Rate the last film you saw

**cheifo** · 27/03/2009, 4:37 PM

The Counterfeiters- most enjoyable and recommended.

**osarusan** · 05/04/2009, 12:14 PM

Saw An Inconvenient Truth (again) last night and thought it was sheeeeiiite (again).

**SkStu** · 06/04/2009, 3:40 PM

watched Dead Mans Shoes for the first time at the weekend. Brilliant, disturbing, touching movie.

9/10

**shakermaker1982** · 07/04/2009, 6:57 AM

Originally Posted by SkStu

watched Dead Mans Shoes for the first time at the weekend. Brilliant, disturbing, touching movie.

9/10

class film.

Watched Gomorrah and was disappointed after hearing so many good things about it. Disjointed and lacked characters that we actually gave a monkeys about. 5/6 out of 10.

The watchmen was average. Visually it looked stunning but your better off reading the graphic novel. Malin Akerman was brilliant in this

6 out of 10.

**anto1208** · 07/04/2009, 8:21 AM

Watched waveriders Irish surfing documentary in the cinema's at the moment. Very good mainly locals but also Kelly slater and the Malloy brothers also take trips to Ireland do some surfing and some interviews.

Mainly set up north around Bundoran and easkey. The Irish guys are the guys you may have seen in the paper surfing a spot in clare with 50 foot waves ( 2nd biggest wave in the world ) great footage of this. One scene where with a surfer is taking off on a wave he is tiny on the screen and the wave grows and grows to fill the full cinema screen !! scary stuff.

Pretty short at 1hour 10mins but recomended even if you arent big into surfing.

**bennocelt** · 07/04/2009, 9:12 AM

saw "Goodbye Lenin" last nite - have to say was a little disappointed.
I have high standards for German movies at the moment, and with the subject matter it could have been a bit deeper - too lighthearted for me

has anyone seen the Damned Utd yet?????????????????

**Aberdonian Stu** · 07/04/2009, 9:19 AM

The Damned United is alright, horribly lacking depth as a movie though. There's some very entertaining bits but it just never really gets to the heart of the story.

**ken foree** · 07/04/2009, 5:21 PM

Originally Posted by anto1208

Watched waveriders Irish surfing documentary in the cinema's at the moment. Very good mainly locals but also Kelly slater and the Malloy brothers also take trips to Ireland do some surfing and some interviews.

Mainly set up north around Bundoran and easkey. The Irish guys are the guys you may have seen in the paper surfing a spot in clare with 50 foot waves ( 2nd biggest wave in the world ) great footage of this. One scene where with a surfer is taking off on a wave he is tiny on the screen and the wave grows and grows to fill the full cinema screen !! scary stuff.

Pretty short at 1hour 10mins but recomended even if you arent big into surfing.

excellent! thanks, i saw the trailer for this and one other irish surfing doc., looks fantastic. the rest of the world is starting to pay attention to ireland's west coast because there are some truly monstrous waves there. ail na searrach ("aileen's") might be the wave you refer to in clare, at the base of the cliffs, it can get enormous. i wouldn't call it the 2nd biggest in the world just yet, i think peahi (jaws) in hawaii, maverick's in n. california, and cortes bank (a seamount 100 miles off the coast of san diego) would all lay claim to bigger waves, the former two certainly more consistently so. even then, there are "slab waves" (tremendously thick rather than high) such as teahupoo in tahiti and shipstern's bluff in tasmania, waves of fantastic power and danger. still that shouldn't detract from the massive waves being surfed at aileen's and mullaghmore (which is huge and was tow-surfed in epic conditions last year) in ireland and well done to the surfers and filmmakers for making it so!

anyone remotely interested who wants to have their minds blown, have a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxLs0Cv4zY

**anto1208** · 07/04/2009, 7:27 PM

Originally Posted by ken foree

excellent! thanks, i saw the trailer for this and one other irish surfing doc., looks fantastic. the rest of the world is starting to pay attention to ireland's west coast because there are some truly monstrous waves there. ail na searrach ("aileen's") might be the wave you refer to in clare, at the base of the cliffs, it can get enormous. i wouldn't call it the 2nd biggest in the world just yet, i think peahi (jaws) in hawaii, maverick's in n. california, and cortes bank (a seamount 100 miles off the coast of san diego) would all lay claim to bigger waves, the former two certainly more consistently so. even then, there are "slab waves" (tremendously thick rather than high) such as teahupoo in tahiti and shipstern's bluff in tasmania, waves of fantastic power and danger. still that shouldn't detract from the massive waves being surfed at aileen's and mullaghmore (which is huge and was tow-surfed in epic conditions last year) in ireland and well done to the surfers and filmmakers for making it so!

anyone remotely interested who wants to have their minds blown, have a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxLs0Cv4zY

Yip thats aileens, 50ft Its up there with Jaws, as they say in the film its only a matter of time before the biggest wave of the year will be surfed in ireland. With the weather getting wilder, over the next 10 years i can see it being huge. It only really been watched for the last 5 years who knows how big it got before that.

**bennocelt** · 08/04/2009, 9:57 AM

http://www.itv.com/Sport/Football/Ne...s/default.html

a clip of the real chat and the one from the movie!

**ken foree** · 08/04/2009, 1:22 PM

Originally Posted by anto1208

Yip thats aileens, 50ft Its up there with Jaws, as they say in the film its only a matter of time before the biggest wave of the year will be surfed in ireland. With the weather getting wilder, over the next 10 years i can see it being huge. It only really been watched for the last 5 years who knows how big it got before that.

exactly and who knows what other beasts lie in wait around the west or off-shore... the only drawback in ireland is our wind and cold water, the former because it can create unsurfable conditions, the latter because it tends to keep the cameras and big names away (not that locals would complain of course).

back on topic, "riding giants" is a terrific documentary about big wave riding including the amazing story of jeff clark who surfed a huge, incredibly dangerous wave off the coast of northern california by himself for 13 years. anto if you haven't seen it, you must! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADy8f6t4Ri8

**thischarmingman** · 08/04/2009, 11:45 PM

Saw Religulous tonight (at the Lighthouse in Smithfield for the first time0 v. shiny

). Thought it was a very clear-sighted and witty attack on organised religion. It was also, most importantly for a comedy, extremely funny. I've read quite a few reviews on it that bemoan the fact that it selects the most misguided or the most 'wacky' interviewees which really annoys me because at the end of the day, even the most moderate followers of any of these religions believe in virgin births, gardens of Eden and resurrections. They're all fair game and Bill Maher shows them up magnificently in this documentary.

**thischarmingman** · 09/04/2009, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Possibly Best ending ever.

Bit like Usual Suspects where if you know the ending film is sort of pointless then.

Still haven't seen Wicker Man, despite possessing the DVD for ages now, but there couldn't be anyone out there who doesn't know the ending surely?

Originally Posted by bennocelt

saw "Goodbye Lenin" last nite - have to say was a little disappointed.
I have high standards for German movies at the moment, and with the subject matter it could have been a bit deeper - too lighthearted for me

has anyone seen the Damned Utd yet?????????????????

Thought GL was pretty good when I saw it but it was a few years ago now son can't remember much about it now. I'm looking forward to seeing TDU though- Michael Sheen is one of the best actors around at the moment and seems to be enjoying a very rich run of form. He still reminds me of Tony Blair when he does that grin though.

Anyway, I picked Rebel Without a Cause up for �2 recently, I'm hoping it's not one of those iconic rather than classic movies. (See also: Tiffany's, Breakfast At)

**HarpoJoyce** · 09/04/2009, 1:19 AM

Originally Posted by thischarmingman

Still haven't seen Wicker Man, despite possessing the DVD for ages now, but there couldn't be anyone out there who doesn't know the ending surely?

Thought GL was pretty good when I saw it but it was a few years ago now son can't remember much about it now. I'm looking forward to seeing TDU though- Michael Sheen is one of the best actors around at the moment and seems to be enjoying a very rich run of form. He still reminds me of Tony Blair when he does that grin though.

Anyway, I picked Rebel Without a Cause up for �2 recently, I'm hoping it's not one of those iconic rather than classic movies. (See also: Tiffany's, Breakfast At)

I saw Goodbye Lenin in the cinema, for me I felt it was always presented as a teenage eye view of early 1990's. I nice German film. (Edukators maybe a similar type movie, I havn't seen it.)

Rebel without a Cause is teenagers having a voice for one of the first times. I would put it in the Iconic box. When I watch it i look at it through late 20thC. eyes and I thinks that's a mistake. I need to just watch and enjoy the film. Do you like Planetariums?

Two Simon Pegg fims, 'Hot Fuzz' alot better than I expected. Edward Woodward is in it too. And I saw the first half of 'How to Alienate people... (something)' . I was delighted it was away from Britain and a strong cast. Good British film, poor standard from USA.

**bennocelt** · 09/04/2009, 7:44 AM

Originally Posted by thischarmingman

Still haven't seen Wicker Man, despite possessing the DVD for ages now, but there couldn't be anyone out there who doesn't know the ending surely?

me!