The Movie Review Thread

[MD]

The Guard. Enjoyed it but a bit slow and nothing exceptional. Pleased I waited for the DVD

Being fond of animals I had to check out War horse
I later checked out film review sites on War Horse. Some recognised it as intended - good old fashioned entertainment and rated it worthwhile. Most others missed the point and blasted it for being too sentimental or for NOT being about the human suffering of war.

Idiots. It wasn't meant to be about the human element of war. It was about war as it effected the animals forced into our warfare. If you want to see a persons view of war then go see any one of the hundreds of other war movies made, including Spielbergs own Saving Pt Ryan and Shindler's List. Next they will criticise Star wars for being set in outer space.

Putting aside the over sentimental aspects War Horse was a good movie and well worth the big screen viewing. Brilliant war scenes like only Spielberg can do. Just when it may seem a bit candy coated at times Spielberg pulls the carpet out from under you.

[mashman]

RED - 9/10... really enjoyed it... it didn't really miss a beat from start to finish, the cast and characters were superb, the story was "odd" enough that it drew the characters together nicely, plenty of humour, cool action...

[TrentNz]

Teeth - watch it :P 10/10
Human centipede also 10/10

[BMWST?]

TinTin 3D - really enjoyed it. I'm old enough to have read the TinTin books as a kid, and the movie stays really true to the 1930s - 1940s style and form of the books. Details are excellent - the cars and (especially) the sidecar outfit. Check out the adjustable friction dampers on the bikes girder forks (anorak moment).

Animation is superb, sometimes very difficult to tell the difference between CGI and real. The TinTin charcter looks very human, the other "actors" are more caricatured (eg Haddocks big nose)

3D effects are not overly in your face, more of a depth of layered images (if you recall the old Viewmaster 3D reels, more like that)

We saw it at the Ascot cinema in Upper Hutt, which uses the Panastereo technology. Glasses from other theatres wont work, but they only charge $2 for glasses.

saw this at Reading in Wgtn..was well worth it

[rachprice]

5150 elms way

Canadian - in french and interesting storyline to the classic freak locks you away in their house thriller
7.5/10



A christmas tale

Bout a bad santa....Finnish, probably the only christmas movie I have ever liked
7/10


River murders

Thought it might be ok but no the acting is horrid! Didn't really draw you in at all....interesting enough storyline, could have been a brilliant film but was nowhere near it
4/10


Mr Nice

Pretty good actually, quite funny
8/10

[mashman]

The Adjustment Bureau - 8.5/10 ... I really enjoyed this movie, bizarre concept, good script, well acted... how I wish it was all that simple.

[specter]

Restrepo...

fantastic documentary/movie, not gonna describe it, you should just watch it

[Crasherfromwayback]

The Adjustment Bureau - 8.5/10 ... .

Yeah I enjoyed it too.

[mashman]

Killer Elite - 7/10... Good enough for a watch, some decent action, Cortina's racing Jags, guns blazing, ass kickins, 80's clothing and cuts, just a shame the movie didn't really feel like it was the 80's and the story was kind if bitty.

[scissorhands]

Made in America Crips and Bloods

Crips and Bloods doco from Stacey Peralta, who did Dog Town and Z Boys, which documented the emergence of the new school skating movement of the seventies in LA

In Made in America, he expands his honest portrayal of LA gang life, this time with the real McCoy's. The Watts riots and the more recent 1990 LA riots are reviewed along with an extensive sociological response to the issues of urban gangs in America

Check all the many black gang members with old english family surnames, and the heart wrenching interviews with mothers of the many killed very young black men.

A nice paced and reasonably accurate portrayal of some large LA gangs


'Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker, Dogtown and Z-Boys director Stacy Peralta's unflinching documentary chronicles one of the longest-running civil wars in the history of America though a deeply humanistic lens. The Bloods and Crips are two of South Los Angeles' most notorious African-American gangs. While many outsiders simply cannot understand the decades-long cycle of despair and destruction that has come to define their daily lives, the individuals who comprise each gang......'

[Tigadee]

Snatch - 8/10 Great humour, loads of fun.

Limitless - 6.5/10 Like the premise, nice fantasy but some loose ends which made it semi-enjoyable.

Source Code - 7/10 Clever take on the old time travel/loop plot.

Tron Legacy - 8/10 Nice follow-up to the old movie. Great effects and of course, the never-old lightcycles!

Crank 2 - 5/10 Like the video game style of the movie but too chaotic and bizarre for my taste.

Thor and Green Lantern - 6/10 Great effects and semi-credible actors for the roles but plots were weak, felt the villians were underwhelming.

[Kendog]

Tron Legacy - 8/10 Nice follow-up to the old movie. Great effects and of course, the never-old lightcycles!

Amazing sound as well, especially on bluray. Crank that sub!!

[Usarka]

Requiem For A Dream (2000)

Fuck me. I loved this movie when I first saw it, and watching it again was like taking a big gob full of drugs - you get nervous as hell about how it's going to make you feel, but you're pretty sure it'll be intense.

I'm not even going to review it because I can't. But if you want a heavy but awesome movie then check this out if you haven't already.

8.5 on the IMDB scale (Top # 65 movie).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/

Do it.

[Swoop]

In Time.

A very interesting futuristic concept of you living until you are 25 and then having one remaining year to live... unless you gain more time (by various means).

A little "Bonnie and Clyde" at one stage and Matrix in another.
Surprisingly I enjoyed it. Only at the end I wondered who the actors were and looked on the dvd case to find it was some talentless hack called "Timberlake".

6/10.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Requiem For A Dream (2000)

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It's one of my all time fav films. Along with Jacobs Ladder. Check out 'Spun' if you haven't seen it.