What DVD have you just watched?
Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 27 November 2005
Just about to watch the secong half of 'The Odessa File.'
All the best from Fredrik
All the best from Fredrik
Knocked Up
Hired the film on the basis of some reasonable reviews. IMO this is puerile nonsense.
The protagonists are a up and coming TV presenter and a man who does nothing and whose get and go has got up and left.
The one scene I did enjoy was their initial meeting at a bar, outside of that the 'humour' was predictable, and predictably foul mouthed.
Now I MIGHT be turning into a curmudgeonly puritanical old bugger BUT my 17 yr old daughter turned it off half way through, at least I put myself through the pain of watching the whole thing!
My advice - don't repeat my mistake.
M
Hired the film on the basis of some reasonable reviews. IMO this is puerile nonsense.
The protagonists are a up and coming TV presenter and a man who does nothing and whose get and go has got up and left.
The one scene I did enjoy was their initial meeting at a bar, outside of that the 'humour' was predictable, and predictably foul mouthed.
Now I MIGHT be turning into a curmudgeonly puritanical old bugger BUT my 17 yr old daughter turned it off half way through, at least I put myself through the pain of watching the whole thing!
My advice - don't repeat my mistake.
M
A bridge too far.
Light hearted, simple French film. Enjoyable.
How the west was really won...
Made in the anti-war film era [1970] and makes it's point quite shockingly in places.
A good film for educational sentiment, rather than entertainment.
nymph
Enchanted
OK I admit it I loved this film, as did the rest of the family.
A disarming lack of irony. GREAT family entertainment.
The star for me was the cartoon made real chipmonk Pip, and his attempts to mime to the Prince what was happening - brilliant animation and very funny.
Best thing Disney have done in YEARS, not including the vicarious brownie points for Pixar.
M
OK I admit it I loved this film, as did the rest of the family.
A disarming lack of irony. GREAT family entertainment.
The star for me was the cartoon made real chipmonk Pip, and his attempts to mime to the Prince what was happening - brilliant animation and very funny.
Best thing Disney have done in YEARS, not including the vicarious brownie points for Pixar.
M
quote:Originally posted by naim_nymph:
How the west was really won...
nymph
A great movie!
The ultimate life of a mind.
Gian,
A real treat for you.
Haim
Bowling for Columbine
Polemic? Yes.
Rhetoric? Yes.
Thought provoking? Hell YES.
Well worth hiring.
M
Polemic? Yes.
Rhetoric? Yes.
Thought provoking? Hell YES.
Well worth hiring.
M
3:10 To Yuma
Visceral soundtrack.
Enjoyed the extras. The film itself I'm still not sure about.
Crowe & Bale are always watchable. The film has been tagged as being the best western since Forgiven. Now that was a film that had true grit (sic); this doesn't have the feeling of real, but cartoon, violence.
I did enjoy some of the verbal interplay between the main characters.
**Spoiler Warning**
Frankly there were just too many points for me where I would have thought the 'posse' would just have strung Crowe up - or put a bullet through his head.
As the extras pointed out the town folk in The West were pretty resilient - would they really have taken money to shoot their Marshall? As the extras pointed out they were more inclined to arm themselves and shoot armed gangs that threatened their towns.
Anything that has people running through a hail of bullets starts to lose my sense of suspended disbelief - especially where they are aiming for gritty realism.
Finally the ending just was schizophrenic. The juxtaposition of the emotion with the father & son against whistling for the horse seemed to try and mix the ending of Forgiven with that of Cat Ballou!
I do think it is worth watching - and I bought it up front; don't think I would if I had watched it first.
M
Visceral soundtrack.
Enjoyed the extras. The film itself I'm still not sure about.
Crowe & Bale are always watchable. The film has been tagged as being the best western since Forgiven. Now that was a film that had true grit (sic); this doesn't have the feeling of real, but cartoon, violence.
I did enjoy some of the verbal interplay between the main characters.
**Spoiler Warning**
Frankly there were just too many points for me where I would have thought the 'posse' would just have strung Crowe up - or put a bullet through his head.
As the extras pointed out the town folk in The West were pretty resilient - would they really have taken money to shoot their Marshall? As the extras pointed out they were more inclined to arm themselves and shoot armed gangs that threatened their towns.
Anything that has people running through a hail of bullets starts to lose my sense of suspended disbelief - especially where they are aiming for gritty realism.
Finally the ending just was schizophrenic. The juxtaposition of the emotion with the father & son against whistling for the horse seemed to try and mix the ending of Forgiven with that of Cat Ballou!
I do think it is worth watching - and I bought it up front; don't think I would if I had watched it first.
M
Michael Clayton
Good film.
The plot is fairly straight forward, and told in a refreshingly straight forward way.
I don't know why but I always find Tom Wilkinson doing an American accent distracting - but he sells his character well.
Clooney is very good at picking films to make - interesting seeing the list of Executive Producers on this film.
Not any form of AV spectacular - but well worth your time.
M
Good film.
The plot is fairly straight forward, and told in a refreshingly straight forward way.
I don't know why but I always find Tom Wilkinson doing an American accent distracting - but he sells his character well.
Clooney is very good at picking films to make - interesting seeing the list of Executive Producers on this film.
Not any form of AV spectacular - but well worth your time.
M