films we just saw

lupogirl · Post by **lupogirl** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:42 pm

Saw the Oliver Stone's W. Thought this was going to be more of aggressive film making towards Bush junior. Instead plays more of a understanding angle of the character George W Bush. At times-hate to say it-sympathetic and other times cringing. Thought Josh Brolin was excellent at times uncannily like W.

Next was Anaconda 3- The Offspring. So enjoyed this one. David Hasseloff overracting as per usual. Some cheap, cheerful and laughable CGI and script to boot. A most certain no brainer.

Grindhouse · Post by **Grindhouse** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:44 pm

After my viewing fiasco of last week,resulting in me,taking a break from film watching and reading a book,the weekend offered up a film that was refreshing to see,Fido just when you thought everything about zombies had been done,along comes this piece of movie magic,blowing away those bad movies from the allnighter and my recent viewings,so funny and so very well done i must have watched this a couple of times and it still made me chuckle.

orlovsky · Post by **orlovsky** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:11 pm

Fido is superb, Billy Connelly is fantastic as a zombie

Hello Doris! · Post by **Hello Doris!** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:19 am

orlovsky wrote:Fido is superb, Billy Connelly is fantastic as a zombie

and we saw it yonks ago! Ahhh the joy of pirate material

Grindhouse · Post by **Grindhouse** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:02 am

Paris Lockdown,this is like a film fulci would have made if he was still alive,feels like its scripted by shaun hutson,nasty brutal and bloody,not one for the squeamish.

Satans Puppy · Post by **Satans Puppy** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:31 pm

Non Horror....

KUNG FU PANDA... Jack Black is just Awesome!!

mamawaldi · Post by **mamawaldi** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:06 am

The Brave One - Or Jodie Foster does Death Wish. Sure it has pretensions to be a more serious commentary on life and the lengths one will go to in order to be "alive". But really it's just JF shooting muggers. Humdrum. Much preferred Kevin Bacon in Death Sentence - at least it was honest about its intentions.

Grindhouse · Post by **Grindhouse** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:48 pm

a wednesday afternoon at the movies and im running late for Bond so i settle for less and less is what i got with Max Payne somebody should have told the director less is more,less talking more Action,its not rocket science or shouldnt be,but you get 100 mins or so padded out with talking and a few well done action sequences,that just arent enough in this day and age to get by on in action cinema,let alone a game to film adaptation,its a bit of a mixture and sure it has some interesting effects with winged demons,which feels rather strange to the film like we have had a cop movie edited with constantine 2,all in all probably one of the dullest & slowest game to film,cop action movies ever,its at times like these that you really appreciate Crying Freeman

Bearded Avenger · Post by **Bearded Avenger** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:12 pm

Zack & Miri Make a Porno - not vintage Smith - in fact I was slightly concerned during the first 10 minutes due to the lack of laughs. However it does gets better and does have quite a sweet story. Justin Long steals the film as a gay porn star. And Jason Mewes once again does well in a non-Jay/not 100% playing himself role. Having said that it would have probably been better if it featured Jay and Silent Bob. Better than a lot of recent comedies, but still only 3/5.

rawshark · Post by **rawshark** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:17 pm

Hello Doris! wrote:
orlovsky wrote:Fido is superb, Billy Connelly is fantastic as a zombie
and we saw it yonks ago! Ahhh the joy of pirate material

Hmmm..
Not quite sure the filmmakers or distributors would agree with you there...

Hello Doris! · Post by **Hello Doris!** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:16 pm

In all fairness we tend to buy anything we like - Grindhouse was brought several times over for all the different releases. Also if they made adult only cinemas - ie no twunts allowed I would be more inclined to go to the cinema. And if distrubutors did the same release dates everywhere people wouldn't pirate as much as they do.

And I know its bad, where I work tells me its bad. Don't worry I haven't downloaded Mum & Dad - I've actually been telling everyone I know to buy it, and am still trying to get work to show it as a screening.
So its all good, I'll make sure Revolver don't get screwed over

kimblebee · Post by **kimblebee** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:59 pm

Film (feature) I just saw: Murray Walker's Motorsport Madness - about 30 or so times! Was amazing each and every time - I think I have found my new celebrity crush! You should all endeavour to watch it (legally

) when it comes out on Monday

The perfect xmas gift! I wish you all a Murray Christmas!

(Shameless.. I know..)

Reanimator · Post by **Reanimator** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:23 am

Just watched 'The King of Kong - a fistful of quarters' - what an excellent documentary - this is well worth checking out.

I also saw Tropic Thunder - the film is pretty good but is a must view just for the Tom Cruise scenes!

rawshark · Post by **rawshark** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:37 am

No worries Doris, wasn't having a go really..

True, increasing use of Piracy during these credit crunch months is going to have implications for independent films and distributors, but that's a topic for a whole new thread. We hope we're doing something with our day-and-date release of M&D to try and combat that (although Odeon, Cineworld and Vue have all refused to show it in their cinemas out of principle of collapsing the Cinema / DVD release window)...

For the record, I quite liked Fido, but it did feel the concept was a little under-used..

Oh, and Reanimator, so glad you like The King of Kong, easily one of my favourites of Revolver's releases this year - love that movie!!

"I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs - I play video games!"

Team Banzai · Post by **Team Banzai** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:44 am

haven't seen KING OF KONG.. must check out..

i watched the new INDIANA JONES and HELLBOY films - review now up on the hd blog.

also saw NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD.. an amazing, jaw-dropping documentary on ozsploitation films - unmissable entertainment that you will need to take a notepad along to see to write down all the titles of the incredible films that you didn't know existed.

watch out for some kind of frightfest screening of this at some stage.