The Films Thread

[harv]

Lololol, that was brilliant yet terrible at the same time

[jman]

Watched Chronicle last week. Looked good from the trailers last year, but then I heard a couple of bad reviews and kinda forgot about it.

Very much enjoyed it - gotta be worth at least 8/10 in my book.

I watched this last night.. to be honest Im indifferent about it..

I thought the plot was good, bit slow but almost entirely predictable...

..it wasnt helped by the 3 main characters... only 1 of which had some depth to him, he was mainly annoying and didnt seem balanced at all.. in some scenes he would seem quite intelligent and in others quite thick...

..I did however like the scenes in the supermarket as they are discovering their powers...

..the end sucked, the film just seemed a bit pointless with it, the special fx were good though...

it was better than I was expecting though.. 5/10

[Late]

Watched "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" and "Journey 2 The Mysterious Island" over the weekend.
I'd seen the former before, in 3D, a few years ago at the flicks. As a 3d experience with the family it was okay. We weren't looking for a good plot, acting, or direction - just some "woah" and "ahhh" moments as things fly out of the screen at you. The current generation of 3D was fairly new at the time.


It's more accurate to say I watched the first twenty minutes of each film this weekend. Both terrible.
The former was full of things flying toward (or away from) the camera - enthralling to those watching in 3D on the big screen and not yet jaded by by the way the tech was affecting cinematography. Watching it in 2D you're left with just a very silly adaptation of a classic tale.

Didn't watch much of the latter. Seems to star the same kid, now a few years older. Last time he went with his uncle to try and follow in his dad's footsteps to a mystical place. This time he went with his step-dad to try and follow his grandad's footsteps to a mystical place. If you've got a winning formula don't change it. Seems the same applies to a shit formula.
They found the titular mysterious island by overlaying three incomplete maps from the front pages of Treasure Island, The Mysterious Island, and Gulliver's Travels. Apparently nobody had noticed the maps were each incomplete but formed a complete map of an island when put together. Equally nobody had questioned the random numbers by the side of each map - which when put together gave lat and long of the island. I gave up at that point. Each time I glanced up at the screen (the wife and kids watched both films in full (inexplicable, really - I thought they had better taste)) there was a more ridiculous cgi bastardisation of the aforementioned classic novels.

I'll give each film 3/10.


Will probably re-watch Anchorman this week. The trailers for Anchorman 2 reminded me how much I love Steve Carell's character. (The trailers don't actually give any idea of the story, era, etc - which probably hasn't yet been decided - they just feature Burgundy and his team speaking to camera.)

[ancelotti]

Watched "21 Grams" for the first time the other night when it was on Channel 4. Thought it was a very well-written story with excellent acting from all involved. 8.5/10 from me.

[Late]

Ordered the box set of Avengers films to date on Blu-ray. Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America & Avengers Assemble.
I rarely do pre-orders (it's out Sept) as the price often drops shortly after release, but can't argue with £35 for six films (Sainsburys/Amazon). I'm a big fan of Iron Man 1 and 2, and enjoyed all the other films in the series - and surprisingly I don't yet have any on Blu (there haven't been any good deals for them) - so it wasn't a hard choice.

It's sometimes a bit awkward buying box sets when there's more films coming out, but I hear this set is known as Phase One, and a box set of Phase Two is expected after in a few years' time, with Iron Man 3, Captain America 2, Avengers 2, and a handful of others. If that's right then I like it.

[Dragontao]

I've heard rumours they are going to be doing a new Hulk TV series, a proper Hulk tv series though.

The Marvel franchise is red hot at the moment. Amazing Spiderman out soon, so far trailers have left me a bit cold though but can't be worse than Tobey Maguire, thought he was crap as Peter Parker. Some of the CGI in the trailers looks ropey, but they are already in planning or even pre-proiduction for the sequel.

[Late]

I liked the Spidey films, personally - and think the new one looks great.

[jman]

I thought the new spidey trailer looked uninspiring myself... I enjoyed some of the previous spiderman films with Tobey in.. compared to the reboot of Batman, they are pretty lame though... the new reboot of spiderman just looks exactly the same as before.. and I dont particularly want to pay more money to just watch a different intrepretation of the same film... so what if they have a different actor for spiderman.. no need to reboot the whole series again.. feels like a money spinner to me.. if reviews say different then I might be tempted but dont think they will

[Dragontao]

The new Spiderman film is more representatative of the original comics though, with Gwen Stacey and her police captain dad. Though still some inconsistencies from what I've read. It's the CGI in the trailers that has put me off though.

I looked at that box set Late, it's around the £30 mark on Play.com. I won;t be getting it though as it appears to be the single disk version of the films. I already have Iron Man (and I think Iron Man 2 as well but can't remember if I bought it or not - it's a problem when you have a large collection lol). Although I don't have them on Blu-Ray ...

Hmm, now I'm tempting myself. I may well wait and see what versions of the Avengers are avaialble when it is released. Always annoying to buy a film and then have them release a special extended edition (though that sometimes means waiting 20 years. (Rip off merchants that the film and music industry are).

[Late]

Aye, it's bound to be the single disk editions of all the films. Suits me though - I hardly ever watch bonus stuff (though I do like extended editions/directors cuts).

Cancelled my order with Amazon at £35, and ordered with Sainsbury's, using 10% discount code (new customers only, so set up a new account). Then I got an email from Sainsburys saying they've cancelled it, so I've now re-ordered it from Amazon!

[Dragontao]

Pirannah 3DD - erm, well less said the better. Some funny bits. Some nice things that rhyme with bits. Apart from that, dreadful. But then it never intended to take itself seriously in the slightest.

The PAct. Run of the mill. Predictable. Not scary in the slightest.

[styles]

After months of mediocrity, sky have had a couple of decent films of late (not our late)

Bridesmaids - made me lol and entertained. 8/10
X-men first class - second class if u ask me but still ok 7/10
We need to talk about Kevin - best I've seen in ages 8.5/10
Stakeland - vampire version of zombieland 7.5/10, i liked it

[Dragontao]

After months of mediocrity, sky have had a couple of decent films of late (not our late)

I' so glad you clarified that. If Sky were showing films of Late I'd imagine their subscription figures would crash somewhat. 

They'd also presumably have to start a horror channel.

Sorry Late lol 

[Late]

It'd be more like Britain's next top model, of course... 



Watched the first 12 mins of Iron Sky last night. Says it all really.

[harv]

That's why broadband internet + torrents + streaming > cable or satellite television.

I'm surprised so many people are stupid enough (no offense meant chaps, you know it doesn't make sense) to fork out a subscription fee each month for seriously limited viewing. With even a poor broadband connection you can download whatever films and telly series you want to watch without annoying adverts every 15 minutes and watch just about any sporting event you want - including Pay Per View stuff and stuff such as Saturday matches with 3pm kickoffs that aren't available in the UK - often in HD, for nowt.

I just can't see the sense in it tbh

If you have the range of viewing options available in the States I'd understand it a bit better but with cable and satellite telly in the UK you're just throwing money away.

And you don't even need a decent graphics card and modern telly to do it these days either. Back when I had my old (and we're talking maybe around 20 years old ) telly donkeys years ago I bought an adapter to switch my telly between my telly/video/PC using my video's SCART socket - telly was so old it didn't have one, just a bog standard aerial connection. And you don't even need to have your PC in the same room or cables all over the place if you have a drill and cable ties.

Makes no sense at all to give that blood sucking twat Murdoch any money at all.