[PJ Stevie G]

The only film I have watched this week was The Mummy.

This does not require a review.

[Kneller2]

Steel Magnolias.....not a bad film. Couldn't get overly carried away by it. Looking forward to some Lovefilm deliveries in the next few days

[GJ Peck]

Rocknrolla.

Saw this last night, and was pleasantly surprised. Wasn't expecting much from it, but it was grim and properly laugh out loud in places.

H.

xx.

[joinee danni]

In Bruge...hmmm i am still confused as to whether it was meant to be a bit of a comedy at the beginning?!

[PJ Hannah B-R]

Best film I've seen this year. And yes, its' meant to be funny! You're allowed to laugh!

[Kneller2]

Half way through Fight Club at the moment....it's pretty good so far and nothing like i was expecting really.

[Joinee Scotch Mist]

Kneller2, on 16 Sep 2008, 10:40 AM, said:

Half way through Fight Club at the moment....it's pretty good so far and nothing like i was expecting really.

shhh, rule one...

[Lethal Biddle]

Joinee Scotch Mist, on 16 Sep 2008, 10:43 AM, said:

shhh, rule one...

... Balance the equation?

[Kneller2]

Finished watching Fight Club. It's a slow burning penny drop of a film . Ver good!

[RJ Cooley]

Kneller2, on 24 Sep 2008, 02:45 PM, said:

Finished watching Fight Club. It's a slow burning penny drop of a film . Ver good!

If it's taken you this long to watch it I suspect it's less 'slow burning' and more 'on quarter speed'...

[Kneller2]

RJ Cooley, on 24 Sep 2008, 02:54 PM, said:

If it's taken you this long to watch it I suspect it's less 'slow burning' and more 'on quarter speed'...

I know. Terrible i am.....i was izzy whizzy though!

[Joinee Abel]

Joinee Scotch Mist, on 16 Sep 2008, 10:43 AM, said:

shhh, rule one...

Fight Club is awesome, one of my favourites.

Probably going to the cinema tonight to see Pineapple Express.

Watched Wall-E last night. It was ok.

[GJ Peck]

Joinee Abel, on 24 Sep 2008, 03:20 PM, said:

Watched Wall-E last night. It was ok.

Ok? Only ok? I *really* liked it!


H.

xx.

[Golden Judas]

Hancock

Quite enjoyed it. Was surprised at the surprise bit.

[Timothy Goose]

Biddle made me watch Taxidermia last night - I even agreed to stop watching singing in the rain in order to watch it

(in fairness I had only been watching it for the "Make 'em laugh" song - which had been done)

That film is twisted....

tahwistahted

[Joinee Meek]

Damn right it is.

I think I rang you at a bad point like!

[JoineeDougal]

I watched the Royal Tenenbaums yesterday...liked it but loved The Life Aquatic more. The combination of Bill Murray and the back catalogue of David Bowie in Portugese was a massive seduciing factor for me.

[Joinee Abel]

GJ Peck, on 24 Sep 2008, 03:38 PM, said:

Ok? Only ok? I *really* liked it!


H.

xx.

Aye, I thought that the concept was superb but that the film was just ok.

Let's face it, Toy Story is the best damn thing that Pixar have produced and ever will produce. B)

[joinee danni]

i watched we were soldiers last night...pretty decent but i just felt like it didnt delve into things enough like the effects the soldiers deaths had on the families at home, or why the war started.how it finished etc.
Mel Gibsons wife in the film is absolutely stunning!

I am going to go and see Mike Leighs Happy Go Lucky tomorrow, has anybody seen it?

[Joinee Abel]

Saw Pineapple Express last night. The flatmates thought that it was hilarious, I thought that it was alright. Seth Rogan is hilarious though.

[Lethal Biddle]

Captain James Amazing, on 24 Sep 2008, 03:49 PM, said:

Biddle made me watch Taxidermia last night - I even agreed to stop watching singing in the rain in order to watch it

(in fairness I had only been watching it for the "Make 'em laugh" song - which had been done)

That film is twisted....

tahwistahted

I love that film.
It's fairly dark, but beatiful, hilarious & quite poignant in parts. I really want to see his other film 'Hukkle', which you'll be glad to know si apparently a bit lighter.

[Joinee_Jago]

Joinee Abel, on 25 Sep 2008, 11:22 AM, said:

Saw Pineapple Express last night. The flatmates thought that it was hilarious, I thought that it was alright. Seth Rogan is hilarious though.

I saw that last week - thought it was a laugh. Very easy to watch, and points had me practically in tears.

Last night I saw Tropic Thunder. It was pretty good, though the beginning drags on a bit, and the storyline lacks slightly. Robert Downey Jr is hilariously versatile in it though.

[Kneller2]

Last weeks films:

Beaches - ok, but it stars Bette Midler ....very much a girly film but rented because i was asking for sad (tearjerker) films recommendations at work. I didn't cry

Happy Go Lucky - really rather enjoyed this film

[Mikalix]

The Ice Harvest - What In Bruges would have been if it was half the length... definitely worth a look if you like the whole Waiting For Godot- sort of thing.

As counterpoint to the worthyness, also saw Kiss of the Dragon which is probably one of the most legitimate western martial arts films around.

[PJ Hannah B-R]

I watched Point Break again the other night. Class.

[JoineeDougal]

That's a really good film. Just one thing wrong with it: Keanu Reeves.

This is because he is offically the worst actor I've ever seen. He's poo to the power of poo. Impressively bad.

[PJ Hannah B-R]

Keanu Reeves was my first love.

He's dreeeeamy.

[Siobhán]

I love the film Point Break. So much more than it deserves. And also for Keanu Reeves in either the best and most self parodying role of his career or just plain worst bit of acting please watch Thumbsucker. It is a great film with a greta cast and features Keanu Reeves as an orthodontist/guru

This post has been edited by MSJSiobhán: 29 September 2008 - 09:20 AM

[JoineeDougal]

GJ Hannah B-R, on 29 Sep 2008, 10:16 AM, said:

Keanu Reeves was my first love.

He's dreeeeamy.

Oh he's damn pretty...but looks alone canot make me enjoy watching his entirely wooden performances.

[Mikalix]

Be fair to Keanu - he has given some good performances - usually when the script calls for him to be a repressed chap who doesn't really know what's going on. But that's fine, there really aren't that many actors who have more than one trick they can use. Samuel L Jackson's acting style, for example, is best sumarised as -man with a cool voice who shouts a lot-. You want bad actors, look at Scarlett Johansen.

Having said that, I hate Point Break. It's a trashy action film where the action isn't worth watching. It was probably fairly good in its day but it's been outdone so many times since.

[JoineeDougal]

Keanu gives his best performances when he's not the movie I'm watching. I just don't get him at all. Or how he continues to get work.

[Siobhán]

Watch Thumbsucker. Really. It also has a great soundtrack. Elliot Smith was working on it juts before he killed himself and then the Polyphonic Spree took over. It means that when the main character (played by Lou Taylor Pucci) is sad he hears Elliot Smith, when he is happy The Ployphonic Spree. And Keanu plays an orthodontist/guru. It is brilliant.

[Chez]

I watched MirrorMask last night..... It probably gave me some quite abnormal dreams... but I still loved it

[JoineeDougal]

MSJSiobhán, on 29 Sep 2008, 11:05 AM, said:

Watch Thumbsucker. Really. It also has a great soundtrack. Elliot Smith was working on it juts before he killed himself and then the Polyphonic Spree took over. It means that when the main character (played by Lou Taylor Pucci) is sad he hears Elliot Smith, when he is happy The Ployphonic Spree. And Keanu plays an orthodontist/guru. It is brilliant.

I shall check it oot.

[Mikalix]

What did you like about Mirrormask? I thought it was really pretty but it was kind of ruined for me by the fact that it was basically Alice in Wonderland with slightly different characters...

[joinee doug]

Death Race 2000 - the one & only. Amazing how half the world was gonna be futuristic, yet all the people in the background (fans, non-essential roles, etc) was straight out of 1975. A world where the President was an absentee ruler and everything bad was blamed on the French. Hmm...

Paris When it Sizzles - Weak movie, but it has Audrey Hepburn in about every scene. William Holden is okay, but looks like he did it for the money...At one point it struck me that 5 or 10 years before this, he was kind of an American Cary Grant - type.

[Joinee Mark]

joinee doug, on 29 Sep 2008, 03:26 PM, said:

Death Race 2000 - the one & only. Amazing how half the world was gonna be futuristic, yet all the people in the background (fans, non-essential roles, etc) was straight out of 1975. A world where the President was an absentee ruler and everything bad was blamed on the French. Hmm...

Death Race is about to start on ITV 4, I'm gonna watch it because I haven't seen it in ages.

[Joinee Scotch Mist]

A Scanner Darkly - I really like it. The people i have watched it with have disliked it completely. The rotoscoping suits the philip k. dick material and the actors and keanu seem to fit their roles well. Robert Downey jr does a good crazy guy and Winona Ryder is ahem... even in rotoscope.

Off to watch the orphanage! Hopefully guillermo's influence is more than just a name in the credits.

[Platinum Joinee West]

Just went o see Tropic Thunder, and only realized afterwards that it's the first time I have ever been to the cinema on my own... at 23...

It was awesome, I laughed out loud several times.

"I'm a lead farmer mother#!$&er!"

awesome.

[The Bear]

"In the name of the king"

God I love crap cinema and it doesn't get much worse than this!! It's got the bloke who plays Hellboy and Burt Reynolds wearing a silver toupee in it!

[Mikalix]

Saw Death Race at the weekend -a good fun action film. The plot was suprisingly well thought through as well. Recomended for anyone who likes explosions.

[GJ Peck]

We watched Little Miss Sunshine again the other night. I love that fillum!

H.

xx.

[Joinee Scotch Mist]

In the Valley of Elah - Slow, good performances, but didn't quite grab me.

Babel - Slow, good performances, had me emotionally invested in all 3 story arcs such is the quality of Inarritu's work.

The pineapple express - As a fan of Judd Apatow's movies(perhaps not all of them), I had high hopes which were only met at parts of the movie. My brother and I were he only people in the full to capacity cinema that laughed at the star wars reference joke which seemed to carry the same impact as laughing at a funeral, a whole country turning to look disparagingly at the two geeks... seven out of ten

[Golden Judas]

Mikalix, on 6 Oct 2008, 11:08 AM, said:

Saw Death Race at the weekend -a good fun action film. The plot was suprisingly well thought through as well. Recomended for anyone who likes explosions.

That'll be me then.


Watched Wanted at the weekend.Hmmm.Good idea-still not sure about it.

[Mikalix]

Wanted.... Yeah. Great action scenes let down by a plot that strays a little too far into being just damn silly.

[Golden Judas]

Yep.

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

I saw Tropic Thunder last week. I can't stand Ben #!$&ing Stiller... but he wasn't as annoying as I'd braced myself for, so it was bearable. (Until the credits started rolling. GET OVER YOURSELF.) Sometimes the film made me laugh, other times it seemed waaaayyy too try-hard. I could have done without Jack Black's character, because I'm not the type of person who goes "Drugs! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!". *shrug* I dunno. I just don't get that. Anyway.

So, in summary: it was ok. But I don't really want to bother ever watching it again thanks.

[Gold Joinee Spaca-Sweeney(GA)]

At the cinema, TAKEN, Liam Neeson needs to be my dad, he is the most scary, haunting and hardcore man of all time. Excellent film.

Also at the cinema, Deathrace 3000, uber camp, fantastic, fuel and adrenaline filled and super cool to boot, go see, if you are a guy..

[Lethal Biddle]

I saw Cashback this week, which I thought was awesome. A really, really, beautiful film.
... Which also has naked ladies in it.

[Kneller2]

In Search of a Midnight Kiss

....loved it!!