[mikemac1]

The Perfect Murder

Michael Douglas, Viggo Mortensen, Gwynth Paltrow

Very impressed with this film, top performances all round

Honourable mention to David Suchet who was the police detective, small role but I liked him in this

Clever and smart film, thumps up

[8mv]

Watched Buried last week.
Thought it was pretty good, although Spoiler: the bleak ending wasn't expected as I was watching with my daughter. With Ryan Reynolds involved, who she liked in [I]Definately, Maybe[/I], I was confident that it would end well, but how wrong was I?

[crazygeryy]

Originally Posted by 8mv

Watched Buried last week.

Will we guess what you thought of it?

[8mv]

Sorry, Crazy. See edit above. I accidentally hit submit when typing the original post

[mikhail]

Originally Posted by willmunny1990

Cabin in the woods...

Its your typical teen horror IMO, 5 good lucking young adults go into the woods for a vacation and get bumped off 1 by 1. I can't understand how this film got positive reviews among critics...

It's a parody of those movies, explaining the clichés with Spoiler: a Whedonesque conspiracy.

[Judgement Day]

"Waterloo" (1970) on VHS last night - €1 from a local charity shop - the best movie I've watched for a long time. With brilliant performances by Rod Steiger (Napoleon) and Christopher Plummer as (Wellington). I don't know how I've never seen this movie before. The appalling weather, mud, and scale of the battles is carried off to perfection. According to Wiki, some 17,000 Soviet troops were involved in the battle scenes and you can well believe it. Also stars Orson Welles (a cameo role as Louis XVIII), Dan O'Herlihy (Marshal Ney), a young Terence Alexander (Charlie Hungerford in the TV detective series Bergerac) as the Earl of Uxbridge. Fans of famous quotations will remember him as the officer, who seated on a horse beside the Duke of Wellington, uttered the immortal words 'By God, sir, I've lost my leg!' to which Wellington is supposed to have replied 'By God, sir, so you have!'. I'm sure he was fine after a good cup of tea - stiff upper lip and all that.

11/10 if that's possible.

YouTube trailer here - be patient as the picture starts eventually!

[Dermighty]

Originally Posted by crazygeryy

Into the abyss
Good documentary about death row inmates by werner herzog.
Its good I enjoyed it.

Watched it a couple of weeks ago. I have to say that as I watched it I really wanted them to execute that guy, which they did

[crazygeryy]

Originally Posted by Dermighty

Watched it a couple of weeks ago. I have to say that as I watched it I really wanted them to execute that guy, which they did

Oh I agree totally.what about the father having xmas dinner with his 2 sons and himself all in prison at the same time.mad stuff.

[TerrorFirmer]

Watched Lockout. Actually quite decent. Went in with the intention of watching Battleship, but Guy Pearce won me over. By no means a brilliant film, but entertaining - Die Hard in space, in many ways.

[CountryJoe]

Amores Perros : very good if a little depressing, did'nt know much about it before watching but was pleasantly surprised.

[marwelie]

Marley

I love Kevin McDonalds documentaries and this is no exception. Im not a fan of Bob or his music but I have an appreciation of both now and thats surely a sign that McDonald is a master of his craft.

Spoiler: I wonder what Bob would make of Mugabes regime nowadays, considering his support of Zimbabwes independence at the time

[psychward]

Originally Posted by marwelie

Spoiler: I wonder what Bob would make of Mugabes regime nowadays, considering his support of Zimbabwes independence at the time

The guy was famous because of his music. Just because I can sing and dance doesn't qualify me to perform open heart surgery. Otherwise we may as well have President Bono of the first global government , in otherwise an absurdity.
Yet the media keep insisting on valuing the non expert opinions of someone who made their careers in something the very opposite.

[GAAman]

Watched Birdy today starring a very young Nicolas Cage and Matthew Modine. Cage is a semi broken nam vet while Modine was fully broken by the vietnam war. Really enjoyed this and happened upon it by chance. Lots of emotion in it wont say much else check it out if you get a chance.

Also watched and enjoyed 22 Bullets starring Jean Reno as an ageing french mafia don who although retired is the subject of an assassination attempt. Obviously they didn't realise they were dealing with Jean f*ckin Reno

[Ridley]

Just listed these on that Letterboxd site but I've been putting off going through them here as I've been watching a lot of junk. Seeing them ordered there by poster art is worse.

The Golden Compass - Can't remember it to be honest and haven't read His Dark Materials for comparison. Recall thinking the CGI was nicely done. Apparently New Line recut the film and the intended ending is missing?

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - "...but there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name." Yeah, it's 'Liam Neeson'.

Taken - Okay action movie but it's far too easy to mock it for its flaws. Half expected the horse to show up at the airport as support and events just happen to play into Aslan's hands. Good thing the right guy spoke and he didn't arrive too late, huh? Spoiler: For his daughter anyway, might aswell have ran the credits over Amanda's corpse.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 - Meh. Lost interest in the books after the fifth one, thought the sixth movie was decent. Movie 7.1 is a glorified hike just like the novel.

The Slanted Screen - Not really a movie but I'm counting it. Hour long documentary about the portrayal of Asian men in American film/TV. Liked it. Could have done with more visual examples rather than just stating it though. The so-called tribute to Mako in the DVD extras is just some of his interview that didn't make it into the finished documentary.

Captain America: The First Avenger - Liked it a lot. Good fun. Some CGI I found unncessary (could have done without the digital shrinking of Evans' height, just take away his muscles), Hugo Weaving's German accent is questionable and I think the film would have been better off without the opening Spoiler: in the present day. Star Spangled Man is easily my favourite part of the film though it got tainted somewhat when, about an hour later, someone in my Twitter feed posted the rape figures in the US military.

Gulliver's Travels - Terrible affront to cinema that's beneath even Jack Black to have agreed to it. The most disappointing thing about the movie was seeing WETA in the credits for the incredibly fake CGI that's only two years old at this point. Movie gets the honour of being the third worst film I've ever seen. What's annoying is getting another film I can rank on that scale so soon after THC.

The Illusionist (2010) - Good watch. Nice animation and I particularly enjoyed the rabbit. Rather odd that it's been said Jacques Tati wrote the story to reconcile with his estranged daughter when her equivalent in the film seems so selfish. Spoiler: "Magicians do not exist." The moral of the story is to go into the back end of Scotland to be successful. Just like in...

The Eagle - Roman-American Channing Tatum ventures into Scotland with Jamie Bell to retrieve the aquila of the Ninth Legion and regain family honour lost by his father. Film was alright but I'm not sure what the point of the whole thing was in the end. Seemed to have mixed messages. Nice to see Alan Moore leading a tribe of Celts into battle though.

Little Fockers - Next.

Tales from Earthsea - Made by the wrong Miyazaki. Good to look at but it's oddly flippant about death in some ways. To the point where I didn't realise the protagonist had killed his father. Thought he'd winded him to swipe his sword (of course, that could have been obvious to everyone but me ). Plus a lot of establishing the fantasy world which ultimately didn't matter in the end.

Green Lantern: First Flight - Merge this with the live-action movie and that should have been the film the cinema got.

Stargate: Continuum - I like Stargate and I like time travel stories so it works for me. After getting past my dislike of the Stargate being used for time travel...

The Muppets - The Muppets get their groove back. It's not perfect (to my ear, Frank Oz is sorely missed when it comes to Miss Piggy's singing) but at least for now the franchise redeems itself from the like of Muppets in Space. Funnily enough they don't mention that "people forgot" about them because of that stuff.

District 9 - Not sure what to think of it, really. I don't dislike it at least. First half is not-too-subtle mockumentary (and yet I still read people calling the aliens by their derogatory names) then it becomes an action film. Not particularly interested in a District 10 should it come along.

[MagicMarker]

Originally Posted by TerrorFirmer

Watched Lockout. Actually quite decent. Went in with the intention of watching Battleship, but Guy Pearce won me over. By no means a brilliant film, but entertaining - Die Hard in space, in many ways.