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"Recent films you've seen"

[B]Post any films you have seen recently (cinema, DVD or TV) along with a short review.[/B]

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.

ADMIN NOTE FROM FREEOLA: "Below are a list of other user marks that have been collated by Geffdof. As this is quite long please click on the show spoiler to view them"

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10 Things I Hate About You
Ineedsleep 10/10

16 Blocks
Geffdof 8/10

51st State
Borat 8/10

Adaptation
Nin 8/10

Age of Innocence
Ladybird 7/10

Alexander
Seifer 5/10

Anchorman
Borat 6/10

Apocalypto
Borat 8/10
Nin 4/10
tnc 7/10

A Scanner Darkly
Borat 8/10
Bullett 6/10

A View From The Top
Hippyman 5/10

Back To The Future 2
Smedlos 9/10

Back To The Future 3
Smedlos 9/10

Battle Royale
Seifer 8/10

Batman Begins
Vampyr 9/10

Behind Enemy Lines
Ladybird 9/10

Blood Diamond
Timmargh 8/10

Body Count
Hedfix 2/10

Borat
Borat 7/10
Bullett 8/10

Brother Bear
Smedlos 8/10

Cars
Geffdof 8/10
Hedfix 4/10

Casino Royale
Borat 9/10
Nin 8/10

Charlie and The Chocalate Factory (Remake)
Smedlos 8/10

Children of Men
Chaos 9/10
Chr1s 9/10
Geffdof 8/10
Seifer 7/10

Click
Chaos 8/10
Hippyman 9/10

Crank
Reefer 7/10

Doom
tnc 6/10

Employee Of The Month
Geffdof 6/10

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Nin 9/10

Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift
Bullett 7/10
Geffdof 7/10

Fight Club
Seifer 9/10

Flushed Away
Nin 7/10

Ghost
Seraphim 10/10

Girl Interrupted
Nin 8/10

Gladiator
Seifer 10/10

Gremlins 2
Smedlos 9/10

Hard Candy
Bullett 6/10
Geffdof 6/10
Reefer 9/10
Tiltawhirl 7/10

Home Alone
Seifer 9/10

Hoodwinked
Nin 7/10

Hostel
Borat 2/10

House of Flying Daggers
Geffdof 8/10

Innerspace
Borat 8/10

Irriversable
Mumbai Duck 8/10

Jackass 2
Bullett 9/10

Jeepers Creepers 2
Hedfix 5/10

John Tucker Must Die
Nin 6/10

Just My Luck
Sunflower 6/10

King of New York
Hedfix 7/10

Kinky Boots
Sunflower 8/10

Lilo and Stitch
Borat 8/10

Little Miss Sunshine
Nin 9/10
Seifer 10/10

Love Actually
Smedlos 8/10

Maniac Cop III
Hedfix 6/10

Miami Vice
Seifer 2/10

Mission Impossible 3
Boogeyman 7/10

Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Machie 9/10

Mr and Mrs Smith
Tiltawhirl 4/10

Music and Lyrics
Sunflower 8/10

Night At The Museum
Bullett 9/10
Sunflower 8/10

Open Season
Bullett 8/10

Over The Hedge
Nin 8/10
Seifer 8/10
Smedlos 9/10

Pans Labyrinth
Seifer 10/10

People Under The Stairs
Hedfix 7/10

Pirates of the Carribean 2
Chaos 7/10
Geffdof 7/10
Seifer 7/10

Pulse
Borat 7/10

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Nin 3/10

Return of The Living Dead III
Hedfix 5/10

Right At Your Door
Borat 6/10

Rocky Balboa
sg_nl90 8/10

Saw III
Bullett 8/10

Scarface
Vampyr 10/10

Severance
Borat 8/10

Sin City
Geffdof 9/10
tnc 8/10

Smoking Aces
Borat 6/10

Spiderman 3
Nin 4/10

Spirited Away
Nin 7/10

Stay Alive
Sunflower 8/10

Stormbreaker
tnc 5/10

Superman 2: The Richard Donner Cut
Geffdof 7/10

Superman Returns
Geffdof 7/10
Orkeater 6/10

Talledega Nights
Bullett 7/10
Nin 7/10

Tenacious D
Machie 7/10

Terminator 3
Smedlos 8/10

The Black Dahlia
Nin 7/10

The Butterfly Effect
Borat 9/10

The Cat Returns
Machie 8/10

The Covenant
Geffdof 5/10

The Da Vinci Code
Alfonse 3/10
tnc 6/10

The Family Guy Movie
Hippyman 9/10

The Girl Next Door
Nin 7/10

The Great Escape
Geffdof 8/10

The Illusionist
Bullett 8/10

The Incredibles
Nin 8/10

The Island
Tiltawhirl 7/10

The Karen Carpenter Story
Seraphim 10/10

The Lakehouse
Mumbai Duck 7/10

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Tiltawhirl 9/10

The Machinist
Borat 8/10
Bullett 8/10

The Omen (Original)
Geffdof 6/10

The Omen (Remake)
Crucium Fixative 6/10

The Persuit Of Happyness
Bullett 8/10

The Punisher
Ineedsleep 7/10

The Ring 2 (Remake)
Tiltawhirl 6/10

The Shawshank Redemption
Geffdof 10/10

The Wedding Crashers
Nin 8/10

Top Gun
Seifer 10/10

Turistas
Sinnocent 2/10

Ultraviolet
Geffdof 4/10

V For Vendetta
Nin 8/10

Waynes World
Sunflower 7/10

When The Wind Blows
Borat 9/10

Whisper of The Heart
Machie 8/10

Wonder Boys
Hedfix 2/10

X-Men 3
Geffdof 9/10

Scott Pilgrim. Cool movie, cool music. Everyone should be watching this 8/10

The Expendables, better on paper than it is in reality. 5/10

Extensive reviews for you there.

Salt, Starring Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt and Liev Schreiber as Ted Winter. Jolie playing a CIA Agent, great action film. Her usual acting skills i think really come in to play once again. I wasnt dissapointed by any of the acting in the film what so ever. I was quite impressed. I think it was a pretty well thought out film. Jolie is one great actress who once again played her part well. I think everyone in the film was good to be honest.

CIA Agents, Russian Spies, Destruction,You get to see flashbacks of Salt growing up in the Soviet Union,

Lots of action to keep you gripped.

I thought i would be turning this film off after ten minutes. I just kept getting in to it the more i watched it, Few twists and turns just kept me hooked.

I would easily give this film a 9/10.

I recommend people to watch the film, not everyones cup of tea but not a bad film to say the least.

I missed Galaxy Quest? Drat! That's ruined my weekend before it starts then.

Galaxy Quest is a brilliant film! I only noticed it was on last night too late :(

Watched Galaxy Quest on BBC1 last night, bit of a fantasy theme with actors from a TV show being mistaken for real life alien fighters who are taken to fight for the cause of an alien species but it was OK, even though some of the aliens had silly voices and you could tell the actors playing them could barely speak without laughing!

7/10

I agree, The Karate Kid was awful, although I enjoyed it much more than Inception (don't get me started on that again).

Recently I have also seen The A-Team, which was rather good and completely against my expectations. I was also at The Expendables this weekend, if you are expecting to see a throw-back to the 80's action films with a bit of 'Rambo gore' thrown in, you will love it, as I did.

Next up for me is probably Scott Pilgrim vs The World in a couple of weeks.

Have now seen the new Karate Kid movie; what a load of guff that was.

Pretty much identical story to the first movie, but the characters are just so poor compared to Miagi and Daniel. Training pretty much involves hanging a jacket on a peg then dropping it on the floor then repeating, and that's it for most of the film.

What is Hollywoods obsession with using wires in martial arts films to make the moves look as cheap as possible? If you want to make a proper martial arts film, at least get someone that knows how to do martial arts, Will Smith's kid clearly doesn't.

pb wrote:
> Weren't there several versions of the original van? The first
> being the gun metal colour above the stripe and the second being
> black.

So far as I know it always had the silver top, I may be wrong though. Anyhoo, colour doesn't really matter after an air con vent lands on it's roof eh? :)

Anyway, A-Team was great. Perfect balance of action and plot I thought. It didn't try to be too clever or a parody of the original.

Toy Story 3 was good too, I actually think this is the best one so far. The 3D didn't do much for me though in this case, it's no Avatar as far as the use of 3D goes. Just as well because it means I won't miss the 3D when I get it on Blu-ray.

Hopefully going to see Expendables this week or next and maybe Inception if I can catch it before it goes.

TattooedGamer wrote:

>
> The A-Team was actually better than I thought it would be, a
> good all round action flick. Only thing that bugged me was they
> messed up the van, they made the top half black instead of
> silver, and crushing it was just wrong....

Weren't there several versions of the original van? The first being the gun metal colour above the stripe and the second being black.