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jjjjustin12 said:
Scott Pilgrim vr The World Im going to do two reviews one with seeing the movie no comics and one with seeing the movie and reading comics.

seeing movie no comics the movie was good it was overall really funny. All the characters were good there were no holes in the plot that i saw.Micheal cera was good. the pop art and the fight scenes were great.but the subspace highway might confuse you.8/10
(I didn't read the rest of your post - want to avoid spoilers :) )

YAY! :D I CAN'T WAIT to see this! Mainly because of Edgar Wright. Partly because it looks awesome. Comic book/game films don't usually interest me.

Went to see Edgar get interviewed by Joe Cornish at the BFI last night and they showed a 9 min clip of the film (the fight with the movie star ex and the preceeding 'date' bit in the flat). Since seeing it, I'm even more excited about the film than I was before. One of my mates at work also saw it last night, and said it was fab.

One week to go :D


I hope you like the movie! :--D did you read the comics :?:
 
I can't wait for Scott Pilgrim for two reasons:

1) Edgar Wright is quite simply an awesome director. Proud to say I'm British.

2) The love of my heterosexual life Michael Cera is in it <3 I love my Cera, as you all know :)

I remember hearing about it ages ago when it was all in planning, and getting quite excited. Them when I saw a 15 seconds teaser trailer around 7/8 months ago, I jizzed. When I saw the full trailer a few months back, I had to where a johnny beforehand to prevent such accidents reoccurring.

I'm as excited as I was for Avatar, only, I suspect I won't come out of this film and stop raving about it like I did Avatar...

(Never read the comics as I'm not into comics and I hate comic-book-type films, with the exception of Kick Ass)

Anyway, a few night back I watched The Secret In their Eyes. It was quite good - simplistic yet well done storyline, some simply amazing cinematography, and a really nicely panned out film with hardly a single moment of dullness..

8.5/10
 
Waits for the first person to post "Hey you guys..."

Forced Minor_Furie to watch FS2: The art of illusion last night.

Both FX films are overlooked semi-classics from the 80s/90s. They star the two Brians(Bryans) Brown and Denhhhhhny as an odd couple partnership of NYPD cop and Australian (Brown) Hollywood special effects expert.

Essentially, in both films they end up embroiled in some form of murder cover up and are forced to work together to solve the case. Brown's character uses all of his special effects know how to lay cunning traps to catch the bad guys, in an adult kind of "Home Alone" way.

The second is possibly the weaker film, but has an awesome remote control clown. Bad guys being attacked by scary clowns FTW!

It's a very typical film of that era. Nothing special really, but it's a film that bounds along happily, doing nothing special in an entertaining way. Minor_Furie really enjoyed it, and I think that I was probably about 14/15 when I first saw it, so it must just be at that kind of level.

Nothing spectacular, but certainly not a waste of 90 minutes of my life.

7/10
 
Watched The Ghost Writer last night. It was a tad disappointing as it had the potential to be a good film, but the ending was predictable and quite awful and the film throughout the most part didn't really have much direction.

It was watchable and engaging, but I don't regret watching it at all, and this is reflected in what I give it:

7/10
 
Just finished watching Bonnie and Clyde on DVD.

I found the majority of it rather boring. About half way through it sort of finds its feet and becomes more enjoyable to watch compared to a very weird and strangely directed first half. I suppose overall it's ok but considering it is classed as a 'classic' I feel it is very over-rated.

Rating: 3/5
 
I have been up all night and watched 2 films in the process:

Zack and Miri Make a Porno was up first. Somehow the title was just too tempting. I remember seeing this being advertised when it came out in the cinema as a 15, but this has changed to an 18. I can sort of see why :p

It was a very "hard" film to watch, and the end - although "over very quickly" - had a great "climax" and I really found the film "engaging". I really felt something "inside me" while watching this film, and I liked it. It made me feel funny and nice.

Now, with all the sexual puns over...to the review. It was ok, a few belly-laughs, but most smile-laughs and approvals from Ciall. It wasn't spectacular, but I'm glad I watched it.

7/10

I then watched Fish Tank from my list. I've been wanting to see it since I saw a trailer back in Film Studies months back.

It is films like this which really do make you ponder why the government decided to scrap the UK Film Council. It was great! Gritty, well made and some excellent young talent. I found it such a nice little film.

8/10
 
Watched two films on DVD today. First was Hot Fuzz

I haven't seen it in ages and I wanted to remind myself how epic Edgar Wright is before Scott Pilgrim times later this week. It's just so awesome, extremely funny and very entertaining. Maybe not as spot on as Shaun of the Dead but it's still amazing.

Rating: 4.5/5


Next up was French film le diner de cons

I wanted to watch this before Dinner for Schmucks was released. It is very funny, although the odd moment here and there was a bit too cringey for my liking. It's very short but it's because it doesn't hang around with setting up the story, just tells you the basics and then lets all hell loose. Very funny and I recommend to all.

Rating: 4/5
 
^I just wish that Hollywood would stop remaking decent films, or at least translate the titles accurately.

Schmuck? Really? What a crap Americanism that is.

The accurate translation for "cons" would be "c**ts".
 
I watched another film from my list last night. I watched A Nightmare at Christmas - incorrectly marketed as a Tim Burton directed film - to generate revenue and so people would flock to see it.

Anybody who knows me knows I quite literally hate musicals, with the exception of a select few (Oliver! and Little Shop of Horrors are just two examples), so I was worried I may detest this film due to it's musical-filled story. However, I LOVED it!

It was great! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it came out in 1993, as it appears not to have aged at all. Great for families, such a great story and some nice writing and producing from Mr Burton, although he's probably placed some producer-auteur in there anyway ;)

8.5/10
 
Just watched 27 Dresses

Typical rom-com. Utterly predictable. Quite entertaining though. Alright for £3 on DVD. Watch if you're in the mood for mindless girly pap. Which is ok sometimes. Right?

3/5
 
ciallkennett said:
I watched another film from my list last night. I watched A Nightmare at Christmas - incorrectly marketed as a Tim Burton directed film - to generate revenue and so people would flock to see it.

It isn't incorrectly marketed anywhere. Where does it say he directed it? He wrote the story and produced the film. It's based off a book he made (I think, something like that).

However it is an amazing film and if anyone has a blu-ray player I highly recommend Nightmare for it, looks beautiful.


Anyway I wanted to watch another film so I ended up watching The house bunny on DVD.

It's predictable, cringey and fun. It's all very simple but it's just so entertaining and Hugh Hefner is a ledge.

Rating: 3/5
 
peep said:
ciallkennett said:
I watched another film from my list last night. I watched A Nightmare at Christmas - incorrectly marketed as a Tim Burton directed film - to generate revenue and so people would flock to see it.

It isn't incorrectly marketed anywhere. Where does it say he directed it? He wrote the story and produced the film. It's based off a book he made (I think, something like that).

Well, the full title is Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas, and when I popped on Facebook that I had watched it, I had people saying that it was their favourite Tim Burton-directed films. Perhaps not mis-marketed more mislead.
 
My status was:

"Nightmare Before Christmas was quite good...especially as I hate almost every musical in existence"

His comment was:

Cant deny Tim Burton is an amazing director, and almost everything he touches turns to AWESOME!!
 
But the person in question dosen't directly say NBC is directed by Burton. So his statement is still correct.
 
NBC was one of Burton's penned things. He didn't direct it as he's not an expert at stop motion animation, which requires in depth direction for many years of many long hours.

However, he created the characters (he's an adequate artist), wrote the story and wrote the songs with Danny Elfman, then helped bring it all together with an expert in stop motion direction (the same guy who did James and the Giant Peach - and Jack Skellington is in that too as a pre-emptive cameo :lol: ).

I do agree though that it's misleading he directed it, but it's not like traditional direction. Normally a director will tell a camera man where to do his stuff, and position actors and try to get the best from those actors. It's a very fats, two way process between director and everyone he's directing.

With NBC, Burton story boarded everything by hand. To make five seconds takes a day's work or whatever of animation. They're just following Burton's story board, but there's no need for Burton to be on set for a day to make sure that the stop motion five second pan he wanted has gone smoothly. I don't know if you get what I mean? It's probably the one film that is actually most "Burton", as he had a greater input on it than anything else he's done. No special effects to fail or actors getting things wrong.

Finally watched The Time Traveller's Wife over the weekend. It's okay actually... You could see where it needed more background and depth that must be in the book. It felt like it skimmed over too much and rushed. It was still interesting. Sadly, the mix of "love story" and "sci-fi" seemed mismatched. It was never sure if it was meant to be a tear jerking chick-flick, or a clever bit of mutli-dimensional story telling. So in the end, you think "well, it's not quite as clever as it could have been, and I don't feel moved" - probably the opposite of the intention (and the book). 7/10

Then I watched Cloudy with a chance of meatballs with the Minor_Furies. I was expecting something very poor. The usual "Monsters Vs Aliens" rubbish. I actually quite enjoyed it though. It was very patchy, but overall it was quite enjoyable. There were some very well timed LOL moments that lifted it out of obscurity. I can't quite make up my mind about it, it's a bit of an odd one... It's annoying... I'd have to watch it again, but don't want to, even though I enjoyed it... Which probably says something... No idea how to rate it. ??/10

Finally, as both Minor_Furie and I have been playing Red Dead Redemption, I put on The good, the bad and the ugly for Minor_Furie. It used to be one of my favourite films, but I have the extended edition which really drags. I can't remember the original edition, but I'm sure it was never quite such a chore to watch. The film is still good, but it lacks pace. There are so many dead spots, and so often the story is overly complex and superfluous. Yet, it's still got those great shots, the score and the most fantastic shoot out at the end. I suspect I'll have to rekindle my love of spaghetti westerns in the coming months. Still, disappointed it's not as great as I remembered... 8/10.
 
gavin said:
^I just wish that Hollywood would stop remaking decent films, or at least translate the titles accurately.

Schmuck? Really? What a crap Americanism that is.

The accurate translation for "cons" would be "c**ts".

Schmuck is actually a jewish term used all over Israel too. Its a Yiddish and Hebrew insult.


Just finished watching 300 The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) and Burn After Reading

all the American Pie films and Eurotrip tonight :D
 
OK, as someone else has comandeered the TV, thus disrupting my plans for the evening and I'm feeling relatively lazy anyway, I'll throw together a couple more 'reviews'.

Firstly, and most excitingly, probably the highlight of my last weekend came on Friday evening when I made the trip to the London IMAX, to see Inception for a second time. This time, my expectations were entirely different than my first viewing - I'm not the sort of person who normally gets excited by cinemas, but this one was something particularly special, and that, combined with a film that's worlds apart from anything else I've ever seen left me feeling more like I was attending a concert - and I wasn't disappointed. Firstly, I'm full of praise for the cinema itself; an always stunning soundtrack on that system left me with 2 hours of goosebumps - I don't normally stay to watch credits either, but this time, I wanted to move in. The screen didn't disappoint either - I know it sounds like a bit of cliched marketing, but that's the closest you can get to feeling like you're actually IN the film (much better than the 3D bollocks which generally needs saving for animation) as the set up makes it almost impossible NOT to be drawn in, forgetting your actual surroundings altogether. In short, what was already the best film I've ever seen was made a good five times better - so if you ever find yourself with 15 spare pounds and an undying love for a particular picture, I really can't recommend the IMAX 'experience' enough. As for the film itself, its part of a rare breed that I found actually benefited from a second viewing, possibly because a relatively good understanding of the plot means less attention has to be spent on keeping track, though I figured out a few things that had thrown me last time, making the couple of mild annoyances a good bit less annoying - and thus your mind is better freed to appreciate more subtle background details as well as the actual acting, considerably more. I really could rave for hours on this occasion, but I'll spare you, and leave it with the word: brilliant. If it wasn't quite so long, I could easily be persuaded to go back at least ever week for a while! The only remaining annoyance is the mess it's made of my subconscious, which needs telling to make it easy! Though surely I can't be the only one whose dreams have been odder than usual after watching? I'll go into my own experimentation with lucidity some other time...

Right, moving on, though not all that far... "You'll want to see it again the second it's over" boasts the packaging of The Prestige, and I'd have to agree... though that was partly because its presented in such a way as to leave those of us less used to the complexity of cinema going "Wait... I think I may have missed something fairly vital? Because that ending has thrown me ENTIRELY?". However, aside from the fact that it left me reading the plot synopsis on wikipedia and feeling more than a little thick, as I still wasn't certain of how the ending worked, I think I enjoyed it - acting was great as usual, which made for compelling viewing as did the some of the ideas (even if I didn't always follow them, I DO like non-linear narrative :) ) and the effects and visuals in general are especially pretty. Consequently, while it may have to wait until I've got a free evening, and the unwatched DVD pile is taking over less of my white desk, I don't mind that that will also need watching again in order to do it justice.

And if you're wondering, Memento is part of that pile, but from the few things I've heard about it, it shall have to wait for an evening when I'm in a good mood and thus have an especially good concentration span. Aside from making films that are possibly just a little TOO demanding of my attention, we've learned that Christopher Nolan is possibly my favourite non-musical entertainer, and while its perhaps because I'm making slow progress that he's made 4 of the 5 best films I've watched on the Top 250 so far, that's still no mean feat...

And thanks to my quest to get more notches on the metaphorical bedpost that is the list (Curse you, Furie... though you're a great advert for lovefilm!), I've discovered an approval of Filmfour, which played One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest last week. It wasn't exactly how I imagined it, and, expecting there to be more than 2 scenes that I felt uncomfortable watching, I was pleasantly surprised - though not as surprised as I was that something with intense, emotional and at times downright dark subject matter could end up being really funny at times... (I... was meant to be laughing, right? I was never certain, so maybe I was watching it all wrong!) Impromptu boat trip, and reasons why crazies should not be allowed to play cards deserve specific mentions in this category. Finally, as I said on Facebook, we learned that Jack Nicholson is even better than I previously thought, especially at playing the insane and beyond, that never before had I been so disappointed when the villain (and a fantastically dislikeable one at that) comes out of the fight scene alive, and that when the most depressing of stories manages to finish on an optimistic note. Those who've seen the ending will know where I was expecting the credits to roll, and why it made the film for me that it continued for just a few more short minutes :) Perhaps because, along with Jaws, it's the oldest on my list by a clear decade, this one doesn't get the rave treatment from me, and will be unlikely to make a personal Top 10, but I could still see why a lot of people do hold it in such such high regard, as well as being probably the best use of that particular 2 hours.
 
^ I will get around to reading that in full...at some point.

Another Inception-related image from Ciall:

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And I just watched Black Dynamite. It wasn't all that good, but somehow I ended up loving it. It wasn't very funny, I'd say it was more of a "black" comedy...if you get what I mean. But it's one of those films I can see having cult status.

5/10
 
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