What films have you watched this week?

[Atticus]

The Hunger Games. So-so. Could have benefitted from a Harold Faltermeyer soundtrack.

[bash]

Stupidly watched 50/50 with the mrs last night (her aunty is going though chemo and she got quite emotional watching this) which is about Joseph Gordon Levitts character, Adam discovering he has a type of spinal cancer at the age of 27. It was a great movie, part laugh out loud funny, part heartbreakingly tragic but never has too much of any one tone or feeling. The performances and casting are absolutely spot from everyone, recommend this highly. To be honest, this could very well have been the best film I've seen made in 2011.

[Kieran76]

Saw Hunger Games at the weekend and agree with the comments regarding the shoddy camera work, really annoyed me as I was in the front row. Was good, but not great.

[SkilloChris]

Watched The Hole 3D yesterday. Not a bad little movie, family friendly horror, although I did jump occasionally
I echo your sentiments on 50/50 Bash, watched it the other night with the lady and we both agreed it was one of the best films we'd seen in a good while.

[prinnysquad]

I watched a few mainstream films recently:

Knowing - 6/10 bletches
Star Trek - 7/10 bletches
Avatar - 8/10 bletches

[Neon Ignition]

Wrath of the Titans
Thought the first one was a massive bag of meh and this doesn't stray from that bar of quality for the most part. The main source of redemption is the final battle which is about 20 minutes long and is probably the closest to God of War on the big screen as we'll get and is great fun.

[QualityChimp]

Right, so Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is on telly at the moment.

Now, I love this film and I wish they'd make a stage musical of it in the same way they have for Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (the 1971 version, not the pointless 2005 version), but I've got to get something off my chest.

Charlie Bucket lives in a dilapidated house with his widowed mother and his four bed-ridden grandparents.
When the final golden ticket is revealed to be a hoax and Charlie finds the real one, he runs home (without tripping and grazing his knee...) and shows his family his serendipitous discovery. As Grandpa Joe reads aloud the information on the ticket, it's revealed that the winner can bring one person along with them (as opposed to both parents in the book).

Charlie's Mom works all the hours she can because, apart from Charlie's paper round, she's the only one earning any money, and when she's not working, she's tending to the four grandparents. Does Charlie ask her to come with him? No. He asks Grandpa Joe who has been in bed for 20 years. Twenty years! He later reveals he's not had a bath in that time and Charlie won't have even seen him out of bed as he uses a bedpan.

So overjoyed with this news, that Grandpa Joe not only gets out of bed for the first time in two decades, but he has a sing and a dance! He sings "I've got a Golden Ticket" then later corrects it to "We", which is just the tip of the iceberg of this man's unbelieveably selfish behaviour.

All those years he could have helped with the financial strain on Mrs. Bucket being a single-parent by either getting a job himself, helping around the home, cooking meals, or even just getting out of bed so she doesn't have to empty his soiled bed pan.

Not only that, but when they finally enter the factory, he jeapordises Charlie's chance to potentially win by encouraging him to drink the floating lemonade, and also has a full-on rant at Mr. Wonka at the end and whisking Charlie away.

The ungrateful attitude of Charlie can be excused by his youth, but Grandpa Joe is just a monster. A monster...

[randombs]

Weird film day today. I was watching the latest Community episode then a few hours later saw Choke. Great film and it has one of the community girls in it.

Now I'm watching Scream 4 and it's got another of the community girls in it.

Just started. Hoping it's not crap cos after the first film which i loved they got progressively worse...

:update:

Loved it.

[Colin]

Juno's just coming on TV, going to watch it AGAIN. Class little film.

[Baseley09]

Melancholia, pretty absorbing psycho drama and a solid and nudy performance from Kirsten Dunst.

[charlesr]

IP Man - Decent kicking and punching film that tries to look natural but the wire stuff really sticks out as a consequence.

Ninja - bleugh. I want my money back.

[Neon Ignition]

Alien 3 - Watched the later Directors Cut of this, it's still an alright film mainly suffering by following Ridleys and Camerons classics. One time when a studio playing safe might have been a better option.

Alien Resurrection - Theatrical version, okay in parts still but so obscenely Hollywoodised it hurts. Despite Ridley making Prometheus now I'd still like to see Fox commission a final Alien 5 and do it properly just to have a worthy ending but I doubt we'll see it now. More likely an eventual Alien remake once they're done milking Prometheus to death.

Titanic - At the cinema, it's hammy as hell in parts with some dodgy ass acting but seeing that last hour on the cinema screen again is worth the admission price. Epic scaling and like the Alien films (for the most part) a solid support for the minimizing of CG usage.

[Kieran76]

Saw Thor last night, fairly enjoyable in places but a bit of a mess of a film.

[Dogg Thang]

That pretty much sums up my thoughts on the film too.

[MartyG]

Brotherhood via Netflix. IMDB doesn't rank it particularly highly, but it kept me entertained for 76 mins. Frat House initiation gone wrong in a big way.