Film Review Thread

[thechubbyone]

Have any of you seen that film about Zidane, I've bloody forgotten the name of it. They just filmed him for the whole of a Real Madrid match and got Mogwai to do the soundtrack. He scored and got sent off at the end, end of film. It was out a few years ago, much better than it sounds, it's really compelling.

Got to admit that I switched it off after about 20 minutes. Player cam with artistic pretensions.

[Blackwhite]

Have any of you seen that film about Zidane, I've bloody forgotten the name of it. .

It was called 'Zidane'. Can easily see why it slipped your mind 7

EDIT: tired as I am, the tongue in your cheek just registered. Fucking hell, am off down the pub

[burnleyinexile]

Source Code. Sci-fi crime prevention, but in 8 minute 'Groundhog Day' bites. Not bad really 7/10.

[Man Called Sun]

Have any of you seen that film about Zidane, I've bloody forgotten the name of it. .

It was called 'Zidane'. Can easily see why it slipped your mind 7

EDIT: tired as I am, the tongue in your cheek just registered. Fucking hell, am off down the pub

It's difficult to do on the internet innit?

[FER]

Miss March. Virgin yank teens decide to fuck at party. Virgin boy gets pissed and falls down steps. Four years later he awakes from the coma to find that virgin girl he was gonna bone is now Playboy Bunny.

It's actually not bad and had a few laugh out loud moments. 7/10

[SimonB]

Have any of you seen that film about Zidane, I've bloody forgotten the name of it. .

It was called 'Zidane'. Can easily see why it slipped your mind 7

EDIT: tired as I am, the tongue in your cheek just registered. Fucking hell, am off down the pub

Not quite the same but the missus lost a paperback book a while ago when she had only read half of it. As she was really enjoying the story she wanted another copy but could not remember the name or the author of book so many weeks and tours of book stores later she eventually came across the book, it was called "forgotten".

[Blackwhite]

EDIT: tired as I am, the tongue in your cheek just registered. Fucking hell, am off down the pub

It's difficult to do on the internet innit?

It is when you're dealing with thick cunts like me

[OWETB]

Not a film, but did anybody watch 'Mummifying Alan' last night?

Fucking well weird, I wonder what the people who knew him must have thought?

[burnleyinexile]

Not a film, but did anybody watch 'Mummifying Alan' last night?

Fucking well weird, I wonder what the people who knew him must have thought?

Watched it this morning, pretty good how they sussed it all out. Good to hear his own views on it, albeit he wasn't dead when interviewed...if you know what I mean?

[MightyWhite]

Not a film, but did anybody watch 'Mummifying Alan' last night?

Fucking well weird, I wonder what the people who knew him must have thought?

Watched it this morning, pretty good how they sussed it all out. Good to hear his own views on it, albeit he wasn't dead when interviewed...if you know what I mean?

Now that would have been good. Lazy scientists

[Dods]

Not a film, but did anybody watch 'Mummifying Alan' last night?

Fucking well weird, I wonder what the people who knew him must have thought?

Isn't that an episode of "I'm Alan Partridge"?

[OWETB]

You can watch it here.

[Oheddieeddie]

Just watching a really powerful revenge film by Peter Strickland called "Katalin Varga", wouldnt normally be something I would plan to watch but it was on in the background and its drawing me in. Beautiful cinematography, a lowering brooding score, quite slow but trundling along with a lowering and brooding sense of building menace. I cant see this ending well for our Katalin

Linky below, but dont seek it out if youre into car chases, and action.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/katalin-varga-peter-strickland-82-mins-15-1800771.html

[burnleyinexile]

"Sex lives of the Potato Men". Funny as hell, saw it a few years ago and it still works. 7/10

[Blackwhite]

"Sex lives of the Potato Men". Funny as hell, saw it a few years ago and it still works. 7/10

Personally don't think it was as bad as critics painted it, not brilliant but better than most US shite, decent cast - Olivia Colman, fat bastard, McKenzie Crook, even Adrian Chiles as a sweaty brum swinger. 7/10 sounds quite generous, though I probably marked it down on the old woman blow job ("you'll have to stand on a chair love").

[AndyPaul]

Real Steel - 8/10

Hugh Jackman in a predictable film about robot boxing. It really is not as bad as it sounds and quite enjoyed it

[MightyWhite]

Just watched Attack the Block. A film about a bunch of gangsta yoots getting chased around the hood by scary alien gorilla type things. Daft as a fucking brush but well worth a watch. 7/10.

[Ontolly]

Just watched Attack the Block. A film about a bunch of gangsta yoots getting chased around the hood by scary alien gorilla type things. Daft as a fucking brush but well worth a watch. 7/10.

That was the directoral or screenplay debut of Adam. Or Joe.

Watchable I thought.

[MightyWhite]

Just watched Attack the Block. A film about a bunch of gangsta yoots getting chased around the hood by scary alien gorilla type things. Daft as a fucking brush but well worth a watch. 7/10.

That was the directoral or screenplay debut of Adam. Or Joe.

Watchable I thought.

Aye, Joe Cornish. Not a bad start to his career imho.

[Blackwhite]

Up-front confession that I've not finished watching this, but strongly recommend it nonetheless, especially to the ex-servicemen among us. Was on More4 so should be on 4OD for a while soon here, hence prompt post.

Hell and Back Again, a documentary about US infantry soldiers in Afghanistan. Follows a platoon and in particular a platoon commander or whatever (a kid) once he's been sent home on his last scheduled day with a horrific sniper injury. Watching him at work it seems inevitable that he can be killed anytime; this amateur's opinion is they look very slack, wandering about the wadi, relatively uncovered from the ambush that's coming.
Back home is pain and addiction to the drugs he's needed to keep the pain at bay. The experience has not done good things for his brain.
Great editing, impressive cinematography in the fucking field, and some brilliant artistic touches to convey the emotions he and they are going through. All this and a fascinating glimpse of what it takes to connect with the Afghans, and what it takes to make them want to see you skinned. Great doc.