Last movie you Watched....

[Wee Little Puppet Man]

The Incredible Hulk. 9/10.
Thor. 8/10.

[AphroditeMF]

Alien and Aliens. I was going to save the blu-rays and watch them (haven't seen either movie in years) the week before Prometheus is released, but I couldn't resist and I had to watch them right away.

[finnian]

The Tree of Life (2011). I knew it was going to be a unique viewing experience. It doesn't really have a straight narrative, as it tells the story of a family from the 50's growing up with their problems, but is also mixed with the creation of the universe and how nature connects with the people. I wouldn't classify it as science fiction, but it is really about life, the universe and everything. All the leads are very good, but for me the young Jack and Brad Pitt stand out. The only film I can think of thats similar to it is 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you don't understand or connect with this movie, your going to find this one big bore and probably hate it. If you feel a connection, you will love it. Even if your not sure about seeing this film, I recommend you watch it, it really is a unique experience.

[hammard]

Captain America - 7/10. It's a good fun film which works as long as you take it as pure pulp and don't think too much about it. The obsessive continuity links to the avengers were really irritating though, they should have just let it stand alone and then done the first\last few minutes in the Avengers.

[Kirk]

Catain America Very good 4 out of 5 Stars
Really enjoyed this.
Chris Evans was brilliant as Captain America and Hugo Weaving as the Red skull was amazing.
Much better than Thor.
Looking forward to the Avengers now.

[Richard L]

In reference to the post above, even dog bollocks on a plate is better than Thor...


I saw Gnomeo and Juliet at the Odeon with the kids for 5 quid. I adored it. Much funnier than Shrek and it is like a fresh take on Toy Story, with none of the moth eaten feel the sequels had. Worth buying on DVD or seeing the matinee at Odeon. If you don't cry when you see the sketch 'Love builds a garden' then you must be dead inside.

[buffster]

cheesy rom com ' The Truth About Love ' With Love Hewitt, Dougray Scott & Jimi Mistry. ok film concluding with the obligatory rush somewhere ( to the train station this time ) to stop the guy from leaving.

[Happy-Hangman]

I made the mistake, today - ever eager to support our indigenous film-industry - of paying good money to see 'Elfie Hopkins'.

Now, generally speaking I can find something in a film to like, however bad it may be. For all I would happily stamp repeatedly on Frank Miller's windpipe wearing stilletos for what he did to Will Eisner's 'The Spirit', I would willingly concede that his film was stylistically (if variably) interesting. Even the most brainless Jason Statham flick (which should, of course, be rated exclusively in terms of their comparative levels of cerebral vacuity) can occasionally be graced with an inventive action sequence, and, increasingly, CGI innovation is the only delight availed by the efforts of Mr James Cameron. It is indeed rare that a film has no redeeming features whatever.

'Elfie Hopkins' is such a film.

The script is dreadful, laden with one-liners and retorts which are not so much pithy as merely taking-the-pith, and delivered with such leaden deliberation that one can tell the writers were convinced of their winsome wit. In this, as in so much, these wretches were woefully mistaken. The plot is predictable and the mystery transparent to the point of invisibility, the villains obvious and as threatening as a slightly moist kitten, and Jaime Winstone, our titular heroine, has a vacuum where her screen presence should be. We are obviously meant to see Elfie as quirky, rebellious and anarchic, but when her lines are delivered in either of Winstone's trademarked emotional states - pissed-off and/or pissed-off-and-shouty - she's just pissing well annoying. Her dad crops up in a cameo, as a slightly deranged butcher with an accent (sometimes Bristolian, sometimes Welsh, always Winstone) rather more intriguing than the plot. I assume his presence was intended to intimidate audiences and prevent them from walking out: if so, the tactic failed - half the audience at my screening departed within the first hour.

All of this would be forgivable if there was any visual or technical merit to be found.

Nope. Nada. Nil. B*gg*r all, in fact.

The soundtrack is all over the place: music swamping dialogue where it shouldn't, but absent when it is sorely needed to prop up lazily structured 'suspense' sequences which I would call pedestrian were that not an insult to even the cheapest Chinese plimsoll manufacturers. Or Uwe Boll. Some shots are so abominably framed that one can only assume that the cameraman has half-heartedly pointed his lens in the general direction of the actors, clocked-off for an early lunch and...well....hoped for the best. A forlorn hope, if so.

If I say that I would rather watch 'Catwoman' again than endure one more minute of this ineffable irredeemable toss, you may get some idea of how bad 'Elfie Hopkins' really is.

[hammard]

Chatroom - 9/10

I was mostly only watching it because I know a number of people who worked on it (including my OH) and was surprised how good it was. The best bit was how the internet is envisaged as a derelict hotel, becoming more dark and dilapidated the darker the place you go on the internet. They also brilliantly played with the anonymity of the internet by having people's appearance change as they pretend to be other people. Plus it was genuinely freaky and had Daniel Kaluuya in it

The only problem. Shouldn't have watched it before going to bed. I did not sleep well after that.

[kevinj]

Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (1981) - finally got around to watching this old video nasty on a vhs copy I picked up earlier this year.
The Plot is as follows, after a husband and wife is killed their child is brought up by his aunt until he decides to go off to college with his girlfriend at which point his aunt goes off the deep end, and attempts to seduce a plumber and then kills him when he refuses, after finding out the victim is gay the main detective decides that it was the kid who did it because he "is a fag" despite the fact that he is regularly having sex with his girlfriend, every so often another detective comes in and points out that the aunt cut the brake lines on a car or had an old boyfriend disappear (he is still around although admittedly around as a pickled head in a jar in the basement) only to be told that he is wrong because the kid did it because he was a fag, oh BTW the aunt keeps drugging the kid and fondling him, so far so bad melodrama until the end when the aunt goes completely not the sanest puppy in the sack and starts killing everyone she meets from the neighbour who was in the house at the time, the detective who was checking what happened to the girlfriend (who she had hit in the head with a mallet and later tries to drown) and eventually tries to kill the kid who finally kills her, cue the main detective who waltzs in sees all the victims and the aunt covered in blood, hears the surviving girlfriend explain that it was the aunt that did it, and so naturally he pulls out his gun and asks everyone to leave while he talks to the fag, everyone does and there is a short fight and the final explanation that billy was aquitted on the basis of temporary insanity.
One of those movies they just don't make anymore