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fretfire said:

Casanova on Wednesday. I quite liked it. I was worried it would be cheesy but it was kinda sweet and contemplative on the nature of love, and of course, naughtiness.

Yeah right, Kim. Admit it, you only went to see it to drool over Heath Ledger! *coughIwouldtoocough*


I did see Aeon Flux. It wasn't that good, actually. The most fascinating things about it were Charlize Theron's hair, and the woman who had hands as feet.

The basic plot was that 99% of humans had been wiped out by a virus, a few were left living in this little isolated paradise. Aeon Flux was part of a group of covert rebels, wanting to stop the regime which was like Big Brother in that it watched people 24/7 and kept records of them, and that people went missing frequently with no explanation. Then the plot gets twisty turny etc.

Rather bland, actually. I understand that they've obviously thought more about the look of the place, and the plot, although not *that* different to previous films in the same vein, has obviously been worked out to sound fresh and thought provoking, but it just seems that they're only scratched the surface with it: wanting to do more of it, but due to various constraints haven't. Kinda sad when ideas seem unfulfilled on screen.

[Graham]

Wallace & Gromit - the Curse of the Ware-Rabbit

I enjoyed this - i'm a big Aardman fan, and this was funny. A bit lax, at times..and i'm not sure if they've quite got the script skills honed yet for longer productions, but it's a thoroughly good romp, with a great mix of childish, and more adult humour.

And Gromit rocks

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I don't think it deserved the "best film" or whatever it got recently, though.

[Graham]

wibble said:

I don't think it deserved the "best film" or whatever it got recently, though.

Agreed - whilst it's a good film, i'm not certain it lives up to the hype, as it were. Though in fairness, it's been quite a quiet period for films...not anything that's really caught the attention of the cinema goers.

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wibble said:

fretfire said:

Casanova on Wednesday. I quite liked it. I was worried it would be cheesy but it was kinda sweet and contemplative on the nature of love, and of course, naughtiness.

Yeah right, Kim. Admit it, you only went to see it to drool over Heath Ledger! *coughIwouldtoocough*

Of course that was my motivation... but I ended up enjoying the plot and the rest as well. Which was just as well, as I had couples and pairs of women everywhere... with a couple either side of me...

[Luco El Loco]

Last weekend I watched Universal Soldier: The Return on dvd for about the third or fourth time. It's no match for the intensity of the original, and has more gags in it, so if you want something serious you're not going to like this, but, if like me you sometimes like some daftness with your action then this has plenty. Bill Goldberg is thoroughly entertaining as one of the new universal soldiers, and Maichael Jai white makes a pretty dark humoured super computer that finds a body... oh yes... Jean-Claude Van Damme does the same roundhouse kick (as my flatmate puts it) and grins a lot and admires the cleavage on offer... but not necessarily in that order, heh.

[Graham]

Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 - Dead Man's Chest.

It's pretty good - don't be fooled by the people who say it's 'Fantastic', it's not, but there's defintely some promising moments. It was a bit annoying though how the film just 'finished' - it was as though they just cut the reel. It also felt as though there was some 'spark' missing too. It's good though, go and see it before you pass judgement, but i feel it's not a mark on it's predecessor.

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Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 - Dead Man's Chest.

It's pretty good - don't be fooled by the people who say it's 'Fantastic', it's not, but there's defintely some promising moments. It was a bit annoying though how the film just 'finished' - it was as though they just cut the reel. It also felt as though there was some 'spark' missing too. It's good though, go and see it before you pass judgement, but i feel it's not a mark on it's predecessor.

I'd agree. It's also not one you can zone out of and hope to fit right back in again, either. It's a fairly twisty plot, this one, which I'm not too sure the majority of the kids got. Especially not whilst they were getting restless near the end. Its the kind of plot where, in order to reach a certain goal, you've got to jump through loads of hoops to get there. And, as the audience, you have to keep up with what they've just done, leading onto what they're going to do, and why all of the time.

The Hills Have Eyes
Finally got to see this. It has Emilie de Raven (Claire [pregnant lady] from Lost) in it. I found parts of it quite hard to watch (like when the women were trapped in the trailer), but it was pretty good overall. I especially loved that they turned the dog into a Benji-esque hero-mutt part-way through. It's a big munchy, but not overly so, I wouldn't have though. And for once my predictions regarding characters was not spot-on: usually you can tell which are the slimeballs, which are wimpish, and which are going to have a sudden surge of sass and get all kick-arse on the baddies. This one had a few suprises in taht department, however. Overal it was ok, but they set it up for a sequel. I really want to comapre it to the original now, though.

Population 436
This film had a plot along the lines of "this tiny little paradis-esque village has kept the same population for centuries. Then a visiter turns up and the balance has to be reset, only when he wishes to go, things don't go his way" type affair. It wasn't that thrilling, I have to say, and i admit I got bored about 2/3 through, but it wasn't hard to pick up the plot again. They overworked the whole "I want to get out of here" thing. It starred Melanie Groffiths' loopy brother from TV show Six Feet Under and, believe it or not, Fred Durst. He, quite surprisingly, was probably the best actor there, pulling off the role quite convingly, actually. This was no Paris Hilton-style bash at acting.

[Graham]

Nacho Libre

I'm still unsure as what i think of it. There are some funny bits in it, but you do feel bad for laughing at them, as it's clearly not that funny. It's also hard to tell wether Jack Back is trying to do it seriously and making it funny, or not.

One to see if you want to be a bit confused i think.

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Lady In The Water

To be honest, I was expecting a bit of a horror/chiller-type affair, not too dissimilar from Signs. However, as LITW is a PG, I kinda figured that it wouldn't be that creepy. I was both right and wrong, in a sense.

LITW starts out as a fantasy affair, telling of how water beings used to help humans, etc etc. So the hero-bloke finds one of these beings and vows to help her complete her mission and get her home, involving various tennants of his American flatblock to aid in his deciphering of an old bedtime story come to life. However, the waterbeing has one arch enemy that refuses to let it complete it's mission and go home. #dun-dun-duuuuhn#

I have to say that this isn't the sort of movie you can go to see in the hope of it being a no-brainer. In actual fact, Shyamalan spends the entireity of the film trying to explain a rather complicated and laughable tale to an audience who just weren't expecting a film to bog itself down so much.

If you can stomach the sickly-sweet tale, the bland characters, which are in turn rather stereotypical and simply disinteresting (see the group of stoners, the horrendously girly sisters, the bookish critic, the hermit, the nerdy landlord complete with stutter and the Asian teen plus grouchy mother, who just so happen to know the fable), the pathetic attempt at a believable grass-covered villain and Shyamalan's arrogant and quite simply poorly-cast turn as the author who's set to change the world, then I suppose it'd be a decent yarn.

The one area that I can praise a little, however, is those supervising the score, as that did have quite an impact on how scary the grass-beast-thing was. In fact, I'd deem it a little too frightening for a PG film, given that children of 8 years and over are meant to be able to watch it unsupervised. Mind you, given all the brainwork involved, they probably would have given up and fallen asleep/started popcorn wars in the aisles before the beast parts kicked in.

[OhMyZeus]

The last movie I saw was Along Came Polly.. [It was on TV..]
I don't like romantic comedies very much, and it was just like any other. Slightly funny, but hardly... So I would only recommend it if you like romantic comedies. Which I don't. So if you're like me and you like movies that are either just plain stupid [In a good way] or horrors, because they make you laugh, I wouldn't recommend it.

[OhMyZeus]

The last movie i saw was Napoleon Dynamite. Terrible t say the least. It was supposed to be funny, but I failed to notice any humour... Also the lack of soundtrack through out the movie added to the boredom..

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ohmyzeus said:

The last movie i saw was Napoleon Dynamite. Terrible t say the least. It was supposed to be funny, but I failed to notice any humour... Also the lack of soundtrack through out the movie added to the boredom..

Ah, I comletely agree! I couldn't watch the end of this, in fact I barely got past the half hour mark before declaring it was tedious drivel and making Phil turn it off, so you've certainly got more patience than I have. There was just no way I could relate to or sympathise with any of the characters. They were all sh*ts, and not he juicy "ohh, I hope x happens to them/ I hope they'll get their comeuppance" type sh*ts, either, just plain, boring, unintelligible turds. I've no idea how some of the indiekids can claim this is "OMG soo frickin' cool, man!" on their MySpazzes.

[Andrew]

The Ringer: I quite enjoyed this but I was expecting more. I was quite surprised by Johnny Knoxvilles acting. Hes never going to win a oscar or anything but I was expecting him to be crap, which he wasnt.

R-Point: I think I'll have to watch this again because I kept nodding off, not because it's boring though. I must have missed some parts because I had no idea what was going on. Some soldiers go on a mission to find some missing soldiers. Not really sure how to explain it really because I had no idea what was going on but I think it has something to do with ghost.
Oh, and the diolog is sh*te, Ive never watched a film where the word 'asshole' is used so much.

[Graham]

yyy said:

The Ringer: I quite enjoyed this but I was expecting more. I was quite surprised by Johnny Knoxvilles acting. Hes never going to win a oscar or anything but I was expecting him to be crap, which he wasnt.

i saw a trailer for that, and i was expecting it to be really sh*te, but it could be one of those brainless films that are fun to watch without thinking of them