Rate the last film you saw.

[ovechkin8]

The Astronauts Wife.

Nicely done sci-fi thriller with nasty & disturbing end & plenty of room for a sequel. Theron is actually surprisingly good as the eponymous wife while Depp excels as astronaut Spencer.

Turned out to be very decent viewing last night. 7.5/10

Btw anyone know if Sleepy Hollow wil be released on DVD anytime soon.Cant get a copy for love or money.

[Travis]

ovechkin8 said:

Btw anyone know if Sleepy Hollow wil be released on DVD anytime soon.Cant get a copy for love or money.

Cheapest available copy on the net is at play.com, priced £4.99 mate. Looks like it was recently re-issued, so that could've been the cause of your problems tracking it down.....

www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=R2&title=3274607&P36=57Q3PB

Hope that helps.

[ovechkin8]

Thanks a million Trav.Have an exalt

[thales]

Teneciuos D pickof destiny - having got the album, knew the whole movie, only a little more dialogue added, jack black stays in his rutt of average films. 5.4/10

the prestige - hugh jackman, christian bale and micheal caine and scarlett johansson (mmmmmmmmm), set at the turn of the last century, based around 2 friends who are budding magicans, but throughan accident/death end up fueding, and trying to out do each other.....

good story, that keeps the interest up, recommend it, 8.3/10

[Travis]

ovechkin8 said:

Thanks a million Trav.Have an exalt

Cheers mate.

I've always found this site very useful for tracking down dvd's and compairing prices....

www.find-dvd.co.uk/

[Mrs H]

Along Came Polly

Why does Ben Stiller keep trying to do Romantic comedies? First there was the god awful Keeping the Faith with her out of Dhama and Gregg and Ed "what were you thinking" Norton. Then there was Our House with Drew Barrymore which was, quite frankly, just a poor imitation of the The Money Pit.

Along Came Polly is about a straight laced Risk Assessor (Stiller) who's life is very ordered until his wife (Debra Messing from Will and Grace) cheats on him on the first day of their honeymoon with a French Scuba Instuctor (Hank Azaria).

Stiller then meets up with Polly Prince (Jennifer Anniston), who is an old school friend. She is the opposite to him, flaky and non commital and for some reason has a blind ferret. 90 mins of situations where the one or the other is uncomfortable and the blind ferret running into things.

I like Ben Stiller when he plays over the top character (White Goodman in Dodgeball and the Spanish newscaster in Anchorman) but this was just poor. There wasn't any chemistry between Stiller and Aniston.

A very poor 4/10

[Tony Yeboah's Lunchbox]

Saw 2

Stayed in with my better half and watched the sequal to the first one. I thought it was alright actually, wasn't my choice but it kept me interested unlike some Horror's that are dull and lame.

Jigsaw begins his killings again, and at the scene of one of his "games" he leaves a note calling for a Detective (Eric) Matthews. At first reluctant to get involved, after Eric notices a clue Jigsaw left behind and works out the location of his hideout, he decides to come along for the ride when a SWAT team break in. Jigsaw or "John" rather (Jigsaw being a name given by the press) is actually inside, sitting at his desk and attached to a life support system (he is already dying of cancer.)

It's at this point he reveals that he has trapped a group of people in a house somewhere, (including the heroine addict from the first movie, Amanda) and they have 2 hours to live before a nerve gas filling the house causes them to bleed to death. There are several doses of the cure hidden in the house but in order to get them they will have to pass a series of brutal tests. Eric and the team can watch the different rooms of the house through monitors in Jigsaws base and can see the 2 hour timer ticking down but have no way to communicate with the people inside, and to his horror Eric realizes one of the people is his son, Daniel. John challenges Eric to a game. The rules of the game are simple. He has to sit and listen to what John has to tell him, only then will he see his son alive ever again.

As the unlucky people in the house begin to explore and die one by one, time is ticking away and Eric seems no closer to saving his son...until the time comes to take matters into his own hands and attempt to save the day.....but will he?

Clever twist at the end, like with the first one but NOT for the faint hearted....

8/10

[thales]

idlewild outkast film with album of same name,

set in the mid 30's, andre3000 plays a piano playing mortician who is best friends with bigboi's ganster/singer. unlike tenacious d film, this actually has a story outside of the music, based around prohibition, not good as the untouchables, but a watchable film , none the less. has a good support cast and very good cinemtography surprisingly! 7.3/10

[gt]

Love + Hate - a low budget British film on BBC 2 last night about an Oldham (?) lad from a bigotted family falling in love with a Muslim girl who has an equally bigotted family.

A bit 'secondary school drama' in parts but well written, acted and curiously affecting.

Using Snow Patrol's 'Run' for the final scene where the two lovers put aside their warring families and all the prejudice that goes with it and run away together was a nice bittersweet touch too

8/10

[gw]

Casino Royal - Pretty good and the first Bond film i've seen and I was quite impressed 8/10

Rocky 2 - Classic 8/10

[Dr LuKas]

I watched Total Recall a few days ago, good it was good for me as well because it was about Mars. 7.5/10

I also caught the last half hour or so of Goldmember, I love that film, I love all the Austin Powers films because they're funny and they're based around (although for much of the time not set in) the late 60s and early 70s which is my favourite era, the funkiest era. This film isn't the best in the series but it's still shagadelic baby 8.5/10.

[Travis]

lucasledge said:

I watched Total Recall a few days ago, good it was good for me as well because it was about Mars. 7.5/10

I also caught the last half hour or so of Goldmember, I love that film, I love all the Austin Powers films because they're funny and they're based around (although for much of the time not set in) the late 60s and early 70s which is my favourite era, the funkiest era. This film isn't the best in the series but it's still shagadelic baby 8.5/10.

Have you seen Foxy Brown yet, Lukas.

It stars Pam Grier (from Jackie Brown), back in her heyday, and she's essentially the female film equivalent of Shaft, and it's possibly for my money a better movie.

She's also the inspiration behind Beyonce's Foxy Cleopatra character, and the whole movie is as funky as a mothership!!!

[Dr LuKas]

Cool I'll have to catch that Foxy Cleopatra really was as funky as she was hot wasn't she. ;D

[Travis]

lucasledge said:

Cool I'll have to catch that Foxy Cleopatra really was as funky as she was hot wasn't she. ;D

She certainly was, sugar.

A WHOLE LOTTA WOMAN!!

[Ninja Squirrel]

Bill n Ted's Excellent adventure

If you don't like this film your stupid!

9/10

[Travis]

Well it's been a while, but here's another......

WORLD TRADE CENTER

Considering the subject matter, the scope of it's impact on global society as a whole, and that the shadow of 9/11 still hangs so darkly above so many lives with little over 5 years passed, then objectively and dispassionately reviewing a film that commemorates those whose lives were lost, and pays tribute to that fateful day's heroes is a difficult process, but looking back on the film after a couple of days, I feel able to give my observations.

Oliver Stone's film is set an intimate level; the atrocities form the backdrop for what is essentially a tale of two Port Authority police officials who became trapped in the rubble following the collapse of the first tower. In the aftermath of the collapse the story tends to alternate between their struggle to keep the belief that they'll be rescued, and the anguish of their families as they face an agonising wait to learn of officers' fate.

On the positive side, Stone shows a respectful restraint in his reconstruction of events, although inevitably the two towers, billowing out smoke, are evident on screen, the moment of impact isn't; only the shadows of the planes are shown, before a cataclysmic rumbling confirms the collision. The aftermath, with the shattered glass, the dust the office paper is all too strikingly reminiscent of the those all too familiar television pictures, but these images are again used sparingly. Credit must also go to the sound designers, the recreation of the sounds of the towers collapsing as heard from those inside is truly unnerving, really articulating the horror many experienced.

Taken purely as a film though, I must say I thought World Trade Center was a flawed piece of work though. As engaging as the subject matter was, the characters in the film (Maggie Gyllenhaal's excepted) didn't really draw me in, and but for a couple of scenes I didn't feel as moved as I should have been. At times, some of the more heroic dialogue appeared so cliched and deliberate that it actually dulled the impact of some scenes, while the denouement appeared a little tagged on and unnecessary; a simple voice over or a few lines of text would have seemed to be more appropriate.

My final point would be whether we really needed a 9/11 movie so soon. Yes, Stone's intentions, primarily of honouring the emergency services, are both undoubted and honourable, but without wanting to sound disrespectful, surely everyone is aware of the astounding jobs they did on that day, and that the pain caused by thrusting that day's events back in to the public eye in the name of entertainment, so soon, should have dictated that Stone waited longer. Of course Stone wasn't alone in making a 9/11 film last year, but at least Paul Greengrass' fantastic 'United 93' did have a legitimate raison detre - to try and gain an understanding of the events of that day - and it kept its focus away from New York.

5/10

[thales]

ninjasquirrelmbe said:

Bill n Ted's Excellent adventure

If you don't like this film your stupid!

9/10

so true!!! NINJA

[The Lucky C]

One line review time!

Over the past week:

World Trade Centre - sentimental, but with reason to be - 6/10
A Cock and Bull Story - starts well but is too clever for it's own good - 4/10
Saw III - not as clever as the others but still better than most horror films - 7/10
300 - On this evidence, bring on Sin City 2 - 8/10
Talledega Nights - Racing. Southern States. Will Ferrell - 8/10
The Sentinel - Suprisingly average political assasination thriller - 5/10
Casino Royale - Bond Begins - 8/10

[---------a]

Casino Royale:

Features the classic iconography you'd expect to see in a james bond action film, a nice variety of pace in the film also, with some impressive editing, moreover it follows the theory of Todorov well like most bond films and the twist fits into the three act structure better than other bond films ive seen. a good watch, which i'd give a 8/10.

[Billy]

there speaks the journalist!!