A few films recently watched.

  On 4/2/2011 at 5:14 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

Never let me go:　Man this is terrible. Are all English films about boarding school love triangles? Jesus this film made me want to "complete" before it finished. The sci-fi element made no sense, why did they let the people travel wherever they wanted - free range organs? And none of them are even remotely pissed off? It seemed the sci-fi element was only there to up the emo factor. Practically every emotional reaction seemed implausible. Also Keira Knightly is a pretty good actress but she looks distractingly anorexic here. crap/10

Yeah I was majorly let down after watching this film. Something about that other actress. Mulligan, idk, plus the garfield guy is a major pussy

I liked it.

Harry Potter XXVIII or whatever - Part I

Man, I'm a sucker for these movies and this one was pretty fucking good. The sound design especially. Everything was kept extremely minimalistic - even the soundtrack was extremely simple compared to the last couple of HP soundtracks. Beautiful.

yea, harry potters all all cool

rare exports - wtf?!/10

I'm watching Eyes Wide Shut right now. Fuck Nicole Kidman.

  On 4/2/2011 at 9:42 PM, halisray said:

  On 4/2/2011 at 5:14 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

Never let me go:　Man this is terrible. Are all English films about boarding school love triangles? Jesus this film made me want to "complete" before it finished. The sci-fi element made no sense, why did they let the people travel wherever they wanted - free range organs? And none of them are even remotely pissed off? It seemed the sci-fi element was only there to up the emo factor. Practically every emotional reaction seemed implausible. Also Keira Knightly is a pretty good actress but she looks distractingly anorexic here. crap/10

Yeah I was majorly let down after watching this film. Something about that other actress. Mulligan, idk, plus the garfield guy is a major pussy

Foolishness! I love this film...has a feel to it that I have not seen in many films.....sterile yet heartbreaking, with a bit of hope in the fact that they realize but are forced into their terrible position in this life. The question of cloning and personalities has never been tackled in a film that I can remember, perhaps in Moon, but not to the emotional degree of this film. Fuck you guys in your lame asses/10

  On 4/2/2011 at 11:45 PM, Squee said:

I'm watching Eyes Wide Shut right now. Fuck Nicole Kidman.

Fuck Her Sailor style!

I dunno dude, I admire your ability to always look past the acting, dialogue, pacing, etc of a film and judge it on the merits of the core idea. For me it felt like someone got the bright idea of applying teen romance to the cloning issue, in the same way the Twilight chick got the bright idea "Vampires are so romantic, Anne Rice figured that out but she introduced too many gay, highbrow elements, I'm gonna write the definitive Judy Blume teenybopper version and cash in!" I admit there were spots where it started to move me - Knightly plays a surprisingly good cripple - but it really made no sense. Even within the film's logic, why in the hell would some kid's art be able to prove true love? Say what? And again, why are they allowed to roam wherever they choose, and pollute their bodies with bad food, and risk their "cargo" by driving around in cars? Wtf, even the Island was more logically and emotionally consistent than this film. The most disturbing and moving part of the film was the way the kids all acquiesced to their fate with a smile (more or less), but again that wasn't logical...

I thought Never Let Me Go was a nice film. Not going to defend it at length right now but for one) The art proving love and providing a map of their brains?: Dude you totally missed that it was an embarrassingly desperate delusion that the girl didn't have any faith in but thought she would try it out to at least end his worthless thoughts of hope. That was sad & cringe worthy because you knew he was being "daft" & they were fuct, not bad writing lol.

American Werewolf in London - I expected to dislike it , but by the end it felt near perfect.

Sweet Movie - Incredible.

  On 4/3/2011 at 3:55 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

I thought Never Let Me Go was a nice film. Not going to defend it at length right now but for one) The art proving love and providing a map of their brains?: Dude you totally missed that it was an embarrassingly desperate delusion that the girl didn't have any faith in but thought she would try it out to at least end his worthless thoughts of hope. That was sad & cringe worthy because you knew he was being "daft" & they were fuct, not bad writing lol.

I got that, but felt it was hard to swallow even on the level of "they're grasping at straws"...it doesn't seem to have the slightest shred of rationality behind it - were they supposed to have painted pictures of each other holding hands? Or were they just supposed to be deemed "compatible" based on their psychology? And above all else, why weren't they monitored after leaving the school?...as preposterously implausible as it was, the whole find-the-address-of-the-lady-to-give-us-a-love-deferral seemed to exist only to give the film a climax, as a set-up for the shocker

  On 4/3/2011 at 5:06 AM, Awepittance said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEM6AQgJstY&feature=player_embedded

hahha oh god that looks so bad. the cgi ohjesus!

was there today and saw 9 minutes of cowboys and aliens. looks much better.

the american 5/10

hhmm interesting idea. some good parts but overall disappointing. my wife predicted the guns real purpose pretty early and we both hated the ending.

expectations were high as i'd read good thing in this thread

  On 4/3/2011 at 7:21 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 4/3/2011 at 3:55 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

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Wrong, y'all twats are both fucking dumb

  On 4/3/2011 at 8:29 AM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

Gender:Not Telling

Country:Not Selected

Soo so mysterious

lol

limitless - very nice ! it's fresh, tense, smart and well paced. hadn't expected this from hollywood.

  On 4/3/2011 at 2:42 PM, eugene said:

limitless - very nice ! it's fresh, tense, smart and well paced. hadn't expected this from hollywood.

wtflol. it was a crappy movie about adderall

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I disagree, it was poorly written/conceived/acted all the stupid fx were retarded. Waste of robert deniro. I saw this with a friend at the theater and less than halfway through they wanted to leave, but I kept telling them maybe it would get better. It didn't.

  On 4/3/2011 at 6:05 PM, Haldermaniac said:

Waste of robert deniro.

It's funny you should mention him as someone should be praised because some of my friends and I were talking about Robert De Niro a couple of days ago and none of us could remember the last memorable movie he had starred in. He has done some pretty damn good movies - no doubt about that - but he hasn't been in a great movie for the last 13 years. The last one being Ronin (1998).

It's funny I should mention deniro is one of the great living american actors? I understand what you are getting at though. I thought he was pretty good in Stardust and his imdb page says hes rumored to be in the Uncharted movie lol.

Source Code 7/10 - Not as good as moon was, but still worth a watch

the girl next door: there were some funny bits but it ended up lacking... i mean if it was a bit better it could have been a re watchable but it just wasn't good enough/

High and Low - 10/10 awesome

Limitless - 8/10 not bad for a Hollywood film original and well paced, a safe thriller

Unstoppable - 5.5/10 a bit up its own arse tho gets quite intense in parts but then falls into the worse kind of American hero cliché ending which blew it for me