Movies wot I saw 2008

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Movies wot I saw 2008

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

Amelie. A french film. (Spot the link? Clever huh?) I've been trying to watch it for ages (dvd recorder failed to record it the first time I tried and have been waiting for a rerun on tv since) and finally got round to it last week - Darren has a photo of me watching it.

More of a girl's film I'd say but with some very watchable performances, particularly from Audrey Tatou, the tetle role (very pretty). There's a great chase scene with not a vehicle in sight, some interesting bits of cinematography (is that a real word?), a punch up and lots of photo booths...

A pleasant way to spend 2 hours when you have ANOTHER day off work. wink

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

Thought I'd give Walk the Line a go, seeing as it won loads of awards & it was selling for £4. Frankly it was overpriced.

Truckman · Old. But wise!

The grandkids gave me a copy of "Shooter" for Christmas...Lots of action...I recommend it...Ben

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Haven't seen Shooter yet, but it is on my rental list. I'll bet Catfish is really looking forward to it!

Never really fancied Walk the Line, although I do generally find that Joaquim Phoenix puts in a pretty good performance.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I saw walk the line at the flicks and thought it was pretty good - but that's jus me

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

I liked Delicatessin, Amilie and Walk the Line ... the films I've seen this year that I thought were slop though were:

Fantastic Four : Rise of the Silver Surfer - cack
Taxidermia - Pointless, narrativeless, dissjointed cack
The Hitcher (remake) - just thinking about this again makes me feel queasy
Lost In Translation - pointless, plotless drivel
Hostel I & II - What was all the fuss and hype about?
Superman Returns - OK, I'm not a fan of supes anyway and it was well made but I preferred the original 2 Mr Reeves ones
Hills Have Eyes II/Saw IV/ other "torture porn" so called horrors - I don't get this trend. Horrors should be suspensful/tense/scary ... not "ha ha ... here's a person, oh look the arms come off ... look how gory that is" ... god, even the 80s slasher movies had more restraint, plot and interest
The Grudge - another american remake of a Far Eastern horror ... and yet again no where near as good. Can't wait to see if they try to do Old Boy .... *sigh*

I'm a miserable **** ain't I? :)

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Old Boy was awesome! Especially the 'doggy' bit at the end!

I'm looking for a new far eastern action flick for my next far eastern action flick club meeting. Any reccomendations?

I got The Host, a Korean monster movie, on dvd not so long ago. That was great! Battle Royale was kinda entertaining, but not good enough for me rto want to see any of the sequels. Casshern was awesomely cool, too.

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

Oh .... AND ...

The Invasion
Halloween Remake - even though I LIKE Rob Zombies films ... just no
The Number 23
The Reaping
Balls of Fury
Captivity
D.O.A. Dead or Alive
Epic Movie
Hannibal Rising
Pathfinder
Vacancy
Texas Chainsaw Massacre : The Beginning
Heartstopper
Smokin' Aces
My Date With Drew
My Super Ex Girlfriend
See No Evil
Blades of Glory

I need to choose better films to watch I think.

However, ones I've liked:

Black Sheep
Dead Man
Cars
Pan's Labarynth
Black Snake Moan
Welcome To The Dollhouse
Happiness

And plenty more to be fair

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

ddvmor wrote:

I'm looking for a new far eastern action flick for my next far eastern action flick club meeting. Any reccomendations?

Not action but try Audition and Dumplings ... although they are both a little ... um ... unsettling. I'll ponder on some more and get back to you!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Hmm. Of those you listed, I've seen:

The Number 23 - it was okay. Nothing special. Nice to see Jim Carrey not being a dick.
Smokin' Aces - loads of fun! It was great.
My Super Ex Girlfriend - well... about half of it. It was ball-achingly bad.
Pans Labyrinth - Pretty good, but not awesome. Although the monster with no eyes was well freaky!
Fantastic 4 2 - I quite enjoyed it. Shiny silly fun. Not great though.

You didn't like Pathfinder, then? It's on my rental list.

I seem to recall that Wossy quite liked Audition - if it's the same movie I'm thinking of.

-- Edited by ddvmor at 12:01, 2008-01-08

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

ddvmor wrote:

You didn't like Pathfinder, then? It's on my rental list.
-- Edited by ddvmor at 12:01, 2008-01-08

Maybe I make it out to be worse than it is ... it just didn't do anything for me at all, you may like. It's pretty enough.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Oi! you cant say Superman Returns because you dissed that in 2006 and 2007 -

Stop harrassing Supes! - you big long haired girlie nonce...

oops

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

JonnyStead wrote:

Oi! you cant say Superman Returns because you dissed that in 2006 and 2007 -

No, no. DISMISSED as pointless in 2006. Finally gave in and watched it and subsequently dissed in 2007 jdkwink

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Last night a group for pals and I watched Dragon Wars, a Korean made movie about... er... dragons...er... having a... er... war.

What could possibly go wrong?

Quite a lot as it happened. The script was rubbish andthe acting was worse. I do however, still recommend watching it as the huge showdown between the US Army and the Dragon Army in downtown LA was bloody great! The special effects weren't quite top notch, but not bad considering a relatively small budget (about half the budget of each of the Star Wars prequels). It was just cool.

Entertainingly, the very climax of the movie took place outside Christopher Lee's Middle Earth residence (Eisengard?) - it was exactly the same tower! And then at the end the music was ripped off from Lord of the Rings too!

Anywhoo... Rubbish, yet pretty film. Watch the first 10 minutes then fast forward to the last 30 and you'll be fine!

Off to see The Incredible Hulk tonight. It'll either be quite good or bowel-emptyingly bad...

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I think it should be quite cool -

I watched Stardust the other day written by Nick Gaiman and someone else - it was actually very good - more entertaining than all that Hobbit nonsense anyway!

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I also saw Rambo in Jan and May this year - if you've seen the other 3 (yes even the third one!) I think you'll see this as second best in the quadrilogy behind First Blood.

Reasonable story line - very well executed - takes the story on a step and generally nice to see old big and ugly back!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

JonnyStead wrote:

Nick Gaiman

NEIL. Goddam you.

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

I liked Stardust. Quite liked Mirrormask too - very pretty with it's muted colours.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

ddvmor wrote:

JonnyStead wrote:

Nick Gaiman

NEIL. Goddam you.

Sorry! NEIL Gayman

Truckman · Old. But wise!

I watched "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" again last night...It gets better every time...Ben

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Susan wrote:
I liked Stardust. Quite liked Mirrormask too - very pretty with it's muted colours.

Then you'll be pleased to know that a third movie based on one of Neil's books is due out later this year: Coraline.

Truckman wrote:
I watched "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" again last night...It gets better every time...Ben

It does at that.

Truckman · Old. But wise!

I'll watch Casablanca again tonight...Ben

Truckman's note: Of the original "Casablanca" cast, only Madeleine LeBeau, who played "Yvonne", is still alive...She actually escaped from the Nazis using the Lisbon route depicted in the film two years before the movie was made...

-- Edited by Truckman at 00:37, 2008-06-20

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Ahh, Casablanca. One of the most misquoted films ever made!

I haven't seen it for about 10 years.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

I saw Big Nothing the other night on DVD - you may have never heard of it - if so, there's a good reason for that - its not very good.

Simon Pegg (putting on the worst and most variable US accent in movie history) and David Shhhhhhhwimmer star in this caper comedy which centres around an unbelievable caper and isnt very funny. Which to be honest, doesnt leave it much left to play with.

The ending doesnt make sense and the script is predictable - Jean-Baptiste Andrea who wrote and directed should probably be tied up until he promises not to make any more films. Right now he's making 'Hellphone' - about a teenage boy addicted to his phone... genius....

-- Edited by JonnyStead at 18:00, 2008-06-23

Aodan · Teiam Member

Simon Pegg and Eddie Izzard.. I love them both dearly... but when they try to use American accents, I cringe. It sounds forced and awful.

JonnyStead · **"I'm Lois!"**

Indeed - as against Hugh Laurie in House who pulls it off nicely (the accent that is) - in fact Bryan Singer apparently didnt know who he was and upon dismissing a load of UK actors trying to sound American said something along the line of "That's it I want an American for this - bring back that Hugh Laurie guy" - laugh!

I think Simon Pegg has made some amazing stuff, Spaced, Shaun, Fuzz, even Run fatboy run was OK - this was a rare miss!

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

JonnyStead wrote:

Indeed - as against Hugh Laurie in House who pulls it off nicely (the accent that is) - in fact Bryan Singer apparently didnt know who he was and upon dismissing a load of UK actors trying to sound American said something along the line of "That's it I want an American for this - bring back that Hugh Laurie guy" - laugh!

Catfish's American Aunt, which whom we stayed last year, refused to believe that Hugh was English - until we bought her Jeeves and Wooster on DVD!

Henglegert Rinkerdink · Sorry... I must have the wrong street.

I just watched Planet Terror

It was fusking awesome :D

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Now that's something I fancy seeing. :)