Good films I watched this weekend (Vol 2)
Discussion
Cotty said:
You need to the set in the link its the one I have, it comes in a metal tin and has the original untouched versions and the later messed about with version of each film
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Trilogy-Widescreen...
I will have a look for that one. Thanks!http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Trilogy-Widescreen...
cirian75 said:
They Live
Feat the late Roddy Piper
good for a 80s action flick, shows the hero is not a super human and is just a vulnerable as anyone else to injury.
Very Orwellian dystopian in places.
Watched this last night. Love it ( it's in YouTube in its entirety 720p) looked good on the iPad.Feat the late Roddy Piper
good for a 80s action flick, shows the hero is not a super human and is just a vulnerable as anyone else to injury.
Very Orwellian dystopian in places.
Great film, i like all carpenters films anyway.
Not sure where you get the not vulnerable bit from. He's blown up, thrown down a mountain after being smashed in the head with a bottle, beaten up for about an hour.... Plus plenty more. Still cool though.
Pesty said:
cirian75 said:
They Live
Feat the late Roddy Piper
good for a 80s action flick, shows the hero is not a super human and is just a vulnerable as anyone else to injury.
Very Orwellian dystopian in places.
Watched this last night. Love it ( it's in YouTube in its entirety 720p) looked good on the iPad.Feat the late Roddy Piper
good for a 80s action flick, shows the hero is not a super human and is just a vulnerable as anyone else to injury.
Very Orwellian dystopian in places.
Great film, i like all carpenters films anyway.
Not sure where you get the not vulnerable bit from. He's blown up, thrown down a mountain after being smashed in the head with a bottle, beaten up for about an hour.... Plus plenty more. Still cool though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MVMbm6c0k
ash73 said:
Patch1875 said:
'71
Really enjoyed this, well made and really catches the grimness of that time,
8/10
Very good, but I didn't understand the ending... Really enjoyed this, well made and really catches the grimness of that time,
8/10
Why did Captain Browning let the radical IRA leader Quinn go? And at the end when the young lad Sean hesitates, Sergeant Leslie shoots him and then starts strangling Hook. Why?!
I assume they were using Quinn as a proxy to kill the old guard IRA man, hence the cover up, but why kill one of their own? Was one of them (or both?) double agents for the IRA? Or was it because he saw the bomb that had been tampered with?
End Of Watch (2012) (Amazon Prime)
Two LA cops stumble across the business of a Mexican cartel.
The camcorder approach is distracting, but the film is powerful because of the completely natural lead performances from Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, and the gritty and tense storytelling.
7/10
Two LA cops stumble across the business of a Mexican cartel.
The camcorder approach is distracting, but the film is powerful because of the completely natural lead performances from Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, and the gritty and tense storytelling.
7/10
(re)Watched "The Mothman Prophecies" last night. I love that film. Not horror, more like a creepier feature length X-Files episode.
A widdowed journalist keeps finding himself in a small town in West Virginia without knowing how he got there. He hears that recently many people have been seeing strange things, and hearing strange messages portending to disasters and suchlike.
He investigations into it bring him into contact with the "entity", which now uses him as the conduit, while at the same time teasing him with promises of being able to speak to his dead wife. Increasingly losing grip on reality, he has to decide whether to carry on living in the past, believing in a force that may or may not be benevolent, or to move on and live his life.
(very loosely based on real events and reports at the time)
The whole film has a wonderfully eerie atmosphere, great use of recurring visual images and symbols, a low-key performance from Richard Gere, and an excellently disturbed turn from Will Patton as a previous "victim" of the Mothman's attention. Im pretty much goose-bumpy through the whole film. Love it.
A widdowed journalist keeps finding himself in a small town in West Virginia without knowing how he got there. He hears that recently many people have been seeing strange things, and hearing strange messages portending to disasters and suchlike.
He investigations into it bring him into contact with the "entity", which now uses him as the conduit, while at the same time teasing him with promises of being able to speak to his dead wife. Increasingly losing grip on reality, he has to decide whether to carry on living in the past, believing in a force that may or may not be benevolent, or to move on and live his life.
(very loosely based on real events and reports at the time)
The whole film has a wonderfully eerie atmosphere, great use of recurring visual images and symbols, a low-key performance from Richard Gere, and an excellently disturbed turn from Will Patton as a previous "victim" of the Mothman's attention. Im pretty much goose-bumpy through the whole film. Love it.
daddy cool said:
(re)Watched "The Mothman Prophecies" last night. I love that film. Not horror, more like a creepier feature length X-Files episode.
A widdowed journalist keeps finding himself in a small town in West Virginia without knowing how he got there. He hears that recently many people have been seeing strange things, and hearing strange messages portending to disasters and suchlike.
He investigations into it bring him into contact with the "entity", which now uses him as the conduit, while at the same time teasing him with promises of being able to speak to his dead wife. Increasingly losing grip on reality, he has to decide whether to carry on living in the past, believing in a force that may or may not be benevolent, or to move on and live his life.
(very loosely based on real events and reports at the time)
The whole film has a wonderfully eerie atmosphere, great use of recurring visual images and symbols, a low-key performance from Richard Gere, and an excellently disturbed turn from Will Patton as a previous "victim" of the Mothman's attention. Im pretty much goose-bumpy through the whole film. Love it.
Great film, not seen it in a while.A widdowed journalist keeps finding himself in a small town in West Virginia without knowing how he got there. He hears that recently many people have been seeing strange things, and hearing strange messages portending to disasters and suchlike.
He investigations into it bring him into contact with the "entity", which now uses him as the conduit, while at the same time teasing him with promises of being able to speak to his dead wife. Increasingly losing grip on reality, he has to decide whether to carry on living in the past, believing in a force that may or may not be benevolent, or to move on and live his life.
(very loosely based on real events and reports at the time)
The whole film has a wonderfully eerie atmosphere, great use of recurring visual images and symbols, a low-key performance from Richard Gere, and an excellently disturbed turn from Will Patton as a previous "victim" of the Mothman's attention. Im pretty much goose-bumpy through the whole film. Love it.
Alex said:
End Of Watch (2012) (Amazon Prime)
Two LA cops stumble across the business of a Mexican cartel.
The camcorder approach is distracting, but the film is powerful because of the completely natural lead performances from Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, and the gritty and tense storytelling.
7/10
I watched that again the other night - it really is a good film (7.5/10) Jake G is a very good actor who's improving year-on-year. Two LA cops stumble across the business of a Mexican cartel.
The camcorder approach is distracting, but the film is powerful because of the completely natural lead performances from Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, and the gritty and tense storytelling.
7/10
I understand Space Jam is a big favourite of this thread, someone has made Space Jam 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrtLNAqvbzY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrtLNAqvbzY
Brother D said:
Alex said:
End Of Watch (2012) (Amazon Prime)
Two LA cops stumble across the business of a Mexican cartel.
The camcorder approach is distracting, but the film is powerful because of the completely natural lead performances from Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, and the gritty and tense storytelling.
7/10
I watched that again the other night - it really is a good film (7.5/10) Jake G is a very good actor who's improving year-on-year. Two LA cops stumble across the business of a Mexican cartel.
The camcorder approach is distracting, but the film is powerful because of the completely natural lead performances from Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña, and the gritty and tense storytelling.
7/10
I watched The Drop the other night. Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini (his last film IIRC) are all mixed up with gangsters set in New York. Hardy seems effortless in his portrayal of a bar tender with a interesting past. Noomi Repace also impressed with her accent and acting. Not that complicated a story but I thought well put together. 6.5/10
If you like The Who then look out for the terrific Lambert and Stamp , Kit L being the posho multilingual schmoozer and Chris S(brother of Terence ) the ducking and diving Londoner who together made the band what it became. Great archive stuff , especially of Keith Moon and lots of interviews with then and now Daltrey and Townshend . Not on wide release - we saw it at the Curzon- but worth looking out for.
We enjoyed it more than Amy - brilliantly edited though it was .Winehouse's fragile and adddictive personality made her demise inevitable sadly so I don't go for what some reviewers said about how the film showed that Blake Civil Fielning and her dad were the real villains.
We enjoyed it more than Amy - brilliantly edited though it was .Winehouse's fragile and adddictive personality made her demise inevitable sadly so I don't go for what some reviewers said about how the film showed that Blake Civil Fielning and her dad were the real villains.
Just got back from watching M:I Rogue Nation. Enjoyable but formulaic romp that lacked the personality of the previous 2 films for me. Pinched all of it's ideas from recent Bond films (both good and bad) and suffered from a lousy villain and rather weak and predictable plot. Some enjoyable set pieces though and the chemistry + humour amongst the team was good as always.
Worth a watch, just not as good as M:I3 or Ghost Protocol IMHO.
7/10
Worth a watch, just not as good as M:I3 or Ghost Protocol IMHO.
7/10
SWoll said:
Just got back from watching M:I Rogue Nation. Enjoyable but formulaic romp that lacked the personality of the previous 2 films for me. Pinched all of it's ideas from recent Bond films (both good and bad) and suffered from a lousy villain and rather weak and predictable plot. Some enjoyable set pieces though and the chemistry + humour amongst the team was good as always.
Worth a watch, just not as good as M:I3 or Ghost Protocol IMHO.
7/10
Couldn't agree with you more...except I'd give it a 6 out of 10 at most.I thought it was a good 20 minutes too long,I was getting bored towards the end.That scene in the opera house,how many times have we seen something similar ? Where's the originality ?Worth a watch, just not as good as M:I3 or Ghost Protocol IMHO.
7/10
Our view appears to go against the many reviews I read which all reckon it's one of the best action films of all time !
I watched Trainwreck the other night.Took a while to get going but not a bad film overall.Amy Schumer has a liking for very short dresses which is a bonus
V8covin said:
SWoll said:
Just got back from watching M:I Rogue Nation. Enjoyable but formulaic romp that lacked the personality of the previous 2 films for me. Pinched all of it's ideas from recent Bond films (both good and bad) and suffered from a lousy villain and rather weak and predictable plot. Some enjoyable set pieces though and the chemistry + humour amongst the team was good as always.
Worth a watch, just not as good as M:I3 or Ghost Protocol IMHO.
7/10
Couldn't agree with you more...except I'd give it a 6 out of 10 at most.I thought it was a good 20 minutes too long,I was getting bored towards the end.That scene in the opera house,how many times have we seen something similar ? Where's the originality ?Worth a watch, just not as good as M:I3 or Ghost Protocol IMHO.
7/10
Our view appears to go against the many reviews I read which all reckon it's one of the best action films of all time !
Strangely, I have similar feelings about MM Fury Road. Fun, but not the cinematic classic the majority seem to claim IMHO.
SWoll said:
I know, not sure why everyone is getting so hyped up about it and totally agree about it being 20 minutes too long. I found myself checking my watch, which is never a good sign. 6/10 didn't feel quite right though for some reason...
Strangely, I have similar feelings about MM Fury Road. Fun, but not the cinematic classic the majority seem to claim IMHO.
I thought Fury Road was dreadfulStrangely, I have similar feelings about MM Fury Road. Fun, but not the cinematic classic the majority seem to claim IMHO.
V8covin said:
SWoll said:
I know, not sure why everyone is getting so hyped up about it and totally agree about it being 20 minutes too long. I found myself checking my watch, which is never a good sign. 6/10 didn't feel quite right though for some reason...
Strangely, I have similar feelings about MM Fury Road. Fun, but not the cinematic classic the majority seem to claim IMHO.
I thought Fury Road was dreadfulStrangely, I have similar feelings about MM Fury Road. Fun, but not the cinematic classic the majority seem to claim IMHO.
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