finally saw Iron Man 2 tonight.. big letdown after the first one..

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

I just watched Aliens again.

Get away from her you BITCH!

Love that film.

Aliens is, in my opinion, if not the best action film ever, then certainly in the top two. And I don't know what the other one would be.

It's got it all.

Anyone seen the film, 'Somewhere', directed by Sofia Coppola.

I saw it in an independent cinema and I thought it didn't say that much but I was interested all the way through.

Burnwinter wrote:

Saw Rare Exports at the summer outdoor cinema last night - hilarious Christmas flick:

Love that film.

I thought Inception was pretty disappointing. Shutter Island was a much better performance from DiCaprio and a better movie on the whole as well in my opinion. Loved the color scales in it.

The Fantastic Mr Fox was probably the best movie I saw this year, but depending on how you look at it it might be counted as a 2009 release. 13 Assassins, Armadillo and Scott Pilgrim were great as well. Ghost Writer was quality. I liked Winter's Bone a lot too. And Bodyguards & Assassins, but, again, it might be counted as a 2009 release. The Other Guys was hilarious. What else... oh yeah, Greenberg. Haven't been able to say a bad word about Noah Baumbach since he co-wrote Life Aquatic and, thankfully, I haven't felt the need to either.

I really enjoyed The Fantastic Mr Fox - great soundtrack too.

"They say all foxes are slightly allergic to linoleum, but it's cool to the paw - try it"

Ha, we watched Die Hard on Christmas Eve. Great film, love that scene when McLane and Gruber first meet. Rickman's a great actor. I could for that and Aliens as a 1-2.

y va marquer wrote:

I really enjoyed The Fantastic Mr Fox - great soundtrack too.

"They say all foxes are slightly allergic to linoleum, but it's cool to the paw - try it"

My favourite piece of dialogue was when they're explaining the rules of Whackbat:

Coach Skip: "Basically, there are three grabbers, three taggers, five twig runners, and a player at Whackbat. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock. Then the twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls hotbox. Finally, you count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by nine."

Kristofferson: "Got it."

Speaking of the soundtrack, by the way - I've had "Bean's Secret Cider Cellar" as a ringtune on my phone for the past six months:

"Just Another Dead Rat in a Garbage Pail (behind a Chinese Restaurant)" is great tune too.
The Rat had a small but memorable part

The rat was great! Apparently he was voiced by the Daimler. You'd never guess just by listening to him.

"Y'all are trespassin' now. Illegally."

RocktheCasbah wrote:

Ha, we watched Die Hard on Christmas Eve. Great film, love that scene when McLane and Gruber first meet. Rickman's a great actor. I could for that and Aliens as a 1-2.

Great shout, I always try and watch it before Christmas.

Agree with everything said about Fantastic Mr Fox. Loved it.

Klaus wrote:

The rat was great! Apparently he was voiced by the Daimler. You'd never guess just by listening to him.

"Y'all are trespassin' now. Illegally."

No, wouldn't have guessed it was him at all.

Love the possum as well

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Saw Pulp Fiction for the first time today.

Just fantastic.

saw "devil" the other day. meh, decentish but nothing spectacular.

went to see tron a couple of weeks ago. very meh, but cool music.

agree about Devil.. was decent, but not outstanding.. i do have to say, however, that i called the devil about half way through the movie..

watched Robin Hood, Last Airbender and How to Train Your Dragon today.. surprisingly, HTTYD was the best of the 3.. Robin Hood second and Airbender 3rd..

Watched Tron tonight in 3D - was ok, pretty much what I was expecting, though as Kel says, the Daft Punk soundtrack was pretty cool.

Klaus wrote:

What else... oh yeah, Greenberg. Haven't been able to say a bad word about Noah Baumbach since he co-wrote Life Aquatic and, thankfully, I haven't felt the need to either.

Kicking and Screaming is one of my favourite films.

Toy Story 2 on our new plasma screen. Looked fantastic and was fantastic. Great film.

USArsenal wrote:

finally saw Iron Man 2 tonight.. big letdown after the first one..

Never got the big deal about the first either to be honest, it was just about decent.

Has anyone seen Wall-E? Saw the first 30 mins and stopped watching, awful.

Wall E changed completely after the first 30 minutes!
Like a different film.

Set in a permanently artificially sunny cruise spaceship populated by morbidly obese people communicating and viewing their world via monitors attached to the mini hover mobiles that whizzed them around because they were too large and out of condition to walk.

It featured some very inventive little robots too.

Great time to stop watching then

Next someone is going to tell me The Good Shepherd was a completely different movie after the first bajillion hours where I stopped watching.

I say this all the time, but everyone who liked Wall-E (as well as those who didn't like it for that matter) really needs to see Silent Running. Masterful film.

Here's a trailer with some original music that Joan Baez wrote for it:

otfgoon wrote:

Great time to stop watching then

Next someone is going to tell me The Good Shepherd was a completely different movie after the first bajillion hours where I stopped watching.

That's a good movie.

I guess you have to be into politics or concentrate hard to understand. It's no leave your brains out love movie.

I like those sorts of movies to be fair, but I just couldn't get into that at all. My main issue being that as you say it was hard work to follow, which is fine if it's interesting enough to keep you focused but it wasn't, the main plot was far too slow to unfold and the sidestories didn't do anything for me. I'm a big fan of both De Niro and Damon, so it was extra dissapointing. Might give it another chance one day though, if I have 3 hours to spare with absolutely nothing to do that is.

Decided to watch the rest of Wall-E on iplayer, wasn't too bad in the end.

couldnt bring myself to bother with Wall-E..

cant believe Pete Postlethwaite died.. i hadnt heard that.. always liked him.. RIP Kobayashi!

y va marquer wrote:

Wall E changed completely after the first 30 minutes!
Like a different film.

Set in a permanently artificially sunny cruise spaceship populated by morbidly obese people communicating and viewing their world via monitors attached to the mini hover mobiles that whizzed them around because they were too large and out of condition to walk.

It featured some very inventive little robots too.

Replace cruise spaceship with office, and hover mobile with Blackberry and you've just described my office. Getting moved to the third floor too. Inconsiderate bastards

The view might be better from the third floor?

Just watched "Little Miss Sunshine" again - very funny film.

Good film, Y. Love Steve Carell in pretty much anything he's in, except for his last one; Dinner For Schmucks. Thought it was really rubbish

USArsenal wrote:

couldnt bring myself to bother with Wall-E..

cant believe Pete Postlethwaite died.. i hadnt heard that.. always liked him.. RIP Kobayashi!

bugger, iI hadnt heard that either... rip roland, the only saving grace in jurassic park 2...

And like that...he was gone.

A real loss, the guy's played some amazing roles.

For me, he was brilliant in In The Name of the Father, but there have been so many...

otfgoon wrote:

I like those sorts of movies to be fair, but I just couldn't get into that at all. My main issue being that as you say it was hard work to follow, which is fine if it's interesting enough to keep you focused but it wasn't, the main plot was far too slow to unfold and the sidestories didn't do anything for me. I'm a big fan of both De Niro and Damon, so it was extra dissapointing. Might give it another chance one day though, if I have 3 hours to spare with absolutely nothing to do that is.

Joe Pesci: "Let me ask you something... we Italians, we got our families, and we got the church; the Irish, they have the homeland, Jews their tradition; even the niggers, they got their music. What about you people, Mr. Wilson, what do you have?"

Matt Damon: "The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting."

A really interesting view on the people of the United States. Who are Mr Wilson's people?

Very sad to hear about Pete Postlethwaite. Great energy as an actor, incredibly engaging.

y va marquer wrote:

Just watched "Little Miss Sunshine" again - very funny film.

Very good film. Beautifully crafted and a brilliant post-modern spin on the American dream.

Tried watching Pink Flamingos over Christmas and simply didn't see the point to it as a film. Is it only meant to shock? Got sick of wasting my time just over half-way through.

Going to download a couple of Gilliams soon. Loved 'Brazil' and have read some good things about 'Twelve Monkeys' and 'The Fisher King'.

I've just watched Black Swan. It's bloody good.

Burnwinter wrote:

I've just watched Black Swan. It's bloody good.

i would agree with that if you are only referring to the last 20-30 minutes.. thought the buildup was just too f*ing slow and annoying..

otfgoon wrote:

I like those sorts of movies to be fair, but I just couldn't get into that at all. My main issue being that as you say it was hard work to follow, which is fine if it's interesting enough to keep you focused but it wasn't, the main plot was far too slow to unfold and the sidestories didn't do anything for me. I'm a big fan of both De Niro and Damon, so it was extra dissapointing. Might give it another chance one day though, if I have 3 hours to spare with absolutely nothing to do that is.

The pacing is all wrong, it's a mistake many directors make when tackling political/historical narratives. They aim for deep and interesting and you get slow and boring.

Seen recently:

Unstoppable which I enjoyed alot although I came away with a feeling that nothing actually happened in the film. Can't expect much more from a movie about a runaway train I suppose.

Tron; was alright.

The Secret in their Eyes again, can't recommend it highly enough. If you haven't seen it get downloading/down to hmv/blockbuster.