Movie review thread...
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I saw Watchmen tonight - hugely, hugely disappointing. It was a movie that had good ideas and a good setup/beginning but that just completely lost its way. At times it seemed like it was directed by four different directors all with competing visions. The look of the early scenes are great, but the hammy CGI near the end completely takes away from it. <br />
Worst movie I've watched this year. 4/10. Would have been 4.5 but there's way too much blue penis in the film. -
I caught "Let the right one in" in the States last week. If you haven't heard of it, it's a Swedish (w/English subtitles) film about a bullied 12yo boy who hooks up with a "12yo vampire" girl.<br />
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O for awesome (thanks Kirwan!) film. Really, really disturbing, dark and scary, and some of the characters and events are seriously twisted and a bit sickening. But I couldn't tear my eyes away and left the theatre completely blown away. A word of warning, it hasn't got a single gram of horror film campiness, so if you're after an entertaining slashfest this isn't your movie. A really horrifying and unsettling film. BTW, I believe it's already scheduled for the obligatory Hollywood dumbed down remake. -
[quote name='Nepia']I saw Watchmen tonight - hugely, hugely disappointing. It was a movie that had good ideas and a good setup/beginning but that just completely lost its way. At times it seemed like it was directed by four different directors all with competing visions. The look of the early scenes are great, but the hammy CGI near the end completely takes away from it. <br />
Worst movie I've watched this year. 4/10. Would have been 4.5 but there's way too much blue penis in the film.[/quote]<br />
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Please qualify. Do you hate because as a film it sucks, or does it fail as an adaptation of a beloved book? (Are you a fan of Alan Moore's Watchmen? Like all filmed adaptations of Moore's work, he refuses to attach his name to this one too.) -
Good-or-bad, The Watchmen is a movie I [i]will[/i] be seeing and [i]have[/i] to see on a big screen. It's a big-screen experience, I suspect, much like the directors' previous "300," which is an alright film in a home theater but looked spectacular on a huge screen.
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[quote name='Virgil'][quote name='MN5'][quote name='Kirwan'][quote name='MN5'][quote name='Kirwan']Just back from seeing the awesomeness of Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. Only he could get away with playing just a bastard and be so damn likable.<br />
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A very clever film that plays with your expectations of what a Clint movie will be. If that's his final performance, it's a tour de bloody force.<br />
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Get Off My Lawn indeed.[/quote]<br />
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VERY pissed off that I still haven't seen this. I need to persuade the wife that she'll want to see it.[/quote]<br />
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I took my wife and she loved it. Sounds weird but it's actually kind of sweet and in that grey area of chick/guy flick. Very funny too.[/quote]<br />
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Well I'm trying to persuade her to go tomorrow night for valentines day but so far a forlorn exercise, she says "go with your mates" but everyone knows how dodgy a group of guys at the movies is !! She loved Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and Million Dollar Baby, not so keen on the Dollars trilogy or Dirty Harry series.[/quote]<br />
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The Mrs and i watched Gran Torino lastnight, great movie with a wonderful performance from the great man. As previously mentioned some great lines from Clint, but more often its his expressions on that wrinkled old face of his that said more then words could.<br />
A great story, a must for a Clint fan like you MN5.[/quote]<br />
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Thanks to a fellow ferner ( you know who you are ! xzxgood ) I finally got to see Gran Torino and as a movie to go out on I think its an absolute masterpiece. Clints racist, jaded grumpy old man is a delight to watch in a performance that only he could pull off. Clint is never gonna win an oscar for best actor but who gives a fuck, maybe his "range" isn't up there with others but as an icon and presence he is absolutely second to none. Top notch performances from the supporting actors ( all previously unknowns ) as well. Sue was a crack up, not intimidated by "Wally" in the slightest. As an aside the "pussy" kid who tries to be matey with the black dudes is Clints own real life son Scott. Once you actually know the resemblance is uncanny. <br />
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[quote name='red terror'][quote name='Nepia']I saw Watchmen tonight - hugely, hugely disappointing. [b]It was a movie that had good ideas and a good setup/beginning but that just completely lost its way. At times it seemed like it was directed by four different directors all with competing visions. The look of the early scenes are great, but the hammy CGI near the end completely takes away from it[/b]. <br />
Worst movie I've watched this year. 4/10. Would have been 4.5 but there's way too much blue penis in the film.[/quote]<br />
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Please qualify. Do you hate because as a film it sucks, or does it fail as an adaptation of a beloved book? (Are you a fan of Alan Moore's Watchmen? Like all filmed adaptations of Moore's work, he refuses to attach his name to this one too.)[/quote]<br />
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Film sucks. I'm not a fanboy but went out and read the graphic novel when I heard they were making a movie. I thought the highlighted bit above clearly showed that I thought it was the movie that was crap. <br />
Moore cracks me up though - I bet he happily spends the cash that he recieves for the adaptions. <br />
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If you're not a fanboy I'd suggest wait for the DVD, if you are, well you wont be listening to me anyway. -
Well, it's hard to know where to start with Nepia's opinion on The Watchmen. I'll start with the film does not suck at all, it's not perfect but it's a bloody entertaining comic book film. Perhaps if you were a little bit less focused on Dr Manhatten's penis like some 14 year old moron, you could have enjoyed the film a bit more? <br />
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I didn't see any hammy CGI as well, the effects were pretty good IMO. The fact that most of the CGI was showing a glowing blue guy is just part of the story. From the trailers I was worried about too much slo mo, but that was used well throughout as well.<br />
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It's very close to the book right up until the end, which doesn't change enough to detract from what the comics were trying to get across. So much detail was in many of the shots it would be worth re-reading the graphic novel inbetween seeing it again.<br />
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They bloody nailed Rorschach too, loved the "You're locked in here with me!" section. Very happy they didn't dumb down the story or the more adult themes for the midwest. Or Nepia. -
Whats CGI ? Tried to guess but Closed Graphic Image doesnt sound right.<br />
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This movie is being advertised on tele here at the moment. I might just hit my daughter (works at BC&C) up for some cheap tickets tomorrow and go watch it for myself. -
[quote name='allblackfan']Whats CGI ? Tried to guess but Closed Graphic Image doesnt sound right.<br />
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Ah, thanks. If it's anything like the graphics in 300 than it will be awesome. xzxgood
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[quote name='Virgil']Watched The Darjeeling Limited today, quite enjoyable. Not a big fan of Owen Wilson but its a light quirky little film.<br />
A fun way to spend 90 mins, give it a solid 7.48 out of 10.[/quote]<br />
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Fun ? I didn't like it at all, it's along the same lines as The Royal Tannenbaums which could be described as 'quirky'. At least The Darjeeling Limited is set in an interesting location when they are off the train and wandering the countryside. -
[quote name='Kirwan']Well, it's hard to know where to start with Nepia's opinion on The Watchmen. I'll start with the film does not suck at all, it's not perfect but it's a bloody entertaining comic book film. [b]Perhaps if you were a little bit less focused on Dr Manhatten's penis like some 14 year old moron, you could have enjoyed the film a bit more?[/b] <br />
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I didn't see any hammy CGI as well, the effects were pretty good IMO. The fact that most of the CGI was showing a glowing blue guy is just part of the story. From the trailers I was worried about too much slo mo, but that was used well throughout as well.<br />
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It's very close to the book right up until the end, which doesn't change enough to detract from what the comics were trying to get across. So much detail was in many of the shots it would be worth re-reading the graphic novel inbetween seeing it again.<br />
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They bloody nailed Rorschach too, loved the "You're locked in here with me!" section. Very happy they didn't dumb down the story or the more adult themes for the midwest. Or Nepia.[/quote]<br />
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Nice one dude, focus on the jokey part of my post. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> Anyway, I guess I should have expected a backlash from the fanboys. xzxhang1 <br />
Agree that Rorschach was all good but still think movie was poor. That was most disappointing, unfulfilled promise. The pacing was all over the show. The CGI was ho hum in the [spoiler:33gsl3gi]city destroying[/spoiler:33gsl3gi] section - kind of 2002 effects to me.<br />
It was the adult themes I thought were most successful - If you read my post properly it was craftsmen shift I had a problem with, the story is great (especially in the graphic novel.)<br />
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[quote name='allblackfan'][quote name='Virgil']Watched The Darjeeling Limited today, quite enjoyable. Not a big fan of Owen Wilson but its a light quirky little film.<br />
A fun way to spend 90 mins, give it a solid 7.48 out of 10.[/quote]<br />
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Fun ? I didn't like it at all, it's along the same lines as The Royal Tannenbaums which could be described as 'quirky'. At least The Darjeeling Limited is set in an interesting location when they are off the train and wandering the countryside.[/quote]<br />
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The olds gave me a copy of Darjeeling, I watched about 45 minutes and then had to go out. This was about two months ago and I've never felt the need to watch anymore. Just didn't have anything going for it in my opinion. -
[quote name='MN5'][quote name='allblackfan'][quote name='Virgil']Watched The Darjeeling Limited today, quite enjoyable. Not a big fan of Owen Wilson but its a light quirky little film.<br />
A fun way to spend 90 mins, give it a solid 7.48 out of 10.[/quote]<br />
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Fun ? I didn't like it at all, it's along the same lines as The Royal Tannenbaums which could be described as 'quirky'. At least The Darjeeling Limited is set in an interesting location when they are off the train and wandering the countryside.[/quote]<br />
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The olds gave me a copy of Darjeeling, I watched about 45 minutes and then had to go out. This was about two months ago and I've never felt the need to watch anymore. Just didn't have anything going for it in my opinion.[/quote]<br />
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[quote name='Nepia']I saw Watchmen tonight ...<br />
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4/10. Would have been 4.5 but there's [b]way too much [color=#0000FF]blue penis[/color] in the film[/b].[/quote]<br />
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I still haven't seen it, but was thinking about your comment and had a chuckle when I read this:<br />
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[quote]And sure enough, a number of my fellow midnight film patrons passed the verdict of [color=#0000FF]"too much [b]penis[/b] for me."[/color] But getting worked up over the [color=#0000FF]blue penis[/color] is a failure to notice the rest of the film. [color=#FF0000]A female superhero, Silk Spectre II, is outfitted in a [b]latex body suit with perma-hard nipples[/b][/color], there's a horribly cheesy sex scene set to "Hallelujah," and your overshare problem is the glowing [color=#0000FF][b]blue penis[/b][/color]?<br />
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[url]http://tinyurl.com/ae8kqk[/url][/quote]
