Rate the last movie you watched.

[Belmit]

Originally Posted by cheets

Shutter Island 6/10 weak

Really? I'm going to watch it again before I score it but I'd already give it a higher score than that. Having worked out what was really going on I still found it extremely clever how it played out, especially thinking back over scenes I'd already seen having got to that point.

Maybe it helped that I knew nothing about the film before I saw it except that Leonardo DiCaprio was in it. Didn't even know it was a Scorsese film until the credits.

[Glaucus]

2012

From Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

Usually I love these sort of films, cheese, bad acting and action. Usually score them far higher than anyone else. But this I just could not get into.

3/10

[divine]

Originally Posted by Belmit

Maybe it helped that I knew nothing about the film before I saw it except that Leonardo DiCaprio was in it. Didn't even know it was a Scorsese film until the credits.

Definitely, I was the same.

Go back and watch the trailers now and I think they give a bit too much away and probably would have detracted from my enjoyment a fair bit.

[Belmit]

M

Amazing film, and so far ahead of its time it's scary. Peter Lorre plays a childkiller being hunted by police. When they start getting heavy-handed and investigate too far into the criminal underworld the criminals take it upon themselves to find him instead.

Performances, direction, editing, story... everything is wonderful.

10/10

[Fayshun]

Malice in Wonderland

Lom typed the wrong thing into Demonoid... Actually, it's a grown-up twist on the Alice in Wonderland story.

Danny Dyer is Whitey, the cabbie who's late. The Cheshire Cat is late night DJ Felix Chester, Harry Heart the homosexual gang boss recently released from prison hostinghis "coming out party" is the Red Queen (geddit?!?)and Mad Hattie is the madam of the mobile brothel.

Apart from the cheesy reunion at the end, I liked the dark twist on AiW.

7/10

[Belmit]

A Clockwork Orange

I'm really not a fan of Kubrick. That said, I can understand why this film is as revered and as controversial as it is/was. Malcolm McDowell is excellent in it.

8/10


Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Don't like Charlie Kaufman either. 'Being John Malkovich' was great but I find his work very difficult to access on the whole.

Solid performances and suitably disjointed. I like the idea of moving memories around and trying to combine them to avoid them being erased, and the special effects when this was happening were very good. A satisfactory ending, but it felt like the sub-plot was leading to nothing right up until the very, very end. Probably intentional but I found waiting for it to be a bit grating.

Still, 8/10.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by Garp

Law Abiding Citizen

Others have mentioned it, so I won't go into any detail. 9/10. Awesome film, rather dark, and like others I found myself rooting for him. The extras on the rental DVD were quite interesting, a chat with a few legal experts covering the law behind it, explaining "Yes the system sucks, but here's why."
One thing that got rather glossed over in the film was why the DNA evidence wasn't able to be used. Essentially the police investigating screwed up badly, and the comparative DNA was taken from Darby without permission or judges authorisation, they described it as the police grabbing you at the side of the street and forcing a sample from you.

A great job by this relatively new director (one feature film under his belt, and a bunch of music videos)

^
+1. Good movie and a great piece of entertainment. These days you don't find yourself rooting for "the bad guy" very often.

[BBx]

This weekend we watched:

Push

Which wasn't as good as I was expecting it to be couldn't stop thinking Heroes rip off all the way through.

6/10

Old Boy

Soooo many people have told me that this is a good film. Its quite dark and arty but wasn't as good as I was hoping. I've seen a couple of Jap/Korean films so knew what to expect, but was a bit disappointed.

7/10

The Happening

Nothing really happens.

3/10

We have Be Kind Rewind and Role Models to go - lets hope they are a bit better. Hurrah for Blockbuster's 5 for £5 rentals

BB x

[A Place of Light]

I enjoyed role models.
It did what it was supposed to.
I like both of the leads and the chemistry between them works well. It had me laughing in all of the right places and it passed the acid test. If I'd feel uncomfortable watching it with my mum in the room, it's a good 'un

[BBx]

Ahh ok thanks for the heads up... won't watch any of them with my boyf's parents tonight then!

BB x