@Bedsaddick where does the interest in films come from mate? Just a passion? or work related?
Just a passion mate . My job is far less exciting . It's a bit if escapism I think.
Nice mate, fair enough. Thoughts on The Usual Suspects?
Great film. It launched a lot of acting careers . I haven't seen it since it was released , I will have to watch it again although knowing the ending will make it a different watch.
@Bedsaddick where does the interest in films come from mate? Just a passion? or work related?
Just a passion mate . My job is far less exciting . It's a bit if escapism I think.
Nice mate, fair enough. Thoughts on The Usual Suspects?
Great film. It launched a lot of acting careers . I haven't seen it since it was released , I will have to watch it again although knowing the ending will make it a different watch.
Yes it's different viewing it a second time but i enjoyed it more when i watched it again, the punchline is remarkably blatant and it shows how clever Singer is that you don't pick up on it first time around! Agree about it being a great film.
Just my take on Frozen. I saw it in spanish with my two daughters. They both liked that idiot snowman, and the youngest liked the whole thing. The older one did'nt like it much. As for me, and I admit I seem to be flying against public opinión here, I thought it was the worst animated film I've seen since Valient. They cheerfully said it was 'by the makers of Tangled' without mentioning that they used all their fun stuff up in Tangled, and replaced it with a non stop grind of mediocre songs. The one point when the film picked up (a bit) was the finale, when the music stopped and they got on with the story. Other people did like it, but I'll stick with my view that this one is vastly overrated, and I won't be buying it on DVD when it makes its money grabbing appearance in the shops. Marks out of ten.....2
Saw it with my 5 year old today, she loved it.
Didn't think it was that bad but agree with you about some of the songs.
@Bedsaddick where does the interest in films come from mate? Just a passion? or work related?
Just a passion mate . My job is far less exciting . It's a bit if escapism I think.
Nice mate, fair enough. Thoughts on The Usual Suspects?
Great film. It launched a lot of acting careers . I haven't seen it since it was released , I will have to watch it again although knowing the ending will make it a different watch.
Yes it's different viewing it a second time but i enjoyed it more when i watched it again, the punchline is remarkably blatant and it shows how clever Singer is that you don't pick up on it first time around! Agree about it being a great film.
The story doesn't make a great deal of sense in light of the end though... I felt a bit cheated after a second viewing.
Just my take on Frozen. I saw it in spanish with my two daughters. They both liked that idiot snowman, and the youngest liked the whole thing. The older one did'nt like it much. As for me, and I admit I seem to be flying against public opinión here, I thought it was the worst animated film I've seen since Valient. They cheerfully said it was 'by the makers of Tangled' without mentioning that they used all their fun stuff up in Tangled, and replaced it with a non stop grind of mediocre songs. The one point when the film picked up (a bit) was the finale, when the music stopped and they got on with the story. Other people did like it, but I'll stick with my view that this one is vastly overrated, and I won't be buying it on DVD when it makes its money grabbing appearance in the shops. Marks out of ten.....2
If we all agreed it'd be boring, Ken! For what it's worth, I do get where you're coming from with the songs - generally, I can't bear films that break into song for no apparent reason - but for a lot of kids films I think it's fair enough because kids love it so much, so it goes with the territory to an extent.
I'm always happy to cut kids films a break in terms of storyline, cheesiness etc, purely because of the target audience, but I do appreciate when the makers make the effort to hold an adult viewer's attention too. I felt they did this effectively in 'Frozen', but maybe part of my enjoyment was seeing my daughter so enraptured!
Certainly agree with that. I loved how happy the younger one was when the snowman appeared, but I've seen them enraptured in other films (Despicable Me 2 and Polar Express last night spring to mind) but nearly everyone I've spoken to or read about seems to have loved Frozen so I asume it's me. Absolutely loved The Usual Suspects.
Watched a couple of this year's Blockbusters Star Trek into darkness and Iron Man 3. Both enjoyable with stunning special effects but Into Darkness story not as good as the first and IM3 would have been better with some of the fat trimmed off!
Beds how do you make the video appear on the thread without just the link being there?
Just go to The video on YouTube . Press the share button and you will see a small link that is automatically highlighted just below. Just copy and paste it in this box.
I have two free tickets for following films if anyone wants them: The secret life of Walter Mitty (Thurs 12th Dec Bluewater 6.30pm) Paranormal Activity The Marked one (Fri 13th Dec Greenwich Odeon 11.30pm) The Railway man (Tues 17th Dec Cineworld o2 6.30pm)
Never, ever a great film!! Greatly disappointing maybe... a great waste of talent.... a colossally rubbish script ("Who's the tomato?!")... but great!? Never! By the end it's laughable. That impromptu boxing match? Awful!!
Also, This Is The End is nowhere near as bed as implied. Self indulgent, certainly, but the cast send themselves up pretty well and it's way, way funnier than Simon Pegg's effort. It's worth it just for the Danny McBride ("I hear...everything!") or Craig Robinson moments.
Never, ever a great film!! Greatly disappointing maybe... a great waste of talent.... a colossally rubbish script ("Who's the tomato?!")... but great!? Never! By the end it's laughable. That impromptu boxing match? Awful!!
Also, This Is The End is nowhere near as bed as implied. Self indulgent, certainly, but the cast send themselves up pretty well and it's way, way funnier than Simon Pegg's effort. It's worth it just for the Danny McBride ("I hear...everything!") or Craig Robinson moments.
This is the end is so unbelievable self indulgent and is a total mess at times. The ending with the guest appearance band ( i wont say who they are) is about the most memorable thing about it. I do agree with you The world's end is very disappointing. In my opinon
Never, ever a great film!! Greatly disappointing maybe... a great waste of talent.... a colossally rubbish script ("Who's the tomato?!")... but great!? Never! By the end it's laughable. That impromptu boxing match? Awful!!
Lol...The film was rated very poorly so I lowered my expectations before watching.I have to say the ending was pretty bad but I still enjoyed it overall.It's just another standard Hollywood gangster film which you can't expect too much from and won't last long in your memory.The only two things I can remember now are Ryan Gosling's extremely annoying voice and Emma Stone's stunning looks.
Another film I watched around the same time was Lawless which I think was similar but a lot better.
Lawless really was good. It didn't bring anything particularly new to the table, but was a perfect representation of that sub genre. I thought director John Hillcoat nailed that hot and humid atmosphere. The guy took cut scenes from Red Dead and turned it into a compelling short film once. I like Hillcoat.
Also agree on Nebraska. It's a delight. Woody is not too dissimilar from March51 from this very board!
Beds - I think Kermode's yard stick for comedy is spot on: Did you laugh four times or more? And I think I laughed way more than that, at admittedly stupid jokes.
Never, ever a great film!! Greatly disappointing maybe... a great waste of talent.... a colossally rubbish script ("Who's the tomato?!")... but great!? Never! By the end it's laughable. That impromptu boxing match? Awful!!
Lol...The film was rated very poorly so I lowered my expectations before watching.I have to say the ending was pretty bad but I still enjoyed it overall.It's just another standard Hollywood gangster film which you can't expect too much from and won't last long in your memory.The only two things I can remember now are Ryan Gosling's extremely annoying voice and Emma Stone's stunning looks.
Another film I watched around the same time was Lawless which I think was similar but a lot better.
Lawless really was good. It didn't bring anything particularly new to the table, but was a perfect representation of that sub genre. I thought director John Hillcoat nailed that hot and humid atmosphere. The guy took cut scenes from Red Dead and turned it into a compelling short film once. I like Hillcoat.
Also agree on Nebraska. It's a delight. Woody is not too dissimilar from March51 from this very board!
Beds - I think Kermode's yard stick for comedy is spot on: Did you laugh four times or more? And I think I laughed way more than that, at admittedly stupid jokes.
Yes i'm a big fan of Mark Kermode and his 5Live podcast and the film failed his laugh test with me. I probably laughed two or three times at most.
The film title says it all. There are no good or bad guys in the so called war against terror - Just bad guys. A depressing look at how the US , lawlessly kills innocent women and children. ( or collateral damage as they call it ) . Brave film making from Americans Jeremy Scahill & Rick Rowley.
Bit slow on this one I know, but I saw 'Now You See Me' today, although it was alright for a group of hungover university students you really have to disengage your brain a bit. The '4 horsemen' had 0 character development, when the younger kid is told to "act like the adult you always want to be treated like" later in the film I was like 'Does he?!' Because I have no idea what his character is meant to be like. The plot was alright but a little predictable, even for this motley group watching it. I felt like this could've been an interesting film but it ended up just being a disengage your brain and gorm out job as there's a lot of unnecessary running around and the film in its entirety felt a little up itself to me, like it thought it was really clever and thought provoking when really it was just all flair and little substance.
They did a lot of filming of the new Christopher Nolan movie, Interstellar around my town a few weeks ago - the mountains were lit up & glowing in the dark as they shot various scenes - really spectacular. Not sure when the film comes out, Mathew McConaghuey, Casey Affleck, Michael Caine & other assorted luvvies star. Probably be a load of old tosh - I never watched Nolan's Inception but loved The Dark Knight - we do get a lot of good films shot in these parts due to the photogenic surroundings....
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Didn't think it was that bad but agree with you about some of the songs.
For what it's worth, I do get where you're coming from with the songs - generally, I can't bear films that break into song for no apparent reason - but for a lot of kids films I think it's fair enough because kids love it so much, so it goes with the territory to an extent.
I'm always happy to cut kids films a break in terms of storyline, cheesiness etc, purely because of the target audience, but I do appreciate when the makers make the effort to hold an adult viewer's attention too. I felt they did this effectively in 'Frozen', but maybe part of my enjoyment was seeing my daughter so enraptured!
Absolutely loved The Usual Suspects.
I know it's not a film but this DVD is so funny it deserves a mention.
8 out of 10
James Franco seems to be appearing in more stinkers lately.
This didn't get great reviews when released and it does have a lot more style than substance but i really enjoyed it.
8 out of 10
I suspect that says more about me than the DVD but I thought is was toilet!
The secret life of Walter Mitty (Thurs 12th Dec Bluewater 6.30pm)
Paranormal Activity The Marked one (Fri 13th Dec Greenwich Odeon 11.30pm)
The Railway man (Tues 17th Dec Cineworld o2 6.30pm)
Also, This Is The End is nowhere near as bed as implied. Self indulgent, certainly, but the cast send themselves up pretty well and it's way, way funnier than Simon Pegg's effort. It's worth it just for the Danny McBride ("I hear...everything!") or Craig Robinson moments.
really good slow paced film.
another great from director Alexander Payne. (about schimidt, Election, Sideways and The descendants)
Also agree on Nebraska. It's a delight. Woody is not too dissimilar from March51 from this very board!
Beds - I think Kermode's yard stick for comedy is spot on: Did you laugh four times or more? And I think I laughed way more than that, at admittedly stupid jokes.
Script was a little bit weak but seeing Sandra Bullock wriggle out of her spacesuit was pretty awesome
Yes i'm a big fan of Mark Kermode and his 5Live podcast and the film failed his laugh test with me. I probably laughed two or three times at most.
The film title says it all. There are no good or bad guys in the so called war against terror - Just bad guys.
A depressing look at how the US , lawlessly kills innocent women and children. ( or collateral damage as they call it ) . Brave film making from Americans Jeremy Scahill & Rick Rowley.
7 out of 10