The Movie Thread

[Sir Speedy]

Seen three this week:

Point Blank - 6/10

Black Narcissus - 9/10. Very impressed by this one. Stunning visuals and great performances by the main actresses.

Amadeus - 9/10. Another impressive movie. Great set pieces and music and the two lead characters are brilliant.

 

[shtove]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sir. Speedy @ Dec 26 2009, 06:07 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Seen three this week:

Point Blank - 6/10

Black Narcissus - 9/10. Very impressed by this one. Stunning visuals and great performances by the main actresses.

Amadeus - 9/10. Another impressive movie. Great set pieces and music and the two lead characters are brilliant.[/b]

Haven't seen the second. Point Blank was pretty good, prefer it to Amadeus.

Screenplay for Jerry Maguire - well worth the read. Like most guys I start concentrating on the cinema exit sign about halfway through a relationship movie, but this is a big exception and you can see the reasons in the writing. The only real difference from the finished product is that "show me the money" is used only a couple of times on paper, whereas the film uses it five or six times. Great writing.

 

[Charles]

Seen Avatar yesterday.

'twas crap. Utter, utter crap.

 

[Radman]

Watched District 9 on Blue Ray, one word A-MA-ZING.

Watching the first 5 minutes I was like, ok this is gonna be crap, but it just kept getting better and better and by the end I was like HOLY **** this is awesome and didn't want it to end.

Also watched the Edward Norton Incredible Hulk on Blue Ray as well, was pretty good, was better than the Eric Bana one.

 

[Sir Speedy]

The Mirror. The movie is visually outstanding, but very hard to grasp conceptually. The dialogue is outstanding, but Tarkovsky relies more on his visuals to convey his message, which makes things very ambiguous. Will rewatch it sometime soon to try to understand it better, but as a series of beautiful pictures, emotional acting and great dialogue, it's 9/10.

Wild Strawberries. Another tragic movie, this time about loneliness in old age, and what leads to it. It's interesting to watch Father Isak's interaction with other in his old age. It's quite heart-warming, though desperately tragic as we are shown fragments of his past. I think everybody can relate to the idea emotionally. 9/10

 

[Bellew]

A rugby Movie Called Forever Strong

 

[Olyy]

I saw Sherlock Holmes yesterday' absolutely loved it, it was amazing.
The only thing i noticed with it was making the character of Irene Adler way better than she was in the books (making her a master criminal and all this, as opposed to basically a goldigger), though i suppose they just did that to placate the american audience.

Very very very good film though

 

[Sheily Kidman]

I watched Avatar (a true blue James Cameron material) and going fo Sherlcok Holmes this weekend hoping that it will meet my expectations.

 

[Will]

Recently saw Avatar the other night, when it turned out the Sherlock Holmes showing was full. I'll admit that I was half expecting a disaster of George Lucas style proportions, but James Cameron's Avatar was pretty bloody good.

 

[cyRil]

Finally saw Star Trek the other night, thought it was class. 'Are you out of your Vulcan mind?!!'
Got my brawd the Alfred Hitchcock Collection for Christmas as well, so I'll be giving them a go sometime soon.

 

[Sir Speedy]

Eyes Wide Shut - 9/10. Great camerawork and lighting on the sets. Very sinister and haunting, with a terrifying piano score and fantastic performances by the leads, and the bit-parts.

North by Northwest - 5/10. My least favourite Hitchcock movie so far, lacking in any sort of atmosphere, and although it is occasionally funny, the dialogue is more cheesy than anything.

 

[Sir Speedy]

Inglourious Basterds. 8/10. Waltz and Laurent are outstanding. The dialogue is pretty pointless at times, but the overall tension more than makes up for it.

The Hurt Locker. 8/10. Again, pretty damn tense. Some scenes are amazing. In fact, nearly all the scenes are, it's just the characters are quite forgettable.

Stage Fright. 9/10. Very intricate character relationships and a well developed story. Nice twist at the end, too. Brilliant stuff.

 

[RC]

Avatar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Laetca]

Saw Avatar yesterday, decided not to watch 3D though, 3 hours with those stupid goggles on would have made me even more insane, have enough of that going already. Plus, there's a reason I wear contacts, hate wearing glasses. Some major plot holes in there and a predictable story at best but still very interesting to watch, if you get bored (which would be unlikely) you can always play 'spot the CGI/Live Action'. Amazing how people blabber on about the animals being raped though.

 

[Sir Speedy]

I also saw Avatar yesterday, but in 3D. The effects are unbelievable, but the story is cliché and the characters are all typical. 5/10.

 

[Laetca]

For some reason, I don't think many people went to see the story or characters

One thing I am wondering about though, why were there two 5 or 6 year olds in the same theatre I was in yesterday? Anyone saying they could read subtitles by then is lying, even if they understood English there was still Na'vi dialogue. Why do people insist on bringing kids that are too young to the movies?

 

[feicarsinn]

Probably because it's cheaper than a babysitter.

Saw "Man on Wire" the other night, you know the one about Philippe Petit's high wire walk between the twin towers. Great film.

 

[Sir Speedy]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (feicarsinn @ Jan 9 2010, 03:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Probably because it's cheaper than a babysitter.

Saw "Man on Wire" the other night, you know the one about Philippe Petit's high wire walk between the twin towers. Great film.[/b]

I saw a documentary about him a while back - don't know if it was the same one - where it basically showed how he lived, bits of his climbing (in China, the US, etc) and how his family coped. It was pretty damn interesting.

 

[bristol-iain]

Watched The French Connection. Top film, shows how great films can be without millions spent on SFX. Hackman is class in it. 8/10

 

[bristol-iain]

I'm putting this here cos I can't find the thread about it origionally.

Got the Living with the Pride DVD today, a good watch and reminds me of how I enjoyed Rugby tours when I used to play. Also bought the highlights from every game DVD with the 3rd test in full and the 2005 series behind the scenes DVD.

Thats my Sunday sorted.