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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


  • #8653
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Watched it tonight for about the 10th time




    I love this film:D


  • #8654
    don ramo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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,


  • #8655
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,268 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


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


  • #8656
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #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


  • #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.


  • #8659
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭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.


  • #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


  • #8661
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,716 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.


  • #8663
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭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?

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #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.



  • #8665
    livinsane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #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.


  • #8667
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,506 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



  • #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


  • #8669
    Mackman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #8670
    kevohmsford
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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


  • #8672
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    johndoe99 wrote: »
    watched the Ghost Writer last night, been a long time since i've been glued to the TV watching a movie, i'm not a fan of Pierce Brosnan, but he was great in this, best mystery/thriller i think ive ever seen:

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139328/

    That was a good show
    I assume the Pierce Brosnan was based on Blair
    which raises a interesting question
    Was Cheire Bliar a CIA agent


  • #8673
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Mackman wrote: »
    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.

    action movies have no balls anymore, sanitised, pg13 , toned down, cgi blood, ugh. stuntmen and squibs ftw!


  • #8674
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,716 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    krudler wrote: »

    action movies have no balls anymore, sanitised, pg13 , toned down, cgi blood, ugh. stuntmen and squibs ftw!

    Ah, the quaint words of someone who hasn't seen The Raid yet ;)


  • #8675
    Tindie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Tindie


    Tape 407 (2011)
    I expected this too be really bad, well it wasn't one of the best found footage movies but i't's far from being one of the worst! (I think of just seen to many of these movies lol)

    However if you can take a lot of shouting and yelling for about 85% of time, you may be able to enjoy this a little! and on top of that you may need to take in a very whinny girl for 10% of movie as well, it dose clam down in the last 30 mins! (You May needs ears plugs for some scenes, this is coming from a person who's deaf in one ear!)

    The first 20 mins of movie were really dull and talking to the people on plane , countdown for new years day and the plane crashes!

    I was little disappointed with the crash , it was good but they could have done a lot better.

    I enjoyed that we did not see what was attacking the survivors at first as the movie goes we do get to see bits of the creature at times.

    You will be able to see the whole creature near the end, which you will either find really silly and funny or scary (Which don't think anyone will be)

    There also a little curve in last few mins of the movie, which I am so baffled by, I just did not understand that scene at all!

    I thought was great idea and the acting was not too bad at all, I did found some scene boring at the start but most of the movie was so-what entertaining.

    Found it descent but I would not rush out to see it 5 out of 10


  • #8676
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Moby Dick

    There are a few versions, this one had John Hurt
    I'd heard of the book and the films before but never checked it out

    Extremly good, enjoyed this

    The Perfect Getaway

    Thriller film, based around murders in Hawaii
    Loved this film, one of the best I've seen in a long while

    Timothy Olyphant is just damn cool :cool:


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  • #8677
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Ah, the quaint words of someone who hasn't seen The Raid yet ;)

    I know, I've been at my local cinema to get a print, they will if theres enough interest they said.


  • #8678
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    Mackman wrote: »
    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.

    I used to be a big fan of the Die Hard movies but then along came 'The Bourne Trilogy', the pace of which makes the former look positively geriatric. Matt Damon versus Bruce Willis no competition there. I still have Die Hard for the original Play Station console; one of the best games available for it and a great one for some mindless stress relief. :D


  • #8679
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Vantage Point

    Was just ok
    Not particularly clever though it tries hard to be
    Would pass the time but wouldn't go out of the way to watch

    Run Silent, Run Deep

    Black and white WWII film about submarine warfare

    Story not too disimilar to Crimson Tide

    Thought it was very good
    One of Clark Gable's last films, he was excellent in it


  • #8680
    Tindie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Tindie


    Apartment 143 (2011)

    This was really good, it dose not take to long to start, so there no long build up like you seen the Paranormal Activity series and they don't start of with little things. They go right into business!

    There were some really great intense moments in this movie, which made me go BEEP in and there are few good jumpy scenes in this movie.

    I really liked the flash scenes for the whole living room was really well made, it was really creepy scene , even that i knew something was going to happen but it still got me anyway, awesome scene.

    The acting was not great and could of been much better by the whole cast they were all a bit on and off!, I disliked the doctor in this movie, he really annoyed me.

    The whole movie is very entertaining from start to the very end, there are few calm scene, this was never boring, so you won't be watching the time or falling a sleep while watching this movie

    But I hated The very last scene of the movies, COME ON!. that it's not how you meant to end a good movie. (I am really getting sick of those last crap scare in scene in the horror movies these day, THEY DON'T SCARE ANYONE!)

    I would of have gave it 8 out of 10 but it going get a 6 out of 10 from me now!


  • #8681
    Tindie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Tindie


    Apartment 143 (2011)

    This was really good, it dose not take to long to start, so there no long build up like you seen the Paranormal Activity series and they don't start of with little things. They go right into business!

    There were some really great intense moments in this movie, which made me go BEEP in and there are few good jumpy scenes in this movie.

    I really liked the flash scenes for the whole living room was really well made, it was really creepy scene , even that i knew something was going to happen but it still got me anyway, awesome scene.

    The acting was not great and could of been much better by the whole cast they were all a bit on and off!, I disliked the doctor in this movie, he really annoyed me.

    The whole movie is very entertaining from start to the very end, there are few calm scene, this was never boring, so you won't be watching the time or falling a sleep while watching this movie

    But I hated The very last scene of the movies, COME ON!. that it's not how you meant to end a good movie. (I am really getting sick of those last crap scare in scene in the horror movies these day, THEY DON'T SCARE ANYONE!)

    I would of have gave it 8 out of 10 but it going get a 6 out of 10 from me now!


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  • #8682
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Well worth a watch.This has some good fight scenes.



  • #8683
    don ramo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭don ramo


    Shame, really good film, didn't think id get as drawn into it as i was, highly recommend anyone to see it,

    still cant believe the uk lotto funded this film :eek:


  • #8684
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    HMS Defiant

    I'm a sucker for these navy films :)

    Sort of similar to the Bounty only in this one its the captain who is old and humane and the lieutenant is a sadistic bastard

    Well you know what happens next, you push men too hard and they'll snap and react

    Great film, very enjoyable

    Alec Guinness is the captain, Dirk Bogarte is the lieutenant


  • #8685
    Shane St.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Shane St.


    Scent Of A Woman

    Al Pacino is excellent in it. Really good film


  • #8686
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Thor: I am all set for Avengers now after this, as with Captain America I was never big into the Thor comic series (although the recent J.M Strachzynski relaunch was good) but while I enjoyed the Captain America movie I didn't really enjoy this. And while chronologically Captain America comes first it probably would have been better to watch this first to get an understanding of the cosmic cube.

    I just found it hard to take Hemsworth serious as Thor, part of it was down to him (his accent was all over the place), and part of it was down to me (as with Superman Thor is always portrayed as larger than life so to see a normal person play him is underwhelming). Also the love story between him and Jane is rushed and meaningless, the plus side is that Shield have more of a presence than in the other movies and everything feels connected, while Destroyer is reduced to some ropey effects and a cameo.

    It surprised me as well that Marvel went the traditional Thor route, I thought that the Ultimates version may have been easier to sell to audiences. Watchable but forgettable might be a good way to describe it.

    One thing that bugs me though is the same actors showing up to play different characters (Idris Elba, Chris Evans, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Stevenson, Stan Lee:pac:)


  • #8687
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,716 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    The Double Life of Veronique - Krzysztof Kieslowski's peculiar, dreamy and deeply ambiguous tale of two dopplegangers who seem to be spiritually connected. It's a film more about atmosphere than making sense. Starting to Poland and moving to France, it introduces us to Weronika and Veronique as they fall in love, achieve insight through music and live & die. It's meandering stuff, and purposefully so. But it's a haunting film, mainly through the absolutely stunning green-hued cinematography.

    One thing propels the film to true greatness, though, and that's Irene Jacob. Playing the two main roles, it's a beguiling, hypnotic performance. Nailing the tics of two distinct individuals, Jacob's beauty and talent keeps you glued to the screen even when Kieslowski indulges in high levels of ambiguous whimsy. It's one of those rare revelatory acting performances, and the film wouldn't work nearly as well without her.


  • #8688
    _coinin_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭_coinin_


    Planes, trains and automobiles

    John Candy starred in this movie, made in laugh out loud a few times. I wasnt expecting it to be in any way funny but I just realised that Steve Martin was gold back in the day.Not so much now

    Niagara

    Marilyn Monroe sets out to have her Husband killed with the Niagara Falls looming in the backdrop

    :)


  • #8689
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    krudler wrote: »
    another vote for Sunshine here, I love it, its one of the most stunning looking movies of the last decade, especially the climax.

    Watched this last night and thought is was amazing , don't know how i passed by it , visually stunning and extremely tense. Best sci-fi movie I have seen in a very long time.

    Thanks for the recommendation :cool:


  • #8690
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,394 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    One thing that bugs me though is the same actors showing up to play different characters (Idris Elba, Chris Evans, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Stevenson, Stan Lee:pac:)

    Who else did Idris Elba & Stevenson play? I know Evans played Human Torch before and I guess you're referring to Reynolds playing Green Lantern & Dead Pool (and Captain Excellent :pac:), which isn't really a problem since they're seperate universes anyway.


  • #8691
    barone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,224 ✭✭✭barone


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    I used to be a big fan of the Die Hard movies but then along came 'The Bourne Trilogy', the pace of which makes the former look positively geriatric. Matt Damon versus Bruce Willis no competition there. I still have Die Hard for the original Play Station console; one of the best games available for it and a great one for some mindless stress relief. :D

    yippee kiyayeeeee

    remember the game well


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  • #8692
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I finally got to see Election today, directed by Alexander Payne, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. I don't think I've ever seen a film that was as infuriating in the best possible way - that left me with a grin on my face and the urge to shout at the screen "what the hell is wrong with you people!" :pac:

    I don't think I've met a character quite like Tracy Flick (Witherspoon), which is a good thing. Had I been one of her classmates in school, I would have been scared sh!tless of her. I don't think that it's a coincidence that, when written in capitals on a poster, the L and I in her name blur in to a U.

    As for Matthew Broderick's character, I just wanted to grab him by the scruff of the neck and slap his face. He's a loser who doesn't know he's a loser, but seems to be happy regardless - with exceptions. In short, I didn't exactly identify with the characters, but quite the opposite: they annoyed me, to the point where I had to tell myself "it's only a movie ..."

    I recorded this film from TV and saved it until I thought I needed it - and it did not let me down. Of Payne's films, I haven't yet seen About Schmidt or The Descendants, so I have more to look forward to, then.

    A bit of trivia I spotted: in Payne's previous film, Citizen Ruth, Ruth buys a cheap can of patio sealant to huff behind the hardware store: in Election, the disgraced teacher who had an affair with Tracy is later seen working in the same Omaha hardware store, sticking price tags on the same patio sealant.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #8693
    couch_dweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭couch_dweller


    bnt wrote: »
    I finally got to see Election today, directed by Alexander Payne, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. I don't think I've ever seen a film that was as infuriating in the best possible way - that left me with a grin on my face and the urge to shout at the screen "what the hell is wrong with you people!" :pac:

    I don't think I've met a character quite like Tracy Flick (Witherspoon), which is a good thing. Had I been one of her classmates in school, I would have been scared sh!tless of her. I don't think that it's a coincidence that, when written in capitals on a poster, the L and I in her name blur in to a U.

    As for Matthew Broderick's character, I just wanted to grab him by the scruff of the neck and slap his face. He's a loser who doesn't know he's a loser, but seems to be happy regardless - with exceptions. In short, I didn't exactly identify with the characters, but quite the opposite: they annoyed me, to the point where I had to tell myself "it's only a movie ..."

    I recorded this film from TV and saved it until I thought I needed it - and it did not let me down. Of Payne's films, I haven't yet seen About Schmidt or The Descendants, so I have more to look forward to, then.

    A bit of trivia I spotted: in Payne's previous film, Citizen Ruth, Ruth buys a cheap can of patio sealant to huff behind the hardware store: in Election, the disgraced teacher who had an affair with Tracy is later seen working in the same Omaha hardware store, sticking price tags on the same patio sealant.


    mathew broderick is annoying in everything bar bueller , his face is incredibly punchable


  • #8694
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Who else did Idris Elba & Stevenson play? I know Evans played Human Torch before and I guess you're referring to Reynolds playing Green Lantern & Dead Pool (and Captain Excellent :pac:), which isn't really a problem since they're seperate universes anyway.

    Elba had a part in the new Ghost Rider movie, Stevenson was Punisher, and Reynolds was Hannibal King in Blade Trinity. I know they are different studios but I think of them all belonging to the Marvel Universe so it annoys me.;)


  • #8695
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    couch_dweller wrote: »
    mathew broderick is annoying in everything bar bueller , his face is incredibly punchable
    Seriously? You quote my whole post about Election, just to add one line that's not about Election? May I recommend you read the Charter?

    Have you seen Election? Then you'd know that Broderick's character spends half the film looking like someone punched him, deservedly - but he wasn't punched, he was stung by a bee. His character in this film is not likeable.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #8696
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,394 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Elba had a part in the new Ghost Rider movie, Stevenson was Punisher, and Reynolds was Hannibal King in Blade Trinity. I know they are different studios but I think of them all belonging to the Marvel Universe so it annoys me.;)

    Ah right you are, had forgotten about Blade III! Ain't got round to seeing Punisher Warzone or the new Ghost Rider movie yet.


  • #8697
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,397 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Ah right you are, had forgotten about Blade III! Ain't got round to seeing Punisher Warzone or the new Ghost Rider movie yet.

    I would recommend Warzone, although it is a shame they went the camp route with Jigsaw, especially since Dominic West plays him.


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    Judgement Day
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    Just switched off "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) on RTE - what a pile of parrot droppings! I haven't seen such an abomination in years; I knew that I wouldn't like it as I had the misfortune to catch the trailers but it was even worse than anticipated. I love Sherlock Holmes, grew up with the books - The Hound of the Baskervilles would be my favourite and the 1939 movie of the same name with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The 1984 Granada TV series with Jeremy Brett in the title role was superb but this latest offering is dire. Why associate it with Sherlock Holmes at all - it's as about as true to the original as the new Hawaii Five O is to the earlier TV series.


  • #8699
    Notorious
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    I saw Hara Kiri: Death of a Samurai (1962) in the IFI over the weekend. It was my first time seeing the film, which was shown as part of the IFI's Action Movies season. I don't know if I'd class the film as an action movie, having only a handful of fight scenes, but the few fight scenes they had were amazing. The story is loosly about a father taking revenge for the lack of pity shown to his son-in-law who was pushed into comitting ritual suicide after originally bluffing it. It's an interesting story and its beautifully shot. I'd recommend it to anyone with an interest in world cinema.


  • #8700
    duckysauce
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Just switched off "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) on RTE - what a pile of parrot droppings! I haven't seen such an abomination in years; I knew that I wouldn't like it as I had the misfortune to catch the trailers but it was even worse than anticipated. I love Sherlock Holmes, grew up with the books - The Hound of the Baskervilles would be my favourite and the 1939 movie of the same name with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The 1984 Granada TV series with Jeremy Brett in the title role was superb but this latest offering is dire. Why associate it with Sherlock Holmes at all - it's as about as true to the original as the new Hawaii Five O is to the earlier TV series.

    ah JD have to disagree with you big time loved the two new versions , very funny , great music score etc Downey is fcking great :)


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  • #8701
    Technocentral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Just switched off "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) on RTE - what a pile of parrot droppings! I haven't seen such an abomination in years; I knew that I wouldn't like it as I had the misfortune to catch the trailers but it was even worse than anticipated. I love Sherlock Holmes, grew up with the books - The Hound of the Baskervilles would be my favourite and the 1939 movie of the same name with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The 1984 Granada TV series with Jeremy Brett in the title role was superb but this latest offering is dire. Why associate it with Sherlock Holmes at all - it's as about as true to the original as the new Hawaii Five O is to the earlier TV series.

    Went to this with a girlfriend when it came out on her insistence, I bloody hated it, modern Hollywood can't release films without huge amounts of cg and almost superhero attributes in its characters anymore for fear of teenagers not going. Making films that just rely on great characters and story lines just isn't enough now unfortunately, give me Basil Rathbone or as you say Brett's Holmes using deduction and slow, methodical groundwork to solve crimes any day (and keeping their shirts on in the process!).


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