Watched 12 Rounds last night, got a review copy for BluRayMMA.com. It was very fast paced I prefer a film where they take a bit more time to introduce the characters. Some cool stunts though.

I think I might have moaned about it in the first film thread, but I thought it was fucking garbage. It set out to deliver everything you described above, and acheived absolutely none of it. And as far as these sorts of OMGTHISWILLMAKEYOUJUMP films go, it's not that great either.

Just ordered Doghouse and Awaydays on dvd from play. Im more than aware that Doghouse is meant to be a bit pants, but im a massive fan of Steven Graham, who's also in Awaydays, which other than that, I know nothing about. Oh, and thats it's about football hooligans.

Anybody seen them and know what im in for?

I kind of see what you mean. I loved it all the same though, laughed all the way through. Especially at

i loved zombieland, especially the stuff with bill murray.

i had the chance to watch the ultimate avengers movie today on sky movies and thought it was pretty poor. the main action scenes come near the end of the film and it just felt too rushed

seen Die Hard 4.0 this morning, or lets call it Live free or die young for any stateside readers.

Take John McClane from the film and its a bog standard 2 hours action flick.

Leave John McClane in the film and its a bog standard 2 hour standard action flick.

And as action flicks go its good, even boardering on real good. But like any bog standard action flick it does rely on the viewer turning their brain off and accepting that any man can balance on the tail fin of an F15 Jet while hes just been shot to pieces by a chain gun and didnt recieve so much as a scratch.

Kevin smith (of Silent Bob) appears in a nice little suitable part that allows a mark out moment.

The undertones of everyman is a hero are not hinted at here, they`re rammed down your throat. Its a very american movie using alot of 4th of july, flag waving, 911 stuff but its worth 2 hours of your life.

For the record, if anybody cares, Both are utter SHIT!

Stephen Graham, hang your head in shame!

Edit:

Thought I may aswell expand on my previous statement as im bored during lunch.

Doghouse: On paper, and even from the trailer looked to have a decent cast and fun story. As already mentioned Im a big fan of Stephen Grahams work, and also like Noel Clarke. As much as he is universally hated on here, I also dont mind Danny Dyer, as, despite being limited, he is atleast half decent at what he does. It's safe to say that this film misses the mark on all accounts, It's not funny, it's not gory, and it's just not very good. Theres little to no character development, and it doesnt even matter when any of them die or get hurt anyway because your not given reason to care. The whole film just felt very rushed, which is a shame as it has enough talent to at the very least be a decent film to watch with your mates whilst pissed/stoned. I watched it after a few bevvies and found myself nodding off halfway through and havent even bothered to re-watch to see if i missed anything...as I quite frankley dont care. The zombirds look pretty cool I guess, but thats perhaps the only saving grace.

To summarise how dumb and rushed this film was, one character explains that if the zombirds cant see you, they forget your there......brilliant.

Awaydays: Low budget bromance/ footy hooligan film set in the late 70's adapted from a novel. I wont go into too much detail about the film as it quite frankley doesnt deserve it. Suffers from serious lack of character development, and fails because, like Doghouse, you dont really give a shit what happens to any of the characters. The scouse accents at times are hard to understand, and it just seems like the director wanted to pimp out the Joy division filled soundtrack. The film thinks it's more dramatic than it is, and whilst im sure the novel probably explains everything a lot better, Awaydays is a prime example of a film failing to capture the point of the book. Somewhere in this film, is a good story that im sure comes off better in the novel, which I now want to buy as I dont for one second beleive it will be as bad as this flick. Stephen Graham, the only real "name" actor in this film, is criminally wasted, and Im quite shocked he agreed to be a part of it.

In Bruges

This is the first film with Colin Farrell in I enjoyed. All the characters (Bar the prossies.) fit well and I liked the black humour throughout. Should of caught it when everyone else did really.

In reference to the Blair Witch 2 conversation a month ago, I got round to watching it last night. I thought the idea and delivery of the film was pretty good, some parts were pretty weird and a few jump out of your skin moments. Overall I didn't think it was too bad, although it didn't explain too much. I mean, were they collectively taken over by some kind of witchery or were they lying? As long as you don't think too much into it it's worth a watch.

Going to watch Paranormal Activity tonight, has anyone seen it yet it looks rather good.

watched Wanted for the first time since the cinema release, and despite it being utterly ridiculous, i very much enjoyed it.

I watched SAW VI last night and despite the traps becoming more and more elaborate(something which has constantly annoyed me as the films have progressed) and it being the 6th entry into the series i actually enjoyed it quite a lot.

I watched Point Break again, and it wasn't quite as bad as I remembered. Infact, I even got a couple of chuckles from it. The bit when Keanu Reeves puts the idiot voice on when he's getting hair from a surfer is brilliant. When we find out who the robbers are, it all goes downhill at breakneck speed, but at least I didn't hate it, so I'm happy with that.

Watched Lars and the real girl last night. I wanted to watch something feelgood. (I watched the X-files episode "Closure" and "Rain King" before the film) and I wasn't disappointed.

Ryan Gosling played the part brilliant and the story was equal parts charming, funny and sad.
the latter of that, The fact that what happens to an inanimate doll in a movie can make you feel the same emotions as you would for the other charaters speaks volumes about how well done this movie is.


Tonights viewing will be the £45 zombie flick Colin and Videodrome (which i got for £1 from morrisons today, with the other things i bought, used my staff discount and basically got Videodrome and a Marcus Brigstock stand up dvd for free)

saw 9 today in the cinema...strange animated flick. First off, the animation was as good as anything i've ever seen. Seriously if you're a fan of visual stuff, you have to see it. The story was a little thin and the whole thing was over before it got started, but i really enjoyed what i saw. It was adapted from a short so maybe that explains the shortness. But again, it's worth seeing for the visuals.

saw 9 today in the cinema...strange animated flick. First off, the animation was as good as anything i've ever seen. Seriously if you're a fan of visual stuff, you have to see it. The story was a little thin and the whole thing was over before it got started, but i really enjoyed what i saw. It was adapted from a short so maybe that explains the shortness. But again, it's worth seeing for the visuals.

Isn't ti Elijah wood in a film where 9 individuals group together to save the world?

Saw 6.

Meh. Don't like Hoffman, got bored of this series after Saw 3 but keep coming back to see if they can get it back on track. It was OK, but I lost track of how "clever" the twists and turns got and can't engage myself in it anymore. Oh, the first five minutes of this movie are possibly the nastiest of this decade, even harded to watch than the Clitoridectomy and blood ejaculation scenes from Lars Von Trier's Antichrist.

Re-watched all Spaced with commentary on and watch the 1996 TV series Asylum recently too.

yeh that's 9. Ive just been reading theories over on imdb about the movie and there's some really interesting stuff there. The movie is kinda easy to follow in terms of basic story, but the 9 'characteristic's' thing is pretty clever, i'd like to read a little more into it.

So yeah, I saw Saw VI tonight. I thought it was one of the better ones in the series, the narrative was a little more solid, even if a large amount of the script and acting was pretty poor. It was decent enough and worth a watch if youre into the series, but its continued in the same vein since the third movie now.

Also, there were several idiots dressed like Michael Jackson going to see that film, pretty hilarious.

Are we allowed to call Face Palms ourselves?

No, but you've earned yourself 9 Spacker Roubles - welcome to your new account with the Bank of Spackerland. So far, myself and Barrington have been the only clients.

I wish to make a withdrawal

Not possible to withdraw, only to trade in.

A fine response indeed.

Well tomorrow I plan on watching another film with Elijah Wood where 9 individuals band together to save the world. Only part one but I will actually watch, you know, all of it, so as to not suffer the wrath of the angry keyboard warrior, that I didn't watch all of it. And then I shall report back to you kind sirs

Watched Gran Torino last night. Absolutely brilliant. Awesome performance from Clint, shall be buying the dvd after Xmas when it'll no doubt be in the sales.

I just watched Haute Tension. This movie's typically grouped with Inside, which I absolutely love, so I decided to check it out based on that and because of a few recommendations. But the similarities to Haute Tension are really only at the beginning, with the home invasion, and in terms of the violence, as it's really intense. Basically, a girl stays over with her friend and her family. A killer turns up, murders the family, takes the daughter captive, and her friend tries to save her. So, it starts off like Inside, but there's a much greater slasher flick influence/structure.

The plus points are that it's visually quite interesting at times, the gorey scenes do make an impression, and it's generally pretty entertaining. And then it just completely falls apart thanks to an ultra weak ending. Without spoiling anything, the ending is so weak that it makes no sense, lacks all kinds of subtlety, and ruins a theme that could have potentially been good. Although the ending alone isn't solely to blame for the latter, and there are weaknesses in other departments before it too, it's definitely the biggest blow. So, yeah, the ending pretty much spoils what could have been an alright, but by no means great, movie.

Wrong Turn 3 Left For Dead-I loved the 1st flim and 2nd was pretty good. hadn't read anything about this but though hey i ll give it a go turns out wrong turn 3 is really good. its never going to win an award but as a series of movies wrong turn hasn't gone down hill just yet. the story starts with the normal group of kids out on canoue's(sp?) (small boats) when they stop to find a camp grown they are picked off by the mutant in the woods with his cross bow (staright through the boobs of the hot girl goes one of the arrows). only one girl gets away. flim then goes to a prison where they are getting ready to move a prisoner. you can guess the rest. the prisoners/cops get attacked by the mutant with his barbed wire/their bus crashes. they all get picked off one by one in the wood as they try to look for help. the gore is still there, in one death one of the prisoners steps into a ring of barbed wire where it springs up onto a hook which is conexted to the van the mutant drives. he than drives the prisoner who is cut to pieces along the road and lowers the hook as they go so eventally he gets dragged on the road.
it gets in the 1st movie as the prisoners and cops try to find the ranger station in the middle of the woods as its up high in the tree's but they find it burnt to the grow (which happened when it was set on fire in wrong turn 1)
it ends leaving it open for a wrong turn 4 as they think the mutant is dead but at the end you seel someone holding a sort of weapon and attacks the only prisoner left (i don't think its the mutant though casue he looked pretty dead in the next to last scene)

The Hangover-Awesome comedy movie. it got a little boring towards the end but some of the small jokes where wicked. the bit where they had the little baby pretanting to jack off was funny as was the bit when the naked japanese man attacks them and you hear the comment "hey i m with you i hate godzilla to" classic. according to some websites there is going to be a 2nd

Where did you watch that? I fear the answer will be some online torrent or something, but old-school dopps is hoping it's been released on dvd.

This time, the saying "things are always in the last place you look" seems to be true. All the episodes of Asylum are available on Norman Lovett's website.

I decided to spend halloween watching movies, but as seen as I watch horror movies most other days of the year, I went for something different.

First up was Zodiac, I hadnt heard much good from this movie but it had me gripped up to the end, there was nothing really notable about any of the performances apart from Jake Gyllenhall is a good leading man. hes not the typical hollywood front man but he did well here. The only movie i could think to compare it too was Capote (I havnt seen the movie of In Cold Blood so its close) and the only differentiating part was the lead performances. (Capote had a pretty much career performance from Phillip Seymour Hoffman)

I followed that up with Pride and Glory, I didnt even know this movie existed until friday when I saw it on the shelves of blockbuster and thought id give it a go. A kinda typical dirty cop movie that if it wasn't for Edward Norton and Colin Farell probably would be in bargain bins, I liked it but it wasn't anything to write home about.

For tomorrow after work, I have the Jurassic Park collection. because Dinosaurs are awesome.

Paranormal Activity - I enjoyed it for most part but it is not as great as the Americans hyped it up to be. There are a few parts that might make people jump and the effects were done very well, however the dialogue can be tedious/disjointed at times and they could of made more of what they scripted.

At some point today I will be watching UP.

The dialogue was all improvised.

Sums it up then.

Eh, it's supposed to be stuff some dude shot in his house on a camcorder. Isn't dialogue in real life disjointed? If they'd spoken in that perfectly timed movie way, where nobody steps on the end of each other's sentences and everyone always has a perfectly timed quip or noble speech, it would have destroyed the illusion.

I never stated that the film should have been perfectly lined out. I also never asked of it to be a glorious masterpiece, I just said that the film could of been done a little better.

Watching Cruising at the moment by Billy Friedkin who directed the first Exorcist. Al Pacino is an undercover cop who goes undercover in a gay s + m scene to solve a serial killer. Its really good

I think you're maybe expecting something which the film never set out to achieve, but I haven't seen it myself yet so I'll comment no more.

The Ten
Film from David Wain (director of Role Models, top comedian in his own right) about the ten commandments, with short films illustrating them all. The stories are very clever and mix together well, but some of the skits are better than others and it can be a smidge uneven. But still awesome. Paul Rudd, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen, Winona Ryder, Liev Schrieber, most of the cast of Reno 911 and others turn up and have a laugh.

seriously this is the most random review of a film i have ever read

Went to a preview screening of the new Michael Caine movie "Harry Brown" and really loved it.

It reminded me a little of Dead mans shoes with the bleakness and brutality that is shown from the outset (the opening scene itself left me completely stunned) however it didnt have the smart plot twists of a Shane Meadows movie, What it did have was Michael Caine who plays the lead role perfectly, his turn from elderly pensioner to vigilante is perfectly done and even when he becomes the hunter, he is still a frail old man with all the problems of the elderly. Hes also backed up by some great young actors who are so sickening and unbelievable in their onscreen actions, that you are begging for old Harry to get rid of them.

The subplot of the movie isnt particularly well done but while watching you don't even realise as Caines character draws you in from the outset and all you want is for him to bring justice to the estate where he is too afraid to take the subway for fear of what may become of him. This movie also features Sean Harris (Ian Curtis from 24 hour party people and Ian Brady from the Moors murder drama on ITV) who I always take a delight in seeing and wonder why he isn't on our screens more often.

I highly recommend this movie, I believe it hits cinemas next week so If your off the the cinema and want a good movie, then check it out.

i purchased the 2 disc special edition of predator 2 off ebay for £3

I`ve seen the film a few times before even sneaking into the cinema to see it on its first cinema run many years ago. Havent seen it in along time. What with the AVP movies I thought i`d return to it, see if its any good.

What a fantastic movie.

The use of the urban area worked a hell of alot better than the AVP2 carcrash. Danny Glover seemed very appropriate for the COP thrust into the urban jungle. And the Predator itself, once I found out through the special features, is a young predator playing with his new toys, hence why the over use of the new weapons in the movie, made excellent sense. Plus it filled some gaping plot hole gaps (like why the predator played with Glovers character when it had ample oppertunity to blow him away at certain points). The story doesnt seem to lag at all. The music score settled the scenes very nicely although the special effects in parts are very outdated.

Theres a few `thats convenient` moments but not enough to stop the flow. It does lend itself to an excellent part 3, which will probably never happen now the AVPs have been shit. But I do believe this film is a gem thats been overlooked alot.

On the contrary, Robert Rodriguez is currently producing a new Predator movie called "Predators" about a group of marines that get captured on the Predator's home planet. I have high hopes for it.

Finally got round to seeing Saw 6, really enjoyed it. I'm a big fan of the franchise anyway, but it was still largely enjoyable. It didn't have the brilliant cat and mouse between Straum/Hoffman from 5, but I think you get what you put in with Saw films. As a fan, there is a ton of stuff I feel is put in just to pay off my investment in the series, and as long as things don't get too contrived, they're still totally enjoyable. Unlike after 3 (when I felt the whole thing was satisfyingly paid off), I now welcome number 7, as long as it stays creative. I'd be interested in other fans of the series views, but my order of enjoyment of the Saw films is as follows: 2, 5, 1, 6, 3, 4. I still think Saw 2 boasts one of the best ever twist endings with Detective Matthews' Game, and I just love Straum's quest for the truth in 5.

Saw 2 is my favourite of the series too. Not only was the end twist great.. but the whole game with the convicts was really well done. I still think the twist in the first one was the best of the lot, just because I wasnt expecting a twist, but Saw 2's is a close second.

I hear alot of people that moan about the fact that the series has dragged beyond Saw 3.. but I look forward to a new Saw every year regardless. Each film might not be as great as the other, but every movie is still a must watch for me.

In order of enjoyment for me.. I'd say Saw 2, 3, 1, 6, 5, 4. I really cant remember much from 4, probably because I've only seen it one.. or maybe because it really wasnt that good.

I don't think anything will beat Saw 1 for it's "what the fuck moment", but I do remember going to the cinema and watching the second one and thinking that they won't top the 1st one and the twist will be shit. I was proven wrong and came out very satisfied. I haven't enjoyed any of the other Saw films at all unfortunately.

I'm in a similar camp with that. The first one I felt truely defeated by, you think you've got it all figured out and you never really have a clue. It was brilliant. Saw 2 I really enjoyed aswell, once they realise whats going on there it really hits home well. From 3 onwards I havent watched any of them again after I saw them in the cinema, I only really go see them because I have an unlimited card and I just tag along with others. Saw 6, as I said earlier in the thread, is one of the better ones I think.

Anyway, I'm just watching Burn After Reading on my Xbox Sky Player for the first time since catching it a couple of times on the big screen. I think its pretty underrated and went over the majority of peoples heads. I absolutly love black comedies like this and have enjoyed it just as much again tonight.

I thought Saw 2 and 3, particularly 3, were fucking terrible myself. I got the twist in 2 almost straight away and 3 was just needless fleshing out of the past stories and it just became a convoluted mess. However I thought 4 was alright and 6 surprised me with how entertaining it was. Never got the chance to watch the fifth.

This sounds awfully like a twilight zone story

where the guy lands on a planet and they accept him and put him in a house but it turns out to be a zoo and everyones watching him!