rate the last film you watched

The Newman poker scene on the train is pretty sweet Ana. Oh Paul, how I love thee...

That's true. That pout + that mustache =

[050] 127 Hours

Meh, this seemed like it was trying to hard at the beginning to be edgy/high tech/cool/whatever. The film lacked a lot of substance for me. They tried to make you connect with the guy with inserts of his past, his dreams etc but those didn't help, they didn't add anything to the story, which isn't that good to begin with. I've seen better survival stories on the Discovery Channel, and those don't rely on a young, hot actor, beautiful female actresses, saturated colors, heart-felt glances at the oh-so-wonderful sky, time lapses that have nothing to do with anything...I could go on. Anyway I wasn't impressed and it's not worth paying cinema for this, glad I just downloaded it. Franco isn't going to win best actor, although he did a good job with the script he was dealt. 5/10

been unemployed for a month now so catching up with some movies and watching some classics

The King's Speech 9/10
The Crazies 6/10
Aliens 10/10
The Men who stare at goats 7/10
Four Lions 7/10
Whiteout 3/10
Predators 7/10
District 9 8/10
Bronson 8/10
I love you,man 5/10
What lies beneath 3/10
The A team 9/10
Goonies 9/10
Avatar 9/10
24 Hour party people 8/10
Get him to the greek 6/10
True blood season 2 7/10
Total Larsson 10/10

Hereafter


5/10 fell asleep half way in from what i remember its pretty lame

Man v. Food - Season 3 (2010)



Most of his interactions with people are cringe-worthy but a lot of the food is really neat and some of the challenges are entertaining.

6/10

[051] Blue Valentine

I really, really liked this film. It's a bit hipsterish at times (the clothes, the soundtrack made by Grizzly Bear, the wedding scene, the end credits), but all in all it's a performance-driven film, and luckily for the film, the two leads are fantastic in it. I doubt Michelle Williams will snatch the Oscar but I'd like it if she did, she's great--detestable as a human being--but great. Actually she's not detestable, I just don't like it when female behaviors are so accurately portrayed on screen, hits too close to home. Anyway Ryan Gosling is as good as ever in this; some scenes were very nice, some were heartbreaking. There was a kind of subtle symbolism that I thought worked pretty well. The non-linear narrative was good, kept you interested throughout and the flashbacks didn't really disrupt the 'present' story, f anything it filled you in on details. All in all, I recommend it if you're in the mood to watch a love story gone wrong with two great young actors who'll probably end up winning an Oscar eventually.
7.5/10

Been very slack lately, OK here goes, lots to update...

010: Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan


I enjoyed it, didn't think it was as amazing as loads of people have claimed but it was enjoyable, didn't really have a problem keeping up with it either as loads of people had said it was a head fuck and that you really need to concentrate, I found it quite easy to follow, and thought it was explained quite well. my only gripe with it was it was too similar to shutter island in premise, though I preferred it to that film, the whole thing of DiCaprio/viewer slowly unlocking the mystery of the break up of his family was very samey.

8.0

011: Chinatown (1974) - Roman Polanski


I like the pacing of this film, seems to float along really nicely, slowly uncovering the mysteries, good old fashioned linear storytelling, Nicholson and Dunaway are both great, but the ending blew me away, brilliantly shoy and conceived, I really was not expecting it either, the last 5 minutes really take the film to a higher level.

8.1

012: The Apartment (1960) - Jack Lemon


Another enjoyable film, light hearted comedy dealing with darker issues but not quite a black comedy, Jack Lemon is brilliant in it, such a great physical actor and he seems to be able to embody completly different emotions and believably too, great premise too.

8.1

013: Waynes World (1992) - Penelope Spheeris


Like people who say Star Wars was the film of their youth, this was mine, I must have watched this film 50 times in my life, can't really say more, its a stupid and what not but I have a connection with it, I know all the words and I still laugh at it, the second one wasn't as good but still a favourite.

8.4

014: Blood Simple (1984) - Joel Coen


The Coens first film, tense film noir pastiche, you can tell they are finding their feet, doesn't threaten to reach the dizzy heights they have done since, but enjoyable nontheless.

7.3

015: The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) - Joel Coen


Along with Fargo, probably my favourite Coens film, brilliantly shot, feels like it could have been made in 1960, great performance from Billy Bob Thornton, you are really dragged through the film at his characters pace which is a great achievement, and obviously a great meandering story from the Coens, brilliant.

9.0

016: Changeling (2008) - Clint Eastwood


I wasn't really sure this would be my thing before watching it, but the fact it had good reveiws and Eastwood was directing lead me to watch it and I was really surprised, I loved it. Never been a huge fan of Jolie before but she puts in a great performance, but the story is the killer, its quite harrowing at times and the direction is supurb, really sucks you into the plight of the protagonist and feels very claustrophobic at times.

8.8

017: The Big Lebowski (1998) - Joel Coen


I was going through a bit of a Coens phase... anyway this was the first of their films I ever saw years ago and I don't think I fully appreciated it then, I thought it was a bit weird, but as tastes expand and I've come to love all of their work I went back to this with opened eyes and although it's very enjoyable, I don't think its this amazingly great film that it is sometimes made out to be, I like the Dude on his own, but the dialogue between the Dude and John Goodmans character grates on me sometimes, a small qualm really, but a good film nonetheless, if not mind blowing.

7.8

018: North By Northwest (1959) - Alfred Hitchcock


I suppsoe a little lense intense for Hitchcock and not as dark as he can be, but one of his strongest films for me, does well to mix up a good potion of intensitty & slight comedy with a really well paced and slightly fragmented story, some great notorious scenes too with the crop duster and mount Rushmore at the end. Carey Grant does what Carey Grant does too and puts in a good performance and I will never tire of listening to James Masons voice

8.2

019: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - Wed Anderson


I really enjoy all of Wes Andersons films, even The Life Aquatic, but this along with Rushmore & Bottle Rocket are my favourites, good performances all round from the ensamble cast, no real standouts, it works well because like the story everyone is pulling at their own piece of overal narrative, I love Andersons little direction techniques and camera work and soundtracks though, they really keep things fresh and interesting.

8.2

020: The Shining (1980) - Stanley Kubrick


First time I've seen this, good solid film, good performance from Nicholson, I suppose its doing what he does best, good interesting direction from Kubrick as well, it looks fantastic too. I'm not really a horror movie fan as such and although this is only bordering on horror its the kind I prefer, tense and slow building, Shelly Duvall is a tad annoying though.

8.3

021: Unstoppable (2010) - Tony Scott


Not great to be honest, only really watched it as I was at my parents house and they had it on, kind of obvious 'average man saves the day' type hollywood film, Denzil Washington being Denzil Washington, ok for a lazy Sundy afternoon watch I suppose, nothing more.

5.0

022: A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick


A stone cold classic obviously, love it, everything about it, the style, how it looks, the soundtrack, the narrative, Malcolm McDowells stirling performance, can't really add much more that hasn't already been said

8.9

023: Inland Empire (2006) - David Lynch


What the fuck? Probably the must fucked up weird film i've ever seen, but I loved it, I love Lynch anyway and he is obviously very abstract, but I think its the weirdest film he's ever done, the brilliant thing about Lynch is you have to take yourself out of the film and see the big picture to have any chance of understanding even the smallest part of it, but you can't whilst your watching it because it sucks you right into this nightmarish meandering abstract mindset that goes all over the place, so you have to really sit and ponder about it afterwards, its all I've thought about since I watched it. Laura Dern is absolutely fantastic in it too. Mullholland Drive was a headfuck and really took some thinking and reading up on, this is even weirder.

8.9

024: Twin Town (1997) - Kevin Allen


It was ok actually, a light hearted look at quite a bleak way of life. Set in Swansea, kind of black comedy but involving quite a dark story, remember seeing this when I was a kid and enjoying it, seemed a bit tamer now, but a decent watch

7.0

I love family man bakester.

edit; good reading, krburg.

mad men season 2. The story continued, the acting too. I watched it too close to the first one to separate them. 9/10 or perhaps 8.

Woh, big update Kev, Real big. always loved the Waynes World films, I honestly don't think there is much difference in terms of quality between the two of them. First one edges it but I enjoy the 2nd one just as much.

#49 Faces [1968]

Fuck me this was a slog. Something I've always wanted to see because of the high praise it gets & whilst the performances were all great I just could not get into it at all. Simple scenes seemed drawn out two/three times longer than they had to be. Then half the film was spent watching rich drunk people be incredibly obnoxious & overly loud whilst acting like morons. I know this was probably the intention of Cassavetes & as a character study it probably is a good one so I can understand it's praise but on a personal level watching two hours of wealthy people act like drunken arseholes then argue for the other hour is not the way I like to spend my nights.
4

#50 The Hillside Strangler (2004)

Liked this more than I thought I would. By no means great & I don't know much about the actual case it was based on so can't judge it on how true to the story it was but I thought it was pretty well done. At times it felt like I was watching one of those FBI files you get late on channel 5 (which I always quite enjoy) yet there was a couple of quite disturbing scenes which really surprised me.
6.5

#51 Death Rides A Horse [1967]

This is always regarded as one of the best Spaghetti Western's outside of Leone's work. Whilst Lee Van Cleef gave a good performance he didn't have the kind of energy or magnetism that he manages in his roles for Leone which was kind of disappointing though it holds up well & delivers the goods.
7

pusher (1996)



a gritty danish film showing a week in the life of a drugs pusher called frank and the BIG SHIT he gets himself into.

pretty good watch but i found it took a little while to get going. nice last 20mins especially though.

7

Buried

7/10


definitely made me into a claustrophobic, it was a good but i kept itching and walking around, being buried alive is the worse thing ever.

Nowhere Boy
7/10

how can you not love a well produced film about john lennon

[052] The King's Speech

I only downloaded this for the buzz, and honestly thought this was going to be a 3-hour drama epic about some king and some shit war or something, I hadn't even read what it was about. Boy, was I wrong! This blew me away, almost cried with joy at Geoffrey Rush's performance, love that guy, he was great in this. Kudos to Colin Firth as well, for stepping out of his rom-com safety zone and doing an actual great job with a difficult character. Those two were really great together. I totally recommend this, it's 2 hours of fun and well-done cinema tbh.
8.5/10

King of the Hill - Season 13 (2008)



In its final season KOTH continues to rely on its core character strengths for its humor. Bar a couple Luann episodes it is done very, very well. Perhaps its best season. The season was cut short by the network so the series finale actually aired before 4 other episodes only aired in syndication (Cartoon Network) not FOX. The series finale was a heart-warming spot where Hank finally gets on with Bobby.

8/10

The Crazies (2010)



This is a remake of a Romero film by the same name that takes place in Iowa. Small townsfolk begin to get infected by something that was introduced by the govt and turn folks into almost zombie-like bloodthirsty murderers. Those not infected must not only contend with the infected, but also the U.S. soldiers out to murder anything not in a uniform.

After reading a bit about it they shot some of this in Georgia. Why are we supposed to believe there are swamps in Iowa? Don't get it. Otherwise above average and the action starts at the beginning of the film.

6/10.

The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (2007)



boo!

7 Efficiently creepy and scary; although a bit long, still absorbing throughout

I hope you two had the two different films going at the same time. That'd be great!

para would have watched all of the crazies but she HAD TOO MANY DRINKS lmao