Yeah I love High Fidelity. Nothing new or groundbreaking but a hugely enjoyable film.
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Yeah I love High Fidelity. Nothing new or groundbreaking but a hugely enjoyable film.
Agree for a romantic commedy its supriseinly funny and it has a great soundtrack. I usually hate rom com as they are very predictable and usually the jokes and gags in them have been seen many times before, but High Fidelity differs hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Seen Madagascar 2 over the weekend with the GF.Not as good as Ice Age or Shrek but still a good effort.Weird to hear Bernie Mac doing a voice and to think he's now dead.Chris Rock is a good voice over talent too.
In fairness, Hornby does have a great take on life in all his books. Its like he has crawled inside my head and is living my emotions. Fever Pitch, About a Boy and High Fidelity are classic books and translated well as movies. (About a boy being the weaker movie but still well done)Quote:
Originally Posted by Neish
I thought about a boy was the best movie transition. I think High Fidelity is a better film but its a fair bit different from the book (location and music plays a huge part IMO)Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Fever Pitch film is poor
Don't really ever want to see Fever Pitch as the book is one of my favourite of all time- just the best description of what it's like being a football fan.
The American remake of Fever Pitch isn't as bad as I expected. Based around the Red Sox, instead of Arsenal
Role Models
8/10
The Butcher Boy was on RTE just now. Quality film, with some really good acting.
I caugt Days of Wine and Roses the other day. It was pretty good, if not a tad disturbing. Another good turn from Jack Lemmon.
Got "Made in Britain" as a christmas present. good show very good preformance from Tim Roth in one of his first films
Just saw it for the first time:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
10/10
Sergeant Cryer out of 'The Bill' is in that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neish
Also, a subtle reference to football when he make it to the bedroom.
Watched Hancock and it was better than i expected grand hang over movie where you cant think about plots and dont have to stay awake for the whole thing.
And watched There will be blood great first hour great performance from daniel day but after the first hour or so it turns to rubbish and i wasnt this dissapointed with an overhyped film since no country for old men.
Watched "Garage" on TV last night. Decent film I thought, but not as good as I had expected. Beautifully filmed, and well acted, but crossed the line from slow-moving to boring a few times.
Watched College - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_(2008_film) - last night.
Not bad, but nothing special. If you asked me, I would recommend Animal House or Old School over it.
Just saw Into The Wild (2007), great film, well worth watching if you get the chance.
just watched cassandras dream(colin farrell and ewan mcgregor)
dire
In Bruges - dont understand what all the hype was about - predictable and not particurily funny
how can you say it wasn't funny?did you not see Colin Farrell karate chop that racist midgit :D:D:D
88 minutes with Al Pacino. Disappointing to say the least.
Saw "Cass" on DVD the other day.
Its about Cass Pennent, once head of rthe West Ham Inter City Firm.
Not a bad film.
Kung Fu Panda - High brow Humour.
Ok there's Kung Fu, Jack Black voicing a portly animated Panda who does Kung Fu alongside a cast including Ian McShane who is fab as the bad guy, with Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu & Seth Rogan doing the other voices, what's not to like?????
Yeah about a thousand times on trailers/ previews/adverts and it wasnt funny then.Quote:
Originally Posted by oscar
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - with Brendan Frazer - I know its not meant to be to taxing on the brain but some the the dialogue - the James Mason original also had better special effects - avoid like the plague
Step brothers again ( 3rd time ) still brilliant
that clown has no penis !
What the hell are ye dreaming about
I soo wanted to like this. but it was so poor. blades of glory is class tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by anto1208
Hate Brendan Frazer...what's the point of him?
Saw V For Vendetta, didn't think it was that good to be honest, nice to see all the explosions and fireworks at the end but didn't think too much of it. 2/5.
Watching Once Upon A Time in the West when I get the chance tonight or tomorrow and am hopeful for it.
Saw that recently & was also disappointed.Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
Its a long one but in my top 10 list. The start gives a good flavour of the following hours...Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
Ok I admit it. I am a total sap. Had a rough first Monday of the New Year so decided to unwind with a piece of fluff movie that have had no real interest in watching but since it was on Sky Anytime, decided to give it a view.
I cried my way through it and got the gooey feelings they were aiming for despite the hamfisted acting, really bad Irish accents (from Irish people!) and a rather hollow script.
Not a great movie, infacta (pardon the soon to be apparent pun) rather s*** one but perfectly fitted my life last night.
Yours in shameful pleasure movie viewing
Magicme
P.S. I love you.
The Rebel
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0782154/
Vietnamese action flick, best film I've seen in a while (I've seen a lot of crap lately). Plenty of action, fight scenes very well filmed. It keeps you interested, which seems to be an achievement these days! 9/10
Watched "Burn after Reading", liked it, but I was expecting better. Brad Pitt isn't too bad at comedy. Malkovich is very good.
Also watched "Man on Wire", pretty good, I never knew the history of the Twin towers tight-wire crossing, and all thru the documentary, I'm thinking the guy doing this crossing(Phillipe Petit) is completely and utterly insane.
Saw Michael Clayton and Road To Perdition over New Year's. Both very good.
Tom (?) Wilkinson was excellent in Michael Clayton. Some of his rants were hilarious.
You watched an Irish porn movie?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
err, yeah. Pretty much the same for meQuote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
Was on Sky Premier +1 last night, as soon as I started watching it I knew I'd have to watch the end of it. I'm weird like that, I have to watch something the whole way through.
Bourne Identity....good movie and some good action scenes
and don't anybody give me "the book or series was better" crap:p
What about the endangerment to citizens of European cities with the car chases from these Hollywood moviemakers, Ronin is another 'tour' through Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by oscar
I blame Grace Kelly (her acting not her driving.)
Finished off the Jumper and it was painful. How that got 3 stars in Empire I'll never know.
Lovefilm have sent me Hellboy 2 and man on wire. Fingers crossed.
I adore that film. I hope you enjoyed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
Watched 4 movies today/tonight as am holed up on sofa dying with the flu.
Vantage Point: Good storyline but annoying the way they would rewind it all the time. Glad I didnt watch it with my dad or he would have us demented coz he wouldnt get the rewinding thing at all!
Be Kind Rewind: Very disappointed in this. I hope I never have to watch a Jack Black movie again as he is just the same character over and over.
Raising Arizona: An oldie but goodie. Introduced it to my kids but they didnt get the humour of it really.
Bourne Identity: Still one of the best action/spy/thriller type movies of all time.
Watched REC ( as in record on a video camera )
Spainish horror film about a tv crew doing a report on the fire service they get locked into a buillding with a zombie virus. Very good very tense and some really good jumpy bits.
Picked it up in zavvi's sale for 3.50 euro