Derailed

Went on a date to the cinema tonight and somehow I wound up seeing this atrocious piece of wank. Any one else totally unimpressed by this? I pretty much guessed the outcome of this movie before the first half hour was over, it probably wouldn’t have been so bad, if it wasn’t so fucking obvious. The dialogue is pretty terrible too.

I watched the wonderfully over the top Con Air (not for the first time of course) last night. It's just a fun movie with great characters, silly action and it's extremely quotable too. Plus, you have John Malkovich hamming it up looking like a skinny Steve Austin, Colm Meany chewing the scenery and Nic Cage in a mullet sporting a dodgy southern accent and no-selling bullet wounds. What's not to love?

That’s one of those movies I love, yet have no idea why.

Cusack's in it as well. If John Cusack's in it you know it's gold. It was one of the first 5 dvds I bought, when they were all new and spangly.

It's fantastic action fluff - "put the bunny back in the box" ~!

balls...

Got a cheapo DVD from Poundland called "The Nutty Nut". How can a movie that has the writing talents of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell be *so* bad. They even changed their names to the famous "Alan Smithee and R.O.C. Sandstorm". Truly horrible. Heres a write-up on IMDB.com about it..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105034/maindetails

Recently watched Straight Shooting with Raven and The Sandman.. fucking hilarious shoot with some very entertaining storys. Check it out!

also watched Final Destination 1 to get me in the mood for part 3 which I plan on seeing at the weekend. I also caught most of old favourite Human Traffic early this morning on tv! Spliff Politics .. awesomeness~

Other than that I have been watching through series and series of Only Fools and Horses as I am in possession of every episode ever!

My fave bit...

"Where you going?"

"I'm gonna show you God does exist."

And then Cage walks up the aisle, kicking bad guy ass along the way, when one of the baddies shoots him in the arm and he no-sells it Undertaker style while the bad guy.... LOOKS AT THE GUN THAT HAS JUST WORKED WITH A QUIZZICAL EXPRESSION ON HIS FACE!!!

Cage then beats him down while still no-selling the bullet wound. ~~~~~~~~~

Wedding Crashers - Will Ferrell is funny, the film is ok. Isla Fisher is in it so it gets 14 stars.

House of Wax - What Ebb said pretty much. Really good fun trashy horror film with some really cool visuals. Paris Hilton gets a big spike through her stupid mong-faced head so it gets 23 stars.

The 40 year old virgin - This was a good laugh. Didn't need to be a full two hours long, some of the dialogue in the scenes where nothing really happens is tremendous though, especially the conversation about watching Ghandi while baked. Good cameo from Champ Kind too.

Final Destination 3 - went down for an early showing today...excellent stuff, if you liked the other two your in for a blast, story wise its stupid and far-fetched but that aint the point, the deaths are what its all about and their fucking brilliant in this...

fun shit

Just got back from this as well and I'll agree with everything you said. It's tongue is planted firmly in its cheek and its funny as hell (funnier than a lot of comedies I've seen recently) and the death's are ridiculously over the top.

8/10

Brokeback Mountain

Saw this masterful piece of work as well. A classic love story that should last for years to come. It started off a little slow but then this is just to build up to the fabulous next 90 minutes that tells the story of the rest of their lives once they leave Brokeback Mountain. This was my favourite section of the film, seeing them living normal lives, meeting wives and having kids yet still going to rekindle their love up on Brokeback Mountain every 6 months or so, the ending was terrific too. Deserves any accolade it gets.

9/10

Walk The Line

Very good but far from perfect. Phoenix and Witherspoon were tremendous though.

Someone give me a random film to buy off play.com, I want something, first reply makes me win my film (unless I've already seen it)

GO!

Oldboy.

Dead Man's Shoes.

You win. Well, I win but ya know.

I'm also ordering The Aristocrats which I was really intrigued with.

You win nothing. Despite what most people said, Oldboy is garbage

I just spent £14.99 on that.

Just watch the first hour and you won't feel cheated.

Well, now I'm very interested. Just checked it up on imdb.com and its in the top 250 and Dead Man's Shoes wasn't

I'm not ordering your book now.

Oh and Dead Man's Shoes is shit.

How much? £8.99 from Virgin bro..

Seriously?

I hope thats the 1 disc version or something. Old Boy better be damn good. I'm looking at you Mr. Seven

As much as I like Sickboy, he's wrong. Oldboy is a five star film.

I feel like a risktaker heading out on the highway about to rob a petrol station on a whim.

I might do this more often.

It's the double disc version too...Good film though,i really enjoyed Oldboy

Oldboy is fucking tremendous.

Oldboy is great but Mr. Seven you are 100% wrong when it comes to Dead Mans Shoes. Great film.

Dead Man's Shoes completely blew me away when i first saw it, it scared me...it aint a horror film but the cruelty in the movie really got to me.

its a classic.

I thought it was predictable and pretentious. Each to his own I guess.

Just to add to the Oldboy discussion, here are reviews of the three films in the Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy For Lady Vengeance)...


Sympathy For Mr Vengeance
A great, very cleverly conceived movie, with a great story (of the lengths a brother will go to try to help his dying sister, and the lengths a father will go to try to get revenge on the killers of his daughter). There is great emotion to the film - both happiness and sadness (but mostly alot of sadness), and you feel sympathy for both parties. The film is slow paced, but the story is good enough to hold the viewers interest. There is great acting by all involved, some needed dark humour, the violence used is realistic (and has impact), and the movie has an especially great last 10-minutes. Highly recommended, and the best of the Vengeance Trilogy.
(*****)


Oldboy
A great film, with a great and very interesting story, and which is violent at times but also has some dark humour. Min-sik Choi(Shiri, Brotherhood, Crying Fist) is perfectly cast and amazing as the main character of Oh Dae-su, Ji-tae Yu(Into the Mirror, Natural City) is great as Woo-jin, Hye-jeong Kang is great as Mi-Do, and the rest of the cast are also good in the roles they are given. The film has some good plot twists, a very good soundtrack, and a great end 15-minutes or so leading into a wonderful ending. The only problem I have is whether the major plot-twist is too predictable?

Some good extras on the 2nd DVD, including featurettes, interviews with the cast and director, and deleted scenes.
(*****)


Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
A very good film, with an interesting story (the story does jumps around a bit though - to the past, then back to the present, then to the past again (maybe too much)), some occasional dark humour, and some violence (as usual) and a good soundtrack.. The film however has a slower pace than Mr Vengeance and Oldboy, and yet more unnecessary animal cruelty (shooting a dog)! Min-sik Choi is great again (as he was in Oldboy), and there is good acting from Yeong-ae Lee in the main role. The two main leads out of Mr. Vengeance are also good in the small and limited roles they are given as two assassins (it must be noted that alot of the cast from the other two films in the Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance & Oldboy) are given roles or cameos in this film). On the whole the film is better in the 2nd hour (and in particular the last 30-minutes) than the 1st hour, and lacks a big twist (like Oldboy) and real emotion (like Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance). The weakest of the Trilogy of film, but still very good on it’s own merits.
(***1/2)



Oh, and Dead Man's Shoes was great (a **** film)...

American Pie
A very good teen comedy, which is funny, entertaining, and great fun, with some gross-out humour but nothing bad and nothing which effects the enjoyment of the film. There is a good cast, a good soundtrack, and some likeable and very entertaining characters. Eugene Levy (Jim’s Dad) and Seann William Scott (Stifler) are great in their roles, Jason Biggs (Jim) and Shannon Elizabeth (Nadia) are very good, and Eddie Kaye Thomas (Paul Finch) and Allison Hannigan (Michelle) are both good.
(***1/2)


American Pie 2
A very good teen comedy, which is funny, entertaining, and great fun, with some gross-out humour but nothing bad and nothing which effects the enjoyment of the film (much like the original movie). Again there is a good cast (the same main cast as the original American Pie), a very good soundtrack, and some likeable and very entertaining characters. The movie is set one year after the first American Pie film, and is a good progression of the original movie. Eugene Levy (Jim’s Dad) and Seann William Scott (Stifler) are great in their roles, Jason Biggs (Jim) is very good, and Eddie Kaye Thomas (Paul Finch), Shannon Elizabeth (Nadia) and Allison Hannigan (Michelle) are all good.
(***1/2)


American Pie 3 - The Wedding
A very good teen comedy, which is funny, entertaining, and good fun, with some gross-out humour but nothing too bad (except maybe the dog waste joke) and nothing which really effects the enjoyment of the film. Like the first two movies there is a good cast (with most of the main cast from the original two films), a good soundtrack, and some likeable and very entertaining characters.
Eugene Levy (Jim’s Dad) and Seann William Scott (Stifler) are great in their roles, Jason Biggs (Jim) and Fred Willard (Michelle’s Dad) are very good, and Eddie Kaye Thomas (Paul Finch) and Allison Hannigan (Michelle) are both good.
(***1/2)


American Pie 4 – Band Camp
An entertaining and fun film, with some gross-out humour but nothing too bad and nothing which really effects the enjoyment of the film. The film has likeable and entertaining characters, a pretty good soundtrack, and a good young cast (that show future potential). The film only has two of the cast who were in the original three films, and even though there are enough references to Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott), there really needed to be a cameo from him to make it worthwhile. Eugene Levy (Jim’s Dad) is good again, but is only really given a limited role. Tad Hilgenbrink (Matt Stifler) is good and entertaining (and like a mini-Stifler), but no-where near as great as Seann William Scott! And Arielle Kebbel (Elyse) is good.
(**1/2)



Proof
An entertaining film, with great performances from the three main leads (Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal), but not enough subject matter from them to really work with. Was a free showing so I cannot really complain, but in the end there is nothing really to the film, and I seem to have missed the point of the movie!
(**1/2)

Busy day then?

does nobody listen to me? ive said it a few times, check out www.find-dvd.co.uk for the best prices for all dvds.

HBAndy, Old Boy is only available in the UK on 2 disc CE set.
you were ripped off at £14.99 - cheapest right now is just £7.49 from The Hut - thats half your price!

http://www.thehut.com/mall/productpage.cfm/TheHut/97556

im guessing it was bought from play for £14.99, as the UKFF have some strange association with Play, believing them to be the only e-tailer out there.

but dont fret HBAndy, you will still get your moneys worth. as Jonathon Ross said recently about the film and i concur ''if there has been a better movie made this past decade, ive not seen it''.

i just got the OST today for it - a lovely soundtrack and a must have CD.

Man Of The House

Oh yeah, Tommy Lee Jones, phoning it in hilariously but i have a Christina Milian fetish going on at the moment plus 4 other cheerleaders in this movie so an enjoyable ***. I challenge anyone to hate this.

Monica Keena shows a lot of skin in that movie, so I can't hate it.

She rules.

Absolutely! But seriously, I watched the Vengeance Trilogy a couple of weeks ago over 3 or 4 days. And while being ill last week, I had nothing else to do but watch TV and/or DVD's!

i may have to watch this today then, picked it up for just under £3.00 thanks to the HMV Loophole

whats this hmv loophole?

You're always the man with the bargain DVDs and yes I did buy it from play.com, I've had a love affair with them since 2003 and I given them the upmost respect. I watched Film 2006 yesterday after I ordered Old Boy and what Rossie said certainly gave me good reason to look forward to the film.

Hotel Rwanda

Wonderful film, based on the true story of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and centered around a man who managed to save 1000+ people in his hotel. I wasn't too aware of the background to the genocide and the problems surronding it (I was only 6/7 at the time), but it was explained during the film and made it easy to follow (unlike Munich) and I became engrossed in Don Cheadle's quest. Don Cheadle's performance is classic and I was pleased that a film like this was made.

9/10

An intresting bit of trivia, the scene where Joaquin Phoenix has snuck out to film some footage, the footage he gets, of a guy being hacked, is actual 100% real footage.

Holy cow!

I was thinking that when I was watching it, truly harrowing footage.

Was looking for something funny to watch the other day,and ended up buying Old School Unseen on DVD,as it was the cheapest comedy i could find that i hadn't seen in a while...anyhoo,real good film with 3 hilarious guys in Ferrell,Wilson and Vaugn. Was shocked as well to see the dude that plays Locke from LOST in there,and with a tash no less!!
I won't rate it, that's not really my thing

I got a few films from Global Video. All Ex-Rentals for £2.99.

The Aviator (2 Disc DVD's)
Ray

I also got "Dear Frankie" too. Awesome little picture. I remember when I went to the cinema to see it due to the fact the pub I drink is in it I remember seeing tons of people coming out sobbing and stuff. Some mad woman in front of me was crying when The Stranger reads out the kids letters. Its a very emotional film and Gerard Butler is the shit in it. Recommended.

(****/*****)

Final Destination 3
A very good film, which is great fun. There is also some good humour throughout and the death scenes are great. It felt very short though, and the dialogue at times was pretty poor. If you liked the first two films, then you should enjoy the third as well.
(***1/2)

Yeah i'll agree with that been looking forward to this for ages loved the first two so this was a must see for me. Plus the kills in these films are fuckin awesome. A great film, this lived up to the first two i thought. A fourth film i think would be a good idea.

I like what Ryan said ''well when i die a hope its nothing up my ass''

Just watched that "Clockwise" DVD that you got free with the News of the World. A truly horrible film, but according to IMDB.com its helluva underrated. John Cleese irritates me. I don't know why.

(*/*****)

Serendipity

Cusack in a chick-flick Inoffensive fluff, but in these sort of films I always feel sorry for the perfectly likeable boy/girlfriend who gets the elbow.

The wife loved it, but she didn't like The John in the infinitely better "High Fidelity." I will never understand women

5.52/10 - slightly above average, but wouldn't go out of my way to see it (unless I had somehow turned into a woman on the way to Blockbuster).

The Edukators

A German film about 3 young 20 somethings who want to change the Western world through infiltrating rich people's homes and reorganising there stuff and leaving them notes such as "you have too much money". Doesn't sound like a great film but this was good stuff all the way, the story developed into a really thought out and well put across view on the Western obsession with money and displayed interesting thought patterns of the 60s hippie generation and how they're the ones in charge voting conservative with all the money. Also had a very tender and realistic love story/triangle in there and the ending was brilliant.

9/10