What film did you watch last night?

Avatar Special Edition - In all it's full glory at the BFI IMAX. Only one word describes this, magnificent. If you get the chance to see this film here then see it. The experience is just overwhelming. We’re still gob smacked this morning. Simply one of the best.
 
Saterday i watched From Paris with Love

oh dear:( , it was bad film plus the fact im not really a fan of Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

3.5/10


last night i watched Old Dogs

It was nothing special , some funny moments , ok film if theres nothing else on tv

5/10
 
The Breakfast Club on TV late last night. Still love that film and still makes me laugh. 9/10

Can't believe my flatmate who is 31 has never heard of it, it's a proper 80's classic just like Weird Science, which I shall be watching tonight :)
 
Resident Evil : Afterlife 3d

8/10 leave your brain at the door fun. My first 3d film and was very impressed with the effect, didnt seem often overused or cheesy (Maybe twice in the whole film)
 
Nickg said:
The Crazies - original Romero production.

what can i say, the sound editing was appalling and i do mean possibly the worst i have ever encountered on a real film. there was no chill or suspense, the film did make me question, was romero really a great director that some people made him out to be?
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Suppose you have to bear in mind that most of his films were made on a shoe string budget with little to no help from big studios and their equipment but I have been asking myself the same question a lot lately about his skills as a director. Also a lot of things he did that were seen as revolutionary back in his day such as casting a black actor in a lead role in the Night of The Living Dead (which apparently wasn't on purpose!) and empowering women are not really appreciated by today's audience.

Some of the effects in his films have also been considering quite ground breaking but again that was a long time ago and it's all lost on today's generation. One thing that his films still have is the infamous social commentary ranging from consumerism of Dawn of The Dead down to Corporate America in Land. Problem is that you really have to scratch past the surface of usually low production values of his films to get to that and that's a problem for your average viewer who may not particularly want that from a horror film in the first place.

My other extremely major gripe with him is the direction he's been taking with the whole zombie character if you've seen his last 3 films this decade you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Now I'm quite a big zombie fan myself but personally I don't think he's moved on much as a director in the last 40 years from his indie film maker roots and while Land was just about passable after seeing Diary and then Survival of The Dead I just about lost all my respect for him. I think he was just someone who happened to be at the right place at the right time with the release of Night, but he's moved on very little since the success of original Dawn and is now nothing short of a dinosaur who shouldn't be let anywhere near the zombie genre.
 
Close Encounters of the Third Kind : very boring, underwhelming movie.

Contact : Very enjoyable Sci-Fi, too bad Carl Sagan didn't live long enough to write other movies.
 
Went to see "The Other Guys" and thought it was barely passable! As usual all the funniest bits were in the trailer!

Usually a big fan of Will Farrell but too many odd-ball characters makes it less interesting!

StevieP
 
neoboy said:
Suppose you have to bear in mind that most of his films were made on a shoe string budget with little to no help from big studios and their equipment but I have been asking myself the same question a lot lately about his skills as a director.

I think he was just someone who happened to be at the right place at the right time with the release of Night, but he's moved on very little since the success of original Dawn and is now nothing short of a dinosaur who shouldn't be let anywhere near the zombie genre.
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Yea I agree. I mean I know he didn’t have much budget and that things were tight. But the musical score was shocking it was ill fitting, lamentable, exhausted and lacklustre.

And like psycho 1 was a much more suspenseful and scary film, considering this was meant to be some kind of horror- I dunno it just felt.. like a lame duck. I was hoping for crazy people doing really crazy things but there was the odd moment, like the granny with the knitting sticks etc but there was no suspense, or chill. It just happened and that was that, time to move on to the next scene.

Casting of actors aside I mean, just the shots used, the flitting between action and the B Bomber it just felt terrible as the viewer. Not with a sense of foreboding. But as a sense of OMG did the film really just do that and pause on a lingering shot of a bomber?

I really liked dawn of the dead ive seen the one with a futuristic type setting where the zombies like chasing some people who have armoured coaches and then the zombies end up going under water to get to this city thing. And tbh it was like a resident evil film, i.e pretty dire.

“I think he was just someone who happened to be at the right place at the right time with the release of Night, but he's moved on very little since the success of original Dawn and is now nothing short of a dinosaur who shouldn't be let anywhere near the zombie genre.”

Honestly, I think im with you. Some people will obviously take exception and go down the ‘Romero’ is the godfather route. But really, I haven’t seen much from him that made me think, wow this couldnt be any other director than he, unless it was on account of the direction being pretty bad,
 
The futuristic type setting Dawn of The Dead isn't actually his just based on his original film from the late 70s, as far as I know he had little to no input on this one. Coincidently I like the new one a lot and it's one of my favourite zombie films even if purists dislike the fast moving zombies. The one with water is his and that was a huge disappointment especially since it was meant to be his big comeback to the "undead" scene. He has made 2 bargain bucket sequels since then called Diary and Survival of The Dead and those are truly awful, those will completely and utterly destroy your opinion of him as a director.

So yeah I think he's basically extremely overrated at what he does and if he is indeed the so called father of all things zombie then he's really turned all Fritz at this point because he absolutely raped the genre in his last 2 projects.
 
Kick Ass

A thoroughly enjoyable, sit-back-and-enjoy flick, with some good humour, some nice action :)


Initial D

The 2005 live-action version. Terrible, terrible plot, terrible acting, terrible dialogue (you are left wondering whether the subs are actually what's being said, or not!), but some fairly cool driving scenes - overall, a bit "wtf!?" but enjoyable.
 
Oil City Confidential, very good bio of Dr Feelgood, was on BBC 4, 8/10

Black Dynamite, funny send up of Blaxploitation movies 8/10

Martyrs, this film is MENTAL :eek:, 8/10 and I dont think I enjoyed it if thats sounds plausible :confused:
 
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