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I loved it. The masturbation scene is brilliant.

My 12 year old (I know! I am a bad dad for letting him watch it!) and his friends loved it!

But then my 9 year old and 12 year old loved battleships too!

Malc

It had a couple of redeeming features (the boob fight, the sex 'scene' at the beginning), but yeah, not good.

And, best of all, Julianne Moore

EDIT - whoops, fat fingers.

Lol.

I think I might watch Children of Men later, i've heard it has Julianne Moore in it, she really makes a film IMO.

Children of Men is one of my favourite films.

She ain't bad in this, to be fair, but it probably helps that she ain't in it much.

She ruined Hannibal though, from what little I remember of it. Should've never tried to replace Clarice.

And it has some of the best and most understated special fx. The chasing scene with the motorbikes and the rock in the face scene are amazing.

And i have to mention Jennifer Lawrence wonderful face again. phew!

I just fancied putting an old film on while I do some research, but I've packed them all!

Everyone should have seen seppuku by now.

I would certainly watch it if it starred Shia LeBoeuf

Watched Red Dawn yesterday. It wasn't actually too bad, if you can suspend disbelief and ignore the logical impossibilities.

6.5/10

Watched Get the Gringo with Melly Mel Man Gibson last night, it wasn't too bad if you left it running but switched off the TV and did something fun for a couple of hours, but you'd still have to pay the costs of the electricity so they'd always be that slight feeling of resentment towards it.

Not a patch on Payback, sadly.

Good work Oscar on the actress/actor winners, both Jennifer Lawrence and Mr Day Lewis are a-okay in my book. Christopher Waltz still massively entertaining too. I haven't seen Hathaway's film so I cannot comment.

Hollywood, do not ruin Miss Lawrence, please.

I'd love to ruin J... *snip*

*Cradles shotgun in arms*

You stay the hell away from her, y'hear?

As I have seen Silver Linings Playbook, I claim her for my own.

Yoga paaaaaannnnttts

Things I have learnt today:
This whole exchange makes much more sense when you aren't thinking that it is talking about "The Artist"

I should watch it. She was grand in Winter's Bone.

And yoga pants, you say?

Oh yes

Re-watched Buster Keaton's 'One Week' (Youtube link). Great fun.

The last time I saw it, it was in a large and packed auditorium with a live piano accompaniment.

You don't look that old dude, I wouldn't have put you much past 70...

Heh.

About 2004 I think. Fantastic evening. 'One Week' was the opener, then they showed 'The General'. There was something brilliant about being part of such a large crowd enjoying these films as they were meant to be seen. Would love to do it again.

I was at a ball at Keble College and they had it playing there, too.

The Sweeney:

Ray Winston says "slag" "ave it" "you're nicked" and "apples and pears", probably.

Seriously? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?

1/10

Had a toe curlingly good time watching K2 starring Michael Beihnehnernehnegrnrhbhn. Hn. A hilarious 90s twat display that's like Comic Strip's The Strike, but on a mountain.

Was that at the BFI or some such? If so, I was there for the general! On a preliminary date with my now fiancée.

Was my first experience of Keaton (apart from batman and Annie hall, natch) and was proper good.

edit - duffed up my quoting there.

It was in Oxford, in the large auditorium at Magdalen. The place was crammed!

I'd love to take someone to a Keaton show as a date. Course, if they turned out to be one of those Chaplain fans...

indeed, clergymen aren't my cup of tea either

Ooh, did I mention I watched The Hobbit? I did y'know. It could have easily been trimmed down about 20/30 minutes by cutting out some of the crap (Dwarf song, that riddles shit, etc). I mean, the riddles rap-battle probably works in the context of the book but it just doesn't work in the film: It's overly long and a bit tedious. Still, overal, I quite enjoyed The Hobbit but thought the tone could have been a bit darker (It certainly had the possibility). Comedy dwarf moments just smacked of Jackson doing a Lucus.

My verdict: Fellowship of the Rings for kids.

Watched the remake of 'Last House On The Left' a couple of nights ago, which was a very effective and often really quite nasty horror flick. I've seen it described as 'efficient but pointless' (something like that anyway), insofar as it's not perhaps a film that was ever crying out to be remade, but it's still pretty good.

Surprise of the entire event was Jesse Pinkman out of Breaking Bad being in there as one of the rapist's accomplices!

Er, didn't you leave for good? I'm sure there was a thread about it. You might have seen it - seen as you started it an' all.

Just asking as I don't read all the threads.

You're talking to someone who once had his own smiley named after him on a set of forums.



I really wanted to do the BEEX Sim City thing, which is the main reason I came back, but I figured I could chat about films and stuff as well.

Ooohhh the Dredd film is excellent.

The new one, that is. (Although I quite liked the Stallone one despite it being very corny.)

The new one however is fab. Goodies who you want to see win, baddies who want to see get killed to fuck, and loads of squishy violence.

I enjoyed that - and gorgeously compact at 86 minutes of actual film.

Has anyone watched Chronicle? It's dead good.

I don't want to give anything away, but it's great. Watch it, and stuff.

I see that Trooper, BertyBasset and MarkG have watched it.

It's always a nice surprise when a film you throw onto your tablet because "there's some room left over" turns out to be excellent.

I'm watching the Hobbit at the moment. 45 minutes in and it's all very pretty, but nothing has happened.

On 30th March at 10am in Bradford Park you can watch BTTF and there will be a replica BTFF Delorean there. It is free to attend.
Week after Mafagascar 3, week after that Tinkerbell and the secret of the wings, Aladdin, beaity and the beast in consecutive weeks finishing with toy story on 4th may.

Yep, not perfect, but thoroughly entertaining. For me, it's pretty much what I would have wanted from an American live action Akira.

Fucking Hell, it was Akira!

Yep. Liked it.

Yeah, I watched this a week ago - it was ok, but dragged on way too long. I reckon the three films should have been done as either one very long one or two regular films.

'Gettysburg' on the big screen! Oh boy oh boy oh boy.

(The beards will look even faker!)

FAO: Atrocity Exhibition. Is this likely to be worth the price of entry? I seem to recall you like Universal Soldier stuffs.

A few weeks/months ago I recorded a movie on the Virgin box (not unusual in itself, granted) as it had good reviews and seemed to suggest a movie I would enjoy. The film is called The Keep, and it was made in 1983, stars Gabriel Byrne, Jurgen Prochnow, Scott Glenn and Sir Ian McKellen. It's based in 1941 and is allegedly a supernatural horror film depicting the grisly happenings at a titular "keep" in rural Romania being occupied by German soldiers. For some reason, probably because of the reviews, I expected some tense, claustrophobic chiller that would involve a gradual increase of a sense of dread as the soldiers quietly go mad with fear and start turning on one another.

Instead, what you get is an early 80s film that is so of it's time it looks for all the world like a Bonnie Tyler video, replete with loads of dry ice, backlighting, slow motion deaths, atrocious acting and the most inappropriately obtrusive synth soundtrack that's there all the bloody time. It basically revolves around the soldiers unleashing some unspeakably evil force, which turns out to be a man shaped thing with glowing red eyes and mouth that speaks in English, and confusingly does some good deeds to the decent character members while eviscerating the evil ones. It was awful on so many levels.

I'm slightly baffled as to why it was reviewed so well. Anyway... avoid it unless you find this kind of cheesy shit amusing

Wikipedia has it as "a critical and commercial failure" and Rotten Tomatoes give it 27% so maybe the answer to your bafflement is 'because it wasn't'?

I'm not surprised — I didn't check either of those, just went on the reviews in the various papers that week. That'll teach me

I went to see Oz the Great and Powerful last night. It was more Oz the only just about worth watching.

It's long and feels long. It doesn't do very much in its time. It lacks any decent amount of wit and barely raises even a smile for the most part.

Mila Kunis doesn't even get close to doing a performance anywhere near the quality of the original Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz.

Plenty much cgi obviously which can't help the actors really get into it. I suspect most of it was filmed against green screen with very little there that is actually physical.

However the final half hour is quite entertaining and Michelle Williams is a delight in it. But I just wished the whole film was a bit more fun. It needed more sparkle somehow.