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Terse reactions to movies recently seen

  
  

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:55 / 13.01.10
The Road

Bleak, beautiful, faithful to the source material but not slavishly so. Girlfriend hated it.
 
 
The Idol Rich
18:51 / 19.01.10
>It was a 40's (or 50's?) black and white version. It ended in the middle of nowhere with some guy in a shrink's office.

You didn't like the original Invasion of the Bodysnatchers and, in fact, found it risibly funny? Why?
 
 
The Idol Rich
18:55 / 19.01.10
The Road

Bleak, beautiful, faithful to the source material but not slavishly so. Girlfriend hated it

Found this very disappointing, or at least half-disappointing as approximately half the scenes were ruined by intrusive music and annoying sentimentality of the very kind the book skillfully avoids.
 
 
deja_vroom
11:03 / 20.01.10
intrusive music and annoying sentimentalitynoooooooooooooo
 
 
The Idol Rich
13:01 / 20.01.10
"intrusive music and annoying sentimentalitynoooooooooooooo"

That's exactly what I thought.
 
 
Evil Scientist
06:38 / 26.01.10
Book of Eli

Denzel's okay, most everything else is less so. Not as many impromptu hand removals as I'd hoped for. Rather silly "twist".

Evil Science critique: You don't automatically get the shakes from eating human flesh.
 
 
Evil Scientist
06:40 / 26.01.10
Avatar

Yes! We get it Jim! Corporations bad!

Looked pretty but I found myself wound up by the oh-so-fucking-perfect noble savages.
 
 
Evil Scientist
06:43 / 26.01.10
Sherlock Holmes

Entertaining action flick with plenty of humour. Plus steampunk weapon-systems.

Still, it should have been Jason Statham (Holmes) and Ray Winstone (Watson).
 
 
Mistoffelees
21:23 / 26.01.10
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

At the end it got a bit loose, but at least the first half is a lot of fun! Tom Waits is a charming devil, Lily Cole is scrumptious, Ledger and Depp are suave as usual, sweeping rich London ladies off their feet. The mobile theatre looks cozy and seedy, plus russians running into mummy's skirts, the doctor hanging from the devil's fishing rod, a hoodlum being kidnapped by giant jellyfish. If you like Terry Gilliam's work, watch it!

8/10
 
 
GogMickGog
13:42 / 28.01.10

At the end?

The whole thing was crying out for a good, hard edit.

All those long - LONG - scenes of people arsing about in the shell of Battersea power station. Urggh.
 
 
Evil Scientist
06:51 / 29.01.10
I felt those scenes contrasted quite nicely with the sequences inside the imaginarium myself.

Like nearly all of Gilliam's films (IMV) it's pretty messy, and the story was (stripped of the pretty) quite formulaic. But still entertaining for all that.
 
 
GogMickGog
08:30 / 01.02.10
Sure, I was entertained. I've a high tolerance for slackness in Gilliam - it's par for his stuff, really.

I just felt the good v.s. slack quota slipped to the film's detriment on thissun.

The Piano

Slow is sexy. There's something deeply erotic about the prtoracted silences, the stillness, the attention to detail. The past is wonderfully evoked, all mud and lace.

Wonderful elements of the fairytale and the gothic, especially with the bluebeard story, imagined, then acted, then enacted.
 
 
deja_vroom
11:02 / 01.02.10
Barton Fink

If this movie was a shin, I'd hump it.
 
 
robertk
10:10 / 17.02.10
Moon

Good, not quite what the trailer made it look like though. Nutshell: Effective manifesto on the state of modern science fiction, lovely in-jokes, one of the few films that actually make the double role thing work.
 
 
GogMickGog
08:29 / 18.02.10

The Core

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
 
 
Alex's Grandma
13:43 / 19.02.10
The Firm 2009

Alan Clarke's classic take on football violence, as re-imagined by Nick Love, director of 'The Football Factory' and
other such louche projects involving Danny Dyer.

Is it as good as the original? It's difficult to say.

'What? Are you starting? Are having a bleeding giraffe, you pikey f***ing slag? You f***ing nonce, you dirty little cock-horse ...'

'B-but Mr Love, I can not afford to go to that there flim school ...'

'Oh yeah? Well f*** you then. F***ing shirtlifter. I'm gonne get me some garms, and then smash your face in, you bleeding toilet'

Is how I imagine the auditions went.

All those lives ruined, by the senselessness of it all.
 
 
matthew.
12:01 / 21.02.10
Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day

If I had written a screenplay at the age of 14, just after seeing Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, this is the screenplay I would have produced.

This movie contains the worst dialogue ever made.
 
 
coweatman
18:16 / 04.12.12
"the master":

well, what do you do with a drunken sailor?
 
 
jgbell
06:32 / 04.01.13
Hot Fuzz

Still extremely funny, so good re-play value
 
 
jgbell
06:48 / 04.01.13
Day Watch

Makes Wanted look like just the Cliffs Notes
 
 
FinderWolf
14:35 / 15.01.13
Hot Fuzz is indeed brilliant and grossly underappreciated
 
 
netbanshee
00:47 / 01.02.13
Cosmopolis

It's up it's own butt (pun intended) yet definitely very Cronenberg. A dissertation on film and/or something like his own take on American Psycho.

I'll have to give it another watch, but I'm not sure how many would. That director sort of grows on you in strange ways.
 
  

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