What films are you watching?

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

I saw Gene Wilder/Mel Brook's 'Young Frankenstein' again last night, and what a undiluted joy this film still is.

 

It's hard to single out the best part of this absurdly funny film: from the outrages 'Transylvania Station' gag, to Marty Feldmans gloriously OTT performance as 'Eye Gore', or even the monsters truly unique version of 'Putting on the Ritz' that remains so vividly in the memory. But perhaps the best bit for me is the scene where the unfortunate monster pays a call on Gene Hackman's hermit cabin in the woods - in a life time of film viewing I have seldom laughed quite this much.

 

PS - and what exactly has she done to them that has made the Horses quite so terrified of Frau Blutcher

[SuperMikey]

Watched Letters From Iwo Jima again last night. Great film.

 

Clint Eastwood had a great idea to do 2 films from different perspectives of the same military engagement, this particular one focuses on the Japanese soldiers fighting guerilla style from their caves, whereas Flags of Our Fathers focuses on the American GIs landing on the island and storming it. The film definitely isn't short of grit, which is a good thing as the actual events were so grim and stomach-churning that the film had to accurately portray that feeling of dread and terror. Flamethrowers, bayonets and grenades abound, but the acting is of a very good calibre and my particular favourite aspect is that it doesn't go down the route of "Look how bad all the Japanese were", as a lot of other films have done, but it shows splits in the ranks.

 

If you like WWII films and haven't seen this, watch it. Just be warned, it's more than a little harrowing.

[dubai_phil]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2186370/James-Bond-Daniel-Craig-stands-sizzling-B-r-nice-Marlohe-Skyfall-poster.html

 

Bond vs Reacher this autumn.

 

Well, IF the idiot Producers had read Lee Child's books and cast the role properly it should have been no contest.

 

Let's hope Skyfall builds on Quantum of Solace and delivers a perfect Bond rather than the almost oh damn not quite.

[dubai_phil]

Oh boy.

 

I saw the web site for it about 18 months ago and how they were trying to raise funds.

 

At the time it seemed the silliest idea I had seen in ages and just tickled me.

 

The 4th Reich. Evacuated Earth in 1945 and built a base on the Dark side of the Moon.

 

Well, on my trip to Bangkok 2 weeks ago I found a copy on a dodgy DVD (it sure as hell ain't hit any cinema down here)

 

Watched it tonight..........

 

 

It truly is stupid. It truly is a Cult movie.It truly is up there with SuperBad and Scott Pilgrim in the "Either you get it or you don't" field of quality stupid funny movies.

 

Classic lines

 

The Hitler Downfall remake - What a ROFL moment - hell I so have to learn how to do that type the words subtitles when the fit chick does the Those of you who aren't in

 

 

(gonna have to try that line with my employees.. You're not intelligent enough to be f****g Morons)

 

The "I can't believe he fell for the One Last Blow Job" line

Yes we can.......

Sarah Palin as President

OK, who DIDN'T arm their Spaceships? Finland? Well should have known....

There are Women and Children down there.... We don't negotiate with Terrorists, Nuke them

What? did you all pay for tickets?

 

1. You all gave me your word!
   
2. President of the United States: We're American, we always break ours. That's just what we do.
   

 

 

The movie is totally non PC from about the 5th minute. Black Guy being turned white by Nazi's who become the scriptwriters to get Sarah Palin (almost) re-elected.

 

Stupid stupid stupid and I am still laughing at it

 

The Dodgy DVD just joined my Blazing Saddles, Airplane, Hot Shots ROFL collection. Yeah sure, it has huge gaps between the really good jokes but......

 

Gang - leave the intellect at home and go and laugh at bad taste

Edited 10 August, 2012 by dubai_phil

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

I took the kids to see Disney-Pixar's latest effort 'Brave' yesterday, and what a smashing children's film it is. Funny and thrilling in just the right measure, add in a engaging script and some fine vocal performances from its mostly Scottish cast (the wonderful Billy Connelly in particular) and it's hard to see what more you could ask for. What really stood out for me however is just how far CGI technology has come along in recent years.

 

Pixar has achieved what it had set out to do many years ago and created something truly remarkable in the field of computer generated images. Better even than 'Avatar' perhaps, this film looks so sumptuous that I can honestly say it took my breath away at times. The beautiful depth and fidelity of texture achieved (be it Human hair, the grain of wood, or moss on a rock) colours that almost outdo the best efforts of Mother Nature - and all so hyper realistically realized that reality itself may be in danger of becoming a disappointment to this generation of children. What can be put on the screen now, sourced only from the Human imagination and the innards of a computer, truly is a wonder to behold.

 

9/10

Edited 22 August, 2012 by CHAPEL END CHARLIE

[pap]

Watched Rocky (1976) last night. Almost impossible to watch it without following up with the sequel. These movies have been faves of mine ever since the first VHS landed in my house.

 

If you've seen em enough times, they're inconsistent ( Rock is half-blind in the second film - never mentioned again ). But damn, soundtrack and action scenes are tied together beautifully. Makes real boxing seem like chess

[percy windham]

Rocky 5 is a stunning piece of cinema. By stunning I mean horse pops.

[pap]

Rocky 5 is a stunning piece of cinema. By stunning I mean horse pops.

 

I think I've only seen it once.

 

I watched II and III last night back to back. Quite a contrast between the two. Much of the kitchen sink drama is dispensed with in III; the film is a lean 1:38 runner.

 

Some bloody dreadful things in it, though. The mankini look that Apollo and Rocky adopted during the training montage couldn't seriously be rocked by a hetero male in this day and age.

[dubai_phil]

Watched MIB3 on the flight over here yesterday.

 

It really really REALLY doesn't add anything to the value of the planet or take the franchise forwards

 

Wish I'd watched Battleship again..........

[Suhari]

I took the kids to see Disney-Pixar's latest effort 'Brave' yesterday, and what a smashing children's film it is. Funny and thrilling in just the right measure, add in a engaging script and some fine vocal performances from its mostly Scottish cast (the wonderful Billy Connelly in particular) and it's hard to see what more you could ask for. What really stood out for me however is just how far CGI technology has come along in recent years.

 

Pixar has achieved what it had set out to do many years ago and created something truly remarkable in the field of computer generated images. Better even than 'Avatar' perhaps, this film looks so sumptuous that I can honestly say it took my breath away at times. The beautiful depth and fidelity of texture achieved (be it Human hair, the grain of wood, or moss on a rock) colours that almost outdo the best efforts of Mother Nature - and all so hyper realistically realized that reality itself may be in danger of becoming a disappointment to this generation of children. What can be put on the screen now, sourced only from the Human imagination and the innards of a computer, truly is a wonder to behold.

 

9/10

 

Watched this over the weekend: quality. Really good movie.

[Suhari]

Watched MIB3 on the flight over here yesterday.

 

It really really REALLY doesn't add anything to the value of the planet or take the franchise forwards

 

Wish I'd watched Battleship again..........

 

Just watched this. Truly poor. Christ.

[pap]

Just watched this. Truly poor. Christ.

 

Film based on a board game. What could possibly go wrong?

 

I hope the only thing Liam Neeson said to his crew mates outside of the acting was "where's my cheque?"

[Jonnyboy]

Just watched Rum Diary with J Deppo. Its worth a watch if you liked Fear and Loathing.

[colehillsaint]

Film based on a board game. What could possibly go wrong?

 

I hope the only thing Liam Neeson said to his crew mates outside of the acting was "where's my cheque?"

 

On first reading of Phil's post I missed the irony and took his comment as a strong recommendation.

 

I got through it by repeating the phrase "goddam those crazy b4stards" in an American accent. The kids told me to shut up.

 

Why would you cast Rihanna and make her ware a boiler suit for the whole film?

[Suhari]

On first reading of Phil's post I missed the irony and took his comment as a strong recommendation.

 

I got through it by repeating the phrase "goddam those crazy b4stards" in an American accent. The kids told me to shut up.

 

Why would you cast Rihanna and make her ware a boiler suit for the whole film?

 

Looks like a 12 year old boy in the film.

 

And not a sexy one.

 

 

View this movie as a cheesy 'B' movie cheese fest and it's still barely passable.

 

Liam must be running out of wonga.

[dubai_phil]

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/-airplane---voted-funniest-film-of-all-time.html

 

OK so here is something for y'all to get your teeth into

 

a list of the funniest movies ever

 

1. Airplane: 3 laughs-per-minute

2. The Hangover: 2.4 laughs-per-minute

3. The Naked Gun: 2.3 laughs-per-minute

4. Superbad: 1.9 laughs-per-minute

5. Borat: 1.7 laughs-per-minute

6. Anchorman: 1.6 laughs-per-minute

7. American Pie: 1.5 laughs-per-minute

8. Bridesmaids: 1.4 laughs-per-minute

9. Shaun of the Dead: 1.3 laughs-per-minute

10. Life of Brian: 1.2 laughs-per-minute

 

I took it seriously for a moment until I noticed that Bridesmaids was in 8th place...

 

Now I gave up watching that after about 15 minutes, FMDP managed about 45 mins before just saying Why?

 

Anyway....

 

I agree with Airplane and agree with SuperBad & original American Pie being in the Top Ten.....

 

Comments?

[norwaysaint]

Shaun of the Dead and Life of Brian are great, Borat was very funny. I can't remember laughing much at American Pie. Anchorman has a couple of hilarious moments, but as a whole film wasn't much good. I liked Airplane when I was 12, but I reckon I wouldn't laugh at it much now, partly because of that genre being overdone with a lot of very week cash-ons. Didn't rate the hangover or Superbad at all, just very average. It's not that I don't like juvenile humour either, the first Harold and Kumar film had me laughing from start to finish. I thought Bridesmaids was okay, but it doesn't belong in the top ten.

 

Why are you saying "y'all"? Why does anyone type that? The word you makes you sound less of a ***** and is shorter.

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

Any top ten funniest film list that doesn't have Blazing Saddles and/or Young Frankenstein on it in somewhere near the top is just plain wrong

 

Hedley Lamarr: Plan Number 6? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that one.

Taggart: Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a-whompin' and a-whumpin' every livin' thing that moves within an inch of its life. Except the women folks of course.

Hedley Lamarr: You spare the women?

Taggart: Naw, we rape the **** out of them at the Number Six Dance later on.

 

[FarehamRed]

Just finished True Blood season 5. Simply superb.

RUN!!!! ;-))

[pap]

Just got back from seeing Dredd 3D. Have to admit, I was a little underwhelmed at the trailers I'd seen in recent months. The wide shots didn't look like my Mega City One. My interest was renewed when I discovered it was an 18 certificate. Yes, I'm genuinely that shallow sometimes, but with recent movies geared to hit that magic 12A certificate, nice to see Dredd go the complete opposite route, especially as that what serves the source material.

 

The story does the sensible thing, focusing on Judge Anderson's first day as a rookie with Dredd assessing her performance. It's a smart move because it allows Dredd to provide exposition without it really sounding that way. Anyway, both leads are very good in their roles. Kudos to Karl Urban; I don't think you see Dredd out of the mask. Very refreshing to see an actor put the character before the ego. Judge Anderson, one of the biggest deals in the comics outside of Dredd himself, is also very well cast. Olivia Thirlby does an excellent job of providing a bit of humanity in Dredd's universe.

 

This is not the most expensive movie you'll ever see; I suspect a big part of why they're releasing exclusively in 3D is that a lot of the scenes are close shots, which work really well in the format but might look a bit "made for TV" otherwise. It is uncompromisingly violent though, and as someone who is a fan of the comics, it's damn good introduction. Hopefully they'll get to make another armed with a bit more cash.

[View From The Top]

I took the kids to see Disney-Pixar's latest effort 'Brave' yesterday, and what a smashing children's film it is. Funny and thrilling in just the right measure, add in a engaging script and some fine vocal performances from its mostly Scottish cast (the wonderful Billy Connelly in particular) and it's hard to see what more you could ask for. What really stood out for me however is just how far CGI technology has come along in recent years.

 

Pixar has achieved what it had set out to do many years ago and created something truly remarkable in the field of computer generated images. Better even than 'Avatar' perhaps, this film looks so sumptuous that I can honestly say it took my breath away at times. The beautiful depth and fidelity of texture achieved (be it Human hair, the grain of wood, or moss on a rock) colours that almost outdo the best efforts of Mother Nature - and all so hyper realistically realized that reality itself may be in danger of becoming a disappointment to this generation of children. What can be put on the screen now, sourced only from the Human imagination and the innards of a computer, truly is a wonder to behold.

 

9/10

 

Thought Brave decidedly average. Beautifully animated but nothing new or emotive.

 

6/10.

[View From The Top]

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Dog Days.

 

This is how kids films should be. Each one has been absolutely bang on.

[latter day saint]

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Dog Days.

 

This is how kids films should be. Each one has been absolutely bang on.

my nipper loves the books & films but i've managed to avoid watching them so far.

will give them a go now, thanks

[Bearsy]

I've probably seen all the famous films or whatever, can someone recommend me a non-famous film what I might have missed?

 

a) Not depressing

b) Not subtitles

c) Not black and white

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

I've probably seen all the famous films or whatever, can someone recommend me a non-famous film what I might have missed?

 

a) Not depressing

b) Not subtitles

c) Not black and white

 

I can wholeheartedly recommend Vittorio De Sica's 1948 masterpiece 'Bicycle Thieves' - which meets all but 3 of your criteria.

[RonManager]

I've probably seen all the famous films or whatever, can someone recommend me a non-famous film what I might have missed?

 

a) Not depressing

b) Not subtitles

c) Not black and white

 

Repo Man

[pap]

I've probably seen all the famous films or whatever, can someone recommend me a non-famous film what I might have missed?

 

a) Not depressing

b) Not subtitles

c) Not black and white

 

Man gets hit in groin with football.

 

It won an award, y'know.

 

EDIT: It's "Man Getting Hit By Football". In light of my original error, I am pleased to provide the whole film here:-

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV1LWhNpTJU

Edited 10 September, 2012 by pap

[pap]

I'm still waiting for your review of Prometheus ffs!

 

I have now seen Prometheus. A lot to like about that movie, but also, quite a bit of meh too. Will need to see it a few more times, but doesn't really answer any questions without introducing more, which is what you'd expect from Lindehof ( one of the chaps who wrote the screenplay, also wrote quite a bit of LOST).

 

The film looks amazing, no question about that. Definitely up for some repeat viewings to work out whether it's a shallow spectacle or not. Part of me suspects it is, but I reckon a lot of the criticism probably stems from the movie's links. There are a lot of expectations, a lot of theory and a lot of extended universe stuff that this movie just urinates all over.

 

At one stage, many were quite keen on the whole Alien breed being created as part of a Weyland-Yutani weapons program. This would be one of those theories that Prometheus completely kills.

[Jonnyboy]

I have now seen Prometheus. A lot to like about that movie, but also, quite a bit of meh too. Will need to see it a few more times, but doesn't really answer any questions without introducing more, which is what you'd expect from Lindehof ( one of the chaps who wrote the screenplay, also wrote quite a bit of LOST).

 

The film looks amazing, no question about that. Definitely up for some repeat viewings to work out whether it's a shallow spectacle or not. Part of me suspects it is, but I reckon a lot of the criticism probably stems from the movie's links. There are a lot of expectations, a lot of theory and a lot of extended universe stuff that this movie just urinates all over.

 

At one stage, many were quite keen on the whole Alien breed being created as part of a Weyland-Yutani weapons program. This would be one of those theories that Prometheus completely kills.

 

Ah didnt know that, explains a fair bit. Personally I like a bit of mystery and "what da fook was that about" when I come out of a film. The good thing with Prometheus is that after a few debates things made more sense where as with Lost and, for example, Kill List, its pointless to analyse it. Maybe its just my limited in-film IQ.

 

I can see why some purists dont like it at all, I have an Aliens obsessed friend who didnt dig it. Interestingly he is raving about the new Judge Dredd film...

 

Perhaps the sequel will point things in a further direction which pleases more people...

[pap]

Ah didnt know that, explains a fair bit. Personally I like a bit of mystery and "what da fook was that about" when I come out of a film. The good thing with Prometheus is that after a few debates things made more sense where as with Lost and, for example, Kill List, its pointless to analyse it. Maybe its just my limited in-film IQ.

 

I can see why some purists dont like it at all, I have an Aliens obsessed friend who didnt dig it. Interestingly he is raving about the new Judge Dredd film...

 

Perhaps the sequel will point things in a further direction which pleases more people...

 

Bits of it are still sticking out in my head, which is normally a good sign.

 

I've got no problem with what Prometheus is. It's like a lot of things in sci-fi, attracts flak because it doesn't fit what the audience are expecting to see. I reckon a fair chunk of the audience were expecting to see an Alien film, and it most definitely was not that. If I'm honest, I'd have been a little bored if it had been. The more I think about it, the happier I am with it.

 

Sequels are on their way. It'll be interesting to see which direction they take. They could focus on the survivors, but equally, they could just as easily do a "what went wrong" follow up on LV-223. Note, that's not the same planet as the one they found the derelict on in Alien (referred to as LV-426 in Aliens) so Prometheus definitely doesn't act as the lead-in to those events.

 

Personally, I hope we go further into the Engineers stuff. By travelling that path, Scott has the ability to flesh out so much more and really put some meat on the bones of that particular universe. I reckon we'll see the derelict hitting LV-426 in the third Prometheus film, and that by that point, it could almost be throwaway compared to the other stuff that is going on.

[pap]

I can see why some purists dont like it at all, I have an Aliens obsessed friend who didnt dig it. Interestingly he is raving about the new Judge Dredd film...

 

Someone on the UI was asking about Dredd. Go see it. Great action film which features plenty of claret and people dying in interesting ways.

[Sheaf Saint]

Not been to the cinema for ages so this afternoon me and the mrs went along to see Lawless.

 

Based on a true story about a family of bootleggers in Virginia during the prohibition era, featuring Tom Hardy and Shia Lebouf. I would like to offer a lengthy, reasoned critique with some in-depth analysis, but I can't be arsed. All I will say is that it's every bit as good as the trailer makes it out to be so go and see it - you won't be disappointed.

[dubai_phil]

I have now seen Prometheus. A lot to like about that movie, but also, quite a bit of meh too. Will need to see it a few more times, but doesn't really answer any questions without introducing more, which is what you'd expect from Lindehof ( one of the chaps who wrote the screenplay, also wrote quite a bit of LOST).

 

The film looks amazing, no question about that. Definitely up for some repeat viewings to work out whether it's a shallow spectacle or not. Part of me suspects it is, but I reckon a lot of the criticism probably stems from the movie's links. There are a lot of expectations, a lot of theory and a lot of extended universe stuff that this movie just urinates all over.

 

At one stage, many were quite keen on the whole Alien breed being created as part of a Weyland-Yutani weapons program. This would be one of those theories that Prometheus completely kills.

 

Watched it on my flight home on Friday. I lasted 51 minutes.

 

Sorry, while it was superb visually, the entire "somebody working against the mission" line was just so totally done to death before. That was what lost it for me. FFS we saw it in 2001 and there was just so much of the bleeding obvious in the film. Shame I was looking forward to it and I am sure that there could have been twists and turns in the plot and characters but it was just all so ÿawn" seen it all before.

 

What I DID enjoy was Safe with Jason Statham.

 

Let's face it. Jason has one character and so when you have a story written just for him you know what you are going to get - a romp and entertainment. Ain't gonna win any Oscars ever and probably not his best film Top 5 but just what was needed to kill 6 hours, and some of the fight scenes did cause me to wince, so yeah that worked.

 

I'll have another go at Prometheus one day on DVD when I don't want to be entertained and can let the brain switch off from why is a young Peter O'Toole being so boringly obvious as a robot

[dubai_phil]

Deserving of a post on it's own.

 

Big Miracle.

 

What an absolutely lovely film. It made us laugh, it made us cry, it made us remember "The Gipper" and those crazy days.

 

It managed to take the p1ss out of the media while show what they could do "for good", it showed the Inuit in a wonderful light and, in the way that Greenpeace looney Drew Barrymore & Big Oil's Ted Danson ending up working with "The Commies" and the clone of a 20 something year old Jim Carey who breaks the story.

 

No idea whether it has been and gone on TV channels, but it is a good film to watch with the family (oh the young ones will cry) or the misses (oh she'll cry)

 

A damned fine old fashioned uplifting story.

 

And of course " inspired by true events"

[norwaysaint]

I saw Prometheus at the weekend too.

 

I'm surprised it's had so much negative reaction, but maybe that was from people with too high expectations, who subsequently lowered mine. I thought it was quite good. It seemed to me to be a reboot of the old franchise, taking the original director's vision in a slightly new direction after his old one was ruined by too many sub-standard sequels and a thinly plotted spin-off. I'm assuming this is meant to be the introduction to at least a new trilogy and it works pretty well as that. I thought the end scene was a bit unnecessary though and they should've just concentrated on the engineers rather than the monsters so much.

[pap]

Watched it on my flight home on Friday. I lasted 51 minutes.

 

Sorry, while it was superb visually, the entire "somebody working against the mission" line was just so totally done to death before. That was what lost it for me. FFS we saw it in 2001 and there was just so much of the bleeding obvious in the film. Shame I was looking forward to it and I am sure that there could have been twists and turns in the plot and characters but it was just all so ÿawn" seen it all before.

 

What I DID enjoy was Safe with Jason Statham.

 

Let's face it. Jason has one character and so when you have a story written just for him you know what you are going to get - a romp and entertainment. Ain't gonna win any Oscars ever and probably not his best film Top 5 but just what was needed to kill 6 hours, and some of the fight scenes did cause me to wince, so yeah that worked.

 

I'll have another go at Prometheus one day on DVD when I don't want to be entertained and can let the brain switch off from why is a young Peter O'Toole being so boringly obvious as a robot

 

Give it another go, phil.

 

I really don't need to tell you that a 5" screen really isn't the place to witness an off-world sci fi spectacle.

[norwaysaint]

I don't want to see Dredd. I was a 2000AD obsessive as a kid and I don't actually think you could do those strips justice in a movie. I'm certain any movies would only disappoint me they aren't really cinematic, I'm with Alan Moore this time.

[pap]

I don't want to see Dredd. I was a 2000AD obsessive as a kid and I don't actually think you could do those strips justice in a movie. I'm certain any movies would only disappoint me they aren't really cinematic, I'm with Alan Moore this time.

 

Doing yourself and the character a bit of a disservice, IMO, and I would completely disagree with Dredd (or indeed, most of 2000AD) not being cinematic.

 

2000AD was born after another comic, Action, had to be closed down on account of being super violent. Most of the creative talent jumped onto 2000AD, whereupon they immediately started creating a very violent sci-fi comic. Both publications were heavily influenced by cinema ( Dredd often looking a dead ringer for Eastwood ) so I don't know why you'd say they weren't cinematic.

[norwaysaint]

I think they work far better in printed form than they will on screen. It's not a disservice to the character, I happen to think it is already in its perfect medium. A lot of people wrongly assumed Watchmen was cinematic because of the way the strip was designed. Moore insisted it really wasn't and the resulting film proved him right, nearly copied frame for frame and yet it didn't really work. A cinematic style in the drawing doesn't necessarily translate in a retro way.

 

Dredd was based on different movie characters depending on the era. Sure he was Eastwood when I started reading in the late seventies, but in the eighties he filled out and muscled up just like the movie stars, but that doesn't have any bearing on how well the stories and characters would come across squeezed into an hour and a half designed to have as wide an appeal as possible. Being influenced by cinema doesn't mean the comics are suited to a cinematic makeover. For me the hundreds of stories I read created a complete and perfect character that I still remember fondly today, I don't need him to get the cinema treatment and I don't get why some people see that as the ideal ultimate development for characters they like. Sometimes (actually, pretty often) the page is just better and cinema is a step down, why would I need to see a step down in characterisation?

[Jonnyboy]

Watched it on my flight home on Friday. I lasted 51 minutes.

 

Sorry, while it was superb visually, the entire "somebody working against the mission" line was just so totally done to death before. That was what lost it for me. FFS we saw it in 2001 and there was just so much of the bleeding obvious in the film. Shame I was looking forward to it and I am sure that there could have been twists and turns in the plot and characters but it was just all so ÿawn" seen it all before.

 

What I DID enjoy was Safe with Jason Statham.

 

Let's face it. Jason has one character and so when you have a story written just for him you know what you are going to get - a romp and entertainment. Ain't gonna win any Oscars ever and probably not his best film Top 5 but just what was needed to kill 6 hours, and some of the fight scenes did cause me to wince, so yeah that worked.

 

I'll have another go at Prometheus one day on DVD when I don't want to be entertained and can let the brain switch off from why is a young Peter O'Toole being so boringly obvious as a robot

 

So Prometheus was tired and predictable but Jason "one character" Statham was just right??!

[dubai_phil]

So Prometheus was tired and predictable but Jason "one character" Statham was just right??!

 

As entertainment on an airplane to kill time.

 

Yeah.

 

Pap had it right Prometheus was dull, it was completely seen before - BUT IT WAS on a (tbf 10 inch screen 6 inches from my face)

 

Jason Statham finding ever new ways to kick someone in the nuts was perfect...

 

Cos with Jason you are looking at him (and the characters) in the other movie you are trying to discern BIG PICTURES of BIG MOMENTS - the close up shots are primarily the only things you can see and so of the characters and in the first 51 minutes, the main character is David who is as stereotyped (conspiracy in a Scifi movie) as JS is.

The "I'm bored I'm getting out of here Engineers". The Robot doing things nobody else can see....

Without being able to see the visuals - yeah it was sh1t

 

So yeah. Safe was better.

 

Maybe Prometheus will work on my HD telly when it is shown. BUT I stand by my point, a central character in Prometheus is doing nothing different than being the conspirator - we've seen that in Avatar and about a million other Sci Fi films. It is based on a current stereo-typical view of the US Defence/Gov/Big Business conspiracy theories. FFS can NOBODY write a modern Sci Fi movie about say - Sci Fi? instead of looking for analogies etc

 

THAT is as predictable in a movie as Jason being Jason. Just seen THAT so many times before.

 

 

(Note this review is brought to you on the What to choose to watch on the Telly basis. Sure would never pay to go to the cinema to see JS)

Edited 17 September, 2012 by dubai_phil

[pap]

As entertainment on an airplane to kill time.

Yeah.

 

Pap had it right Prometheus was dull, it was completely seen before - BUT IT WAS on a (tbf 10 inch screen 6 inches from my face)

 

I don't remember saying that Prometheus was dull. It definitely isn't that. The android is obsessed with Lawrence of Arabia. It's fairly clear that he has been watching that movie every day for the past two and a bit years. Think the point is that in the absence of any humanity of his own, he finds it preferable to emulate someone in a film. Perhaps you've seen LOADS of films where an android goes around pretending to be Lawrence of Arabia, but for me, it's a first

 

You really should have watched more than 51 minutes, mate! It's half a review, half an opinion - with arguably the most important bits missed out.

[Joey-deacons-left-nut]

I don't want to see Dredd. I was a 2000AD obsessive as a kid and I don't actually think you could do those strips justice in a movie. I'm certain any movies would only disappoint me they aren't really cinematic, I'm with Alan Moore this time.

 

 

 

You have to watch it if you have any semblance of affinity with the comics.. I grew up reading 2000ad, and this is ****ing brilliant.... I soooo hope they makethe $50m US domestic to enable them to make two more (2 being chopper and gensis, 3 bringing the dark judges in)

 

very impressed with this and much prefered it to the Raid.

[pap]

You have to watch it if you have any semblance of affinity with the comics.. I grew up reading 2000ad, and this is ****ing brilliant.... I soooo hope they makethe $50m US domestic to enable them to make two more (2 being chopper and gensis, 3 bringing the dark judges in)

 

very impressed with this and much prefered it to the Raid.

 

 

My thoughts exactly. There are sequels hanging off Dredd fans going to see this movie, and they did fine groundwork in getting Anderson into the picture early.

 

C'mon norwaysaint - get on it! You've now got a couple of Dredd-heads telling you this is worth watching!

[hypochondriac]

Dredd is a brilliant film. Even my girlfriend loved it!

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

As a life long fan of the original (and slapstick in general) I ordered the kids on pain of death to come with me to see 'The Three Stooges' the other day. Although I secretly quite enjoyed it, I can't really claim it's all that good a movie really. I should add however that the new Curly, Moe, & Larry deliver a pretty damn good impression of the original act. The problem with this film is that back in the day the Stooges were never just a children's act - it might have been aimed more at us big kids perhaps.

 

However I did get a really good laugh from the short warning film the lawyers have obviously insisted be tacked on to the end. It turns out children you must never poke people in the eye or hit them on the repeatedly head with a hammer - well I never !

[Bearsy]

I recommend this one movie called Goon. I don't know if hypos 'girlfriend' or whatever would like it cos it's kind of a sports movie or whatever bout ice hockey, but it's not really bout ice hockey it's bout punching people in the face!

 

It's bout this one guy who's like a bouncer in a bar and one day he's punching some dude out at an ice hockey game and cos he's really good at punching people in the face the team manager is like "you're the guy what we need to do our face punching" and even though he can't skate or nothing he gets to be on the team and stuff. I don't know much bout ice hockey but apparently the fighting bit is more important than sliding the soap round or whatever.

 

I my not be selling it, but it's a pretty sweet movie! It's violent and funny and there's not so much where people is having feelings or whatever, and plenty bout people getting hit in the face and nuts and stuff. I give it four bears!

 

Cos I'm a helpful bear, I enclose an internets link so you can watch like me, FOC!

 

http://www.movie2k.to/Goon-watch-movie-1362351.html

[Jonnyboy]

http://www.movie2k.to/Goon-watch-movie-1362351.html

 

Looks like a good website, but I can't get rid of Maia off of ****aholics from my screen.

[Jonnyboy]

Dredd is a brilliant film. Even my girlfriend loved it!

 

Is she a female version of you, that only you can see?

[Bearsy]

Looks like a good website, but I can't get rid of Maia off of ****aholics from my screen.

 

Why would you want to? Gay!

 

(there's a red cross cunningly hidden just below and to the right of her 'box'. Fag)