Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted December 26, 2011 Awards Moderator Share Posted December 26, 2011 (edited) I love Stand By Me. I love the Back to the Future trilogy. I love Pulp Fiction. I love Leaving Las Vegas and Cocktail and I bloody love Jaws. So, you'd think a film starring Jerry O'Connell, Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames, Elisabeth Shue and Richard Dreyfuss would be a cast made in heaven, for me at least. I've just watched Piranha. Utter horseshit. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting it to be a cinematographic masterpiece, but I thought it could be an enjoyable-in-a-silly way to waste 90 minutes. Jesus wept, if I hadn't had a few cans to keep me company I might have thrown myself out of the window. Kelly Brook might genuinely be the worst actress to ever star in the same film as an Oscar winner. Â I never thought I'd ever spend a Boxing Day seeing a fish eating a willy. Edited December 26, 2011 by Frankie Crisp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEWM Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Woy, loved your blog and intend to fill the gaps of stuff I've not seen. Most pleased with your #1, I bummed the fuck out of it on here a few pages back, but everybody else I've spoke to seems to absolutely hate it. Nice to read so much drippy reverence for it in the same way I felt when it had finished. Easily my winner for this year too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Kelly Brook might genuinely be the worst actress to ever star in the same film as an Oscar winner. Even worse than Ellen Page in that X Men film with Halle Berry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted December 27, 2011 Awards Moderator Share Posted December 27, 2011 Kelly Brook might genuinely be the worst actress to ever star in the same film as an Oscar winner. Even worse than Ellen Page in that X Men film with Halle Berry? Never seen it and likely to never bother. I don't really get X Men and that kind of film. Â Saying that, there could be a thread in my not-very-well-thought-out statement... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 (edited) Has anyone gotten anything out of one of his films or performances? Â I got a few laughs out of how awful 4.3.2.1. was. Â Unless I missed it I notice there was no mention of Kill list in your top 20, did you not see it or just not like it enough/at all? Â I've just watched Kill List. Nowhere near worthy of the hype. I love the shooting style, and the two leads are great, but it's just... Well, it seems like a homogenised rip-off of A Serbian Film only with a bit of character development and camraderie replacing much of the shock-value stuff. Â <-- click on 'spoiler' to show/hide the spoiler If you've seen A Serbian Film, I think you'll feel very cheated by the ending of Kill List. And probably even if you haven't. The two were made too close together for it to have been nicked, but it just feels oddly similar. Â [close spoiler] ");document.close(); Edited December 27, 2011 by King Pitcos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Kelly Brook might genuinely be the worst actress to ever star in the same film as an Oscar winner. Even worse than Ellen Page in that X Men film with Halle Berry? Never seen it and likely to never bother. I don't really get X Men and that kind of film. Â Saying that, there could be a thread in my not-very-well-thought-out statement... Nor have I to be honest, it was a cheeky dig at an Ellen Page loving mod that I didn't think through properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rey_Piste Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Frankie is utterly wrong Piranha 3D is a camp, tongue in cheek bit of joy. I was seriously gutted I never got the chance to see it in the cinema. I honestly can't wait for the sequel Piranha 3DD, starring the Hoff and Ving Rhames with a shotgun leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vice Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 (edited) I've got to add to the Piranha love. I thought it was a tremendously fun, self-aware, trashy camp-fest. Edited December 27, 2011 by Vice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Seven Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Watched Kill List shortly after reading PITCOS' review there and I would agree with him. It's a pretty boring film that seems to have garnered a strange amount of hyperbolic praise. There's some good stuff in there - Michael Smiley and MyAnna Buring are great, the use of sound is highly effective and there's a good sense of dread throughout - but overall it doesn't quite work. The protagonist is one of the least interesting, most dislikable lead roles I've ever seen, the characters do lots of really fucking stupid things which is odd especially considering their profession and the tacked-on Wicker Man-lite nonsense is, well, tacked-on nonsense. The ending makes no sense whatsoever and doesn't leave you with lots of intriguing questions, it just leaves you annoyed for having spent 90 minutes on the damn thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted December 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted December 27, 2011 Hostel 3- Not bad, but not amazing either. The victims were more likeable than the ones n the previous movies, so you do want them to escape somehow, but I felt it was a big mistake setting it somewhere like Vegas, as with CCTV and the like, missing people are more traceable, where you would not get that in the areas that the first 2 films are based in. Â Chillerama: Very silly anthology film. Reminded me of the main movie in Amazon Women on the Moon. Knob and shit jokes throughout, but quite funny. Â Little Deaths: Another anthology, and a bloody good one too. 3 Stories on this one that would have fitted nicely into something like the old Urban Gothic show that used to be on C5. Cant say too much, as it would spoil, but would advise any hrror fan to give it a gander. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladstones Bitch Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 (edited) Just finished watching Kill List , it was dissapointing given the hype I'd read. Edited December 28, 2011 by BxB Hulk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukfan11 Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Watched "In The Loop" last night, was a good watch, just wished the supporting characters of The Thick of It were in it as there characters out of it in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 (edited) Just finished watching Kill List but had it pretty much spoiled by this post. Maybe spoiler tag things in future, anyway apart from knowing how it would end it was still dissapointing given the hype I'd read. I'll spoiler tag it now, edit your post. My apologies, but one film essentially spoils the other anyway. Edited December 27, 2011 by King Pitcos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Galt Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Considering I wasn't expecting anything from it, Tropic Thunder was really quite funny. Besides for Jack Black, who really should be burning calories like a mother considering how much effort he puts into trying to be funny, and the actual black guy, everyone else was really funny. The one thing I've taken away from it is wondering how you can make a film with so many individually funny performances but overall have an OK movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name_here Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 The thing i love most about Tropic Thunder is how awesome Tom Cruise is, IMO he's very underrated when it comes to doing comedy and it's something he should be doing more of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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