Good films I watched this weekend (Vol 2)

[GetCarter]

TREMAiNE said:

Schindler's List

Wow. Just wow. I was almost in tears by the end.

9/10

Gets me every time. My fave film of all time. Ben Kingsley is mega, as is John Williams' score.

Just watched American Hustle

Fantastic acting from the women, less so from the men. Clever story, well scripted and filmed, but I never really connected with the lead character (Christian Bale)... who seemed to be trying to 'out De Niro, De Niro'. Still worth a watch, Amy Adams was seriously sexy! 7/10

Edited by GetCarter on Sunday 4th May 14:08

[E65Ross]

TREMAiNE said:

Schindler's List

Wow. Just wow. I was almost in tears by the end.

9/10

Brilliant isn't it. I thought Liam Neeson was brilliant in this.

[Pesty]

Glenred said:

The ending

I couldn't fking believe how bad this film was!

Is that bad it's worth watching to see how bad or is it after earth bad?

[Alex]

GetCarter said:

Just watched American Hustle

Fantastic acting from the women, less so from the men. Clever story, well scripted and filmed, but I never really connected with the lead character (Christian Bale)... who seemed to be trying to 'out De Niro, De Niro'. Still worth a watch, Amy Adams was seriously sexy! 7/10

Christian Bale is an awful actor. He received plaudits for The Fighter, but I thought his performance was simply terrible over-acting.

[E65Ross]

Avengers Assemble. Not my cup of tea

Can anyone explain the fight scenes between the super heroes? They're all basically indestructible so it's just a fight with them destroying the local scenery and them appearing totally unscathed. Seems like a waste of film time to be honest. Or maybe I'm just being a miserable sod.

[Patrick Bateman]

Hence why I still haven't bothered with it.

[crossy67]

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, I'm not going to read 260 pages to check but!

Max Manus (man of war). Norwegian biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus. You soon forget you're reading subtitles and get engrossed in the story of the Norwegian resistance. I'd give it a comfortable 8/10

[jbudgie]

E65Ross said:

Avengers Assemble. Not my cup of tea

Can anyone explain the fight scenes between the super heroes? They're all basically indestructible so it's just a fight with them destroying the local scenery and them appearing totally unscathed. Seems like a waste of film time to be honest. Or maybe I'm just being a miserable sod.

The last part of the Man of Steel was pretty much the same type of thing, waste of time.

[Funkycoldribena]

Pesty said:

Glenred said:

The ending

I couldn't fking believe how bad this film was!

Is that bad it's worth watching to see how bad or is it after earth bad?

If you're on about Tokarev,its crap bad,not worth watching bad.

[MiniMan64]

E65Ross said:

Avengers Assemble. Not my cup of tea

Can anyone explain the fight scenes between the super heroes? They're all basically indestructible so it's just a fight with them destroying the local scenery and them appearing totally unscathed. Seems like a waste of film time to be honest. Or maybe I'm just being a miserable sod.

We know a few of them are fairly indestructible. They don't. Thor, IM and even CA think they're king st. They need to kick the crap of each other for a bit to realise that.

Plus, it's a blockbuster superhero movie, what the hell were you expecting?

[DuncanM]

Alex said:

Christian Bale is an awful actor. He received plaudits for The Fighter, but I thought his performance was simply terrible over-acting.

Really surprised at this, The Machinist shows his acting skills off well IMO.

I loved him in The Fighter too.

[g3org3y]

Argo.

8/10.

Interesting story, good action/suspense, well directed. Certainly worth a watch IMO.

[anonymous-user]

cloud atlas - slow to start but good 8/10

[Pesty]

E65Ross said:

Avengers Assemble. Not my cup of tea

Can anyone explain the fight scenes between the super heroes? They're all basically indestructible so it's just a fight with them destroying the local scenery and them appearing totally unscathed. Seems like a waste of film time to be honest. Or maybe I'm just being a miserable sod.

But the dialogue is snappy. It looks good and the hulk is ace.

Cheer up

The problem with it is not that one fight they have ( by the way the clue is in the title) it's the bad guy getting caught as part of his plan st.

[Quickmoose]

Her You can tell it was directed by the bloke that did "Where the Wild Things Are" within 5 minutes, very bright landscapes, slow plinky-plonky piano soundtrack, long slow sceness with little dialogue, but when there is dialogue it's good, moving and very touching.
The fact that this film shows you a glimpse of the very near TERRIFYING future adds a great WTF! aspect..or did for me anyway.... deserves more than it's 8.2 IMDB IMO, really enjoyed it and made me think about it for quite a while afterwards...
oh....it's about a bloke coming to terms with divorce and struggling with dating women, so dates his new computer OS....

[thismonkeyhere]

'Office Space'

Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

Peter Gibbons: I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob.

[GarryDK]

thismonkeyhere said:

'Office Space'

Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

Peter Gibbons: I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob.

One of my favourite movies.

[vixen1700]

The Beast (AKA The Beast of War)

Set in 1981 in Afghanistan, a Russian tank gets lost and is hounded by the Mujahadeen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094716/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Never really heard of it before, but recorded it a couple of months back from TCM. Well worth a watch.

[chris watton]

vixen1700 said:

The Beast (AKA The Beast of War)

Set in 1981 in Afghanistan, a Russian tank gets lost and is hounded by the Mujahadeen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094716/?ref_=nv_sr_3

Never really heard of it before, but recorded it a couple of months back from TCM. Well worth a watch.

If you like that, then perhaps you'd like a (quite surreal) Russian made film called White Tiger.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2318405/?ref_=fn_al_tt...

[vixen1700]

chris watton said:

If you like that, then perhaps you'd like a (quite surreal) Russian made film called White Tiger.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2318405/?ref_=fn_al_tt...

Cheers, not heard of that either.

I'll raise you 9th Company which is well worth a watch too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417397/