Last Film You Watched - Directors Cut.

[Bob]

Senna

Second watch on DVD.

Simply stunning. Probably the greatest F1 movie that'll ever be made. Probably one of the greatest documentary movies ever made. It obviously helps that it was a golden age for F1. It helps that Senna has charisma to spare.. But the film, pieced together from archive footage and archive comments has no talking heads.. no one saying what a legend he was.. purely what a legend he is at the time.

Even allowing for his death the story has so many twists and turns..

Watch it.

[The-Marb]

The Muppets

Good quality wholesome fun.

3.5/5

[Bob]

The Muppets

Good quality wholesome fun.

4/5

Fixed!

[The-Marb]

I dunno Bob, it was well made and for the most part, funny. It could have been a 3 or 4 TBH, i need to watch it again i think.

Just watched The Lincoln Lawyer, a good sleazy performance from McConouhey. A thriller thats better that it has any right to be.

3.5/5

[The-Marb]

Senna

Second watch on DVD.

Simply stunning. Probably the greatest F1 movie that'll ever be made. Probably one of the greatest documentary movies ever made. It obviously helps that it was a golden age for F1. It helps that Senna has charisma to spare.. But the film, pieced together from archive footage and archive comments has no talking heads.. no one saying what a legend he was.. purely what a legend he is at the time.

Even allowing for his death the story has so many twists and turns..

Watch it.

Better than Driven, with Stallone? ... no way

[gugly_duk]

Saw The Woman In Black today. It's alright, if not a bit better than I expected. It's also nice to see Radcliffe in something, his career is going to explode this year/next year. Looooads of jumpy moments.

Should be a 15.

[The-Marb]

Saw The Woman In Black today. It's alright, if not a bit better than I expected. It's also nice to see Radcliffe in something, his career is going to explode this year/next year. Looooads of jumpy moments.

Should be a 15.

BBFC cut it under instructions from the distributer so they could get more bums on seats. They advised that no-one under 12 should see it, but a lot of people said it should have been left as is, with no cuts.

Plus Radcliffe as a whiskey drinking widower... pull the other one.

[gugly_duk]

Saw The Woman In Black today. It's alright, if not a bit better than I expected. It's also nice to see Radcliffe in something, his career is going to explode this year/next year. Looooads of jumpy moments.

Should be a 15.

BBFC cut it under instructions from the distributer so they could get more bums on seats. They advised that no-one under 12 should see it, but a lot of people said it should have been left as is, with no cuts.

Plus Radcliffe as a whiskey drinking widower... pull the other one.

Their is certainly one bit that scared the sh't outta me, but there were loads of little girls and what not in the crowd literally screaming, kinda annoying.

[Johnny Shoulder]

Saw The Woman In Black today. It's alright, if not a bit better than I expected. It's also nice to see Radcliffe in something, his career is going to explode this year/next year. Looooads of jumpy moments.

Should be a 15.

BBFC cut it under instructions from the distributer so they could get more bums on seats. They advised that no-one under 12 should see it, but a lot of people said it should have been left as is, with no cuts.

Plus Radcliffe as a whiskey drinking widower... pull the other one.

Their is certainly one bit that scared the sh't outta me, but there were loads of little girls and what not in the crowd literally screaming, kinda annoying.

Was there grass on the field?

[gugly_duk]

I doubt it, but I didn't get the chance to find out.

[The-Marb]

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance in 3d

Now to say I wasn’t a fan of the first would be an understatement, as it rates as one of the shonkiest and amateurish superhero flicks of all time. However, like a moth is drawn to the flame, the comic book geek in me was drawn to the sequel. In this case, most of the appeal comes from the character himself, who sits slightly outside the typical ‘man-in-tights-does-good’ stereotype, combined with the Cage/Neveldine/Taylor potential for creative mayhem.

Anyway, I went in with a glimmer of hope but not expecting too much, but suffice to say it’s one of the dullest 90 minutes of action cinema in a while. Although better than its predecessor, the film looks and feels like a much more interesting product that’s had all its edges milled off by a major studio. Now while this isn’t unusual, you’d think that hiring the Neveldine/Taylor combo and letting them lose with fruitloop Cage, would birth something at least visually arresting, frenetic and fun. Unfortunately, the films action is devoid of urgency or excitement, which doesn’t bode well for the rest of the movie.

Cage occasionally sparks to life and it’s nice to see a bit of him I the rider this time, but he’s still too bland to make much of a mark. The usually solid Ciaran Hinds, is poor and seems to be doing an impression of a grumpy Toad with sunburn, and his albino henchmen is forgettable. Only Idris Elba seems to be enjoying himself, putting in a decent right-side-of-campy performance as an automatic weapon, wine drinking, motorcyclist warrior monk.

Neveldine and Taylor don’t make great films per-se, but given the right material (and appropriate age rating) can produce good pulpy fun. Lets remember these guys came up with Crank 2, which has the amazing tagline “He was dead...but he got better”. Unfortunately they direct as if their hands have been tied behind their back by a studio exec , and without the remit for crazed yet creative ultra-violence, their style is cut off at the knees.

I would also echo the sentiment of others who said that the shaky cam style the film uses is inappropriate for 3d.

Overall, you have to feel that there’s a decent, (if formulaic) action adventure lurking inside here, but it’s really a wan Cage, Neveldine/Taylor movie, rather than the full blooded one it should have been. Superhero movies like this really only exist as contextual reference so we can appreciate quite how accomplished the likes of The Dark Knight, Kick Ass and Iron man are.

Plus special praise should go to the scumbag parents at the back of our screen. Bringing two toddlers to a 3d movie about a demonic, soul sucking anti-hero really deserves an award. The crying, screaming stopped around 40 minutes when the parents thankfully left the cinema, leaving a huge pile of rubbish for the poor staff to clean up. Poor form indeed.

3/10

[ClownTrousers]

Pearl Jam: Twenty. Surprisingly good ROCKumentary for a band that hasn't been any good for a huuuuge portion of that twenty years.

[The-Marb]

The Kings Speech

As a human drama this works rather well, with some clever scripting and good performances.

As an epic sweeping contexual war drama it holds no wieght at all.

Plus Spalls Churchill is all barmy facial expressions and Bobby Davro standard mimicking... rubbish.

7/10

[The-Marb]

Warrior

(have inserted a proper review now)

I know nothing about MMA or UFC but...putting aside the mawkish cliché, which this film has a streak of a mile thick, its hard to say a bad thing about it. However, this is less "all the Rocky's rolled into one" than The Wrestler with less subtle character arcs.

It has a trio of very fine performances, from Hardy's brutish, emotionally wounded war vet, to Edgerton's all round dignified good egg, and Nolte's guilt ridden father who is trying to repair his life and atone his sins.

The fight scenes are frenetic and well shot, with convincing bruising action.

Come the end i and the g/f were both very emotionally engaged in the whole affair and im not ashamed to admit on a couple of occasions the drama was genuinely upsetting and uplifting.

Highly recommended.
8/10

[Mullered Moose]

Chronicle.

A little disjointed and concentrates far too much on only one of the main characters. Some clever effects and use of PoV, just a shame you'll feel a bit detached by the end because it really does have promise it never quite fulfills. 6/10