Good films I watched this weekend (Vol 2)
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Thoroughly enjoyed Star Trek - particularly clever casting and lots of in-jokes woven into a great story. Just a few "eh, how did that work" moments.
n_const said:
Taking of pelham 123. 7/10
Good film kept me entertained and hooked throughout. Good cast , Denzel was as good as ever and liked Travolta in that role.
First time watch of Taking Pelham 123; really enjoyed 95% of it. Travolta, especially, is so brilliant in that type of role (and Swordfish has become one of my favourite movies partly for that reason). The plot was taking some nice twists and turns and I was waiting for a stunning ending...... ......and waiting... .....and..... ....well, what was that!!!! It was heading towards a 9/10 but I was so disappointed with the conclusion I'm also thinking 7/10. Good film kept me entertained and hooked throughout. Good cast , Denzel was as good as ever and liked Travolta in that role.
Melman Giraffe said:
Melman Giraffe said:
blindswelledrat said:
it doesnt take a monday for that!
9/10 for a childs cartoon for crying out loud.
Arther Christmas 9/109/10 for a childs cartoon for crying out loud.
Cars 9/10
Monsters Inc 9/10
Madagascar 10/10
Shall I continue?
The Cabin In The Woods.
Loved it. Fairly obvious plot but beautifully carried out. Can't really say too much about it but the only shame was they couldn't get copyright for all the monsters, it would have been a nice touch to have proper Cenobites for instance..
Best bits:
1.) The speakerphone.
2.) Who they got for Mrs Exposition.
Big surprise, huge fun. 8/10.
Loved it. Fairly obvious plot but beautifully carried out. Can't really say too much about it but the only shame was they couldn't get copyright for all the monsters, it would have been a nice touch to have proper Cenobites for instance..
Best bits:
1.) The speakerphone.
2.) Who they got for Mrs Exposition.
Big surprise, huge fun. 8/10.
The Vow
Chick-flic alert!
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum are newly-weds involved in a car accident in which she loses her memory of anything pre-meeting Tatum. He spends the film trying to remind her and win back her love.
Based on true events, this was actually watchable. To be honest, I could watch McAdams all day because she is stunning (and a decent actress). Tatum can't act, we all know that (I have noticed his signature move is the jaw clench) but he was inoffensive.
It wasn't too syrupy and kept us interested and the ending was nice and not too Hollywood.
The worst thing about it was the horrific casting of Sam Neill and Jessica Lange as McAdams parents. Neill looked about 60 but Lange looked about 90 - it looked pretty weird.
If my wife bought it and made me watch it again I would not kill myself.
6.5/10
Chick-flic alert!
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum are newly-weds involved in a car accident in which she loses her memory of anything pre-meeting Tatum. He spends the film trying to remind her and win back her love.
Based on true events, this was actually watchable. To be honest, I could watch McAdams all day because she is stunning (and a decent actress). Tatum can't act, we all know that (I have noticed his signature move is the jaw clench) but he was inoffensive.
It wasn't too syrupy and kept us interested and the ending was nice and not too Hollywood.
The worst thing about it was the horrific casting of Sam Neill and Jessica Lange as McAdams parents. Neill looked about 60 but Lange looked about 90 - it looked pretty weird.
If my wife bought it and made me watch it again I would not kill myself.
6.5/10
Watched Dark Knight Rises last night on DVD. I know there's a massive thread somewhere, but I wanted to ask if anyone else felt that a few scenes were cut or shortened slightly? In particular, I though the first fight scene with Bane where the camera pans to one or 2 of Bane's men, and also when Bane takes out the professor and the guy just after he says he's Gothams reckoning...
Anyway, great film, if you've not seen it yet for whatever reason, sort yourself out
Anyway, great film, if you've not seen it yet for whatever reason, sort yourself out
andyjo1982 said:
Watched Dark Knight Rises last night on DVD. I know there's a massive thread somewhere, but I wanted to ask if anyone else felt that a few scenes were cut or shortened slightly? In particular, I though the first fight scene with Bane where the camera pans to one or 2 of Bane's men, and also when Bane takes out the professor and the guy just after he says he's Gothams reckoning...
Anyway, great film, if you've not seen it yet for whatever reason, sort yourself out
I watched this the other day and was left somewhat deflated by it - it seemed really disjointed and felt like an hour was cut out to make it fit the cinematic release. It did, however, look good - albeit dark (visually dark, not Tim Burton dark)Anyway, great film, if you've not seen it yet for whatever reason, sort yourself out
Just watched Special Forces and is the film that Hurt Locker should have been.
emotional, human, gritty and just about as realistic approach to this genre as I've ever seen.
all the better for being a foreign language film too and is the antithesis of the hollywood version of this type of film.
make it worth your while to check it out.
8.5/10
emotional, human, gritty and just about as realistic approach to this genre as I've ever seen.
all the better for being a foreign language film too and is the antithesis of the hollywood version of this type of film.
make it worth your while to check it out.
8.5/10
james_tigerwoods said:
andyjo1982 said:
Watched Dark Knight Rises last night on DVD. I know there's a massive thread somewhere, but I wanted to ask if anyone else felt that a few scenes were cut or shortened slightly? In particular, I though the first fight scene with Bane where the camera pans to one or 2 of Bane's men, and also when Bane takes out the professor and the guy just after he says he's Gothams reckoning...
Anyway, great film, if you've not seen it yet for whatever reason, sort yourself out
I watched this the other day and was left somewhat deflated by it - it seemed really disjointed and felt like an hour was cut out to make it fit the cinematic release. It did, however, look good - albeit dark (visually dark, not Tim Burton dark)Anyway, great film, if you've not seen it yet for whatever reason, sort yourself out
andyjo1982 said:
james_tigerwoods said:
andyjo1982 said:
Watched Dark Knight Rises last night on DVD. I know there's a massive thread somewhere, but I wanted to ask if anyone else felt that a few scenes were cut or shortened slightly? In particular, I though the first fight scene with Bane where the camera pans to one or 2 of Bane's men, and also when Bane takes out the professor and the guy just after he says he's Gothams reckoning...
Anyway, great film, if you've not seen it yet for whatever reason, sort yourself out
I watched this the other day and was left somewhat deflated by it - it seemed really disjointed and felt like an hour was cut out to make it fit the cinematic release. It did, however, look good - albeit dark (visually dark, not Tim Burton dark)Anyway, great film, if you've not seen it yet for whatever reason, sort yourself out
Colossus: The Forbin Project. Synthetic techno-thriller/bloodless horror merger that ends on an emotional, oblique cut, that I suppose we can understand considering the era it was filmed in (Cold War). Interesting.
Escape to Athena. Huge, international cast: Claudia Cardinale, Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, Sonny Bono, Richard Roundtree, Elliot Gould...all help this Lew Grade production along, and the action is fun and not too heavy. Best line, when Savalas is quizzing the local brothel girls as to what they're going to do after the German's are gone, because, "...you know...the Greeks don't pay..."
Wild Bill. Really a montage of Hickok's greatest hits. You can't switch off for six seconds without missing some six-shooting. 1993/5 seems to have been a popular period for western resurgence - I've commented on that before. Maybe a post-'90 bounce of interest after oscars galore for 'Dances With Wolves' or just traditional studio rivalry ('The Quick and the Dead', 'Tombstone', 'WyattEarp', 'Geronimo', 'Posse', 'Maverick'). Better than average, but quirky.
Deja Vu. I loved the first half. The precision and perception on behalf of Denzil's character when walking through the aftermath, and his professional candour seem absolutely authentic. I was even biting when he, Kilmer and the rest are working with the computational models [present paralleling the past]. But when he goes further and steps into the time machine....nope. Paula Patton is nice, yeah, but you don't always have to blunt the premise romantically. Sometimes harsh reality suffices. An aside, Cavieziel is building up a healthy body of work...
The Big Red One. It's impossible to imagine anyone else but Lee Marvin in this role. And it's possibly his finest. 'Zab' is a character, and some scenes are cut and edited to be almost operatic. Great situational action, so fun for war movie addicts, and the scenes at the Kassarine Pass are an interesting prelude for those who love 'Patton' [the calamity here led to Fredendall being relieved of II Corps, hence the start of Schaffner's classic), but a few dead spots. But a highly regarded film, nevertheless.
Escape to Athena. Huge, international cast: Claudia Cardinale, Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, Sonny Bono, Richard Roundtree, Elliot Gould...all help this Lew Grade production along, and the action is fun and not too heavy. Best line, when Savalas is quizzing the local brothel girls as to what they're going to do after the German's are gone, because, "...you know...the Greeks don't pay..."
Wild Bill. Really a montage of Hickok's greatest hits. You can't switch off for six seconds without missing some six-shooting. 1993/5 seems to have been a popular period for western resurgence - I've commented on that before. Maybe a post-'90 bounce of interest after oscars galore for 'Dances With Wolves' or just traditional studio rivalry ('The Quick and the Dead', 'Tombstone', 'WyattEarp', 'Geronimo', 'Posse', 'Maverick'). Better than average, but quirky.
Deja Vu. I loved the first half. The precision and perception on behalf of Denzil's character when walking through the aftermath, and his professional candour seem absolutely authentic. I was even biting when he, Kilmer and the rest are working with the computational models [present paralleling the past]. But when he goes further and steps into the time machine....nope. Paula Patton is nice, yeah, but you don't always have to blunt the premise romantically. Sometimes harsh reality suffices. An aside, Cavieziel is building up a healthy body of work...
The Big Red One. It's impossible to imagine anyone else but Lee Marvin in this role. And it's possibly his finest. 'Zab' is a character, and some scenes are cut and edited to be almost operatic. Great situational action, so fun for war movie addicts, and the scenes at the Kassarine Pass are an interesting prelude for those who love 'Patton' [the calamity here led to Fredendall being relieved of II Corps, hence the start of Schaffner's classic), but a few dead spots. But a highly regarded film, nevertheless.
Legend83 said:
The Vow
Chick-flic alert!
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum are newly-weds involved in a car accident in which she loses her memory of anything pre-meeting Tatum. He spends the film trying to remind her and win back her love.
Based on true events, this was actually watchable. To be honest, I could watch McAdams all day because she is stunning (and a decent actress). Tatum can't act, we all know that (I have noticed his signature move is the jaw clench) but he was inoffensive.
It wasn't too syrupy and kept us interested and the ending was nice and not too Hollywood.
The worst thing about it was the horrific casting of Sam Neill and Jessica Lange as McAdams parents. Neill looked about 60 but Lange looked about 90 - it looked pretty weird.
If my wife bought it and made me watch it again I would not kill myself.
6.5/10
I watched it recently, like you say not too syrupy, I liked it.Chick-flic alert!
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum are newly-weds involved in a car accident in which she loses her memory of anything pre-meeting Tatum. He spends the film trying to remind her and win back her love.
Based on true events, this was actually watchable. To be honest, I could watch McAdams all day because she is stunning (and a decent actress). Tatum can't act, we all know that (I have noticed his signature move is the jaw clench) but he was inoffensive.
It wasn't too syrupy and kept us interested and the ending was nice and not too Hollywood.
The worst thing about it was the horrific casting of Sam Neill and Jessica Lange as McAdams parents. Neill looked about 60 but Lange looked about 90 - it looked pretty weird.
If my wife bought it and made me watch it again I would not kill myself.
6.5/10
If I could suggest something that you would also not kill yourself watching with your wife. The Lucky One
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327194/
tigerkoi said:
The Big Red One. It's impossible to imagine anyone else but Lee Marvin in this role.
Same could be said of Nick Nolte in Malick's The Thin Red Line. Different theatre of war but both movies are pretty good examples of the genre. The clearing of the hilltops of Japanese with flamethrowers is particularly harrowing but illustrated the brutality of the fighting at Guadalcanal. goldblum said:
tigerkoi said:
The Big Red One. It's impossible to imagine anyone else but Lee Marvin in this role.
Same could be said of Nick Nolte in Malick's The Thin Red Line. Different theatre of war but both movies are pretty good examples of the genre. The clearing of the hilltops of Japanese with flamethrowers is particularly harrowing but illustrated the brutality of the fighting at Guadalcanal. Thanks for prodding TTRL back into my consciousness. I've got a film backlog, and should bump it up the schedule
Cotty said:
I watched it recently, like you say not too syrupy, I liked it.
If I could suggest something that you would also not kill yourself watching with your wife. The Lucky One
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327194/
Whoa there!If I could suggest something that you would also not kill yourself watching with your wife. The Lucky One
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327194/
Channing Tatum is one thing, but Zac Efron?!
Nom de ploom said:
Just watched Special Forces and is the film that Hurt Locker should have been.
emotional, human, gritty and just about as realistic approach to this genre as I've ever seen.
all the better for being a foreign language film too and is the antithesis of the hollywood version of this type of film.
make it worth your while to check it out.
8.5/10
Never heard of this but it looks pretty good. I shall try it based on this (although I loved Hurt Locker so our tastes may be different)emotional, human, gritty and just about as realistic approach to this genre as I've ever seen.
all the better for being a foreign language film too and is the antithesis of the hollywood version of this type of film.
make it worth your while to check it out.
8.5/10
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