Yes its visually good, but everything else about the film was terrible i thought (i can see why some people like it, but its not my kind of film at all)

 

I thought Attack The Block was quite good

Have yet to see Tinker Tailor

We hired "Harry brown" at the weekend; Michael Cain stars a former marine pensioner who turns vigilante when the local youths on his estate murder his buddy. He messes up the druggies & the hoodies and pretty much gets away with it Certainly thought provoking, but in future I'd prefer to keep to my usual light hearted feature films..

last film I saw was a knockoff copy of Rise of The Planet of the Apes. good fim, very involving.

 

The best film I've seen in the last year was Winters Bone. 

I love Michael Caine, he's my favourite [living] actor. Must rent out harry Brown 

 

Agreed, that was a brilliant film

OK i didn't watch SUCKER PUNCH - instead i watched

 

The Talented Mr Ripley  < < < one of my faves

Love Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf!!!

sixth sense is a good one

ive watched it loadsa times and still jump

cant think of a decent supernatural, maybe insidious, i jumped at that one

On Renton's recommendation I watched I am Number Four...

Thought it was a load of uninspiring, generic pap. Hanna has been one of my favourite films this year 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to watch Hanna at teh cinema but never got round to it, will put it on my LoveFilm list

Ooh Saz, its proper Bo i tell thee!

 

Its a mixture of action and a coming of age drama....with a chemical brothers soundtrack thrown in!!

I watched Schindlers List for the first time the other day too.  That was hard going.

Not a film, but very cinematic. I have been watching the Game of Thrones series!

I utterly love I AM NUMBER 4

You heathen - apologise forwith and henceforth !!!!

I watched HANA - it was ludicrous - it bombed at the cinema too.

Its derivitive in every way - there are squillions of femme assasin movies

She's 6 stone wet through but can wallop huge guys - and its not even fantasy to apologise for the silliness. They expect us to belive it - utter nonsense.

And to top it all  - i didn't feel anything for her - her mummy died wen she was a baba and she never knew her - so where's the pain and angst that drives our interest??

 

Where did that come from - i had a hed rush or something!!!

Sorry

 

Yet a film about aliens from another planet, that are numbers, is far more believable?

 

It did nothing new. Generic story of an alien visitor, generic special effects, laughable looking bad guys. What exactly was his dog, where did it come from, what was its purpose? Generic acting: Rawky's score 2 / 5.

 

Hanna was awesome, i certainly believed that she could kick ass. Its not all about pure strength you know.

 

I'm gonna have to watch them both now aren't I?

SAZ just remember HANA was on at our Odeon for less than a week and was pulled

Where as I AM NUMBER FOUR is tipped as the new fantasy teen drama

 . . .with 2 more movies to come and backed up by 4 great books

 

QED there Rawky me thinks?

Try The Talented mr Ripley

Also - American Beauty < < < made me cry - couldn't help it

I love American Beauty

Renton, you just proved my point by calling it a 'fantasy teen drama'. 

 

Not my style matey, i like films that make you think and provoke emotions. The reason I am Number Four did better was because it has a character from Glee in it and it was marketed towards teenagers.

 

I'm a grown bloke, hence why I like grown up films from time to time.

 

Saz, if you end up preferring I am Number 4 to Hanna, I will disown all my apple products and revert back to becoming a PC user. 

 

Oh and Renton, no other movies are planned (for the moment), the film actually didn't do THAT well at the box office.

'the son of no one' is good

not brilliant but good

i thought id best add that bit

im off to watch 'scared shrekless' again

20mins of chuckles

nighty night

ive never typed the word 'chuckles' before

I'm a grown bloke, hence why I like grown up films from time to time.

 

Rawky - i can't claim to be grown yet LOL

Need looking after - heh heh

I like a movie to take me to somewhere i never see in the real world - fantasy - amazing scenes - escapism. Try Constantine or Van Helsing.

Having sed that ... The Talented Mr Ripley AND American Beauty (sob) are neither - yet are me faves.

I adore American Beauty - Lester Burnham says some amazing things,

"I want a job with the least possible amount of responsibility" LOL

Burger worker says, "I need  fries with that"

Lester says, "You need more than that my little hombre"

Class

I feel for this guy sooo much - its tragic and achingly beautiful

And the music!! You must try and listen to THOMAS NEWMAN

American Beauty is good.

 

Haven't seen Constantine, Van Helsing was a pile of CGI pap.

 

Recommendations for you:

 

Little Miss Sunshine

Inception

Battle Royale (Japanese film)

Pulp Fiction

Identity

Warrior (recent film, might still be in the cinema)

The Goonies 

Seen Goonies and Pulp Fiction

Will chec kout the others

 

Van helsing was mega - utterly exhausting

 

Seeing PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 tomorrow - will let you know wot i think

I took myself off to see The Help yesterday, an amazing book and I have to say a brilliant film too! Very interesting view of the lives of black maids in America, not full of action or special effects but very touching and funny I thought.

^that sounds interesting, i think I'll look that up I've hired a chick flick called "the sisterhood of the travelling pants" being American, it's not about pants, it's about a pair of jeans.. And friendship..

I think I've heard of that one summer, you must let me know if it's any good. The "travelling pants" bit did make me chuckle!

I saw Van Helsing a couple of years ago. The opening scene which is a homage to the classic James Whale version of Frankenstein was brilliant. The next scenes at the Vatican were quite amusing between Van Helsing and the Vatican equivalent of Q. If the rest of the film had lived up to those opening scenes it would have been one of the best films ever made. Unfortunately the rest of the film was little other than an excuse for CGI effects.

My thoughts exactly. Although I did find the whole film completely worthless.

revisited jésus de montréal the other day. well worth a watch.

Want to see a modern day sweeping, romantic epic?

FAR AND AWAY with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman

Great acting - intersting story and the most glorious "run for land" scenes

 

Hankies at the ready though

A few Action/Thriller films from the 1990’s that I still enjoy watching:

 

U S Marshals (1998)  – Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey jr

 

Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995) – Bruce Willis, Samual L. Jackson

 

Twister (1996) – Helen Hunt

 

Hard Rain (1998) – Christian Slater, Morgan Freeman

 

Desperado (1995) – Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek

 

Crimson Tide (1995) – Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington

 

Hard Target (1993) – Jean-Claude Van Damme

 

The Bone Collector (1999) – Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington

 

Miller’s Crossing (1990) – Gabriel Byrne

 

Braveheart (1995) – Mel Gibson

A fillum every man should watch is 'Hard Candy' 

 

Oooh, that is a good un .  I like how pretty much every shot of the actors was a close up, makes you feel really in your face and awkward.

A few i recommend . . .

 

Cool Hand Luke

Stigmata

Roman Holiday

 

 

 

I have just watched the following films (I love my films):

 

X-Men First Class

Visually great escapist film.

 

Killing Bono

A much better film than I would have imagined - recommended.

 

Submarine

Written by the black guy from The I.T. Crowd. Really enjoyed this film. One could say it has a coming of age element to it.

 

Trees Lounge

A low budget American film starring Steve Buscemi. Set in and around a bar called Trees Lounge, centering on the Buscemi character who is a bit down on his luck. I enjoy these lower budget more real life American movies.

 

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Never seen it all the way through, but now I have. It's an oldie but a goodie, with great images from the era and a classic song by Henri Mancini. Recommended.

 

THX-1138

George Lucas' first film. Science Fiction from 1971. It's the re-mastered edition and as usual GL could not keep his meddling hands off it. But seeing it so many years after release does enable you to see where other film makers have been influenced. It stars Robert Duval and Donald Pleasance.

 

From Paris With Love

I really enjoyed this film. John Travolta was great, playing a hard but funny character, despatching the baddies with a nice little comment or joke. A film that surprised me as I thought I would be bored after reading the synopsis. My recommendation is give it a watch.

 

THOR

Well, I had to watch this as I am building up to the Marvel film with the characters THOR, Iron Man etc in it. Another one of those films where I sit back, turn off brain and enjoy the action. In High Def it looks great.

 

Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon

I never ceased to be amazed how the graphics look so realistic they could actually be battling transforming robots in the city. Not my favourite series of films, but I enjoy the action.

 

 

Films lined up for the next week...

 

Bad Teacher

Captain America

Cars 2

Fargo

L.A. Confidential

Pirates of the Caribbean - On Stranger Tides

The Fifth Element

Veronkia Decides to Die

The Green Lantern

 

 

 

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LAST movie i saw was . . .

 

Don't be afraid of the dark

 

Must have cost a fair whack to make but ultimatelyi thought it was derivitive of every other scarey movie involving a spooky house and a child.

Rather pointless