What film did you watch last night?

sunama said:
Demolition Man was fantastic!
How can you say it was bad?
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Because.......it was...:D:D
Take the virtual sex scene for example(which in reality is the best part of the whole film).What does Sly do when confronted with the beautiful Sandra Bullock,laying it out on a plate for him? Sits there rubbing his helmet,grimacing like Apollo Creed has just landed yet another brain mincing blow to his thick skull.
He should have been straight in there and given her the right"unvirtual" rodgering she was gagging for!!;)
Give me David Bowie in Labyrinth any day....now there's a man that knows how to get his woman.Just kidnap her baby brother,strut around in tights with a marrow shoved down your crotch for enhancements sake.....then lure her to your castle,serinade her with a few lacklustre songs and then introduce yourself as the "gobblin" king.We could all learn a thing or two from Bowie,the man's a legend!!
 
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Wrath of the Titans 3D - 7/10

While not an instant classic film it was enjoyable. Action scenes were good, 3d when used was very good and had something that resembled a plot.

Well worth a watch.
 
The more times I see Lotr the more "gay" I think it is, the shield bit in two towers is amongst the several things that not ruin the movie but don't feel even slightly right in the context. Another bit, trying to not make it a spoiler, when Elrond shows up at the top of the winding road up a mountain, its so cringeworthy, even more so than the shield, the music as he whips it out( :p ) the camera work, its TV movie quality work and there are a few too many bits like that.

There's other bits which are truly excellent, and most of it is a decent representation of the books, though they missed out a few too many much more important bits and left in a few too many bits that dragged on FAR to long.

Great trilogy all in but I can imagine those who haven't read the book liking it the most quite easily.
 
Hunger Games.

Going by RT and IMDB and the raft of reviews and the trailer I imagined this would be pretty decent and I was expecting a Battle Royal kind of film indeed but I already knew there's be some kind of romantic plot story involved but nothing like this...

Let's see:

1: It lacked any gore.
2: Scenes that might have contained juicy combat or gore had very fast camera movements. It just seemed like a copout.
3: I realise this is because it's a 12A.
4: The girl was pretty fit in that red dress. Probably the best thing about the movie.
5: Some of the dialogue scenes were drawn out too long , many others were not needed at all.
6: She's skilled enough with a bow and arrow to shoot an apple in a hog's mouth...she could easily have wiped out everyone from the tree tops.

Battle Royal with cheese it most certainly is.

5-6/10 at best.
 
Forgot to post this up a couple of nights ago (still trying to forget it!). A while ago i bought the Indiana Jones boxed set (nice to have the collection). Now as with most have seen the first three umpteen times, but I had never seen the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. So without any prior acknowledgement I ploughed into watching it.......what a mistake that was!

Some really bad CGI (chase sequence along the cliff top forest with the monkeys most notable!) far fetched story (atomic blast in fridge and aliens!) script was loose to say the least!

It wasn't all bad though as there was hints of original 'adventure' feel to it although the **** outweighed anything good about it by a long shot.

3/10 and thats being generous.
 
Derek W said:
Forgot to post this up a couple of nights ago (still trying to forget it!). A while ago i bought the Indiana Jones boxed set (nice to have the collection). Now as with most have seen the first three umpteen times, but I had never seen the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. So without any prior acknowledgement I ploughed into watching it.......what a mistake that was!

Some really bad CGI (chase sequence along the cliff top forest with the monkeys most notable!) far fetched story (atomic blast in fridge and aliens!) script was loose to say the least!

It wasn't all bad though as there was hints of original 'adventure' feel to it although the **** outweighed anything good about it by a long shot.

3/10 and thats being generous.
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What makes me laugh, is when people mention the alien parts, as being stupid and far fetched. And what happened to the Nazi's in Raiders of the Lost Ark, wasn't? Lol.

It's all nonsense. Enjoyable nonsense though, I might add. :)
 
For people who are watching Hunger Games: is Hunger Games at all similar to the Twilight movies? Ie. is there a lot of soppy love scenes or is more direct, like Battle Royale?
 
Marsman said:
Return of the King, is generally regarded as the weakest. I think a lot of the Oscars it won, were for the trilogy as a whole. Fellowship of the Ring, is generally regarded as the best of the three. That obviously won't be the same for everyone. The Two Towers, is my favourite of the three.

Not everyone likes them though. There's probably a fair few who don't, and certainly a fair few people who have read the books, don't like them either.

Having read the books, I think Jackson did a fantastic job.
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Having watched the trilogy now, I have to say, Return of the King was absolutely brilliant, epic, emotional and everything I was hoping for, having been slightly underwhelmed by the first two movies. 4 hours long and not once did I get bored.

At the end of this year, Peter Jackson will have The Hobbit in the cinema, and part two in 2013. I can't wait!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit_(2012_film)
 
Marsman said:
What makes me laugh, is when people mention the alien parts, as being stupid and far fetched. And what happened to the Nazi's in Raiders of the Lost Ark, wasn't? Lol.

It's all nonsense. Enjoyable nonsense though, I might add. :)
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Fair enough, the nazis 'melting to death' is far fetched as well but on the grand scheme of things the general plot and execution of the film hangs together better than the final film which to a certain degree just copies Raiders of the lost ark but adds in a new degree of lunacy!
 
The problem with Indy 4 was not that it was any more far fetched (well ok, it was in some places, why the hell did the monkeys only attack the Ruskies?), but that it completely decimated the mystery of the previous films.

The first three were chocked full of religious symbolism and always raised the question of whether science or (a) god was responsible for the power they sought in their quest. The fourth film essentially turned around and said 'Remember all that stuff from the last three films? Aliens, all along!'. It totally destroyed that sense of mystery and replaced it with a complete and utter deus ex machina explanation. Aliens, aliens did it. The ark of the covenant, the cup of Christ, all just by-products of aliens going around the universe collecting cool stuff and for some unknown reason, dumping it on earth.

I hate that film.

Back on topic, I got my Bluray collection of the Alien Quadrilogy last night:

Alien - What an excellent, excellent film. It is also the joint best aged-film to blu-ray transfer i've seen, Blade Runner being the other. It looks so crisp and fresh, I think they even redid some bits (eg. Mothers computer screen looks way too crisp to be a remaster, i'm certain they redid it for the bluray) and there are one or two very small scenes added that i felt helped round off the flow of the film nicely. There's no major changes in terms of anything other than the actual remaster, but damn they did a good job.

10/10 (Film is 9/10, added an extra point for the care and attention that has gone into the bluray)

By this point i had gone through quite a few ales, so my judgement was poor. I thought i'd give Alien: Resurrection another go as i haven't seen it since it was first available for rental (on VHS no less). So, here we go:

Alien Resurrection - From the cringe inducing and frankly baffling title sequence (why oh why did they decide to make the title appear as a bug splatted on the screen? It was more reminiscent of Men in Black than Alien), which may i add, had me bored before it had even ended (that ship fly-by went on for far too long). All of the way to the idiotic final encounter with modern-horrors worst ever monster, this film sucked. Ripley was now a cold, dead character who did not develop in the slightest, Winona Ryder was clearly written to be a strong independent woman but they chose the absolute worst actress to portray this. The rag-tag bunch were comic relief in a film where it just should have never belonged (one of the few interesting scenes, where Ripley encountered clones 1-7, had the mood completely destroyed by the line 'Oh, must be a chick thing'). Continuity errors all over the shop (how on earth did Winona get behind that door after she was shot? How come bullets piercing the hull were such a big worry at the start of the film but by the end it was gung-ho). Don't even get me started on the bumbling 'chuckle a minute' ships captain.

1/10. I gave it one point... i can't think why.
 
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Jack & Jill - very rarely I turn a film off but I lasted about 20 minutes.
Perfect Sense - as above

However I then watched THE DIVIDE - wow.
A nuclear bomb has gone off and about 10 people make it down to a cellar.
It doesn't sound much but it is excellent.
 
Dimple said:
Jack & Jill - very rarely I turn a film off but I lasted about 20 minutes.
Perfect Sense - as above

However I then watched THE DIVIDE - wow.
A nuclear bomb has gone off and about 10 people make it down to a cellar.
It doesn't sound much but it is excellent.
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Just watched the divide and god damn the film is amazing 9/10
 
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