What film did you watch last night?

Woody__ said:
Go read up a little on wiki about counter cinema and then think about the film again. It might change your opinion on why it is the way it is. It's supposed to be quite deliberately boring, extreme and unwatchable in places.
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A deliberately bad film is still a bad film.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Reading up on it, it seems like its barely a film, full stop.
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Well for me, that's the point really. Like Godard's Week End, in a sense, only Funny Games does have some semblance of narrative and continuity.

EDIT: Funny Games is a bit weird in that regard cause it's a lot more obviously 'mainstream' when counter cinema really isn't (or can be).
 
Woody__ said:
The Expendables 2 - 6/10

A question for those who've seen it; did you find it really grainy? In places it was like certain scenes were both in focus and out of focus simultaneously, with an absolute ton of graininess. I dunno if the projectionist screwed up or if this was intentional...
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I noticed this too (more the out of focus than grainy for me) but the lads I was with saw nothing wrong????
 
ianh said:
I noticed this too (more the out of focus than grainy for me) but the lads I was with saw nothing wrong????
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Everyone I was with noticed it too. Was putting it down to a rubbish projectionist though. Glad to see someone else thought the same.
 
Woody__ said:
Well for me, that's the point really. Like Godard's Week End, in a sense, only Funny Games does have some semblance of narrative and continuity.

EDIT: Funny Games is a bit weird in that regard cause it's a lot more obviously 'mainstream' when counter cinema really isn't (or can be).
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I enjoyed Funny Games. Also quite interesting that it's a shot-for-shot remake of the original.
 
I suppose the only way for Haneke to guarantee that an American remake of his film wasn't going to ruin it was just to make it again in America! Haha.
 
Battleship.

Liked it apart from one or two corny bits (the old sailors tuning up for duty and the anchor drop maneuver)

8/10.


Cabin in the woods,

Weird, a cross between the truman show and evil dead film.

6/10
 
Superbad - 7.5/10.

Bit late to the Superbad show, but finally watched it, and whilst it was good, I didn't think it was anywhere near as funny as people have made it out to be.

Probably should've watched it at the time it came out before a load of other films imitated it!
 
Nexus18 said:
the avengers - was a good action film with a decent plot and great one liners by Stark etc. also really liked how no one was made out to be the main character/big gun i.e. Thor, Hulk and Iron man, switch the brain of for 2 hours and 20 minutes and sit back and enjoy. Highly over rated film though IMO, especially on this forum :p Only thing that was unique/special about it was that they combined all the big heroes in one film 8/10
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Just watched it too and I'd say that's a really good assessment. Agree with 8/10 too. :)
 
Big Trouble in Little China - Amazingly awful (really really bad...). Does not deserve it's IMDB score at all. And certainly should not have score higher than "The Golden Child", which was MUCH better, and yet scored horribly. My opinion of IMDB has been changed for life...

I also watched "Safe", which was poor. Great concept, but ruined by being a cheesy action movie which focused on it's rubbish story, rather than the action. Shame.

And "Tropic Thunder":- Rubbish gore/toilet humor. Saved ever-so-slightly by a few clever jabs at the movie industry. But certainly not enough to make it worth watching.
 
Van Hellseek said:
Big Trouble in Little China - Amazingly awful (really really bad...). Does not deserve it's IMDB score at all. And certainly should not have score higher than "The Golden Child", which was MUCH better, and yet scored horribly. My opinion of IMDB has been changed for life...

I also watched "Safe", which was poor. Great concept, but ruined by being a cheesy action movie which focused on it's rubbish story, rather than the action. Shame.

And "Tropic Thunder":- Rubbish gore/toilet humor. Saved ever-so-slightly by a few clever jabs at the movie industry. But certainly not enough to make it worth watching.
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BTILC is totally redeemed by the fact that if it didn't exist we may never have had raiden in mortal kombat.
 
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