Happy Face 29 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Battle of Britain There's a smashing cameo by Fred Elliot I say a smashing cameo by Fred Elliot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 1 Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Meet The Spartans.... Shhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite! Deserve everything you get tbh. Meet The Spartans.... Meet The Spartans.... Shhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite! What exactly did you expect btw? Can I just add that I didn't go to the cinema to see this abonomation, thankfully it was only a DVD copy and i hadn't heard anything about the film before I sat down to watch it.... Jesus wept, you need to be on drugs to like that. Have just got hold of Trainspotting on DVD so shall recover myself by watching that for the first time in about 8 years... That is no excuse whatsoever, you plank. Review in the Indy is along the lines of 'spoof of 300. If you've read this far, then you've already given it more attention than it deserves'. Now the Indy reviewers are pretty shit but I think they've got you bang to rights there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6369 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I repeat.... I'd heard absolutely nothing about the film before I sat down to watch it. Jo's dad turned up (as he does!) with a batch of DVDs he's managed to 'aquire' off the web () and this one was top of the pile. Surely they'd be 'bang to rights' if I'd read anything about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 1 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I repeat.... I'd heard absolutely nothing about the film before I sat down to watch it. Jo's dad turned up (as he does!) with a batch of DVDs he's managed to 'aquire' off the web ( ) and this one was top of the pile. Surely they'd be 'bang to rights' if I'd read anything about it? You should have guessed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9340 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I repeat.... I'd heard absolutely nothing about the film before I sat down to watch it. Jo's dad turned up (as he does!) with a batch of DVDs he's managed to 'aquire' off the web ( ) and this one was top of the pile. Surely they'd be 'bang to rights' if I'd read anything about it? You should have guessed. made by the same people who do every other shoddy spoof movie isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13919 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 The Last Legion 2/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 1 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I repeat.... I'd heard absolutely nothing about the film before I sat down to watch it. Jo's dad turned up (as he does!) with a batch of DVDs he's managed to 'aquire' off the web ( ) and this one was top of the pile. Surely they'd be 'bang to rights' if I'd read anything about it? You should have guessed. made by the same people who do every other shoddy spoof movie isn't it? Probably. It's scum like Craig who keep them in a job. Sub human scum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6369 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I repeat.... I'd heard absolutely nothing about the film before I sat down to watch it. Jo's dad turned up (as he does!) with a batch of DVDs he's managed to 'aquire' off the web ( ) and this one was top of the pile. Surely they'd be 'bang to rights' if I'd read anything about it? You should have guessed. made by the same people who do every other shoddy spoof movie isn't it? Probably. It's scum like Craig who keep them in a job. Sub human scum. I'm not biting.... Anyway... by watching a ripped version I'm actually doing something pro-actively to put them out of work - by not doing anything at all, you're doing nothing to influence their career Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 El Orfanato (the Orphanage) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464141/ Pretty good. Not particularly scary or gory though there is one scene when an old women gets ran over and her face is, shall we say, 'a bit of a mess'. Sight and Sounds film of the month.... http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/4275 J.A. Bayona's feature debut 'The Orphanage' uses the conventions of horror and ghost stories to explore Spain's need to face up to its buried history.By Maria Delgado The opening credits of J.A. Bayona's debut feature emerge from wallpaper peeled away to reveal names concealed underneath. This is a portrait of a world beyond surface realities, of secrets and lies, and of the tortuous links between love and psychosis. Characters are forever looking behind hidden doors, rummaging in dusty sheds and searching remote caves to piece together the clues scattered before them. And The Orphanage draws on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw to indicate how the failure to allow children to grow up can have devastating consequences. Bayona's film is structured in two halves. The first is dominated by Simón (Roger Príncep), who arrives with his mother Laura and father Carlos at the orphanage Laura lived in as a child and now wants to turn into a home for children with special needs. The latest in Spanish cinema's long line of wide-eyed children whose penetrating gazes probe the unspoken rules of the status quo, Simón most obviously recalls Ana Torrent, who played the spirited protagonists of Víctor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) and Carlos Saura's Raise Ravens (1975). Like The Spirit of the Beehive, The Orphanage unfolds in isolated surroundings where gothic fictions are interwoven with the characters' daily lives; like Raise Ravens it features a child who feels a connection with the dead. Geraldine Chaplin, the ghost-mother of Raise Ravens, plays the psychic Laura consults following Simón's disappearance to uncover the secrets of the former orphanage. Even as Saura's muse during the late 1960s and early 1970s Chaplin was always an outsider, an androgynous being whose waif-like beauty provided an alternative to the image of womanhood sanctioned under Franco. Almodóvar capitalised on her edgy foreignness in casting her as the eccentric dance teacher in Talk to Her and Bayona builds on these associations in using her as the means through which Laura begins her journey into the orphanage's murky past. Belén Rueda (who played the lawyer Julia in The Sea Inside) gives a luminous performance as the grief-stricken mother prepared to go to any lengths to find out what has happened to her child. Sergio G. Sánchez's script (which won the Goya for Best Original Screenplay) remains focused on her unresolved grief and expertly posits both a psychological and paranormal explanation for the evolving action. For the most part the film relies on implication and evocation: disembodied voices and footsteps, a chilling masked child and Laura's gradual withdrawal into the inner recesses of the house as she rejects the voice of reason represented by her kindly but ineffectual husband and the down-to-earth police psychologist. Bayona exploits the tropes of horror and the classic ghost story but only once does he introduce a moment of gore, with a terrifying flash of a massacred dead face. The haunted house, mysterious lights under the door and noises from the bathroom all disturb the vulnerable Laura and maintain a powerful sense of menace and dread. The unstable social worker Benigna recalls the nanny from The Omen (1976), Laura herself evokes the protagonists of Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973) and Alejandro Amenábar's The Others (2001) and the labyrinthine house and its environs bring to mind Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006). Del Toro is the film's co-producer and Bayona's debt to the Mexican master of horror is evident in the compositions and score, though his visual landscape is less comic-book-meets-Goya and more shadows and supernatural suggestion. The Orphanage operates within a female world where women search for, mourn and avenge their lost boys. But as in The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, the focus is on children damaged by the ravages of dictatorship in both its domestic and institutional forms. The ghosts of Laura's childhood companions, shown during the course of the film to have been murdered by Benigna for their role in her disabled son's 'accidental' demise, are caught up in a revenge tragedy that plays out as an ongoing cycle of lives ruined by past mistakes that can never be openly discussed. The chain of events that leads to the death of all the children stems from a failure to accept difference, with Tomás victimised because he is not like the others. And the horrors unleashed deliver a pertinent lesson for a country where the consequences of fratricidal conflict remain all too visible. While The Orphanage does not refer directly to Spain's Civil War or to the Franco regime in the manner of The Devil's Backbone or Pan's Labyrinth, the film's resonance for a nation still coming to terms with its recent history may in part explain its commercial success as the top-grossing Spanish box-office hit of 2007, outperforming such Hollywood blockbusters as Shrek the Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. After much debate, Spain's Law of Historical Memory was finally passed by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's socialist government late last year, with the result that the bodies of between 30,000 and 150,000 civilians who opposed the right-wing Nationalists during the Civil War and its aftermath can be exhumed from the mass graves in which they are believed to lie. The Orphanage adeptly explores the legacy of a buried past. Only by returning to the orphanage can Laura come to terms with what happened to her contemporaries, while the coal shed in which the children's ashes rest is a reminder that the tentacles of the Civil War found their way into every corner of the country. The wave of recent Spanish-language films invoking the Civil War and its consequences, whether in revisiting victims of Francoism (as in Manuel Huerga's biopic of anarchist Salvador Puig Antich) or in addressing the need to come to terms with obscured events (as in Ventura Pons' Barcelona, A Map), point to the problems of conceiving truth as a single entity. The advice dispensed in The Orphanage by Chaplin's psychic - "seeing is not believing, it's the other way around" - provides a necessary warning about the dangers of dismissing what cannot be easily explained. And The Orphanage carries this through into its mise en scène, refusing ostentatious sound cues or lurid incidental music and instead encouraging the viewer to negotiate between the realistic and the fantastic in probing the film's shadows. This is a movie whose power and emotional pitch lie in the understated: the discreet performances, the lack of special effects, the laconic script. Yes, one can quibble over an unnecessary prologue, a drawn-out séance and a sentimental final sequence, but these are minor flaws in a poignant film that looks to the past and the world beyond to illuminate the realities of the present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stevie Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I watched the Bourne Ultimatum the other day, I'd reports which varied from brilliant to shite, I have to say I'm hard pleased but I'd give it 9/10, thought it was fantastic, classy, good storyline, keeps you interested, and as a trilogy it's been one of the best of it's generation. I don't see how there'll be another one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I watched the Bourne Ultimatum the other day, I'd reports which varied from brilliant to shite, I have to say I'm hard pleased but I'd give it 9/10, thought it was fantastic, classy, good storyline, keeps you interested, and as a trilogy it's been one of the best of it's generation. I don't see how there'll be another one though. Because of the final shot. It was the one bum note in the whole trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1117 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 The Lookout. A little bit predicatble but canny all the same. The kid of Third Rock From the Sun is looking like becoming a very decent actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days I can't get away with these grim European films that people at Cannes seem to love like The Death of Mr. Lazarescu or anything by the Dardennes. This has to be the grimmest of the lot. A single camera, with few cuts, this is another handheld slog of a film about misery. Those that can last the first half hour as a student goes about her business of getting ready and borrowing money for something or other, are slightly rewarded by some really tense and well acted scenes once you arrive at the crux of the film (the aforementioned students friend is having a very late, very illegal abortion, hence the title). But this has got a near perfect score on Metacritic after 37 reviews, I can't fathom it being viewed as the best film of the year by such a margin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 5154 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Schindlers List. My first viewing. i was expecting it to be a lot more emotional. The only scene that stood out in terms of emotion was the naked shower/gas scene for me. 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Meet The Spartans.... Shhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite! Me too I'm afraid, also a copy glad I wouldn't have paid to see it at the cinema I don't think I laughed at any of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stevie Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Schindlers List. My first viewing. i was expecting it to be a lot more emotional. The only scene that stood out in terms of emotion was the naked shower/gas scene for me. 8/10 You're southern, you have the as much emotion as a fuckin hearse driver. Cried non stop for 40 minutes after I seen it first time, red coat set me off, even if they were Spurs fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Overlord - As recommended by Mr. Face. Made by the Imperial War Museum it focuses on the story of one lad from when he gets called up until he takes part in the Normandie Landings. It mixes in actually WWII footage some of which you may have seen before (which probably accounts for about half of the whole film) and it just about carries it off. Well worth a watch imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 5154 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 (edited) Schindlers List. My first viewing. i was expecting it to be a lot more emotional. The only scene that stood out in terms of emotion was the naked shower/gas scene for me. 8/10 You're southern, you have the as much emotion as a fuckin hearse driver. Cried non stop for 40 minutes after I seen it first time, red coat set me off, even if they were Spurs fans. I'm from Wallsend. Edited March 28, 2008 by Holden McGroin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Overlord - As recommended by Mr. Face. Made by the Imperial War Museum it focuses on the story of one lad from when he gets called up until he takes part in the Normandie Landings. It mixes in actually WWII footage some of which you may have seen before (which probably accounts for about half of the whole film) and it just about carries it off. Well worth a watch imo. It should be noted that that recommendation was leaning towards Parkyesque. I've not seen the film, but had read some positive articles calling it an underrated gem. I just mentioned it as someone asked about war films. Good to hear it's not without merit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Overlord - As recommended by Mr. Face. Made by the Imperial War Museum it focuses on the story of one lad from when he gets called up until he takes part in the Normandie Landings. It mixes in actually WWII footage some of which you may have seen before (which probably accounts for about half of the whole film) and it just about carries it off. Well worth a watch imo. It should be noted that that recommendation was leaning towards Parkyesque. I've not seen the film, but had read some positive articles calling it an underrated gem. I just mentioned it as someone asked about war films. Good to hear it's not without merit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illusion 0 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Man on Fire. Thoughly enjoyed it. Denzil is a mark of quality in my book, bit like Tom Hanks. Deja vu is another great one i thought. could watch it a million times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9340 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Hitman. Don't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper 0 Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 monty python - the holy grail............ni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 Kurt and Courtney Certainly confirms my theory that Courtney Love is a total fruitloop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9340 Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Cannonball Run- Ripe for a remake iyam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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