David Kelly 1260 Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Death Proof - Good film, not up with Tarrantino's best but a lot better than Kill Bill (part two at least). The ending was hilarious and certainly not how I was expecting it to go. And Stuntman Mike's first attacked resulted in some pretty stunning visuals.Not a classic like Pulp Fiction or Resevoir Dogs but a very fun movie. I thought it was complete horse shit. I thought I was unhappy with Kill Bill vol 2, but this drags Tarantino down to a Rob Zombie level of uninspired drivell. Inland Empire It is an incredibly dull film, and vacuous to boot. Everyone in Hollywood is a whore wracked with self doubt? You don't say! Is this a revelation that warrants three meandering and incomprehensible hours on the thought process of an actress? But then again it did intrigue me. I did after all sit there for the full 3 hours. And through the entire end credits (which I never do) and then for a little bit longer to think about it some more. And I want to watch it again to see if I can get my head round it, but it's the cinematic equivalent of a Paul Mckenna cd to cure insomnia, so I can't see that happening. Maybe I'm being harsh because I'd just watched Sicko beforehand and that was about a real issue (you know, people whose kids have died and that) wheras this is plainly pretentious guff about people who get paid to play dress-up. This is an unfair comparison as Inland Empire has a sense of humour about it's subject, just not a particularly funny one. I liked the Beck and Nina Simone tunes. And the Locomotion. I've also not seen all of Lynch's other films and there seemed to be a lot of references to the one I have, so maybe you need to be more familiar with his oeuvre (christ I'm more pretentious than Lynch) to 'get it', but even if that is the case, I still think a film should stand on it's own. The really annoying thing is reading back all the reviews by people that love it. I've not seen one be specific about where it's excellence lies. It's all vague gubbins about how brilliant it is that it makes no sense and how labrynthine it is, is that a good thing now? Feeling lost by your story teller? Mind, Laura Dern was good. But she's canny in Jurassic Park too, which was a much more fun experience. I've still got Mullholland Drive there to watch too. Looking forward to that. Mullholland drive is fantastic, one of my favourite films but based on your above review I'm not sure you will like it (although I've not seen Inland Empire yet I suspect there are a lot of similarities to Mullholland Drive and Lost Highway). Death Proof is horse shit but it's meant to be and I thought the action scenes were hillarious. MD is awesome. In many ways better than IE...imo. Cracking isle of lesbos scene too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10972 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Going to see Golden Compass tonight. Watched that on Wednesday. decent enough for what it is. Read the book a couple of days before hand and found the film had really messed with the order and tone of the book in my opinion. Want to watch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, but can't find anyone who wants to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Went to see the Golden Compass last night. I enjoyed it aye, canny film. Though it did feel like it ended somewhat abruptly. Im not familiar with the books but by all accounts it should have felt (or could have) darker if going by the books. Lined up for a sequel probably. Still worth seeing though if you like that kinda thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Planet Terror Work of absoloute genius. Easy the best of 2007 I've seen so far. Shit's on Death Proof from a significant altitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Planet Terror Work of absoloute genius. Easy the best of 2007 I've seen so far. Shit's on Death Proof from a significant altitude. So thats a thumbs up then? Ive seen planet terror for £6.99 but cant decide if i should buy it. Timescape http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104362/ Havnt seen this in years - not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khay 10 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Going to see Golden Compass tonight. Watched that on Wednesday. decent enough for what it is. Read the book a couple of days before hand and found the film had really messed with the order and tone of the book in my opinion. Want to watch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, but can't find anyone who wants to watch it. I thought it was one of the worst films I've ever seen. I've never read in of the books but I can guess that its all ready missed stuff out and never really introduced us to many of the characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Planet Terror Work of absoloute genius. Easy the best of 2007 I've seen so far. Shit's on Death Proof from a significant altitude. So thats a thumbs up then? Ive seen planet terror for £6.99 but cant decide if i should buy it. As high as thumbs can go. Gets everything right that Death Proof gets wrong. Apparently Tarantino had a lot of input on Planet Terror and it looks like Rodriguez and he really went to town on it recreating the 'Grindhouse' thing. It looks nastier than DP, it's got more skin, more violence, more gore, more explosions and funnier dialogue. The edit points are more jarring, the missing reel is hilarious and it's just a more enjoyable all round realisation of making a bad film well. With DP Tarantino seemed frightened to put his name to something that wasn't well composed. So you get shots that don't fit at all (in the first few minutes alone there's a shot of Jungle Julia lying on the sofa to match her poster which looks too well thought out, then another of the camera climbing her leg, over her back-side and out of the window she's looking through to see her friends arrive, and another tight on the lasses crotch as she runs for a pee - none of them 'fit' the grindhopuse ideal they were chasing) and as I recall it the filmstock looked barely aged (there were a few minutes where it went black and white, there were cracks and the colour was always saturated, but compared to PT it looked like a big budget, shiny hollywood production). Todd Haynes has got a lot of credit for his last couple of films (Far From Heaven and I'm Not There), they perfectly recreate the era they're portraying, most importantly as cinema of that era would have portrayed them. This is what I thought the Grindhouse double bill was attempting, Planet Terror gets it spot on, Death Proof falls short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 (edited) Red Road A CCTV camera operator in Glasgow abuses her position to track a man from her past. I'm meant to be catching up on 2007, but this was supposed to be one of the best films of 2006 so I gave it a whirl. It is superb at telling a story without characters telling the story. Hitchcock always said that's what pure cinema is, the camera expolaining to the viewer what's going on. Here, that's the way it goes all the way until the finale when it all starts to come out in the wash and characters emotion allows them to speak of the terrible events that were barely hinted at. For that alone it deserves a lot of credit. Edited December 17, 2007 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 A man called horse (Richard Harris) Made my nipples bleed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 A man called horse (Richard Harris) Made my nipples bleed. Taped it, worth watching? Smoking Aces - disgraceful, made my gums bleed. Like a bad batch of smack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 A man called horse (Richard Harris) Made my nipples bleed. Taped it, worth watching? Smoking Aces - disgraceful, made my gums bleed. Like a bad batch of smack Taped what? Your nipples? Probably wise given the review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 A man called horse (Richard Harris) Made my nipples bleed. Taped it, worth watching? Smoking Aces - disgraceful, made my gums bleed. Like a bad batch of smack Taped what? Your nipples? Probably wise given the review. Sorry, recorded it on my all singing and dancing Virgin V+ box. Is that better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Catch & Release. Utter bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 A man called horse (Richard Harris) Made my nipples bleed. Taped it, worth watching? Smoking Aces - disgraceful, made my gums bleed. Like a bad batch of smack Aye,it's a canny Sunday afternoon flick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20875 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Stripes last neet on 5 Classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Watched about half of Transformers. Don't think I'll bother with the rest like. Not John Turturro's finest moment, although he is about the best thing about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14013 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Seven. 9/10 Transformers 4/10 (Megan Fox = 9/10) Might watch a few more today when i should be doing uni work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Salesman Classic 1967 documentary by the Maysles brothers that follows four door to door salesman selling expensive bibles to poor catholic families. The desparation is palpable. I don't know if this served as some sort of inpiration to Glengarry Glen Ross, but it's a perfect companion. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064921/traile...play-E18780-310 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 Glengarry Glen Ross is class like. Originally a play and you can tell when you watch it as it's a straight adaptation. That doesn't seem to take anything away from the film though and maybe even adds to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 You can tell this place is over run with Students past and present, I mean who else would find the time to watch all these films? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6787 Posted December 18, 2007 Share Posted December 18, 2007 You can tell this place is over run with Students past and present, I mean who else would find the time to watch all these films? Instead of watching shit TV? I would much rather stick a movie on that watch X-Factor/Strictly Come Dancing etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Holding off watching Die Hard, and it is quite a task, but I normally save it till Xmas Eve every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6787 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Fantastic four - 2. I guess its for kids so I will reserve judgement.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@yourservice 67 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Holding off watching Die Hard, and it is quite a task, but I normally save it till Xmas Eve every year. That was on last night after the film i couldn't believe i sat through - National Lampoon's christmas vacation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Glengarry Glen Ross is class like. Originally a play and you can tell when you watch it as it's a straight adaptation. That doesn't seem to take anything away from the film though and maybe even adds to it. Proper script. Good to read on its own Halex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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