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I watched "Watchmen" this morning and actually really enjoyed it Max. I think part of me likes a Superhero movie to have a sequel so the ending wasnt what I had expected. But thought it was really dark, and despite the possibility that superhero movies are being done to death at the minute, I actually thought this one was really different, and thats what I really liked about it. Amidst all the cliched movies about, this is an original, and well worth a watch IMO.
Also watched "Zach and Miri make a porno", and didnt think it was overly bad, but had started off expecting it to be complete tripe, so it could only be better. It is watchable enough, if a bit predictable.
Watched "Green Street 2" and both myself and my brother were just sat laughing at how much of a bag of wank it was. I expected it to be just another run of the mill "all cockneys are well ‘ard" type of thing but it is much worse than that. The story seemed to be written by a ten year old, and takes it self seriously whilst being completely ridiculous, and that somes up most of the "vinnie jones wannabe, but more like hollyoaks should be’s" cast aswell. And you get the feeling that it was directed by the same person that directs Home and Away. Plus they try to make british prisons look like an american prisons with dirt football pitches etc.
Green Street2 is just worth checking out for how laughably bad it is, as even if you expect it to be dire it will still excell itself at being worse than you expected, everyone who had anything to do with this movie is an @rsehole, it is that bad…
I watched Green Street 2 a couple of weeks ago and I would have turned it off if it wasn’t for the fact that it was so bad it was funny.
Definitely one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.
Lee
I’ll be buying "Watchmen" on DVD, Bullers just to have another good look. I think you’ll like the graphic novel too – much more intricate and interlinked.
I daren’t watch "Green Street 2", lads. It looks really, really bad and I quite enjoyed the original. Though even hat isn’t a patch on similar films, such as the hysterical "Football Factory" or the gruesome (but badly dated), "The Firm".
Have either of you seen "Cass"? A real curiosity which contains both the most hysterically pathetic (a laughable trip ooop Norf), and the most vicious scene in all the Hooliporn films. This scene makes me shiver even now and I watched it on New Years Eve.
Theres a film on telly tonight at 10 about that guy that got killed by grizzly bears; wanted to see this film at the cinema.
Have either of you seen "Cass"? A real curiosity which contains both the most hysterically pathetic (a laughable trip ooop Norf), and the most vicious scene in all the Hooliporn films. This scene makes me shiver even now and I watched it on New Years Eve.
Yeah watched that a couple of months ago Max, it wasn’t the bestmovie Ive seen, but not the worst either, trying to think what the worst scene was,is it the one where the guy gets cut up by the "gooners" (and more specifically dennis pennis)? Watched Rise of the foot soldier at round about the same time and, compared to it, Cass was pretty good.
Best British movie Ive seen in recent years is one called Dead Mans Shoes which is a low budget movie and contains a lot of not big names in acting but is a good old story and a bit of a twist. Everyone I know who’s seen it liked it.
Agree with Lee, Green Street 2 is up there with the worst movies Ive ever seen.
Theres a film on telly tonight at 10 about that guy that got killed by grizzly bears; wanted to see this film at the cinema.
I saw an advert for that the other day Moe, at first I thought from the advert that it was a spoof documentary advert for something else, but then realised that it was a real documentary and thought I might watch it, but forgot all about it, was it any good?
Had I seen the slicing scene in "Cass" (and the New Cross tube train battle in "Footsoldiers") when I was a kid, Bullers, I’d never have gone to the football.
"Dead Man’s Shoes" is different gravy. Absolutely magnificent film.
Thanks guys!!
The other week I thought I would be sociable with my better half so I joined her in front of the telly to watch an episode of Coronation street and there was this bloke the one friendly with Gail Platt and I couldn’t remember for the life of me where I had seen him before until reading through the last few post’s of this thread about the footy and it clicked to me he was the undercover cop/football hooligan off the film I.D.
Blackbeard to conquer the World
I think he used to be in some eighties friday night sitcom aswell Nathan (cant for the life of me remember what it was, but think there was him and an older bloke as the main characters, possibly father and son).
Interestingly Gail’s gay dad, who has been in a few movies too, had me stuck for a while as to where I had seen him, then it clicked, think he was the Russian KGB type dude in The Sum Of All Fears.
Watched Patriot Games the other day and realised that the Irish copper, who Sean Beans character kills, is actually Frank Gallagher from shameless.
Corrie’s had quite a few from the movies over the years.
Reece Dinsdale, veteran of the Shadwell Dogs and Absent Dadcom "Home to Roost" – alongside (in a rare comedy role), the late John Thaw.
"Where’s my markUH…where do I Sshtop?"
Quite a few decent actors were in "ID". It’s like a who’s who of ITV/BBC drama 2008.
Grizzly Man was fascinating; he was more of a failed thespian/director than a conservationist [nearly got a big part in Cheers] and the films that he made over the years about his life with the bears were beautiful….he was filming up until 5 hours before his death and when he was killed by one of the bears the camera was running but the shutter was still on so it was sound only [this was, thankfully left out of the film].He reminded me of a cross between Steve Irwin and Kurt Cobain..when Warner Herzog made the film I can remember Mark Kermode doing an interview with him during which the director was shot
. After the film they showed a ‘making the music for the film’ documentary, in which Richard Thompson and several others jammed for 2 days..i must say i hadn’t even noticed the music, which is how film music should be]. More a film about strange people who live on the edge [director included] than a wild life documentary..
OMG have just watched "
Changeling
"- featuring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich (Directed by Clint Eastwood). This is probably the most disturbing film I have ever seen and Im not easily disturbed. A true story about a womans child going missing in California in the 30s, the story is so absolutely horrific, that its hard to believe it’s true. Cant believe there has barely been any talk of this film, its very powerful.
UNMISSABLE but very disturbing and potentially upsetting.
think she was Oscar nominated for it..isn’t her hair rather disturbing as well? find it difficult to watch anything about small children going missing.
think she was Oscar nominated for it..isn’t her hair rather disturbing as well? find it difficult to watch anything about small children going missing.
She does look unhealthily skinny and frail in it. To be fair, if you generally find movies about small children going missing difficult to watch, then you’ll find this very disturbing. If I had to describe it with one word it would be- Grim. Its because its a true story that it is so powerful but it is well directed and well acted.
Anyone seen ‘In Bruges’? I thought it was very good and laughed alot and nearly welled up too. It had everything. Although no Oscar winner, I bought it and I don’t do that very often!
Very good film crizzy, actually funny you should mention it, as was looking on the movie database website the other night and In Bruges was actually quite high up on the list of top films ever.
Having watched Changeling yesterday, I actually felt compelled to go out and read up about the events described in the film, and despite there being a few inaccuracies in the story from original script which was written by the guy who unearthed the whole story from public records, the actual parts of the story which make it so hard to fathom as a true story are actually true.
There is a part in the film which lets it down however where Angelina Jolie makes a hint towards the oscars, which at the time I did find a bit unnecessary and cringeworthy, and that seems to have dragged the movie down amongst many of the critics reviews I have read.
However, other than that couple of seconds faux pas this is an incredible movie, and the most powerful I have seen in years. Another point which has come in for criticism is that it doesnt follow the usual overly familiar and predictable "Three Act" or "Syd Fields Paradigm" Structure in terms of screenplay, and so some critics feel that film drags on too long, but I actually prefer that in certain cases such as this.
I would say that it is told more chronologically from an investigative angle, as "Zodiac" was, and from my experience of other people watching that movie, this style of story telling doesnt work for many people (who thought it dragged on too long), however I personally prefer a story like this (and zodiac) to be told as would have been seen by those involved, rather than just making one up to fit a popular and overused storytelling format.
IMO this is Clint Eastwoods direction at it’s best once again. The attention to detail is excellent and most of the characters actually look like the people they are playing, even angelina’s haircut is pretty accurate.
I really hope someone watches this film so I can get an idea of what they thought of it.
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