What films have you watched this week?

[Spooky]

Great... somehow I think my own personal hell is knowing that having seen the other 4, I shall have to watch any others that turn up just to complete the series and be able to say I've actually seen them... so this will be going on till what... The Final X-2 Absolute Ultimate Apocalyptic Doomsday Destruction of the Universe Terminally Terminated Termination Destination?

I wouldn't mind, but the first 2 were really good fun with funny, inventive, gory deaths, the third was passable, mostly thanks to Mary Elizabeth Winstead, (me likey), the fourth was a frakking disgrace, so much so that Tony Todd didn't even make an appearance, not even as voice cameo, so god knows what 5 will be like...

[H-Man]

The Horseman - A gripping, bloody and dark revenge movie that also manages to be tender and endearing and sad. I watched it expecting nothing and was pleasantly surprised.

[Rossco]

Another few of the films I've watched recently. I'll be linking to information concerning the films but I'd really recommend avoiding as much information as you can really.

Cach? (blu-ray)


I've owned this Michael Haneke film for a while but only got around to watching it a couple of nights ago and absolutely fell in love with it.

I felt really uncomfortable from the opening scene until the final scene but in typical Haneke fashion he doesn't really give you the satisfaction of having everything tidied away at the end.

More than any other Haneke film I've seen this reminded me of the original Funny Games.

It opens with a slow lingering shot of a Parisian house, the camera doesn't move, life goes on as normal and you're probably really comfortable watching it but it goes on and on and on and then Haneke just pulls the carpet out from under you which starts the uneasy feeling.

He does this a few times through the film and each time it felt like a slap across the face.

The film finishes again with a similar slow lingering shot and again you're getting comfortable but there is something that happens in that closing shot that is so slight, so easy to miss but once you do notice it everything that you'd decided had happened is just thrown in the air in front of you.

The cast includes Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche and Maurice B?nichou who I enjoy watching and I thought they all performed really well in this.

Just watched this on your recommendation. Very interesting film which makes me want to see more from Haneke now.

Whats your opinions on the ending?

->Open Spoiler<-

I think the beauty of the movie is there is no answer. You are literally left to decide yourself whodunnit! I go through all the different possibilities and can't stick on one.

[cavalcade]

Bolt - Genuine kids movie. Genuinely good. Genuinely surprised. Kids loved it.

Monsters vs Aliens - little bit flaccid, and confused. Kids thought it was OK.

LEGO Movie - Like one of the hundreds of LEGO shorts they do stretched to 90 minutes. Average. Kids thought it was OK.

Last Starfighter - Can't believe my parents let me watch this when I was 6 or 7, it's pretty close to knuckle at times. Still the best movie ever made, obv. Remake please. Kids didn't watch it.

UP - nice first 10 minutes. But I think I'm getting Pixar fatigue.

[Bort]

Fancied a comedy last night and decided to look up past films from the writers of Hot tub time machine.

She's out of my League - The name tells you everything you need to know about the film. By the numbers generic 20's hook up/light gross out fluff movie. I laughed quite a few time (very rare). It has it flat spots but overall it was better that most generic tat.

The only other movie from the writers that I'm going to try is Sex Drive. I doubt it will be okay like League but it has a higher quantity of lovely ladies in it.

[Rossco]

I think I'm getting Pixar fatigue.

BLASPHEMY!!

[Matt]

The Kings Speech - awesome film. Brings a tear to the eye at the end. 5/5

Season Of The Witch - went in thinking it would be a good laugh. It wasn't. Boring, didn't really get going, not enough humour or action or cohesion. 2/5

The Green Hornet - didn't expect much, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Could of been a classic, they missed some great potential for jokes, but what's there is enjoyable if you're in the right mode. Kato-Vision is awesome but sadly under used. 4/5

[Dogg Thang]

I've heard a few good reports about The Green Hornet now. I thought the trailer looked godawful but it seems to be one people are enjoying. I may give it a go.

[Matt]

Yep. Didn't like the trailer. Turned up at the cinema unsure what to watch, and that was one of the few titles I'd not yet seen. Being 3D was another turn-off, but thankfully I gave it a go. Won't be to everyone's tastes. Maybe going in with incredibly low expectations helped.

Done surprisingly well as well; looking like a mid $30m opening in the US, this could easily of tanked.

[JazzFunk]

Just rewatched The Shining for the first time since about 1991, it obviously is a film that never will age too badly. It's one of the mid-level Kubrick flicks, it's really hyper-obvious, at times even the incidental music nearly damages its legacy as it's so damn obviously from the "scary factory". Best thing is the atmosphere, there is such a level of scale about it, the sense of isolation within such a grand and dated place is massive.

To top it all off, the greatest faded recognition I felt when watching it was of Silent Hill (the game, the first one), that borrowed *tremendously* from this film, as did its sequels and peers, plus Bioshock went in the same direction with its adoption of Art Deco and *that* style of music, the same sense of kitsch horror.

Anyway, it was aces, hope that when I die, I end up in "The Gold Room".

[Kieran76]

Watched The Book of Eli on Friday. It was alright, passed the time. Denzil Washington is always watchable and he made a 5/10 a 7/10 film. Is this film based on a comic? The whole book thng at the end is just lifted from farenheit 451 though isn't it.

[Neon Ignition]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The first hour is a bit dry and silly but after that it's alright. One of those more critised films than it deserves to be. Sure, it's nowhere near winning a film of the year award but then again it's a film about robots that turn into cars and is based on a toy line so it's in line with the rest of the Transformer output.

The Final Destination
Inspired by recent discussion in this thread and a &#163;1.99 price point I gave this a go as I reckon the missus will make me watching FD5 when it's out. It makes all the expected mistakes though overall, if pushed, I'd say I still think FD3 is the worst film. What grates me most with this series is that FD2 hit the nail on the head and they've completely ignored everything that worked in it. Nascar racers skid on oil and flip into the crowd? OK. The fence bolts start magically unscrewing themselves? F**k off. The viewer has to believe it's a plausible scenario and that there's a chance the kid involved might cheat death and survive or the whole thing fails, it's what destroyed FD3 and FD4 makes the same error. Though the opener was better than FD3's snoozefest rollercoaster and FD5's suspension bridge sounds alright

The Green Hornet
It was alright, amusing too. Sometimes it's hard to make out what's being said as Kato's accent and Rogens mindless ramblings mesh but overall good fun. If you have access to a 2D showing watch that as the 3D is awful and lowering your glasses shows it's rarely running in it properly. I wouldn't want a franchise from it as it doesn't have the legs for it, it's like a light and friendly rip off of Kick Ass but more forgettable. Still, a pick up in a slow month.

[Dirty Sanchez]

The Italian Job

The second one, not the original. Had it on DVD for the last 3 years, sealed in the cupboard. Popped it on as there was nothign on TV we wanted to watch. Enjoyable heist movie, obviously a few decent car scenes. Disappointed they went with the new mini - it's not a mini at all. A worthy effort.

[Largo]

I saw Hot Fuzz the other day on TV infact, first time id seen it, loved it, great stuff, awesome to see dalton shooting it up from a moving car too again (bond ref)

[Spooky]

The Final Destination
The fence bolts start magically unscrewing themselves? F**k off.

Yep, my thoughts and loudly exclaimed words at that point of the film exactly. Apart from the fact that up to that point it was obvious the script was due to be completely dire & the acting truly awful, to then decide to turn fate/death into some deliberate malevolent force through the whole fence bolts sequence was just the last straw for me and so I settled in for what was to be just a very poor Final Destination. It just completely missed the point and had none of the excitement of the second film, which still has, by far, the most awesome opening death sequence of them all...

Sorry, I keep ranting about that film... I shall stop now...

In other news, watched the Blu-Ray of Aliens... I still love this film to absolute bits and can't believe how good it looks in HD, the space sequences especially look so crystal clear and stunning. My main love of this film is the Alien Queen. It just astounds me how 'alive' she seems, with all the sneers and weird, intimidating screeches and howls and attack and defence stances of some weird repitilian feline hybrid. Oh, all that and the fact that there is NO CGI, just models, men in suits, puppets & projection screens... It's just all so 'tangible', if you know what I mean... Hence my absolute love for another film, John Carpenter's The Thing, which I watched again on HD-DVD. The print is fantastic, the best I've seen yet, (compared to my Laserdisc, haven't seen the Blu-Ray version), and it's still one of the greatest films to watch in winter, in the dark, without the heating on, to really get yourself into the wonderfully moody, intense atmosphere.

John Carpenter + Kurt Russell =