Film Review Thread

[MightyWhite]

I enjoyed it, nowhere near as good as the previous two though.

Silliness aside (and it is bloody silly), the most glaring issue is with the pacing of the film. At the most critical part of the film whole weeks passed by in the space of one scene. This probably has something to do with the many glaring plot holes. I suspect Nolan was trying to cram too much into one film.

Did like the ending.

[AndyPaul]

I watched "The Vow" the other night. Based on a true story about a woman who loses her memory and forget she was married and so on............... blah blah blah..........

Errrrmmm, well I can't say it's a bad film but I did find it a bit dull to be honest. If you don't see it you won't be missing much except Rachel McAdams but I suppose you could see her in better films.

5/10

[MightyWhite]

Fuck all films on Sky or out to rent at the moment, so I'm reaching back into the DVD collection.

Guilty pleasure tonight - The Business

Directed by Nick Love, starring Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan, it's contains all the elements you would normally hate about British movies. But somehow this one works. The music, the fashion, the setting - even the cheesy cockney gangster dialogue has a charm. Main bird in it is quite fit too.

The Business

[BC]

Dyer and Love

[AndyPaul]

Danny Dyer is a.......... Actually I don't think there are words to describe how much of a prick he is. Never watched all of the business because after 10 minutes I wanted to put my head through the telly.

The only thing I have watched all the way through with Danny Dyer in was that episode of buzzcocks where he was ripped to shreds for the whole show, now that was good.

My guilty pleasure - tango and cash

[Ontolly]

Dyer and Love

[Mustafaster]

Chimpanzee
It's a Disney film, so there is a deal of syrup poured, but it is just fabulous, the photography is out of this world and the story is a belter. Genuine tear jerker, you have to have a heart of granite not to be moved by it.
8.5/10. Would be 9 but for the Disney Schmaltz.

[AndyPaul]

Ted - 7/10

A boy wishes his teddy was real and his dream comes true. It grows up to be a foul mouthed, pot smoking lay about. Quite amusing in places. Nothing great though. If you like Family guy etc then its worth a watch. I think I prefer Mark Wahlberg when doing (straight-face) comedy to his more serious roles. I thought he was good in the Departed and he is good in this too.

[wimpy]

The Lincoln Lawyer
American Gangster
Safe House

All worth a look

[Porkchopexpress]

The Lincoln Lawyer
American Gangster
Safe House

All worth a look

American Gangster is a class film. Then again, Denzil is pretty reliable as a decent film barometer. Haven't got round to Safe House as yet.

[AndyPaul]

The Lincoln Lawyer
American Gangster
Safe House

All worth a look

Aye. I'd go along with that.

[AndyPaul]

The Troll hunter - 7/10

Wasn't too bad, kept my attention for the whole film, not scary by any means but I don't think it was meant to be. The name of the film says it all really. Subtitled by the way.

[SimonB]

Went to see Ted yesterday and it wasnt as funny as I had hoped but still made me lol a few times. I believe its done by the same people who make family guy and certainly some of the humour was similar. During the film they made fun of jews, mexicans, fat kids, gays and retards worth a watch if you have the right sense of humour I think

[Dale White]

Went to see Ted yesterday and it wasnt as funny as I had hoped but still made me lol a few times. I believe its done by the same people who make family guy and certainly some of the humour was similar. During the film they made fun of jews, mexicans, fat kids, gays and retards worth a watch if you have the right sense of humour I think

My lad went to see this last week and said it was pretty good.

[gazurtoids]

Kosmos -- a bit of a strange one but oddly compelling.

[Man Called Sun]

I saw a couple that I'd been meaning to watch for years a couple of weeks ago when the mrs was away, I forgot to mention:

Exit Through The Giftshop - Ostensibly some sort of existentialist experimental shit by Banksy, but turned out to be a surprisingly conventional documentary about street art basically, and how it all kicked off. It's told through the premise of it being a documentary about some bloke who went round filming all the artists. I enjoyed it, and I learned a lot, but I came out of it thinking less of Banksy to be honest, they were far too ready to measure an artist's success through his bank account.

Four Lions - A Chris Morris masterpiece about 4 Muslims from Sheffield who decide to suicide bomb the London Marathon. I saw odd scenes of it when it was on the telly last year in the middle of the night and I was trying to feed my 3 week old lad, so didn't really take any of it in. It really is funny as fuck, and surprisingly moving in parts, and is the only thing I've ever seen that addresses the position some of these people are in with any degree of intelligence. That it can achieve that and be so ridiculous at the same time really is a triumph. And there's some beautiful shots of Sheffield in it an all, as if that were possible. I urge you all to see it, like, now.

[gazurtoids]

Yeah, Four Lions is fantastic.

[Blackwhite]

Yeah, Four Lions is fantastic.

Review wasn't bad either.

Did no one else sign up for that "angel scheme" for it? Crowdsourcing/Pledging small sums for funding etc., never got called on but when there was no cash, the public interest swung the funding IIRC. And the boy done good.

[gazurtoids]

I remember hearing about it but I think it was before that kind of thing was well established with pledgemusic, kickstarter and the like and I never got around to promising to chip in out of sheer laziness. I think Morris had enough goodwill on the back of his previous work that he got enough pledges pretty quickly.

[Blackwhite]

Yes, think they were surprised at the response. Got a nice cel mount, and the emails offering a chance to turn out as one of the runners were easily ignored