Yeah as said above, Sherlock Holmes is an entertaining way to spend a couple of hours. Good light hearted fun. Worth going to see.
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Yeah as said above, Sherlock Holmes is an entertaining way to spend a couple of hours. Good light hearted fun. Worth going to see.
Can't understand the criticism for the ending of the Road, here's my thoughts
SPOILER: Maybe you needed to read the book, though I thought the film gets it across just as well, but the Earth is finished. There is no cure on the way, people won't survive past a couple of decades at tops, the entire planet is doomed. So the kid meeting the family at the end isn't entirely a cop out because a) he's a dead man walking anyway and b) the message of the story is to hold on to your humanity through trying times. The kid does this, as does the man, so do the family I presume, so the ending is a way of rewarding that faith, even if it is just fleeting. Personally I think an ending with the boy walking into the darkness would have been doom and gloom overload and wouldn't have left the viewer/reader satisfied. There needed to be a pay off for putting up the opresiveness throughout
It's probably just a subtle thing jebus, but
SPOILER: it doesn't feel like a fleeting reward. It feels like an ''everything's going to be okay'' kind of thing, particularly with the little hints that nature isn't finished (the beetle was one, and I can't recall the other - something in the narration? I'm told it's hinted at in the closing lines of the book too.).
I'm just sick of that in film - even I Am Legend was completely rewritten so that, as Tom Hanks said, even the last man on earth gets a happy ending in Hollywood.
Have to agree with Jebus on this, I think I would have slit my wrists if they had of went with the original ending...There's only so much desolation/depression I can take..Brilliant movie by the way.
Yeah, that scene with the Judge is one of those moments alright.Quote:
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Really enjoyed the film, if it did get a bit out of hand in the end. Would have liked to see Foxx die too.
Saw Fourth Kind and Paranormal Activity recently although Fourth kind was better (mostly because i prefer the idea of alians better to ghosts) they were both mediocre movies 2.5/5 for both paranormal activity was particulary rubbish
I went to Avatar and after they hype was expecting to be dissapointed but I have to say I thought it was brilliant:),as somebody else said here a cinematic experience.Sure it has holes but overall thoroughly entertaining.
I second that avatar was excellent have to say. in 3d especially
Re-watched, after 3 years, the first Bourne (Identity) and remembered why the series is so good. Franke Potente is sexily semi-wooden in the lead female and I kind of felt bad for Chris Cooper in the end.
Also caught the movie "Admiral" on dvd. It's the true story of Admiral Kolchak who was a hero of Tsarist Russia then fought against the Soviets. A little stilted in parts but the special effects are good and that it's based on facts is both scary and engaging. Only with subtitles though.
5 minutes of heaven. Starring James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson.
Absolutely incredible performance from James Nesbitt in this. Liam Neeson comes into to his own later in the film as his character reveals himself.
Nesbitt who plays the character Joe returns some 30/40 years later to meet Allistar (I think) played by Neeson,the man who killed his brother in front of the young Joe on behalf of the UVF. Both men are brought together for a TV programme covering the proposed reconciliation.
A very moving and emotional drama. Still available on BBC iPlayer.
Watched it when it was on tv last week sometime I think, definately well worth catching.Quote:
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Brazil (1985)
Following a mistake made by central services, the governing bureaucracy in a dystopian future, an innocent man is arrested, and eventually dies in custody. The film follows the attempts of an employee of the bureaucracy to escape the world he lives in, of forms, regulations, processes to be followed, and a perpetually disappointed cosmetic surgery addicted mother, to find the love he sees every night in his dreams. By a happy coincidence, she lives upstairs from the arrested innocent and is trying to get restitution for the grieving widow. At least I think that's what happens. Like many Gilliam films, the true meaning isn't what's on the surface. I get that it's a satire on government taken to extremes, but I had a nagging suspicion midway through the film that nothing actually happens. At all. I might watch it again just to make sense of it. But I probably won't.
Went to see Avatar, 3D was interesting storyline was about as deep as an episode of Captain Planet combined with an episode of Care Bears and a bit of Action Man thrown in. Should have been about an hour shorter. I'd give it 2/5 only worth seeing for the graphics and 3D experience.
Saw Avatar 3D recently.
What more to say? - it's an event movie that was never going to hold up to much scrutiny regarding plot and dialogue.
I enjoyed it for what it was - a visually stunning adventure movie.
Saw "Moon" with Sam Rockwell the other day, thought it was very good and at least deserved an oscar nomination for Rockwell....also a nice pretty good film score from Clint Mansell.
Finally saw Avatar 3D today, very much meh from me
First hour and a half dragged to the point where I considered leaving (and I love being in the cinema, have only walked out of one movie and that was partially due to being very sick as well)
Picked up after that but the story was very samey from every other movie like this
3D was alright but not the leap forward I had been led to believe it was
This Sporting Life (1963) Richard Harris excels as an initially charming pit worker who's excellence on the rugby field gets him a contract with the city rugby team. His new found fame brings out the worst in him, and he takes it out on Rachel Robert's widowed landlady. She initially resists his approaches only to be won over and eventually repulsed by her tenant's attitude off the pitch. Ironically, it is the same attitude he brings to the game that wins him the applause of the crowd.
Excellent sports-based film, and one I wished I'd seen earlier. Highly recommended.
Inglourious Basterds, finally. Excellent show, Tarantino back to his very best, absolutely loved it! Christoph Waltz surely must get the Supporting Actor Oscar as well. 9/10
and The Invention Of Lying. Not quite as good. :D
Not bad though, couple of good giggles in it, specially the Stephen Merchant / Barry cameos. 6.5/10
i watched did you hear about the morgans and up in the air, both are gick imo, both are also down as comedy, didnt laugh once, dont go to see them, rent it instead if your interest, but id advise not to even pay money for that, wait till it comes on telly..... brutal
Saw "Beetlejuice" after many many years (was on Comedy Central). I caught it first time in the cinema and enjoyed it, and it's definitely an odd movie, but just didn't have it 20 years later.