What did you think of Milk?

Here's mine:

Friday the 13th: 7, 4 (Crispin Glover dancing ftw!), 2, 1, 8, 3, 6. 5, 9 and 10 are equally bad, still not seen the remake.

Halloween: 1, 2, 4, 3 (criminally underrated), 6, 7, 5, 8. I actually enjoy watching all those though, even Resurrection has it's moments. The Rob Zombie remake is the worst of the bunch and also one of the worst films in recent memory.

Hellraiser: 1, 3, 2, 4 (Not seen the others)

Child's Play: 2, 1, 3, 4, 5.

Puppet Master: 1, 2... not seen the others

Leprechaun: Only seen the original, the 'Hood' one and the 'Space' one. And all three were terrible, although they were hilarious in parts.

A few others:

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 2, 1, The Beginning, Remake, 3, 4. Man, 4 was bad.

... Of The Dead: Dawn, Dawn remake, Night, Day, Land. Not seen Diary. Night of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead are interchangeable.

Poltergeist: 1, 2, 3.

Phantasm: 1, 3, 2, 4... not seen 5.

Sleepaway Camp: 1, 2, 3. Still waiting for Return To Sleepaway Camp

Anyway, I'll stop now.

Watched Slumdog Millionaire today and I have to say it is probably the best film i've seen in years. I don't see what all the "feelgood film" stuff was about though, as apart from one part it really isn't feel good. I'm not really that good at going into lots of detail, but I do urge everyone who hasn't seen it to go see it. Brilliant film.

I just finished watching WALL.E.. I admit. I blubbed. Twice.

I watched the shawshank redemption..immense film really immense.

Really, really immense?

I've still got New Nightmare to sit through and then Hellraiser or the original Dawn of the Dead to follow, but I took a break from this glutton de horror to watch Enchanted which I'm not afraid to admit I loved. Probably the best Disney film since Toy Story 2!

I know you didn't ask me, but have to answer that Milk is a truly amazing film and I would have chosen Penn over Rourke to win the award.

Haha, quite a line up. I saw enchanted a while back as my mate wanted to show off his HD telly a few months back and this was the only blu ray he had in the house (yes, very suspicious, but he is married). I didn't mind it, but wouldn't rate it anywhere near the pixar movies. I read an interesting easter egg earlier. The woman who plays the receptionist who looks disgusted when the princess eats a fish from the fish tank is the voice of the little mermaid.

I just got through watching Batman and Batman returns on blu ray. Great stuff, I'd forgotten how long its been since I saw those films. They look lovely in HD! I'd also completly forgotten that Harvey Dent appears in the first batman film, albeit as an african american.

Back on the subject of horror, does anyone know if theres any plan to re-release the halloween boxset? They released one a few years back, but it went out of print almost instantly and you can only get them if your willing to pay 40-50 quid on ebay.

Have to agree that Sean Penn gave the better performance between himself and Rourke.

I watched Milk last night and, although I really enjoyed the film, my personal thought is that Rourke kinda got screwed. Sean Penn was about as great as you'd expect him to be, but if he wins for that then he wins basically every time. He's just among that small list of actors (along with the likes of Streep and PSH) who always deliver something great. As such I kinda compare his performances against a higher criteria and, as good as it was, I don't think it was Penn's best work. Rourke's turn in The Wrestler, however, was outstanding in the truest sense of the word. I would have voted for him.

That said, even though I've not seen the three other nominees yet (Button, Frost/Nixon or The Reader), if I had to choose between Slumdog... and Milk for Best Picture, I would have gone for Milk.

And I'm surprised by that too. I'd heard some people say it was a little dry and I didn't have too much faith in Gus Van Sant, but, to be honest, that two hours flew by faster than for any of the films. I thought it was funny, and heart-warming, and that it gave a really beautiful (and much-needed) face to the gay rights movement. I mean, when you think of how many mainstream movies and TV shows we've seen depicting scenes from other civil rights movements, seeing Milk really hit home how little we've seen of the gay rights movement in film/TV. And I thought Josh Brolin and all the rest of the supporting cast was great too. Really enjoyed it.

Haven't yet seen ''Milk'' I just thought rourkes performance in ''the wrestler'' was astounding to the point where he did deserve a oscar. I'll check milk out later this week to see what sean penns like in that.

"Hellraiser: Bloodline" is decent enough, I suppose. I believe that is the fourth one.

There is about seven Hellraiser films now. Scroll down..

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=hellraiser

So you thought Rourke deserved the Oscar over Penn, even went as far as to say he was "robbed" yet you haven't seen Penn's performance yet?

Last night, I watched John Carpenter's Halloween for the first time. I generally love horror flicks and what I've seen of Carpenter's work so far, but this was very underwhelming. If Halloween was revolutionary in its day, then it has aged terribly. While Michael Myers is a pretty good character, everything else about it seems incredibly corny, especially the dialogue. You could argue that this is because the conventions of the slasher film have been done to death by this point, but I'd still maintain that something like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre stands up extremely well today (I only saw that for the first time recently as well) and even for a 70s B-movie, Halloween is beyond silly in places and the acting, for the most part, is terrible.

I don't think that's a fair criticism when Halloween essentially created all of those conventions. Halloween is a great film, sure there are some cheesy bits but thats mainly down to the low budget and it's age. It's still one of the best and most important horror movies ever made.

Just because it's important doesn't mean it's that good, the conventions it created can and have been bettered.

Halloween remains one of the finest entries in the horror genre.

The Rock's film "The Game Plan" premieres tonight on Sky Movies Premiere at 6pm.

Other films on tonight are "Leatherheads" and "In Bruges".

Any thoughts on those movies? Thanka you.

I didn't expect to enjoy The Game Plan too much, but found myself enjoying it very much.
His performance was hilarious, playing the self-obsessed narcissist like his days as a heel when he was The Rock.

I re-enacted the Crispin Glover dance at the request of my girlfriend and didn't get dumped. She either really liked it or she's scared to leave me incase I claw her face off with my Glover-style reflexes.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 1, 2, The Beginning tied with the re-make, 3, 4.
Phantasm: 1, 4, 3, 2. 5 isn't happening by the looks of it.
Sleepaway Camp: 1, 2, 3. Part two should win some kind of award for the fire scene. Messed up.
Wishmaster: 1, 2, 4, 3. The last two definitely suffered without the original actor.


I think In Bruges is brilliant. I went in the cinema expecting something totally different from it, due to the adverts leaving out the actual storyline. Glad they did.

haha everyone seems to remember Glover's dance, that guy is a fucking madman.

Silent Hill - watched this finally last night, i ain't a fan of the games so i aint looking at it from that reference point. But i went from being incredibly bored in the first hour to loving the 2nd hour. This was one crazy fucking film, the plot was all over the shop and at times i didn't have a clue what was going on, but from a visual standpoint, this film is outstanding. I just sat back and enjoyed the carnage. now i'll have to watch it again to try and understand what the hell was going on.

Just saw You Me & Everyone We Know, and I loved it.
It's an independent comedy with several stories intertwining. It's very awkward, but has some real laugh out loud moments, but the thing that really stands out is how gorgeously it's shot. The cinematography is simply break taking, so if you're into that kind of thing I'd definitely recommend checking it out. It won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes in 2005, so that gives you an idea of the type of film it is.

The Wrestler

Is this the movie that everyone believed Rourke was entitled to an Oscar for? Seriously? Aside from the disturbingly polite Necro Butcher I thought that this movie was an absolute disaster and I came away thinking that Rouke's 'real life' was more unrealistic than his part-time existance as a wrestler. By the time the movie ended I knew as little about 'The Ram' as when the movie started.

I don't know how Randy went from selling out Madison Square Garden to living in a trailer, did he blow all of his money on peroxide, tanning booths and sixty dollar lapdances?
I don't know why Randy was such a failure as a parent, was he on the road and afraid of asking for time off for fear of losing his spot, or was he just a selfish prick who got what he deserved?
I don't know why Randy would agree to work a deathmatch in CZW when he clearly had absolutely no idea what he was getting himself involved in.

I don't know any of these things because apparently the guy who wrote this travesty didn't believe that things like humanisation of characters and establishing a believable backstory are important traits for a movie. Are we supposed to pity Randy? Are we supposed to sympathise with him? Or are we supposed to laugh at him for being a clueless relic of a bygone age? As a viewer I felt nothing but apathy for the characters because I was never given a reason to care about anyone in it, you were quite literally given nothing to base an opinion on. I'll admit that the wrestling segments were pretty decent but I believe that a lot of wrestling fans have been duped into believing that this is a good movie merely because it doesn't make a total mockery of wrestling. It did a very good job of exposing the seedy underbelly of Pro-Wrestling that people don't like to talk about but it infuriated me by not explaining to the audience why these people smash themselves to pieces every night in front of a crowd. The entire deathmatch sequence served no purpose (just like the extended strip club routines) than to add a bit of blood and guts to the movie, it didn't establish any kind of context so to a lot of people it would have come across as completely unbelievable and unrealistic.

I've heard the The Wrestler described as being "to Pro-Wrestling what Rocky was to Boxing". Pure nonsense. Even if you take the Boxing segments out of Rocky you're still left with a tale about a guy who wanted to succeed or die trying, we follow him through the highs and lows and most importantly we're given real reasons to root for him and will him to succeed - I can't say the same about The Wrestler because we're never given any reason to believe in Randy or even care about him. I was disappointed with this movie because, like Pro-Wrestling in general nowadays, it promised so much yet delivered so little, it could have opened the sport up to a new generation by finally explaining why these people do it, what it means to them and the inevitable sacrifices that come from it.

Oh yeah? Name one.

The ending I jsut didn't get whatsoever.

He wants her to be there for him, she wants to be, but leaves, thus leaving the movie with no conclusion really

***Waits for the tools to come along and tell us "yeah I've thought this all along"***

Personally, I don't think you've watched the same movie we've all watched and loved.

She doesn't want to be there, she wants him to not have the match. But he has the match and chooses wrestling over her and maybe dies then, maybe dies later, maybe in the ring, maybe not but ultimately alone. The end.

Watched one called Brooklyn Rules the other day and thought it was pretty entertaining. Freddy Prinze Jr., Alec Baldwin, Scott Caan and Jay Ferrara can't really go wrong.

Finally got round to watching Trainspotting, and I loved it. I have no idea how this film's passed me by for so long. The acting was great, the characters were superb, and the story gripped me from beginning to end. And I now see what bAz is so scared of.

I also watched Withnail & I for the first time, and this may make me unpopular, but I don't get what all the fuss is about. Maybe I had it too hyped up before, or maybe it was because it was the 6th or 7th movie in a long weekend, so maybe I was a bit too burnt out, but I thought it was utterly forgettable and not in the least bit special. It just seemed like your average British 80's movie, with a few amusing moments and a couple of interesting performances, but a lot of long, dragging, dull sections. It was described to me as one of the most quotable movies I'll ever see, but the only way I'll ever quote anything from it ism if I want to appear like an idiot.

I also watched two horrendous movies thanks to misremembered recommendations from the missus. First off was Wild Things. If it wasnt for Denise Richards stripping off and generally acting like the slut every guy dreams about it would have been a complete waste of an evening. Dull story, crap acting, and some of the most unintentionaly dumb characters I've seen in a long time.

The second was The Crushwhich was like a terrible made-for-tv movie, but saved itself with a completely out of place hulk-like punch from the main character that sent someone flying right across the room right at the end. I'm almost certain there was some wirework there. Anyway, the rest of the movie was pretty crap, and slightly uncomfortable in places since they kept trying to sexualize an allegedly 14 year old Alicia Silverstone. A lot of it just felt like a perfect example of 'how not to write a movie'. The dialogue was laughable and completely unbelievable, and some of the acting was just shocking, with characters just breaking into awkward monologues that sounded like they'd come from an under 14's drama group, or reading lines with the delivery of a brick. It also seemed like the writer had purposely taken a stand against subtlety, and decided to hammer every plot point home with the finesse of a retarded kid with a balance problem. There was a background line in a meeting scene where someone said something about consumers being idiots and needing to spoonfeed everything to them, and it was very obvious that's how the makers of this film felt about the viewers.
Avoid unless you enjoy your brain trying to escape from your skull.

Yeah man, stellar cast.

At least it wasn't Billy Baldwin.

Watched Hulk vs. Wolverine last night. I have no idea why, but it entertained me.

Remember that bit in the tea-room, where "Withnail, and that other guy" start swearing at all the pensioners, for NO reason? I thought that was particularly nasty, and not funny at all.

there aint anything wrong with Freddie Prinze Jr.

Ah, blissful ignorance.

Also, it's "isn't".

But she wants to be with him and tells him she'll support him even though she doesn't want him to do it and then the film just ends, with us never knowing what happens to him, and not in the good way, its like there was no point in the middle part of the movie. He was a wrestler who fucked up his family and pesonal life and who continues to fuck it up and still wrestles.

That's the point surely?

When does she say this? I don't remember that happening, but I saw it a while back..

As for the rest of what you said.. Yeah, that's what happens. He's a fuck up, he has a shot at redemption but chooses not to take it.. It's pretty bleak but I don't see as how it renders the film pointless..

Steveo's reviews are amazing. "I dunno why I liked it, just did."

Although I'm a bit of a review whore on Amazon, I don't believe in posting massive reviews on here when people simply will not read them.

I'm more likely to read and respond to something with a bit of substance that has some thought and strong opinion in it. People seem to read my "massive" reviews, and enough people respond to Seven's to suggest that it's worth taking the time. The Watchmen post-release discussion thread also has several lengthy reviews, some of which have been broken down into paragraphs and discussed by other posters. If a long post is well written, interesting, engaging or sufficiently entertaining or funny then people will read it.

You write reviews?

Watched Cloverfield last night for the 2nd time. I must say I still think it's fine as a pure action movie that requires you not to think so much, but there's not really enough substance to it to make the movie compelling for a 3rd or 4th view. I even bothered to look up a few bits on the net about the movie and some of the backstory (and the Manga thing) kinda ruin a lot of it so don't bother with that.

I think the monster is built really well before being revealled and then a little dissapointing. It's actions certainly fit the 'stroppy child' image that has been built up for it (so when's mom coming then?) since the movie came out. I hate the cameraman. I really do, most of his one liners are shite and he overacts too much, don't mind the rest of the cast though I think they do a decent job.

Great popcorn movie, but don't watch if you're in the mood for something deep.

For example, he was so supposed to meet his estranged daughter after recently making amends, but forgets and goes and shags some blonde slag at a party, thus ruining his relationship with his daughter possibly for good.

I don't see what people are missing. He was once at the top, now he's at the bottom. It doesn’t matter how, the point is, he is. He's striving for success again, goes about things the wrong way and ends up worse off than he did at the start of the film. It's an open ending, if you want a conclusion then there are plenty of films out there for you. Why not use this open ending to make your own decision on how things went instead of being spoon fed.

That's what she said. lol

I thought Cloverfield was a bit rubbish but it was one letter away from being amazing

I'm having John Carpemter day

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Just watched Johnny Got His Gun which is famous for being heavily featured in the video for "One" by Metallica. To keep it short, it's fucking brilliant. The basic plot is a 20 year old US soldier gets bombed in WW1 and loses his arms, legs, sight, hearing and speech and features him narrating his own spiral into madness, hallucinations and desperation. It's probably one of the bleakest and most haunting films I have ever seen with one of cinemas greatest ending monologues. I highly recommend it.

Hellraiser: I really didn't get it. Apart from the odd awesome blood spilling scenes and the quite frankly creepy ending along with the appearance of pinhead, I felt a lot went unexplained and just found myself being bored through a lot of it.

The rise of Frank was cool though.

I took advantage of Blockbusters 2 for £8 quid offer again yesterday. I came away with Hard Boled (the John Woo movie) and Silence of the lambs 2 disc collectors edition.

I watched Hard Boiled last night. I have to admit I was rather tired and was fighting the heavy eyelids for the last half hour or so, but it made for a very entertaining action movie. I can't say the storyline was overly amazing (but I might have missed parts due to my tiredness), but plenty of huge explosions and a few nice twists.

Later today I'm going to watch silence of the lambs. I haven't seen it in years and despite remembering that I quite enjoyed it I don't remember much of the film other than the most parodied scenes.