Last Movie You Watched? (Part 3)

The Fourth Kind 3/10
Seriously disappointing, really good premise, with signs of promise, but seemed very over-produced. Would have been better without Milla Jovovich and the other actors and just left it to the supposedly 'real' footage.
 
Jackass 3D 8/10

Its Jackass and its in 3D. Not much more to add other than its extremely funny and the added 3D makes the stunts seem even more painful and disgusting than ever.
 
Looking for Eric (2009)

Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this one. It's like Ken Loach started making this sweet romantic comedy about a down-on-his-luck postie who decides to get his life back together and win back the only woman he ever loved... then he went on holiday halfway through, came back and continued making a film about inner city gangland violence.

I loved the first half. It is genuinely funny and quite touching. Especially the bits with "Meatball" (John Henshaw, who completely steals every scene he's in). Then it goes and gets all unpleasant. I understand the point Loach is trying to make, and I don't mind gritty or violent movies, I just didn't think it worked here.

Le Temps du Loup (The Time of the Wolf) (2003)

Post-apocalyptic Michael Haneke film about a family who have been somewhere, and they're coming back from wherever they went, and now they're going somewhere else, only they have to wait a really long time for a train (which may or may not be coming).

You're not really spoonfed details in this film. You know something has gone wrong with the world. Maybe it's the water supply, or maybe the French unions are on strike again. It could be either. The film is about how people cope in a completely uncontrollable situation. I liked it, although it's really, really, really dark (I mean the lighting, not the content... but I guess you don't have electric lights in the apocalypse). It's like what the BBC's remake of Survivors should have been like.
 
Downfall

Great German film detailing the last days of Hitler's life in the bunker, as told by his last secretary, as well as the lives immediately outside the warren. Great performances by the actors who played Hitler (Bruno Ganz), his secretary (Alexandra Maria Lara), Eva Braun (Juliane K
 
Don't Look Now

Mother and father, played by Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, lose their daughter through drowning in a pond in their back garden, which was sensed by the father. They move away from their English home to Venice, where Sutherland's character has work in restoring churches. During their time there, they're informed by a psychic that their dead daughter is amongst them, which delights Christie's character, but causes issues with Sutherland's. The film is about a couple coming to terms with the death of their daughter, with the complications that the influence of a psychic could cause to such a couple still in the grieving process. Good film that slowly, emotionally and carefully builRAB up the story to a dramatic ending.
 
Law Abiding Citizen - 4/10 just seemed like a hotchpotch of pinched ideas from lots of other films!

The Mist (2007) - 7/10 quite liked this, could have bee more development of some of the characters though
 
Hellboy: Director's Cut

Great movie. A 3rd film was supposed to be in the works but director Guillermo del Toro says actor Ron Perlman is reluctant to act in another Hellboy movie. It's a shame too because it was supposed to be the final film in the franchise (until someone else reboots it). I think it will happen. Ron & Guillermo are good frienRAB and have made many films together over the years.
 
Love the story about finding Shang grala but agree the singing is terrible ..the only song thats palatable is "the world is a circle " ...nice story though !the 1937 version is good aswell despite some of the film "missing " half way through ! :)
 
Back
Top