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What have you watched recently?

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Let The Right One In - I've had this for months and only just bothered me hole to watch it. It really is just a fantastic movie, love it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    The Final Countdown, no the Europe story, but an enjoyably swift time travel yarn from 1980 as USS Nimitz aircraft carrier gets transported through time to the eve of Pearl Habour attack.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    just watched the secret in their eyes again
    amazing movie

    <3 me some Soledad Villamil


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Watched The Wolfman last night, silly movie with loads of cheap "gotcha!!" moments. The dodgy CGI is too distracting and isn't anywhere near as good as this:


    Plus the gargantuas plot-holes left a sour taste in the mouth
    Emily Blunt knocking the gun out of Agent Smith's hand only to use it 2 minutes later on Del Toro anyways!..............all just to set up a sequel. Stupid!

    Crap!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    Ironman 2 - woeful. Wasn't expecting it to be brilliant but I didn't think it would be *that* bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    mike65 wrote: »
    The Final Countdown, no the Europe story, but an enjoyably swift time travel yarn from 1980 as USS Nimitz aircraft carrier gets transported through time to the eve of Pearl Habour attack.


    Saw that on BBC2 recently. Had never seen it before, but enjoyed it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    'The Game'

    Michael Douglas is a stuffy, cold and isolated individual wrapped up in his job in finance. He's rich, but unhappy and just not a very good person. His brother (Sean Penn) gets him a present for his 48th birthday. It's from a company called Consumer Recreation Services and involves some sort of role playing venture, or so it seems. Once Douglas gets involved in the game, events take on a more sinister form.

    Overall, this is a pretty tight thriller from David Fincher that ties the viewer up in a shroud of mystery. It offers up a load of questions and seems to answer them, but it's only at the end we get the true answer. Unfortunately, 'The Game' doesn't have the ending it should have and the viewer is left feeling that the whole plot is incredibly far-fetched and convoluted. The viewer is asked to blindly accept a LOT of what's gone on in the film with cheap explanations. Pity, because for 95% of it's running time, it's a very good thriller.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭ultain


    Watched 'inside' & 'mutants' the last few nights..french horror, was very impressed with 'inside' as for 'mutants' it was good but really comes across as the first of a few to come. 'inside' definitely worth a watch


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭missingtime


    Surveillance

    Directed by Jennifer Lynch (David Lynchs' daughter) is a movie about 2 serial killers and 2 FBI agents interviewing 3 survivors (a cop, a kid and a teenage girl) to an attack.

    The movie has some nice cinematography and some decent black humour but the acting for most of the characters is weak. Actually very weak, so much so I almost turned it off.

    From watching the first 20 minutes of the movie you will figure out exactly what is going on and with that in mind I cant say I would recommend this movie...it did nothing for me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭ultain


    Surveillance

    Directed by Jennifer Lynch (David Lynchs' daughter) is a movie about 2 serial killers and 2 FBI agents interviewing 3 survivors (a cop, a kid and a teenage girl) to an attack.

    The movie has some nice cinematography and some decent black humour but the acting for most of the characters is weak. Actually very weak, so much so I almost turned it off.

    From watching the first 20 minutes of the movie you will figure out exactly what is going on and with that in mind I cant say I would recommend this movie...it did nothing for me.
    I dunno..I thaught it was a pretty clever little flick, nice wee twist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭missingtime


    ultain wrote: »
    I dunno..I thaught it was a pretty clever little flick, nice wee twist.

    I hate watching movies just for the twist though. It can come off as very lazy story telling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,958 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Defendor - Class film


  • Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Cookie33


    Just watched How to train a dragon

    Wasn't expected much but very good animation film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    'Eastern Promises'

    One of Cronenberg's more "normal" affairs. Like 'A History of Violence', 'Eastern Promises' takes a more direct route in its story telling. The Canadian director seems to have ditched the more surreal elements in favor of a straighter edge and it's working well too. 'Eastern Promises' tells the story of a London midwife (Naomi Watts) from a Russian background who helps with the birth of a baby girl from a 14 year old Russian mother. The mother dies giving birth, but the baby lives. In the possession of the mother is her diary, written in Russian, that reveals a terrible past. Watt's character decides to investigate and becomes involved in the sinister goings on in the Russian mafia.

    This is a very good, but slow building "crime" story with a great cast including Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel and Armin Mueller stahl. It also has one of the best and most painful looking fights I seen in a long time.
    Takes place in a bath house with lino cutters



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    the outlaw josey wales , IMO , clints greatest movie and one of the best westerns ever made , my favourite scene has to be where late on in the movie , clint encounters a bounty hunter in a bar , bounty hunter leaves for a bit but returns , telling clint he had to come back , to which clint replies , I KNOW !

    less always equaled more with clint


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭xoixo


    Chaplin (1992)

    I always love Robert Downey Jr's performances and this has to be one of his best. Plays Chaplin with such ease, it was remarkable.
    Amazing film.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Requiem for a Vampire a strange, slow but not without interest early film by French horror auteur Jean Rollin. Best in the first half when there are no more than a handful of sentences spoken. Rollin creates a dreamlike atmosphere as our two heroines drift through the French countryside seeking some sort of refuge. The clunky dubbed dialogue of the 2nd half robs the film of its fantasy. Note the review linked above is for the uncensored version which Film 24, where I saw this, were hardly going to show.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Dorothy Mills - Had to turn it off, didn't like it at all, nor the stereotypical Irish ''island folk''.

    The Crazies - Should be called ''The Crapsies''.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭missingtime


    Dorothy Mills - Had to turn it off, didn't like it at all, nor the stereotypical Irish ''island folk''.

    The Crazies - Should be called ''The Crapsies''.

    Wuh...sounds like someone had some bad chicken.


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


    Went to see it today,good escapist fun.But was'nt as good as i was expecting.No way as good as disneys other blockbuster Pirates of the caribbean.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Watched Daybreakers earlier tonight. Turned out to be better than I expected it would be. An interesting take on the vampire tale,
    with vampires being the majority species and humans the minority
    . It did rip off an awful lot of ideas from other films, in quite a blatant manner at times, but ticked along nicely.

    Would have loved to have seen it expand on a few things that were briefly mentioned or shown,
    like the infected chimp
    which hinted at the vampire virus being able to effect anything living, but considering the budget was small in modern terms, I suppose it was not plausible or cost effective.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    Just watched The Road. Now maybe its just me but surely this is one of the most overrated movies ever?! Granted the performances were good but the movie itself did absolutely nothing for me. Certainly doesn't strike me as something I'll be watching again.


  • Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Cookie33


    Kick ass - 5*

    Everyone said this movie was brilliant and it lived up to the expectation. Amazing!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    I just watched Youth In Revolt...Based on a 4 star review.....it was one star....my big brown one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,542 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    'Waterloo'

    A 1970 Russian/Italian production about the famous final battle of Napoleon in 1815. Starring Rod Steiger in a scenery chewing role as France's greatest military leader and Christopher Plummer as Lord Wellington. Some of the acting is way over the top at times, but strangely seems to suit the whole film. Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, the film at times has a really odd quality about it that's hard to explain. Parts of the first hour feel like some bloated stage play. Bondarchuk, who was never a truly great director, does well enough in the project as a whole. But, where he really succeeds and it's what makes the film worth watching, is in the spectacular battle scenes during the second hour (as he did with his previous film 'War and Peace'). The producers managed to gather 20,000 Russian troops for filming, decked them out in the uniforms of France, Britain and Prussia and threw them into a field in the Ukraine full of explosions, smoke and horses. Shot in the days before CGI, everything you see on screen was shot for real and when you think about the work that must have gone into filming those scenes, it's truly amazing. The battle of Waterloo pounds with cannons, muskets and charging cavalry and for the most part, the film sticks to the history quite well. Although at times, parts of the battle can seem quite leisurely (especially during the attack on Hougoumont), on the whole it's difficult to downplay. It does help to be a little familiar with the battle, but 10 minutes on the web will sort that out. Special mention must go to the costumes and sets which are incredible and go a long way to capturing the feel of the period. 'Waterloo' certainly isn't the best film you'll ever see, but it is one of the best films about the Napoleonic Wars you'll ever see.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭Saganist


    Unthinkable & Kick Ass.

    Both really enjoyable films for completely different reasons.

    unthinkable is a quality psychological thriller and kick ass is a funny original superhero movie.

    Both recommended !

    :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Leaving las Vegas - good but depressing! Gotta love Elizabeth Shue:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,942 ✭✭✭missingtime


    Law Abiding Citizen

    Decent enough for the first hour or so but then the movie just kinda ran out of steam and the ending was a bit tame. Better than I thought it would be though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,302 ✭✭✭JohnMearsheimer


    Leaving las Vegas - good but depressing! Gotta love Elizabeth Shue:)

    That's an amazing movie, one of my favourites. Pity Elizabeth Shue kept a low enough profile since.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,326 ✭✭✭Zapp Brannigan


    I watched Martyrs last night.

    It's so tough to keep watching it!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭NapoleonInRags


    JohnK wrote: »
    Just watched The Road. Now maybe its just me but surely this is one of the most overrated movies ever?! Granted the performances were good but the movie itself did absolutely nothing for me. Certainly doesn't strike me as something I'll be watching again.

    I thought it was one of the most moving films I've ever seen - almost brought me to tears and that's saying something believe me. Do you have kids John? Maybe that makes a difference for how it resonates with different people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭Comic Book Guy


    just watched Sherlock Holmes. 7/10 in my opinion, good banter between downey junior and law and some nice action set pieces.
    Anyone know who played the aprt of Professor Moriarty??

    Watched Up last nite. Very enjoyable, gotta love that dog, "point"!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ViennaShamrock


    Alvin and the chipmunks :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,030 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Anyone know who played the aprt of Professor Moriarty??
    From Wikipedia:
    Director Guy Ritchie declined to say who voiced the character of Professor Moriarty. Rumors suggested that the part was voiced by Brad Pitt, who has been reported to have expressed strong interest in the sequel. Actor Ed Tolputt is credited as "Anonymous Man" although it is not clear if this refers to Moriarty.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Unthinkable - Really good imo

    The Book of Eli - Also worth a watch


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    Watched 'Coraline' yesterday. I thought it was brilliant, I loved every minute of it. Quite disturbing for young kids though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 712 ✭✭✭arsenallegend


    the Keep

    Michael Mann film with Gabriel byrne playing a SS officer along with Ian McKellen about a evil sprit in a castle in Romania during WW2. good film a bit honky in places ( the effects haven't aged well) but as with a Mann film you know its going to be great.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    watched un prophete, very good movie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,013 ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    The Book of Eli
    Lovely desaturated art style like Terminator Salvation. Unfortunately the film is really, really boring. Even though I thought The Road was really depressing, the road was far more interesting. Great to see Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson of ROME fame) getting work.

    The Road
    Depressingly bleak outlook set in a post-apocalyptic world. The pace is swift; showing how terrible humanity could/would be in this given scenario. The only problem (besides the film being so depressing) is the course of action taken by Viggo. For his character I guess it's all about aimlessly prolonging life, and not quality of it. Very well made film, but it's the most depressing film I've seen in a long time.

    The Wolf (2010)
    I love horror films, but this period slasher wasn't particularly entertaining. The cast are a rather unlikeable lot. Benicio del Toro's the main character, and really is just 'there'; nothing special or endearing about him. Hugo Weaving gives his best ole-timey 'Agent Smith' impression, while Anthony Hopkins' performance doesn't really match his dialogue. He was cold and emotionless, which was a little bizarre. It's an odd case of no-one endearing themselves to the audience. It wasn't that interesting either; the historical significance, or 'rules of being a werewolf' aren't explored, which was a shame. Wouldn't recommend.

    Alice in Wonderland (2010)
    Interesting film, which continually went downhill, bottoming out when Alice changed into shiny armour, and Johnny Depp did an awful jig to some truly awful pseudo dance music. I find the use of real people against completely CG backgrounds really unappealing. It was more 'hey, wasn't the original film great, when you were last here' than a movie that could stand on it's own. I guess it had too much to live up to (comparing it to the excellent 1951 animated film) ...and Tim Burton was really out of ideas. There is zero creativity on display.

    Johnny Depp really missed the mark with his performance/portrayal of the Mad Hatter, I thought he would've been excellent....and Helena Bonnam-Carter picks up another paycheck. I wish she was as deliciously charmingly evil as other wicked queens before her, but alas it was a poor effort as well.

    I have other gripes with the film, but overall I was disappointed, and wouldn't recommend. I had low expectations but ultimately found it was a waste of time.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭A V A


    THE BOOK OF ELI is amazing !!!!! one of the best films iv seen !!! just great

    i recommend it to everyone

    atticus ross did a great job on this score !!!!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    jaykhunter wrote: »

    The Wolf (2010)Benicio del Toro's the main character, and really is just 'there'; nothing special or endearing about him.

    He was too busy wondering where his 250 MILLION pieces of gold were.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,780 ✭✭✭JohnK


    I thought it was one of the most moving films I've ever seen - almost brought me to tears and that's saying something believe me. Do you have kids John? Maybe that makes a difference for how it resonates with different people.
    Nope no kids here...

    Maybe I've just seen too many movies and read too many books where the protagonists are fleeing across some kind of wasteland in a desperate struggle to survive against the odds but my feeling when it was over was that of blandness. Nothing stood out to me as being particularly memorable or noteworthy. Putting some spoiler tags here for a comment on the ending:
    Now I was thinking towards the end that they might have a variation of the ending to The Mist and I was half expecting the boy to shoot himself at the very end due to the conversation between himself and his father where the father said he'd have nothing left to live for should the boy die when he had the fever by the beach. Now a very dark ending like that would have had me sitting up and taking notice rather than what we got with the almost happy ending where the boy goes off with a full family. Now that I think of it I guess I felt the ending was a bit of a cheat given the hopelessness that pervaded the rest of the movie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    Das Boot - The Three hour cut, not the super long extra bonus cut. I was a bit wary going into this having heard so much praise heaped upon it. But I need not have worried, it's fantastic. Honestly, one of the best films I've seen this year. I'll probably check out the 5 hour cut after seeing this, there's just so much in it.

    The pacing is fantastic, with the ending being the one truly climactic ending I've had the pleasure of seeing in far, far too long. The acting for the most part was superb, I've heard criticisms that it was overacted but I found it to be perfectly fitting especially given that most, if not all of the actors, were unknown and stayed unknown after the film. It's hard to tell that the whole film was dubbed because of the camera noise or somesuch.

    Overall I'd easily give this 5/5 - Excellent film.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Recently watched too bleak films.

    The Road was up first. I had read the book and knew what to expect, and got exactly that. The film was good but nothing brilliant rather like the novel. McCarthys most easily digestable work. I don't think cinema will do such a good job translating Blood Meridian. The heavy prose are what make that book the almost biblical masterpiece I think it is.

    The Book of Eli was just boring. It failed from the first in what it should have strove to do. It didn't grip, it didn't entertain. I had to watch it in three sittings because I was that bored. I felt like I should have had some knitting with me to keep me occupied. The film itself wasn't terrible but with such a great cast (alright, mostly Gary Oldman) I expected better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 375 ✭✭kart


    Robin Hood (2010) - Visually intriguing and interesting, but lacking the deepness in storyline and Kate Blanchett as lady Marian is unbelievably dull and boring - she makes this otherwise good movie sink, badly.
    In the end of the movie it tells us: "And so the legend begins". Well, thanks for mentioning, otherwise i wouldn't have known that the legend will begin AFTER the movie ends and the reason we didn't see any of it was just because it wasn't there ..YET!
    Mark Strong was awsome, Crowe was not bad either.

    Date Movie (2006) - I hope none of my friends finds this movie funny.. if they do i will seriously ask them to see a doctor. I wonder how many drinks u need for seeing any fun in this sorry excuse for a movie. Probably enough to pass out just to escape the horryifying experience of sitting though this ****.
    I have only one question left. Alyson Hannigan, why on earth did u take role in there? You couldn't possibly need money THAT bad?

    The Bucket List (2007) - Wonderful piece about two strangers brought together by fate at the darkest time of their lives. Sentimental and sad, yet a flick that gives you positive boost of energy, a will to go on and be a better person:) A must-see for everyone who are getting a bit depressed when the hard times kick in.
    Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman - can't go wrong there! Nicholson did make me feel that i had seen that movie and that character already... well, i probably had, he just plays his typical role character again. It isn't annoying tho, just a lil' deja vu.
    Good ending!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭fillefatale


    Total Eclipse, directed by Agnieszka Holland (The Secret Garden), explores the self-destructive relationship between the infamous French poet Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). There were some good moments, enchanting cinematography. Ultimately, for me, the film was half an hour too long, it dragged and my nerves were frayed trying to keep up with Leonardo's 'bad boy poet' persona. I didn't really understand some Verlaine's motives either, they behaved like two overgrown schoolboys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    The Twilight Samurai, really great samurai drama, it's not really an action movie, there's only two short fights in it, but it's superb.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 375 ✭✭kart


    The wind that shakes the barley (2007) - Beautiful acting by Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney, the rest of the cast was not that good - i constantly felt how hard they were trying to make a face they are not acting, didn't convince me.Very nicely shot, great soundtrack.A fine movie and a gripping story, but there was something missing in it... it didn't teach me anything new and characters were a bit sterotypical - specially the english ones, which was disappointing.The ending was probably supposed to be harsh and very deep, but once again i felt something was missing, it just didn't catch my attention the way it should have.
    I think that people might say it is better movie than it is purely because of the issues are so close to everyones heart...
    But i do recommend the movie to everyone - if only for the purpose of seeing what the story and feelings were back then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Just after watching Solomon Kane, enjoyable enough film. Far more hits than misses with a hefty slice of hammy dialogue. I've never read the comics and know zilch about the character but I liked it.

    Purefoy was pretty good as SK, it was fairly refreshing to see an action hero have that bit more of a range of personality rather than just a miserable sulking bastard. I couldn't help thinking he sounded like a farmer but I prefered it to the typical out-of-place American accent or well-spoken English accent for a grizzled character.

    The usual swords 'n sorcery clìches are here ("These a dark times we live in" What sorcery film doesn't have that line? :pac:)

    The feel of a medieval film was captured perfectly with the locations, costumes and all that mullarkey. The let-downs were some relatively unusual editing to the rest of the film in parts and
    The big CGI creature at the end which looked like a very cheap version of Megatron. Kinda took away from the rest of the film which kept things pretty much practical

    Overall, not a bad film. It's the 1st of a proposed trilogy so if they keep it level for the 2nd film I'll probably keep with it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    Just saw In the Loop last weekend. A British Sec of state (played by a fey Tom Hollander) believes that war is 'unforeseeable', which gets everyone in a right state. The star of the film communications manager Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) is a Scottish version of Dr Perry Cox from Scrubs, now with added curses and sexist remarks to beat the band :pac:
    Great characters, great scenes, and Malcolm Tucker is my new hero :)


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