What film did you watch last night?
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An adaptation of Peter Morgan's play, this film is a compelling watch. Frank Langella’s performance deserved to be nominated for an Academy Award and Michael Sheen delivers a very good performance as Frost. A terrific film, very highly recommended.
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The Proposal.
Sandra Bullock = win
Sandra Bullock = win
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
*Spoilers*
Overall I enjoyed it, but that's mainly due to my blind childhood nostalgia. On the whole, the film had glimmers of fantastic moments but was quickly cut short and ruined by over-eager direction and tangents into often clichéd territory within the plot. I don't feel it had the same impact as the first one and possibly didn't have the same amount of love paid to the francise. It's still an alright film in my opinion; you know what you're getting. It's just I do feel that it often fell short. As an example: When Optimus dies in the original cartoon, it is genuinely a lump in the throat moment, where when he died in RotF, it absolutely paled in comparison; they could have really done so much more with it. I also found the addition of new stereotypes for the autobots rather annoying; I can only imagine that this was done to entertain a certain clique in the market.
To me RotF, felt like it had become victim of the former's success. Rather than respecting the francise and working the sequel into a respectable story, it seemed to have sold out to entertain the mindless droves. There was a lot of CGI and fighting, but often the robot-on-robot fighting became hard to follow. Still, it's transformers: I want more!
6/10
*Spoilers*
Overall I enjoyed it, but that's mainly due to my blind childhood nostalgia. On the whole, the film had glimmers of fantastic moments but was quickly cut short and ruined by over-eager direction and tangents into often clichéd territory within the plot. I don't feel it had the same impact as the first one and possibly didn't have the same amount of love paid to the francise. It's still an alright film in my opinion; you know what you're getting. It's just I do feel that it often fell short. As an example: When Optimus dies in the original cartoon, it is genuinely a lump in the throat moment, where when he died in RotF, it absolutely paled in comparison; they could have really done so much more with it. I also found the addition of new stereotypes for the autobots rather annoying; I can only imagine that this was done to entertain a certain clique in the market.
To me RotF, felt like it had become victim of the former's success. Rather than respecting the francise and working the sequel into a respectable story, it seemed to have sold out to entertain the mindless droves. There was a lot of CGI and fighting, but often the robot-on-robot fighting became hard to follow. Still, it's transformers: I want more!
6/10
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Kamikaze Girls
It lost its way towards the end but I enjoyed it.
Just got round to watching this (recorded it). Loved it! Thought it started a bit slowly and weirdly, but by the end I really loved the characters, especially when Momoko gets angry. :love:
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Valkyrie extremely enjoyable film
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District 9
My favorite film of the year. Great story, superb directing and very good acting. It's an amazing achievement considering it only cost a fraction of some of the crap that comes out of Hollywood. Also looks and sounds great on Blu-ray
9/10
My favorite film of the year. Great story, superb directing and very good acting. It's an amazing achievement considering it only cost a fraction of some of the crap that comes out of Hollywood. Also looks and sounds great on Blu-ray
9/10
Just wanted to thank you for this post. Just finished watching Man On Fire and its one of the best films Ive seen in a very long time
. Ive said before that i don't really get emotional at films but this is one film that really got to me. And you're right, it is better than Taken. Much, much better.
I don't know why I love this film as well!
I think it's Frank Langella's skeletor that does it
