Father Dougal McGuire Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Boyz N The Hood - 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Blood Tide (1982) James Earl Jones is a diver who somehow frees a demon near a Greek island, and he has to stop it before it kills all the young women on the island. Some sort of local legend or other, loads of nut-job Greek Orthodox people causing all sorts of hassle for the outsiders. Eventually he blows it up, and himself, with some C4. Apparently that kills immortal demons from 1500 BC. Film was actually not bad as these low budget films that don't really fit into a particular genre go, but it would have got a pass mark if we hadn't seen the real shit looking demon. Just the idea of it was sufficient, showing it on screen added nothing in this case. 4/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Pauli Fifer Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 It's on Sky Anytime just now 'ESPN Films: The Two Escobars. Brilliant film 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonElgin Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Salem's Lot - 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lau03143 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 My Week With Marilyn Went to see this with the burd as it was her turn to choose, and to be honest, I quiet liked it. It's not a chick flick like I first thought. Michelle Williams plays a very hot Marilyn Monroe. But I think it's been exaggerated somewhat from what probably happened in real life. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 The Mafu Cage (1978) A crazy woman (the ghost of Christmas Present in Scrooged) that keeps a monkey (or a Mafu), she beats it to death in a rage then keeps guy that reminded me of Neil MacFarlane in chains. Utter nonsense that wasn't even "so shit it's funny". I kept hoping that Glenn Matthews (not everyone will get that) would show up, but he never did. 1/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodjesSixteenIncher Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 It's on Sky Anytime just now 'ESPN Films: The Two Escobars. Brilliant film 9/10 How weird, was just coming on to mention that. Didn't watch it on TV, so bit of a coincidence! Cracking documentary, although it was a bit weird how sort of concluded that Escobar (Pablo) was a bit of a decent bloke after covering his terrorist attacks in the first segment. Think it was done to continue the parallel his story to that of Andres, but the effort to match the two stories felt a bit contrived. Amazing story though. On Youtube in 11 parts if anyone without Sky Anytime wants to see it. 8/10 Apocalypse Now Would have been my answer to the 'Citizen Kane question', ie what is the one major classic film you've never seen. Absolutely amazing. Goes without saying that Coppola is the absolute master of visual and aural film-making. In terms of depicting the process of going insane this goes up there with films like Taxi Driver and The Shining. Apart from maybe the Godfather and Once Upon A Time in America, I must admit there isn't many films I can stay gripped to for more than 3 hours but this was one of them. 10/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forehead7 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Loads recently. The Fighter - thought this was quite good. Not sure how Melissa Leo won an Oscar though(especially as Hailie Steinfield was in the same category), didn't think she was that good. Bale and Wahlberg were good though, Bale was well worth his Oscar. I'm not a boxing fan at all so boxing films don't usually grip me too well(didn't like Raging Bull) but this was good enough. 7/10 Superman - Good enough. I like Gene Hackman, but he doesn't suit Lex Luthor, he's too "goofy". Luthor is only credible as a foe to Superman because Luthor's a fucking genius. 6/10 Superman 2 - This was alright, some of the flying scenes with the three Kryptonians were hilariously bad, don't age well at all. I quite liked Terence Stamp as General Zod though, haven't read any Superman comics with him but he performed quite well. Again, Hackman was in this but again, he came off too goofy. 6.5/10 What I will say is that Christopher Reeves did really well as Superman/Clark Kent. Especially as Clark Kent, the reason the alter ego works is because Kent is so clumsy and whatnot that you'd never expect him to be Superman, Reeves played this so well. Superman Returns - This was really good. Surprising given it's a Bryan Singer film. Kevin Spacey was amazing, a much better Lex Luthor than Hackman. Routh was alright as Kent, not as good as Reeves. I'm presuming that this film is supposed to be set after the previous Superman films(Lois Lane now has a kid) but the actress who plays Lane(Kate Bosworth) was 23 when this film was released, she looks too young be playing Lane who needs to be quite older. Her kid looks at least 6(I'm terrible with judging age) so she needs to look at least 30-35 with the previous films, they'd be set over a couple of years, at least. This is just me being a bit nitpicky, it's still a really good film though. 8/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lau03143 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Poltergeist Awful, took to long to get going and when it did it wasn't great. 3/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Scrooged Undeniably my favourite Christmas film, Murray is at his best in this, some of the lines are pure genius and quotable. 9/10 You know what they say about people who treat other people bad on the way up? Yeah, you get to treat 'em bad on the way back down too. It's great, you get two chances to rough 'em up -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyTON Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Cars 2 (2011) That was fun, it's nowhere near the classic that the first one was, but Disney sequels never are. It's good none-the-less, and having Mater (who is one of my favourite cartoon characters of all time) feature for the majority of the film helps it greatly. Worth a rent/download. 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 (edited) Horrible Bosses I thought this would be shit but it was actually pretty good. Predivtable but a solid cast and Kevin Spacey is great as usual. 7/10 Scrooged Undeniably my favourite Christmas film, Murray is at his best in this, some of the lines are pure genius and quotable. 9/10 Definitely gonna watch this in the next two weeks. I remember going to see it for my 7th birthday, some of the bits were quite fucked up for a 7 year old. Edited December 4, 2011 by Bert Raccoon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 (edited) The Hangover 2 Wasn't too impressed the first time, enjoyed it more the second time. Watching it for the 3rd time an definately enjoying it more, definitely a grower of a film. 8.5/10 Edited December 4, 2011 by Bert Raccoon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeeHectorPar Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Horrible Bosses I thought this would be shit but it was actually pretty good. Predivtable but a solid cast and Kevin Spacey is great as usual. 7/10 Definitely gonna watch this in the next two weeks. I remember going to see it for my 7th birthday, some of the bits were quite fucked up for a 7 year old. I've just watched "Horrible Bosses" and I agree with your rating. The bosses, Spacey and Farrell are marvelously evil and you just want to do them in. The three victims, who decide to do the evil deed themselves just go from disaster to disaster and Jamie Foxx is great as "Motherfuckah", the murder consultant who turns out to have done time for video piracy. But come on, guys! What normal kind of man would want to kill Jennifer Aniston rather than screw her??? 7/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lau03143 Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 But come on, guys! What normal kind of man would want to kill Jennifer Aniston rather than screw her??? That's basically what I thought through it all! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lau03143 Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Hugo Went to see this this afternoon. And I don't really know what to make of it. It wasn't what I expected. It's a bit slow getting started but by the end I was enjoying it. Even tho he was only in it for a matter of seconds, I didn't think Jude Law as Hugo's father was well cast. Even though it was a small time on screen, Hugo's relationship with his dad is an ongoing theme but I don't think Law seems "fatherly" enough for it. Maybe he wasn't old enough. Anyway, by the end of it, I did enjoy it. 6.5/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisandro Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Without doubt one of the most boring, overrated films I have ever seen. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Trying to hard. Whatched Apocolyspe now for the first time last night and I must say that it was one of the best films I have ever seen. Simply sublime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Training Day - Why have I never seen this film before? Denzel is excellent throughout and I really enjoyed it. Worth staying up to 1AM for. 9/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint dave Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Trying to hard. Whatched Apocolyspe now for the first time last night and I must say that it was one of the best films I have ever seen. Simply sublime. Try the redux version , the story is more linear. Far better than the original IMO. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now_Redux 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lau03143 Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Try the redux version , the story is more linear. Far better than the original IMO. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now_Redux Is the redux the directors cut? I don't think I've seen the original but the directors cut which was released for the first time about ten years ago. Thought it was pretty good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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