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Post by Travis on Sept 2, 2008 12:40:07 GMT -1
Samantha Morton isn't pathetic enough. She do do pathetic particularly well actually!! You obviously haven't seen her portrayal of Deborah Curtis in 'Control'. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by gt on Sept 2, 2008 13:03:05 GMT -1
Samantha Morton isn't pathetic enough. She do do pathetic particularly well actually!! You obviously haven't seen her portrayal of Deborah Curtis in 'Control'. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) Blinding film
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 2, 2008 13:30:22 GMT -1
Nobody can beat Shelley Duvall though for sheer uselessness and drippy demeanor.
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 3, 2008 19:36:53 GMT -1
Right I’d better catch up with some film reviews.
Beyond Valley of the Dolls
Where do I start to try and explain this film to someone who has never seen it. Soft Core porn seems a good place to start. There’s plenty of nudity and gratuitous sex scenes, men on women, women on women, men on men. So that’s the part of the review for the men finished.
The next thing that creeps into my mind is Scooby Doo. The final scenes which involve murder when high on drugs, the think that popped into my mind was “I would have gotten away with it if you pesky kids who are high drugs, and are paralysed and I wasn’t a man boobed murderer”.
It’s just all a bit of toss really but ideal fodder for Austin Powers. In fact there were lines directly taken from it!
4/10
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Post by CmonYouSpurs on Sept 3, 2008 19:39:23 GMT -1
OMG LOL
I just watched Wild Hogs...........nuff said ;D
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Post by Mrs H on Sept 3, 2008 19:39:51 GMT -1
Hard Candy
One of Trav’s recommended movies and yet another weirdy one. It starts in a coffee shop with a young girl and an older man. The girl is acting older than her years. He is flirting. The man doesn’t know he’s about to become the fly stuck well and truly on the web.
I think for the first half of this film it’s the first time I’ve ever felt sorry for a paedophile. Ellen Paige tortures this man but you aren’t really sure whether he has ever touched a young girl until she finds his safe. Then you’re happy that there is this sadistic young woman in the world.
Ellen Paige is amazing in this film. She draws you in and freaks you out all the same time. Her unwavering attention to detail and pure determination to cause this man damage is powerful and often unwatchable.
The castration scene I can see is enough to put any man off young women for life.
Although I thought this film was well put together I can’t say I liked it and I’m not sure what purpose it served and what message it wanted to give out other than to watch a paedophile in pain.
6/10
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Post by Cappsy-DCFC on Sept 6, 2008 22:28:22 GMT -1
The Happening Very interesting film but it ends all of a sudden. If they had made the ending a bit more clear it would have been a fantastic film. Some people might get confused by it all though with the random stopping and comminting suicide, but its good when you know whats "happening". ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) 8/10
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Post by Neko Bazu on Sept 7, 2008 9:36:04 GMT -1
Cabin FeverNot a bad little film - the idea was very good, but I don't think the director quite pulled it off as well as a director ten years prior to that would have. It was apparently intended to made in the vein of 90's horror films (back when they were genuinely unnerving), and while that was clearly the intention, the result didn't quite make it. Very entertaining, though, and well worth a watch once ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) 7/10 WaitingYou really need a warped sense of humour to appreciate this film. And fortunately for me, I have a warped sense of humour - it had me laughing out loud repeatedly. Get a few frends round, grab a few beers each, and settle in ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) 7/10
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Post by Travis on Sept 7, 2008 16:05:29 GMT -1
Hard CandyOne of Trav’s recommended movies and yet another weirdy one. It starts in a coffee shop with a young girl and an older man. The girl is acting older than her years. He is flirting. The man doesn’t know he’s about to become the fly stuck well and truly on the web. I think for the first half of this film it’s the first time I’ve ever felt sorry for a paedophile. Ellen Paige tortures this man but you aren’t really sure whether he has ever touched a young girl until she finds his safe. Then you’re happy that there is this sadistic young woman in the world. Ellen Paige is amazing in this film. She draws you in and freaks you out all the same time. Her unwavering attention to detail and pure determination to cause this man damage is powerful and often unwatchable. The castration scene I can see is enough to put any man off young women for life. Although I thought this film was well put together I can’t say I liked it and I’m not sure what purpose it served and what message it wanted to give out other than to watch a paedophile in pain. 6/10 Pretty much the reaction I expected. As I said myself, Ellen Paige is astoundingly good in it, and while it's not particularly a film to enjoy, it is a brave work of enough significance and power to make it a bit of a "must see" film......even if you may never want to watch it again! ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by Travis on Sept 7, 2008 16:10:06 GMT -1
I'M NOT THERETodd Haynes' biopic is anything but conventional; rather than opt for a ordered, matter of fact account of Bob Dylan's life, the director instead opts for something far more abstract. As the title suggests, Bob Dylan is not actually even directly referenced in the piece - bar a brief grainy excerpt from a live performance which is shown prior to the end credits - with his character given a series of pseudonyms throughout. More notably, rather than rely on a child actor and one central performance, Dylan is portrayed by six different actors, each assigned to embody a particular period in his life. The fact that the cast of Dylans include a black child and a woman, merely reinforce the film's ambitions to be different. ![](http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5149/imnottheresm3.jpg) Using a rather jumbled, non-chronological narrative, 'I'm Not There' does at times seem like the product of a 'stream of consciousness' exercise, yet surprisingly, come the end of it, I did find that it gave quite a strong essence of the man himself. The quality of the cast helps to this end with a string of good performances from the likes of Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Ben Whishaw, most appropriately though the two strongest turns come from Marcus Carl Franklin as the young 'Woody Guthrie' Dylan and Cate Blanchett who played Dylan during his most compelling period where he "went electric". Only Richard Gere's performance, which for the most part consisted of blinking and gawping gormlessly into space failed to intrigue. All in all it's a very novel approach to the biopic, and although the inclusion of latter years 'Billy The Kid' Dylan caused it to drag a little, it's still a film worth seeing for anybody interested in Dylan or biopics in general. 7/10 ________________________________________________ ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE......and watching Amber Heard on-screen it's very easy to see why. Unfortunately this central premise is one of the few credible elements of Hollywood's latest attempts to breathe life into the slasher flick. Mandy Lane is like a 'Holy Grail' to every boy at her high school; beautiful, intelligent, virginal and yet totally inaccessible. Countless boys have tried and failed to date Mandy and when she agrees to spend a couple of nights away with friends at a farmhouse, hopes are high amongst the males in the party. However, when people suddenly start disappearing and turning up dead, focus to starts to swing towards the small matter of survival. From this point in it's your usual standard horror fare, with nothing really remarkable in the way of shocks and little suspense. In an attempt to put a new spin on the genre, the writers at least come up with a fairly imaginative twist, albeit only to undermine it a little with a further twist. Just about passable viewing if there's absolutely nothing else to watch on the box. 4/10
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Post by gt on Sept 8, 2008 11:12:32 GMT -1
I had a weekend in and watched various films but I still wasn't tempted to rewatch 'Wolf Creek' in full, which was on Film 4 on Saturday night. I did catch bits to check if my original score of 4/10 was perhaps too harsh. Not a chance, and given the bits I saw again I am happy to give it 0/10. What a load of nasty, violent, mean spirited, exploitative misogynist rubbish. Fair play if you like this sort of film but I still maintain this whole 'torture porn' movement is a worrying blot on the landscape of modern cinema. Yuk ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png)
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Post by gt on Sept 9, 2008 11:03:59 GMT -1
Aliens: Extended Edition
I delved into my 'Quadrilogy' set to watch the originally intended 2 and a half hour cut of Aliens. And what a cut it is, adding more background and suspense to a decent comic horror shoot out in space.
8/10
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Post by Travis on Sept 9, 2008 11:30:43 GMT -1
Aliens: Extended Edition I delved into my 'Quadrilogy' set to watch the originally intended 2 and a half hour cut of Aliens. And what a cut it is, adding more background and suspense to a decent comic horror shoot out in space. 8/10 Still undecided which the best of the first two films is though! ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) I usually lean towards the originals but the final confrontation between Ripley and the Queen in 'Aliens' is just fanatastic! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Travis on Sept 9, 2008 11:36:54 GMT -1
SON OF RAMBOWThe efforts Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright excepted, the words"‘genuinely", "funny", "British" and "comedy" are rarely seen together in a sentence, and on the few occasions they are, the words tend to be of hype rather than substance……not in this instance though! 'Son Of Rambow' is a nostalgic comedy-drama that manages to be both 'laugh out loud' funny and genuinely touching. Set in the mid 1980’s the story is at heart about an unlikely friendship between a couple of school boys; Joshua and Will. The two boys are polar opposites; Joshua is a quiet, fairly timid child, a product of his strict Brethren upbringing, while Will is the archetypal bad lad, an outsider lacking parental influence who lives with his brother. ![](http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/4626/sonoframbowne4.jpg) The pair first meet up in the corridors of their school one day where Will deceives Joshua into working as a stunt man on his big project, a sequel to 'First Blood' which he was making for the BBC's 'Screen Test' young film makers award. While Joshua obliges reluctantly at first, his whole attitude changes markedly when he sees Stallone in action. After a living through a childhood where television was banned, the spectacle of 'First Blood' inflames Joshua’s imagination, he no longer wants to be a stuntman, he now wants centre stage, he is the 'Son Of Rambo(w)'. Brought together by the excitement of their vision, Will and Joshua become firm friends, and as the project progresses, becoming ever more ambitious, it captures the imagination of the school. Having spent their days as outcasts, Will and Joshua are suddenly everyone’s friends, the other children want a part in their movie, and most importantly, so does the cool French exchange student, Didier. What started off as a small project turns into a minor phenomenon, and suddenly the pair find themselves trying to hold on to their own project. The film succeeds on every level for me. I haven’t laughed as loudly and consistently at a film for a few years, the humour is both edgy and irreverent, the friendship is convincing and endearing, the evocation of mid 80’s Britain is spot on, the visuals inventive, and the flying dog……just genius!! The moving and emotive climax works perfectly a rounds off a perfect ‘feel good’ experience. As Joshua would say, “It’s skill!” 9/10
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Post by El Morto La Hoja! on Sept 9, 2008 18:13:09 GMT -1
Samantha Morton isn't pathetic enough. WHATS YOUR PROBLEM WITH MORTON'S!?!?! ![>:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/angry.png)
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Post by Lollipop on Sept 9, 2008 19:33:28 GMT -1
SON OF RAMBOWThe efforts Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright excepted, the words"‘genuinely", "funny", "British" and "comedy" are rarely seen together in a sentence, and on the few occasions they are, the words tend to be of hype rather than substance……not in this instance though! 'Son Of Rambow' is a nostalgic comedy-drama that manages to be both 'laugh out loud' funny and genuinely touching. Set in the mid 1980’s the story is at heart about an unlikely friendship between a couple of school boys; Joshua and Will. The two boys are polar opposites; Joshua is a quiet, fairly timid child, a product of his strict Brethren upbringing, while Will is the archetypal bad lad, an outsider lacking parental influence who lives with his brother. ![](http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/4626/sonoframbowne4.jpg) The pair first meet up in the corridors of their school one day where Will deceives Joshua into working as a stunt man on his big project, a sequel to 'First Blood' which he was making for the BBC's 'Screen Test' young film makers award. While Joshua obliges reluctantly at first, his whole attitude changes markedly when he sees Stallone in action. After a living through a childhood where television was banned, the spectacle of 'First Blood' inflames Joshua’s imagination, he no longer wants to be a stuntman, he now wants centre stage, he is the 'Son Of Rambo(w)'. Brought together by the excitement of their vision, Will and Joshua become firm friends, and as the project progresses, becoming ever more ambitious, it captures the imagination of the school. Having spent their days as outcasts, Will and Joshua are suddenly everyone’s friends, the other children want a part in their movie, and most importantly, so does the cool French exchange student, Didier. What started off as a small project turns into a minor phenomenon, and suddenly the pair find themselves trying to hold on to their own project. The film succeeds on every level for me. I haven’t laughed as loudly and consistently at a film for a few years, the humour is both edgy and irreverent, the friendship is convincing and endearing, the evocation of mid 80’s Britain is spot on, the visuals inventive, and the flying dog……just genius!! The moving and emotive climax works perfectly a rounds off a perfect ‘feel good’ experience. As Joshua would say, “It’s skill!” 9/10 Yay, I loved Son of Rambow too. Although I was a bit perturbed because Will's brother looks a hell of a lot like my ex boyfriend!
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Post by gt on Sept 10, 2008 11:36:30 GMT -1
I watched Superbad again last night, I think it is one of those films that takes a little while to warm to. I certainly enjoyed the tale of 3 hapless high school geeks trying to get hold of booze and some fine ladies with the aid of fake ID. This time I ignored the hype and settled down to watch it and really enjoyed it. Ironically the biggest laughs do not belong to the likes of 'McLovin' but rather the incidental characters like the liquor shop attendant who has to clear up spilt beer and deadpans 'fuck my life' to the floor in a manner that had me doubled up with laughter. The two moronic police officers are extremely funny too.
And the girl who plays the character of Jules (not our Jules, before you say it Morton) is damn, damn, damn fine!
8/10
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Post by Travis on Sept 10, 2008 11:40:41 GMT -1
SON OF RAMBOWThe efforts Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright excepted, the words"‘genuinely", "funny", "British" and "comedy" are rarely seen together in a sentence, and on the few occasions they are, the words tend to be of hype rather than substance……not in this instance though! 'Son Of Rambow' is a nostalgic comedy-drama that manages to be both 'laugh out loud' funny and genuinely touching. Set in the mid 1980’s the story is at heart about an unlikely friendship between a couple of school boys; Joshua and Will. The two boys are polar opposites; Joshua is a quiet, fairly timid child, a product of his strict Brethren upbringing, while Will is the archetypal bad lad, an outsider lacking parental influence who lives with his brother. ![](http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/4626/sonoframbowne4.jpg) The pair first meet up in the corridors of their school one day where Will deceives Joshua into working as a stunt man on his big project, a sequel to 'First Blood' which he was making for the BBC's 'Screen Test' young film makers award. While Joshua obliges reluctantly at first, his whole attitude changes markedly when he sees Stallone in action. After a living through a childhood where television was banned, the spectacle of 'First Blood' inflames Joshua’s imagination, he no longer wants to be a stuntman, he now wants centre stage, he is the 'Son Of Rambo(w)'. Brought together by the excitement of their vision, Will and Joshua become firm friends, and as the project progresses, becoming ever more ambitious, it captures the imagination of the school. Having spent their days as outcasts, Will and Joshua are suddenly everyone’s friends, the other children want a part in their movie, and most importantly, so does the cool French exchange student, Didier. What started off as a small project turns into a minor phenomenon, and suddenly the pair find themselves trying to hold on to their own project. The film succeeds on every level for me. I haven’t laughed as loudly and consistently at a film for a few years, the humour is both edgy and irreverent, the friendship is convincing and endearing, the evocation of mid 80’s Britain is spot on, the visuals inventive, and the flying dog……just genius!! The moving and emotive climax works perfectly a rounds off a perfect ‘feel good’ experience. As Joshua would say, “It’s skill!” 9/10 Yay, I loved Son of Rambow too. Although I was a bit perturbed because Will's brother looks a hell of a lot like my ex boyfriend! But he's 12!! ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by El Morto La Hoja! on Sept 10, 2008 11:41:03 GMT -1
![](http://www.superiorpics.com/pictures2/6530_stone_emma_005.jpg) her?
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Post by Travis on Sept 10, 2008 11:41:21 GMT -1
I watched Superbad again last night, I think it is one of those films that takes a little while to warm to. I certainly enjoyed the tale of 3 hapless high school geeks trying to get hold of booze and some fine ladies with the aid of fake ID. This time I ignored the hype and settled down to watch it and really enjoyed it. Ironically the biggest laughs do not belong to the likes of 'McLovin' but rather the incidental characters like the liquor shop attendant who has to clear up spilt beer and deadpans 'fuck my life' to the floor in a manner that had me doubled up with laughter. The two moronic police officers are extremely funny too. And the girl who plays the character of Jules (not our Jules, before you say it Morton) is damn, damn, damn fine! 8/10 Not only me who loves innane, stupid and immature joke-a-thons then! ;D
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