Event Horizon
Decent enough way to spend 90 mins. Doubt I'll ever watch it again, but yeah.
Event Horizon
Decent enough way to spend 90 mins. Doubt I'll ever watch it again, but yeah.
I enjoyed The Hateful Eight a lot more than I thought I would, but then after Django Unchained my expectations couldn't have been much lower. It's another indulgent load of nonsense so maybe just going in with that mindset helped me to appreciate it for what it is. It's far too long, and the story doesn't go anywhere, but there are enough genuine laughs for it not to feel like a complete waste of time.
Working my way through the 80's ones on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ate_.281980.29
Deadpool was proper entertaining.
Kermode nailed Tarantino a long time ago in saying that he needs someone to edit for him as he's not a fucking clue how to do it himself. That said, Django and Inglorious are 8/10's for me, it's just that Tarantino's first 3 (directorial) features being 9 (Pulp Fiction) or 10's (Jackie Brown, Resevoir Dogs) and a 9 in the middle of that run as a writer (True Romance, directed by Tony Scott) says to me that it's a damn shame he's not made a masterpiece in almost two decades. I don't have a problem with the Tarantino dialogue that some have come to bemoan (I love that his characters are unrealistically verbose), but he is too fond of being tangential with that dialogue. Similarly, I don't mind his pop culture and cult film reverence referencing, again - it's part of the appeal - but there are times when it feels awfully superfluous.Originally Posted by Toby
Looking forward to Hateful Eight. Fully expect my scoring to be indicative in the title...
I want to like this. Not normally a fan of Marvel despite my love of graphic novels (I like British authors, with their darker, mature and often politically motivated style normally), but I have a good feeling about Deadpool as Marvel is most bearable when it has a sense of humour about itself.
May try and persuade someone to do a double bill with me alongside Hateful Eight.
Why? I get the 'so bad it's good' thing when you've watched a film in good faith and ended up enjoying it as a comedy because the effects are shite and nobody can act, but seeking out a film because it's universally considered woeful is beyond me.
Because I Enjoyed The Room, despite knowing it would be shit. That could be a one-off, but we shall see.
Indeed.
Although it did remind me that I had heard of their music before but have no idea when or how.
Creed is great.
Really does well in creating the same sort of emotional pull as Rocky 1-4 did.
Odd that you leave out VI, which is probably the second best in the series.
I'd say that it's better than 4 but not the first three (I'm a sucker for Clubber Lang).
However, I always felt that the first 4 are better at playing on viewer emotions.
Deadpool is funny and the violence is refreshingly real. But it gets a bit repetitive and the story isn't great.
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I fucking love the trailers.
Just been to see Deadpool and I liked it a lot. It's not perfect and there are definitely some swng-and-miss jokes but on the whole I enjoyed myself very much.
In other news, it would appear Shane Black's new Predator film is officially official, if it wasn't already. It's to be called The Predator and isn't a remake or reboot.
Kindergarten Cop 2 starring Dolph Lundgren. Fuck off.
Just home from a very packed pictures watching Deadpool. It was good, very funny, action packed and enjoyable.
It was so busy we had to sit next to people we didn't know. Guy next to me was a talker, kept repeating stuff from the film and pointing stuff out to his girlfriend. Then he asked he if she thought it was funny. His girlfriend then spent the rest of the film telling him which bits she liked.
Any recommendations for films on Netflix? Would like a comedy and a drama please lads.
I just watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off on there.
People who talk in the cinema should be executed.
Sleepers iis my favourite 'not everyone has seen it' reccomendation for drama.
Cheers.
Sleepers looks good but isn't on Netflix (UK version at least).
Bueller is such a cunt.I just watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off on there.
There were some talkers next to me in Star Wars ("Oh no!", "It'll be alright, they'll get out of this", "I hope so!"), in a sold-out screening. But I spotted a much better seat which nobody seemed to be claiming, and escaped after 15 minutes. Best decision I made.
Some dickhead got out his phone during, what I considered to be, the best scene in the film to check Facebook for the entirety of said scene.
Seething didn't even begin to cover it.
Although apparently my brother had a worse experience when he saw it. He said some woman kept cheering loudly whenever any of the old cast came on screen.
I've always wanted to throw popcorn at people checking their phones in the cinema, but luckily it hasn't happened enough for me to give it a go yet.
That and you're probably too scared to do it.
When I went to see Deadpool the other night there was a guy who seemed to start laughing at a joke a good couple of seconds after everybody else had finished. There was also one person who went to clap at one point but after one they realised nobody else was joining in, did the sensible thing and packed it in.
I watched End of Watch yesterday and thought it was ace.
Saw Deadpool on Friday and thought it was awesome. Easily one of my favourite superhero/comic book films.
Watched Inglourious Basterds again for the first time in ages. The farmhouse, restaurant and pub scenes really are something else.
the English patient is tedious nonsense of the highest order. Terrible.
Really enjoyed Money Train. I advise everyone to ignore the less than great ratings if they feel like an action film with some substance and likeable characters.
Im about to watch Cloverfield or The Godfather.
Not seen either, so which should i watch? ta.
The latter.
For fu...
Just put on Cloverfield. But thanks.
Fucking wobbly camera.
@Foe
Just watched all of Cloverfield. Fast forwarded it in parts. Was a bit shit.
You fast forwarded through half of the film? What's the fucking point?
I watched The Mist last night. Enjoyable stuff, until the incredibly depressing ending, which was still very well done. Love the mystery and how the reasons for the situation are only ever hinted at. The trio of Walking Dead actors is a bit weird, that's quite a coincidence.
Because it was Cloverfield. He probably improved it.
You fast forwarded through half of the film? What's the fucking point?
Yeah I know. But I've never seen it and heard it was a bit shit. It was.
You fast forwarded through half of the film? What's the fucking point?
I have seen some absolute jip in my time, but The Tuxedo is even surprising me in how bad it is.
And I watched it all
Love that film and the ending makes it.
By complete accident I ended up watching two thematically complementary films one after the other today. They even had near identical scenes where the business speak spouting psychopath main characters use the same wanky definition of ‘fear’ (False Evidence Appearing Real) to get a wavering sidekick to join them in their criminal plans.
The first was Pain & Gain, which is tonally all over the place, though mostly lurid crash, bang, wallop stuff (so much for being Michael Bay’s small independent labour of love), and frankly it’s a little bit shite, The Rock and Ed Harris (not in The Rock) aside.
The second was Nightcrawler, which was much better as the clearly knew what they wanted to say with it, and so the whole thing is of a piece – mostly lurid Jake Gyllenhaal staring unblinkingly into the camera a lot. It’s probably the sort of thing which I’d have raved about a few years ago, but I seem to be getting old and losing the ability to properly love something that’s so unrelentingly grim. It can only be a few more years until I’m refusing to watch anything which doesn’t have lovely horses and period costumes in it.
Oh I totally agree - it's brilliantly done, but also rather depressing. Apparently Darabont wanted all the survivors from the shop to go past on the trucks at the end, but they'd already buggered off home from shooting. That would have been even more powerful than just that one woman and her kids.
Frank Darabont was one of the leading lights in getting The Walking Dead onto TV, so it's not a coincidence that a few of his pet actors were in there. Jeffrey DeMunn (Dale on TWD) is in all three of his Stephen King adaptations.
Ah, that makes more sense then.
I watched Spotlight last night (I didn't know pirate DVDs were still going). It good, but I'm not sure whether it would have been better as a mini-series, with everything developed a lot more, or whether that would have been a bit dull. Either way, I don't know if it works particularly well in two hours.
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