Last film you watched?

[Lemonade]

44 Inch Chest - Ray Winstone plays a London gangster (surprise surprise) who finds out his wife's been " 'avin' it off wif some frog waiter". So him and his gangster cronies go round and kidnap the guy and tie him up in a wardrobe. Then nothing really happens for an hour, and then the film ends. Winstone spends most of the film crying and going on about 'ow much he loved 'er and pretty much the whole film takes place in one room. The pace of the film is very very slow, which I guess was to try and hide the fact that they only had 20 minutes of plot.

Great acting, especially by John Hurt, but it's still boring as hell.

**

[Paranoid Android]

Oh haaaii stroopy.

[Stroopy121]

Oh haaaii stroopy.

YOU ARE TEARING ME APART 'ROID 'DROID!

xx

[Paranoid Android]

I actually haven't seen the film.

I just know the "oh hai" meme

[Soda Jerk]

The Story of Anvil

Quite heart warming and funny. The bit where Lips goes nuts about getting paid to one of the promoters was great. As was when Lips convinces Reiner to come back inside and play the gig because it's jam packed, but then it shows the gig and there's about 5 people there.

However, I think the reason they didn't make it was because they were awful.

[Jaaakkkeee]

Watched the Jurassic Park trilogy on ITV 2 the last few nights. All 3 are worth a watch but definitely got progressively worse. Not saying that 3 is shit, just not as good as 2, and 2's not as good as 1.

[ca_gere]

A Town Called Panic

The most insane, bizarre, brilliant, twisted and fun film i've ever seen. Had a smile on my face the whole way through. I normally hate stop motion but this is definitely an exception. I'm gonna watch it over and over I reckon.

[Teabags]

Mean Streets - Heap of shite.

[Yh_Buddy_]

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick is a brilliant director/producer but this film was so slow it was painful to watch and it was boring as hell.

The classical soundtrack was alright though.

[Le Stu]

American : The Bill Hicks Story which wasn't what I thought it was going to be, which would be the same as every other documentary on the guy I've seen. By animating it, for the most part, it avoids that trap and there's all the classic clips and footage I've never seen before. Plus it goes into his background, friendships and problems, some of which I was completely unaware of. And it got a couple of belly laughs outta me. RIP.

Inside Job a slickly made account of how Wall St. captured the banking sector, government, economics profession and the taxpayer (of course) and how they're still there, leeching away, even under Obama. It's a bit depressing, tbh, but if you want to know what the solution is, you first have to size up the problem, I suppose.

[Larsen B]

The Room

A little background on this film: Writer/Director/Star Tommy Wiseau raised 6m to make this movie out of his own pocket. He wrote, shot and starred in this movie which in it's entire run in the cinema made around 2,000.

It is hailed as being the worst movie ever made.

Y'know when someone says that something is "so bad that it's good" but they really mean that it's shite but you'll laugh at it once or twice?

Not so with The Room. The Room is so endlessly awful that it is gut-wrenchingly hilarious from start to finish. The actors can't act, the script is terrible, the plot is awful, the scenery is horrendous, the metaphors are clumsy, the plotholes are unbleievable.

This 'romantic drama' is so infinitely shit that it was remarketed as a black comedy and since then a cult following of people now go to viewings and chant along with the farcically long 'pan across scenery' shots, do laps around the aisles during the painfully long, uncomfortable sex scenes, correct the inaccurate dialogue and (the highlight for me)

when a framed picture of a spoon appears in the background on the set. the list of 'memes' (for lack of a better term) surrounding this movie seems endless and it's an utter riot to watch, especially in a cinema full of people who know the 'memes' that go along with it.

If you see this movie showing anywhere, go see it. It's a cinema experience unlike anything I've ever seen.

Wiki for more info.

10/10

xx

Yes, it was ace wasn't it!!! (assuming you were there last night and it doesn't so happen that it was the last film you saw, but somewhere else altogether)

[Monster Zero]

The Other Guys

Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg as 2 cops trying to be the top dogs after Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock no longer fill that position. Pretty disappointing, although the bit where Will accuses Eva Mendes of serving him 'boiled dog asshole' was pretty funny.

5/10

[Shaki]

Che Part One - more action based than I was expecting but a good performance and enjoyable watch - 7/10

Lebanon - Israeli film set in the first Lebanon war following 4 fairly useless and shit scared soliders in a tank as they move into Southern Lebanon. It's all shot from within the tank with shots of the outside taken through the viewfinder. An anti-war film which glorifies nothing, probably not that popular in Israel. Definitely worth a watch. 8/10

[Stroopy121]

Yes, it was ace wasn't it!!! (assuming you were there last night and it doesn't so happen that it was the last film you saw, but somewhere else altogether)

I was, and it was. Couldn't believe how much awesome Wiseau managed to cram into one movie completely by accident.

xx

[Soda Jerk]

The Other Guys

Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg as 2 cops trying to be the top dogs after Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock no longer fill that position. Pretty disappointing, although the bit where Will accuses Eva Mendes of serving him 'boiled dog asshole' was pretty funny.

5/10

Yeah it's a bit dull. I liked the Desk Pop and Apartment Pop bits though, and just the bit where Samuel L and The Rock jump off the building.

[qzdiablo]

Red, White & Blue - One of the most compelling films I've seen in a while. The trailer presents it as basically a genre excercise (not going to say which genre) but it's so much more interesting than that. About relationships and retribution. This woman, shags about 20 guys in the first 10 minutes of the film. She starts getting to know her neighbour, a stoic, beardy ex-soldier who has just returned from Iraq. It's not a porno.

I'm being vague cos I knew v.v. little about it when I saw it and left me pretty much stunned.

Spoolroos (The Vanishing) - I liked this one too. It's about a guy who's girlfriend VANISHES on holiday. The narrative about his attempts to locate her years afterwards are inter-cut with scenes chronologically previous, concerning this shady character experimenting with chloroform and trying to coerce women into his car.

I think Mark Kermode summed this film up best when he said it was about "the banality of evil" (and i've never liked Mark Kermode). Even though for most of it's duration the film is depicting the tedious occurrence of a central character obsessing inwardly over something, there's a heightening sense of dread over the course of the film. It pays off in the latter stages.

The US remake is seemingly horrible though, I understand they changed the key plot-point that makes the original so affecting.

[Le Stu]

Rubber a really strange film about the antics of a roaming killer tyre, with a captive audience. I'm not sure if it was amazingly lame or not but enthusing about it after watching it until 2am seems like too much effort, tbh.

[Surfer_Rosa]

Spoolroos (The Vanishing) - I liked this one too. It's about a guy who's girlfriend VANISHES on holiday. The narrative about his attempts to locate her years afterwards are inter-cut with scenes chronologically previous, concerning this shady character experimenting with chloroform and trying to coerce women into his car.

I think Mark Kermode summed this film up best when he said it was about "the banality of evil" (and i've never liked Mark Kermode). Even though for most of it's duration the film is depicting the tedious occurrence of a central character obsessing inwardly over something, there's a heightening sense of dread over the course of the film. It pays off in the latter stages.

I watched this this week too. I really enjoyed it although

I wish the end hadn't been hyped up as shocking before I watched it, so I was kind of anticipating it

[Jaaakkkeee]

Rented Toy Story 3 on iTunes. Safe to say when payday comes I'm buying the boxset of 1,2 and 3. Perfect way to end the story, with

The toys being passed on to someone else. Although, I think they've been smart. If they're ever dry for a story they could reboot it in a few years time. But I hope they don't.

Wasn't as sad as a lot of Disney stuff, but to be honest I'm glad. I've managed not to cry at a Disney film. It's a milestone.

*****

[Diesel]

The Town

Entertaining bank heist movie that bears more than a passing resemblance to the criminal aspect of Michael Mann's "Heat".

A pumped up and buffed out Ben Affleck leads a four-man team of Irish-American bank robbers in Boston, who work for a gangster named Fergie (the late, great Pete Postlethwaite).

When his partner in crime (played by Jeremy Renner) discovers that a witness from the recent heist (Rebecca Hall) lives close to them and is therefore a threat, Affleck decides to keep an eye on her. Needless to say, they fall in love and things spiral from there.

Excellent action with Affleck and Renner on top form. 8/10

[Jaaakkkeee]

The Town

A pumped up and buffed out Ben Affleck leads a four-man team of Irish-American bank robbers in Boston, who work for a gangster named Fergie (the late, great Pete Postlethwaite).

. 8/10

GTA IV.

I fancied watching this actually. Just never got round to it.

[ca_gere]

Up In The Air - George Clooney plays a guy who works for a "downsizing agency" and his job is to fly from city to city firing people. He lives a completely isolated life, never staying in the same place for more than a day and all he owns is what he can fit in his hand luggage bag. Though he is very happy with his lifestyle, and he considers airports and planes to be his home, as he never actually goes back to his own place, just travels from job to job. Until he meets a woman on a flight which makes him re-assess his life and think about putting down roots. It sounds like the plot to a a bad romantic comedy, but it's not, it's more a sort of reflective, melancholy comedy drama, in the vein of Garden State, The Station Agent, Pieces of April etc. The soundtrack has Elliott Smith on it, so, you know, that kind of film. It focuses heavily on the characters, and as usual Clooney absolutely shines, and the young actress who plays Natalie is also excellent, playing the ambitious young go-getter who is hard as nails on the outside but extremely fragile on the inside.

All in all, it's a good film, though there are a couple too many subplots going on and it's about 20 minutes too long, but the dialogue absolutely sparkles, and (as usual) Clooney earns it an extra star.

****

Would watch again? Yes.

Watched this last night. Really enjoyed it. Clooney continues to be excellent in just about everything he does. It would have been easy to play up the big-business-man-nobbin-loads-of-birds-all over the country but his character is better fleshed out than that and the film has a more subtle tact. I didn't think it was too long at all. All in all a great film but not as good as confessions of a window cleaner.

[Shaki]

Che Part One - more action based than I was expecting but a good performance and enjoyable watch - 7/10

Che Part Two - I actually liked this one better than the first. Less rat-a-tat-tat and more dialogue/story. 8/10.

Del Torro was great throughout both films but in his interview in the extras he seems like a real space cadet.

[Mr Owl PhD]

I didn't think it was too long at all. All in all a great film but not as good as confessions of a window cleaner.

Nothing is. Ever. It's better than Citizen Kane.

[ca_gere]

Trying to remember the name of a film, might be from around the 60's, Two things i remember is two total pissheads living in london, the flat gets so cold they rub themselves in deep heat to keep warm and the line "we're not drunks we're millionaires? Two guys at work were talking about it and it sounds ace.

seriously? I thought you were a student at some point? Withnail & I should be ingrained into your consciousness.