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Recent films you've seen
"lets go back"
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on 21/06/2006 at 3:39:18PM
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Original Post:
Post any films you have seen recently (cinema, DVD or TV) along with a short review.

Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift

7/10

Its rubbish really. The story is pathetic and the set pieces are unbelievable (the Japanese Yakuza settling a problem with some punk kid by having a car race? I dont think so), but the only reason you would go to see this film is for the cars anyway and the races all look great. It was as fun to watch as the other two, possibly even better than #2 and there is a nice surprise at the end for fans of the series.

If you are wanting some great acting, a heart wrentching story and some brilliantly detailed drama, then this isnt for you. If you want Japanese girls in short skirts driving customised sports cars then I think you'll love it.

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pete_21
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A Perfect Getaway : A lame and predictable thriller,wouldn't bother with it TBH 5.5/10.
Garin
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on 04/10/2009 at 7:41:56PM
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Lies & Illusions

Christian Slater plays a writer of a relatonship book.  On the evening he proposes to his girlfriend, she gets kidnapped and is later presumed dead.  A year later he discovers the girlfriend isnt who he thought.  Add into the mix another girlfriend, some diamonds, Cuba Gooding Jr and probably some of the most inappropriate backing music you can imagine.  Anyway, truely awful.  Production was incredibly amateurish. It easily passed that line where it wasnt just bad but so bad it was funny.  It got worse as the movie progressed too, at first I thought they were poking fun at the genre especially with the bizarrely matched music.  Sadly they were serious though.

2/10
MoJoJoJo
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on 03/10/2009 at 12:55:52PM
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I signed up to lovefilm not long ago and I've started catching up on the YEARS of films I've missed, mostly comedies (I don't think comedies are suited to the cinema and I didn't want to buy them in case they were dirt) so I just watched Starsky and Hutch.

Not too bad, not sure it HAD to be a comedy but it had its funny bits.
spoonbeast
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I did watch casino royale and whilst i enjoyed it, something made me snigger. The story is a bit silly, if this was a classic movie with sean connery, this would look utterly, uttlerly stupid.

Beat the super villian at a game of cards to get info? What the hell? when did 007 become a super casino player?


Still great movie. Now i have to sit annoyed by the fact my vcr didn't record the last 45 minuates! to add insult to injury the reason why was because i didn't put a bloody tape into the vcr!
Sonic Chris
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Well that's the whole comedy value :D They've made it as a serious film, when *secretly* i think it's been made to be a big flop for a joke. As i've said before, it's got Lorenzo Lamas in it- the benchmark of bad films.
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on 02/10/2009 at 9:54:18AM
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A serious tradegy film where a shark jumps 30,000 ft in the air?
Sonic Chris
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Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
I watched this film ages ago, but i forgot to post a rating up for it.

The reason i watched this film is because it was born as a tragedy. I don't believe anyone has made this film with oscars in mind, it's an absolute farce, and it's soooo funny. Although made as a serious tragedy film, the comedy element is rife among the scenes. For example
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I'm going to give this film 10/10 JUST so you'll watch it!

It's that terrible, i can't even write a serious review on it!
Garin
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pete_21 wrote:
> Observe & Report : Not very good TBH 5/10

I saw it last weekend.  Strange movie.
pete_21
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Observe & Report : Not very good TBH 5/10
Garin
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on 01/10/2009 at 2:07:16PM
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Not posted anything in here for a while so...

Echelon Conspiracy

This started out quite promisingly.  Some guy receives a mobile phone anonymously in mail and then starts receiving text messages which appear to show knowledge of future events.  At that point theres lots of possibilities.  As things progress you realise its a total rip off of another movie (no names to avoid spoilers) and barely has an original idea of its own.  The lead role follows a similar theme.  They couldnt create their own character so they stole one from a sitcom.  Shane West appears to have been hired to act the entire movie doing an impression of Chandler from Friends.  Its really quite bizarre watching him do all these Matthew Perry mannerisms.

6/10

Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past

And speaking of rip-offs...
Matthew McConaughey and yet another spoof on A Christmas Carol.  Having watched An American Carol last year, literally anything was going to be a step up so this was mildly watchable.  Entirely predictable romantic comedy of course, McConaughey plays himself (badly), gets visited by 3 ghosts and so on.  If you dont have an hour and 40 minutes to spare you can actually watch the trailer as it covers the whole plot and all the key moments.
Oh and Michael Douglas plays a ghost.  He looked about 90 and like he was starting to decompose. I'm not sure this was the work of  makeup though.

5/10


Adventureland

Whatever you do, dont read the description or watch the trailer for this movie.  It does nothing but lie!  Its portrayed as a comedy but basically its a "teen-angst" movie.  Nerd cant afford to go to college so goes to work in theme park for the summer, meets girl blah blah blah....  There were a few comic moments, not enough to earn the title of comedy though. 

3/10

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

You know that scene they do in movies where the protagonist holds a dead/injured person in their arms, the camera cuts to an aerial shot and then theres the cry of anguish and the camera zooms out??  It should be banned from all movies.  Anyway...
Disjointed.  Describes it perfectly for me.  Its almost like they wanted to make a movie about Wolverine but didnt really want  anything to do with the source material.  So its neither true to the comics or to the previous X-Men movies.  Still Hugh Jackman jumps around alot and kills people.  So its easy to forgive it for not being the greatest representation of the material.

7/10

Frost / Nixon

Thankfully the film is nothing like the real events so it was mildly interesting.  I've never seen this mentioned in any reviews but I didnt think the portrayal of David Frost was entirely fair.  They make him out to be a bit of an idiot and suggest his (american) researchers are the real brains.  And Nixon comes off pretty well all things considered.

6/10

State of Play

Mixed feelings about this.  On the one hand its quite a good movie.  On the other hand, I really hate Russell Crowe.  If they insist on putting him in films, he should at least end up dead.  Mr. Smug plays a news reporter who ends up investigating the murder of a researcher who works for his friend, a US Congressman (Ben Affleck) who is part of a committee looking into defense spending.  Cue conspiracies, secrets, lies and betrayals. 

7/10
Nin
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Alfonse wrote:
> Just watched Blade Runner, didn't really care for it.

What's wrong with you? I hate sci-fi but Blade Runner is awesome
Alfonse
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on 08/09/2009 at 12:55:02AM
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Just watched Blade Runner, didn't really care for it.
spoonbeast
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on 06/09/2009 at 4:53:26PM
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i was going to set up a topic for some cookery tips that freeola's forum users could provide, i even came up with a name


Freeola's Unified Cookery Kitchen and its members would be:

Freeola's Unified Cookery Kitcheners.


Nut after some thought i didn't bother.



Anyway movies:


Babel- A compelling movie that has 3 completely unrelated groups of people merging into one story. Strangely compelling and enjoyable.

7/10


Miami Vice- Hmm, yes, well... I didn't really pay much attention to this one. Its a basic undercover rubbish police story with drugs that ends with an ok shoot out. Nothing remotely exciting or compelling.

4/10
Timmargh
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on 06/09/2009 at 4:28:41PM
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Sacrilege!
Steel Protagon...
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on 06/09/2009 at 4:08:19PM
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Bypassing the swear filter
I'm disgusted by such contempt for our sacred rules
Nin
"Monochromatic"
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on 06/09/2009 at 1:55:46AM
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The Godfather 8/10

2nd Best Film of All-Time? Nin says W T F? It's not even the best film I've seen this year.

Seeing as you won't let me use the letters W T F,  I improvised.
RastaBillySkan...
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pete_21 wrote:
> Night At The Museum 2 : Pretty Crap 4/10
>
> Pink Panther 2 : Really Crap 3/10.How did they get actors like
> Alfred Molina and Jean Reno to appear in this ?.

$
pete_21
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on 24/08/2009 at 8:43:02AM
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Night At The Museum 2 : Pretty Crap 4/10

Pink Panther 2 : Really Crap 3/10.How did they get actors like Alfred Molina and Jean Reno to appear in this ?.
Nin
"Monochromatic"
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on 22/08/2009 at 1:42:25PM
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Currently watching

Whale Rider 9/10

Saw it 7 years ago, absolute quality. The performance by Keisha Castle Hughes is astnoshing considering it was her début, look out for her speech at the end.
Warhunt
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Azulander
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Um?

Offensive language?

By copying the synopsis of a critically acclaimed, Cannes award winning film from IMDB?
Are you kidding?
Azulander
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on 15/08/2009 at 12:25:43PM
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I watched Antichrist, starring Willem Dafoe as "He" and Charlotte Gainsbourg as "She", from such things as Science of Sleep!
Directed by Lars von Trier

Very good!

ADMIN: Content removed for offensive language, and trying to breach the filters.

Good film!
Nin
"Monochromatic"
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on 14/08/2009 at 5:40:41PM
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 6/10
History isn't always as interesting as it could be. Kind of disappointing for the build-up.

Revolutionary Road 8/10
I suspect I'm short changing it with an 8, because it's pretty much flawless. Outstanding performances, great soundtrack, thoroughly depressing story. Anyone getting married should see this first.

Milk 8/10
A little biased and a little contrived but that can be forgiven, highly enjoyable.
pete_21
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on 14/08/2009 at 5:04:23PM
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G Force : Watchable enough,kids will like it 7/10.

Terminator Salvation : What a letdown 5/10.

17 Again : Much better than I was expecting,worth a rent IMO 7/10.
Nin
"Monochromatic"
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on 03/08/2009 at 8:35:03PM
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In the last 10 days

Ghost Town 6/10
Very slow start but it ends up being quite enjoyable

Requiem For A Dream
I'm not rating it, it's not entertainment. The most thoroughly unpleasant film I've ever seen.

12 Angry Men 10/10
I don't like giving 10's but it's a classic

Let The Right One In 9/10
My favourite film of recent years. I'm only marking it down 1 for the CGI cats

Night of the Living Dead 8/10
A great example of what you can do with a story and no money.

Dawn of the Dead 10/10
I'm really not big on horror at all but I love Romero and this an just outstanding, iconic film.

Day of the Dead 7/10
It looks like crap and the acting is abysmal but the story is there.

Land of the Dead 8/10
I really enjoyed Land, it's a different film to the others and it's heavyhanded with it's point but still fun

Diary of the Dead 5/10
Without doubt the weakest of the 5. Terrible acting, heavyhanded and just not that interesting. Doesn't feel like part of the set but it's not as bad on 2nd viewing.
Silent Thunder
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ButchML wrote:
> Bruno: Not as good as Borat and a lot more is clearly staged.
> Only a few 'real' laughs throughout the film and the majority of
> those were at the way the character reinforced the American
> 'hick' stereotype. 4/10

Pretty much what I thought of it. Wouldn't really recommend it.
hippyman
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hippyman wrote:
> A View From The Top
>
> Pretty funny when Mike Myers is there but so-so otherwise.  I
> watched it when I got in from a heavy night at the pub, so
> probably missed the point.
>
> 5/10 on what I could remember this morning

Just looked at the spoiler content for this thread and had to find this review I wrote (very poor review really compared to today's standards).  I had to find it as can't even remember watching a film of that name, nor remembering writing about it!.

It did say I was heading back from a heavy night at the pub....which may be the reason why I don't remember it.


Has anybody seen AntiChrist (I think that's what it's called) with Willem Defoe?  Meant to be quite graphic.  May see it saturday (that's if it is even released yet), so will post a review if it is any good.
pete_21
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Transformers : Revenge Of The Fallen.Basically 2 1/2 hrs of giant robots beating the crap out of each other.Its got no real story but I actually quite enjoyed it and i'm not really sure why ?.Maybe Megan Fox had something to do with it :)

Gets a 7.5/10 from me.
pete_21
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ButchML wrote:
> Bruno: Not as good as Borat and a lot more is clearly staged.
> Only a few 'real' laughs throughout the film and the majority of
> those were at the way the character reinforced the American
> 'hick' stereotype. 4/10

Take it you weren't up for a bit of Straight Dave's Man Slammin then ?.Pretty much agree,it did seem very staged in places and some jokes didn't really work at all IMO.There was about 45 mins worth of decent material in a 90 minute film.OK for a rent when it comes out later in year,probably would have enjoyed it a bit more with a few beers ?.

I Love You Man : Really liked this,much better than I was expecting.Daft,harmless fun and worth a rent when it comes out in a few weeks.US Blu Ray is region free BTW if anyone fancies picking it up.Good fun 8/10.
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Bruno: Not as good as Borat and a lot more is clearly staged. Only a few 'real' laughs throughout the film and the majority of those were at the way the character reinforced the American 'hick' stereotype. 4/10
pete_21
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The Hangover : Didn't think it was as funny as a lot of people made out.But its harmless and enjoyable enough.Would recommend a rent when it comes out rather than making a trip to the cinema to catch it.6.5/10.
pete_21
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Bruno : Not as funny as Borat but it does have its moments.I would wait and rent the DVD though 6.5/10
spoonbeast
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The departed.

An excellent readaption of the chinese movie that is laced with some interesting variations to the plot enough to make this movie worth watching even if you have seen the orginal movie. 8/10


Can't think of any other movie i've seen recently tbh. I've been busy. Trying to write a retrospective on a game.
Nin
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Sonic Chris wrote:
> Nin wrote:
> Burn After Reading 3/10
> Sack of crap
>
> Burn After Watching perhaps? :P

I think LoveFilm would have objected
Sonic Chris
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Nin wrote:
> Burn After Reading 3/10
> Sack of crap

Burn After Watching perhaps? :P
Sonic Chris
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Actually i have to agree, the only funny element are the camp man slaves lol but overall as a film it's terrible IMO. I actually found myself saying what was going to happen while watching. As soon as that blind chinese guy said "I look after his daughter" it was obvious straight away that the daughter was going to be 'the chick' of the film. Too many cliches aswell :P Story from when a boy was young. His father gets killed. He gets trained by a chinese guy ("wax on, wax off"). Ends up getting the girl and regaining what he lost. Except it's based on table tennis. You could do that with any sport!
Nin
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The Day The Earth Stood Still 4/10
Disappointing

Burn After Reading 3/10
Sack of crap

Ghost Town 7/10
Not a bad film in the end.
Warhunt
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Sonic Chris wrote:
> Balls of Fury
> A film that starts with a kid who is a table tennis pro, messes
> up a finals match, which gets his father killed by some crazy
> chinese table tennis warlord. He grows up to be asked by an FBI
> agent to help take down the same guy who killed his father. He is
> trained by a blind man, and falls in love with his niece. Will he
> be able to be the best again? Quite frankly, i'm not bothered.
>
> This has to be the most predictable, and one of the worst films
> i've ever seen. 1/10

Disagree there. Its bad yes. Awful? I dont think so

The one line "I'm saving the panda.....................Panda's dead!" had me laughing for ages, I dont know why. Maybe that made me think fondly of it however.
Sonic Chris
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Balls of Fury
A film that starts with a kid who is a table tennis pro, messes up a finals match, which gets his father killed by some crazy chinese table tennis warlord. He grows up to be asked by an FBI agent to help take down the same guy who killed his father. He is trained by a blind man, and falls in love with his niece. Will he be able to be the best again? Quite frankly, i'm not bothered.

This has to be the most predictable, and one of the worst films i've ever seen. 1/10
Ghost Killer
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Saw the new Harry Potter yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. Definately the most dark of all the Potters. Biggest fault I thought was the pacing as it is kinda off and it does drag toward the end.

7/10
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