Rate the last movie you watched.

[Muban]

Off to see Mildred Pierce (1945) tonight. I've seen it before but I'm looking forward to seeing it on the big screen. How strange that Crawford changed her name, her real name was more Hollywood than her Hollywood name.

[Muban]

Having rewatched it Mildred Pierce (1945) gets 9/10. Great film, Crawford deservedly won the 1945 oscar for best actress for this. That said, Eve Arden was some scene stealer.

[Pheebs]

Originally Posted by Kitten

Elephants for Water?

Just saw Hanna.

Am going bed now as tired but easy swipe of an 8.5 for me. If not higher.

Massive thumbs up!

[Wossi]

I Am Number Four.

It was very meh. Not a bad film when there's nothing else to watch and you feel like turning your brain off for a while.


Battle Los Angeles

Very similar to the old John Wayne war movies where the American military are awesome and save the day against all odds. Again, not a bad film as such but not exactly brilliant.

[Will]

The Social Network

I honestly didn't really know much about the film other than it had received a few nominations or a awards recently. I also knew it was loosely based on the creation of Facebook, and the story behind the founder. Unfortunately, the copy I had wasn't the best quality (the DVD was er.. scratched...) however it was more than watchable. In fact it made me look up the history of FB and Mark Zuckerberg. Fascinating - kinda makes you think what a simple idea it was...

Anyway, onto the film. I shall try and not let the quality interfere with my appreciation of it.

The humour was enjoyable, though sometimes the film would hop to and from different time lines, and the feeling of continuity was sometimes a little confusing. Things all seemed to happen really fast - but then again they had several years to bring into 1 movie.

The cliques within the universities, and the spread of facebook was interesting, and they could have gone into more depth about that, the trials were also quite interesting to see how they developed. Though was a little lost at times, but I probably was just tired!

Overall all however, I thought the film was really enjoyable, entertaining and interesting. Not one to watch over and over again, but certainly worthwhile seeing.

8/10

[semi-pro waster]

Every Which Way But Loose

Starring

• Clint Eastwood
• Sondra Locke
• Geoffrey Lewis
• Beverley D'Angelo

Comedy

Any Which Way You Can

Starring

• Clint Eastwood
• Sondra Locke
• Geoffrey Lewis
• William Smith

Comedy sequel

6/10 Might as well review them together as they're basically the same film. It's just silly fun, Clint Eastwood is an almost indestructable bare knuckle boxing champ who can beat anyone for fun and has a tame Orangutan who's rather handy himself - there's elements of a buddy movie in there as well as a bit of romance and some sort of moral but don't take it too seriously as it doesn't take itself all that seriously.

Kidulthood

Starring

• Ami Ameen
• Red Madrell
• Noel Clarke
• Adam Deacon

Growing up film

7/10 I had no idea London was so dangerous. Actually an entertaining and relatively thought-provoking film which is fairly decently acted but doesn't feel the need to have a happy ending.

[Del Lardo]

Battle Los Angeles

A heady cross between Independence Day and Black Hawk Down with music from Inception (score writers, it worked in Inception but please stop ripping it off it's getting annoying).

The plot is entirely dispensable but there are some very good action sequences and if you can take it for what it is (mindless action) it's rather good fun.

7/10

[Del Lardo]

True Grit (2011)

Before I start the review I've got to comment on something I spotted in the credits Mr Damon's Abs double

Anyways....... 1880s American girls father is murdered so she hires Jeff Bridges to hunt down the murderer and along the way Matt Damon ends up helping...

I tend to struggle with Coen brothers films, with the exception of Fargo I'm not a huge fan so I wasn't expecting too much (or to watch the whole film if I'm honest) so I was pleasantly surprised when I realised the first 30 minutes had passed without me dozing off and by the end I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had enjoyed the film

7/10 though I'm sure that fans of the Coen brothers would give it 8-9/10

[Belmit]

Thor

Not a bad addition to the Marvel canon but feels a little out of place in the Avengers universe when compared with the other films. Hulk and Iron Man were sort of rooted in reality with large embellishments, whereas Thor is about beings from other planets with supernatural powers. I'm sure in the comics it works very well but something doesn't quite sit right with it in movie form as a part of the whole.

That said, the film as a standalone piece of work isn't bad. It's overly CGI'd and verging on camp for the first half an hour or so but then the action goes on hold and we actually get some decent story to build around the slightly hackneyed 'upstart vying for the throne of a long-lived and wise old king' motif.

A couple of laugh out loud moments, Natalie Portman as radiant and engaging as ever, and Chris Hemsworth does a pretty good job in the title role. I'm kind of hoping his physique was CGI as well because if it's real then, frankly, that's just not fair. Tom Hiddlestone as Loki was suitably smarmy too.

7/10

[semi-pro waster]

The Hurricane

Starring

• Denzel Washington
• Vicellous Reon Shannon
• Deborah Kara Unger
• Liev Schreiber

Drama

8/10 A true story about Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, at one point a middleweight contender before being convicted of a triple murder that he didn't commit. It's a powerful story about a miscarriage of justice but ultimately there's a sense of redemption in there for a man who never quite gave up on humanity. I've meant to watch it for ages but never quite got round to it as it's not a short film so I wanted to do it justice.

I also watched In The Loop today but I think I've already reviewed it so won't do so again - great fun with some very black humour with some of the best and most inventive swearing you'll hear on celluloid.