What movie did you just watch, and how was it? (expect some spoilers but try not to post any!)

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#756504 6-Feb-2013 12:17

side by side 8/10

don't let keanu reeves put you off, this a great doco on the twilight of traditional photochemical film and the rise of digital film making.

makes a good companion piece for the superb 1992 doco on cinematography, visions of light.

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#756523 6-Feb-2013 12:49

ilovemusic: side by side 8/10

don't let keanu reeves put you off, this a great doco on the twilight of traditional photochemical film and the rise of digital film making.

makes a good companion piece for the superb 1992 doco on cinematography, visions of light.

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#758895 10-Feb-2013 09:55

Seven Psychopaths - WOW

i thought it would be either boring that i'd fall asleep or complete fantasy that i'd puke

but extremely thrilling, funny as, and actually possible!

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#759103 10-Feb-2013 18:21

told ya it was good !

and you called me a "belieber"

have you see martin mcdonagh's earlier film "in bruges" ?

even funnier than seven psychopaths !

here's a classic scene

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#762680 14-Feb-2013 22:33

Die Hard 5

Worst of the series, cringe worthy in parts, 6/10 for me.

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#763733 17-Feb-2013 12:50

Django Unchained - 8.5/10 from me. I didn't find any of the speeches too long, and really enjoyed it.

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#763755 17-Feb-2013 13:37

networkn: Die Hard 5

Worst of the series, cringe worthy in parts, 6/10 for me.

Agreed.

Some shocking editing too.

Should have stopped at number 3.

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#763761 17-Feb-2013 13:56

Die Hard 5? Doh! I'm still waiting for the sequel to Hudson Hawk!

It comes between 2 and 3. Hawk was intended a parody making fun of the genre including some intentionally 'bad' editing. Hollywood didn't know how to market it - avoid the trailer. Going by the ratings few people actually got it and they decided to stick with the Die Hard franchise.

Die Hard 5 goes on my list as a movie it will be impossible to avoid therefore no need to go out and see it ; ).

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#768163 23-Feb-2013 13:54

I watched Skyfall last night. I'm not going to review the movie other than saying that I enjoyed it, but I have to wonder whether the movie studios have any brains when it comes to packaging.

I bought the Bond 50 box set last year which includes a space for Skyfall. The first 22 films have a black disc with a 007 logo and the title of the movie in a generic font. Skyfall is a white disc with a stylised logo and a photo of Bond shooting his gun. In other words, if you actually put the Skyfall disc into the Bond 50 box, it looks completely out of place. Why did they even leave a space if the disc doesn't match?

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#768176 23-Feb-2013 14:35

You'll also be pissed to find Quantum of Solace does not have the same menu as the rest of the 50 series.

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#768181 23-Feb-2013 14:46

Yeah I noticed that too, although that doesn't look bad on the shelf :P

Skyfall has about five previews that you need to skip over too... *sigh*

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#768396 24-Feb-2013 08:50

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D.

9/10 Spectacular.

Really enjoyed especially the slow motion and close up shots.

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#768503 24-Feb-2013 14:11

Django Unchained - 8/10

I wouldn't call myself a die hard Tarantino fan, but I've enjoyed most of his films. When Inglourious Basterds came out a couple of years ago, I was keen to see it, but I have to admit that I wasn't all that impressed by it. My wife, who can take or leave Tarantino, didn't enjoy it and consequently she was reticent about Django. So it's significant that we both really enjoyed it. At 3 hours, it's a tad too long, but it told a good story.

The highlights for me were Christoph Waltz as bounty hunter Dr King Schultz, and the scene with the KKK. Waltz does a great job as the bounty hunter who talks his way out of most situations, and shoots he way out of everything else. He brought a lot of heart to the film in his relationship with Django, and his responses to the scenes of slavery he witnesses. And the KKK scene was brilliant. If someone told me that I was going to watch a film in which the Klan turns up, and is one of the funniest scenes in the film, I would have shook my head. But Tarantino manages to lighten the atmosphere by observing a fundamental problem for the Klan, which I don't think anyone has ever pointed out before...

X-Men: First Class - 8/10

I saw this at the cinema when it was released, and re-watched it on Blu Ray this week. I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time, but I hit upon the problem that I couldn't put my finger on the first time I watched it. The film does a good job as an origin story, but it feels like the last 15 minutes are a rush to the finish line, showing how the two main characters go from being friends to enemies/rivals. To be honest, the friends side of things did seem a little bit forced, which probably didn't help the ending where they are split. I found myself wondering whether the writers should have tried to draw out the characters a bit more, perhaps over two films, to show how the mutants came together and became a tight unit, and then show how they fell apart in a second film. That said, I'm still looking forward to Xmen: Days of Future Past...

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#768528 24-Feb-2013 15:00

Argo ... if it wins the oscar it would be for patriotism just like hurt locker. Argo was nothing spectacular, just a high class documentary that is highly inaccurate

6/10

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#768617 24-Feb-2013 21:27

Woah seen The bad Lieutenant on tv 2 last night what i seen before i fell asleep would of been a 9.5/10 for me ( it was a great film imo even if i did fall asleep i was very tired when it came on) I missed the ending!

Great convincing performance by Nicolas Cage as the junky cop

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