Lemonade Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I'm planning catching The Wrestler and My Bloody Valentine 3D this week. Been down to see Valentine twice in the last week and it was sold out both times. Wouldn't mind seeing Milk as well. I'd like to see all the films up for the Best Picture oscar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I'm planning catching The Wrestler and My Bloody Valentine 3D this week. Been down to see Valentine twice in the last week and it was sold out both times. Wouldn't mind seeing Milk as well. I'd like to see all the films up for the Best Picture oscar.Don't bother with The Reader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Jo-D Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I'm away to watch Doubt & Milk, same as you fancy seeing most of the films up out of curiosity and boredum!My Bloody 3D on Wed hopefully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 I'm away to watch Doubt & Milk, same as you fancy seeing most of the films up out of curiosity and boredum!My Bloody 3D on Wed hopefullyThat's my plan too. It's only on at the beach so I'll probably be there at the 9.00 showing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Jo-D Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 We're heading 6.30 showing, I fall asleep in anything later!! haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatHand Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Watched The Black Swan last night. Much better than Pirates of the Caribbean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTickingTime-Bomb Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 I'm planning catching The Wrestler...Good call.I loved The Fountain and also Pi. But this one has Mickey in it!Can it possibly go wrong?No. No it can't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Deathnail Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 I tried watching Transformers at the weekend. Wasn't happening. Think I'd rather have stuck on the cartoon movie. I hear the sequel might be more worthwhile. Planning to try and catch Milk sometime this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 I was off work sick yesterday so I fired up the DVD player and got stuck into this little lot:Shadow Of A Doubt - (a black & white Hitchcock film from 1942). Very good movie, lots of edge of the seat suspense in typical HItchcock fashion. Virtually no action, the whole story is told by sparkling dialogue, something sadly missing in most movies these days.Verdict - Thumbs UpThe Blues Brothers - for probably the 100th time or so. Never get tired of watching this. Absolute classic.Verdict - Thumbs upBlues Brothers 2000 - horrible. A poor imitation of the original, it really missed John Belushi, Elwood Blues has gone from being effortlessly cool and straight faced to being a burbling idiot. And he's got a stupid nasal voice. I could just about handle John Goodman being in the Blues Brothers band, but the cop guy totally sucked and the kid was just annoying as fuck. Why the fuck would you put a fucking kid in the Blues Brothers band? It's like they just thought "What can we do to make it bigger and better than the original? I know, why not have FOUR singers instead of two! And we'll make one of them a kid, and we'll put him in a dark suit, hat and glasses so everyone says "aaaaawwwww", but we'll let him wear white trainers instead of shoes because he's a KID you see! And that's what kids do!" Horrible. Just horrible. Not only that but the movie was utterly bereft of any memorable moments, and there wasn't even any good songs in it. Words cannot express just how much I hate this film.Verdict - Thumbs downSuperman Returns - The film was too long and pretty boring, Brendan Routh had zero charisma either as Clark Kent or as Superman, Lois Lane was just annoying and the plot of the film sucked. Case in point - the humans rescue Superman! It's just cloying, syrupy, 'Superman makes us all be better people' pap. And when that specky, ashmatic geeky kid is revealed as Superman's son I just get fucking angry. What a truly pointless plot twist. Where were they hoping to go with that? Superman & Son in the next film? Or did it the fuck the story up so much that they had to shelve plans for a sequel and instead going for another franchise "reboot"? Well, let this be the answer. However, Warner Bros. was somewhat disappointed with the box office return, and the studio has announced their plans to reboot the Superman film series, with a new film released in 2011,[2] although Brandon Routh is still set to return as SupermanSuperman (film series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaVerdict :down::down::down: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Jo-D Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 whoooo 3D tonight!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Going to see either Slumdog or Role Models tonight I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Going to see either Slumdog or Role Models tonight I think.Role Models is great for an all out chuckle / boob / swear-fest. Slumdog is top notch, worth checking out but it can be hard going in places, what with the poverty and child abuse. Depends what you're in the mood for I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 Chose Role Models, it was great. Loads of big laughs in it.Strange thing was we bought the tickets and the screens in Vue said that there were Few Left, which to me indicates that it's almost sold out. Yet when we went in it was empty and there was loads of seats free when the film started.Also all the trailers were shit. Apart from I Love You, Man. Which at least looked funny, if slightly run of the mill. Guess all the good stuff's being released before the oscars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I went to see Underworld: Rise of the Lycans last night.It was surprisingly good.... i'd heard bad things.My Bloody Valentine 3D tonight!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I went to see Underworld: Rise of the Lycans last night.It was surprisingly good.... i'd heard bad things.My Bloody Valentine 3D tonight!!!!Ahh, i want to see Underworld. Just can't persuade any of my usual cinema buddies to go see it as they think it looks shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I went to My Bloody Valentine 3D last night, it was ace, an absolute gorefest. The 3D effects were fantastic, it looked really good and the people jumped out of the screen and felt like they were right in front of you. The opening sequence in partcular is really impressive. You really need to see it in the cinema in 3D tho because that's the real selling point, without it it's just another horror movie (though better than a lot of the dross that gets churned out in the name of horror). It's really nothing original, it harks back to the Friday the 13th slasher era, you can see it's influences a mile away, but it's still really good and keeps you guessing with the whodunit right til the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 Went to see Milk. Enjoyable. Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch are both fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoodyRATM Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I watched that valkarie film last night, i'd seen role models and some other stuff but that was the only one i wanted to see. Not bad, little long at points. But i thought it was decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Mac Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 Ahh, i want to see Underworld. Just can't persuade any of my usual cinema buddies to go see it as they think it looks shit I thought it was going to be really shit too, but was pleasantly surprised.And Rhona Mitra is smoking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Jo-D Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I went to My Bloody Valentine 3D last night, it was ace, an absolute gorefest. The 3D effects were fantastic, it looked really good and the people jumped out of the screen and felt like they were right in front of you. The opening sequence in partcular is really impressive. You really need to see it in the cinema in 3D tho because that's the real selling point, without it it's just another horror movie (though better than a lot of the dross that gets churned out in the name of horror). It's really nothing original, it harks back to the Friday the 13th slasher era, you can see it's influences a mile away, but it's still really good and keeps you guessing with the whodunit right til the end.I loved it too!! I jumped about 3 or 4 times, which I never really do in horrors all down to the 3D. You have to take it for what it is a slasher movie, which in my eyes is all about the 'killings' (say it in '' cause always think of the League of gentleman sketch...'How many killings') and they way they were done. There was loads of great 3D bits (much more than scar ...but not sure sitting further down the cinema helped that). We got the killer wrong!I'd go and see again probably if 241the trailers looked good too The Unborn & Push (tried not to watch too much to spoil it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 I loved it too!! I jumped about 3 or 4 times, which I never really do in horrors all down to the 3D. You have to take it for what it is a slasher movie, which in my eyes is all about the 'killings' (say it in '' cause always think of the League of gentleman sketch...'How many killings') and they way they were done. There was loads of great 3D bits (much more than scar ...but not sure sitting further down the cinema helped that). We got the killer wrong!Me too At the 9.00 showing there was a girl who ran out halfway through with her hand over her mouth and never came back. Sign of a good horror film!The bit when he chops out the guys chin then it comes flying toward the camera and you hearing splatting behind you as it lands. Genius. I watch a lot of horror I don't really get scared by blood and gore and that these days, it's about seeing the more and more extreme and interesting screen deaths these days the bit with the chin for example was fantastic, as was the pick axe through the eye. The spade bit was pretty great but it's been done already in a British film last year called "The Cottage" which was prety shit actually.Best screen death scene I've ever seen was the opening of "Ghost Ship". 100 people in formal-wear simultaneously being chopped in half at the waist by razor wire. Just astonishingly good. It's just a pity the rest of the film was boring and predictable or it could have been a splatter-fest classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 Watched 'Man On The Moon' last night (or at least the last half of it); forgot how awesome it is, stirling performance from Jim Carey. Must dig out Bob Zamuda's Andy Kaufman biography now.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 And Rhona Mitra is smoking.She certainly is. She's not Kate Beckinsale though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Jo-D Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 Me too At the 9.00 showing there was a girl who ran out halfway through with her hand over her mouth and never came back. Sign of a good horror film!The bit when he chops out the guys chin then it comes flying toward the camera and you hearing splatting behind you as it lands. Genius. I watch a lot of horror I don't really get scared by blood and gore and that these days, it's about seeing the more and more extreme and interesting screen deaths these days the bit with the chin for example was fantastic, as was the pick axe through the eye. The spade bit was pretty great but it's been done already in a British film last year called "The Cottage" which was prety shit actually.Best screen death scene I've ever seen was the opening of "Ghost Ship". 100 people in formal-wear simultaneously being chopped in half at the waist by razor wire. Just astonishingly good. It's just a pity the rest of the film was boring and predictable or it could have been a splatter-fest classic.yeah loved the chin bit, good antisi....pation leading up to it cause you knew it was gonna happen!! done superb! reminded my of ichi the killer for some reason! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 Watched 'Man On The Moon' last night (or at least the last half of it); forgot how awesome it is, stirling performance from Jim Carey. Must dig out Bob Zamuda's Andy Kaufman biography now....Haven't seen that for a good while, Carrey's best performance for sure. After seeing it for the first time I went on a mission to find out as much as I could about Andy Kaufman. Did the same with Lenny Bruce after the Dustin Hoffman film. Can't beat a good biopic.... Speaking of... anyone seen the new film bout Biggie Smalls? dunno if its out yet and Ive got google-fatigue. I kinda want to see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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