Went to see Gravity last night. Persuaded the wife based on 5 star review in the Guardian, perhaps should have checked on here first. Agree with NYA and Rob, visually stunning, but weak screenplay, I give it 7
Went to see Gravity last night. Persuaded the wife based on 5 star review in the Guardian, perhaps should have checked on here first. Agree with NYA and Rob, visually stunning, but weak screenplay, I give it 7
Went last night ...stunning visual effects, but agree about poor screenplay. Also 7.
Has anyone seen the Wikileaks film yet? Not made it out here yet, and may not at all, but the topic is up my street
Saw and enjoyed it as cumberbatch was so good ...Assange is such an arrogant tosser. Film 7/10
Cheers, Tel. Now all I have to do is wait for one of the indies to show it here. No chance the multiplexes will, sad business.
Most reviews I've read have been dismissive, but our guy here who saw it - who I usually concur with - really liked it. Could go either way for you I would wager...
Went to see Gravity last night. Persuaded the wife based on 5 star review in the Guardian, perhaps should have checked on here first. Agree with NYA and Rob, visually stunning, but weak screenplay, I give it 7
Went last night ...stunning visual effects, but agree about poor screenplay. Also 7.
What do you guys actually mean by 'poor screenplay'?
Went to see Gravity last night. Persuaded the wife based on 5 star review in the Guardian, perhaps should have checked on here first. Agree with NYA and Rob, visually stunning, but weak screenplay, I give it 7
Went last night ...stunning visual effects, but agree about poor screenplay. Also 7.
What do you guys actually mean by 'poor screenplay'?
probably not what is meant in the business, but I meant script and actions of the characters ... ok, they are in space so you can't do too much but I found it a little boring, albeit saved by the stunning visual effects
Went to see Gravity last night. Persuaded the wife based on 5 star review in the Guardian, perhaps should have checked on here first. Agree with NYA and Rob, visually stunning, but weak screenplay, I give it 7
Went last night ...stunning visual effects, but agree about poor screenplay. Also 7.
What do you guys actually mean by 'poor screenplay'?
probably not what is meant in the business, but I meant script and actions of the characters ... ok, they are in space so you can't do too much but I found it a little boring, albeit saved by the stunning visual effects
Yep, that sums it up for me too (and my wife). As she said, a film which is strong on 3D is not one where you worry too much about character building and dialogue. The 3D is fantastic, she ducked twice to avoid flying space debris:-)
Went to see Gravity last night. Persuaded the wife based on 5 star review in the Guardian, perhaps should have checked on here first. Agree with NYA and Rob, visually stunning, but weak screenplay, I give it 7
Went last night ...stunning visual effects, but agree about poor screenplay. Also 7.
What do you guys actually mean by 'poor screenplay'?
probably not what is meant in the business, but I meant script and actions of the characters ... ok, they are in space so you can't do too much but I found it a little boring, albeit saved by the stunning visual effects
Yep, that sums it up for me too (and my wife). As she said, a film which is strong on 3D is not one where you worry too much about character building and dialogue. The 3D is fantastic, she ducked twice to avoid flying space debris:-)
I'm surprised, I haven't seen Gravity yet but I was under the impression that the characters were engaging, making everything else work. When there's only two of them, you can't really f**** that up! Really hope I don't concur with you both, but suspect I am going to!!
Went to see Gravity last night. Persuaded the wife based on 5 star review in the Guardian, perhaps should have checked on here first. Agree with NYA and Rob, visually stunning, but weak screenplay, I give it 7
Went last night ...stunning visual effects, but agree about poor screenplay. Also 7.
What do you guys actually mean by 'poor screenplay'?
probably not what is meant in the business, but I meant script and actions of the characters ... ok, they are in space so you can't do too much but I found it a little boring, albeit saved by the stunning visual effects
Yep, that sums it up for me too (and my wife). As she said, a film which is strong on 3D is not one where you worry too much about character building and dialogue. The 3D is fantastic, she ducked twice to avoid flying space debris:-)
I'm surprised, I haven't seen Gravity yet but I was under the impression that the characters were engaging, making everything else work. When there's only two of them, you can't really f**** that up! Really hope I don't concur with you both, but suspect I am going to!!
Bullock was excellent actually...although I think the weakness was the improbability of it all....especially the final scenes.....having said that it was visually stunning and Id go 8/10 for that alone. George played George
The Counselor....bit of a strange one this...could have been brilliant, but it failed somehow...couldnt fault the acting, but Bardem was wasted in that role. Diaz for me didnt suit the role either.....and Im not a fan of hers anyway. Plot was a little bit unglued and left a little too much conjecture in places. Fassbender was good if not naive, Pitt...one of those odd roles he plays now and again in his grunge phase. Some stunning close ups of Penelope Cruz's face, I didnt realise she was so pretty as odd as that might sound. so Id go 5/10 on this, very average when you consider the cast involved.
The Counselor....bit of a strange one this...could have been brilliant, but it failed somehow...couldnt fault the acting, but Bardem was wasted in that role. Diaz for me didnt suit the role either.....and Im not a fan of hers anyway. Plot was a little bit unglued and left a little too much conjecture in places. Fassbender was good if not naive, Pitt...one of those odd roles he plays now and again in his grunge phase. Some stunning close ups of Penelope Cruz's face, I didnt realise she was so pretty as odd as that might sound. so Id go 5/10 on this, very average when you consider the cast involved.
Saw Gavity this week. The 3D visual effects were absolutely stunning................for the first 15 minutes! After that it was just so boring. I literally dozed off for a minute or so towards the end. That hasn't happened since I went to see Promtheus. Clooney played the George 'I am the most attractive man in the world' Clooney character he portrays in the cofffee machine commercials. In his second scene (and I think he is in only 2 scenes) inside one of the space stations, when he was pressing buttons and pulling levers I was expecting him to serve up an expresso. I found the scene where Bullock performs a slow motion sexy striptease with her space suit was an insult to my intelligence. It was so incongruous with the rest of the film.
I give it 2/10.
Saw The Counsellor twice last week. Great looking sets, super sexy and stylish actors, complex plot, sharp dialogue. Agree with comment above about the close up shots of Penelope Cruz's face.
When I saw it first time I thought the Texan bar where the Pitt character first meets the Fassbender character looked very similar to a bar I use to use in Hoxton Square. When I saw it the second time I was convinced it was the same bar. I did some research and sure enough that scene was filmed in the Hoxton Bar and Grill. In fact most of the interior Texan scenes, Fassbender's apartment, Bardem's house, the Texan hotel, were shot on locations in London.
Philomena was excellent and Judy Dench absolutely nailed the role of a little old, mildly eccentric Irish lady (a category into which a many of my relatives fall).
I'd strongly recommend A Hijacking, directed by Tobias Lindholm, the Danish guy responsible for Borgen. It concerns the hijacking of a Danish vessel by Somali pirates and the incredibly tense negotiations that ensue. Also, as others have said, the French comedy, Untouchable - an aristocrat, who becomes a quadriplegic after a gliding accident, hires a young man from the banlieues to be his carer. Very funny.
I also saw some good films at the Independent Cinema Office pre-release screenings earlier this month. Dallas Buyers Club, The Lunchbox, Nebraska, Starred Up and Blue is the Warmest Colour all attracted high audience ratings. I was very disappointed with the Coen Brothers' latest offering, Inside Llewyn Davis. They can be a bit hit and miss but I had high hopes for this one.
Not a new film (2011) but I just watched 'Source Code' which was brilliant. I highly recommend it if you like sci-fi like Quantum Leap, Memento, or Inception. Or even if you simply believe in Hugh Everitt III
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Going to see Captain Phillips tomorrow instead.
But taking my sea sickness pill first.
Hilariously bad.
One of the worst films i have ever seen. Ben Kingsley is shocking.
1 out of 10
JFK was on TV last night .. still a terrific movie even if Oliver Stone does put too much fiction or conjecture into the plots
Utterly ridiculous. Robert De Niro's movie career continues it's journey down the toilet.
3 out of 10
I thought that too. But it's bloody awful.
Philip Seymour Hoffmann adds something special to all the films he is in, including this one. Woody Harrelson and Elizabeth Banks very good.
I give it 2/10.
Saw The Counsellor twice last week. Great looking sets, super sexy and stylish actors, complex plot, sharp dialogue. Agree with comment above about the close up shots of Penelope Cruz's face.
When I saw it first time I thought the Texan bar where the Pitt character first meets the Fassbender character looked very similar to a bar I use to use in Hoxton Square. When I saw it the second time I was convinced it was the same bar. I did some research and sure enough that scene was filmed in the Hoxton Bar and Grill. In fact most of the interior Texan scenes, Fassbender's apartment, Bardem's house, the Texan hotel, were shot on locations in London.
I give it 8/10.
Gravity was interesting but descended a little into American style schmaltz in one or two scenes. I'd rate it as a 7 out of 10. The director's son has made a 7 minute short film showing an Inuit fisherman taking Sandra Bullock's distress call. Here is a link http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/film-tv/5304/gravity-spinoff-aningaaq-could-make-oscar-history/
I'd strongly recommend A Hijacking, directed by Tobias Lindholm, the Danish guy responsible for Borgen. It concerns the hijacking of a Danish vessel by Somali pirates and the incredibly tense negotiations that ensue. Also, as others have said, the French comedy, Untouchable - an aristocrat, who becomes a quadriplegic after a gliding accident, hires a young man from the banlieues to be his carer. Very funny.
I also saw some good films at the Independent Cinema Office pre-release screenings earlier this month. Dallas Buyers Club, The Lunchbox, Nebraska, Starred Up and Blue is the Warmest Colour all attracted high audience ratings. I was very disappointed with the Coen Brothers' latest offering, Inside Llewyn Davis. They can be a bit hit and miss but I had high hopes for this one.