What Films Have You Watched This Week - The Sequel.

[Kit]

Your Highness. Funniest film I've seen in years!!!!!!!!!!

Danny Mcbride ftw!

Get this watched.

[QualityChimp]

I saw Warrior last night.

It's taken me eight months to watch it since LoveFilm sent it to me.
I lost the disc for a while, which didn't help, but I just wasn't motivated to watch it, but knew I had to after having it so bloomin' long!

Anyway, the film was worth watching, but follows fairly closely the framework established by Rocky, The Karate Kid, A.W.O.L. and Kickboxer, but with MMA fighting.

Despite the fairly clich?d story, it didn't stop me getting tense at the final section was still nail-bitingly tense, so it must've been doing something right.

If anything, I feel relieved that I've finally watched it and I can send it back to LoveFilm!

[bash]

I liked warrior. It reminded me more of the fighter than karate kid but the damaged family backdrop with reconciliation at the end was fast better than someone fighting for pride, evil, revenge or honour.

[Colin]

Haven't watched it yet, but got back to Scotland today and god bless america has arrived, going to watch it after dinner. Looking forward to finally seeing it immensely, hopefully there will be a good opinion later!

EDIT: Well, it wasn't as great a film as I had hoped for but it would be hard to disagree with the message behind it. Frank was brilliant though, and man did I love that cinema scene.

[Colin]

Just watched fast & furious 6. Now, I love these films, but my god how bad is the dialogue in this one? Properly had me wincing with discomfort at times it was so cheesy. The action was great as always though, apart from the ridiculous Dom superman moment on the bridge maybe and how long was that runway, 50 miles?

Wasn't a patch on 5 but still an enjoyable enough film, can't wait to see what Statham brings to 7.

[Dogg Thang]

I rewatched Fast & Furious yesterday. It's the dark serious movie of the F&F movies, more like Temple of a Doom than Last Crusade. It has a weak villain, which pulls it down because so much of the movie is centred on taking him down, but otherwise isn't a bad movie at all. Better than I remember it being. I'd probably rate it the weakest F&F movie though. It's just not all that much fun.

F&F 6? Yeah, that one is pretty ridiculous in many places and kind of trampled over the limit of just how far these movies can be pushed for me but I did enjoy it. Have it now on Blu-ray so I'm looking forward to seeing it again.

Just rewatched Children of Men. Still a brilliant movie. Very powerful and so well made. It's seamless.

[buster_broon]

also watched god bless America and wasn't my cup of tea, some scenes like the cinema (thanks for not talking and for turning your phone off) and a good chunk of the dialogue is good but the ending was terrible and it seemed like a movie made for tv

I would class it as a poor mans leon

[Neon Ignition]

White House Down

It was alright, just about paced okay for the length it is but ideally would be trimmed down. Definitely not a patch on Olympus Has Fallen though.

[QualityChimp]

I tried not to hype God Bless America, but everybody got really excited about it.

For a low-budget film, it's a lot of fun and it's nice to know there's someone else sick of reality telly.

Did you know the director is Zed from Police Academy?!

http://mobile.avclub.com/articles/god-bless-america-director-bobcat-goldthwait-is-ok,73578/?mobile=true

[bash]

Back in London, flew in last night. On the plane I saw Monsters University, Broken City and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Now I loved Monsters Inc, its probably my fave Pixer movie. Mike Wozowski kicks ass but that movie is slightly more centered around Sully and Boo who bought most of the heart to the movie. Monsters Uni centres slightly more around Mike this time and is a prequel which shows how Mike and Sully started off as rivals and ended up best of buds during their first year in Scare Class.

As you'd expect, theres new characters, the animation is still gorgeous and the plot rolls along at a nice speed. Pixer are the best at keeping the kids laughing whilst chucking loads of references to keep older fans happy. Just a great family movie which ends very nicely too. I had to keep myself still to prevent odd looks during laughing at one of the scare competition scenes, just chock full of surprises and nice ideas. Pixer fans will love this.

Broken City is a political crime thriller starring Russell Crowe, Mark Wahlberg. It also includes that black guy from Casino Royale with Cheese and Catherine Zeta Jones. It starts off showing Wahlberg as a detective whos just gunned down a ghetto teen who had murdered and raped a 16 yr old. He gets cleared of all charges during a heated trial which polarises New York. Russell Crowe is the mayor and buries evidence presented to him at the last minute which proves Mark is quilty. After the trial the mayor and the police commisioner call Mark in and tell him that whilst he's a hero in their eyes, he has to leave the force.

7 years later Mark is a PI struggling with about $40000+ of debt when the Mayor calls him in to investigate his wife who he suspects of having an affair. Mark investigates and finds her with someone, but the person shes seeing shocks him and its starts to unravel from there. I dont want to say anymore than that as it would spoil the twists and turns but there was never really a moment when I wasnt interested to see what happened next. The pacing was good, acting top notch with decent cinematography. Script a little basic and features a few typical hollywood "coincidences" but I enjoyed the huge scale corruption angle in this movie. It hasnt really done god business but I was entertained and would recommend it.

Burt Wonderstone is one of those comedies where you pretty much see 90% the funny scenes in the trailer, Steve Carrell carries this movie along and Jim Carrey is pretty good as his rival street magician. Steve Buscemi is Carrells partner but features lightly, which is a shame because I love EVERYTHING the man does. Olivia Wilde is in this too but shes neither funny nor was her character interesting enough despite her back story. Basically Burt starts off as a bullied kid at school who lacks time and attention from his mother. He falls in love with magic and meets Buscemis character at school and the 2 hit it off. They start to develop more and more ideas until they're a successful double act performing a long stint in Vegas. Burt becomes a diva and Buscemi gets fed up of being ignored. Their boss played by Sopranoes star Gandoffini is fed up of their old **** and has his head turned by Jim Carreys nature child, David Blaine type extreme street tricks who is gaining more and more popularity.

So you have you're typical breakup of the act, Carrell acting like an ass, getting fired for 50% of the movie and then realising why he fell in love with magic, finding his magician hero and getting Yoda like advice to turn his fortunes around and beat Carrey in an audition to feature in his old bosses new Hotel. It has some laughs but not enough to recommend, average at best.

[QualityChimp]

Does anybody have any good seige movie suggestions?

I've seen the obvious choices like Precinct 13.

I prefer action to horror, but I'm open to suggestions!

[buster_broon]

Another here who also enjoyed broken city

[QualityChimp]

Over the weekend I watched Fright Night and Looper.

Fright Night was a lot of fun and I think most of the actors seemed to be enjoying it, especially David Tennant.
I'm not a fan of remakes, generally, but although the original was pretty good, it's not sacred enough to avoid being remade and I think they did a pretty good take on it.
I wonder if Christopher Mintz-Plasse will end up doing gay porn like the actor in his role in the original ended up doing?!

Looper was awkward one. I mention in the irk thread how the sound levels were awful - either too loud or quiet - and I thought I'd missed some plot. I checked Wiki and it looks like I got most of it.

Some of the ideas were great and I thought the scene where Malcolm in the Middle's Dad starts losing his limbs was particularly inventive and well shot.

I got the main story and enjoyed it, but I ended up with a shedload of questions about inconsequential elements of the story:
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• I get that they send bodies back in time because disposing of bodies is really hard in the future, but they also say the Rainmaker boss owns everything in society from the government to the citizenry to the mobs and their operations, plus we see Harry Dunne chasing after Bruce Willis with the aid of the police.
• If the mob own the only time machine and they own the whole town, why didn't they build their base around the time machine instead of leaving it in an abandoned factory (that still has power...)?
• Nobody knows they have one, or they would've followed the mobsters to the abandoned facility. If time travel is the key to their success, you'd have thought they would look after it better.
• Why do the Loopers have to kill themselves? They should've got one of the other Loopers to do it. If they didn't know their future self was dead, they would continue working and the mob wouldn't have to pay gold.
• Isn't using a time machine solely for disposing of bodies a little bit short-sighted? Can't they send people back with copies of the Sports Almanac or something? Tips on buying stocks and shares?
• Wasn't it incredibly fortuitous that JGL tore off the corner of the map with the actual location of the Rainmaker?
• Did anybody making the film actually think that JGL's makeup made him look like Bruce Willis?!

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[wakka]

The idea that Bruce Willis realistically looked like an older version of JGL was ridiculous lol.

[bash]

correction, he was meant to look like an older JGL with a prosthetic nose after years of drug and alcohol abuse.