Movie review thread...

dogmeat

So a movie about someone who thinks like a cow? Heard an interview the other day with an autistic woman has no facial recognition ability whatsoever so can never put a name to a face. Uses shoes to remember names. Must be hell at the beach

Tim

Payday. If you like Rip Torn watch this movie. 8/10. Doesn't sell the whole amphetamine thing as it might. That and budget stop it from being a great movie.

raznomore

Legion. Angels are here to rid the world of man kind. I wish they had of started with the people who made this movie. I was hoping for the Prophecy but got Warlock 3! 
 
In a word - SHIT!

Lise

I saw 'The boy in the stripped pyjamas' last week. I thought that it was told really well. The ending was tragic but I think it fitted the story.

Nepia

[COLOR="red"][SIZE="4"][/SIZE][FONT="Verdana"]WARNING SPOILER Boy in the Striped Pyjamas WARNING SPOILER[/FONT][/COLOR] 
 
Apologies I don't know how to work spoilers. 
 
[QUOTE]I saw 'The boy in the stripped pyjamas' last week. I thought that it was told really well. The ending was tragic but I think it fitted the story.[/QUOTE] 
The ending really pissed me off as basically you're manipulated into feeling sad at the death of the little German boy, despite throughout the movie in the camp people are getting killed all the time.

raznomore

[quote name='Nepia'][COLOR="red"][SIZE="4"][/SIZE][FONT="Verdana"]WARNING SPOILER Boy in the Striped Pyjamas WARNING SPOILER[/FONT][/COLOR] 
 
Apologies I don't know how to work spoilers. 
 
 
The ending really pissed me off as basically you're manipulated into feeling sad at the death of the little German boy, despite throughout the movie in the camp people are getting killed all the time.[/QUOTE] 
 
I came away thinking about the irony in his death. Exactly the point you make about the death all around and then this seemingly minor one. Its supposed to annoy you I think. Also it highlights that one death should be no more important than another and the only way Bruno's(german boy) father would learn this is by basically killing his own son in the manner he disposes of all the jews. Though obviously the movie ends abruptly so I've drawn my own conclusions. Also I haven't read the book.

dogmeat

Shutter I sland. Thought I'd read reviews here but didn't come up when I searched. 
 
Had read and heard good things about this but frankly I was a little disappointed. Not beccause it was bad because it isn't but it didn't deliver on the hype. 
 
It's a homage to film noir/Hitchcock I guess and works reasonably well as such, but it just seesm like everyone is going through the motions a bit from Scorsese down. 
 
Ben Kingsley in particular hams it up. It's all a bit predictable - the lighting, the music, the plot developments are all telegraphed well in advance. 
 
Also at 2 1/4 hrs started to drag. 6.13

raznomore

[quote name='dogmeat']Shutter I sland. Thought I'd read reviews here but didn't come up when I searched. 
 
Had read and heard good things about this but frankly I was a little disappointed. Not beccause it was bad because it isn't but it didn't deliver on the hype. 
 
It's a homage to film noir/Hitchcock I guess and works reasonably well as such, but it just seesm like everyone is going through the motions a bit from Scorsese down. 
 
Ben Kingsley in particular hams it up. It's all a bit predictable - the lighting, the music, the plot developments are all telegraphed well in advance. 
 
Also at 2 1/4 hrs started to drag. 6.13[/QUOTE] 
 
Sexy Beast and House of Sand and Fog were his last good turns but not dick all since. 
 
Still Im looking forward to seeing this movie. I haven't really read into it too much so maybe it'll play well for me.

red terror

[quote name='dogmeat']Shutter I sland. Thought I'd read reviews here but didn't come up when I searched. 
 
Had read and heard good things about this but frankly I was a little disappointed. Not beccause it was bad because it isn't but it didn't deliver on the hype. 
 
It's a homage to film noir/Hitchcock I guess and works reasonably well as such, but it just seesm like everyone is going through the motions a bit from Scorsese down. 
 
Ben Kingsley in particular hams it up. It's all a bit predictable - the lighting, the music, the plot developments are all telegraphed well in advance. 
 
Also at 2 1/4 hrs started to drag. 6.13[/QUOTE] 
 
It's doing boffo box-office, already Scorsese's biggest money-maker ever. 
 
It seemed to me that the past bunch of years Scorsese, who has been an insecure shorty since childhood, has been shamelessly, pathologocally lusting after validation in the form of an Oscar gong and making, by his own earlier high standards, mediocre movies that hit the cliche "Oscar-worthy" paint-by-numbers and suffer for all of it. They finally gave him what he wanted for The Departed, which wasn't a tremendous film by any stretch, but I thought, good, now maybe he can go back to making his absorbing, uniquely signature movies. 
 
I thought Shutter Island might be the one, his homage to his idol Val Lewton. 
 
Mistake. I watched it and thought it like a mediocre overlong episode of Twilight Zone. And it wasn't scary in the slightest. It certainly doesn't help things that the TV commercials for the movie are promising a "surprise shocking twist ending." Errrr, publicist dumbarses, if you promise a surprise twist ending, then the twist is kinda spoiled when the audience is expecting and waiting for it. 
 
Worth a watch, but save your dollars for the dvd rental. 
 
6/10.

taniwharugby

Edge of Darkness - Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone - crime/conspiracy action thriller 
 
Not bad, 6.5/10, lost half a point for saddo Hollywood ending....

TeeJay

[quote name='taniwharugby']Edge of Darkness - Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone - crime/conspiracy action thriller. Not bad, 6.5/10, lost half a point for saddo Hollywood ending....[/QUOTE] 
 
Thanks for that. I was tossing up whether to go and see it at the movies or wait for the dvd to come out. Dvd it is. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

Lise

[quote name='Razbra']I came away thinking about the irony in his death. Exactly the point you make about the death all around and then this seemingly minor one. Its supposed to annoy you I think. Also it highlights that one death should be no more important than another and the only way Bruno's(german boy) father would learn this is by basically killing his own son in the manner he disposes of all the jews. Though obviously the movie ends abruptly so I've drawn my own conclusions. Also I haven't read the book.[/QUOTE] 
 
[quote name='Nepia'][COLOR="red"][SIZE="4"][/SIZE][FONT="Verdana"]WARNING SPOILER Boy in the Striped Pyjamas WARNING SPOILER[/FONT][/COLOR] 
 
Apologies I don't know how to work spoilers. 
 
 
The ending really pissed me off as basically you're manipulated into feeling sad at the death of the little German boy, despite throughout the movie in the camp people are getting killed all the time.[/QUOTE] 
 
After thinking about it for a while I think I agree with both of you now. It's one of those movies that gave me a lot to think about and it took a while to process it. The little boy dying at the end just proved how incredibly wrong the whole war was when it took his father experiencing it himself to realise that what he was in charge of was wrong.

Nepia

[QUOTE]It seemed to me that the past bunch of years Scorsese, who has been an insecure shorty since childhood, has been shamelessly, pathologocally lusting after validation in the form of an Oscar gong and making, by his own earlier high standards, mediocre movies that hit the cliche "Oscar-worthy" paint-by-numbers and suffer for all of it. They finally gave him what he wanted for The Departed, which wasn't a tremendous film by any stretch, but I thought, good, now maybe he can go back to making his absorbing, uniquely signature movies[/QUOTE] 
I haven't seen Shutter Island so can't comment on it as yet - I have read the book though so am interested to see what he does with it. 
But I completely disagree re: the Departed which I think is one of his best films and a return to top form after the so so Aviator and the completely crap Gangs of New York.

Kirwan

I really enjoyed Aviator, but I'm also interested in Howard Hughes and that period so it was right up my alley.

Nepia

[quote name='Kirwan']I really enjoyed Aviator, but I'm also interested in Howard Hughes and that period so it was right up my alley.[/QUOTE] 
I didn't mind Aviator, not a bad movie just not up to Scorsese's standard. The story was interesting(I had little knowledge of Hughes previously) but my enjoyment of it was not helped by the fact that Cate Blanchett used to annoy the hell out of me - interestingly enough she doesn't annoy me any more.

Kirwan

She was awesome as Hepburn, not an easy character to pull off. 
 
How cool was Hughes to pitch up in his boat plane thing and ask her out?

Nepia

[quote name='Kirwan']She was awesome as Hepburn, not an easy character to pull off. 
 
How cool was Hughes to pitch up in his boat plane thing and ask her out?[/QUOTE] 
I've always thought she was a bloody good actor, but she just annoyed me for ages. 
Hughes was batshit crazy, but in his early days he was pretty suave.

red terror

Re: Aviator. There was some okay stuff there, but it's sub-standard Scorsese, and I've seen better PBS documentaries about Hughes. (Heck, even Melvin & Howard was better.) 
 
re: The Departed, again, it was a good movie, yet it reminded me a little too much of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, FWIW, and I prefer the Mitchum film. I also have grown weary of Scorsese pulling out "Gimme Shelter" (used in Goodfellas, Casino *and" Departed, enough already!!!) and other cliche Hot Rocks 'Stones songs he's employed in many of his movies, IMO it's obvious & lazy. 
 
One positive I will note about Shutter Island is he's somewhat restrained himself from the excessive classic-rock playlist crutch he's fallen into the past decade, and uses more original compositions. 
 
That's my pet-peeve however, as I understand many people love hearing the same limited playlist songs they hear on classic rock format radio stations employed endlessly in movies.

Tim

Cool site for movie fans: 
 
[url]http://www.artofthetitle.com/[/url] 
 
I may have to give Strange Days a chance!

Kirwan

[url]http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/[/url] 
 
Second trailer is out, and is much better than the first trailer. Looks like they have same sense of fun and tone that made the first one so enjoyable.

The Silver Fern

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