I've just rented Das Experiment!

Has anyone seen it? It's apparently got a cult status in film fan's minds.

I really enjoy Batman Forever, I think it gets a lot of unfair criticism. It's certainly nowhere near the level of shite that was Batman & Robin. Carrey is tremendous as Riddler, especially I think in the scenes where he's just Edward Nygma. "Does anybody else feel like a fried egg?"

I don't think Tommy Lee Jones was very good as Two-Face, however. In fact, I think his performance overdid it completely and came off as a poor imitation of The Joker. The complete over the-top maniacal laughing and crazyness should have been left to Carrey. Over than that, it's good. It's not as great as the first two films, but still fun.

awww what! Jones ruled it as Two Face, the maniacal laughing and grinning had be giggling everytime.

Tommy Lee Jones is a pretty versatile actor, good shit!

It's very, very good. I don't want to say more, for fear of spoiling anything.

Lucky Number Slevin

This is one of the best movies I seen this year so far I think, maybe it was because I didnt expect much from it. But the plots and the twists was so excellent done. The cast is an great one too Josh Hartnett, Bruces Willis, Lucy Liu (which im beginning to like more and more), Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman. Go see this movie now. 4 out of 5 stars

Find Me Guilty

This is one of the newest Vin Diesel movies around. Its based on a mobster in the US who defended himself in the longest mafia trial in US history. This was one of the most weak Vin Diesel movies I ever seen, I really didnt like it too much as most of the movie was all about the trial, which got boring after a while. They should have cut 30 mins off the movie. 2 hours was too much. 2 out of 5 stars

I watched Signs Monday night and scared myself so much I couldnt go to sleep. Not a scary film, but it does play on the mind.

The World's Fastest Indian biopic of Burt Munro, the man who broke the land speed record back in the day. I remember reading a review likening this to David Lynch's The Straight Story, which is a movie i love so i had to check this. The comparisons were justified, as alot of this film is similar (especially the journey part of the film). This film was absolute quality, Anthony Hopkins is brilliant as the slightly deaf, slightly crazy Munro...managing to genuinley maintain the character wit and charm despite all the setbacks he gets in the film, with a lesser actor the film probably wouldnt have worked but Hopkins rules it, theres even talk of him getting an oscar nod for his performance. Anyway's this is brilliant, if you liked The Straight Story this is a must-see. One of the most uplifting movies your ever likely to see.

I watched Sexy Beast and The Shawshank Redemption recently, Sexy Beast wasnt as bad as I remembered it to be and Shawshank Redemption was excellent.

I Watched Seed of Chucky Last Night and can't only say don't watch it. has to be the shitty moive i ve watched this year even killer clowns from outer space was better then this crap. I enjoyed Childs play and Chucky 2 but the series went down hill then(have to say bride of chucky was watchalbe and i did enjoy it a bit) only good think about seed of chucky was that that bitch from s club 7 got set on fire(I ve always wish i could do that)

apprently wolf creek is on Flim 4 tonight. I ve always wanted to see this moive but for some reason never got it on dvd or went to see it. I am Hopeing going out tonight so i gotta try and fix my video record so i can't watch it tomorrow.

can someone tell me is it anygood. it sounds a bit like wrong turn (kids getting lost in the woods with a killer after them)

Wolf Creek is good, but its nothing amazing.

Dawn Of The Dead (1978)

During the first fifteen minutes or so, Dawn Of The Dead really failed to maintain my interest. From that point onward, though, I enjoyed it as it begins to build nicely and creates a great atmosphere. It becomes increasingly significant that time is running out for the four protagonists and that fending for their survival is going to become nearly impossible. Every element of the film comes together perfectly towards the end and results in a fantastic, gory climax.

In overview, Dawn Of The Dead isn't as consistently gory as I had hoped. However, there is a degree of focus on character development and films subtext instead, which are definitely important. Nonetheless, the ending alone is violent and visceral enough to keep any horror fan happy.

It's very rarely that I say this about a film, but I actually think the remake is better. Neither can touch Night Of The Living Dead (1968), though.

The Hot Chick

Firstly; Yes, Rob Schneider is shit, but he's strangley bareable and sometimes funny in this film. Perhaps it's because The Hot Chick relies on its slapstick comedy, dialogue, gross-out moments and most of the major cast as opposed to mainly his performance.

Anna Faris, who plays Jessica's best friend, is perfect as a gormless character. She plays it somewhat differently to her role as Cindy in the Scary Movie films, but her mannerisms and reactions, although more subtle at times, fundamentally remain the same. Either way, Faris is absolutely beautiful in The Hot Chick. There's some nice eye candy with the likes of her and Rachel McAdams in this film, alongside minor appearances from Ashlee Simpson and Tia and Tamera Mowry.

Overall, The Hot Chick isn't as bad you'd assume. It has a pretty simple premise and is essentially an average teen flick, but it's enjoyable and provides a few very funny scenes. It's guilty pleasure material.

Anna Faris fucking sucks, ahhhh i hate that mong!

Infernal affairs: saw it on the now free film four. To be honest it wasa bit of a let down. I was expecting a action packed violent thriller and all there really was was a lot of talking for two hours.

Girl interrupted: Angelina Jolie won an oscar for playing the lead characters sociopathic friend and she is the best thing in it. Winona Ryder isn't really sympathetic and comes off as a spoiled brat more than a mentally ill young women. Drastically different from the book.

Nothing like Wrong Turn. It isn't bad, but I wasn't all that impressed when I saw it at the cinema - the 2nd half of the film is good though. I have it to watch on DVD and might watch it later tonight again to see if it is any better than I remember it being.

Infernal Affairs was great! I actually liked the lack of action for a change. And the fact that there were no major twists, just a logical story arc made it a great film to watch.

I'm sure it's good in it's own way. But it's been advertised as this action thriller and it's not. I guess I was expecting martial arts moves and the like.

Wolf Creek is badass...if you like old gritty horror movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre you'll love it.

I think "Wolf Creek" is on tonight, or tomorrow, on Film4.

Das Experiment

This is a German film which explores the pyschological boundaries of mankind. Making reference to the infamous 'Stanford Prison Experiment', 15 or so members of the public to volunteer to go to prison for 14 days for 4,000 DM. Basically, half will be prison guards and half will be prisoners and scientists will monitor them to see how they behave in such condition. As the 18 certificate on this film would suggest, things get dark, very dark. Thats all I'm saying as anymore will spoil it.

The film's leading role is that of Tarek Fahrd played by the very talented Moritz Bleibtreu, who fits the role perfectly, with his strong physical features, his slightly over-dramatic expressions (which no doubt encouraged the film's cult like cliche status) and deleivery of lines. The support cast are also strong, but slightly let down by a sometimes hammy scripit, relying on convention in a very forward-thinking message.

The message itself is really startling and interesting - it makes you think for hours afterwards, and that is thanks to the delievery. The slow burn build up, the use of montage and flash backs, and the abstract camera work with the rigid set design produce a very blood curdling distancing effect, where on reflection everything is striped bare to the true essence of the film.

A cult film, so its not for everyone, but certainly recomended for fans of european or gritty cinema.

She's not a particularly good actress, but, in my opinion, Faris does well in the simple, albiet limited, roles that she's cast in.

Trading Places
Two rich commodity brokers agree to a wager that switches the positions of a street criminal (Eddie Murphy) and an upperclass investor (Dan Aykroyd).

Trading Places is regarded as a classic comedy by many and it's easy to see why. It features an engaging and somewhat thought-provoking story that even provides a small degree of social commentary through its main characters. Eddie Murphy, who was in his absolute prime, gives a brilliant performance and so does Dan Aykroyd. They're both brilliant on screen and act their parts flawlessly, making even the simplest lines very funny.

With John Landis' once-great direction and a script loaded with funny dialogue, Trading Places is a real gem. It don't think it's aged as well as some other comedies, but it's still an excellent movie.

Just Friends

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433400/

I think I saw the first 45 mins of the movie, then I had to turn it off. It was horrible, didnt think Ryan Reynolds would be in crap like this. It even got 6.1 IMDB, dont get it. STAY AWAY from it!

watched wolf creek last night

wasn't the best movie in the world. I would agree with what peolpe told me that the 1st part of the flim is crap but it gets better towards the end

it had a kind of 28 days later feel toward(the way it was flimed) that was another movie which in my mind started crap but the last part was really good

ehhh!? i dont get it, lots of people hate Wolf Creek 'cause its slow and nothing 'scary' happens in the first hour...but the first hour is pretty much essential in setting up the ending.

I thought Wolfcreek was shit. There was no tension in the first or second half. It felt disjointed and the violence occured with little to no relevance.

This man is correct.

The very fact that for the film to be scary you have to be afraid of a fat old Australian man is ridiculous. The characters have nothing to them and the atcing is shit. The build-up isn't tense or mood-setting...it's dull. And the fact that the film tries to ocme off as super-realistic but then goes for all the usual horror cliches makes it even worse than it already is.

Spaceballs

I heard this movie was supposed to be funny. Whoever told me this was talking a big pile of shit. Probably the worst spoof movie I have ever come across. I'm usually a big fan of spoof movies as well.

what do you mean the 'violence occured with little to no relevance'? relevance to what?? its about a guy who kills random people, because he enjoys it.

I watched Wolf Creek again earlier today. About as good/bad as I remembered it being - I liked it a little more than when I watched it at the cinema, but that is probably because I could use the Fast-Forward function on the DVD player to FFW through (most of the first half of) the movie. It still takes far too long to get going and for anything interesting to happen (the first half-hour plus of the film is like a visitors guide to Australia!), but when the film does get going it is good – violent, bloody and somewhat disturbing with some pretty good tension. As already mentioned it is clichéd at times, but John Jarratt is still on 2nd viewing very good as the bad-guy Mick Taylor (and the best part of the film).

Relevance to any of the below would have been fine in my book:

* What happens in the first half
* The characters themselves
* Any themes or emotions already woven into the audience's mind


Instead it appear random, as if it is being made up as it goes along, and expects its self smug attitude with the ending and the play on the cliches of the horror genre to treat the film with more respect than it deserves.

I have to disagree. Spaceballs may not be as good as Mel Brooks' other films, such as Young Frankenstein, but by no means is it bad. In my opinion, it's a consistently funny spoof that's well-directed, filled with witty and generally funny lines and an abundance of slapstick.

Cars
In this animated family film, Lightning McQueen, a famous race car, is en route to a huge event, but winds up in Radiator Springs, a rundown town. After accidentally damaging the main road there, he can't leave until he repairs it.

I like the concept behind this movie. We've already seen animals, toys and various other things personified in similar films, but I think cars can be given personality more effectively than, say, a group of ants. For example, it doesn't get much better than a low rider voiced by Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong fame. A cocky race car also seems like a perfect fit, unlike a hypochondriac giraffe, as seen in Madagascar.

Cars begins on a high note as Lightning McQueen's fast-paced environment is the first element of the story that the audience is introduced to. Immediately, the film creates a good impression, visually. The establishing wide shots are great and feature a surprising amount of detail and the vivid colours will immediately capture the interest of any younger viewers. Some of the night shots used throughout Cars are equally as nice.

The film begins to suffer during the middle, though. Despite its running time of two hours, I wouldn't say that it drags; it's just weaker at this point. There's less emphasis on the humour after McQueen has been in Radiator Springs for a while as the conventional elements of the story become more significant. It does become fairly cheesy as there's a montage of the town's history, which is set to a country song about how important it is to the cars that inhabit it. The song is honestly like something Matt Stone and Trey Parker would produce as a hammy parody.

Thankfully, Cars quickly picks up again, though, and doesn't become as predictable as you'd assume, either. The humour also gradually builds towards the end, which is just as entertaining as the beginning.

So, whilst Cars definitely isn't Pixar's best film and there is room for improvement, it's a solid attempt. At the very least, it'll keep you entertained and, judging from the trailers prior to it, Cars looks far superior to the sting of animated films about to be released. There's the uninspired bastard child of Antz and A Bug's Life, The Ant Bully. In another seemingly cheap attempt to cash-in on the interest of animated family films, we have Happy Feet, the story of a dancing penguin. Even the overrated Steven Spielberg is jumping on the bandwagon.

Watched Lucky Number Slevin last night/this morn. Thought it was great how it all came together in the end, reminded me of my fave ever film, The Usual Suspects.

EZ

Watched Final Destination 3 & The Hills Have Eyes(2006) again in the last week. Both still very good films, with FD3 still great for the death-scenes and the unique "Choose Their Fate” DVD feature (which could very well be the future of DVD releases).


Trauma
From the director of My Little Eyes Marc Evans, Trauma follows car-crash victim Ben(Colin Firth) who awakens from a coma to learn that his wife died in the same accident. The grieving and troubled man is befriended by new neighbour Charlotte(Mena Suvari), but his tenuous grip on reality is further threatened when he is questioned by the police about the recent murder of a female pop star.
Trauma is a quite interesting film, but slow and unnecessarily confusing with an ending that you can probably guess about half way through. The acting is not bad, with Colin Firth putting in a solid enough performance and Mena Suvari doing the best with what little she is given. Reminded me of The Machinist, but whereas The Machinist was genuinely interesting and had a conclusive ending, Trauma seems to go around in circles and lead nowhere in the end. Cost me £3 and in the end it is probably just about worth it!


Boy Eats Girl
Surprisingly not a bad film on the whole, which was better than I expected and quite enjoyable. The humour is a little hit-and-miss and it takes about 30-minutes to get going, but it has a good soundtrack and a sequence near the end which is like a Dead Alive(Braindead) style splatter-fest. Far too short at 73-minutes though, and it ultimately felt pointless with a weak story and some weak dialogue, but still much better than it could have been.


Eyes of Crystal
The plot is reminiscent of the movies of Dario Argento – someone is murdering people left right and centre, and taking their time to stuff bullet wounds with the care of a taxidermist, or replacing limbs and heads with parts of a Victorian doll. Add to that the usual “cop with a dark past” as the main character, a love interest in a quiet but confident student (called Giuditta), and a colleague with a brain tumour that seems to be triggering visions of the murderer, and you have an interesting story.

With hints of the film “Seven” and as already mentioned many Argento movies, good make-up & special effects, and some graphic and violent killing sequences throughout, Eyes of Crystal is not a bad film at all. It has it’s flaws - the characters are not all that interesting and you never really feel any connection between them, the film is a little clichéd at times, and the ending of the film (where the killer is revealed) is quite weak and somewhat disappointing – but on the whole it is an enjoyable enough movie.

Be warned, the audio doesn’t match what is being spoken by the actors/actresses; with most if not all of the dialogue seeming to have been post-dubbed (many of the actors in the movie are Spanish, not Italian).

Watched the Hills have eyes, The Ringer and She's the Man last night.

The hills have eyes is good if a little bit predictable, the ringer was not as funny as I expected, very disapointed and She's the man suprised me as it was better than I expected even though it was not a good film it was entertaining!

that's the whole point...it is random. The opening quote of the movie when it mentions how many backbackers go missing in australia every year kinda tells you how random it is...people go missing and are never heard from again, the movie just gives the directors impression of what possibly happens.

The Hills have Eyes remake is fucking awful, not as bad as the Texas Chainsaw remake but still awful.

Not a patch on the original which had the scariest looking feller in movies history (no make-up required).

I disagree, i believe the re-make is better...for once the makers didnt gloss it up they kept the setting of the first but just made it better.

The TCM remake is excellent too, in my opinion the interrogation scene in the van is one of the best scenes in horror, incredible tension.

What a steaming pile of crap! Your initial statement was entirely composed of fiction and your attempts to qualify said statement are laughable. It's entirely understandable that you might not enjoy the film and subsequently post stating this but why continue to defend such a nonsensical point as highlighted by Ebb? It screams "pedantic".

The Transporter

A good idea, badly, BADLY executed. I still don't understand why the girl was in the bag. I also don't get why one of the trucks just vanished. So many picky points that ruined this film (Like the convoy at the end going over the same bridge 20 times). Was a shame really as it could've been a good film.

Ghost Dog (The way of the samurai)

2nd time I've seen this, I really like Whittaker's character, he's serious and he acts the part perfectly. The 'bad guys' really ham it up though and that took away a little of my enjoyment, still again a great Idea and a good movie if a little contrived and daft in places.

Since this thread is occupied by some people with a broad knowledge of film a little help would be appreciated.

I'm trying to remember the name of a film, so I can get it on DVD, and its driving me nuts.

It was a Kung fu pisstake, they had a yank in the lead role, usual story of guy trained by master girl kidnapped etc, fairly sure they used footage from other films and then dubbed over with the pisstake stuff.

Any help?

Kung Pow?

that's the one. Thank you may friend.

Kung Pow - how the fuck could I not remember a name like that?

Requiem For A Dream

This movie made me cringe so much that I nearly turned it off. Slightly better than Pi and with the Connely. I really felt for the mother most of all and the scene in the hospital made me want to be sick. Plus girl-on-girl action~

I started watching A Clockwork Orange but couldnt get into it, so I'm watching Shawshank again.

I don't see how anyone could enjoy that lesbian scene.

The Untouchables - Believe it or not the first time I've seen this film was last night and it's over 20 years old. I thought it was amazing, Kevin Coster looked soooo young!

Walk The Line - Wow, just wow. Not really much else I can say!

Yeah Walk the line was awesome, even Witherspoon looked gorgeous! I'd have her, chin and all.

I'll watch Crash tonight, STILL havnt watched it or Sin City.

Blast my lack of funnies.

Anyone whos seen requiem for a dream HAS to see this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le7lJJ_eI9s...m%20toy%20story

Outside of the fact that I thought some of the acting was a little too cheesy, I absolutely love this movie.

My only gripe was Sean Connery's character. I thought they went on overkill with the idea of him being wise.

I saw that too recently (I heart FilmFour for free) and was quite impressed with Whittaker. I've never seen him in that knd of role before and always connect him with his Good Morning Vietnam character. The story and idea was pretty sweet too, though I'll most likely remember the scenes with the French guy when I look back on the film.

Thanks to FF I've also seen Lost in Translation for the first time and highly enjoyed the story they were telling. Ghost Town was also pretty good although Thora Birch'ss character reminded me heavily of the 'missus'. Not as hot though (but close enough to get the tissues out).

I watched the Incredibles for the first time recently and loved it. Though the short animation on the DVD that explains the babystting experience was far better than the whole film I also got to watch Amelie again and reminded myself of just how good a film it was.

Also - Oldboy with commentary, that was pretty sweet. Hearing the voice of Dae-sue talk about stealing a coat from the set... and the moment of silence when the director explains that he might not have had to tattoo the 15 bars on his hand. Excellent.