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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.

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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

Pans Labyrinth 10/10 One of the best films this year without a doubt,not spoken about alot on here and it really should be, i suggest you all see it or read some reviews then go see it superb.

The last 45 minutes of some 70's movie either by Fulci or simply based upon a character that is a reference to him. Weird attempt at psychological horror with cheap gore and little to say or do. Just a weird romp around some screenwriter's mind.

Cadaverella - Not bad for and independent 'grindhouse' movie, just about entertaining enough and not irritating. Moved along at a reasonable pace and not cliched. Wouldn't recommend it though.

The Dentist (1996) - Brain Yuzna film, very watchable if a little slow in pacing. With a better script and a better pace it could have been a classic. The lead actor hold it all together and it's thanks to him that it's a fair effort.

2001 Maniacs - Very entertaining and stupid horror remake

300

Saw it a few days back on the 'net.. then went today with a group of mates to see it at the cinema. Bloody brilliant is all I can say!

For cinemography it was top notch, presenting the catalogue of killing in a range of exciting, realistic ways, and the ambitious use of CGI payed off.

A few qualms about certain bits of the film, like the unecessary monsters and the scale of some of the Persians but still, good stuff, with some memorable lines.

I love epic films from the Greco-Roman era and it's one of the best I've seen, making me love Miller even more for his unique style. See it!

Top Gun 10/10 for sheer cheese. Class!!

Blood Diamond
Brutal. Riveting. Superb. Has turned me into a DiCaprio fan. 8/10.

Well then.. Doom

First, there isn't much of a plot - which I suppose is to be expected, considering it's based on a PC game - which lends an almost immediate start to the action. In my books, it's quite good, after all, Doom was about killing and suspense, not in-depth characters. However, considering this is a movie some effort to develop the characters beyond the simplistic men in a unit would have been good.

I'm in the last half hour, as I write this, and the film seems to have lost its way a little .. S*P*O*I*L*E*R*S.. giving itself over to a cat and mouse scene with the last remaining men.

Don't get me wrong when I say this, but you expect a lot of deaths, some suspense, a lot of guns and a lot of creatures, if you've ever played the Doom series. The special effects do deliver quite well, and I liked the transition into a game-style view for about five minutes. The problem for me, though, was once you saw the couple of creatures they included - that was it. To expect one guy to clear-up mutations, imps, and Hell-knights solo is ridiculous considering the whole unit couldn't pull it off together.

Final plot comment ..S*P*O*I*L*E*R*.. I thought the 24th Chromosone rather than the 'mouth of hell' idea used in the games actually didn't work as well

I'd give it about a 6.5, before the last half hour. With what I've seen of that tacked on, it drops to about 5.

I'll finish the last half hour and get back to you though

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Apologies Doom, it seems it was only the last ten minutes or so, due to the way that Peekvid organised it.

It was far too Bruce Lee-esque anyway, with superhuman jumping around; despite that being part of the plot, I always find scenes like that inevitable, pointless, and a bore.

Overall rating then.. 6

Now about to check out Night at the Museum, on Peekvid again, though I'm not exactly holding high hopes for it...

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Mm rubbish... time for Doom :c)

Ah yeah, also just finished with Sin City, and yes, it was pretty bloomin' good :cD

Not really sure why I haven't got around to seeing it before; just haven't wanted to buy it only on limited friend recommendation and don't really rent films that much anymore.

The cel-shaded comic-esque black and white works perfectly with the piece, together with the splashes of colour and the white-on-black blood effects, both in showing the viewer something new, and in creating that sense of urban gritty crime that other modern day crime and detective type films never seem able to conjure up.

The inter-connected nature of the stories was good, and the body count was pretty ridiculous ;c) Having said that it did seem to have a few twists and a little purpose, rather than just being a gore fest, which I found when I was watching Kill Bill.

I'd definitely give it a view, if only for the techniques and the lesson in how to translate a comic to the big screen properly. It's worth a purchase I'd say, and I'll try and pick it up from the cheap off eBay, partly because I feel I've still missed bits out or not appreciated certain things that would look better from a disc rather than Broadband. Rating.. 8ish

Saw Apocalypto on Peekvid yesterday.. overall it was a decent film, and I liked the time piece sets in the same way I liked the time-specific scenes in Gladiator or Troy.

The gore wasn't quite as high as I'd been led to believe (and this isn't really a comment on the movie itself) but it's still very much an 18, and a reasonably gory one at that.

Perhaps a little too much build-up for me, as well as a bit of lack of realism. To site a few examples... *S*P*O*I*L*E*R*S... the chase scene seemed unrealistically long, and I'm really not sure that all of the Mayan party would go after one man.

I'd give it about a 7, worth a watch, but probably not a purchase - the Mayan throughout doesn't really help either.