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23rd May 2012, 08:25 AM
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| |-O-| (-O-) |-O-|  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Essex
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| Re: What was the last movie you saw? The Avengers Assemble. A very, very good action movie IMO. It was also my first 3d experience too so a double whammy there. I also watched something called Take the Lead on terrestrial TV the other night. Apart from a samey ending, i found this to be quite an engaging movie. |
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23rd May 2012, 08:13 PM
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| Chelsea  Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Washington
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| Re: What was the last movie you saw? Quote:
Anyway, I watched the new Winnie the Pooh (2011) as well as The Italian Job (2003). I watched Winnie the Pooh with one of the kids I babysit, and while it is obviously geared more towards the younger kids, I found it quite entertaining. Of course, I've always liked Winnie the Pooh so...plus Zooey Deschanel sings quite well. The Italian Job was the remake and I haven't seen the original, so I can't compare the two, but I thought it was quite good. | |
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23rd May 2012, 09:57 PM
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| Lord High Vizier of Nowt Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Highland
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| Re: What was the last movie you saw? The Dictator took more at the box office last week though. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18173761 |
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26th May 2012, 10:15 AM
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| Re: What was the last movie you saw? Attack the Block A film i have waited a whole year to see it appear as DVD. It was fun,good action. You can make good alien action without too much money. The guy playing Moses has alot of potential. He looked alot like a young angry Denzel Washington. |
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27th May 2012, 10:12 PM
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| Lord High Vizier of Nowt Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Highland
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| Re: What was the last movie you saw? Wife took the kids out for the day so I totally ignored the sunshine and sat indoors and watched: Barbarella (1968) - A film which ageing, sad old man that I am I find very funny, mildly erotic, and just fun to look at. Followed by Alien Cargo ( 1999 ) - A made for TV movie that looks like it's going to be yet another deep-space OMIGOD! THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE ON-BOARD EATING PEOPLE! piece of SF wallpaper but turns out (after a clunky opening act) to be a not that bad piece of 'hard SF'. No huge plasma guns, no self-destruct buttons, no men in rubber suits, none of any of the other usual Sci-Fi channelly crapinesses. And an amazingly unusual downbeat ending too. Not that the ending is amazing but the just the fact that it is downbeat at all is remarkable -SPOILER: our likeable hero and heroine don't make it. They're not dead at the end of the film but they are well and truly ****ed and they know it. They're resigned to their fate, and have just said goodbye to their only possible hope of rescue. It's a good inevitable ending. I have watched far too many films where some amazingly out of nowhere, pulled out of the scriptwriter's arse, twist ending saves everyone in the last minutes of the film. Sometimes when a film has engaged me, and even when I like the characters in deadly peril, I sometimes just sit there willing the film to end badly. Sometimes I want the film-makers to have the courage to let the story run where it has to and not manufacture a happy ending just to keep the card-filling preview audiences from having to actually think. Five stars to these guys for doing that. The ending totally saves this film. Even though I called it a 'not that bad piece of 'hard SF'' it still had more than its fair share of "erm, I'm not sure that's right....", and "Ooh, isn't that handy for our heroes..." moments. Most of them forgiven, in hindsight, because of the ending. (And no stars to me for splitting that infinitive.) |
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29th May 2012, 08:30 PM
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| Chelsea Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Washington
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| Re: What was the last movie you saw? Passengers (2008): Kind of an interesting take on The Sixth Sense in the sense that people don't realize they're gone...pretty good and Anne Hathaway did a great job. For people who think she can only do funny, this is a good example. Outlander (2008): Jim Caviezel flick about a man from another planet who crash-lands on earth during the Iron Age. He ends up bringing a creature with him that starts attacking a nearby Norse village and he has to earn their trust and stop the creature. I thought it was great. Boondock Saints (1999): I liked it to an extent...I had a bit of trouble with the excessive use of F***, but that's just my personal opinion. I liked the fact that they were taking on the people that others would only talk about getting rid of but wouldn't dare touch. I think that I was kind of like Willem Dafoe's character in the fact that I wouldn't be sure whether or not to condemn them or join them... And it had Norman Reedus in it, so that's a huge plus  |
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