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Started by SmallBlueThing, 04 February, 2011, 12:40:44 PM

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CrazyFoxMachine

Duncan Jones is never going to make a 2000 AD film with that kind of talk Jim!

HE DIDN'T MEAN IT MASTER, WE LOVE YOU. MOON WAS GREAT SO I'VE HEARD. SOURCE CODE WAS TOLERABLE I'M LED TO BELIEVE.

Professor Bear

You'll have to take my word that I usually watch bad movies all the way through, but I only made it something like three minutes into Warcraft.

Smith

Warcraft was bad,no argument there.But it was kinda fun.It knows its crap,it caters to the fans of the rts games,it has a few nice easter eggs.

JamesC

I was disappointed that Warcraft flopped (rightly so though, it is pretty much unwatchable - got through about an hour before turning it off). Mainly because of what it's done to Duncan Jones's career trajectory.
I don't want to see him go the same way as Danny Cannon or Neil Marshall and pretty much give up with films in favour of TV.

Steve Green

Games to films seem like a bit of a poison chalice, with something like Warcraft there's all sorts of design considerations like the chunky armour so that they read well in the top down view.

By the time you've gone from knocked off D&D/Tolkien source to game, and then back to film *and* taking the interactivity out of it, I'm not sure it's ever going to work.

Plus coming into it after Sam Raimi bailed, and dealing with two serious illnesses in the family it must have been a tough project.

I still went to see it at the cinema, and didn't think it was that bad - the Orcs were far more interesting than the humans for the most part.

Looking forward to Mute anyway, seems like that will be more of a return to the likes of Moon.

Tiplodocus

THE HANDMAIDEN

Oldboy director Park Chan-wook cuts loose on a tale of intrigue and hustles in Japanese occupied Korea in the 1930s.  It's visually compelling to look at from the get-go (and gorgeously scored too) but as events unfold and are retold from different perspectives (giving an entirely new take on what's going on and who's conning who) it gets only better and better.

By the time it finishes, the men are ALL irredeemable bastards and I'm still not entirely sure who was most naive and most conned.

Great stuff.

Oh and if you are a bloke thinking of going to see it just for the hot, lesbian action*, you'll be reminded in the narrative itself why that still makes you a hot sweaty pervert.


*This movie was actually Mrs. Tips choice; and I did warn her off thinking it might get too dark for her tastes so I could stand proud in the cinema that I wasn't a hot, sweaty pervert.


A SINGLE MAN
Colin Firth, an Englishman in LA, struggles to get over the loss of his long-time partner Matthew Goode. It's the sixties so society isn't quite ready to let him grieve openly - he's not even allowed to the funeral in one of the most touching scenes - and this follows him for one day as he struggles with exactly what to do with that old service revolver (in one of the funniest scenes).  Again it's all gorgeously presented (did Tom Ford - director ever do ads?) and framed throughout as Falconer (Firth) is an outsider looking in.  Julianne Moore is in it and is also great.
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Hawkmumbler

Quote from: Tiplodocus on 18 April, 2017, 12:30:15 PM
THE HANDMAIDEN

Oldboy director Park Chan-wook cuts loose on a tale of intrigue and hustles in Japanese occupied Korea in the 1930s.  It's visually compelling to look at from the get-go (and gorgeously scored too) but as events unfold and are retold from different perspectives (giving an entirely new take on what's going on and who's conning who) it gets only better and better.

By the time it finishes, the men are ALL irredeemable bastards and I'm still not entirely sure who was most naive and most conned.

Great stuff.

Oh and if you are a bloke thinking of going to see it just for the hot, lesbian action*, you'll be reminded in the narrative itself why that still makes you a hot sweaty pervert.

Looking forward to this a great deal, as a hug fan of PCW's body of work (I seem to be in the minority who enjoyed Stoker as well!) and The Handmaiden has done nothing but get me hyped, it looks utterly phenomenal.

Satanist

The Void -  Stick The Thing, Prince of Darkness and Hellraiser in a blender and this is what you get.

Loved - The special effects are mostly make up and suits/animatronics

Hated - There is some very obvious basil in this. "You're just like your father, as he was stubborn just like you're being now", "Don't talk to her like that as she's my ex wife", etc

I quite enjoyed it as a low budget monster movie.
Hmm, just pretend I wrote something witty eh?

Theblazeuk

Logan wasn't quite the masterpiece I'd been sold but it was an enjoyable movie with a lot going for it. Definitely worth a watch and enjoyably stabby, violent and sweary. Kid was great and Jackman & Stewart did very well indeed. Professor X's lack of concern over Caliban didn't sit right with me as did Caliban's rather abrupt (clumsy) exit from the narrative, and I also grew tired of the plot armour surrounding the main baddie.

Still I am a sucker for broken heroes and always loved the X-Men as a beacon of hope in a world torn by hatred and fear. More so than the god-like vigilantes and adventurers of the Justice League, or the semi-official standing of the Avengers, the X-Men were superheroes who tried their best in the face of natural adversity.

Dandontdare

Quote from: Tiplodocus on 18 April, 2017, 12:30:15 PM
THE HANDMAIDEN
*This movie was actually Mrs. Tips choice; and I did warn her off thinking it might get too dark for her tastes so I could stand proud in the cinema that I wasn't a hot, sweaty pervert.

If you're "standing proud" in the cinema, I'd say you WERE a hot sweaty pervert. Keep it in yer pants, dude!

Hawkmumbler

Quote from: Dandontdare on 18 April, 2017, 03:58:42 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 18 April, 2017, 12:30:15 PM
THE HANDMAIDEN
*This movie was actually Mrs. Tips choice; and I did warn her off thinking it might get too dark for her tastes so I could stand proud in the cinema that I wasn't a hot, sweaty pervert.

If you're "standing proud" in the cinema, I'd say you WERE a hot sweaty pervert. Keep it in yer pants, dude!
'Snort' :lol:

Definitely Not Mister Pops

Fast and Furious 8

It starts with [spoiler]Vin Diesel winning a race in an old Cuban Banger powered by laughing gas while going backwards and on fire.[/spoiler] It gradually descends into glorious silliness after that.

The Rock is one charismatic sum'bitch it's gotta be said. He completely outshines the rest of the regular cast (not hard), and Charlize Theron is wonderful as always.
You may quote me on that.

Supreme Pizza Of The DPRK

Ghost In The Shell

9/10 - Best movie I've seen all year

CrazyFoxMachine

The Wicker Man

At times colossally camp - absurdly hokey - utterly magnetic. It's a gloriously insane tale of pagan ritual and the delusion of faith. The late Woodward and Lee are spectacular. The whole thing vibrates with a grim energy and all the soft porn and 70's folk pop musical numbers fall away with that iconic, enthralling, mind-destroying finale.

dweezil2

Quote from: Smith on 16 April, 2017, 06:28:35 AM
Robocop (2014).Not as terrible as I expected,but its a generic/mediocre action movie.I got to say,Samuel L Jackson does steal the show.

Really?

It was far worse than I expected and I expected it to be really bad!  :o
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