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The Film Thread

y va marquer

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

I've never seen that. Probably should watch it one of these days.

Only worth watching for Pete Postlethwaithe's performance which was moving, authentic and avoided the cliched, cloying sentimentality and simplistic drama of the rest of the film.

USArsenal

saw Inception tonight.. was decent.. i'll leave it at that.. visually stunning though

Burnwinter

USArsenal wrote:
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..

Really? I disagree with that sentiment. For the very first period (maybe 10 minutes) I was thinking "hmm ... this is a tad heavy-handed ... yes Darren, black and white, mirrors, good and evil" but then it sucked me right in.

Burnwinter

I've been on a Bergman binge lately - I've watched The Virgin Spring, The Winter Light, and Wild Strawberries. All brilliant to be honest. Gutted after every single one, but particularly The Winter Light.

Oh and Herzog - Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu : Fantom der Nacht, and Cobra Verde (all good in decreasing order of excellence).

Burnwinter

And the new Todd Solondz movie, Life During Wartime. Bleakly funny, rather than humorously bleak. Pretty good all up.

And Blue Valentine. Totally realistic cinema. Great film, deserves praise. Great performance from Ryan Gosling.

USArsenal

after seeing the end, i understand why the build up was done the way it was done, but i guess i didnt really like her character and the meek, mousy person she is (i wanted to slap her throughout the movie) and i didnt really like Barbara Hershey's or Mila Kunis' characters either.. dont get me wrong, it was a well made movie, but i didnt enjoy it as much as the critics did...

Captain

Watching Catwoman on ITV2 and my god, it is awful.

Claudius

Watched The Town last week. Thoroughly entertaining.

If you haven't seen Black Swan, I'd recommend giving it a look. I won't hype it up, but it's certainly a nice change from most of the movies at the cinema right now

Klaus

Captain wrote:
Watching Catwoman on ITV2 and my god, it is awful.

I watched that one a few months ago too. I was going to change the channel but the remote was on the other end of the sofa so I basically had to sit through it. I don't think I fully understood how she got her abilities. A cat breathes on her corpse and all of a sudden she wakes up with ninja skills?

Claudius

Klaus wrote:
I watched that one a few months ago too. I was going to change the channel but the remote was on the other end of the sofa so I basically had to sit through it. I don't think I fully understood how she got her abilities. A cat breathes on her corpse and all of a sudden she wakes up with ninja skills?

:hat: translation: I couldn't be bothered to get the remote when I saw Halle Berry prancing around in skimpy leather outfits.

USArsenal

watched Girl With the Dragon Tattoo tonight.. was pretty good.. i enjoyed it more than i enjoyed Inception..

Klaus

Zico: Haha, more or less. Towards the end I still fell asleep though. That they managed to turn a half-naked Halle Berry into something only remotely more interesting to watch than paint dry is pretty telling for the film.

Claudius

That movie was shocking. I quit halfway through.

Have you guys ever walked out of a movie theater. I have been tempted many times: Vanilla Sky, Twighlight: New Moon (please don't ask), but have only ever pulled the trigger on one movie: Hard Rain.

Burnwinter

Something's Gotta Give is the last one I can remember walking out of. I am a bit more discriminating regarding what I'm actually willing to see nowadays, though - I've pretty much given up on the animated features, for one thing.

If I had seen Vanilla Sky at the cinema, I definitely would've bailed. What a fucking joke of a film (I believe that's USArsenal's cue to defend it - or was that someone else?)

Pepe LeFrits

Klaus wrote:
Captain wrote:
Watching Catwoman on ITV2 and my god, it is awful.

I watched that one a few months ago too. I was going to change the channel but the remote was on the other end of the sofa so I basically had to sit through it. I don't think I fully understood how she got her abilities. A cat breathes on her corpse and all of a sudden she wakes up with ninja skills?

haha, that's like me and Batman & Robin. Although there was a certain a morbid fascination. I really can't believe how bad B&R is - was watching it thinking it had to be some kind of Hollywood inside joke that I wasn't privy to, nobody could accidentally make a film that ridiculous. It's like a big budget remake of the 60s Batman film.

Pepe LeFrits

1969:

(I love how slowly Robin descends the ladder)

1997:

USArsenal

Burnwinter wrote:
Something's Gotta Give is the last one I can remember walking out of. I am a bit more discriminating regarding what I'm actually willing to see nowadays, though - I've pretty much given up on the animated features, for one thing.

If I had seen Vanilla Sky at the cinema, I definitely would've bailed. What a fucking joke of a film (I believe that's USArsenal's cue to defend it - or was that someone else?)

dont actually go to the theater much to see movies (i have a nice setup at home and i can't smoke in movie theaters).. the last (and only) movie i walked out of was when i was in high school (20 years ago, shut up you young'uns), and me and my girlfriend walked out of "Spaced Invaders"... me and my wife would have walked out of "The Pledge" when we saw it at the theater if we hadn't gotten to see it for free..

Burnsy - i didnt think Vanilla Sky was as bad as you and Zico did, but it wasnt my favorite movie of all time by any means

Ricky1985

My word those Batman clips are terrible. So bad, that they're funny. Now I remember why I've barely watched any of the films pre-Batman Begins - which really was an amazing film, as was Dark Knight. How on earth do films like that stem from a series like that though? So far removed.

Armor

Holy sardines that was funny!

y va marquer

The 25 minutes that I managed to watch of Batman and Robin were easily the worst I've ever seen in a cinema.
Loads of people walked out.
It was so bad it was funny for about 5 minutes and after that it was just unbearable.

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