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MagicMarker

mikemac1 wrote: »

Tremors

Fairly old film about a one horse town in some godforsaken part of the American mid-west

Creatures starts picking off the locals, how will they survive

A young Kevin Bacon in it

Twas ok

twas ok?


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Twas Ok?!?




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TWAS O ****ING K?!?!



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mikemac1

Seems there is a lot of love for Tremors in this forum


American Pie Reunion

I liked the original, hated the second and I can't remember if I watched the third, not a good sign

This was a good effort, all the crew back and a few laughs
A forgettable film but worth watching

marwelie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380615/



One of the most moving pieces of film I've ever seen. A must watch

Ridley

Déjà Vu - is a glitch in The Matrix. I dunno, I found the sci-fi aspect the least interesting part of the film. Especially when the tech they're using is so patently ridiculous for the setting. Although the car chase was pretty fun. Read that the screenwriters blame Tony Scott for making the film worse, and it's the second time I've seen a writer accuse a Scott of turning a police procedural into something it's not.

Heckler - Has some valid points (made better in This Movie Is Not Yet Rated) even if it does apparently side with racist stand-ups and Uwe Boll.

Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible III
Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol - M:I and M:I-2 are rewatches. Second movie is easily the weakest for me since there are one too many nods to its predecessor although it's a good thing the IMF is disavowed in GP so that

the villain doesn't come from there AGAIN

. Yet Hunt's martial arts skillz from M:I-2 don't carry over. What I found odd in M:I-3 was the way we're led to

believe that Hunt's wife is shot in front of him

at the start but they decided playing the M:I theme after was entirely appropriate.

The Replacements - Meh. Seen one sports movie, you've seen them all.

My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117 - Fun short film from Chris Morris that's basically an extended Jam sketch.

Attack the Block - Enjoyed it. Got ahead of the plot but it's not really a film where that matters. Love the look of the alien but the movie's not good enough to fill the void Cornish has left by his being too busy for Adam and Joe's show on 6 Music. Hopefully Snow Crash will be.

Cowboys & Aliens - Bleh. Haven't read the comic to know how good an adaptation it is. Apparently it's not faithful at all. For such a stupid concept it takes itself far too seriously although to be fair so do I since I don't like the way the saucer conveniently flies into a position so the leap from the horse can take place. Besides, any movie that casts the faux Avatar Aang is serious business!

The Amazing Spider-Man - Not a fan. Arguably the whole movie is the "With great power..." schtick but I don't think it's an interpretation that works as it undermimes the importance of

Uncle Ben's death

(is that really a spoiler?) to the character by

adding George Stacy to the mix

. Plus this Spider-Man's character is unrecognisable to the version I've read/watched/played. The kid's a jerk who doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes. Maybe it's foreshadowing for the sequel

and that promise line will mean Gwen kicks the bucket then

. Nevertheless, I liked the

lead up to Ben's death

for the most part and the parkour/freeruning Spidey. Thought

the contact lenses were a nice touch and despite thinking that he burst into tears once too often,

I do appreciate that the makers were willing to go there. I suspect that while the Twilight thang was the reason for that, it's change of pace to make a (supposed) superhero fragile that way.

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights - Not quite what I was expecting. Thought the anthology would be a series of Hal Jordan stories similar to Gotham Knight rather than stories about the rest of the Green Lantern Corps. Not bad, not terrible, still better than the Reynolds film which, in my opinion, mishandled the whole idea of an interstellar police force by having them absent for no reason when it mattered. Oh and having the comic version of the costume on the cover while using the Reynolds movie version on the animation itself is cheating, Warner Bros.

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman - This one was a rewatch and I still it. However, since seeing Mask of the Phantasm I realise that this movie's pulling its punches and basically repeating the Phantasm aspect of that film. I do like that Batwoman gets a 'feminine' version of the theme tune.

Chase Me - Nice six minute short. Suffers from being the New Batman Adventures Catwoman design. MotB used that style as well, of course, but the Batwoman design was unique to that film. If that makes sense.

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - The Batman Begins of The Animated Series. The titular Phantasm is actually the least important aspect of the film (and is its blade arm) but I guess the title sufficiently disguises a Batman origin story and the love interest who could have made Bruce Wayne happy.

Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero - Not quite as ambitious as Phantasm and there's a surprising amount of screen time without Batman himself to give Robin and Batgirl a look-in. While unashamedly aimed at kids (and why not, so are the other two), I can't help but groan at the inclusion of the largely unncessary Short Round-esque Inuit character. Bit convenient how Barbara Gordon is the perfect match for

the donor Freeze is looking for when he and his unethical doctor crony found another seventeen or so who fit the requirements and Gordon isn't the top of the list

.

Batman: Under the Red Hood - It's not that I don't like it, I just don't think the idea works so well when

Jason Todd's resurrection

can be as much of a surprise as it is in the books. After all,

having to introduce and kill off Todd in the opening sequence makes him the number one suspect

. Bender's Joker took a while to get going, I thought. Serious rather than manic, y'know? He got there in the end, mind.

Batman: Year One - More or less a straight adaptation of the book. Which is fine, mostly. Movie's only an hour long because of that and I found the pacing too quick since the story requires moving down the calendar. I guess an animated Long Halloween would have the same issue. Can't say I liked delivery for the voice overs either. Sounded false.

DC Showcase: Catwoman - Another short. 'Twas okay. Guess if I had to find criticism (and I clearly do :pac:) it's that this clearly takes place a couple of years after Year One which is set in the 80s but the aesthetic for the short is apparently post-Millennium.

Throne of Blood - Kurosawa's adaptation of The Scottish Play™. Remakes sure do suck, don't they? I do wish the subtitles had referred to place names in Japanese rather than translating them. I know Cobweb Castle isn't supposed to be a subtle name but still I would have liked to spot the naming conventions.

johnny_ultimate

Mitsuko Delivers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUFAvcii3yA

Director Yuya Ishii's follow up to Sawako Decides. Features an absolutely fantastic lead performance from Riisa Naka as the very pregnant Mitsuko. Like Sawako before her, she's a character slightly frustrated with her lot in life. But she's more proactive, and sets about to change the fortunes of those around her.

It's a film that's all over the place at times, but there's something endearing about the whole thing. The sheer likability of the protagonist helps, as does its unusual take on its recessionary themes. Messy but engaging.

Tipsy McSwagger

Are you afraid of the dark - one of the worst film I have ever seen. What the hell was Guy Pearce doing in this turd?

Jax Teller

Batman Begins seen It before years ago forgot how good it was though . TDK is on the watchlist for before Friday .

KenSwee

mikemac1 wrote: »

Tremors

Fairly old film about a one horse town in some godforsaken part of the American mid-west

Creatures starts picking off the locals, how will they survive

A young Kevin Bacon in it

Twas ok

Be gone with you, Trems was one of the greatest movies ever made.
Reba McEntire with an elephant gun....emmmmm

old hippy

I'm still gobsmacked that someone can describe it as an "old" film...

For me, an "old" film is b&w/silent (which I enjoy) but surely Tremors isn't creaky?

Bobby Baccala

Kidulthood - A load of bollocks really, just a heap of teenage chavs taking drugs, having sex and getting into fights.

Bullseye1

Das Boot on Blu Ray. Reference quality audio. One of the greatest movies every made.

briany

Exam (2009): 8 candidates sit an exam as the final stage of a selection process to see who will get a top job with a mysterious corporation. The problem is that their exam papers are pretty much blank and so they try to work out what is the question they must answer.

Very nice, solid British thriller. It had a couple of plot elements that I felt were contrived but it was a well paced and conceived thriller that I would recommend to fans of the genre. 7/10

krudler

Trollhunter, on netflix, been meaning to watch it for ages, had started it and had to turn it off for some reason months ago decided to finish it last night. I liked it, the ending is a bit of a cop out as with a lot of found footage movies but the effects are pretty decent.

OldeCinemaSoz

BLACK SWAN

a SUSPIRIA wannabee.

Tedious, uninspiring, terrible.

A disaster.

:rolleyes:

kronsington

in the last 2 days, for whatever reason, ive watched

Ted, Hangover 2, This Means War, 21 Jump Street and the first 2 episodes of Breaking Bad season 1

krudler

21 Jump St was faaar better than I expected, I loved how they took the piss out of rehasing old concepts for a new generation.

johnny_ultimate

Sherlock Jr.

How in the name of hell does a ninety year silent comedy feel funnier, more technically impressive and original than pretty much anything made today? I absolutely adored this from beginning to end. Just a cavalcade of inventive, increasingly brilliant setpieces featuring genuinely remarkable stunts. Buster Keaton also shows himself an early master of the cinematic form, from montage to tracking shots, with one notable sequence brilliantly placing our hapless hero at the hands of a demented, omnipotent film editor. Probably features the best car chase in cinema history too.

The General is downloading as I type. I'd always been meaning to check out Keaton. Now I need more!

briany

Skadoosh! wrote: »

21 Jump St was faaar better than I expected, I loved how they took the piss out of rehasing old concepts for a new generation.

I thought that was funny as well but I hope that it doesn't become a trend in remakes and reboots of a comic slant to do it all with that kind of knowing humour all the time.

Bobby Baccala

Just saw american beauty for the first time, easily one of the greatest films I've ever seen, doubt I'll watch it again for a couple of years to try preserve the effect it had on me first time i saw it.

briany

Silent House (2011): Things start to awry when a young woman, her dad and uncle are renovating their lakeside house.

Pretty standard creepy house chiller that's let down by a predictable third act. 5.5/10

johnny_ultimate

In the Realm of the Senses:

AKA Fun with Eggs. The infamous Nagisa Oshima film has lost little of its shock factor - easily the most sexually explicit film I've ever seen. But while some will likely see it as mere pornography (I'd say 85% of the scenes, if not more, feature some sort of sex act) it's actually a bit more than that. A tale of obsession, of social norms, of love vs. passion. There's a really great scene after a particularly unsettling incident where the two main characters actually speak to each other - properly get to know each other - for what seems like the first time. It's fascinating the way Oshima tells the story purely from the perspective of the two leads, with visitors to the house providing the sole external voices. Sure, probably didn't need quite so much intercourse, and there are some bits which are clearly just a '**** you' to Japanese censorship boards, but it's a film that often provokes with good cause. A political and social analogy is hiding in there for the curious.

The art and set designs are good as well, although there tends to be other stuff going on in the foreground which might be a bit distracting.

Brokentime

Watched 'Lost in Translation' again last night.

That film just gets better and better each time.

Subtle, poignant, aware...

Zwillinge

The Dark Knight Rises.

Enjoy it everyone

Basq

Brokentime wrote: »

Watched 'Lost in Translation' again last night.

Thanks for reminding me.. have been meaning to pick up the Blu-ray. Adore this film!

In preperation for TDKR rises tomorrow, I watched 'Batman Begins' last night - first time I've watched it in it's entirety since it's cinema release.

Aside from some slightly cringey dialogue (Commission Gordon channeling Will Smith in Independence Day with "I have got to get me one of those!"), it's still a superb movie - dark yet with it's foot grounded in the comic book world.

The cast are all great - although Katie Holmes is still the whiney damp squib of the cast IMO. Could they have chose a better Alfred than Michael Caine? Unlikely.. and he does have some of the best comedic lines!

Oh, and 'Game Of Thrones' fans may also spot a young Joffrey Baratheon:



Forgot that it spans close to 2 and a half hours.. so was 2am before I stumbled up the stairs bleary-eyed to bed.

Tonight, onto The Dark Knight.. best get the coffee brewing!

fifi234ie

Martha Marcy May Marlene
Excellent debut by Elizabeth Olsen, looking forward to her work in future.

fifi234ie

Martha Marcy May Marlene
Excellent debut by Elizabeth Olsen, looking forward to her work in future.

OldeCinemaSoz

i often wonder about the Irish censor?!?



i rented the three movie meal deal from xtravision and
plumped for THE ENTITY in a bad hat deal as one of them.

Now why the hell should THE ENTITY get downgraded
from an 18 in the past to a 15 when other films such as
THE HANGOVER 2 rates 18 on disc?!?!

:eek:

One can only wonder.

An excellent film. Barbara Hershley should've been nominated for
her performance.

mikemac1

Thirty Two short stories about Glenn Gould

Gould was a famous pianist from Canada
Not the kind of music I'd buy but I like what's in the film, something different and no question there is a lot of talent involved

Pretty much a biographical film though it jumps around and is a bit all over the place, hence the title. But it works

I saw it sometime in the late nineties on RTÉ, it's a perfect lazy afternoon matinee

Gave it another go, I like it

Colm Feore is the main actor who I like
He was in The Borgias as the Cardinal and he was in Clint Eastwood's Changeling as police chief of LAPD
Fun fact, Feore is a Canadian citizen but has Irish parents and lived in Ireland for a few years as a child

Judgement Day

"The Thin Red Line" (1998) I somehow managed to avoid it previously but bought it secondhand today as part of a 3 dvds for €5 deal - there was literally nothing else. My verdict - an interminable bore - 1/10 and that's for the scenery. I cannot believe the ratings it has achieved on imdb but I picked this review from among those who hated it and it hits the nail right on the head.

Author: Tom Grossi from Cambridge, MA

This movie is quite simply one of the worst I have ever had the displeasure of enduring. With the possible exception of the cinematography, this film has no redeeming qualities. The arrogance of the director and cast that they might actually pass this movie off as "deep" is sickening. Basically, in the three LONG hours of this film, only about twenty minutes of dialogue are spoken: hardly enough to offer any hope of character development for the movie's endless cast leading men. Another third of the movie is occupied by long pauses voiced-over with "poetic" inner monologue which sounds like it was written by an over-ambitous (and overly confident) college film major. (e.g. "The closer you get to Caesar, the more you fear.") And as for the critical praise of the film, I am baffled; I guess Terrence Mallick should be congratulated for his modern-day version of "The Emperor's New Clothes".

mikemac1

some critic wrote: »

This movie is quite simply one of the worst I have ever had the displeasure of enduring. With the possible exception of the cinematography, this film has no redeeming qualities.

Ah now, Hans Zimmer puts out quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9-j3eevL4