Rate the last movie you watched.

[Greenlizard0]

Terminator Salvation

Not a bad film to be honest, and well worth the £2.90 (half price woo) I paid for it. Bale does well as do the rest of the cast. The story isn't too bad either and it was nice to see a homage to a certain person in there too. The special effects were pretty cool.

6.5/10

[semi-pro waster]

Day Watch

Starring

• Konstantin Khabenskiy
• Mariya Poroshina
• Vladimir Menshov
• Galina Tyunina

Second part of the "Watch" films

6/10 It's just weird and doesn't have a strongly defined story that you can easily follow, it seems to rely on knowledge that the audience doesn't necessarily have and that's despite the fact that I quite enjoyed Night Watch. Maybe something got lost in the translation that worked in the first one but I watched it with a few mates and no one thought it was as good or even that it was a coherant whole - for the most part they're not the sort of people who have trouble following a film either.

Drunken Master

Starring

• Jackie Chan
• Siu Tien Yuen
• Jang Lee Hwang
• Ching Chiang

Martial arts film

8/10 It features Jackie Chan on great form, both in terms of his physical acrobatics and the humour that he demonstrates through the film, ably assisted by Siu Tien Yuen as the cantankerous old sot and original drunken master. It's probably not a film with universal appeal but I thoroughly enjoyed it again.

[Admiral Huddy]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Directed by David Fincher who also directed the superb Se7en.

Stars: Cate Blanchett as Daisy, Jason Flemyng (Thomas Button) and strangely enough, Brad Pitt (Benjamin Button) to name a few.

9/10 - An original compelling story captivating the imagination throughout accompanied by some great acting. Well worth the time watching. Made the Mrs cry at the end

[Joe 90]

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Something my brother had, i didn't think much of it to begin with, but watched it anyway.
Seemed like a bit of a kids film due to the fact its about a bunch of 14/15 year olds, but I have to say it was actually a pretty good film, and not to forget a British one!

It's even got it's own LoLcat! bonus.

I wouldn't usually leave a review in here, but this film surprised me so I thought I'd share it

[Garp]

The Duchess

Lana decided to add this to our Netflix queue.

Oh dear

Keira Knightley on top form as a stupid young lady who marries the richest duke in all the land (Ralph Fiennes). Somehow she believed that his proposal which was not even done to her face but through her mother, conducted after he had seen her just twice, with one of those viewings being at a distance... somehow meant he had fallen madly in love with her.

Sure.

She then proceeds to discover that all he wants from her is a male heir, and has more affection for his dogs than her, and sleeps around with as many women as he fancies all in pursuit of that heir.

Enter the almost forgettable Sky from Mamma Mia as the 2nd Earl Grey, a man so monumentally important he even has a blend of tea named after him, and was even at one stage Prime Minister. From his performance here, though, you would barely have thought he had even one iota of a brain in his head, let alone the political acumen to gain power.

The plot is so tediously predictable, and the acting quality so different from one actor to the next (Keirra good as her stupid little world is torn apart, Fiennes unusually bad, Dominic Cooper.. bland) by half way through the film I was wondering why anyone would bother watching it.

So I stopped. Lana watched it all, told me the ending and I discovered I really hadn't missed anything.

2/10 - 1 point for Keirra, 1 point for the Duke's two dogs that were the best actors in the film.

[Belmit]

Hannibal

This is my favourite of the Thomas Harris adaptations set in this particular world. I've read both The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, and seen both the films, and in both mediums it's the latter that appeals more to me. I know that this film couldn't possibly exist without tSotL, but for me the real delight comes from learning more about Dr. Lecter who is just a fascinating character. For me it's an almost perfect film, and while the first was a kind of psychological/police thriller, this is more of a portrait of the both elegant and monstrous eponymous character. For once we get to see a glimpse of his fallibility, and a taste of how his freedom is his life... yet he's willing to trade that freedom to his own ends, knowing that the opportunity for escape is but a waiting game.

Something that isn't covered quite so comprehensively as in the book is his internal library; a quiet, solidly imagined reserve where he can retreat to and ponder over all his learnings and reference anything he's ever taken in. I think it was a bold move on Ridley Scott/David Mamet's part to not include this intrinsically and spell it out. It's done well in the book but wouldn't translate to the screen with ease.

Julianne Moore couldn't have done any more to replace Jodie Foster as the Clarice Starling character. She gets the mannerisms and the accent, and plays the part as it should have been, in great tribute to Foster's spot-on performance in tSotL. An unrecognisable Gary Oldman as Mason Verger is on form as usual, playing a character hell-bent on revenge but without the physical power to carry his vengeance through... but certainly the means.

The plot is engaging and believable, and serves well to bring out the beast in Dr. Lecter, which is where the true delight lives for me. On his own, Lecter is erudite, highly moral, polite, charming and knowledgable... possibly a genius. But when something threatens his freedoms and ideals he will strike back like a parent protecting a child, allowing nothing to hurt them. This is of course a huge social inbalance caused by his upbringing (see Hannibal Rising for some insight).

I'm also a fan of how Lecter loves delicious irony as a garnish on everything, and his quirky way of dropping in contemporary slang with a subtle 'Okey-dokey', or by way of insult.

Anthony Hopkins was simply born to embody this character.

10/10

[NokkonWud]

Were you not disappointed at all by the drastic change between the book and movie Belmit? I really didn't like the way they went with the movie, though, despite that Anthony Hopkins is again phenomenal as is Ray Liotta who still remains massively underrated.

It also has one of my favourite ever actors in it, Gary Oldman, the guy is a God, what can I say. I love him. Jullianne Moore is brilliant, bettert han Jodie Foster, but the accent does annoy me, but Moore is a far superior actress and she's also amazingly hawt.

I just wish they'd stuck to the book.

[Mondo]

Originally Posted by semi-pro waster

Drunken Master

Starring

• Jackie Chan
• Siu Tien Yuen
• Jang Lee Hwang
• Ching Chiang

Martial arts film

8/10 It features Jackie Chan on great form, both in terms of his physical acrobatics and the humour that he demonstrates through the film, ably assisted by Siu Tien Yuen as the cantankerous old sot and original drunken master. It's probably not a film with universal appeal but I thoroughly enjoyed it again.

Basically what Karate kid ought to be

I saw DM when i was little and just loved it ever since, it was one of my first Jackie Chan movies i've seen.

[Glaucus]

Transformers II, rise of the fallen

Action scenes where few for an action film. They also loved there close up, so you couldn't see anything.
It was very slow paced for most of it and then they won so easily at he end.
Then we come to the comedy, the first film had a nice balance of comedy. But this one was one comedy scene to the next. Literally hundreds of comedy scenes.

The black homie bots were annoying, the small bots where annoying, the comedy was annoying and to op it of Fox looks like she's had her lips done.

very poor movie

3/10

[Belmit]

Originally Posted by NokkonWud

Were you not disappointed at all by the drastic change between the book and movie Belmit?

Maybe it's because I haven't read the book in a while and saw the film again last night, but the film in its own right is so well done, so beautifully shot and written that I think it would be unfair to make too close a comparison. After all, how many films adapted from books are ever a patch on the original story anyway?