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What have you watched recently?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    watched raising arizona the other night need i say more :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    The Horsemen - Average and by-the-numbers murder/thriller with Dennis Quaid.

    Powder Blue - Fairly decent and well-acted drama with Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Jessica Biel.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I thought Powder Blue was dire myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    I thought Powder Blue was dire myself.

    Watched it last night with a couple of the lads, it did nothing for any of us.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭techno-allah


    I had a Ben Stiller romcom double bill for some reason yesterday.

    Along Came Polly and Theres Something About Mary.

    Both movies made quite enjoyable by the supporting casts (Alec Baldwin, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Jeffrey Tambor, Matt Dillon).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,051 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Hostel was on the other night: the first time I've watched any of these recent "torture porn" films - except for the time I tried watching SAW and gave up out of boredom. I expect I'm the last poster here to see this. :cool:

    It wasn't the non-stop brutal gore-fest that I was expecting, actually: the story actually made a kind of sense, if you accept that people are capable of such things - and they are. :mad:

    Some bits of genuine emotion too, such as
    Paxton seeing his friend dead on the gurney, but unable to react in case he is noticed. Also, the Japanese girl, at the train station with her ruined face: no-one else pays any attention to her, before she sees her reflection for the first and last time.

    I don't think I'm giving away a spoiler to say that someone survived at the end, but as the train pulled away I was thinking "OK, they're alive, but ..!" :eek:

    Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
    To murder men and gie God thanks?
    Desist for shame, proceed no further
    God won't accept your thanks for murder.

    ―Robert Burns



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    Watched Bad Boys last night. Thought it was enjoyable enough. Decent dialogue in it and action... Well what do you expect it was directed by Michael Bay. Worth a watch.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Watched the 2008 movie Solstice.....average, ghost story movie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poindexter


    watched Young Frankenstein tonight, fanbloodytastic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,051 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    After the "Coen Brothers Overrated?" thread, I watched The Man Who Wasn't There again. Turns out I had totally forgotten the ending, so it came as a bit of a shock. I thought Scarlett Johanssen was a bit wooden, but there comes a point where you see that her character was just acting that way. It's a "slow" film, but one that rewards your patience in the end.

    Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
    To murder men and gie God thanks?
    Desist for shame, proceed no further
    God won't accept your thanks for murder.

    ―Robert Burns



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    Watched Taken again last night, still love it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    I watched Children of Men there the other night, brilliant film. Some amazing action scenes in it, especially the single take scenes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Watching Falling Down at the moment.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I watched Children of Men there the other night, brilliant film. Some amazing action scenes in it, especially the single take scenes.

    I agree, that single take battle sequence was one of the most amazing, realistic and utterly graphic sequence i have seen outside of Saving Private Ryan.


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


    Ditto the above kudos except it wasn't a single take, there were 3 or 4 sequences stitched together, still superby done (I couldn't work out why they bothered tweaking a Citroen CX for Michael Caines car, they look futuristic without the plastic add ons!)

    Just watched Raw Deal, Arnie takes on the Chicago mob and kills everything in sight. Quite stupid really but entertaining low grade trash. Darren McGavin is way too good for that stuff.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭neilisagam


    watched a cool documentry today King of Kong: A fistful of quarters.
    Its bout 2 guys(grown 40 something men) battling it to break the world record for donkey kong. Actual really funny and a true hero/villian movie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,051 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Watched O'Horten at the IFI earlier. What a weird film. A train driver retires, doesn't know what to do with himself, and goes slightly off the rails. Very Norwegian. :pac:

    Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
    To murder men and gie God thanks?
    Desist for shame, proceed no further
    God won't accept your thanks for murder.

    ―Robert Burns



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Ong bak 2: Amazing, not as good as the first though

    Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurig: Surprisingly good, despite there being only a handful of spoken words in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭Kersmash


    X-men 1,2 and 3 on monday, tuesday and wednesday. Very enjoyable. Gonna go see Wolverine tomorrow.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    I agree, that single take battle sequence was one of the most amazing, realistic and utterly graphic sequence i have seen outside of Saving Private Ryan.

    Funnily enough i said the exact same thing to my mates last night.

    I know not technically a film but also watched the Battlestar Galactica pilot the other night, some good viewing! Loved the camera work on the space combat scenes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,160 ✭✭✭frag420


    ong bak 1. savage movie.the fight scenes are unreal

    old boy. if only for that hallway scene.....

    Man on Wire........what can i say............just watch it

    midnight meat train...........if your like me and have a tiny spot in your head for madness............watch it


    Frag

    Swish


  • Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭Sraw


    Watched Master and Commander and Layer Cake last night. Had forgotten just how good Master and Commander is. It was a good evening.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Today I watched

    The Marksman and 7 Seconds, two generic Wesley Snipes action films which once the credits finish have completely fade from memory. While nowhere near as bad as some of the recent Segal films they still a far cry from Snipes best work. It really is a shame watching such a talented actor waste his talent. Hopefully his role in Brooklyn's Finest is the first step on his way back to the top.

    Just Finished Fast and Furious and I have to say that it wasa a thoroughly entertaining hundred minutes which delivered ezactly what I expected. I've enjoyed each entry in the series to date and am eagerly anticipating part 5, it's not big nore is it clever but then again it never tries to be. It's the modern equivilent of boys own adventures.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I watched Downloading Nancy....not my cup of tea, Sundance Festival movie. I also saw Pretty Persuasion....i really liked it!, it's a darkly humoured satire on modern America, James Woods was excellent in it.

    Tonight i shall watch War Games 2........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭dubmick


    I saw State of Play on Saturday night. I thought it was a decent film made all the more enjoyable by the fact that me and the missus had the cinema to ourselves!! yep, just the two of us in the cinema on Saturday evening. Our own private viewing :D


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


    Saw Y Tu Mam Tambien for the first time, those crazy sexy Mexicans!

    And the ultimate bromance movie: Shawshank Redemption.


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,141 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Watched Spanglish, and it was barely watchable IMO.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    'Syncdoche, New York'; a decent enough Charlie Kaufman film but not near as good as 'Being John Malkovich' or 'Eternal Sunshine..' in terms of quirky brilliance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    Martyrs

    martyrs_mb06.jpg

    It's quite a sick film to be honest and I wouldn't advise watching it hungover like I did. It's definitely worth a watch if you like horror films. Still not sure whether I really liked it or not though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 73 ✭✭SaintHubbins


    I watched the remake of Assault on precinct 13 with Ethan Hawke and thought it was pretty cool. Had me hooked from the start and I was expecting it to be **** as I liked the John Carpenter original and thought Hollywood would do their usual balls-up remake job on it. It threw me quite a few times as it avoided so many of the cliches that you would expect in a Hollywood thriller and Hawke, the imposing Lawrence Fishburne and the supporting cast were solid (good to see Brian Dennehy again before he dies). It was engaging and fast-paced, and I didn't find my mind wandering at all during it which for me is rare these days! (I tried to watch Valkyrie with Tom Cruise after it and I struggled to get to half an hour - first of all Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise. He cannot be anybody else, especially an anti-Nazi conspirator and when Eddie Izzard started up with his German accent, that was it for me. If he had been a cross-dressing cabaret act in it, I might have bought it).

    Nice to see Hollywood can get remakes occasionally right. The only other one I can think of in recent times that I liked was the dawn of the dead remake. Again it upped the pace and side-stepped cliches, such as making the hick security guard who at first appeared to be the usual cardboard-cutout antagonist (well apart from the zombies!) the funniest and most likable guy in it.

    I'd recommend revolutionary road as well. Very well-made and -acted drama, sometimes a bit stagey but Leo is very good in it and I'll grudgingly say that Kate Winslet was too (not a fan of hers much).

    Oh, as I think of it I also saw adaptation, the spike jonze-charlie kaufman movie for the first time. First hour very good then it just went bonkers and not in a usual charlie kaufman way. More like in a sub-standard hollywood thriller kind of way.


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  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    jasonorr wrote: »
    Martyrs

    martyrs_mb06.jpg

    It's quite a sick film to be honest and I wouldn't advise watching it hungover like I did. It's definitely worth a watch if you like horror films. Still not sure whether I really liked it or not though!

    I have the Blu Ray resting on my helf for a post dinner watch later tonight.


  • Moderators Posts: 51,893 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    we own the night - enjoyed this movie, even if I could see where the story was going from early in the movie.

    the legend of the shadowless sword - a really good martial arts movie. some good fight sequences.

    the heartbreak kid - got some good laughs from this movie, even if the story didn't do much for me.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Angels and Demons, brilliant. After reading the reviews I thought it was going to be shocking but I was pleasantly surprised.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,051 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Watching The Age Of Innocence this evening - first time in years. Scorsese directing a period drama about the upper classes in 1870s New York? No guns, no violence or nudity? Oh, there's violence, all right: emotional violence, buried under layers of manners, fashion, class and repression. If you see it:
    keep an eye on May (Winona Ryder), what she says and when she says it: not the airhead everyone thinks she is
    .

    Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
    To murder men and gie God thanks?
    Desist for shame, proceed no further
    God won't accept your thanks for murder.

    ―Robert Burns



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    jasonorr wrote: »
    Martyrs

    martyrs_mb06.jpg

    It's quite a sick film to be honest and I wouldn't advise watching it hungover like I did. It's definitely worth a watch if you like horror films. Still not sure whether I really liked it or not though!

    I thought the ending was excellent.

    Anyway, the last enjoyable film i saw was Man in the Chair


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    I thought the ending was excellent.

    Anyway, the last enjoyable film i saw was Man in the Chair

    Yeah, I dunno. I heard the ending was brilliant, but it was a bit meh for me. Enjoyed the film overall though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Sandor wrote: »
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    Mr. Brooks - It's actually one I watched a while back but I just want to plug it. Absolutely brilliant film and Kevin Costners best work to date. I loved it.

    .

    Yes it is a good film. It's set up nicely for sequel. I wonder will there be one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    Seen fighting last week...was alri


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,051 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Just back from Everlasting Moments (IFI) - a fairly gritty portrait of working class life in Sweden a century ago, but it's not all doom and gloom, thanks to a camera. An "old-fashioned" film in the best sense.

    Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
    To murder men and gie God thanks?
    Desist for shame, proceed no further
    God won't accept your thanks for murder.

    ―Robert Burns



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


    My roomy put on Seven Pounds. It was terrible. I didn't watch it all, I left the room.

    Defiance was slow and not very eventful. It follows a small group of jews as they try to get by during German occupied Poland during WW2. They hide in the woods. A lot. There was nothing stand out. It was well acted but completely forgetable.

    Dead Space - Downfall. Finished the game recently and I thought it was brilliant so I thought I'd check this out. It fills out a little more back story, most of which you already have knowledge of. It's not bad but very throw away as one might expect.

    Coraline was worth the watch but nothing great. I couldn't help reflecting that it lacked musical numbers. Blame Tim Burton!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Podge2k7


    I saw Drillbit Taylor tonight, i quite enjoyed it tbh 7/10


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭tommybrennan15


    just after watching Slum Dog Millionare this was an amazing film I would recommened you watch it


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I watched Gran Torino....fine performance from Clint, though the script was rather lacking in many respects. Still a good movie...but that OTT end seemed outta place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,199 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    I watched Gran Torino....fine performance from Clint, though the script was rather lacking in many respects. Still a good movie...but that OTT end seemed outta place.

    Some of the acting wasn't great either. I really enjoyed the dialogue between Clint's character and the priest.


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


    The Day of the Jackal just now off tape (ITV4), seen it once before many years back. An perfect example of low key, fuss free film making. The type you just don't get these days with the need for needless rapid-fire edits, loud music and gratuitous sex/violence. That said the Jackal getting involved with Madame Colette de Montpellie seemed wrong for such a cool perfectionist as she created a needless complication (or two).


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,141 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Average at best IMO. It was an achievement that I didn't fall asleep during the drawn-out film.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭Magic Eight Ball


    Just watched Martyrs.. Oh my!!
    I quite enjoyed it.


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Split Second - Something of a curio. Hauer is great as usual but the over dubbing is painfully obvious and there is one instance in which a character we believe to be dead answers one of Hauers questions and is no where to be seen onscreen. It's good trashy fun which could have been the perfect beginning to a franchise but I do believe that the controversy Mary Whitehouse created around the film saw it disappear. The DVD when released in the UK was withdrawn after a few motnhs due to diabolical sales as the company choose not to draw attention to the release due to the films history.

    The Horsemen - Now here is the definiton of wasted potential. The film spends it's running time building up to something big only to end on a whimper. And anyone who can't figure out the big baddie within the first half hour has obviously never seen a serial killer film before.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭moviesrme


    One that stays with me is "Good Dick". Yeah I know; kind of embarrassing title. Guy falls for intorverted chick and chases her down much to her chagrin. The female lead directs and wrote it. It's brilliant. Very honest.

    Reminds me of "You and me & everyone we know" by Miranda July. Another Gem

    :)


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  • Moderators Posts: 51,893 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Babylon AD - painful movie. Story wasn't much, fight sequence and special effects also weren't much to speak of.

    Space Chimps - very enjoyable movie.

    Sleuth - a movie, that for the most of the running time has only Michael Caine and Jude Law on screen. Takes a little time to get going, but found it to be a very watchable movie.

    Kikis Delivery Service - another good Studio Ghibli movie that I picked up. Wonderful artwork and the story was pretty good.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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