THE LAST EXORCISM

Good flick - lotsa Exorcist/Rosemary's Baby influence. Not very scary but it was creepy. Enjoyed it.

Pirhana 3

Very stupid film tbh!!!

We followed it up the next night with Con Air, just for fun....

Then Die Hard With A Vengeance, and The Expendables - a good old leave your brain at home shoot 'em up....

Law Abiding Citizen, I think it's called ~ starring Jamie Fox and Gerard Butler. Some scenes were filmed a block from my day job office.

Cube

would have been good if there wouldnt have been 15 minutes missing in the middle...

For Your Eyes Only. Very 80's but very good. It has aged well. :up:

Salt: Two hours of action and Angelina Jolie kicking arse and looking fine while doing it. If there was anything else in the film I didn't notice...

Duel, Spielberg's first.
Still pretty damn awesome and shows you can make a film without a huge budget or effects and still be extremely compelling. Has to be in my top 10 films of the 70s easily.

always meant to see that one, havent gotten around to it yet though

duel is an excellent movie!

Being from Northern Germany, I never thought I'd say this but I have to praise Bavarian television. Two days ago they had a great evening program:

1) Help! - Silly but funny Beatles flick. The TV guide had announced a "new dubbing" :yikes: but it turned out that it was the original, English version with German subtitles. :D
2) Stones in Exile
3) Gimme Shelter
4) Blow-Up

So I got to see two good movies and two interesting documentaries. Beatles, Stones and Michelangelo Antonioni. German TV hasn't gone to the dogs yet. :cool:

A masterpiece, one of the first movies I started my DVD collection with.

I watched Kick Ass last week and four lions, despite both getting bad reviews at the flicks, I thought both films were great, and cannot wait for Kick Ass 2!!

Also watched Liar Liar and Transformer last week n'all

I love films

My most recent one too. Nope, I think that was about it, but that's more than enough for me :lol: Actually, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Very entertaining, some surprising bits, and Jolie was AWESOME. The 2 main blokes were also very good as always.

I really like that one - Roger Moore almost takes it seriously. Topol is also brilliant.

Only major downers are that he really needs a haircut, and why so many cardigans?

Just back from the movies. We watched The Expendables!

Sick but brilliant!!! :mrgreen: The great old action movie stars meeting the new ones and they´re kicking ass BIG TIME!!!! Approximately 15 minutes of dialogues and the rest is well packed with fines fight scenes, guns and lots of explosions lol :up:

Well said, Jo, and I agree. :)

J. xo

I also saw "The Fourth Kind" it's based on the true account of a town iin Alaska(it's Nome in the movie, but not sure if it's actually it or not, for real) where people have literally vanished over the yrs and no one knows why or how. This movie is weird to watch in spots due to several small screens being used at the sametime. What's interestingl about the movie is what is insinuated happened to these people.

Also saw "The Stepson", your average thriller. :)

J. xo

Colin Farrell is Irish and all but to me he's very overrated even in the film Phonebooth.. his first successful movie. Never thought he was any good to be honest. Gabriel Byrne now there's a great actor. The last film I seen was Saw 5, and I thought it was the greastest load of rubbish.

Loved the Fourth Kind on first cinema viewing. Thought it was very scary, much more so than Paranormal Activity.

Paranormal Acitivity 2 will be coming out soon enough, and I can't wait.

Iron Man 2

About Schmidt

meh
I can appreciate the good acting, but the movie itself wasnt really my cup of tea

Resident Evil

Not bad. Didn't like the monster they had at the end but decent video game spin off I'd say.

Shrek III

Ditto

There is a new one coming out soon Resident Evil: Afterlife....it should be good.

Grey Gardens ... This is such a fave movie, I could just watch it five times in a row ... lol ...

A good year

If you need explosions, sex and violence every 10 seconds to keep your attention then no this film is not for you.
If you just want a relaxing, well-acted, non-American crappy plot popcorn movie then go check it out.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Not bad, first one is better I guess. Some interesting action sequences.

All That Jazz ... I was happy to see it on the tv because it's a fave.

Resident Evil: Extinction

That's more like it! Mad Max 2 meets Day of the Dead meets Avatar/Matrix. I thought this was a really cool movie and so far the best I've seen from the franchise.
Good stuff and makes the fact I bought the boxset worthwhile after the slightly disappointing first two in this trilogy. Looking forward to catching the new one at the cinema.

I liked both films, and found them equally scary, for differant reasons. :)

J. xo

Burning Bright :-)
It was a really good movie .. I loved the ending !

Salt - Angelina Jolie in panties and a bra...you can't go wrong :heart: Oh and the story was pretty good too :))

The hunt for Red October

lol the ending was the only thing I disliked. They went for the realistic approach, no cgi or anything and had a tiger that was supposed to behave like a real tiger and then they go for such a schmaltzy hollywood ending.

Last thing I watched was "In the Loop"

British political comedy about the things that (presumably) lead to the iraq war.
I was kinda disappointed, after the raving reviews and the trailer I would have expected more...

Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D.
The movie out of the franchise I really wanted to see, hence I caught up with the previous 3 this week as I hadn't seen these yet.
Excellent popcorn action zombie / living dead / matrix-esque movie.
Absolutely STUNNING 3D effects, of the same quality as Avatar. Great movie and leaves you with still wanting more so that's good as the movies only seem to be getting better. Onto number 5 soon I hope. :))

Good point ... :lol:

Wag the Dog

similar theme to In the Loop, but executed a lot better.

The Offence

One of Sean Connery's best performances.

did he sound like sean connery in it?

Doeshn't he shound like Shean Connery in everything he shtarsh in?

sorry, i was trying to clarify what best performance meant

Sean Connery is a great actor, but has a limited selection of characters he can play. The same with Morgan Freeman.

The same with them all to be honest...Johnny Depp is probaly the most versatile one that springs to mind.

Happy Saturday meatie peeps ...
 

I agree. As fond as I am of Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman and several others, I can always see Jack and Dustin in characters they play (oh, except Dustin as Captain Hook in Hook... lol... very good, imo, or fun at the very least... lol ). When I sit down to watch JD in a film, I start out... "ahhh, there is he" and after a few minutes, "WHERE'D HE GO ?" ... lol ... Imo, his versatility is absoluting amazing. Sam from Benny & Joon is Captain Jack Sparrow ??? ... uhn uhnnnn... lol ...

Event Horizon

pretty good, I read some review that described it as Star Trek meets Hellraiser, which I think it quite fitting. There's also a lot of references to Alien or The Shining in there.

Hard to believe this comes from the same guy who 'blessed' us with Alien vs Predator or Death Race :wtf:

thats a club in belfast ;)

a gay bar??

before 2am i think it might be lol

I just saw the Avatar re-release- they added about ten minutes worth of deleted scenes. It was my fourth time seeing it on the big screen in 3D (one time was IMAX- the flying scenes were beyond stunning :up: ), but IMO, this is one movie you absolutely have to see in that format.

On DVD, I watched Beaches the other night...still requires a box of Kleenex. :(

Tigerland

Interesting, although I'm not a fan of Colin Farrell.

From Hell, again ... lol ... Why not ? JD is gorgeous in it ... lol ...

Devil
Pretty good, if a little short.

The Other Guys
Insanely funny. Mark Whalberg shouting all the time was annoying and unnecessary and the story was all over the place. But the jokes and craziness do make up for it.

Is that the film about cops ? I saw the ads and thought it looked very funny. Thanks for the review ... :D ...

Prince of Persia. Passable. Lead actors are very good. Annoyingly over directed (camera whizzes about everywhere). Lots of OTT ham acting and fun (ie cheesy) dialogue. But all seems a little bit... amateurish... unpolished. 3/5.

Public Enemies, again, still starring the deppie one. It was husband's choice, so who am I to argue ? ... :twisted: ...

Three Kings. Saw this when it first came out many years ago, recorded it when it was on TV a little while ago and finally got round to watching it at the weekend. It's stood the test of time well. Next on the list is In Bruges.

did they portray Carl, Mike and you appropriately?

George Clooney played me, and he's a little short really. Mark Walhberg couldn't get Karl's accent right. But Ice Cube was a deadringer for Mike!

The Expendables. What a good film.

Worried About The Boy - a made for tv job about Boy George getting into the music biz....

You wouldn't believe how many times I've been told that...plus wasn't it george clooney and not Mel Gibson?

For some reason this occurred to me a moment ago and I corrected my mistake before anyone noticed :sneaky:

I've tried to watch Nine...don't know if that counts...I will try to finish it as well one of these days...

The last movie I've watched left me with no desire to watch another movie ever - Valentine's Day - chock full of stars and nothing else...I kept waiting for kitchen sink to marry toilet bowl...

The fearless Vampire Killers aka Tanz der Vampire

been a long time since I've seen the actual movie...in my memory it was better

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood. Entertaining - Cate Blanchett is superb, Russell Crowe very good apart from the accent. Prince / King John reminds me of the lion from the Disney version - very slimy. Sheriff of Nottingham very underused and campy. All in all a good film - I reckon 3.75 / 5.

ordered the dvd ages ago, think it should arrive today or tomorrow

Robin Hood just seemed like Gladiator 1.5 to me, hence I never watched it. :shrug:

The Hole in 3D. Meh, ok but it never gets REALLY scary which it could have been. More of a family scary movie. A bit too repetitive in places. I'd wait for DVD or TV for that one. End sequence not too bad though.

This evening I saw The Town, which is a great cops and robbers film, probably the best one since Heat. Well done Mr. Ben Afflleck! Highly recommended.

Funny - that was why I watched it!

I can understand that in a sense, but somehow I've never been that bothered about movies set in the middle ages. Think I saw the Kevin Costner one once. Just find it a dull era of history and very difficult personally to connect to drama wise. :shrug:

saw 2

Robin Hood

bit too long for my liking (directos cut just under 3 hours)... could have done with a bit more suspense. Not particularly great movie, but not particularly bad either...:shrug:

The Fourth Kind
Still like it.

The Color of Money... Paul Newman reprising his rôle as Fast Eddie Felsom and a very young Tom Cruise with a really bad haircut....

Fallen, rather enjoyed it

Caught Paulie on telly today, I love that movie

Thanks for the reviews on Robin Hood. I saw the ads on tv and thought it looked good. I'm very fond of the acting of Cate B.

I started to watch Angels & Demons last night before being off to bed. I don't know. Tom Hanks just seemed so, so, wooden and OLD ... lol ... I think I won't go back to it and just remember the story from the book... lol ... In the book, though Langdon has no OTT personality, he does seem to have a personality and seems he can be a bit in awe and interested in things around him. Tom H just seems to be plowing through with his delivery like he's late getting to lunch. Anybody see it ? Did you like it ? Ta in advance !

It was ok, but a bit dull and it drags on a bit.

Yes, I see it's over two hours long. Maybe I'll watch it a little at a time, like reading the book. We'll see. Thanks !

Speaking of dull: Never Say Never Again. It was shit the first time I saw it and it's still shit now.

:twisted: Der Untergang (Downfall).
Amazing film.
No messages, excuses, or moral lessons, it just sets out to tell the true story as truthfully and acurately as possible.
More films should be made with this ethos.

Remember ... Never Watch Never Say Never Again Again

went to the cinema with a few pals when it came out. We were just a bunch of pubescent boys, so we usually did all kinds of crap and never shut up about anything... after this movie ended, none of us said anything for about 10 minutes ... that's the kind of impact it had on us

:twisted: Reminds me of.................

lol classic

Being compared to Homer J is a career high for me :lol:

:twisted: That'll be 50 quid thanks :mrgreen: :lol:

:heart: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter :heart:

Scott Pilgrim vs the world which is good but a little but long

resident evil in Imax 3D, only worth seeing it for 3D otherwise it's rubbish.

:twisted: Watched Black Dog last night.

Sharks in Venice

brilliantly bad! Any movie featuring stock footage of great white sharks, medieval treasures, Indiana Jones-ruins, the mafia, motorbike chases, shoot outs and chainsaw fights *deep breath* HAS to be seen!

Buried
Very morbid and disturbing. Do not see if you are freaked out by the thought of people being buried alive. Extremely well put together though and awesome cinematography all seeming to have been set in such a confined space.

Back to the Future
Absolutely mesmerising to see this in digital projection. It makes a HUGE difference for quality I have to say. I thoroughly enjoyed watching what is probably my favourite film ever, once again but this time on a big screen which has been the only one out of the trilogy I never saw in the cinema before. Some coincidences really stood out to me during this viewing:
-When Marty skateboards over to Twin Pine Mall you faintly hear a train in the background, this coincidentally echoes the train line you see in BTTF3 but who said Hill Valley actually had a train station before they conceived of that idea? Very interesting imo.
-Doc Brown coincidentally tells Marty when he has revealed the time machine that he plans to go 25 years into the future: 2010. :))

A beautiful cinema experience. A movie that I would definitely class as "perfect".

been watching Marmaduke again...just love it

Blood Diamond... pretty good film actually, but the kind you watch once and never again. (in that sense it probably wasnt a good idea to buy the dvd lol)

see spot run...just love soppy films

Witness to Murder

Good old 1950s Hollywood thriller starring Barbara Stanwyck. The movie was obviously altered / censored for the German viewers. According to IMDB, the villain has a German name, while in the German version he appears to be Hungarian. Maybe it was due to him yelling that he was going to be more successful than those guys from Austria, Italy and Georgia (don't know if their actual names are mentioned in the original movie) in creating a new world order in one scene. Very odd, over the top scene, it didn't seem to fit into to the story very well. He was more believable and scary as an "ordinary" villain than as a crazy wannabe Mussolini. Good movie anyway, in spite of a few implausible scenes.

Michael ~ The film makes me laugh and cry and laugh again ... lol ...