Film Review Thread

[SimonB]

Ghost Rider 3D nonsense plot but enjoyable none the less, lots of great action shots decent use of 3D and a the occasional laugh. Not sure I would want to see it again but worth a couple of hours of escapism.

[Phil LUFC]

Horrible bosses 7/10

Easy to watch comedy about 3 guys who decide to kill there bosses to make there lives more bearable. Not great but enjoyable.

On a side note - Jennifer Aniston is like a fine wine and clearly gets better with age, when I saw her in this film little Andy nearly burst a blood vessel.

Saw this last night and pretty much agree with the above, it slowly gets worse the longer it goes on though, so just a 6 from me.

[Proud to be Leeds]

Ne le dis à personne (Tell no one)

Happily married husband thinks his wife gets murdered, and he was the prime suspect. 8 years later, two more bodies are found at the original crime scene, and he becomes prime suspect again. He also received an anonymous email, that would suggest his wife isn't dead afterall.

Brilliant film, with some brilliant performances.

And what makes it even better, is that the soundtrack (Mathieu Chedid) is bloody superb.

8.5/10

[barry white]

Ne le dis à personne (Tell no one)8.5/10

Someone mentions it on page 6 , but it does deserve a bump.

Watched Biutiful on DVD the other night. A dark depressing insight into low life in Barcelona. Javier Bardem is excellent. 6/10

[MightyWhite]

I signed up to that Netflix trial last month. Forgot about it. Went to cancel today and it's rolled over and I've had to pay £5.99 for the next month. Hoping to get my money's worth and watch some films, but there's fuck all on there

[wimpy]

Mate of mine is really into Korean films and suggested I get hold of "I saw the devil" so being a tight cunt I downloaded it on pb. Bearing in mind it was a Korean movie silly bollox here downloads it with swedish subtitles. Well I watched it anyway and have to say it made no difference that I couldn't understand a fucking word. What an awesome film but you need a pretty strong stomach

[MightyWhite]

I signed up to that Netflix trial last month. Forgot about it. Went to cancel today and it's rolled over and I've had to pay £5.99 for the next month. Hoping to get my money's worth and watch some films, but there's fuck all on there

So, in an effort to get my money's worth I have watched the following this week:

Panic Room

Jodie Foster, Forrest Whittaker and that mardy bird from Twilight. Newly divorced woman moves into fucking enormous house, which features a reinforced, inpregnable room in the master bedroom. First night and, sure enough, a gang of burglers rock up. Mother and daughter flee to Panic Room and the burglers have to try and figure out a way to get in, cos, ya know, it turns out the bounty their after is in the room.

Sounds bloody daft but I actually enjoyed it, well worth a watch. 7/10

Remember the Titans

Based on a true story, a white school and a black school merge somewhere in the American south. Popular coach of the white school's Football team is ousted in favour of a black guy (Denzel Washington). Tensions run high amongst the black and white players - distrust, hatred, fights, etc. Eventually they come together, win matches and unite the town behind them.

Cheesy, but really good! 8/10

Copland

Sylvester Stallone is a dopey, half deaf sheriff in a town populated by New York cops. Turns out the cops are up to no good, planting evidence, murdering, kidnapping, etc. Stallone finally comes round to what's happening in his town and sets about putting things right.

Also enjoyable, and a very good cast. 7/10

[Blackwhite]

Original Bad Lieutenant. Class, method, gonzo... makes me want to watch The Funeral again soon. And Driller Killer. And to shoot Nic Cage.

[barry white]

Watched a Romanian film Strigoi on DVD. The basic storyline is about people rising from the dead to seek justice (sort of vampires). A quirky take on Romanian village life after communism. Nicely done.

7/10

[Mustafaster]

Carnage.
Polanski directs Jodie Foster, Winslett, Christoph Waltz and John Reilly.
Four- hander of two middle class NY couples who are on the surface normal, but a bottle of Scotch rips away the facade ... innit.
Very good performances by all 4, Foster is magnificent. Polanski keeps the direction down to a minimum, pretty good script.
All the action takes place in a nondescript NY apartment over an afternoon.
Errrr .... that's it really. Nobody gets their kit off, no explosions, nobody goes anywhere or does anything, no car chases, no aliens.
I imagine it would make a pretty good play, gives the actors plenty of room to stretch out, but a pretty boring film.
6/10 for the quality of the acting, otherwise 4.

[MightyWhite]

In Time

Justin Timberlake film about a world where the only currency is time. You live the first 25 years of your life as normal and then BANG, your internal clock starts ticking and once it runs out your dead. Timberlake lives in what amounts to the ghetto, where all the residents survive on a matter of hours, desperately scrapping for every minute they can get. One day Timberlake saves the live of a guy who has over a century left on his clock and his eyes are opened to another world, where the upper class jealously horde all the time to themselves. He goes about hitting back against the system, pursued by time cops and other villains.

Love the idea and it was a very watchable film, but I found myself thinking it could have been a little bit better. The main bird in it is fit. 7/10

Crazy Stupid Love

Man (Steve Carell) gets divorced from wife. Meets a guy (Ryan Gosling) in a bar who is essentially God's gift to women. Gosling decides to take Carell under his wing and get him back into the dating game. He gets stuck into a few women but soon realises it's his wife he wants back.

Few funny bits and lot's of silly little coincidences that brings the storyline together. Not going to shake your foundations but it's a nice film and well worth settling down to watch with the mrs and a bottle of wine. 7/10

[MightyWhite]

Oh yeah, and I watched Warrior too. Really enjoyed that, interesting story and great action. You knew it would boil down to the two brothers at the end but had no idea how they would end it. Worked well. 8/10

[Man Called Sun]

Dunno if it's been mentioned on here, can't be arsed to check, but Mrs Sun pointed out earlier that Inglorious Basterds is on tonight at 10. It's bloody good if you havn't seen it, some of the usual Tarantino gore and stuff but with extra silliness in places, that end scene is ridiculous. But there's some really good performances and I'd thoroughly bloody recommend it, even if it is about a day long. If it's too long tonight then get the DVD or summat.

[AndyPaul]

This means War - 7/10

An easy watch I suppose, nothing special. Two secret agents get suspended and end up dating the same woman, some amusing incidents, expected better but was still OK. Has Tom Hardy and Reece Witherspoon in.


Wanderlust - 5/10

A couple leave NY after loosing there jobs and end up at a hippy commune. Some funny bits but to be honest I got quite bored. Has Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd in.

[thechubbyone]

This means War - 7/10

An easy watch I suppose, nothing special. Two secret agents get suspended and end up dating the same woman, some amusing incidents, expected better but was still OK. Has Tom Hardy and Reece Witherspoon in.

Really? I saw the advert for this and it looked fucking awful.

[AndyPaul]

This means War - 7/10

An easy watch I suppose, nothing special. Two secret agents get suspended and end up dating the same woman, some amusing incidents, expected better but was still OK. Has Tom Hardy and Reece Witherspoon in.

Really? I saw the advert for this and it looked fucking awful.

Errrr mm yeah maybe 6/10

[Jovo Simanic]

Watched a few films on plane flight recently - not the best environment but still...

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. 8/10. A sort of shorter version of the tv series but very good nonetheless.

The Inbetweeners. 6/10 Weak plot and dubious acting but some funny moments.

Transformers Dark Side of the Moon. 1/10 And that is because Rosie Huntingdon whatever is, well, one of the most attractive women in the world. Awful film.

Captain America. 4/10. Crap.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes. 6.5/10. Entertaining enough - clearly setting itself up for several sequels though.

[Phil LUFC]

Transformers Dark Side of the Moon. 1/10 And that is because Rosie Huntingdon whatever is, well, one of the most attractive women in the world. Awful film.

It was far from good, worst of the 3 and none have been great, but not sure it was quite that bad! Interestingly, you've given it its point for something I considered to be a negative point, she's not a patch on Megan Fox and spend the entire film screaming right up until the end when suddenly she found some composure and contributed - in a predictable and extremely cringeworthy way.

[SimonB]

On a plane recently too and saw -

Cowboys and Aliens - terrible idea and terrible plot that meant I missed a good half hour of it as it sent me to sleep perhaps it looked better on a big screen?

Immortals - I thought this would be much better than it turned out, gods and humans, magic weapons should have led to a great film but I found it rather slow and boring.

Our Idiot Brother - I found this quite funny and quite moving in places, three sisters have an idiot brother (he managed to go to jail for selling drugs to a police officer in uniform) who when he comes out of jail really messes up their lives but in the end they see he was only doing what he felt was best for them. Much better than I thought it would be.

In Time - very entertaining sci fi film already described above, well worth watching and an interesting concept in how to manage immortality if ever we can find out how to do that!

The Big Year - a film about bird watching and how many different birds you can see in a year in the US, given the cast of Martin, Black and Wilson, all of whom I like as comedy actors, it wasnt quite as good as I hoped. Having said that I did enjoy the film and would recommend it as light entertainment.

The adventures of tin tin - Ok film, much as I expected from my reading of tin tin comics years ago. Entertaining but not great.

And then at the cinema recently I saw The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - this is a fantastic film about a hotel in India for retired folk from England, it captured Indian atmosphere wonderfully the colours, the smells, the chaos and the enthusiasm. Very funny as well as good drama. Definitely recommend a watch.

[SimonB]

Transformers Dark Side of the Moon. 1/10 And that is because Rosie Huntingdon whatever is, well, one of the most attractive women in the world. Awful film.

It was far from good, worst of the 3 and none have been great, but not sure it was quite that bad! Interestingly, you've given it its point for something I considered to be a negative point, she's not a patch on Megan Fox and spend the entire film screaming right up until the end when suddenly she found some composure and contributed - in a predictable and extremely cringeworthy way.

Personally I quite liked this film but then I do tend to like special effects laden films whatever the plot defects