Rate the last movie you watched.

[loki]

Black Christmas

So here's the deal, I have watched a lot of Horror movies, A LOT. I was one of them VHS kids in the early 80's who's Dad could always get his hands on the banned copies of The Burning, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Last House on the Left, Evil Dead et al. Many a winters afternoon spent watching movies instead of studying. So by no means an expert, I have certainly put a good shift in over the years to appreciate this genre.

Black Christmas is a remake of a 1974 slasher horror movie. The story is that the neighbourhood maniac escapes from the local loony bin to return home for Xmas. Except his house has been turned into a frat house. Xmas he decides to knock them all off one by one. The 2006 version sticks pretty much sticks with the same story.

However this is where the twist(or lack of it) comes into it. It takes the whole 70's slasher flick and transform it Scream style and fail miserably. I mean how on earth can you mess up the classic psycho slasher flick. The film is entirely predictable. No scares there are no figures looming in the shadows. It doesn't goto the other end of the scale with wanton blood shed either. This is a poor poor movie that get's it wrong on so many levels. Nay every level. I would suggest the producer watch some of the old classics to understand the rules of the game.

It doesn't have to be Xmas to understand that this a Turkey.

I am struggling to give this a score and it ranks up there with Little Nicky as one of the worst films of all time

[Streeteh]

The Dish

A great, mostly true, story about the 4 laid back men that operate a radio telescope, situated in the middle of a sheep farm in a tiny Australian town. Their task over the coming days will be to track the lunar module of Apollo 11 as it passes over the Southern hemisphere and finally, to broadcast video of the first ever moonwalk across the globe. This film was just bursting with character, i loved every moment, the story it tells is surprisingly exciting too; it wasn't the smoothest of operations to say the least. Towards the end there's heavy use of real footage from the moon landing that just left me speechless, i'd never seen so much detail just 'that' clip.

9/10


In Bruges

One of the funniest films i've seen in years. It's a very difficult film to describe, but i would compare it, in a way, to Pulp Fiction. The majority of this film uses a very similar mechanic to that of Jules and Vincent, where you have two very dangerous men, stuck in a normal every day situation having normal conversations. It works brilliantly. The humor doesn't pull any punches, with copious amounts of fat jokes, midget jokes and violence. The acting is top notch, i won't list the actors and i suggest you don't look it up on IMDB, one of them in particular is best left as a nice surprise when you finally see his face.

9/10.

[Zirax]

Off the back of this thread I finally put on Wall-e. Simply outstanding visuals and brilliant sound. Recently I've watched stuff on my amp + speaker setup that just sounded .... well flat. I clicked the system on and was simply blown away, it really really brought the surround to life. A brilliant first film to watch with the tv Now I need the PJ setup

Although there are no words per-say, there's enough. It is refreshing to have something come out that has nice finishing touches. Oh, and the film finished at 11.50pm...... the sound was cranked, ooooops. Still the neighbours had people round or were up

9/10

[NokkonWud]

Originally Posted by loki

Black Christmas

So here's the deal, I have watched a lot of Horror movies, A LOT. I was one of them VHS kids in the early 80's who's Dad could always get his hands on the banned copies of The Burning, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Last House on the Left, Evil Dead et al. Many a winters afternoon spent watching movies instead of studying. So by no means an expert, I have certainly put a good shift in over the years to appreciate this genre.

Black Christmas is a remake of a 1974 slasher horror movie. The story is that the neighbourhood maniac escapes from the local loony bin to return home for Xmas. Except his house has been turned into a frat house. Xmas he decides to knock them all off one by one. The 2006 version sticks pretty much sticks with the same story.

However this is where the twist(or lack of it) comes into it. It takes the whole 70's slasher flick and transform it Scream style and fail miserably. I mean how on earth can you mess up the classic psycho slasher flick. The film is entirely predictable. No scares there are no figures looming in the shadows. It doesn't goto the other end of the scale with wanton blood shed either. This is a poor poor movie that get's it wrong on so many levels. Nay every level. I would suggest the producer watch some of the old classics to understand the rules of the game.

It doesn't have to be Xmas to understand that this a Turkey.

I am struggling to give this a score and it ranks up there with Little Nicky as one of the worst films of all time

Woah Woah Woah Woah Woah.
Michelle Trachtenberg (God I would kill to be with her!) and Lacey Chabert (Insanely hawt!) are in it, ergo, movie = awesome.

[Nutcase]

Originally Posted by Streeteh

The Dish

A great, mostly true, story about the 4 laid back men that operate a radio telescope, situated in the middle of a sheep farm in a tiny Australian town. Their task over the coming days will be to track the lunar module of Apollo 11 as it passes over the Southern hemisphere and finally, to broadcast video of the first ever moonwalk across the globe. This film was just bursting with character, i loved every moment, the story it tells is surprisingly exciting too; it wasn't the smoothest of operations to say the least. Towards the end there's heavy use of real footage from the moon landing that just left me speechless, i'd never seen so much detail just 'that' clip.

8/10

One of my favourite films. I find it hard to find anyone elsewho likes it though

[Haly]

Originally Posted by Nutcase

One of my favourite films. I find it hard to find anyone elsewho likes it though

I liked it Forgot to reply to Streeteh the first time but it is a really enjoyable film

[Streeteh]

Turns out it was on tele last night (the dish), typical eh, get the dvd and then its aired the day after. Watched the end of it again just for the moon landing footage which blew me away again. Upped the score to 9/10, really is a fantastic film.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Nutcase

One of my favourite films. I find it hard to find anyone elsewho likes it though

You're kidding?
Every critic I've heard mention it absolutely gushes over it.

[NokkonWud]

Yep. I don't know anyone who doesn't like it

[BBx]

Changeling

Starring:
Angelina Jolie
John Malkovich

Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Exec Producer: Ron Howard (sunday, monday Happy Days!)

Absolutely brilliant! (and I'm not only saying that because I like AJ ) but the performances were amazing - especially those of the kids. The film is quite long but there is always something happening.

It was much better than I thought it would be (we don't really go to see non present day films much) and even Rob liked it!

9/10

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the -1 is because I had too many thoughts of 'they wouldn't have had/said/done that in thems times'

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