War Horse was quite good. Many layers and emotions in the story-telling, but it changed pace gracefully that caught my surprise. Great cinematography, too.
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War Horse was quite good. Many layers and emotions in the story-telling, but it changed pace gracefully that caught my surprise. Great cinematography, too.
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Ian McShane :heart:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Go see it on stage :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Yeah, I didn't read the book or see it on stage first. If you watch the movie, let us know how it compares?Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
I cried when Joey was tangled in barbed wire in Dead Man's Land---then almost instantly realized I hadn't shed a tear for any human, or the soldiers by that point...which made me cry a little harder :( Then I cried bittersweet tears when the Brit and German soldiers showed solidarity in saving Joey...and....their conflicted but brave humanity during War just broke me up. Pretty much every scene afterward, I was choking back tears. :cry:
Things like this always make me wonder why it's considered necessary to remake a film that's already good - though I hear this remake is good, too. Too hard to read subtitles? But it can get worse, Loft was a belgian made, remade for Dutch cinema (who also speak Dutch), and now being remade for the USA. Ugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
On the bright side, remakes aren't always bad - Let me in was good, Insomnia remake was good.
I've also heard The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo is good. It even got a 8.3 rating on IMDB. Can't be bothered with it though, as it's time for my annual watch of a Hayao Miyazaki movie. :D
I actually didn't like the original movie very much. Maybe it was because I was in a bad mood at the time, though. Either way, the new one is very, very good. I would actually go see it againQuote:
Originally Posted by Flixy
I've heard that one of the few things about War Horse is just watching the horse run around or something. The review I read wasn't very sympathetic and actually named it one of the worst movies of the year.
Just got back from seeing Ghost Protocol. It was decent. I found my attention drifting at a couple points during the movie, but I'm not entirely sure that was the movie's fault.
About half-way through some people got up and left the theatre. One came back, so it musta been their pee break. (There's some app now that tells us when the best pee breaks are :haha: ) Seemed to me like a thin plot for half a movie, and they tried to stretch it beyond its limits into a full feature. It was an okay film, but nothing I'd recommend others paying $10 to see. Would have been just fine at home from Netflix or DVD, pausing for the pee break, with much better popcorn. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
Kinda funny anecdote, though. It was being shown on two small-ish screens, 20 minutes apart. We had tickets to the earlier show, and the seats were packed. Among the empty seats (always single seats in the row) we ended up at the top row, behind the safety bar (:rolleyes:) that cut into our vision field. But there were two empty seats--not together--in the row. I politely asked one man if he'd move one seat over so we could have two seats together.
He actually refused! Said he'd arrived an hour early so he could be "right underneath the projector". I was stunned. But his wife/companion quickly offered to move one seat to his left (instead of being one seat to his right) so we could have two adjoining seats.
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Red Dog - was ok, not sure what all the fuss was about.
The Dilemma - Vince Vaughn encounters his best mates wife cheating on him, and has to decide what to do. Movie starts strongly, a good premise which is confronted well. Winona Ryder as the cheating wife is rather deliciously malicious. But the second 2/3rds of the movie plummet steadily downhill, with some ridiculously OTT scenes that ruin everything, particularly those between Vaughn and Ryder's beau. Unfortunate, this movie could have been much more.
4/10
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The Queen - Helen Mirren's Oscar-winning portrayal of Lizzie. Understated performance from Mirren, which was just right. Michael Sheen as Tony Blair was great too. Very enjoyable, very watchable.
7.5/10
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Looking forward to The Iron Lady which comes out next week, with Meryl Streep as Thatcher. Will surely accrue a string of Oscars.
No one, I really mean no one, ever. No one watch Human Centipede 2. I beg of you. Don't do it.
Date movie? :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Wraith
Attack the Block
Its a British film, and since all films are always 100% honest when it comes to social matter...I've finally found a language that claims to be english in nature, but makes even less sense than american ghetto.
As for the movie, the aliens looked awesome, the movie was full of holes.
My lady wants to see it, I wish you could talk sense into her. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Is it worth paying to visit the big screen or wait till out on DVD?Quote:
Originally Posted by GGT
Does she want kids? Gross, random thing from a movie of gross, horrible things:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
Spoiler:
What type of person thinks of these things to put in a movie!? Also, what possessed you to even see it?
Is there any plots in the story which they've left unanswered so they can write and film a third? I can see this become another 'saw'-esque type franchise.
Strange, strange persons. The worst I've made myself watch so far was Philosophy of a Knife. I don't remember the particulars much anymore, just the interviews with the old men, and the sound of flesh being cut...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
If you want a somewhat less horrifying, but still brain-twisting film experience, I recommend Funny Games. Although I've heard that many people were made quite angry by it. So it might not be a good idea. I also can't tell you why they were offended without ruining the whole movie. But there are far less disgusting things in that one, even if it is very unsettling to watch.
I think on some level I enjoy feeling bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
The first one was, well, what it was. The second one portrays it is a movie/documentary that fascinates one terribly sick, horribly ugly man to the point where he wants to experience it for himself. (Making and having that monstrosity, not being a part of it.) I remember reading that the director wants to make a third one, even more horrific than the first two. And on that front there's great, ehm, hope, as the second one is far more uncomfortable to see than the first one. What a wondrous, vibrant world we've made...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
I wasn't even remotely planning to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Why :bulb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
Saw Velvet Goldmine, was fun, liked the music and the psychedelic side of it. It's based on David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, etc., in a tale that sortof resembles the story of Ziggy Stardust. And it has a gay scene between a Jedi and Batman :p
Equilibrium. It was okay, fun story (not veryoriginal I think?), fights were completely over the top in an enjoyable way. :)
J. Edgar. Meh. It was pretty decent, but not that captivating, fairly slow, and never really managed to get me very much into it.
Also saw the trailer for War Horse, which to my surprise seems to be the film based on one of my favourite books when I was a child :p Might go and see it, though it is probably a bit too dramatic and tearjerking for me.
Saw the Devil Within was pretty lame. Oh, well... at least my money can be put to use by advising not going to see it :D.
Yeh that's a proper London accent. All the kids round here in saaaaf landan talk like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Wot iz dat cuz?
It's a alien bruv, believe i'.
But i' landed in deh wrong place doh y'ge' me.
The Iron Lady; I don't understand the lukewarm reviews. I thought it was an awesome movie, with an awesome performance by Meryl Streep about the awsomest UK prime-minister in my lifetime.
From what I can gather, the lukewarm reviews were because the movie was not a true and accurate reflection of Thatcher.
It also did not portray her more interesting years (the earlier years, the Falklands invasion), as much as concentrating on her later years and her dementia setting in.
Still really want to see it tho.
I think it's accurate enough in its depicture of Thatcher's legacy. We have history books to read about the details that might have turned a movie into a boring dramatized documentary. As it was it was a powerful and believable depiction of a woman in her twilight reminiscing about her achievements. I for myself can tell you, I didn't walk away from this movie thinking the Thatcher around which this movie revolved (the somewhat senile older woman) was just a silly old bat. Far from that. I was seriously moved by this movie and I think what it did very much was bring back what admiration I felt for the woman while disliking her euroscepticism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
Ok Hazir - that's quite compelling. Will make an effort to see it this weekend.
I think it's best as a big-screen movie, the kind that comes with great acoustics and being enveloped in large-space darkness. The kind of film where grown men can shed a few tears in total anonymity. Yeah, I'd say it's worth paying for the big screen. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lor
Wow, only a few words sounded vaguely familiar as English in that clip. I have the same problem with Australian movies, too. They practically need subtitles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
The Help, I should have known it wasn't worth it when I saw I was about the only male in the audience. This movie belongs in a long tradition of after school specials, not in a cinema. I hope there won't be any oscars for this.
I'm not sure what's sadder, the fact that someone actually thought making that movie was a good idea or that I could understand everything these people say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
It's funny that I have less problem understanding American accents and/or slang than British accents and/or slang. Half of the time I hear Brits they might as well have spoken Chinese.