What Films Have You Seen Recently? - Page 1889

Hawkmonger · #**18881** 27th December 2012, 10:34 AM

Got a Cineworld unlimited card for chrimbo so will be seeing lot's this year (This year was a bit stringy, what with being a skint student...paying to see Dredd 3 time's didn't help!) so first port of call...DJANGO UNCHAINED!
I've been building up to this by re-watching my Django, A Bullet for the General, and Keoma DVD boxset from Argent. I will be upgrading my Django to BD when the Argent one come's out, and by god am I excited. It seem's it's amongst Tarantino's best.

sawyer6 · #**18882** 27th December 2012, 10:50 AM

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Vic and his invisible pictures!

VicDakin · #**18883** 27th December 2012, 10:55 AM

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Bet you know this one like the back of your hand.

cheers sawyer

sawyer6 · #**18884** 27th December 2012, 11:43 AM

1)Cecil B. DeMille's version starring Claudette Colbert in high definition,2)very good political thriller directed by George Clooney and starring Ryan Gosling,3) a movie that stars Adam Horovitz as a troubled teenager who ends up in a private psychiatric hospital,4)very obscure movie,It was like I was watching a long commercial, a wife with mommy issues,a husband with....issues and and a not so hungry refrigerator

5)Tobe Hooper's cult classic,I like how he ''sacrifices'' half of the film ,to create atmosphere, 6)a lame coming of age-farse ,7)Anthony wong stars as a businessman turns into a serial killer that kills taxi drivers when one of them becomes responsible for the death of his pregrant wife,8)low budget black comedy about the last (not very handsome) man on Earth! who meets the last woman on Earth(Jeri Ryan),all is ok but when another younger man appears everything changes.. 9)The Return, awarded film from Russia,about two boys who receive an unexpected visit from their 12 year absent father who takes them for a 2 day trip that turns quite ugly!10)11) Werewolf cheesiness ,part 2 is still bad ! 12)from the recent film night,13)that was fine but I expected it to be a bit better,definetely not the same impact as the comic,14)15)16)three post-apocalyptic animation for Christmas,the first is from Denmark about a society of sub-humans who live in subterranean caves in search of the ''paradise'' above,the second is a surreal French film with very beautiful visuals about a nomad tribe in a vast desert and the third is a short released from MGM in 1939 about a post-apocalyptic world populated only by animals

Slippery Jack · #**18885** 27th December 2012, 12:39 PM

Last night me and my brother ended up watching back-to-back episodes of the Hairy Bikers Mississippi Adventure (gotta love xmas telly!). Decided to cut it off after a few episodes and introduced him to one of my favourite films, Mystery Train - inspired by the bikers cooking in Memphis. It's funny how slower paced films seem even slower when you're showing it to someone and hoping they like it

Think he did like it anyway. Might screen Night on Earth tonight . . .

Gojirosan · #**18886** 27th December 2012, 12:50 PM

Angus Thongs And Perfect Snogging - seen this several times now. It's oddly resting. Formulaic trials and tribulations of middle class teenage Brit girl. Pleasant enough with some cringe-inducing bits. Just a shame about the awful music on the soundtrack and the vile Alan Davies (though he is good in it).

How To Train Your Dragon - clichéd and mostly tiresome animated feature almost redeemed by the superb cinematography and the climactic action sequence. The character designs are very ugly and it was difficult to see past this (an issue I have with most anime too). Even though it is a kids' film it seemed overly childish!

Alice In Wonderland - magnificent tour de force from Tim Burton and the gifted pen of Linda Woolverton. Utterly wonderful and such a clever and rewarding rewrite/adaptation to a familiar tale. I adored this.

Slippery Jack · #**18887** 27th December 2012, 12:54 PM

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Alice In Wonderland - magnificent tour de force from Tim Burton and the gifted pen of Linda Woolverton. Utterly wonderful and such a clever and rewarding rewrite/adaptation to a familiar tale. I adored this.

Wow really? It was one of the most boring times I've had in a cinema for ages. Maybe that was partly down to the naff 3D bollocks. But I hated Depp's Hatter, and it all felt Burton-by-numbers, lacking in any real surprise or invention (apart from the heads floating in the moat - that I loved!). By the time it turned into routine epic fantasy battle mode for the climax it had lost me completely . . .

Gojirosan · #**18888** 27th December 2012, 01:03 PM

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Wow really? It was one of the most boring times I've had in a cinema for ages. Maybe that was partly down to the naff 3D bollocks. But I hated Depp's Hatter, and it all felt Burton-by-numbers, lacking in any real surprise or invention (apart from the heads floating in the moat - that I loved!). By the time it turned into routine epic fantasy battle mode for the climax it had lost me completely . . .

And that is why I never bothered to see it: all I seemed to hear was bad things! It started on the telly yesterday, I left it on...within two hours I was in love with it and had ordered the Blu-Ray.

Obviously, Svankmajer's version remains the finest film adaptation of the work, but I thought this was excellent.