The Fish 10674 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 wasn't that mentioned ages ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 wasn't that mentioned ages ago? Around 1955 I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 wasn't that mentioned ages ago? Around 1955 I think. Summink like that. Very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1217 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Cloverfield - Yeah, not bad. Id liked it to have fleshed the story out some what more, especially at the end. Watchable, but nowt fantastic. Just finished watching it, I like the concept but it certainly left you wanting more in very frustrating way, I was expecting some kind of post-script at the end of the footage, quite good all in all but quite frustrating too. Thats exactly what me and wor lass said. Kinda wanted some explanation at the end. I thought the fact that it offered no explanation at all made it all the better for me. If they'd explained it or shown the monster more it would have just ended up like Godzilla. Well, even without the explanation the whole Monster coming out of the sea, wrecking skyscrapers thing, does hint very slightly of Godzilla. Yeah but that film (the one with Matthew Broderick) was shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 172 Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 Cloverfield - Yeah, not bad. Id liked it to have fleshed the story out some what more, especially at the end. Watchable, but nowt fantastic. Just finished watching it, I like the concept but it certainly left you wanting more in very frustrating way, I was expecting some kind of post-script at the end of the footage, quite good all in all but quite frustrating too. Thats exactly what me and wor lass said. Kinda wanted some explanation at the end. I thought the fact that it offered no explanation at all made it all the better for me. If they'd explained it or shown the monster more it would have just ended up like Godzilla. Well, even without the explanation the whole Monster coming out of the sea, wrecking skyscrapers thing, does hint very slightly of Godzilla. Yeah but that film (the one with Matthew Broderick) was shite. Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 (edited) Hard Eight Paul Thomas Anderson's first film finally got a UK DVD release today. Should have really got the region 1 version a while ago though as it has a commentary the UK release doesn't. Why are all Andersons UK DVD's so shit compared to region 1? Anyway, the always brilliant Philip Baker Hall is Sydney, who seemingly takes an interest in the lives of complete strangers (John C Reilly and Gwyneth Paltrow) and tries to help them when they're low. Samuel L Jackson comes along and puts a cat among the pigeons though. Not much else I can say about the plot without spoilers. I've finally seen all his films now and I'd say this was as good as the brilliant Punch Drunk Love or Boogie Nights. The other 2 are still a class apart though. There's a short compilation of Anderson's films on youtube that makes me moist by the way.... Edited April 7, 2008 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 The films of Martin Scorsese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Awesome cinematographer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Repo Man. "The life of a repo man is always intense." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1217 Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Sleuth (the original one). Been after seeing this for ages but for some reason you can't get the DVD in this country. Superb film with fantastic performances from two of this country's greatest ever actors. You do have to suspend your disbelief quite a bit to believe that even a blind man couldn't spot Caine's disguise but it did keep me guessing as to whether he was playing two parts or not. Classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1217 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. Interesting heist gone wrong film with Philip Seymore Hoffman and Ethan Hawke as two pretty fucking loathsome brothers who try to do a roberby of their parents jewellery store. Good performances from the lead two and Albert Finney as their dad who is also pretty unapealing. I wasn't keen on the structure which kept jumping back and forth in time between the differnt characters but the story and acting is good and it's well worth watching if only for Marissa Tomei getting her kit off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Tremors on HD-DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattM4 0 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 The Good Night - weird. Loved De Vito's character in it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Escape from New York - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/ Stone cold classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Another John Carpenter classic. Isaac Hayes as the Duke of NY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Another John Carpenter classic. Isaac Hayes as the Duke of NY Yup. Awesome stuff. i picked up the 2 disc set and its got a deleted scene that was gonna be the films original opening - showing how snake gets arrested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10674 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I've got "Therew ill be blood" to watch, but think perhaps I should approach it in a more... stable frame of mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Sunset Boulevard. Billy Wilder made some class films so he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SloopJohn 0 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 i love sunset blvd. easily my favourite film noir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Terminator 2 in HD-DVD. Sublime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15353 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 i love sunset blvd. easily my favourite film noir. Sic transit Gloria Swanson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 2 Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 The Business. Not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 6459 Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Next. Wouldn't bother. Nicholas Cage is officially dead to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 (edited) CJ7 New film from Steven Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung-Fu Hustle, King of Comedy, God of Cookery). Heard mixed reports so I was dubious. Go in with a similar level of trepedation and you could be pleasantly suprised. It's basically a remake of ET with a more kiddy freindly alien and humour. Where it's just as good as ET is at pulling the heart strings. I blubbed. And where it surpasses ET is with the laughs, as I say, childish, but when the kid goes in the classroom with an alien poo in his hand I nearly shat myself. Chow flexes his directorial muscle with expansive vistas and stomach turning dips off tall buildings too. It's also a film with a huge social conscience. It pointedly makes the comparison between the haves and have-nots, as China's economy is soaring and hundreds of millions are being lifted out of poverty, Chow invokes memories of the Chinese mine explosion which killed hundreds of the poorest workers the like of which still do the most dangerous jobs for longer hours than any other nation under ever worsening income inequality. Edited April 13, 2008 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Horton hers a Who I enjoyed it, good fun kids film. If you like that kinda thing, its worth watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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