Rate the last movie you watched.

[Del Lardo]

Prometheus

I think that your attitude towards this film will depend on your attitude towards SciFi. If you love the original Alien(s) films and think this should be a seamless match then sorry but you are in for a disappointment. If like me you were looking forward to Ridley Scott revisiting SciFi then I think that you are in for a treat. I'm not going to bother discussing the story as frankly if you want to know, you already will so instead onto the cinematography which is very pretty (in 2D) and the soundtrack which was well suited.

So on the cast, Noomi Rapace played a very Ripleyesque character very well, Michael Fassbender is brilliant though does suffer from the classic cinema problem of being more advanced that the character that came before him in 1979 (think the Star Trek reboot) and Idris Elba just make me man crush horny as usual. The rest of the cast did a good job though personally I felt that Charlize Theron could have done better with what was frankly a rather superfluous role.

As I said at the start your enjoyment of this film will really depend on your attitude, for me it was an 8/10 and one of the better films I've seen in quite a while. For others I could certainly understand a 6/10

[Pheebs]

I think I'm going to really be disappointed by Prometheus.

I recently watched Aliens again (and introduced Chrispy Coates to it too!) and just have waaay too much love for it. Being a prequel I thought it would carry much of the same thread and ambiance as the first two at least. I, however, have the feeling that Prometheus is leaning towards more of a Hollywood blockbuster style film.

I have sworn if Charlize Theron is not an android I will be super pissed off. Don't get me wrong, she's a great actress, but she's too Hollywood and pretty looking for what I was hoping to get out of this film. I think my hope of grimey hard core muddy funsters and the awesomeness that is Vasquez and Ripley is going to be nuked.

/prepares to be ranty upon seeing the film!

[Psymonkee]

Originally Posted by Pheebs

I recently watched Aliens again (and introduced Chrispy Coates to it too!) and just have waaay too much love for it.

Wait.

WHAT!?!?!?!?

Shocking!

[Pheebs]

(on the good side of the world though, the new aliens computer game to be released looks pretty hard as nails so that will cheer me up )

[Kitten]

Prometheus: 6/10 (Thanks, Del

I found it utterly predictable, some very groany "oh no, they didn't do that" moments & I thought the characters were completely unengaging, both with other characters and the audience. I felt they staggered through some plot-points & raced through others. Charlize Theron, who I do consider to be a great actress from what I've seen (Monster, in particular) was completely flat. I know she's meant to be a no-nonsense character, but just flat and cold didn't do it for me. I thought that without the ALIEN reference, it would have been a bog-standard sci-fi film. Nothing great about it but not dreadful. Idris Elba was the best thing about it. It was alright. In 3D/iMax probably the effects would be pretty good and might have raised it to a 7. Oh and as Dr Z said on FB - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, RUN SIDEWARDS!


Dark Shadows: 3/10

Horribly disappointing. Love a bit of Depp & Burton, but I think the partnership has overrun its course now. This character was a mish-mash of Jack Sparrow & Edward Scissorhands. Eva Green proves yet again she is just a body with a moveable eyebrow (rare in Hollywood, admittedly) because she really can't act her way out of a paper bag.

Not sure if it wanted to be a black comedy, a Stardust type film or a cheesy kiddie style horror, it fell flat on all counts.

[Knipples]

I'd agree with Kittens review. I was a bit disappointed by it. Don't feel like I was robbed of 2 hours of my life, but at the same time, it was lacking something. The trailer made it seem better than it was. I expected to be scared stiff, I wasn't.

[Belmit]

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Went into this expecting it to be a complete turkey based on other people's reactions to it, but to be fair it was no better or worse than the previous ones so I got a little more out of it than I was hoping.

I can't help but think the entire franchise would have been better if the Transformers didn't move at the speed of sound, so you could actually watch the action without it having to be close-up, dropping into slow motion every five seconds and sometimes just plain baffling as to what's going on on-screen. Half of what makes the films so watchable is the detail that's gone into the transformations, but you never get to really see it!

I also found Rosie Huntington-Whiteley perfectly acceptable as the new female lead. I think she got a bad rap for basically not being an actor when picked for it, but let's face it, this isn't Hamlet. She did fine. My only gripe is that she's so perfectly perfect to look at, being poured into countless variations of 'little white dress', that it's wholly distracting whenever she's on the screen. Luckily, missing whatever they're talking about at the time doesn't detract from the plot.

5/10 mainly because I still can't get my head around how they filmed so many of the scenes with the actors in, even with the help of CGI. Oh, and Ken Jeong can elevate any movie by at least a point!

[Fayshun]

Iron Sky

Partly internet fan-funded B-movie tale of Nazi's living on the moon since the end of WWII. Considering the low budget and crazy storyline, the Finnish boys done good. I especially loved the Einstein-esque crazy scientist who invented USB as a means of powering the "Gotterdammerung" flying saucer to return to Earth and start the Fourth Reich.

8/10

[Kitten]

Daybreakers 8/10


Vampires. Pretty good. Combo of that & the football made me dream about vampire footballers.

[camerajuan]

Drive

I instantly get doubts about it because it has Ryan Gosling in it, which has been the entire basis of a few very weird films that my gf has suggested for us.

This was no exception.

He plays a socially awkward silent type who aside from his "main jobs" as a mechanic and hollywood stuntman, used to moonlight as a genius getaway driver.

He strikes up a friendship with the equally socially awkward silent neighbour (Carey Mulligan) and her hispanic looking son. Her jailbird husband who is released soon into the film, has "prison protection" debts to be paid to a local mob head(the Russian dude from Police Academy Mission to Moscow)and after a beating from some heavies in front of his son, Gosling's character offers to help him out by driving him away from a pawn shop robbery. As usual, things go wrong, someone dies and then it gets frickin savage.

Quirky Tron like soundtrack, long bouts of awkward silence and glances, unexpected ridicuous violent acts. Not really worth it unless you really really love the Tron soundtrack!

5/10. Generously. And I love Tron!