Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

What have you watched recently?

1134135137139140199

Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Tindie


    Blackout (2008)

    Blackout (IV) (2008) this morning, not to be confused with other movie( Blackout (2008) Director: Jukka-Pekka Siili)

    This Blackout (2008) was Director: Rigoberto Castañeda!

    Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare.

    I enjoyed the movie Devil, which came out two years after this movie, I thought I would enjoy this movie as well and I did !

    It was really good movies (it's not a horror movie at all but more of a Thriller ) this movie is really entertaining and really good intense moments in this movie and acting from short cast was surprisingly good, much better then thought they would be.

    The Downside of the movie

    The First half movie was really well made, it was tad realistic but second half movie went in slightly different way, which change the tone of the movie a bit. which I did not like at all.

    And the end had some really Poor CGI effects (which don't normal bother me), in this movie, its just looks total out of place. 5 out 10 Good movie

    If you liked Devil you should give this a watch! (I think Devil a slight bit better then this movie)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭skeleton_boy


    The Ring - Decent watch. Not a terribly scary film but it does keep you wondering what's going to happen next.

    Catch Me If You Can - Great film & incredible story. Hanks was fantastic.


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


    watched escape from La earlier today

    terrible, awesome.. so terrible it's awesome.. so awesome it's awesome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭cursai


    Watched Stakeland........meh! Like a TV version of The Road mixed with the TV version of The Walking Dead. With a dash of might of the living dead. Had no direction.
    On the other hand watched warrior which was great apart from the usual americanisms.

    The thing. Thought it was okay. Lacked the suspense and feeling of the 82 version.

    50/50 Was good all . Handled the topic with class and no tear jerking for the sake of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    Raging Bull.

    Probably invoking a firestorm here but here's goes, while it has great direction, acting and production, it is really really boring. I had high hopes for it as many consider it brilliant I was sorely disappointed. It barely held my interest as I plodded through it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    Saw The Thing (2011). Shockingly bad Syfy channel fodder especially given the canvas they had to work on. For the 1st 15 mins or so I thought it was going to be really good then it just fell apart. Just another tragic waste of great material.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Raging Bull.

    Probably invoking a firestorm here but here's goes, while it has great direction, acting and production, it is really really boring. I had high hopes for it as many consider it brilliant I was sorely disappointed. It barely held my interest as I plodded through it.

    I have to agree. Was very disappointed with it the first time I saw it a couple of years back. Haven't watched it a second time yet. Maybe I should give it another go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    I have to agree. Was very disappointed with it the first time I saw it a couple of years back. Haven't watched it a second time yet. Maybe I should give it another go.

    I can't see myself parting with two hours to watch it again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,786 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Elf :p
    The Deep Blue Sea
    My Week With Marilyn

    Elf was my first seasonal film of the year. It's possibly the best Christmas film since The Muppet Christmas Carol. And it's got Zooey Deschanel singing in the shower. :D

    In relation to the other two, I find myself agreeing almost 100% with the usually contrary Cosmo Landesman in today's Sunday Times. He doles out two and three stars, respectively.
    Both films have very good central performances by the two leads (Rachel Weisz is excellent), but the pace is glacial in the former (in the usual Terence Davies style) and the underlying problem with the latter is that (despite its supposed authenticity) the entire premise is dubious, to say the least.
    Michelle Williams is very good though, and it's nice to see someone play Marilyn without restorting to the cliche "whispering little girl voice" that has become the default depiction, beloved of many a mediocre TV movie.

    2024 Gigs and Events: David Suchet, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Smile, Pixies, Liam Gallagher John Squire/Jake Bugg, Kacey Musgraves (x2), Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Muireann Bradley, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eric Clapton, Girls Aloud, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Rewind Festival, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Henry Winkler, P!nk, Pearl Jam/Richard Ashcroft, Taylor Swift/Paramore, Suede/Manic Street Preachers, Muireann Bradley, AC/DC, Deacon Blue/Altered Images, The The, blink-182, Coldplay, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Nick Lowe, David Gilmour, ABBA Voyage, St. Vincent, Public Service Broadcasting, Crash Test Dummies, Cassandra Jenkins.

    2025 Gigs and Events: Lyle Lovett, Iron Maiden, Dua Lipa, Maya Hawke, Billie Eilish (x2), Oasis



  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    50/50
    it was brilliant.very well acted very touching and a great soundtrack.i highly recommend it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭paulosham


    I thought 50/50 was pretty ****. We Need To Talk About Kevin was good but my favourite lately has to be Martha Marcy May Marlene, great performances from all involved.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    Fishooks12 wrote: »
    +1

    It annoys me that people who don't get it resort to the typical lazy "it's pretentious" remark without offering any worthwhile critique

    Who said its pretentious? Its just plain crap. If i wanted to watch half an hour of the solar system i'd watch Discovery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    paulosham wrote: »
    I thought 50/50 was pretty ****. We Need To Talk About Kevin was good but my favourite lately has to be Martha Marcy May Marlene, great performances from all involved.

    We Need to Talk About Kevin is very good plus Snowtown - depressingly bleak but a great film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭ReacherCreature


    Warrior.

    Sensational stuff. Brilliant. Unreal scenes, great acting, direction and it flowed really well. I didn't want it to end.

    The fighting scenes were stand out. The crunching punches were so visceral, I found myself rewinding scenes.

    Can't wait to let it sink and rewatch it soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,318 ✭✭✭Fishooks12


    Warper wrote: »
    Who said its pretentious? Its just plain crap. If i wanted to watch half an hour of the solar system i'd watch Discovery.


    Plenty of people

    Can you give any real reason as to why it's 'crap' apart from simplifying it in an attempt to belittle it?


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    My response to Tree of Life was that it's a different way of telling a story through film. We're used to very traditional narratives that aren't at all like what life feels like as you live it. Tree of Life used image and sound to communicate feeling, to suggest thought. I thought it was beautiful, interesting and moving.

    I even liked all the universe/dinosaur stuff. I thought it put the circumstances of an ordinary family within the broadest context of all, the beginnings of life on earth, and it made me think about how conservative most film-makers are. I loved Malick's ambition and innovation.

    2001 was panned when it was released. Tree of Life belongs in that tradition, while remaining a very different film. I don't know if it's a 'masterpiece' or not but I know that I remember it more clearly than most films I saw this year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    I haven't seen any other movie that communicates the enormity, importance and emotional weight of everything. I was floored by it and the film lingered for days afterwards.

    It's really the opposite to pretentious, because all Malick is saying is "this is what I believe". You either choose to accept it or not but people just assume that the director is putting himself on a pedestal when it's really more honest than that. "Pretentious" has become the word people use when they pretend they don't have nothing to say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭Mindkiller


    The last 20 or so minutes of 2001 are probably still the most mindblowing 20 minutes of special effects I've seen. Anyone who thinks that Space Odyssey is just a load of lights and models floating around with no intrinsic meaning or artistic merit is a bit of a dunce tbh. I'm looking forward to watching Tree of Life when I get the chance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,118 ✭✭✭AnnyHallsal


    Mindkiller wrote: »
    The last 20 or so minutes of 2001 are probably still the most mindblowing 20 minutes of special effects I've seen. Anyone who thinks that Space Odyssey is just a load of lights and models floating around with no intrinsic meaning or artistic merit is a bit of a dunce tbh. I'm looking forward to watching Tree of Life when I get the chance

    Same guy did the Tree of Life effects - Trumbull, of Silent Running fame.
    e_e wrote: »
    I haven't seen any other movie that communicates the enormity, importance and emotional weight of everything. I was floored by it and the film lingered for days afterwards.

    It's really the opposite to pretentious, because all Malick is saying is "this is what I believe". You either choose to accept it or not but people just assume that the director is putting himself on a pedestal when it's really more honest than that. "Pretentious" has become the word people use when they pretend they don't have nothing to say.

    I agree it's not pretentious. Quite the opposite. I found it an emotional rather than an intellectual experience. I think Malick set out to tell a story about a family in the grandest context of all, the history of the universe, and he did it by focusing on the feel of a set of moments. It's, I suppose, a poetic or impressionistic approach, and surely there's room for that alongside the thousands of conventional films released every year.


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


    Moneyball: Really enjoyable film. I liked that it was a film based on baseball behind the scenes moreso than on the pitch which was a nice idea. Fantastic film and would definitely recommend. Anyone else think the song the daughter sings sounds like that Jason Mraz song "I'm Yours"?

    Green Zone: Basically Jason Bourne in Iraq with Brendan Gleeson doing a questionable American accent. Instantly forgettable but enjoyable action film all the same.

    50/50: Excellent film that really tugs at the heart strings yet knows exactly when to be serious. The only thing I don't like about the film is Seth Rogen's character. He plays the same character in nearly every film I've seen him in. A stoner trying to get laid except in a whole new story. Apart from that, it's fantastic and definitely warrants a visit to the cinema.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    Dream House. I felt the trailer gave too much away, while it could have been an unoriginal predictable movie it just turned out to be kind of a boring movie instead.


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


    azezil wrote: »
    Dream House. I felt the trailer gave too much away, while it could have been an unoriginal predictable movie it just turned out to be kind of a boring movie instead.

    I think Jim Sheridan wanted his name removed from the film because the final cut was so bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,359 ✭✭✭stampydmonkey


    Columbiana - Absolute gack..turned it off after bout 30 mins

    The Art of Getting By - Good enjoyable film about a pre graduation student lacking any motivation and his relationship with those around him. Easy watch and really enjoyed it. Quite cringe worthy in parts. Good soundtrack too

    Used Cars - Spielberg film staring Kurt Russell as a used car salesman and his efforts to save his dead employers car lot from being taken over by his rival across the road. Hadn't seen it in donkeys years so was great to see it again.


  • Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭QDog10


    Arthur Christmas: a christmas cracker of a family movie.. A gem..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭crash davis


    Nolanger wrote: »
    The true classic version was made in 1951.

    Have to disagree with you there. The 80's version would be my fav.


  • Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭The Liquidator


    Meloncholia, very strange film, not what I was expecting at all but quite good at the same time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭Warper


    Meloncholia, very strange film, not what I was expecting at all but quite good at the same time.

    The ending is brilliant in it.

    Watched Julia starring Tilda Swinton as a hapless alcoholic who gets involved in an abduction of a child. Started off great but lost its way a bit and is too long. Still worth a look.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭crash davis


    Tintin: Visually/technically brilliant with some great set pieces but ultimately a nothing kinda film, due in no small part to a wafer thin plot and characters that I really didn't care about. The last action scene is a let down too.

    Do you think they could use this new technology to make an Indiana Jones flick with a young Harrison Ford and a decent script?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,872 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Mon Oncle - delightful comedy from Jacques Tati. Full of visual invention, lovingly extravagant art design and a distinct Gallic charm throughout. Seems ahead of it's time in its biting pastiches of modernisation. My first real Tati film - after last years The Illusionist - but looking forward to checking out more on the strength of this. Always great to see a comedian who can tell a great joke through framing, colour and sound effects!


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


    I finally got to see Quadrophenia this evening: one of those legendary films that everyone assumes you've seen, but I hadn't. The story is really simple, in a good way. Young man in the 1960s gets involved with the Mods in London. I didn't know much about them. They were like rats - cowardly as individuals, but slightly dangerous in gangs. The "Mods vs Rockers" riots in the Brighton area were the cause of media panic at the time, but look like a walk in the park by modern standards.

    I saw Jimmy's journey as a "trip" of a sort, in four phases: the anticipation, the high, the comedown, and the hangover. The fashions and the scooters are out of date now, but the themes of teenage alienation and thrill-seeking are as powerful as ever.

    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



  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    bnt wrote: »
    I finally got to see Quadrophenia this evening: one of those legendary films that everyone assumes you've seen, but I hadn't. The story is really simple, in a good way. Young man in the 1960s gets involved with the Mods in London. I didn't know much about them. They were like rats - cowardly as individuals, but slightly dangerous in gangs. The "Mods vs Rockers" riots in the Brighton area were the cause of media panic at the time, but look like a walk in the park by modern standards.

    I saw Jimmy's journey as a "trip" of a sort, in four phases: the anticipation, the high, the comedown, and the hangover. The fashions and the scooters are out of date now, but the themes of teenage alienation and thrill-seeking are as powerful as ever.

    I caught the end of it after the punch up in Brighton. I couldn't find anything in common with the main character. He quit his job and then seemed to go live on the streets in a pretty hostile world and seemed to be self-sabotaging his own prospects for happiness. There just didnt seem to be any excitement or teenage thrill seeking or anything interesting in just wandering aimlessly about as he did after quitting his job as he also lost his friends and family. I'm not sure how credible the music was either as ''The Who'' album Quadrophenia was released in 1973 but mods and rockers seem to have been an early 1960s phenomenon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 Clooney George


    a rather people test at the Biggie Smalls rap tale. All the major times in his lifestyle get found - no excitement. Not a spot on Risk II Society/Boyz in Da Hood/Hustle and Circulation or the Cary Offer film Notorious


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Red dog. Simple film based on a true story about a dog back in the 70s in australia who brought a small mining town together. He travelled all over the place looking for his master who had died. Farted a lot and nobody really owned him.
    Sounds crap but I really enjoyed the film. There are a few funny parts in it.


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


    psychward wrote: »
    I caught the end of it after the punch up in Brighton. I couldn't find anything in common with the main character. He quit his job and then seemed to go live on the streets in a pretty hostile world and seemed to be self-sabotaging his own prospects for happiness. There just didnt seem to be any excitement or teenage thrill seeking or anything interesting in just wandering aimlessly about as he did after quitting his job as he also lost his friends and family. I'm not sure how credible the music was either as ''The Who'' album Quadrophenia was released in 1973 but mods and rockers seem to have been an early 1960s phenomenon.
    That's kinda what I was getting at - you missed all the good stuff (from Jimmy's perspective) in the first half of the film. You got the hangover without going to the party. :pac:

    You also missed the very first shot of the film, which puts the end of the film in perspective.
    It shows Jimmy walking back up the hill from Beachy Head in the golden sunset - which implies that he survived and things were going to get better for him. Some have read that scene as implying that he died, and this was "heaven", but we see him doing the opposite of "walking off in to the sunset". It's also a better fit for Pete Townshed's outlook on life - he's not one for giving up.

    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



  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,459 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Cowboys & Aliens

    Only got round to seeing this last night. Had originally been very much looking forward to it but the negative reviews and reaction put me off shelling out for it. Since my expectations had been lowered I ended up fairly enjoying it, its pretty watchable, could have been heaps better of course. I liked that they tried to avoid making it goofy and went for a more serious tone. I didn't really buy Harrison Ford's character arc though and the relationship he had with his Indian servant seemed really forced, would have much preferred if he stayed
    as a villain in a grudging alliance with the main hero and turned all bad guy at the end again

    Worth watching the once anyway.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,687 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    I quite enjoyed C&A as well. I loved the concept. The main problem with the film was the plot. It was very formulatic.

    Damon Lindelof did a rewrite of the script and you can definitely see some Lost influences.


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


    Unthinkable: Interesting psychological thriller in which Samuel L. Jackson plays an interrogator forced to use brutal torture techniques in order to find out the location of three nuclear bombs before they detonate.

    I moreso found myself questioning my own morals throughout. If I was put in that position of having to interrogate a suspect using torture methods, how far would I go to gain answers and save thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people?

    The ending is a little bit crap but a very enjoyable film nonetheless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,979 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Mary and Max

    A clay-animation detailing the relationship of two pen-pals, a 44-year-old morbidly obese, OCD-addled New Yorker and an 8-year-old Australian girl
    with a birthmark that looks like poo.

    Yeah, it's a black, black, comedy with more hints of black, but for all its misery, I came out at the end with something oddly life-affirming, if that makes sense to any of you fine people. A bit like Elliot's other notable work, Harvie Krumpet.


  • Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭duiggers


    Orgazmo

    A Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of Southpark) comedy back in the 90s about a mormon who ends up acting in a porno in order to make money for his wedding. Pretty funny film and definetely worth a watch for anyone who liked any of their other stuff.


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    bnt wrote: »
    That's kinda what I was getting at - you missed all the good stuff (from Jimmy's perspective) in the first half of the film. You got the hangover without going to the party. :pac:

    You also missed the very first shot of the film, which puts the end of the film in perspective.
    It shows Jimmy walking back up the hill from Beachy Head in the golden sunset - which implies that he survived and things were going to get better for him. Some have read that scene as implying that he died, and this was "heaven", but we see him doing the opposite of "walking off in to the sunset". It's also a better fit for Pete Townshed's outlook on life - he's not one for giving up.


    ahhh I see. Now it makes ''slightly'' more sense. Not sure I want to watch the second half of the movie again as I found it kind of depressing but I'll watch the first half sometime. The gang leader working as a bellboy with the uncool uniform in the second half was funny though. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    Meloncholia, very strange film, not what I was expecting at all but quite good at the same time.

    Since I enjoyed that so much I went back in the last week and watchen Antichrist and Dogville.
    Antichrist, my god, its tough going. I really found it hard to get through the first half. Seond half certainly had me more drawn in. Overall I am happy I watched it, although to say I enjoyed feels wrong.
    Dogville is an absolute triumph. Such a fantastic movie I cant even begin. Performance of Kidman's career imo, and Stellan Sarsgard never disappoints, does he?
    I also watched Snowtown, another bleak film. Although it was excellent at portraying the dismal, grey theme, I couldnt follow all the victims and who was who very well. Probably my fault, but still Also
    It was a very strange way to end a film, without an arrest shown. Its almost like they ran out of money.
    . Gret tension though, and it is a good film.
    Then I went on to Irreversible, due to recommendationts on this forum. (how have I lived through this week?) Superb film. Loved the concept and the gritty nature. I have I stand alone there waiting to watch now.
    The most depressing film I watched all week was Your Highness. I'm not even going to talk about that.
    Lasrt night I watched 30 mins or less. I had very low expextations amd I hate Jesse Eisenberg, but I really enjoyed the movie. Some really funny bits and the two heroes really seemed like guys you would know. A nice cheery end to the week, but a week I very much enjoyed nonetheless. Some real gems in there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,068 ✭✭✭Tipsy McSwagger


    Warrior - first off it's a very good film with some great dialogue and packs an emotional punch. Nick Nolte gives the most impressive performance from an actor that I have seen since Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. He has to get an Oscar. The film suffers from too many cliches (Russian bad guy, wife ringside) and the unnecessary story of Tom Hardy being a war hero. It just did not work for me and I think it was just a cheap patriotic way to satisfy American viewers. Still I really enjoyed the movie and would highly recommend it, 8/10.


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


    every james bond movie staring sean connery on itv4 this past week , coolest man that ever lived , connery that is , sean connery


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


    psychward wrote: »
    The gang leader working as a bellboy with the uncool uniform in the second half was funny though. :D
    Especially considering what happened to the "actor" playing the bellboy, who also goes by the mod name "Ace Face" ..!

    I forgot to mention that I also watched Chocolat recently, a film probably best remembered in this country for Johnny Depp's accent:



    I thought it was well-made, with some excellent performances, but the story was predictable, and it was all about Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench and Alfred Molina. Some of the otherwise excellent cast never got to do much e.g. Carrie-Anne Moss or Peter Stormare.

    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: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Watched Drive last night.

    Worth the watch but find it vastly overated on boards. There's quite a lot wrong with it.

    Granted, it has great style and some great scenes but it grows untidy as time goes on.


  • Advertisement
  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,459 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    kraggy wrote: »
    Watched Drive last night.

    Worth the watch but find it vastly overated on boards. There's quite a lot wrong with it.

    Granted, it has great style and some great scenes but it grows untidy as time goes on.

    a real human being.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Dots1982


    Jimdagym wrote: »
    I also watched Snowtown, another bleak film. Although it was excellent at portraying the dismal, grey theme, I couldnt follow all the victims and who was who very well. Probably my fault, but still Also
    It was a very strange way to end a film, without an arrest shown. Its almost like they ran out of money.
    .

    The comments at the end of the movie explained what happened after the end of the period that was shown on the screen.
    Since there was no police presence in the movie before then I don't see what it would have added to see a load of arrests at the end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    Dots1982 wrote: »
    The comments at the end of the movie explained what happened after the end of the period that was shown on the screen.
    Since there was no police presence in the movie before then I don't see what it would have added to see a load of arrests at the end.

    Yeah, its probably just me, but
    even if they showed there being a knock on the door one day and a cop was there, and then cut to the end, it would have felt more "normal". I dunno.
    ,

    Still a film I'd strongly recommend.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    The Island (2005)

    I liked it. Didnt have to be a Michael Bay action style movie tho. Felt the story was there. It didnt need an action director to make the movie.

    But scarlett johansson is fine! ... she was only 20 while making it.


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


    Source Code: Not sure if I enjoyed it or not really. It was an interesting idea but the repetitive nature of the film drove me mad. Felt like I was watching a mix between Groundhog Day and Vantage Point at times.


  • Advertisement
This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement