Films

[welsh_kopite]

Hiya lads, i was pondering going to blockbuster earlier but decided against it due to the shit films out at the moment. I was just wondering whether you could post any films you think are really worth watching.

 

Cheers,

Greg

[sh#t waffle]

Hiya lads, i was pondering going to blockbuster earlier but decided against it due to the shit films out at the moment. I was just wondering whether you could post any films you think are really worth watching.

 

Cheers,

Greg

Old Boy is fucking brilliant. Best. Tongue. Extraction. Ever.

Also, for cheesy scariness, The Descent is ace.

[Nerik]

The Constant Gardener is a recent film that I quite liked.

[cochcaer]

The Contant Gardener is ok but the jump cut editing doesn't really lend itself to Le Carre's novel. Last film I saw was Shooting Dogs but it's heavy going (title comes from UN troops shooting stray dogs during the Rwandan genocide).

[Captain]

A tip for a film could be Collateral which has both stunning photography and good acting by Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.

 

A documentary I recommend is When we were kings, which is part of my DVD collection. It offers a small insight into the legend that is Mohammad Ali.

[lifetime fan]

It's been out a while but City of God is brilliant. An old film which will make you piss yerself with laughter is The Idiots. It's a film based on a group acting as though they have learning disabillities going around fucking about, very good film it is.

[sh#t waffle]

Yeah, City of God is utter genius. On the comedy front, Best in Show (by the same people as Spinal Tap) takes some beating.

[aikido]

Try "Garden State", or "Harold and Kumar". Well worth a watch.

[Paul]

I watched The Descent on Sky last night and it's jumpy as fuck - although it's also got a mad ending that I still don't understand. The last time I didn't understand a film, I was about 6.

[sh#t waffle]

I watched The Descent on Sky last night and it's jumpy as fuck - although it's also got a mad ending that I still don't understand. The last time I didn't understand a film, I was about 6.

The ending is...they all die.

[sh#t waffle]

The ending is...they all die.

At least I think it was. You've got me thinking I may have missed something now. Were you talking about the false ending?

[Hoddy]

At least I think it was. You've got me thinking I may have missed something now. Were you talking about the false ending?

 

Yeah, with a huge ***spoiler alert for 'The Descent***

 

 

 

I think it was an illusion that she escaped – apparently it's a common factor in those conditions. A character had made reference to that fact sometime earlier in the film.

[sh#t waffle]

Yeah, with a huge ***spoiler alert for 'The Descent***

 

 

 

I think it was an illusion that she escaped – apparently it's a common factor in those conditions. A character had made reference to that fact sometime earlier in the film.

That's what I assumed he meant. But with Paul seeming a highly intelligent man, I couldn't see how that confused him. Ace film.

[Stu Monty]

I watched The Descent on Sky last night and it's jumpy as fuck - although it's also got a mad ending that I still don't understand. The last time I didn't understand a film, I was about 6.

 

Have you seen Donnie Darko? If so then what was your take on it.

[derekhzll]

Hiya lads, i was pondering going to blockbuster earlier but decided against it due to the shit films out at the moment. I was just wondering whether you could post any films you think are really worth watching.

 

Cheers,

Greg

'the machinist'a film about a man who has not slept for a year[could name a few managers ;) ]haunting and incredible.

[Paul]

Have you seen Donnie Darko? If so then what was your take on it.

Pretentious, over-rated toss. I love film (and teach it, too) and am very broad-minded in my tastes, but I just thought it was a load of wank set to a dodgy 80s soundtrack dressed up as a essay on existentialism/time travel.

 

On The Descent, I suppose I was confused because it seemed such a contrived/trite ending for it all to have been an hallucination, after such a tense, powerful build-up.

[Karl_b]

Has anyone seen Walk the Line about Johnny Cash? I fancy going to see it on Saturday if anyone can recommend it?

[RedKnight]

Sideways. Good film that. Nothing else to add.

[Monkeywool]

I saw Munich the other night

 

Good film that, very hardhitting and powerful

[Fink]

Old Boy is fucking brilliant. Best. Tongue. Extraction. Ever.

Also, for cheesy scariness, The Descent is ace.

 

I second that - ive havent considered eating raw octopus in a long time.

[cochcaer]

On The Descent, I suppose I was confused because it seemed such a contrived/trite ending for it all to have been an hallucination, after such a tense, powerful build-up.

 

The ending was yer typical low-budget horror cop-out so they can produce Descent II should it prove a success. Being a horror fan I found it a contrived feminist horror without any suspense; shame really as I liked Marshall's earlier Dog Soldiers.

[Paul]

The ending was yer typical low-budget horror cop-out so they can produce Descent II should it prove a success. Being a horror fan I found it a contrived feminist horror without any suspense; shame really as I liked Marshall's earlier Dog Soldiers.

I'm not really a horror fan at all, but I found it jumpy as fuck. Anyway, surely the ending (with her stuck down there, having lost her marbles) precludes a sequel?

[aws]

I'm not really a horror fan at all, but I found it jumpy as fuck. Anyway, surely the ending (with her stuck down there, having lost her marbles) precludes a sequel?

 

Maybe they could have a sequel where an angry young guy obsessed with the internet is ditched by his fit girlfriend and in his grief and rage goes down and joins her.

[RedinSweden]

Try "Garden State", or "Harold and Kumar". Well worth a watch.

 

I thought Garden State was hideous. the bit when they stand on the bus shouting made me want to kill. I hate films where they do things as a "release". Wow man, screaming into a big hole, what a release. Cliched twaddle. Never forget sitting int he cinmea watching "As in Heaven" swedish film about a famous conductor who takes over a choir in a small village. It starts with him playing violin as a boy in a cornfield and Mrs RiS said, far too loud for a cinema "Oh for fucks sake". This was after 30 seconds.

 

Sorry Aikido, just realised I completely slagged off a film you liked, no offence meant.

[rargh]

'the machinist'a film about a man who has not slept for a year[could name a few managers ;) ]haunting and incredible.

 

Good film, and Christian Bale's physique is shocking! Takes method acting to a whole new level. The thing that spoils it for me is that it borrows heavily from Fight Club and you get the twist straight away!

 

Recently I have mostly been watching This Is Spinal Tap, Escape From New York and Predator.