Film 2009

[Spider]

The Hangover

Four guys go to Vegas on a stag do, get completely wasted, wake up the next morning all remembering absolutely NOTHING of the night before....and the groom is missing. Sharp script with some genuine LOL moments and a great cameo from Mike Tyson. Probably the best comedy I've seen this year, quality sniggerage.

8.0

If this is your favourite comedy you really need to check out In the Loop when it is released on DVD. I liked The Hangover enough, but it's not a patch on what is one of the funniest films I've seen in many a year!

Managed to catch Moon the other day - a fine 'proper' sci-fi film with a great performance by Rockwell and a brilliant score. Best of all, it's a film you can talk about afterwards!

Has anyone else seen Antichrist? I was suprised to find that most of the movie was fairly tedious. The shocking stuff you've heard about is very intense, and I'll take an intelligent film like this over most of the dreck we've had to sit through this summer any day, even if it is a bit of a slog at times!

 

[Acker79]

G-Force 3-D
OKish family film. Nothing special. I did think they had a good balance between utilising the 3D without relying on it to the point it won't work in 2D.

 

[keaton]

Roxanne 9.5
A major contender for best film of the 80s, starring Steve Martin as a massively nosed Fire Chief opposite the lovely Daryl Hannah

 

[Mellotron]

The Wrestler

Wasn't sure if I'd like this, but I have to say it was one of the best acting performances I have seen in recent years. Micky Rourke is utterly convincing as struggling, lonely, washed-up over the hill wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, still trying to earn a living by harking back to his past glories which were back in the 80's. He plays the role with such likable, world-weary, understated skill that its impossible not to find yourself pulling for the poor guy all the way through. Filmed almost in a fly-on-the-wall documentary style, I thought this was a gem of a film and one I'd happily watch again just for Rourkes amazing performance.

8.8

Ditto. Fantastic performance, improves the film no end.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Swingers

Recently heartbroken and dumped young men pass their incites in women and life and its a road trip / party trip and have some very good and spot on quotes and observations.

7.8

Vantage Point

May have reviewed this last year but watched again and its a superb action thriller and quite unique. Highly recommended

7.9

 

[keaton]

US
Swingers is one of the finest films ever made

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Funny Games

I had been meaning to wtach this controversial film for some time.

A remake of a 90's Austrian subtitled film by the same film, Haneke entitled Funny Games US for the " mainstream " market/

The film is about a middle class or middle income being the USA family going on holiday who are terrorised by a couple of well spoken high school spotty teenagers in their holiday home.

Whilst a decent premise the execution was awful. Make no mistake this film is SHIT HOUSE. Its was frankly absured and totally unrealsitic , you think 30 foot Alien robots battering themselves is unrealistic well you ain't seen this film.

The 2 boys get into the house and start on the Mother who tells them to get lost. The Father who is a complete Paper Hat and waste of space confronts them only to be hit on his leg to which he is rendered useless from thereon. Earlier one of the Boys decides to kill the family Dog with a Golf Club. Armed with nothing more than a Golf Club for most of the film the family roll over and beg for salvation.

The most unrealistic part of the film which made me write it off was after 30 minutes the Mother goes to the Lake to meet some friends who were checking up on them. There were 4 grown strong adults and a spotty teenagers with a Golf club and the Mother said and did nothing. It was ridiculous. After this the boys terrorise the family with a Golf club and eventually kill all 3. The only saving grace was that Naomi Watts was in scenes in her lingerie and that is the only positive things I can say about this sorry film.

Haneke no doubt was trying to make a statement about the failings of American society but Haneke at least make the premise and scenario remotely feasable. After their 10 year old boy was killed the parents acted as if nothing had happened.

If you want to see a film with a message about teen culture and the failings of society see Eden Lake and English film which is infinately superior. This was one of if not the worst films I have ever seen in my life. It is repellant, risable and trash.

1.8

 

[vegster]

Funny Games

I had been meaning to wtach this controversial film for some time.

A remake of a 90's Austrian subtitled film by the same film, Haneke entitled Funny Games US for the " mainstream " market/

The film is about a middle class or middle income being the USA family going on holiday who are terrorised by a couple of well spoken high school spotty teenagers in their holiday home.

Whilst a decent premise the execution was awful. Make no mistake this film is SHIT HOUSE. Its was frankly absured and totally unrealsitic , you think 30 foot Alien robots battering themselves is unrealistic well you ain't seen this film.

The 2 boys get into the house and start on the Mother who tells them to get lost. The Father who is a complete Paper Hat and waste of space confronts them only to be hit on his leg to which he is rendered useless from thereon. Earlier one of the Boys decides to kill the family Dog with a Golf Club. Armed with nothing more than a Golf Club for most of the film the family roll over and beg for salvation.

The most unrealistic part of the film which made me write it off was after 30 minutes the Mother goes to the Lake to meet some friends who were checking up on them. There were 4 grown strong adults and a spotty teenagers with a Golf club and the Mother said and did nothing. It was ridiculous. After this the boys terrorise the family with a Golf club and eventually kill all 3. The only saving grace was that Naomi Watts was in scenes in her lingerie and that is the only positive things I can say about this sorry film.

Haneke no doubt was trying to make a statement about the failings of American society but Haneke at least make the premise and scenario remotely feasable. After their 10 year old boy was killed the parents acted as if nothing had happened.

If you want to see a film with a message about teen culture and the failings of society see Eden Lake and English film which is infinately superior. This was one of if not the worst films I have ever seen in my life. It is repellant, risable and trash.

1.8

But, you left out the important bit, was the club an iron or a wood ? I wouldn't be worried about a low iron but a wood ! ,man !

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

It was a 3 Iron to be fair but come on its not as though the boy had a machine gun or something.

 

[DJB1975]

DVD wise

HUNGER - One of the finest British films i have ever seen

Cinema

MOON

 

[Easy 10]

Mum and Dad

Don't be fooled by the unassuming title - this is DEEPLY grisly, disturbing stuff. A British horror flick, and a decent one at that. It centres on a Polish migrant girl working as a cleaner at Heathrow who is befriended by a young english colleague, and takes to her home near the airport to meet her Mum and Dad...but not for tea and biscuits, as it turns out.

By having none of that Hollywood "gloss" (as its basically set in a house next to Heathrow), the film has a grim, gritty realism to it, as its based in such a familiar envronment. Plenty of gross-out moments but without descending into the ridiculous horror-porn of some of the later Saw movies, this is probably the best horror I've seen in years. Definitely NOT one for the kids.

8.1

 

[CHAPPERS]

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull or whatever it's called.

Decent enough film up until the last 5 minutes when it goes all stupid. I turned it off just as the alien vessel was taking off. Utterly ridiculous really. I can understand the whole alien species thing but they didn't have to make it so fantastical.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

This has been said many times Max. People have to realise the film is based on the paranoia of the time and the 50's when it was set was Alien invasions and the Cold War. The Russians wre the enemy instead of the Nazi's in parts 1 and 3. The beings , the Crystal Skulls were not Aliens per se but interdimensional beings. The whole thing at that time was Roswell ( per the body found in the Warehouse ), Area 51 and the Crystal Skulls were and are unexplained phenonemum.

I think this film will be highly regarded in future once the hype has fizzled out as I have seen in 3 times and it gets better each time. It is a valuable addition to the series imo with Ford effortlessly and successfully reprising Indian Jones. Roll on part 5 which Spielberg and Ford have signed to and although it did not match parts 1 or 3 which had the bar set very very high if you look at it as a whole it is superior to the Temple of Doom and certainly not the gash some people have said.

8.1

 

[Easy 10]

I also had to question Indy surviving a nuclear bomb blast....by hiding in a fridge.

 

[Oscar]

The worst moment for me is Shia LaBeouf swinging through the trees with digital monkeys. Appalling.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

The fridge thing was tongue in cheek. The rope swinging again just a laugh. I find it slightly ridiculous that people question the concept of the Crystal Skulls and Interdimensial beings but feel a Lost Ark, Holy Grail or blood from a cup making IJ mad quite feasible scenarios. All the films are based on a fun 50's B movie schoolboy type scenario and part 4 is no less or no more less feasible than the ones that preceded it.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I meant aliens as in a species not of this world like. You didn't have to explain the whole Area 51 thing (i got that don't worry) I just thought the ending was completely OTT. Don't get me wrong, apart from that I quite enjoyed it.

Though the monkeys bit was a tad stupid. Yeah, and the nuclear blast.

Basically, all a bit silly (though still enjoyable up to the ending).

I think I've made my point here.

 

[Easy 10]

The fridge thing was tongue in cheek. The rope swinging again just a laugh. I find it slightly ridiculous that people question the concept of the Crystal Skulls and Interdimensial beings but feel a Lost Ark, Holy Grail or blood from a cup making IJ mad quite feasible scenarios. All the films are based on a fun 50's B movie schoolboy type scenario and part 4 is no less or no more less feasible than the ones that preceded it.

Well, there are leaps of faith, suspension of disbelief, and just...dumb stuff. Its not a terrible movie by any means, but it did have some groan-inducing moments along the way.

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

Well, there are leaps of faith, suspension of disbelief, and just...dumb stuff. Its not a terrible movie by any means, but it did have some groan-inducing moments along the way.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up for me as well. Only saw it for the first time a few weeks, but basically knew all about the fridge, monkeys and ending etc. The story is certainly no more ridiculous than the original trilogy and I loved the opening 15 minutes or so. Then all the terrible cartoony CGI just kicks in and the story and acting become secondary (hmm, sounds a bit familiar there, doesn't it Lucas?).
Oh, and Indy surviving a nuclear blast in a fridge and his son swinging through the trees with a load of monkeys is not tongue in cheek. It's taking the piss and Spielberg should have had the balls to tell Lucas to shove it in his stupid bearded fat face.

 

[Eggmundo]

Lesbian Vampire Killers

Nice try but is caught between trying to be funny and not being too ridiculous.
Not a fan of Horne and Corden (sp?) but they seemed like a good partnership.

4.1