Recommended Films

**Neish** · 13/02/2008, 4:20 PM

Watched Closer last night great show

**Aberdonian Stu** · 13/02/2008, 8:51 PM

Just saw Michael Clayton earlier, very good.

**pete** · 14/02/2008, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by HarpoJoyce

Dman,
I like alot of the Coen Bros. probably the commercial stuff more than their quieter films. But My Old Man from the Country saw the film and he said No.
I think he prefers Mel Gibson Bloodfests.

I've yet to see it.

Don't listen to the naysayers. I thought it was a captivating film & really draws you in. Don't think about the end too much,

**sligoman** · 14/02/2008, 1:28 AM

Saw Crash, Juno and Bee Movie(

) in the past few days. All good, Crash & Juno especially.

**John83** · 14/02/2008, 9:32 AM

Originally Posted by pete

Don't listen to the naysayers. I thought it was a captivating film & really draws you in. Don't think about the end too much,

Do.
SPOILER: It's an utterly anti-Hollywood movie. Every cliche about what the ending should be is ignored; a main character is killed off-screen; there is no soundtrack.
It's a very interesting film.

**geysir** · 17/02/2008, 3:51 PM

A big point about the ending is that you makes you think.
It's not gift wrapped.
I'll be having another look at it soon.

**shakermaker1982** · 18/02/2008, 11:54 AM

I've bought the book on the back of the movie. I read the Road (same author) and found it boring so fingers crossed that it turns out decent.

Watched the Kingdom on Saturday and have to say it's very average.

**jebus** · 18/02/2008, 1:33 PM

Originally Posted by shakermaker1982

I've bought the book on the back of the movie. I read the Road (same author) and found it boring so fingers crossed that it turns out decent.

Watched the Kingdom on Saturday and have to say it's very average.

How could you find the Road a boring novel? Genuinely probably the best post-apocolyoptic book I've ever read. No Country For Old Men is the best movie I've watched this year, although I hear it's gonna get challenged pretty strongly by There Will Be Blood

**centre mid** · 18/02/2008, 1:42 PM

Wathced "The Pursuit of Happyness" last night. Will Smith starred and I think directed. Very touching story best performance i've ever seen Will Smith give. I didnt think he had it in him.

**shakermaker1982** · 19/02/2008, 8:51 AM

Originally Posted by jebus

How could you find the Road a boring novel? Genuinely probably the best post-apocolyoptic book I've ever read. No Country For Old Men is the best movie I've watched this year, although I hear it's gonna get challenged pretty strongly by There Will Be Blood

His writing style didn't appeal to me. Very very descriptive in outlining the landscape. I don't want 6 pages telling me how the dust settles on the vegetation. I know there was just him and the kid and you can't just fill the page with dialogue but it lacked something. I know it's praised to high heavens but I really struggled with it. It may be just his writing style but I just couldn't get stuck into it.

Fingers crossed I get to see There Will Be Blood this weekend - from the sound of things it's a masterpiece.

**bennocelt** · 19/02/2008, 6:21 PM

Has anyone seen Into The Wild yet? I have read the book, excellent, and Im very curious how it is portrayed on the big screen.

**Saint MacDara** · 19/02/2008, 6:26 PM

Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

Anyone see No Country for Old Men? Top class film in every department.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a superior film imo

**HarpoJoyce** · 19/02/2008, 8:47 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

Has anyone seen Into The Wild yet? I have read the book, excellent, and Im very curious how it is portrayed on the big screen.

Yes its a good film, the actor playing the lead role looks and acts like a young Johnny Depp. I was talking to someone else who had read the book before she saw the film and she was impressed with the film too.

**DIFChick** · 20/02/2008, 3:20 PM

Great film, great book and soundtrack is fab too. Love Eddie Vedder's voice!

**jebus** · 20/02/2008, 3:40 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

Has anyone seen Into The Wild yet? I have read the book, excellent, and Im very curious how it is portrayed on the big screen.

I actually prefer the movie, it's very true to the account given in the book, but thankfully cuts out the author's ego trips

**geysir** · 20/02/2008, 4:07 PM

Did anybody see an okeyish humorous French Film on Film 4 some months ago called
Romuald et Juliette with Daniel Autiel?
Where he is the CEO of a yoghurt company, he appoints one director to be his VP, who turns out to be the spitting image of John Delaney, who unwittingly poisons a production batch and elopes with Daniel's wife.
The resemblance was uncanny.

**geysir** · 23/02/2008, 2:17 PM

I'm a fan of the classic 50's westerns. Shane was on Sky movies last night.
I have mixed feelings about it. Van Hefflin (my mother's hero, so I guess he could have been my father) and Jack Palace were class but if ever a wife needed some bitch slapping it was Van's wife, she whined on and on and on and the least said about the son the better.
I still rate the 3:10 to Yuma 1957 as the best out of the 50�s, especially with the acting, casting, direction, understated psychologically gripping plot and realistic.

Shane is the one that could do with a remake.

**HarpoJoyce** · 23/02/2008, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

I'm a fan of the classic 50's westerns.......I still rate the 3:10 to Yuma 1957 as the best out of the 50�s, especially with the acting, casting, direction, understated psychologically gripping plot and realistic.

Shane is the one that could do with a remake.

A friend of mine said to me a few years ago. " why do they remake good films, they should think about remaking rubbish stuff".

**Block G Raptor** · 24/02/2008, 8:47 AM

picked up a great bargain in Virgin megastore in blanch yesterday "the little black book of movies" for €9, it's a couple of thousand pages of the pivotal film's, people and Scenes from world cinema, it's done in chronological order by Decade and has some fantastic movie stills in it, would recomend for any movie buff

**ken foree** · 04/03/2008, 12:42 PM

"there will be blood" is an epic. a masterpiece. it's not flawless by any stretch but it's got incredible, elemental power. the movie works as an obvious narrative on the surface but it kept me awake last night for 2 hours going over every interlocking layer. there is heavy symbolism, mind-blowing imagery, and it says something about both the movie and the viewer that i just didn't get it when i saw it. it stayed with me and revealed itself like a puzzle-box in the days after. it's a work of art. johnny greenwood from radiohead does the soundtrack which is also excellent. fantastic film, day lewis is the best i've seen him. i didn't know hollowood made movies like this any more, p. anderson is a genius.