What films have you watched this week?

[Darwock]

I watched 'Master and Commander' a couple of nights ago, and liked it so much I watched it again the night after. I don't know how this passed me by, I have had phases in my life where I was obsessed with all things Napoleonic and others where I was obsessed with all things Maritime, so this movie was perfect. To top it all off there was a fairly hefty chunk of natural history in there too, another topic that I love.

I would have eaten it up a year or two back when I was binging on naval warfare movies. Maybe I ignored it because of Russell Crowe's mug on the box/posters or something, I've never really liked him. He is excellent in this though.

It is without a doubt the best (and possibly most realistic) film of it's kind that I've seen. The attention to detail is incredible, even exceeding what I had previously thought the best, Horatio Hornblower. There was nothing that made me think they were cheating with CG and I'm not sure they did - the stormy seas were spectacular and were apparently filmed in reality off the Cape of Good Hope. Likewise the scenes of the ships raking each other were just incredible - I don't know how they did it. Highly recommended.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

Going to watch "The Troll Hunter" tonight, really looking forward to it

Aww, they look so cuuuuute!!

[SuperBeatBoy]

It looks ace, quite looking forward to it. I made a thread for it a week or two back, so you might want to post your impressions of it on that thread MoFo2. Jealous to the max that your seeing it. ><

[NemesiS]

That Troll Hunter looks right up my street. Effects look a bit gash but defo my sort of film.

Reminds me, did anyone see a clip of Skyline during The Event last Friday? Another film i've never heard of which looks like it might be good fun

Watched the original Dawn of the Dead last night. Top notch but i'm almost in two minds as to whether the remake is actually better as it certainly improved the format!!

[Matt]

Skyline looks good, but it's by the guys who made AvP2. Which I turned off within 10 minutes. Though they've come out themselves and said that was **** and was not their fault / studio intervention. Trailer looks good, and the premise is excellent.

[abigsmurf]

Skyline could be good but I'm not a fan of "humans get wiped out in a one sided battle against invincible aliens" scenarios. They're just a bit boring. I much prefer it when the humans our outmatched but still capable of putting up a decent fight.

eg. Stargate, post-mac virus ID4, Starship Troopers

It pissed me off in War of the Worlds when they resorted to force fields. It's lazy writing.

[prinnysquad]

They didn't have force fields in the book - some of the machines get whupped reasonably early doors. We need a proper, big budget faithful-to-the-book adaptation.

[abigsmurf]

Yeah, that just rubbed it in.

It's surprising how few films there are with aliens who are just slightly more advanced than humans and where there's a large scale war that isn't just incredibly one sided.

[SuperBeatBoy]

I had seen the trailer for Skyline before Paranormal Activity 2. I thought it looked complete and utter pants.

[MoFo2]

I would repeat my views from the Trollhunter-topic: Saw it last night, great enjoyable movie that makes fun of itself

[Sam The Man]

Watched The Insider last night on Film 4. Found it to be highly intelligent and thought provoking and strong performances from all the cast + Pacino is my favourite actor.

[NemesiS]

Just watched Deep Impact which was meh.

Just watching The Abyss. Stonking film no matter how many times i watch it

[JazzFunk]

Watched a lower end Denzel Washington film called Out Of Time last night. Despite it being a 12 certificate (the '15' on the case is because of the extras) it's a pretty neat, adult noirish little thriller, pretty gripping and nicely acting but nothing truly amazing, though I preferred it to other stuff of his I've watched recently (Man On Fire, Training Day, The Manchurian Candidate). Made me kind of want to track down Devil In A Blue Dress on DVD.

[Altered Edge]

Well recently it was Sinking of Japan which had some pretty neat special effects and The Condemned with Stone Cold Steve Austin, t'was good mindless violence

[Matt]

Red - good solid fun. Great cast. Entertaining. Good to see a more "mature" orientated action movie. 4/5. Cineworld Watch - trailers out of focus so I told the assistant manager who got it sorted. Film itself was far too quiet, by then I was cornered in a busy cinema, and apparently no-one else gives enough of a **** to go and ask to have it turned up. Another poor Cineworld showing.

Burke & Harre - whatever it's called. ****ing boring. Considered walking out. 1 / 5. Cineworld Watch - slightly out of focus, and the projector looked slightly not straight resulting in sunstantial geometry issues. As ever, badly overscanned.

Think maybe I should use another cinema, but the &#163;14 a month card is such good value....

Watched The Losers for the second time. Held up better than I thought it would. Still a 3/5.