What have you watched recently?

Paddy Samurai

Enjoyed this film big time,would recommend it to all horror fans.
Last time i seen Timothy Olyphant was in the fantastic Deadwood series.

As a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife, and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for survival.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455407/plotsummary

everdead.ie

Watched shutter Island again last night and if you go to the bit with the women that right run in his notebook and when she "drinks" the water you'll notice she isn't holding a glass but then she puts one down :eek: saw it in the cinema but wasn't sure if I was right in seeing that great movie

mike65

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

That made for some of the most tragic viewing I've ever experienced.

I wasn't that bad! :pac: I wrote up a little post about it here

ultain

Saw 'shutter island' last night...nothing great, ending was a little disappointing...might have worked better if the ending related to the premise that was laid out for the viewer to follow, There has been a few of these "clever" films recently and i have to say this one was a little on the lean side.

filthymcnasty

con air right now

Sad Professor

I absolutely loved Shutter Island until those last 20 minutes when it totally self-destructed. I don't necessarily have a problem with what was revealed, just the spoon-fed manner in which it was done.

Anyway, I have recently watched:

The Straight Story -- David Lynch doing, as the title suggests, a straight story. Richard Farnsworth (in his last role) travels across the mid-west on a lawnmower (no joke) to see his brother who has had a stroke. Slow paced, but really, really good.

Sunset Blvd -- hadn't watched this in years. Absolute classic. Yet still feels quite fresh. Billy Wilder at his best.

rednik

Watched Road to Perdition on blu ray last night. Very good transfer with great sound. A truly great movie.

filmfan

Watched Con Air last night as well, just shows you can throw as much money at a movie as you like but it doesn't make it good! Nicolas Cage is so unintentionally entertaining in every movie it's worth it for that alone! (Case in point - Ghostrider:))

Steve Buscemi is cool though!

mike65

Ha just came to post my viewing of Con-Air (just now off tape), Cage is a so often shocking actor when it comes to emoting and yet he can act when he bothers. As for the film, its the Knickerbocker Glory of action movies - the sort of thing a small child likes cos its got too much of everything looks colourful but after which you throw up. The multiple climax ended up tipping Con-Air over the edge from entertaining to dissapointlingly stupid. Oh and finding the fluffy rabbit just took the biscuit.

Podge2k7

Saw "Edge of Darkness" recently. Wasn't great tbh. Very dull.

Renn

Cage is a so often shocking actor when it comes to emoting

Um, no.

I've just watched The Countess. Got to see a great set of nipples on Julie Delpy, which was by far the highlight of the movie.

Richard Dower

Javelin77 wrote: »

Taboo 3 with kay parker sophisticated movie, it shows how the happy family life look like.

:eek: - i had to Google, porn freak! :mad:

krudler

Minority Report on blu, great transfer, great sound. Hadnt seen it in ages but its a cracking movie, a few things still bug me about it though, the face melting in particular, why? why bother with it? he doesnt need to be facially recognised with the new eyes and he even tells Wally that its him so its utterly pointless. great movie though, Colin Farrell is brilliant in it.

take everything

filmfan wrote: »

Watched Con Air last night as well, just shows you can throw as much money at a movie as you like but it doesn't make it good! Nicolas Cage is so unintentionally entertaining in every movie it's worth it for that alone! (Case in point - Ghostrider:))

Steve Buscemi is cool though!

Watched it as well again last night.
Vaguely entertaining but man is it ridiculous.
Landing a plane on the Vegas Strip? :rolleyes:

TBH, it's really only worth watching for John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi ham it up and John Cusack is always watchable.

JesseCuster

Exam
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258197/

Synopsis:
"Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

The invigilator starts the clock and leaves. The candidates turn over their question papers, only to find that they are completely blank. Tensions rise as the clock counts down to zero, and each candidate must decide how far they are prepared to go to win the ultimate job."

Excellent low-budget British film, will keep you guessing right to the end!

Richard Dower

take everything wrote: »

Watched it as well again last night.
Vaguely entertaining but man is it ridiculous.
Landing a plane on the Vegas Strip? :rolleyes:

TBH, it's really only worth watching for John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi ham it up and John Cusack is always watchable.

Colm Meaney did ok as well!....it's a very good Bruckheimer action flick, i personally rate The Rock higher, highly entertaining movie!

beans

"The Final (2010)"

Rejected high-school students collaborate to take revenge upon their jock tormentors, with sexy results. No, not sexy... horrifying. No, not that either - mediocre. That's it. Blah blah mediocre revenge flic.

4/10

Renn

take everything wrote: »

TBH, it's really only worth watching for John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi ham it up and John Cusack is always watchable.

Cage tbh.

beans

'The Crazies (2010)'

I can only imagine the Romeo version was good. It's on the list. This was devoid of any drama or tension after the 30th minute, everything is scripted in 50 foot neon. Not bad stuff from the leading man, tho.

Overall, real guff. Insulting stuff, actually. I've had more tense encounters in the lift at the Ilac centre.

1 of 10

mike65

Romeros Crazies is a notch above a final year film school flick, its very cheap and not very cheerful. It works better as a political/police state drama with Zombies than an outright horror flick. The acting is a bit dead as well.

beans

Yeah, could see Mr Eisner was going for that angle too. Nice idea, awful film.

mudokon

Just finished watching A Complete History Of My Sexual Failures, not convinced it was actually a documentary as some of it comes across very staged. There were a couple of scenes that were unnecessary

the S&M dungeon & the controlled Viagra experiment & the after effects of this

for me. Other than that it was quite an enjoyable film.

Cantona's Collars

Eventually got round to watching Brooklyns Finest,a solid 6/10 movie-decent acting but a little bit ponderous in getting to the point,the movie could have been tightened up a bit but none the less worth a look if you enjoy cop drama's.

yerayeah

Watched 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' last night. I haven't read the books but I still thought this was a great thriller.

Definitely the best film I've ever seen that was in Swedish anyway!:p

Thepones

Over the weekend;

Get Him to the Greek
Pretty funny, the interaction between Jonah Hill and Russel Brand is the best part of the movie. P Diddy (or whatever he calls himself) is a pleasant surprise. A good laugh all around

Moon
Great movie. Not at all what I expected. Not like your usualy outer space flick and has a great performance from Sam Rockwell.

Anvil!
This is a brilliant music documentary following a bands struggle for success at the age of 50+. Sometimes very funny (in a Spinal Tap way) and sometime heartbreaking.

livEwirE

COP OUT - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1385867/

Oh dear god, what a load of rubbish, totally unconvincing back story and some cringingly bad dialogue. In fairness I did laugh a few times. What was Bruce Willis thinking of when he signed up to do this

skywalker_208

Saw GreenZone over the weekend - very meh....

(btw 1000th post ftw!) woot

Javelin77

The name of the rose. With sean connery and christian slater when he was a kid. A movie about the dark ages. Long too Damn long.

DazMarz

Dirty Harry

Nearly 40 years since it was first released, this is still one of the best police/detective films out there. Clint Eastwood firmly established the cop-who-won't-do-things-by-the-book archetype with his performance as San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan. This is a mould that is rarely changed to this very day.

The plot is kept tight and the tension is ratcheted up every so often as Callahan hunts down the elusive and sadistic sniper known only as Scorpio (a superbly nervy and maniacal performance from Andy Robinson). But the law itself places as many obstacles in Harry's way as Scorpio, and justice (or at least the justice Harry believes in) demands that the book and the red tape not be followed or adhered to.

39 years on, and it's still as vital and as thrilling as ever.

10/10

A V A

the kirate kid . . . . . .didnt think it would be that good