Movie review thread...

Hooroo

Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away. 
 
Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??

JP

[quote name='MajorRage']Burn After REading. 
 
Not a bad movie, strange plot, interesting characters. Brad Pitt makes the movie playing this gym geek & is absolutely hilarious. The final scene is pretty funny too. Certainly not a comedy all the way through though. 
 
6/10.[/quote] 
 
Interesting story but hardly funny at all, I barely recall laughing - bit of a let down when you rent out a "comedy" to watch on a rainy day. Would reccomend only there wasn't something else exciting to do, like knitting or folding clothes...

Kirwan

Made by the Coen brothers should be a clue that's it's going to be a bit odd. I was just stoked to see David Rache pulling out his SledgeHammer act again, brilliant actor <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

raznomore

[quote name='Hooroo']Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away. 
 
Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??[/quote] 
 
Drag me to hell? Mate absolutely fantastic! Its old school scary. None of the teen scream BS. Sam Raimi the director of evil dead and SPIDER-MAN made this one. 
I'd say scary rating 9 out of 10.

Hooroo

[quote name='Razbra'][quote name='Hooroo']Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away. 
 
Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??[/quote] 
 
Drag me to hell? Mate absolutely fantastic! Its old school scary. None of the teen scream BS. Sam Raimi the director of evil dead and SPIDER-MAN made this one. 
I'd say scary rating 9 out of 10.[/quote] 
 
 
yeah that's the one! 9/10 for scary!! Well that seals it. I definitely WON'T be seeing it! 
 
I hate frights and all that gory stuff! 
 
BGB!!!! 
 
 
[size=7]Big Girls Blouse[/size]

raznomore

[quote name='Hooroo'][quote name='Razbra'][quote name='Hooroo']Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away. 
 
Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??[/quote] 
 
Drag me to hell? Mate absolutely fantastic! Its old school scary. None of the teen scream BS. Sam Raimi the director of evil dead and SPIDER-MAN made this one. 
I'd say scary rating 9 out of 10.[/quote] 
 
 
yeah that's the one! 9/10 for scary!! Well that seals it. I definitely WON'T be seeing it! 
 
I hate frights and all that gory stuff! 
 
BGB!!!! 
 
[size=7]Big Girls Blouse[/size][/quote] 
 
 
Its not hugely gory. It isn't the sadistic type violence you get in "Saw" and "Hostel". Its just scary more than anything.

allblackfan

[quote name='Hooroo'][quote name='Razbra'][quote name='Hooroo']Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away. 
 
Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??[/quote] 
 
Drag me to hell? Mate absolutely fantastic! Its old school scary. None of the teen scream BS. Sam Raimi the director of evil dead and SPIDER-MAN made this one. 
I'd say scary rating 9 out of 10.[/quote] 
 
 
yeah that's the one! 9/10 for scary!! Well that seals it. I definitely WON'T be seeing it! 
 
I hate frights and all that gory stuff! 
 
BGB!!!! 
 
[size=7]Big Girls Blouse[/size][/quote] 
 
I'm with you Hooroo. 
 
The five scariest movies I ever saw were Hell House , the first Freddie Kruger movie, The Omen,the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Others. I have refused to watch a scary as in spooky/gory movie ever since The Others. I used to go to the Sunday night movies in Levin in the 70's when you would get a spooky double header such as Dracula and then a Frankenstein movie but never got spooked until Hell House and that did my head in fully. xzxshok

Hooroo

Watched Transformers last night!!! 
 
It was ace!!! Loved it easily as much as the first one.

Victor Meldrew

"Chinatown" for the umpteenth time. Stunning, timeless movie. A true great - script, acting, plot & cinematography outstanding 
 
"Flightplan" with Jodie Foster - good, enjoyable film. Quite tense in places 
 
Concur on Angels and Demons - utter shite. 
 
Watching Soderburgh's "The Limey" tomorrow nite

JP

Saw 21 not that long ago - one about a math's whizz who via his college professor earn's stacks of cash counting cards at blackjack - quite interesting...

taniwharugby

Knowing - despite Nicholas Cage and a kak ending [spoiler:cjyxh2uz]the whole Alien deal, not to mention when you first realise there is something out of this world supernatural about them[/spoiler:cjyxh2uz] I quite liked it, a few genuine tingly moments. 
 
7.5/10

Dodge

[quote name='JP']Saw 21 not that long ago - one about a math's whizz who via his college professor earn's stacks of cash counting cards at blackjack - quite interesting...[/quote] 
if you haven't read it, try the book(s), they're infinitely better than the film. They're written by Ben Mezrich and are excellent, first one's Breaking Vegas, the second is Bringing Down the House (or the other way around).

Catogrande

[quote name='Victor Meldrew']"Chinatown" for the umpteenth time. Stunning, timeless movie. A true great - script, acting, plot & cinematography outstanding 
 
"Flightplan" with Jodie Foster - good, enjoyable film. Quite tense in places 
 
Concur on Angels and Demons - utter shite. 
 
Watching Soderburgh's "The Limey" tomorrow nite[/quote] 
 
Absolutely agree on Chinatown - truly excellent. Has Jack ever been better? Also probably Faye Dunaway's finest hour. 
 
I hope you enjoy The Limey too Vick. It didn't get much of a release in the UK but I quite liked it - mind you I rate Terence Stamp - shame he's been so quiet over the years.

Kirwan

The Limey was very entertaining. Tell them I'M coming.

red terror

[quote name='Razbra'][quote name='Hooroo']Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away. 
 
Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??[/quote] 
 
Drag me to hell? Mate absolutely fantastic! Its old school scary. None of the teen scream BS. Sam Raimi the director of evil dead and SPIDER-MAN made this one. 
I'd say scary rating 9 out of 10.[/quote] 
 
Saw it opening night. I enjoyed it, but didn't find it scary. I'm a mark for Raimi however. I think I may have rated it 7/10. But until you posted that, I actually forgot that I'd seen it.

raznomore

[quote name='red terror'][quote name='Razbra'][quote name='Hooroo']Won tickets to the latest Horror, something to hell, to Hell is back or something like that but i hate horrors and will be giving them away. 
 
Anyone seen it and care to give a scary out of ten rating??[/quote] 
 
Drag me to hell? Mate absolutely fantastic! Its old school scary. None of the teen scream BS. Sam Raimi the director of evil dead and SPIDER-MAN made this one. 
I'd say scary rating 9 out of 10.[/quote] 
 
Saw it opening night. I enjoyed it, but didn't find it scary. I'm a mark for Raimi however. I think I may have rated it 7/10. But until you posted that, I actually forgot that I'd seen it.[/quote] 
 
Perhaps I scare more easily. I am just surprised that you in a round about way agree with me on something.

red terror

[img]http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/film/newsinterviews/large-mongol31.jpg[/img] 
 
FYI, following up on an earlier posting for [b][color=#FF0000]Mongol[/color][/b], which I highly recommend to anybody who loves the epic battle LOTR/Braveheart/Gladiator-style movies, and I was led to believe was the first part of a trilogy: 
 
[quote]"Originally, 'Mongol' was the first part of a projected trilogy. However after the difficulty making this film, director Sergei Bodrov decided not to make the sequels. Several months after shooting wrapped however, he changed his mind again and decided to conflate his scripts for parts 2 and 3 into one script, and just do the one sequel, entitled 'The Great Khan', it is scheduled to be released in 2010." (From the IMDb trivia section.)[/quote] 
 
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416044/[/url]

Fullermorg

[quote name='JP'][b]Saw 21[/b] not that long ago - one about a math's whizz who via his college professor earn's stacks of cash counting cards at blackjack - quite interesting...[/quote] 
 
After Saw 3 they just got silly. 
 
I watched "In the Name of the King" a while ago. 
 
Truly the worst film ever. Amazing in its shitness.

Tim

xzxsarcastic 
 
Ah, good to see you back Fuller. 
 
Skite: I went to grad school with one of the guys 21 based on. 
 
EDIT: But didn't learn to write a sentence.

red terror

After seeing "Public Enemies" at the cinema last week, I decided to go retro and watch earlier filmed versions available on DVD the past week. Each one is somewhat imperfect, but each rates at least a 7/10 and deserves a viewing. 
 
[color=#FF0000]"Dillinger"[/color] (1945) a.k.a. "John Dillinger, Killer," starring Lawrence Tierney in the lead role. Excellent pulp, with several fictitious anecdotes. They have Dillinger's gal Billie Frechette and the "Lady in Red" as being one in the same. Wrong!! Still, very cool gangster visuals, some of the footage from this film was used in Errol Morris "Thin Blue Line" (imo the best documentary feature film of the 1980s). 
 
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[color=#FF0000]"Dillinger"[/color] (1973) is an excellent, graphic violent biopic starring Warren Oates in the lead role, and Richard Dreyfuss as "Baby Face" Nelson. This one written & directed by John Milius, the screenwriter of "Apocalypse Now" and "Magnum Force." Some of you may remember Oates from that late 70s Kiwi-flick "Sleeping Dogs," as well was "The Wild Bunch" and other great films from the 60s/70s. Excellent cast also stars Harry Dean Stanton and Ben Johnson. 
 
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[color=#FF0000]"Public Enemies"[/color] (2009) is in current release, and probably won't be available on dvd for several months yet. Directed by Michael Mann, starring Depp as Dillinger and Christian Bale as his FBI manhunter Melvin Purvis. Much more historically accurate than the others, and yet I can't say for certain that it's necessarily a more entertaining pot-boiler, but definitely worth seeing to get a better grasp on the reality underlining the mythos. 
 
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I'd be remiss if I didn't also mention the immortal pre-film noir [color=#FF0000]"The Petrified Forest"[/color] (1936). An absolute gem of a film, this one doesn't exactly have John Dillinger, but this is the movie that made Humphrey Bogart a star, and his character "Duke Mantee" was based upon Dillinger. Bogie got the role because of his close resemblance, and it was the sort of character that helped define his career in the ganster genre for years to come. 
 
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