What movie did you watch last night? (5 Viewers)

[ann post]

lots of fun.

 

[GO]

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

The whole thing is one big montage..robot was fairly grim..but Bearded Rocky --A++

I just slept through Scrooged.Woke up and the gas fire had gone out.No stars.

 

[Anthony]

Tim Burton's Alice is on the tv. Hate it.

 

[GO]

Tim Burton's Alice is on the tv. Hate it.

I don't like most of that lads output.Always very underwhelming.And sometimes downright annoying.

I did enjoy the last one with Alice Cooper in it though.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Always the very same as his last ten films.
Give it up.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Watched Up on RTE there. A wonderful film. Toy Story still tops the Pixar films for me though.

 

[GO]

Up is absolutely fab.FAB

 

[Jill Hives]

No film should make you cry in the first five minutes.
It should be against the law or something.

 

[ann post]

yeah i don't know if its good or it just turns me into an emotional wreck. i've had girlfriends like that. they weren't actually good.

 

[Jill Hives]

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.

Who was it that said, "Men don't pay to be with women, they pay for them to leave"... or something like that? I had no problems connecting the possible dots that made it gripping. That dinner scene alone explained so damn much. I think I need to rent this again. Or maybe I don't because it depressed the hell out of me.

 

[Cormcolash]

I thought it was very good, but then I didn't get Fassbender envy or anything

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Enjoyed it well enough. Never want to see it again. Wasn't quite what it could have been. Because of McQueen's style, I felt. WC does a great review up there (as usual)

 

[pete]

tangled - santa brought this one; good enough, but the recipient found it all a bit boring

the imposter - deadly

 

[xsteox]

In last few weeks:

In bruges - hilarious 8.6/10

Serpico- good, worth a look 6/10

Young adult- really good, 7/10

Drive. not quite as good as in cinema, still killer though. 8.5/10

 

[Cormcolash]

Saw 7 Psychos there, it was pretty good alright, pretty clever film really

 

[jonah]

Watched Splash. Its GREAT. Tom Hanks.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Inglorious Basterds. One of Tarantino's best. Made me very excited for Django Unchained.

Killing Them Softly. Average. The heist at the start was well done but it was pretty boring and not particularly tense or suspenseful for a thriller. Gandalfini's character was pointless.

 

[Unicron]

Killing Them Softly. Average. The heist at the start was well done but it was pretty boring and not particularly tense or suspenseful for a thriller. Gandalfini's character was pointless.

It's dreadful, major let down.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Young adult- really good, 7/10

I enjoyed this too, far more than I suspected I would... Paton Ozwalt is very good in it
It could have turned into a very very shit film very easily.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

This is 40. Typically shite Apatow fare about annoying middle class Americans and their pretend problems. Patronising garbage. I turned it off after 45 minutes. This film is 2 hours and 10 minutes long. No comedy needs to be that long.