What films have you watched this week?

[cutmymilk]

Tin Tin. Quite ****. Very much a videogame, not a movie.

Anonymous. Very, very excellent.

Paranormal Activity 3. Not as good as the first 2 but stronger than the vast majority of high budget horror efforts these days.

[Neon Ignition]

Yup, Tin Tin. Crap.
The following isn't a sequence from the film but its literally how things unfold.

Tintin opens the fridge to get some milk and is hit over the head by a thug. He wakes up in a mansion tied to a chairand tries to wriggle free causing him to wheel over to the window and fall out uncontrollably. He lands upon the roof of a truck smashing the chair but the truck starts moving. Suddenly a storm starts up and lightning sets the surrounding forest on fire causing Tintin to have to duck and leap over oncoming flaming branches as the truck drive begins shooting through the roof at him. The truck crashes and throws tintin through a warehouse window where he lands on a loading machines conveyor belt. He find himself boxed up and being moved through the bay, Snowy tracks him down and throws a nearby leaver causing the box to hit a wall and Tintins box is smashed open leaving him dangling over a helicopters spinning blade by his fingertips. Haddock arrives in an out of control fire engine which has half a monastary attached to the back and drives it off a walkway at the exact moment tintin falls allowing him to fall into the church bell tower. The fireengine smashes through the helicopter, off pier and into the side of a ship as it knocks out 6 bad guys who fall into cages. Haddock and Tintin leap out and steer the boat as tintins foot hits a hidden switch in the ships floor board. "Great Snakes! A clue!" he says to no-one in particular, "we need to go to paru!" Suddenly a thug hits tintin on the back of the head and he wakes up in a NASA space rocket.

It's that convoluted. They're merely strung together a series of sequences with no story. Nice action, great CG but that's it.

[kryss]

Human Centipede.

Not really sure how to describe it. I actually imagined it being far worse than it really was (which is the most shocking part).

[cutmymilk]

Yup, Tin Tin. Crap.
The following isn't a sequence from the film but its literally how things unfold.

Tintin opens the fridge to get some milk and is hit over the head by a thug. He wakes up in a mansion tied to a chairand tries to wriggle free causing him to wheel over to the window and fall out uncontrollably. He lands upon the roof of a truck smashing the chair but the truck starts moving. Suddenly a storm starts up and lightning sets the surrounding forest on fire causing Tintin to have to duck and leap over oncoming flaming branches as the truck drive begins shooting through the roof at him. The truck crashes and throws tintin through a warehouse window where he lands on a loading machines conveyor belt. He find himself boxed up and being moved through the bay, Snowy tracks him down and throws a nearby leaver causing the box to hit a wall and Tintins box is smashed open leaving him dangling over a helicopters spinning blade by his fingertips. Haddock arrives in an out of control fire engine which has half a monastary attached to the back and drives it off a walkway at the exact moment tintin falls allowing him to fall into the church bell tower. The fireengine smashes through the helicopter, off pier and into the side of a ship as it knocks out 6 bad guys who fall into cages. Haddock and Tintin leap out and steer the boat as tintins foot hits a hidden switch in the ships floor board. "Great Snakes! A clue!" he says to no-one in particular, "we need to go to paru!" Suddenly a thug hits tintin on the back of the head and he wakes up in a NASA space rocket.

It's that convoluted. They're merely strung together a series of sequences with no story. Nice action, great CG but that's it.

Yup, like a videogame. The sequence when they are going down that hill in that arabic country is amazing though. But its something that wouldnt be out of place in Uncharted 3. The crane level was a bit cliche, as was the stealth section

[randombs]

Just out of curiosity, is that based on things that happen in the film or did you make it all up?

[smokedog]

Human Centipede.

Not really sure how to describe it. I actually imagined it being far worse than it really was (which is the most shocking part).

Try watching Human Centipede 2

[Fader209]

Try watching Human Centipede 2

Hell, just the trailer to the first movie made me feel sick.

Sick stuff.

[Finsbury Girl]

Thor. Surprisingly good although I'm not sure about the pacing of the movie. I felt it finished abruptly.

Branagh is quality.

[kryss]

I know what you mean about the pacing. It was kind of like: Story, story, actio-END.

[bash]

LOL, isnt that the case with all the Marvel studios movies?

[randombs]

They do have this "Find out in the next exciting episode of...oh, wait it's a movie... find out in the next exciting movie of..." quality, don't they?

[bash]

Which is what pisses me off so much with their movies, I feel really short changed everytime. The worst culprit was IM2 as we already had pt1 which was decent and you realy felt they'd crank up the action/tension for pt2. Mickey Rourke has recently been quoted as saying:
"I try to find the moments where [the villain is] not that cliched, evil bad guy and it's a big fight," he explained. "I had it on 'Iron Man' and they won. It was going to work for Marvel and them breaking [Jon] Favreau's balls and wanting just a one-dimensional villain. The performance and all the things that I tried to bring to it end up on the f---ing floor. That can cause you not to care as much. To not to want to put that effort in to try and make it an intelligent bad guy or a bad guy who is justified in what his reasons are."

Says it all really. Im going to have to see some AM AAAA ZING footage of Hulk in the Avengers trailer before I spend my hard earned cash going to see it on the big screen.

[Colin]

Funnily enough, I also watched Thor last night. I agree with what's being said above, bit of a snooze-fest really, in comparison to what i'd expect from a super hero film. I'd imagine a second would be better now the back story is all built up, but not sure i'd really care much for seeeing it.

[k0pp0]

Had a bit of a Ghibli run..

Ponyo on the Cliff
Laputa
My neighbour totoro
Lupin III
Kiki's delivery service
The Cat Returns

[Neon Ignition]

Just out of curiosity, is that based on things that happen in the film or did you make it all up?

There's a brief bit with a fire engine and a piece of building but bar that the rest isn't in it. It's symptomatic of how quickly they probably threw the script together