Rate the last movie you watched.

[divine]

The ending to the two films above (Wrestler and BAR) annoyed me a bit.

The Wrestler just for the way it's left so open, I know some people might like this but I much prefer to have the story teller finish the story rather than leave it up to me.

Burn After Reading, well that just came across like they got bored and so tied up every loose end with a single conversation at the end, bish bash bosh done, next film.

However, both I think were good films overall.

[Haly]

He's Just Not That Into You
Quite enjoyed this. I expected a very frivolous romantic comedy that was very fluffy for want of a better word. Instead it was quite a good comedy drama, less comedy, more drama than I thought. It made a pleasant change to see flawed characters too. So used to seeing perfect characters in films like this that it was nice to see more 'normal' people. Or at least as normal as Hollywood will allow us to have
8/10

Tropic Thunder
My second viewing of this as I saw it originally at the cinema last summer. Really enjoyed this again. It lost a bit of its magic as I knew Tom Cruise was in it (can't believe I didn't realise first time round ), but still good fun. Robert Downey Jr was brilliant in it and really made the film as he almost always does. Really good turn by him. The DVD extras were good too with some nice bonus comedic fake trailers etc on top of the fake trailers already at the start of the film.
8/10

You Don't Mess with The Zohan
Awful. Really didn't make me laugh. It just wasn't funny :/ I wanted something that was mindless and silly, but funny. I got mindless and silly but not funny. A waste of Adam Sandler imo who although not my favourite comedy actor in the world, could do better. I actually preferred Pineapple Express to this and I really wasn't keen on that
1/10

[Pumpkinstew]

Funny Face
Audrey Hepburn is a winsome bookish philosophy geek who dreams of visiting Paris and discussing Kant late into the night with cheap plonk and Galoises, but sees fashion as frivolous. Fred Astaire is the fashion photographer who spies her potential and whisks her away as the new face of 'Quality' magazine.
Sneaking in at the tailend of the Hollywood musical heyday the song and dance numbers are entertaining but nothing particularly novel or memorable. The plot just about rivals a Mr Men book for multilayered depth and complexity. The film relies heavily on the redoubtable charm of Hepburn and Astaire although the romance between them is a little unsettling given he's comfortably old enough to be her father.
5/10

Death Proof
The Tarantino half of the Grind House double header that got a split release outside of the states. Mostly involves various 20 somthing women in hotpants chatting in much the same way as the opening of Reservoir Dogs but with less snappy or memorable dialogue.
For a film supposedly about a serial killer there is precious little gore. The low fidelity feel given to the film stock gets tiresome after all of 10 minutes.
Self indulgent in the extreme, and bloated with extraneous waffle, it's mostly filler and very little killer. 3/10

[NokkonWud]

Léon: The Professional
Watched this again for perhaps the first time in 8 or 9 years and it's actually gotten better. Jean Reno in the role he will always be remembered for and rightly so because watching him in this role is like watching a master of any trade performing for your pleasure, he's a joy to watch in every aspect and for the hundreds of movies I've watched in my life, very few come close to having such mesmerizing and enthralling performances as this, I sat watching it for the first 100 minutes and didn't move a single muscle, Léon is a power house title that delivers in every area from the casting, location, story to possibly the most beautiful soundtrack on any movie of its kind.

Then we get onto the performances of Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman. Natalie Portman is only 13 years old when this film was released, yet her performance as an actress is up there with actesses 3 or 4 times her age, it was clear that she was something special even then and it staggers me to think that someone like Abagail Breslin, whilst good in Little Miss Sunshine received an Oscar nomination and Ellen Page in Juno the same, that Natalie Portman was overlooked 15 years ago for Léon in her role as Mathilda, the daughter of a family killed by crooked D.E.A. cops and taken in by a Hitman, for an Oscar because she was truly unbelievable... I'm not one for being able to put up with Kids onscreen a lot of the time for fear of overacting, but Portman in this was perfect.

Then we have Gary Oldman, someone I've often said is the greatest actor to win an Oscar (he's never even been nominated), and in this he gives the sort of off the wall, scary performance you know he can deliver time and again, his screen prescence is immense in this film playing the head of the crooked DEA police force.

For anyone that hasn't seen this movie it's perhaps the greatest of its ilk, its only shame is that it never picked up an Oscar nomination in possibly the most amazing year of Movie making ever, 1994 (Léon, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption), but believe me, it definitely holds its weight against anything I've ever seen.

10/10.

[A Place of Light]

^^^
Totally agree, but IIRC one of the foreign versions is the one to go for.
Different edit as far as I remember.

[NokkonWud]

You mean a foreign version of Leon on DVD, or a completely different film?

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by NokkonWud

You mean a foreign version of Leon on DVD, or a completely different film?

Same movie just a copy that was released elsewhere in europe.
Can't recall exactly but somewhere like the netherlands sounds about right. When I was into home cinema I remember a few of the mags stating this. Obviously, the advantage is being DVD the audio track is available in many different languages on the disc so you could buy the french version and still enjoy it in english for example.

[NokkonWud]

I picked one up in the US whilst in Vegas in 2005 it's Leon The Professional Deluxe (2 DVD's) Superbit edition. Has a 10 year retrosepctive, Jean Reno: The Road To Leon and Natalie Portman: Starting Young featurettes as well as Fact Tracks.

Definitely the best picture from it I've seen, as it should be being Superbit, video and audio were stunning. Hope that's the one. I've not seen that edition here.

[A Place of Light]

Originally Posted by NokkonWud

I picked one up in the US whilst in Vegas in 2005 it's Leon The Professional Deluxe (2 DVD's) Superbit edition. Has a 10 year retrosepctive, Jean Reno: The Road To Leon and Natalie Portman: Starting Young featurettes as well as Fact Tracks.

Definitely the best picture from it I've seen, as it should be being Superbit, video and audio were stunning. Hope that's the one. I've not seen that edition here.

It may well be, as the directors version or deluxe was released at a later date.
Either way, awesome movie.
The opening scene is superb. Approx 15 minutes a classic "lads movie" IMHO.

[semi-pro waster]

The Matrix

Starring

• Keanu Reeves
• Laurence Fishburne
• Carrie-Anne Moss
• Hugo Weaving

Sci-fi film

7/10 I don't know that there is much point in a review given that almost everyone seems to have watched this. It's a good film and well enough acted, it's far better than the follow-ups but contrary to some peoples beliefs the story itself isn't amazing, it is simply a hash of many different stories and mythologies that becomes a reasonable whole.

The Italian Job (original 1969 version)

Starring

• Michael Caine
• Noel Coward
• Bennie Hill
• Raf Vallone

Classic crime caper

8/10 I've watched it multiple times and still enjoy it, while it isn't the greatest film of all time it's light entertainment of the sort that doesn't get old and it contains some fantastic lines and scenes.