Anyone seen any good films lately - Part the second (Read 1139302 times)

magpie · January 19, 2010, 10:17:49 am

Oooooh, another vampire film!

Fiend · January 19, 2010, 10:49:13 am

I wonder if I can find any Glasgow vampire fans who would be up for going...??

Althought it doesn't sound like Vampire Hollyoaks...

Jim · January 19, 2010, 07:48:55 pm

what is it with birds and vampires? The wife is into all that shit, it starts with buffy, then moves onto angel and then keeps going

Fiend · January 19, 2010, 10:29:41 pm

Fucking teen romance bollox... All polished young things with smouldering looks and no real blood and gore and trauma...

TobyD · January 20, 2010, 11:23:43 am

Gosh errr. Classic if weird cyberpunk meets overrated flashy nonsense meets hilarious gore meets a genuinely freak horror movie.
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I'd just about go with that. Possibly with the addition of "entertaining in a trashy sort of way" to "overrated flashy nonsense" Its hardly classic, clever or really that memorable, but fun to watch like a good pub fight. Maybe you get enough of that in Glasgow anyway.

If its blood and gore you like daybreakers is for you. Its all over the walls, faces, being drunk, riots, decapitation .... Sam Neill's character's fate is a superb exercise in the 'lets see how nasty we can make it for the bad guy at the end' vein.

john horscroft · January 20, 2010, 04:12:51 pm

Setting myself up for some piss taking here, but saw the new Clooney, Up In The Air. Have to admit it was bloody good and Clooney can act............

SA Chris · January 20, 2010, 04:47:33 pm

Have you not seen O brother where art thou?

Zods Beard · January 20, 2010, 05:50:50 pm

Out of sight?

SA Chris · January 20, 2010, 06:16:47 pm

out of mind?

Fiend · January 20, 2010, 11:07:58 pm

Just saw Chavatar. I thought it was pretty awesome in it's genre. It promises a cheesy soppy sci-fi spectacle and woe betide you if you expect anything else because it delivers pretty much the pinnacle of that in cinema so far. Basically lots of fancy shit, laid over an entirely generic story - you can't polish a turd but if you gild it enough you can make it look pretty damn cool.

I saw it in 3D at Imax which obviously means I got the full benefit of that fancy shit.

And yes I would bang the princess woman, and yes I want a hammer head rhinocerous.

Jim · January 20, 2010, 11:25:06 pm

clooney is a damn good actor

fatneck · January 21, 2010, 12:14:45 am

I recently enjoyed Sherlock Holmes

Jaspersharpe · January 21, 2010, 01:54:41 pm

Quote from: SA Chris on January 20, 2010, 04:47:33 pm

Have you not seen O brother where art thou?

Top movie that.

john horscroft · January 22, 2010, 10:29:11 am

Quote from: SA Chris on January 20, 2010, 04:47:33 pm

Have you not seen O brother where art thou?

That's not acting, that's just mugging for the camera.............

cofe · January 22, 2010, 10:34:43 am

Watched The Hurt Locker last week. Really very good. Nicely shot, good acting, and a darker insight into a unsavoury war.

TobyD · January 31, 2010, 09:38:05 pm

saw Narc the other night. brilliant, gritty grim; ray liotta is awesome.

Drew · January 31, 2010, 11:48:14 pm

Saw something which I haven't seen for a long time yesterday. A decent new film. Went to the flix to watch Un Prophete. Very gritty, very gruesome (but it wasn't mindless, like Tarantino), in fact, somewhat like a French "This is Britain".

9/10

slackline · February 01, 2010, 01:50:53 pm

Interview with Chris Morris prior to screening of Four Lions

Supposed to be seeing Un Prophet on Wednesday, sounds good.

Drew · February 01, 2010, 07:16:04 pm

It's very good. I'd recommend you pay attention to people's names, as (I was a bit tired so) I got a little bit lost about who was who, and how they related to the story.

Jaspersharpe · February 02, 2010, 03:44:09 pm

Quote from: slack---line on February 01, 2010, 01:50:53 pm

Supposed to be seeing Un Prophet on Wednesday, sounds good.

Spoke to someone who saw this on Friday. Supposed to be amazing.

slackline · February 08, 2010, 04:00:54 pm

Saw Un Prophet last Wednesday as planned. Good film, interesting story, thought it dragged itself out a bit towards the end.

(Barely) watched Awake on Saturday. Very slow to start with, got a bit more interesting towards the end. I wouldn't bother going out of your way to see it though.

Fiend · February 10, 2010, 09:58:55 pm

The Road - a perfect feel-good movie for a first date... $:-\$

I think if I hadn't read the book I'd be pretty shell-shocked by this. Does it exactly what it says on the tin, an atmospheric and accurate translation of a bleak and gripping book, with only a few minor deviancies. Even having read the book, I still thought it was great, really well done. I found the book bleak, but the film more sad than bleak, there's a few scenes where if I hadn't been a ~~big~~ fat ~~strong~~ weak ~~climber~~ punter I'd have shed a few tears. Pretty serious stuff.

Moo · February 15, 2010, 09:35:07 pm

Invictus - you know this is going to get a good review because its directed by the coolest man who has ever lived, well worth going to see though if i could change one thing it would be the musical score.

Eddies · February 15, 2010, 11:13:54 pm

Sherlock Holmes is pretty good, but not as good as L'ennemi public n°1 and L'instinct de mort. Two gangster films about the life of France's most notorious criminal Jacques Mesrine.
Apprécier

mini · February 16, 2010, 07:10:02 pm

Thought you'd enjoy it Eddies, if only to watch the awesome figure that is a Gerard Depardieu playing a fat, small time Godfather figure - genius! One of the best films of the year for me.