Rate the last film you saw

[SkStu]

Also saw 'The Killer Inside Me', last week. Not for the faint hearted but great flick. Casey Affleck is quickly becoming the best thing on the silver screen since De Niro, in my opinion..

(watched last night) also enjoyed this movie a lot. Very gruesome in parts but had that black humour that saved it from being too dark and depressing. Not so sure i am convinced by Casey Affleck yet by the way.

Tears of the Sun - Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci. About a war in Nigeria.

Just about the worst war movie i have ever watched. Every cliche in the book. It just gets worse and worse. I firmly believe that it provided the inspiration for Tropic Thunder. You must check this out just so you can agree with me.

[peadar1987]

I finally watched Midnight Run. It is unreal. That is all!

[Kingdom]

Watched both Mesrine films back to back last night. Top quality cinema. Really enjoyable films.

[Predator]

I finally watched Midnight Run. It is unreal. That is all!One of my favourites.
" I'll tell you what: if you don't cooperate, you're gonna suffer from "fistophobia". " :)

Watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid there the other night. Always enjoy that, although The Sting is still better.

[the 12 th man]

"Frontiers": Robbers flee a robbery into rural France and take refuge in a hotel,unknown to them the owners are Nazi cannibals who have a big interest in their new guests,plenty of blood spatter and gore,in French/subtitled but so good you won't notice.If you are anyway squeamish it's not for you-for gore fans 9/10.

[Closed Account 2]

Saw a preview screening of Unstoppable last night, it's about a runaway train with Denziel Washington and some other less famous actors. It's not bad, an easy if totally unchallenging watch - there are probably better films out in the cinemas at the moment but this is a safe bet if say a group of you with different tastes are going.

[stann]

At the flicks over the last couple of weeks:
Due Date. Very funny show, some brilliant gags, and though no doubt it highlights some severe character flaw or other, I nearly choked laughing when RDJ punched the kid in the stomach. :laugh: Would recommend it to pretty much anyone. 8.5/10.
Red. Not the most taxing of films, but an enjoyable 2 hours. Bruce Willis doing his thing, John Malkovitch with all the best lines, and Helen Mirren wielding a series of increasingly big guns. Terrible to say too but a genuine surprise to see Ernest Borgnine pop up, I really did think he was no longer with us! Would give it a solid 6.5/10.

[gustavo]

Watched both Mesrine films back to back last night. Top quality cinema. Really enjoyable films.

I remember watching them with my housemate and the plan was to watch the 2nd one the next night but after the first we both wanted to see the 2nd straight away. Cassell is a top class actor

[horton]

Recently watched:
John Q: great Denzel film- his kid needs a urgent transplant but he can't get health insurance to pay for it, so ends up taking the doctor who'd do it hostage to force him to preform the op.
Jackass 3D- If you found the stupid humor of the show funny you'll enjoy it. I actually barfed twice though!
Pelham 1 2 3(the original)- Far better than the remake, definitely see this if you liked the Travolta version.

[SaucyJack]

Rented "Predators", yikes, where to begin, it was pretty bad. Within the first few minutes, I was already looking at the clock to see how long it had to go. Horrible dialogue, bad casting and a plot that seemed to be written as they went along. It got bad reviews, but I figured I'd give it a shot because the director Nimrod Antal wrote and directed Kontroll, one of my favourite foreign films over the last ten years. I'd give this movie 2 out of 5, only because Alice Braga is easy on the eye.

[shantykelly]

jackass. haven't laughed that hard in a long time. good to see i haven't grown up yet thankfully.

[Kingdom]

Ok, couple of films I've watched recently. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Mental - but brilliant. Why Dustin Hoffman is in it I don't know. Just watch it. 10/10.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Enjoyable, well worth watching. 8/10

[harry crumb]

I finally watched Midnight Run. It is unreal. That is all!


Charles Groden and de Niro were excellent in this. Played off each other so well.

[Acornvilla]

I watched kickass fully expecting it to be awful, but I loved it :D

also never ever ever watch human centipede, if you don't know what i'm talking about look up the trailer on youtube.

[bennocelt]

I watched kickass fully expecting it to be awful, but I loved it :D

also never ever ever watch human centipede, if you don't know what i'm talking about look up the trailer on youtube.

Watched it, silly, and you would wonder what was going through the actors head when this script was suggested to them

[Acornvilla]

there is a sequel involving 12 people on the horizon apparently

[Kingdom]

and you would wonder what was going through the actors head when this script was suggested to them

Given the film, I'm not quite sure I would want to know that actually!

[SaucyJack]

Rented "The expendables", thougt it was pretty awful, Jason Statham has been in some decent action flicks, don't know why he signed up for this one.

Also rented "The dissapearance of Alice Creed", thought it was a tedious and monotonous bore, the director wrote the screenplay for the Descent 2 so I should have known what I was in for.


Finally got around to watching "The Orphanage", thought it was pretty good, better than most ghost movies I've seen, pretty sad though.

[the 12 th man]

"Paradise Lost",group of back packing tourists in Brazil survive a bus crash and end up in a bar on a beach but are drugged and all their possessions are stolen,but that's nothing to what's in store as other locals have designs on their bodies as well.

Strictly over 18's job,with very graphic visceral violence and I loved it 8/10.


"Whiteout",Kate Beckinsdale as an FBI agent dealing with the first murder in Antartica,not bad. 6.5/10

"Twelve Monkeys",a tiny bit dated but still excellent,Brad Pitt & Bruce Willis,Willis goes back & forth in time trying to save the world in the Terry Gilliam classic. 9/10

[tetsujin1979]

Easy A - Pretty good actually. Girl lies about sleeping with her gay friend so he won't get bullied in school. When the rest of the social outcasts in the school hear about this, she is offered money, gifts, etc, by them to give them the same deal. After the lies spiral out of her control, she embraces her new found status and embroiders a scarlet A on her clothes, as in the heroine of The Scarlet Letter which her English class is studying, hence the title. Going to be a breakout role for Emma Stone in the lead.

[poster]

there is a sequel involving 12 people on the horizon apparently

It's the most ridiculous film ever created. Quite funny though how the scientist couldn't shoot a girl in a swimming pool. The new film is a second sequence where it goes back before he tried the experiment with dogs. Dunno how it'll work though, there was no mention in the first film about a 12 person centipede. :goat:

[the 12 th man]

"After Life" Liam Neeson,Christine Ricci, a girl (Ricci) is involved in a fatal car crash and "wakes up" in the funeral home where Neeson is the creepy funeral director and the person who gets people ready for burial.So is she alive or dead?one thing for sure is Ricci likes flashing the flesh as she's naked :love: for the second half of the movie.

6/10

[SaucyJack]

Watched an Australian movie called "Horseman", it's a pretty brutally violent revenge-action-thriller about a father pursuing the men who put his drug-addled daughter in a porn and then left her to die, I liked it, would give it a 7 out of 10.

[geysir]

Watched The Town, dir. ben affleck set in Boston.
Interesting enough, maybe a good enough cinema experience, but the plot is a poor man's Heat.

I have a friend from Boston, he pointed me to an excellent 70's film set in Boston 'Friends of Eddie Coyle' with Robert Mitchum.

[TenaciousDee]

With the snow keeping schools limited on students I had 3 for my classes on Thursday and let them choose a film to watch. Unfortunately they chose the New Karate Kid remake. Honestly my soul was destroyed by the end of it. It just destroyed all that was good about the original.

[danthesaint]

watched Megamind last night, thought it was good,

got through one flew over the cuckoo nest, good film

[superfrank]

Elite Squad

Cracking Brazilian film about the special police they send into the slums and about how much of a ******* you have to be to keep going in the job.

[tetsujin1979]

Tron: Legacy. Really trippy to watch in 3D, possibly the best use of 3D I've seen so far, including Avatar.
More of a continuation of the story of the characters in the first film than an actual sequel (if that makes sense). Definitely check it out.

[SkStu]

Lottery Ticket - starring Bow Wow, Ice Cube - touching movie that examines the perils of winning $370m in the lotto while living in the hood. A little bit overacted in places. 9.5/10

[SwanVsDalton]

It being Chrimbo got through a few recently.

Kick-Ass: I really expected to like it. But I just didn't. The first half skims by enjoyably enough, but the second hour is a total mess, overlong and over cooked. It was well acted and made (and, yes, Hit Girl and Big Daddy are fantastic characters) but Ms.Jonathan Ross should've re-drafted the screenplay maybe three times before submitting. The characterisations (not particuarly likeable in the first place) are all over the place by the credits roll. Didn't really know who I was supposed to be rooting for and didn't care. Dissapointing.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World: Conversely, really enjoyed this. The story is pencil thin, the character doesn't really appear to go anywhere and suffers from Michael Cera-itis (he's a doe-eyed, insufferable layabout) but the visuals, gags and large cast really keep it cracking along. Definitely one for male geeks - natural I'd like it.

Cyrus - Simple, short, quite sweet film. Very nicely made with understated performances from the cast (in particular John C.Reilly and the sometimes overblown Jonah Hill). Definitely worth a watch.

Monsters vs Aliens: For kids, but passed the time.

Fantastic Mr.Fox: Definitely not really for kids, which is a shame since source material is a kids classic, but still quite a cool film. Probably depends how you feel about Wes Anderson and his hyper-literate, off-the-wall style (see Royal Tenenbaums, Aquatic Life With Steve Zizzou). I really like his stuff so it worked for me, and the animated visuals are just lovely.

[SaucyJack]

Saw "The other guys", one of the funniest movies I've seen in awhile,..."Aim for the bushes!"....finally got around to seeing "Into the Wild", pretty good, although like alot of people I already knew the ending, I like Eddie Vedder, but there was too much Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack.
Watched the 1979 movie "Hard Core" with George C.Scott, pretty good, some memorable sound bites.

[tetsujin1979]

Saw "Love and other drugs", set around the time Pfizer released Viagra with Jake Gyllenhaal as a salesman who falls in love with free spirited Anne Hathaway.
It's not a bad film, as romantic comedies with a touch of drama go. Both leads get naked quite a bit, Hathaway a little more, although I probably paid more attention to her.
Could have cut every scene with his dot-com-boom millionaire brother and it wouldn't change the film a bit.

[the 12 th man]

Bubba Ho-Tep,Entertaining,bizarre film set in an old folks home in Texas that's being used by an Egyptian mummy for food by eating the souls of the residents.

The main character is an Elvis impersonator (or is it the real Elvis?) who gives the mummy plenty to think about. 7.5/10

[ken foree]

Bubba Ho-Tep,Entertaining,bizarre film set in an old folks home in Texas that's being used by an Egyptian mummy for food by eating the souls of the residents.

The main character is an Elvis impersonator (or is it the real Elvis?) who gives the mummy plenty to think about. 7.5/10

the incomparable bruce campbell of evil dead fame! love that guy though b. ho tep didn't really stack up for me. too much expectation on my part i imagine. i've seen a few movies lately, let's see, out of five stars:

seconds 4/5
who's afraid of virginia woolf 5/5
wait until dark 3/5
knock on any door 2.5/5
targets 4/5
cat people 3/5
diaboliques 3.5/5
the big sleep 4/5
dark passage 3.5/5

and some others.. plenty of bogey in there but i have to say 'who's afraid of virginia woolf' has two amazing performances by richard burton and (especially) elizabeth taylor who prior to this i'd always regarded as just an attractive classic actress. i'd seen bits of her before (ahem) but nothing on the order of magnitude of this performance. she's insane in it. after that 'the big sleep' and 'seconds' are very good, particularly the latter if you're into disturbing, visually arresting, paranoid, menacing future-corporation movies.

[SkStu]

cant wait to see Black Swan...

http://www.busybuzzblogging.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Natalie-Portman-And-Mila-Kunis-Has-Hot-Kiss-Scene-In-New-Black-Swan-Movie-Video.jpg

[Sullivinho]

Finally got around to watching 'Moon'. Phenomenal movie, best I've seen in a fair ol' while.

[bennocelt]

Seen the Four Lions today, about 4 Muslim guys from the Uk who are planning a to blow up something in London. As expected from the good reviews, it was brilliant, and i was half hoping that the guys wud actually achieve their objectives in the end - i guess that's the genius of Morris. Loved it

[shakermaker1982]

4 lions is quality. Rubber dingy rapids bro.

I've got Sky movies & a movie rental subscription with Blockbuster at mo so have watched a lot of crap recently.

Law abiding citizen - makes my top 10 worst films of all time. 1/10
Righeous Kill - what a waste of Pacino and De Niro. My dog could have written a better script. 2/10
Get him to the Greek - Could have been so funny.....average. 5/10
The Ghost - better off reading the book. 6/10
She's out of my league - lovely blonde in it and a few funny bits 5/10
Brooklyn's Finest - enjoyed this. Loads of 'the Wire' cameos as well. 8/10
Toy Story 3 - 8/10

[paudie]

It being Chrimbo got through a few recently.

Scott Pilgrim vs The World: Conversely, really enjoyed this. The story is pencil thin, the character doesn't really appear to go anywhere and suffers from Michael Cera-itis (he's a doe-eyed, insufferable layabout) but the visuals, gags and large cast really keep it cracking along. Definitely one for male geeks - natural I'd like it.



what's wrong with you man? You never mentioned the gorgeous gorgeousness of Mary Elizabeth Winsted in the lead female role!

[SwanVsDalton]

what's wrong with you man? You never mentioned the gorgeous gorgeousness of Mary Elizabeth Winsted in the lead female role!

Kind of goes without saying. And there's a lot of gorgeous alt.lovelies in the cast in fairness.

[cornflakes]

King of Kong, a documentary about Steve Wiebe's attempts to break the Donkey Kong world record from Billy Mitchell.
Very good if your a bit of a geek.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/

[Spudulika]

Saw the following during the holidays here (a lovely 10 days period of restfulness, and cut price cinema tickets):

Season of the Witch - poor, a few people jumped at the start, then it was a poorly done re-hash of Kingdom of Heaven. Cage was poor, Ron Perlman tried a little, and there was no real point in it - 2/10

Rabbit without Ears - funny in parts and fluffy. Til Schweiger played a yellow paper reporter who get community service and serves it at a kindergarden. In German but with a few celeb's showing up, and some very funny parts. Some of the sex scenes are a bit pointless, but the lead female is naturally cute. 5/10

Fatherland - Old but good with Rutger Hauer in the adaptation of the book by Robert Harris. What would have happened if the Nazi's won the war. Some pieces are thought provoking and while it moves quickly, it was underdone as a TV movie. 5/10

The Kings Speech - Only saw a trailer and didn't hear much else about it, then sat stultified for the whole ordeal. There was a really good movie to be made, but it just was overacted and weak. Afterwards I read reviews and wondered if it was the same movie. 2/10

The Way Back - Watching it with a friend who's family were banished to Siberia from their farm in Ukraine it made it a little more interesting. Some decent moments in it and while it's not exactly how the real story played out, it's still worth a watch. 6/10

Tron:Legacy - Not a patch on the original, graphics kind of take over and make it a little ott, but easy to watch on a Sunday afternoon. 5/10

The Fighter - Weak, despite a good cast, and a bit let down. As a boxing fan I was hoping for alot, but it just failed to take off. It's a good story but I think just meandered a bit. 4/10

Hereafter - I like Matt Damon, he's someone who can do hard or soft (type of movies of course). He's good in comedies, good in action, this was just a little odd. It passed the time but I wouldn't watch it in a couple of years if it came on tv. 5/10

Love and Other Drugs - Wasn't this done before? Richard Gere, Winona Ryder or some other crew? I didn't see any chemistry between the leads, and I can't watch Jake without thinking of him and Heath getting sweaty, while Anne Hathaway is just a good actress but hard on the eye. 4/10

The Tourist - No, please, no. No chemistry, no story, no point. While I find Jolie to be so-so in looks etc, she can be a very good actress at time in certain roles, but like Salt she didn't pull this off. Depp must be dying for the new Pirates to come out as he'd want his name taken off this one. He's been a solid actor since 21 Jump Street (yes, it was fun as a teen to watch it) and deserved a better script and lead. But at the same time I wondered if Colin Farrell would have been better in this, or someone less obvious. 2/10

[Noelys Guitar]

Got to see the Third man for about the 10th time. Still great. Also watched the Kremlin letter (again starring Welles) made 1970. First time to see it and worth a look.

[jebus]

Went to see Blue Valentine recently, fantastic movie with great performances from the two leads

don't go to see it with the girlfriend though

[Spudulika]

Went with some friends to see "Morning Glory" and left feeling pleasantly surprised. A little fluffy, as well as sentimental - the underlying motif being - a happy family is worth more than anything else. Harrison Ford was very good, Diane Keaton was excellent as always, the guy who played the first anchor was briefly hilarious. Some laugh out loud moments, some kind of cringing moments, and Rachel McAdams running about in panties with a real female figure. A nice Saturday evening flick. 6/10

[hudhastings]

Saw Black swan "More like swan sh*t" 5/10 stay away
Wanted to see Neds but its not even out in any cinema in Cork since they closed down the keno.

[Real ale Madrid]

Watched the Kings speech over the weekend and I have to say its one of the best movies I've ever seen. I'm no movie buff and I'd rarely comment on films one way or the other, but this was a really enjoyable 2 hours. What's really good is the way Firth gets across his deep frustrations, which manifest itself in impetuousness and downright pompous rudeness to others from time to time. One of my best friends growing up and to this day has a stammer, and I must say the concerns, the frustrations, the false dawns etc are described in the film, in a really brilliant and accurate way. My English really isn't good enough to describe how much I enjoyed this. 9/10

[horton]

Watched the Kings speech over the weekend and I have to say its one of the best movies I've ever seen. I'm no movie buff and I'd rarely comment on films one way or the other, but this was a really enjoyable 2 hours. What's really good is the way Firth gets across his deep frustrations, which manifest itself in impetuousness and downright pompous rudeness to others from time to time. One of my best friends growing up and to this day has a stammer, and I must say the concerns, the frustrations, the false dawns etc are described in the film, in a really brilliant and accurate way. My English really isn't good enough to describe how much I enjoyed this. 9/10
Maybe you being from Cork had something to do with it?:p

[Magicme]

Went with some friends to see "Morning Glory" and left feeling pleasantly surprised. A little fluffy, as well as sentimental - the underlying motif being - a happy family is worth more than anything else. Harrison Ford was very good, Diane Keaton was excellent as always, the guy who played the first anchor was briefly hilarious. Some laugh out loud moments, some kind of cringing moments, and Rachel McAdams running about in panties with a real female figure. A nice Saturday evening flick. 6/10

I took my mum to see this the other night coz she had seen it raved about on all the daytime shows she watches so I was expecting a chick flick with nothing much to it but I found myself laughing out loud lots and really enjoyed it. Despite being female, am not overly into fluffy chick stuff (although Dirty Dancing is one of my favourite movies of all time, so are Grosse Point Blank, Moulin Rouge and Bulletproof) so was like you, very surprised at how enjoyable it was and would recommend it if any lads want to take the missus to a movie and be seen as a good guy, coz you will find it entertaining. Also, which was great about it was that the romance bits were not the main subject, and just a byline really, it was more about the many difficulties of working in tv. 8/10 from me!

[Noelys Guitar]

Watched the Sinatra club (2010) over the weekend. True story of a day in the club in the early 70's and the build up to a Silver heist. John Gotti and his crew ran the club but it was the only place in New York/ Northern NJ that members from the other 4 crime families could hang out in and mix (without killing each other). The patrons included a Father Flanagan (who played poker with Gotti and crew using "borrowed" church collection money), actors who starred in the Godfather, a Nixon aide, various cops/detectives, lawyers and politicians. Oh and the FBI had bugged the club listening down the street in a parked van. Movie uses some real photos of the various characters/locations involved and what later became of them make this well worth a look. 9/10

Was previously a stage show. Here is a review of the stage show.
http://www.broowaha.com/articles/4113/the-sinatra-club