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What have you watched recently?

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  • #2282
    MiloYossarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭MiloYossarian


    Shogun Assassin: It's just a man from Japan pushing a pram....and killing the crap out of ninjas.


  • #2283
    Renn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


    Anakin.S wrote: »
    I went to watch 'The Joneses' last night, I was disapointed, I thought the idea for the movie was very good but its just crap.

    Yeah it's awful. There with the worst I've seen this year. There's one truly cringeworthy scene where 5 girls are out jogging and they see Mrs. Jones wearing some new outfit/shades and they all turn around simultaneously to admire what she's wearing...next scene, yep you guessed it, they're all out walking again and they're wearing the same outfit as Mrs. Jones.

    Also, I seemingly laughed at an inappropriate scene towards the end. I'm sure you'll know the one I'm talking about.


  • #2284
    Renn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


    basquille wrote: »
    I've never felt more unsettled after a film... it's a great film, but as you said - "Jesus Christ"!

    Not near as unsettling as Inside tbh. Both good movies, but Inside edges it for me. Nearly puked watching it.


  • #2285
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,671 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Renn wrote: »
    Not near as unsettling as Inside tbh. Both good movies, but Inside edges it for me. Nearly puked watching it.
    Not me.. while Inside was all-out more gorey, 'Martyrs' was far a superior film!


  • #2286
    Lemegeton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Lemegeton


    Iron Man 2. Awesome.
    Old Dogs - Worst movie of the year. i wanted to claw my eyes out.
    Green Zone - kinda good but the last 30 minutes was poor IMO


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  • #2287
    Renn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭Renn


    basquille wrote: »
    Not me.. while Inside was all-out more gorey, 'Martyrs' was far a superior film!

    Not for me etc :)

    Want to check out Dogtooth next...


  • #2288
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,182 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Gomorra:
    Not bad at all, really enjoyed it. Not at all what the hype built it up to be, but i really enjoyed it.


  • #2289
    Smokin_Aces
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭Smokin_Aces


    I watched the following:

    1) I spit on your grave. I liked it. Really violent in every way imaginable. The acting wasn't that great to begin with but the story is good I guess.


    2) Prince of Darkness. Liked it very much. A John Carpenter film which is a plus.

    3) Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Again it's pretty violent and not the best acting in the world but for me I enjoyed every bit of it. Strippers on a murderous rampage. Awesome.


  • #2290
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,672 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Renn wrote: »

    Want to check out Dogtooth next...

    Definitely check it out, wonderful little film.

    Haven't seen all that much over the last week or two, some interesting ones I've watched recently though:

    Life During Wartime: intriguing sequel to Happiness. Some dull moments here and there, but Solondz gives most of the characters interesting 'resolutions', motivations and valid reasons to revisit them a decade later.

    A Hole in My Heart: very disappointing work from Lukas Moodysson, which loses a lot of the heart and character of Together / Lilya 4 Ever in favour of some cheap shocks and distracting 'experimental' feel. Some solid moments, but a disappointment from such a talented director.

    F is For Fake! Odd but fun Orson Welles documentary. Hard to get a grips on what's actually going on most of the time, but innovative and playful on the whole. Interesting commentary on issues of 'reality' vs 'fiction' in cinema too.


  • #2291
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    15 Minutes: dark, violent and whips along at a nice pace. DeNiro, Burns and Grammer are exellent.

    Only 6.1 on IMDB, which is a huge shock, tbh!!!:eek:


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  • #2292
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Big Trouble in Little China, if you dont like this movie, somethings wrong with you.


  • #2293
    me-skywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    Starship Troopers Trilogy arrived in the post this morning whoop!! Gonna watch all 3 of em now!!


  • #2294
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    Rec - Excellent Spanish horror film. I especially like the closing sequence, it nailed the feeling of the film and I'm glad that effect wasn't overused.
    the last zombie, the original girl, was one of the only genuinely unsettling zombies Ive ever seen. The night vision and the tense build up certainly helped reinforce this.
    I plan on watching the second one soon but I'm not sure if I want to continue the story, the ending of the first felt final enough. It can only go downhill.

    5/5


  • #2295
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Saw Iron Man 2 yesterday and tbh was a fair bit underwhelmed by it. Its brain dead entertainment but ultimately unsatisfying.


  • #2296
    questioner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭questioner


    fitz0 wrote: »
    Rec - Excellent Spanish horror film.
    5/5

    i saw the american remake, i wasnt even aware that it was a remake until i saw rec2 a few weeks back which i turned off due to crapness.

    watched brother last night, also crap.


  • #2297
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    beat takeshis brother?
    crap?

    srs?

    also, rec2 is well worth checking out. Not as good as the first one, but it develops the story nicely.


  • #2298
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    DVD ( rentals 5 for 5euro for 5 nights)

    Hostel II
    Watchable......more of the same.
    Three female college students take a detour from their partying, enticed by a beautiful European woman who promises seclusion, safety and maybe even romance. What they get is a living hell where they are sold to the highest bidder who's fondest wish is to kill them slowly. Hostel 2 also follows 2 American men who, on the flip side of the coin, are willing to pay to join an exclusive club where a life will end at their hands...any way they like. It's a story of human monsters and the almighty dollar as only Eli Roth could tell it


    Female Agents     (Les femmes de l'ombre)
    Good film ,really enjoyed it.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824330/
    In May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy, and to kill a German SS colonel who is close to figuring out the imminent secret of D-Day, proves to be emotional and brutal. The story is inspired by the accomplishments of decorated SOE agent Lisé de Baissac.


    Transporter III
    Liked part 1 , part 2 was watchable , but part 3,more of the same,but not as good ...........To be avoided
    Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
    Warlords
    Ok movie , worth a look.Liked the main characters alot,some decent fight scenes.

    It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi. The story was filmed by Zhang Che in 1973 as The Blood Brothers


    Lions for Lambs still to watch


  • #2299
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,656 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Moon - An Excellent film. Superb performance from Rothwell.


  • #2300
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,883 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    fitz0 wrote: »
    Rec - Excellent Spanish horror film. I especially like the closing sequence, it nailed the feeling of the film and I'm glad that effect wasn't overused.
    the last zombie, the original girl, was one of the only genuinely unsettling zombies Ive ever seen. The night vision and the tense build up certainly helped reinforce this.
    I plan on watching the second one soon but I'm not sure if I want to continue the story, the ending of the first felt final enough. It can only go downhill.

    5/5

    Yep, it certainly does. If I were you, I'd let well alone. ;)


  • #2301
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Losers: good laugh. Plot wasn't bad, but I can see a sequal happening.

    Also saw Predator 2, Red Heat, Raw Deal, and Last Action Hero of the past two or three weeks.

    Films I plan to watch over the next few weeks Solomon Kane, Yoimbo, and Iron Man 2. Also hope to get around to Only the Brave.


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  • #2302
    ShiverinEskimo
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 18,115 ✭✭✭✭ShiverinEskimo


    Kick-Ass: Perfect blend of humour, action and Violence. Mindy is epic.


  • #2303
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,656 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Van Diemen's Land - The better film of the two i've seen about Alexander Pearce.


  • #2304
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,153 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Smokin_Aces wrote: »
    3) Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Again it's pretty violent and not the best acting in the world but for me I enjoyed every bit of it. Strippers on a murderous rampage. Awesome.
    I saw that years ago, must find it again. A couple of years ago there was talk of a remake by Tarantino, with some sources suggesting Britney Spears would be in it. Hmmm ...

    What did I see recently? Oh yes: Crank on TV. Round the Bend, Up the Wall, and Over the Top.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #2305
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Watched The Losers: Very meh, though it does have some funny bits and it's fine when there's nothing else to watch. Descends into utter OTT-ness towards the end and Jason Patrick is a really odd but watchable villian.

    Humour was very forced and a lot more misses than hits. My God, Chris Evans is built like a shìt-house in this and apparantley he's gotten even bigger since he was tipped for Captain America.


  • #2306
    Little Alex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,302 ✭✭✭Little Alex


    To get in the mood for the Star Wars Dublin Invasion I rewatched Episodes IV to VI of Star Wars the week before it. Quality!

    For the sake of completeness I also afterwards bought the prequel trilogy - I had actually seen them before, but couldn't remember a whole lot about them, which is never a good sign - and was again disappointed by them. Episode II in particular is so uneventful that I have already forgotten what happened in it, in spite of the presence of Christopher Lee! :eek:


  • #2307
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    if you want to remember more about the prequel trilogy, I highly reccomend the videos in this link

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055773524&highlight=incredible+phantom+menace

    70 minutes long.... but infinitely superior to the movies themselves


  • #2308
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,883 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    if you want to remember more about the prequel trilogy, I highly reccomend the videos in this link

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055773524&highlight=incredible+phantom+menace

    70 minutes long.... but infinitely superior to the movies themselves

    There's one on YouTube for the even worse 'Attack of the Clones'.


  • #2309
    nacho libre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,656 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    Malice in Wonderland - Crap film


  • #2310
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    just finished Seperate Tables, great movie


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  • #2311
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    The Men Who Stare At Goats - Shíte


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