Loki Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 (edited) It was an interesting premise, and there were a couple of set-piece disasters that were incredibly visceral and upsetting. It was also quite creepy in places. It didn't quite all hang together but it was stylishly shot. Must find out a bit more about the director. Â EDIT: just looked it up, and it was the director of The Crow and Dark City! Well that makes sense. Edited November 20, 2011 by Loki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Galt Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I appreciated it committing to it's both grizzly and mental ending, when a lot of other films would have had Cage do something to change things. It's a really solid premise that was just let down too often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Green Posted November 20, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 20, 2011 Death Proof  The first half is absolutely fantastic. It stumbles quite a lot after Rosario Dawson et all show up, although I did like Mary Elizabeth Winstead's ditzy character even if she was only in it for a few minutes. Kurt was awesome, of course. Overall, not anywhere near as bad as people say it is.  Good soundtrack too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I saw Knowing in the cinema, absolutely terrible. I recall there being points where everyone was laughing at how bad it was. Â Actually it was a great promise for a film, it just bored the pants off us. Who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Actually it was a great promise for a film, it just bored the pants off us. Who? Â Well, there were 2 of us in the room at the time, hence the plural. Â I could have said bored the pants off me or the pants off us, both would have been factually correct. Â Problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingOfMetal Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Just been to see Arthur Christmas. Very enjoyable family film from Aardman Animation. Includes a trailer 'Pirates: In An Adventure...with Scientists', which also looks very good and is done in the more traditional looking stop motion animation style Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEWM Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Just watched Super. Rocked my fucking balls. Â Rainn Wilson should just knock the acting on the head, he's Dwight Shrute and nothing else. But he's brilliant at being Dwight Shrute, and this could have easily been an odd fantasy spinoff Office concept, so he was perfect. Found myself attracted to Ellen Page for the first time ever when she giving Frank a a good raping too. Anyway, really really loved this, have heard criticisms that it couldn't decide if it was a comedy or a drama, but personally I liked the line it straddled, and other than the fact he wasn't caught out by the police earlier, I thought it was a fairly nice representation of the farcical but not-totally-impossible principle of a real-life superhero. Â Utterly great anyway, can't recommend it enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted November 21, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 21, 2011 Just watched Super. Rocked my fucking balls. Â Rainn Wilson should just knock the acting on the head, he's Dwight Shrute and nothing else. But he's brilliant at being Dwight Shrute, and this could have easily been an odd fantasy spinoff Office concept, so he was perfect. Found myself attracted to Ellen Page for the first time ever when she giving Frank a a good raping too. Anyway, really really loved this, have heard criticisms that it couldn't decide if it was a comedy or a drama, but personally I liked the line it straddled, and other than the fact he wasn't caught out by the police earlier, I thought it was a fairly nice representation of the farcical but not-totally-impossible principle of a real-life superhero. Â Utterly great anyway, can't recommend it enough. Â Â Loved everything about it except SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read the wrap up at the end, it was bullshit, he killed loads of people and everyone knew who he was, it wasn't a sentimental film so why tack on the awkward last bit? I would've liked it much more if he'd met a Boltie style grizzly demise. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Just watched Super. Rocked my fucking balls. Â Rainn Wilson should just knock the acting on the head, he's Dwight Shrute and nothing else. But he's brilliant at being Dwight Shrute, and this could have easily been an odd fantasy spinoff Office concept, so he was perfect. Found myself attracted to Ellen Page for the first time ever when she giving Frank a a good raping too. Anyway, really really loved this, have heard criticisms that it couldn't decide if it was a comedy or a drama, but personally I liked the line it straddled, and other than the fact he wasn't caught out by the police earlier, I thought it was a fairly nice representation of the farcical but not-totally-impossible principle of a real-life superhero. Â Utterly great anyway, can't recommend it enough. Â Â Loved everything about it except SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read the wrap up at the end, it was bullshit, he killed loads of people and everyone knew who he was, it wasn't a sentimental film so why tack on the awkward last bit? I would've liked it much more if he'd met a Boltie style grizzly demise. Â Â I agree to an extent. I loved the 10 or so minutes before the final scenes (where it all kicked off). It was so violent it was brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted November 21, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 21, 2011 Watched Harry Brown again yesterday, I'd only seen it once when it was first released & it wasn't really how I remembered it. I recalled it being much more of a gritty drama than it seemed on second viewing. It was pretty 'kitchen sink' up until the point where Harry goes to buy a gun then it shifts so much in tone he might as well have been in the Titty Twister, it's essentially a comic book film from that point on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted November 21, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 21, 2011 Just watched the classic "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" such a long lost thriller/stalker classic if you can find a copy somewhere i would watch it as its well worth it definately a good flick for a night in, just watching White Dog then Dark Night of the Scarecrow two more classics  That's a fucking cracking line-up of movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly last night. It was my first foray into Western territory, and I thought it was fucking brilliant. The story was absolutely fantastic. Â The version I watched was a re worked, extended version (just under 3 hours) but at no point was I checking the clock to see how long was left, it kept me relatively excited for the duration. The only slight distraction was that a lot of the sound had obviously been re dubbed from the original, probably due to the original film no being in the best of condition when they came to re work it. Eastwood himself actually re voiced bits an pieces for his character. Â On the whole, I was well impressed with the style and presentation. I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergio Bellend Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly last night. It was my first foray into Western territory, and I thought it was fucking brilliant. The story was absolutely fantastic. The version I watched was a re worked, extended version (just under 3 hours) but at no point was I checking the clock to see how long was left, it kept me relatively excited for the duration. The only slight distraction was that a lot of the sound had obviously been re dubbed from the original, probably due to the original film no being in the best of condition when they came to re work it. Eastwood himself actually re voiced bits an pieces for his character.  On the whole, I was well impressed with the style and presentation. I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Maverick Posted November 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 24, 2011 Watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly last night. It was my first foray into Western territory, and I thought it was fucking brilliant. The story was absolutely fantastic. The version I watched was a re worked, extended version (just under 3 hours) but at no point was I checking the clock to see how long was left, it kept me relatively excited for the duration. The only slight distraction was that a lot of the sound had obviously been re dubbed from the original, probably due to the original film no being in the best of condition when they came to re work it. Eastwood himself actually re voiced bits an pieces for his character.  On the whole, I was well impressed with the style and presentation. I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Well, check out A Fistful of Dollars and A Few Dollars More, which are the first 2 in the Dollars trilogy, for starters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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