What have you watched recently?

Bulmers

Tristram wrote: »

Moon, excellent!

+1..;)

Hank_Jones

Moon, excellent!

+1

The Maltese Falcon
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Final Destination (Please steer clear of this if you don't wish to have your brain turned to mush, worst film I have seen in a long time.)
Three Colours:Blue
Hunger


I'd recommend all of them except The Final Destination.
The Best Years of Our Lives is one of the best films I have seen in a long time, the only negative being that it comes in just shy of a bum numbing three hours.

fikay

I got around to watching two films I've been meaning to see for a while recently.
The first was A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). There's probably no point in trying to say something that hasn't been said about this movie before other than that, to me at least, it seems to belong to a time when great plays and theatre pieces had a fairly literal adaptation for the big screen. I think that once I got past the over acting and, without sounding like a complete knob, it's pretty compelling stuff.
The Second was Delicatessen (1991) which people kept recommending to me but that I knew very little about. It's funny as hell and just a little dark with some really good acting. If you don't know it already don't bother googling it, just watch it.

Anakin.S

Watched 'The Kite Runner' last night. Excellent movie, very sad in places

JP Liz

I watched It's Complicated and really enjoyed it

L31mr0d

The 13th Warrior: Was talking about how I liked Beowulf and Outlander to a friend in work and he recommended this film. I realized after watching it that Banderas truly is a horrible actor and that Viking films just aren't good without a fantasy element. The whole learning to speak Norse montage was ridiculous.

Agricola

Watched Under The Tuscan Sky the other night.

I love abit of romance!

Voodu Child

Saw Whiteout the other day. Its a fairly formulaic thriller, and didn't do so well with the critics. I thought it was alright, worth a watch but nothing special. That Kate Beckinsale is hot

Wreck

L31mr0d wrote: »

The 13th Warrior: Was talking about how I liked Beowulf and Outlander to a friend in work and he recommended this film. I realized after watching it that Banderas truly is a horrible actor and that Viking films just aren't good without a fantasy element. The whole learning to speak Norse montage was ridiculous.

I love the 13th Warrior, but I do agree with the criticism of Banderas. think the rest of the cast are pretty good.

Raging Bob

Inglorious Basterds: I wasnt expecting much because i havent liked any Tarantino film since Pulp Fiction but this was excellent if a little unbelievable at times

ScumLord

deisedude wrote: »

Inglorious Basterds: I wasnt expecting much because i havent liked any Tarantino film since Pulp Fiction but this was excellent if a little unbelievable at times

Tarantino had gone down a whole lot in my books I didn't like anything since pulp fiction either. Inglorious basterds had it all though, despite going into a complete fantasy land I bought into it hook line and sinker. His best to date.

Darksaga87

2012. predictable disaster movie. Good if your into them movies.

The Hurt Locker. Great film, not many films show the courage of the EOD, but this one gets it. Some typical Hollywood moment's between characters. But a very intense and well made movie.

L31mr0d

Wreck wrote: »

I love the 13th Warrior, but I do agree with the criticism of Banderas. think the rest of the cast are pretty good.

Banderas was a complete miscast in the role, and utterly unbelievable. Have you seen Outlander? It's pretty much the exact same plot but with a sci-fi twist, I personally found it to be more enjoyable, I'm also an effects junkie so Beowulf was great for what it is.

With the 13th Warrior, I guess I was expecting better combat sequences. I could forgive the fairly basic premise if the fighting was up to scratch, but it just seemed laboured and obviously acted.

fitz0

Soylent Green -

It's people

Good film

NOGMaxpower

Black Dynamite by far one of the funnies films of the year.

My all time favs

Old School
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Hangover

homerun_homer

Jennifer's Body.

It was watchable given I didn't what type of film I wanted to watch. It's a big disappointment with it being Diablo Cody's 2nd effort. It's not smart, as funny as it should be nor as scary as it should be.

I liked the

band sacrificing Megan Fox in the hopes of being as big as Maroon 5

but it still didn't make me LMAO. Not enough murders, gore and I hoped there was a smart twist to be had, I was putting all these different ideas on what to expect happen but it just played it straight so it was a let down.
I knew reviews were average/negative so it was just leave your brain at the door crap for me.

mike65

The Whistleblower (1986) fairly minor spy related drama which has greater resonance now than it did at the time if overlooking the now defunct cold war angle. Not bad though it has the look and feel of a TV drama rather than a feature film. Not helped by a cast of faces that have done plenty of tv.

L'prof

The Lovely Bones - Horrendous!

irish_bob

stumbled across a very simply but very charming argentine ( subtitled ) film last night which was litterally about a man and his dog , some wonderfull little gems out there from around the world and i thought this was one of them

icanhearjimi

I watched Blind Fury last night. Forgot how good it is. John Lock (Terry O'Quinn) from Lost is in it, never saw him in any other film

Decuc500

Orphan.

Very good 'evil child movie' with a twist I didn't see coming.

Penn

icanhearjimi wrote: »

I watched Blind Fury last night. Forgot how good it is. John Lock (Terry O'Quinn) from Lost is in it, never saw him in any other film

He has a small role in Old School. Can't really remember him in anything else myself

That_Guy

Cast Away:

It wasn't too bad a film really. Just a modern day version of Robinson Crusoe..... with a volleyball.

Brewster's Millions:

Great film. Really enjoyed it. Really got me thinking as to what I'd spend my money on if I had €30 million to spend in 30 days.

Casino Royale:

Actually one of the best Bond films I've seen in recent years. A much needed shot in the arm for the series after the dire 'Die Another Day'.
I liked Daniel Craig as Bond. Thought he did a very good job.

My favourite scene in this film is at the start when

Bond is chasing his suspect over scaffolding and building tops. I thought that was pretty cool.

Mitch Connor

Watched My Best Friends Girl (Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson and the guy who played Phil in Hangover).

Not great, but not terrible. 'Tanks' 10 point plan to be an arse is brilliant and had me in stitches.

Watched Max Payne (or most of it) this morning. Not as bad as I thought it would be but still don't think they captured the mood of the games correctly.

fluke

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Watched My Best Friends Girl (Jason Biggs, Kate Hudson and the guy who played Phil in Hangover).

Not great, but not terrible. 'Tanks' 10 point plan to be an arse is brilliant and had me in stitches.

Watched Max Payne (or most of it) this morning. Not as bad as I thought it would be but still don't think they captured the mood of the games correctly.

Slight Payne as opposed to Max methinks...

Tchaikovsky

irish_bob wrote: »

stumbled across a very simply but very charming argentine ( subtitled ) film last night which was litterally about a man and his dog , some wonderfull little gems out there from around the world and i thought this was one of them

Bombon El Perro! It's been on Sky and FilmFour alot, but I saw it was on RTE last week; at some unholy hour of course!

I was watched 'Weird Science' today- you can't beat a good 80s house party haha

DazMarz

Outlaw and Rise Of The Footsoldier. Very entertaining films, but quite ridiculous in spots. But overall I enjoyed them, purely for the violence in them!:D

Watched Der Untergang again... Incredibly powerful film, and deserves to be watched by everyone!

Tony EH

A Christmas Carol (1951)

Brilliant. The definative version of the story.

There's only one Scrooge...and it's Alastair Sim.

Caprica

Watched Lovers of the Arctic Circle on TG4 Friday night. An excellent movie, highly recommend it. One of my favourites.

L31mr0d

Zombieland - loved the typography throughout, loved the opening act, but it all went downhill from there. Not near enough Zombies in it. I should of known by the lead, Michael Cera Jesse Eisenberg's other film, Adventureland, that the title was being ironic :rolleyes: After BM's appearance it coughed and spluttered to the end from there.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - Starts slow but has some excellent martial arts choreography throughout. If you are in anyway into Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jackie Chan... etc, then you have to see this.