What was the last movie you saw?

[slack]

Originally Posted by Connavar

Drive

A noir drama/thriller with one of the best young actors in Hollywood in Ryan Gosling was a huge surprise to me. It was a calm very stylised film,with great visuals and with sudden scenes of extreme violence. It was like film noir by Jean-Pierre Melville or the more subtle Sam Peckinpah films.

A film that you must see if you like films in general and not whatever genres you prefer. Easily one of the best films in recent years and shame they dont make calm films like this anymore. Its either clear social issue melodrama or special effects dumbed down action films.

Ryan Gosling had few lines, acted mostly with his face,body very effectivly like a young Pacino/De Niro. Not saying he is that great but his used his body,face really well to say more than words could.

When I first saw the previews it looked like such a typical mind-numbing action flick.

Haven't seen it yet, but glad to hear it might be a film with substance.

[Diggler]

Immortals:

Tarsem Singh's Immortals is just as stylish as The Fall, though lacks a lot of the charm of the former film. The story is a very much ad-libbed tale of Theseus and the Minotaur. The acting by most and the story are not so great, but this is redeemed by sumptuous sets, photography and some amazingly violent action scenes.

If you have a thing for men running around in their underwear, a penchant for Peplums or want to see a three dimensional female bottom then this is the movie for you! If you just want to be entertained, then this is also a good choice.

3.5/5

[FireDragon-16]

The Three Musketeers (2011):

Normally I like these kinds of movies, but this didn't quite live up to my expectations. I'm not going to lie, I did like the movie somewhat, it was funny but there were some things that I got a little annoyed with. For example: They made Louis out to be a complete idiot and slightly gay.

I've never read the book so it's possible that he is supposed to be clueless but based on the other movies I've seen he's not really completely clueless, just unobservant.

I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5

[Moonbat]

Drive is definitely on my list of films to see.

We watched Point Blank last night a new film by Anything for Her director Fred Cavaye. Although it was refreshingly short (we clocked it at 76 minutes, but DVD says it is 81) it was really good.
Anything for her, was a very good intense thriller with some lovely plot twists, it was recently remade by Hollywood into The next Three days, Point Blank is wonderfully tense, it starts well and after about 30 mins it is so brilliantly intense and thrilling without big action sequences or anyhting like that, just plot and story and well directed acting.
There is a great scene in the subway (metro) that was very well done.

On a side note, we recieved our surround sound speakers yesterday, so our cinema room is taking shape. We need to get the cinema red curtains (for the windows not the screen) a foot stool and a whole bunch of movie posters for the walls. And that's not even mentioning the Death Star lamp shade I am working on.

[Connavar]

Originally Posted by slack

When I first saw the previews it looked like such a typical mind-numbing action flick.

Haven't seen it yet, but glad to hear it might be a film with substance.

Thats because even in an 80% calm film with substance the trailer must use the only action scenes there is in the film.

It won an award in the biggest Film awards there is, best director award in Cannès film festival. I doubt mind-numbing action flicks ever won an award there

[Tecdavid]

Now I remember the name of the one I saw at home. Knowing, with Nicholas Cage.
I didn't like it, really, thanks to the ending, which was pretty nihilistic and anti-climatic.

[Mouse]

Somebody mentioned men running around in their underpants?



I caught a bit of The Scorpion King on TV earlier. All I can say is wow. And not in a good way.

[Metryq]

Originally Posted by Tecdavid

anti-climatic.

I think you meant "anti-climactic." Those meteorologists never did anything to you.

[Tecdavid]

Originally Posted by Metryq

I think you meant "anti-climactic." Those meteorologists never did anything to you.

My bad. Thanks.

[Starbeast]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I caught a bit of The Scorpion King on TV earlier. All I can say is wow. And not in a good way.

I only made it as far as twenty minutes then removed the rented disk.

The Ghost and Mr Chicken (1966) - Don Knotts

Mild and delightful horror comedy about a newspaper employee investigating an old haunted house. I love it!

[Metryq]

Originally Posted by Starbeast

The Ghost and Mr Chicken (1966)

"Attaboy, Luther!"

[Rangerton]

Made in Dagenham


Women machinists at Ford motor co. in Dagenham,(but not the only plant) go on strike for equal pay in 1968.

A film that shows the hardship of women and their families, who fought for the right of equal pay for women.


I was going to say a MUST watch for women, but make that a MUST watch for everyone!

[HoopyFrood]

Was moping around the house earlier, thinking "I want to watch Home Aloooone..." Should know by now that the tv wouldn't fail me at this time of year.

Managed to catch the best bit (two grown men getting hilariously beaten) of Home Alone II.

Now watching The Incredibles.

[JunkMonkey]

Radioactive Dreams (1985) - A (possibly) not yet released on DVD piece of Big Box Video Trash from the glory days of Big Box Video Trash. Radioactive Dreams is the everyday story or two four year old boys left alone in a bomb shelter with nothing to read but hard-boiled detective fiction. They emerge 16 years later to a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of the usual MTV vibe post punk post Mad Max bestial types. This time the tribes were a little odder than the usual hairy biker types vs peaceful farmers, one tribe for instance was called The Disco Mutants and consisted of seven year boys wearing white suits who carried big hand guns and said 'Fcuk' a lot. In the end it all got very irritating with our two heroes looking more and more like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis wandering around an endless series of early MTV music videos. Videos from back in the days when they pretended to tell a moodily lit 'story' and didn't just fill the screen with jiggling well-tanned body bits. The film seemed very familiar somehow, though I'd never seen before. Only when I looked director Albert Pyun up on IMDb did it click. He also directed Alien in LA which was very similar in that it featured a lot of pointless wandering around in a MTV style Mad Maxiverse. Unusually for a 1980s PostApoc flick there were no noticeable displays of fingerless gloves - though there was at least one incidence of that other good old 80s PA Flick cliché, the burning oil drum.

[Diggler]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Somebody mentioned men running around in their underpants?

You'll like it then Mouse