What have you watched recently?

grohlisagod

Letters from Iwo Jima. Magnificent film. One of the best depictions of the war I've seen. Once again Eastwood doesn't disappoint.

e_e

Im Only 71Kg wrote: »

Rise of the planet of the apes....possibly the worst film i've ever seen.

Obviously haven't seen the Tim Burton version.

GAAman

The Broken a surprisingly good story but it could have been so much better.

Enjoyable enough though.

johnny_ultimate

Don't be Afraid of the Dark: oh dear. Stick with your old VHS tapes of Are You Afraid of the Dark, kids.

barone

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291584/

tom hardy is excellent, has immense screen presence , nick nolte is great, its a great film rocky type get behind your fighter feeling..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54vrgCP5nlc

Raiser

Rochelle Rochelle, "A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk".*















* Rochelle Rochelle is a fictional movie that runs as a theme through Seinfeld - Am really enjoying Seinfeld again at the moment, started watching these again recently from Series 1 - Its genius stuff, treat yourself!

e_e

Raiser wrote: »

Rochelle Rochelle, "A young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk".*













* Rochelle Rochelle is a fictional movie that runs as a theme through Seinfeld - Am really enjoying Seinfeld again at the moment, started watching these again recently from Series 1 - Its genius stuff, treat yourself!

I have a choice between seeing this and Prognosis Negative. Decisions decisions decisions.

eugeneious

e_e wrote: »

I have a choice between seeing this and Prognosis Negative. Decisions decisions decisions.

I'd definitely recommend 'Sack Lunch' if you can get it :pac:

Raiser

e_e wrote: »

I have a choice between seeing this and Prognosis Negative. Decisions decisions decisions.

eugeneious wrote: »

I'd definitely recommend 'Sacked Lunch' if you can get it :pac:

http://www.11points.com/TV/11_Fake_Movies_From_Seinfeld_That_Really_Need_To_Be_Made

Mickeroo

Just watched Hesher.

It stars Joseph Gordon Levitt, Natalie Portman and Rainn Wison. Rainn Wilson plays a grieving father to Devin Brochu's grieving son, Levitt plays metal head hobo pyromaniac who starts squating in their garage and disrupts their lives.

It's quite funny in places and quite emotional too, Levitt is clearly having tonnes of fun in his role and is responsible for pretty much all of the laughs in the movie, it's definitley more a drama than a comedy though. Piper Laurie is good as the grandmother too, Natalie Portman isn't given very much to do though.

Worth a look.

barone

Mickeroo wrote: »

Just watched Hesher.

It stars Joseph Gordon Levitt, Natalie Portman and Rainn Wison. Rainn Wilson plays a grieving father to Devin Brochu's grieving son, Levitt plays metal head hobo pyromaniac who starts squating in their garage and disrupts their lives.

It's quite funny in places and quite emotional too, Levitt is clearly having tonnes of fun in his role and is responsible for pretty much all of the laughs in the movie, it's definitley more a drama than a comedy though. Piper Laurie is good as the grandmother too, Natalie Portman isn't given very much to do though.

Worth a look.

the metallica score worked well

Bobby Baccala

the beach unbelievably good movie de caprio was unbelievable in it
this boys lifeprobably my favourite film i dont know why de niro and de caprio haven't collaborated much.

Tindie

Another Footage movie!
Episode 50 (2011) this was not scary at all but i still did not find it boring, i am not to sure what i think of it at the moment!

alfa beta

Stone - Robert De Niro, Edward Norton

Good actors - Bad film. I gave up on this one after giving it as much of a chance as I could - the characterisation, the writing, the dialogue, the atmosphere, the plot - it all seemed at odds with itself if you know what I mean - there was a lack of cohesion / direction / something to guide the film in the right way - there was something big missing and because it didn't look like it was going to turn up any time soon I pressed 'stop' after half-an-hour and counted my losses.

johnny_ultimate

Suicide Club - Finally, someone had the good sense to release this on DVD. Fascinating if messy film. The opening is one of the goriest, most shocking sequences you're likely to see. It then goes on to be an oddly structured film about police trying to track down the cause of a spate of mass suicides. There's a lot of surreal tangents and ambiguous subplots. Don't come expect easy resolutions.

Directed by Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish) it's definitely all over the place: annoyingly so at times. But the content usually makes up for it. Blackly comic, it's a fairly savage satire of Japanese pop culture, and the way the public consume it without question. It may be too gory for some, but there's lots of great ideas, albeit ones not always implemented coherently. Sono's provocative style sees it through (some superb cinematography, plus a very accurate take on modern Tokyo), even if it's not as tightly honed as his later films (and they're not particularly tightly honed).

jcf

Tree of Life - should be called Tree of shíte .

Sean Penn laughing his arse off - easiest work he ever did, all he had to do was wander about a financial complex and take the lift a few times, then a brisk stroll on the beach - $2m.... chi ching...

Mackman

Das Boot (Director's Cut)

Bought it a while ago, just hadn't managed to get 3hours 20mins free to watch it. But i managed on sunday morning after the match. Fantastic movie. i didnt even notice the time going, great atmosphere, good acting, some dodgy miniature effects. Great stuff

I couldnt watch it dubbed in english though, i had to switch it to german and put on the subtitles.

D'Agger

Lars and the Real Girl and In the Loop

Really enjoyed both tbh

Kylo Ren

Saw Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy and The Warrior.

Found TKSP a bit long and drawn out but it's pretty decent. The Warrior was absolutely brilliant. The acting was superb, and fight scenes were excellently done. (Just to not I'm not even a massive UFC fan)

PaulieC wrote: »

Lars and the Real Girl and In the Loop

Really enjoyed both tbh

I ****ing love Ryan Gosling. No homo.

Okay maybe a lil homo...

Josey Wales

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Saw this last night and really enjoyed it.

Judgement Day

Mackman wrote: »

Das Boot (Director's Cut)

Bought it a while ago, just hadn't managed to get 3hours 20mins free to watch it. But i managed on sunday morning after the match. Fantastic movie. i didnt even notice the time going, great atmosphere, good acting, some dodgy miniature effects. Great stuff

I couldnt watch it dubbed in english though, i had to switch it to german and put on the subtitles.

Have it myself, a really good movie that captures the horribly claustrophobic atmosphere of the submarine - especially when being depth charged. I always watch in German myself as it adds to the whole thing.

bnt

I recommended the mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous on the TV thread because I saw it years ago and remembered it fondly. I started watching it again because I wasn't sure if it would age well ... did it? Short answer: hell yes! It's black humour, mixing some broad stereotype humour with some surprisingly subtle satire on commercialism and small town life. The cast are all good, but Kirsten Dunst is the best thing about it: her character is obviously very smart, but slightly warped by her upbringing. The Metacritic results show it's one of those films that critics just don't get (28%), but viewers do (8.4/10).

I mean, how many films can find humour in a lady losing a hand? It's in the way she loses it:

it's amputated after surgeons are unable to safely remove the beer can welded to it ...

PandyAndy

The Tree of Life.

Absolutely fantastic, if you enjoyed the action and the fast pace of Fast and Furious 5, then you'll enjoy this. Or not.

From IMDB:

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Highly recommend this film.

James T Kirk

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 remake)

This film seems to have gotten lukewarm reviews on its release, probably because it dared to touch the 1952 classic original.

But it's a perfectly entertaining piece of sci-fi, with good, solid special effects, some cool, memorable scenes (the owning of the CIA polygraph guy is one), and an alien performance by Keanu Reeves that's up there with the best of them.

Oh and GORT is just as terrifying, if not more so.

Verdict: at least as good as the original, and actually better in some ways.

Goldstein

Transformers - Dark of the Moon

I know. I know. But I gave him the benefit of the doubt with the whole "It's not as woeful as ROTF honest!" line.

My God, there are no words for how **** this movie was.

nix

PandyAndy wrote: »

The Tree of Life.

Absolutely fantastic, if you enjoyed the action and the fast pace of Fast and Furious 5, then you'll enjoy this. Or not.

From IMDB:


Highly recommend this film.

lol what? Extracting the urine, obviously..

I watched the lovely bones on telly tonight, made no sense what so ever.

A sick and deranged killer

has the ability to kill kids and send them to their own personal heaven, where they all meet up and dance through the meadows.. Supa lame..

And the last few minutes were sloppy, hes able to rush out of his house with some clothes and lift a very heavy safe (with a corpse inside) up a flight of stairs, through his house and into his garage and into the back of his car... on his own, yet when he gets to the dump site, he has to have help moving the thing a couple of feet..

..Supa lame..

don ramo

watched killer elite, decent show if fairly fogetable, thought yvonne strhovski was underused, was expecting her to be kicking some ass,

Tony EH

James T Kirk wrote: »

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 remake)

This film seems to have gotten lukewarm reviews on its release, probably because it dared to touch the 1952 classic original.

But it's a perfectly entertaining piece of sci-fi, with good, solid special effects, some cool, memorable scenes (the owning of the CIA polygraph guy is one), and an alien performance by Keanu Reeves that's up there with the best of them.

Oh and GORT is just as terrifying, if not more so.

Verdict: at least as good as the original, and actually better in some ways.

You have got to be joking.

jefreywithonef

Kill The Irishman. It was decent overall but a good chunk of it came across as silly and forced (all the Irish symbolism, the necklace at the end) while the acting generally wasn't the best. Also, I now despise Uilleann Pipes. Had a good time recognising all the Goodfellas and Sopranos guys though.

SlipperyPeople

recently watched:

Warrior -really surprised at how well i like this film kinda reminded me of a mix between rocky and the wrestler glad i went to see it 3.5/5

Drive - Last this last night and absolutely loved it people on boards seem to be split on weather its a good film. thought it was great but i can see why some people mightn't like it. very slow moving with little dialogue and an excellent soundtrack will deffo be watching this again. 4.5/5