguous and highly combustible consequences.

carmella2012 · 21-03-2012 6:16am

Just seen THIS MEANS WAR with Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy
Did not live up to expectations at all.
Very disappointing :mad:

MagicMarker · 21-03-2012 9:19am

carmella2012 wrote: »

Just seen THIS MEANS WAR with Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy
Did not live up to expectations at all.
Very disappointing :mad:

Shocking :pac:

Turtyturd · 21-03-2012 1:20pm

Super: Watchable, I know it got labelled as a Kick-Ass rip off when it came out but there aint really many similarities between the two. Super provides a more realistic and mundane take on what happens if someone becomes a superhero. For a comedy there isn't too many laughs and most of them come from the OTT violence, and Ellen Page's (who plays Ellen Page yet again.) sidekick character. The

rape scene between The Crimson Bolt and Boltie was odd and handled in a manner that was fairly dismissive of it, I don't know if it got any attention when the film was initially released but I reckon it would have got a lot more if the roles had been reversed.

OldeCinemaSoz · 21-03-2012 9:45pm

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA

Kris Kristofferson gets all introspective
talkin' to a bagged head on the seat of his car.

Another masterpeice from the legendary Sam Peckinpah.

SarahBM · 21-03-2012 10:56pm

Kes
really good. for a low budget indi film made in Yorkshire, I was impressed.

SarahBM · 21-03-2012 10:56pm

Kes
really good. for a low budget indi film made in Yorkshire, I was impressed.

Mr Simpson · 21-03-2012 11:01pm

Saw 21 Jump Street today, it was surpisingly good, well worth a watch if you like that sort of film.

candy-gal1 · 22-03-2012 12:44am

The Mask - havent seen it in a very long time tbh, and i have to say i seriously forgot how hilarious it is especially when a little bit tipsy

, brings back memories of seeing it in the cinema when i was like 9 or 10 i think :eek:, plus Cameron Diaz is the eptimome of 90s hotness in it just wow!

krudler · 22-03-2012 12:54am

candy-gal1 wrote: »

The Mask - havent seen it in a very long time tbh, and i have to say i seriously forgot how hilarious it is especially when a little bit tipsy , brings back memories of seeing it in the cinema when i was like 9 or 10 i think :eek:, plus Cameron Diaz is the eptimome of 90s hotness in it just wow!

greatest. entrance. ever.

purely for critique of statement I just made, I present exhibit A :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWiKIw7Dsp4

she was only 19 in this, I feel very old.

Mickeroo · 22-03-2012 1:54am

Turtyturd wrote: »

Super: Watchable, I know it got labelled as a Kick-Ass rip off when it came out but there aint really many similarities between the two. Super provides a more realistic and mundane take on what happens if someone becomes a superhero. For a comedy there isn't too many laughs and most of them come from the OTT violence, and Ellen Page's (who plays Ellen Page yet again.) sidekick character. The
rape scene between The Crimson Bolt and Boltie was odd and handled in a manner that was fairly dismissive of it, I don't know if it got any attention when the film was initially released but I reckon it would have got a lot more if the roles had been reversed.

I thought the

rape scene

was one of the biggest laugh out loud moments in the film. Think its unfair to dismiss Paige's role as just playing Ellen Paige, she played a complete homicidal maniac, was a very different role for her imho. Seriously messed up movie, and all the more awesome for it

mikemac1 · 22-03-2012 3:11am

The next three days

Didn't like it

JONJO THE MISER · 22-03-2012 6:35am

Just after watching world's greatest dad, thought it was very good.

mikemac1 · 22-03-2012 10:21am

Nova Zembla

Dutch historical film, follows the true story of a Dutch ship which tried to sail along the top of Russia to Japan

Interesting story and well shot

Very good

Tony EH · 22-03-2012 11:45am

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA

Kris Kristofferson gets all introspective
talkin' to a bagged head on the seat of his car.

Another masterpeice from the legendary Sam Peckinpah.

Warren Oates.

bnt · 22-03-2012 1:30pm

I watched all three Matrix movies: the first a couple of weeks ago, then the final two over consecutive evenings this week. It made more sense that way, since Reloaded and Revolutions were filmed in one go and are basically a single two-part film - which tripped me up when I first saw them ten years ago, when I lost the thread entirely. The last film jumps in straight from the end of the 2nd, with no exposition or flashbacks to refresh your memory.

Now I can say I've done it, and can say I've seen all three and got a decent handle on the plot. I did want to rip out my scorched retinas when the final credits rolled, after over 4 hours of being bombarded with some of the most insane imagery ever put on the screen. That final fight between Smith and Neo had me going "ow!" at every gargantuan blow, and I had to go on Wikipedia for explanations of what happened at the end.

Neo and Trinity and all those people in Zion killed, and for what? The Matrix wasn't destroyed - just rebooted - so could it all happen again?

But I did appreciate the imagination and skill that went in to it, the "easter eggs", and historical allusions such as the Merovingian and his wife Persephone. If you saw the Revisited documentary, you'll know that Keanu was a bit stiff for a good reason: he'd had major surgery on his neck before the first film, and couldn't risk doing more damage, so that became his fighting style.

krudler · 22-03-2012 1:55pm

I hated how in Matrix Revolutions the three main characters are missing for over an hour of the movie, we're instead left with uninteresting crusties battling robots in a place we dont care about. does anyone else thing given the choice they'd take staying in the matrix? I would, supercool place where you can defy phsyics or hanging around in a cave with a bunch of hippies? no argument.

Dempsey · 22-03-2012 2:12pm

krudler wrote: »

I hated how in Matrix Revolutions the three main characters are missing for over an hour of the movie, we're instead left with uninteresting crusties battling robots in a place we dont care about. does anyone else thing given the choice they'd take staying in the matrix? I would, supercool place where you can defy phsyics or hanging around in a cave with a bunch of hippies? no argument.

Yep but you wouldnt aware of that so you wouldnt know that you could mental stuff.

What Morpheus should have said to Neo instead of the red pill/blue pill was do you want steak or this 'oatmeal'.

krudler · 22-03-2012 2:14pm

Dempsey wrote: »

Yep but you wouldnt aware of that so you wouldnt know that you could mental stuff.

What Morpheus should have said to Neo instead of the red pill/blue pill was do you want steak or this 'oatmeal'.

steak! that whole thing with Cypher wanting to go back in should have been explored more in the sequels, surely other people got sick of the cave dwelling existence and wanted back into ignorant bliss.

What have you watched recently?

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