Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Another Yes vote for The Fifth Element. It's hardly Oscar material, but it's still a good film.
What film did you watch last night?
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King Arthur, the Guy Ritchie version.
Universally panned by the critics and viewers alike and unfortunately I can't offer any glimmer of hope. If you like your villains and heroes to be cockney wide boys, your historic settings to be muddled and the inspiration for the looks to have been heavily influenced by LoTR's and Conan the Barbarian, then watch it. At one point a cast iron drinking fountain appeared in it and Beckham should have stuck to kicking a pigskin about. Dialogue straight out of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and character development of cardboard proportions.
Shame really. Even stylistically it doesn't look right and you can normally rely on Ritchie to get that right. The Man From Uncle may have been a thin rehash of the original series but it looked great, King Arthur doesn't, the Cockney Wide Boys are all wearing sheepskins ffs.
So bad I'd watch it if I were you.
Universally panned by the critics and viewers alike and unfortunately I can't offer any glimmer of hope. If you like your villains and heroes to be cockney wide boys, your historic settings to be muddled and the inspiration for the looks to have been heavily influenced by LoTR's and Conan the Barbarian, then watch it. At one point a cast iron drinking fountain appeared in it and Beckham should have stuck to kicking a pigskin about. Dialogue straight out of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and character development of cardboard proportions.
Shame really. Even stylistically it doesn't look right and you can normally rely on Ritchie to get that right. The Man From Uncle may have been a thin rehash of the original series but it looked great, King Arthur doesn't, the Cockney Wide Boys are all wearing sheepskins ffs.
So bad I'd watch it if I were you.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
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- Crewe
It does that without Ryan's genre defining gory battle scenes though - possibly an important distinction to make if people are pondering whether to see it or not.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
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- Bristol
Valerian & The City of 1000 planets.
Fun, if not messy OTT movie by Luc Besson. Looks a bit like the 5th Element meets Start Trek and Avatar. Visually very rich, but plot is a bit thin and there's un-necessary padding. Would like to see more of the rich universe Besson has developed.
Fun, if not messy OTT movie by Luc Besson. Looks a bit like the 5th Element meets Start Trek and Avatar. Visually very rich, but plot is a bit thin and there's un-necessary padding. Would like to see more of the rich universe Besson has developed.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
True. I was surprised when the titles came up at the begining to see its 12 rating ascribed to, among other things, 'moderate violence' - but so it proved. Unlike, as you say, SPR, which is indeed a gore-fest.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Death Race.
Clearly no mention of its terribleness when the Stafe read the original pay cheque. It gets a point for having Joan Allen, who I've always had a thing for.
1/10.
Clearly no mention of its terribleness when the Stafe read the original pay cheque. It gets a point for having Joan Allen, who I've always had a thing for.
1/10.
jefmcg
Guru
OK, this is going to make me unpopular, but I found The Fifth Element creepy, in particular the kiss at the end. She's an infant in the film, that dirty old man smooching her was just wrong.
Of course, Besson has form with Leon: The Professional. And (thanks google) in real life; his wife at the time had conceived his daughter a few years previously when she was 15 and he was 32.
Of course, Besson has form with Leon: The Professional. And (thanks google) in real life; his wife at the time had conceived his daughter a few years previously when she was 15 and he was 32.
keithmac
Guru
Very good revenge flick!.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
Visited a friend who was watching The Reflecting Skin (1990). It started out dull, tailed off in the middle and the less said about the end, the better. IMDB gives it 7/10, i'll give it 2/10.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
A Tale of Winter. A supposedly intellectual French film from one Eric Rohmer, who apparently does this kind of thing a lot, portraying a sort of three way relationship between a hair-tearingly irritating French bird and her two sort-of-boyfriends - the weedy intellectual one, and the beefy 'bit of rough' one - involving endless heart to heart soul-searching conversations featuring lengthy philosophical discussions, with long quoted passages of Pascal, Plato and the like. A review I read later on IMDB quoted Gene Hackman as saying a Rohmer movie is 'like watching a plant grow'. I feel he overstates the excitement. The 'bit of rough', BTW, is a hairdresser. 'nuff said.
jefmcg
Guru
My reaction was "because that is presumably how she looks in the graphic novel it's inevitably based on"
Well, I was right about the graphic novel (The Coldest City) but she does not look anything like Charlize Theron. In fact, she looks like someone who would melt into a Berlin crowd - well, except for the gun.
Drago
Legendary Member
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A Good Year.
A gentle romantic comedy, but as funny as a dose of the Nuremberg's, and as exciting as trainspotting with John Major. Russell Crowe doesn't know how to play it and you can tell he dearly wants to kill someone gruesomely, particularly so when forced to drive a Smart Car.
0/0. No redeeming features whatsoever. What on Earth was I thinking?
A gentle romantic comedy, but as funny as a dose of the Nuremberg's, and as exciting as trainspotting with John Major. Russell Crowe doesn't know how to play it and you can tell he dearly wants to kill someone gruesomely, particularly so when forced to drive a Smart Car.
0/0. No redeeming features whatsoever. What on Earth was I thinking?
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Spring in a Small Town - a 1948 'masterpiece' from China. Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian called it "a powerful, yet exquisitely subtle emotional drama, something to be compared with Ophüls, or Mizoguchi" and I can't argue with that. J. Hoberman in Village Voice said it was "revelatory in a number of ways -- not least in demonstrating how Tian exquisitely refracted a stark contemporary drama through the prism of a double nostalgia". Can't argue with that either. Mostly because, again, I don't have a clue what it means. It was very moody, an interesting portrayal of a completely alien time & place, and I quite enjoyed it.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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Moonlight, has its moments but on the whole dreadful tosh.
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
A poorly, clingy baby meant animation day in Casa RM...
Flushed Away - 6/10
Bit weird seeing stop motion replicated in CGI but it works, and gives a greater scope to the action which is relentless.
Fantastic Mr. Fox - 6/10
Too adult for children, too kiddy for adults. Confusing, but looks amazing and the voice acting is brilliant.
The Little Prince - 8/10
Best of the lot. Two gorgeous styles of animation, and proper French and English language versions, I'll be watching the French later!
Flushed Away - 6/10
Bit weird seeing stop motion replicated in CGI but it works, and gives a greater scope to the action which is relentless.
Fantastic Mr. Fox - 6/10
Too adult for children, too kiddy for adults. Confusing, but looks amazing and the voice acting is brilliant.
The Little Prince - 8/10
Best of the lot. Two gorgeous styles of animation, and proper French and English language versions, I'll be watching the French later!
