Films I watched this week
Discussion
teery took over, harking to the Ealing classics.qube_TA said:
Dude that's a classic film, Piper is great. It's a Carpenter film, made for about £10, it's aweseome.
I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum.....and I'm all outta bubblegum!
9/10
There's been rumours for years about making a new version, they'll spend $150m on it and it'll suck.
If they make it with Dwayne Johnson, it might rock.I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum.....and I'm all outta bubblegum!
9/10
There's been rumours for years about making a new version, they'll spend $150m on it and it'll suck.
P-Jay said:
Entourage
If you don't know and love the TV series, just don't bother (although it's very good and available on Sky anytime).
But otherwise it's a good 7.75/10, if you know the series you know it's escapist nonsense, they don't live in the same world that we do, there's a few good roles for women in it, but mostly anyone female on screen is dollybird garnish.
A few things that jarred a bit, when they started making the series in 2004 the lads were all mid-20's-ish, so when they're talking about getting laid, chasing girls, and basically talking about women is material things, I seemed normal - but now they're 40ish it looks a bit sad and creepy, especially as they've updated the dollybird garnish so they're still all 18-25. It's outrageously homophobic too.
The story is silly, and the writer hasn't really changed the formula so the film is basically a series condensed into a few hours, it starts with them casting off anything from the previous series (wives, girlfriends, jobs, houses etc - not much carries from series to series in Entourage) a crisis unfolds, a few panic, mostly they don't care, it's builds and builds to the point when it's all going to crash around their ears and then suddenly everything works out in the end - it happens between scenes too, the whole point of Entourage is everything works out in the end.
I know that all sounds a bit negative, that's why I said, if you don't know and love the series don't bother - not because you won't know the characters, but because as a stand-alone film it's pretty crap, but if you're a fan of the series it's a small pile of funny scenes which don't make any real sense in the long run.
Oh, and as ever, Ari is the best thing about it.
Never seen Entourage before but I started watching it when it started being screened on Atlantic a few months ago. Watched up to S5...I think...love it, it's silly fluff.If you don't know and love the TV series, just don't bother (although it's very good and available on Sky anytime).
But otherwise it's a good 7.75/10, if you know the series you know it's escapist nonsense, they don't live in the same world that we do, there's a few good roles for women in it, but mostly anyone female on screen is dollybird garnish.
A few things that jarred a bit, when they started making the series in 2004 the lads were all mid-20's-ish, so when they're talking about getting laid, chasing girls, and basically talking about women is material things, I seemed normal - but now they're 40ish it looks a bit sad and creepy, especially as they've updated the dollybird garnish so they're still all 18-25. It's outrageously homophobic too.
The story is silly, and the writer hasn't really changed the formula so the film is basically a series condensed into a few hours, it starts with them casting off anything from the previous series (wives, girlfriends, jobs, houses etc - not much carries from series to series in Entourage) a crisis unfolds, a few panic, mostly they don't care, it's builds and builds to the point when it's all going to crash around their ears and then suddenly everything works out in the end - it happens between scenes too, the whole point of Entourage is everything works out in the end.
I know that all sounds a bit negative, that's why I said, if you don't know and love the series don't bother - not because you won't know the characters, but because as a stand-alone film it's pretty crap, but if you're a fan of the series it's a small pile of funny scenes which don't make any real sense in the long run.
Oh, and as ever, Ari is the best thing about it.
AlexC1981 said:
I just watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. The Curse of the Black Pearl. Now that is a film that really does have everything you could want in a film. I really enjoyed it. It reminded me very much off Sid Meier's Pirates! computer game.
Yip, sublime film.Other pirate films that I like; Pirates, The Crimson Pirate...erm....Yellowbeard is interesting.
Alex said:
Asterix said:
Eastwood is a master of letting the audience work our for itself what has really happened.
Unforgiven is the same.
Unforgiven is his masterpiece and in my all-time top ten.Unforgiven is the same.
Tombstone is decent too, I did watch the beginning last night, and then forgot..or something.
JustinP1 said:
Going to more than one decimal place made some posters heads explode!
With the '110% phenomenon' as I call it, it only goes one way:
In the 90's Fergie would say his players gave 110%. Over the years, that crept up. Now, on X-Factor, Simon Cowell will tell someone they are '1,000,000% through to the next round.'
The 110% thing annoys me. I used to have a manager who asked how much percentage I would give, expecting a response like 110. I would usually say 40%, since it couldn't be 100, as I would die and the body needs a lot of energy to perform it's jobs and to continue existing. I theorised around 40% is the most anyone can give to any job whilst still living. So I was giving the most I physically could, he never really got my reasoning. With the '110% phenomenon' as I call it, it only goes one way:
In the 90's Fergie would say his players gave 110%. Over the years, that crept up. Now, on X-Factor, Simon Cowell will tell someone they are '1,000,000% through to the next round.'
JonRB said:
Is that the one where his motorbike transforms from a road bike to a dirt bike and back again (although not meant to), and also where the two cars spin round around whilst top-to-tail with each other in a sort of swirly Yin-Yang way? The one with Dougray Scott and produced by John Woo?
If so, I agree. Utterly stupid.
The first one was ok though.
And that's the reason that DOugray missed out on Wolverine!!!If so, I agree. Utterly stupid.
The first one was ok though.
THat film turned me off MI franchise.
The Magic Box is on Saturday afternoon, a wonderful film about one of the early pioneers of the moving image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Friese-Green...
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