What movie did you watch last night? (9 Viewers)

[hermie]

Mysterious, beautiful, disturbing. A masterpiece.

I've been assured that'll be in my Christmas stocking. Must give Code Unknown a go. Been meaning to get around to it for ages.

 

[Anthony]

I love you philip morris. Some of the most painful acting I've seen in a while. Don't know how I made it to the end.

 

[Unicron]

Gremlins in the lighthouse. Great fun, would never be made today.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Ragtime by Milos Forman. It's an adaptation of E.L. Doctrow's magnificent book which I've just finished. Captures the spirit of the book well although its focus is mainly on the fictional characters rather than the historical people.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Die Hard 1, in the Lighthouse while supping on bottles of O'Hara's pale ale, which were only €5 and served to me with some friendly chat about Brazilian music by a beautiful girl from that country. A perfect night really.

 

[washingcattle]

Shame

A film about sex addiction huh ? does that really exist I mean I read that heavy metal addiction gets you put on disability and probably xanax these days so surely this film could just be a guy in his gaf not riding or working and picking up a cheque and some pills. Anyway if sex addiction does exist then Director Steve McQueen wants us to believe it's absolutely no craic whatsoever. Micheal Fassbender plays Brandon the sex addict who basically spends his days picking up sluts in bars, hiring prostitutes, watching porn on his laptop and riddling his work computer with trojans while wanking constantly. His really down right fucked up sister Carey Mulligan shows up and this fucks his life up no end. Siblings huh ? always fucking with your shit at the worst possible moment. Their relationship is dysfunctional to say the fucking least and Brandon starts to fall apart. And that's it really.

It's not McQueens style to suggest why any of this is going on he did his best to make Hunger as apolitical as possible and so the why's are absent here. Unfortunately the film is missing something, I'm not saying that a back story for Mulligan or Fassbender would have helped but there is something absent which needs to be in there to heighten the whole thing a little bit. The story takes place over the course of a few days so you always get the sense that you're just glimpsing something rather than really looking hard at it and as such there is also a glimpse of a great movie that's just not quite there. Fassbender is excellent in the lead role and Mulligan is good too as the "annoying" sister. A good film then which is bleak and depressing but maybe not quite as depraved as it should be. Perhaps what is missing here is in fact sex, absolute sex disgusting, desperate, sickening, degrading sex. Maybe that's actually not how sex addicts role ( maybe that's just how I do it wha ? ) maybe they are really like Brandon is here, he does seem like a gent all in all, a fucked up weird yes but one you wouldn't run from. There's an assumption I suppose that the audience are supposed to be sickened by his addictions and the lengths he goes to to feed this but there's a veneer of middle class politeness that McQueen can't quite balance correctly to really affect an audience. One thumpeder said

"I don't get it , lad likes riding so what"

Or something along those lines and unfortunately that's really what your left with for most of the movie. Besides which Micheal Fassbender does not look like he has ever had to pay for a ride in his life. Having said that anyone has ridden him will probably need surgery afterwards. That is unless he's actually only 4 foot 11.

 

[Cormcolash]

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[GO]

Rocky V ..Was deadly.Soon as I clapped eyes on Tommy Gunns mullet,I knew he was bad news.

 

[Ferox13]

Put me in a great mood and I also found I had grown an epic tashe by the end of the film.

 

[therealjohnny]

I watched the original version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo--very good, as I expected

Interesting to see all the little changes they made for a wider audience

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Dredd. Pretty good. Major bugbear of mine is CGI gunshot wounds and spurting blood. Dredd was full of this. Could have been enjoyably violent if they used prosthetics and squibs or what have you instead you have this ridiculous looking cgi blood flying all over the gaff. The bird in this was too waifish. They'd be my only complaints. Apart from that it was solid and your man who plays Dredd (Bones from Star Trek I think) was good. 6.5/10. Could have been an 8/10 if they'd cut out all that cgi crap.

 

[Unicron]

Rocky V ..Was deadly.Soon as I clapped eyes on Tommy Gunns mullet,I knew he was bad news.

GET UP YOU SONOVABITCH!
Coz Mickey loves ya.

 

[GO]

GET UP YOU SONOVABITCH!
Coz Mickey loves ya.

I find it amzing that the Pauly fella was'nt told to GTFO years ago.He's nothing but bad news that lad.The amount of hassle he caused the Rockies.

Rocky shoulda bursted him in that carpark that time after he got done for smashing the Rocky pinball machine.

 

[Unicron]

I find it amzing that the Pauly fella was'nt told to GTFO years ago.He's nothing but bad news that lad.The amount of hassle he caused the Rockies.

Rocky shoulda bursted him in that carpark that time after he got done for smashing the Rocky pinball machine.

Sometimes you just have to put up with your mott's idiot brother.

I've the opposite deal, I've to put up with my sisters' fella.

 

[Cormcolash]

I would have taken Pauly skydiving and rigged his chute

 

[jonah]

Well I watched Rocky IV. Class robot. Loads of montages. A+

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The Campaign. Will Ferrell and Zach Galifinakis play rival politicians. Mostly dick jokes with some weak political satire. Ferrell's natural funniness keeps things watchable but In The Loop this ain't. I'm a sucker for these films though so i lapped it up.

House of Games. David Mamet's twisty noir. Mixed bag. The cons in this are not very plausible. You wonder why your one keeps falling for them. It's quite a stylish film though and Joe Mantegna is excellent.

About to watch Dead Again with Kenneth Branagh and Thompson.

 

[shower another shower]

two nights in a row. Brilliant fim and I think George Clooney is just great.

 

[jonah]

^ yeah I thought that was a really great movie too, a real slow burner.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Get Him to the Greek. Someone recommended it as good for a few cheap laughs. I was right to be suspicious. It's bloody not. Turned it off after 10 minutes. Russell Brand is a horrendous cunt.

Fast Times At Ridgemont High. A classic. Pool scene = christmas horn. is there a better scene in movies? probably not.

Bottle Rocket - Anderson's most likeable film. Cast great, characters great, dialogue pitch perfect.