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

[Cormcolash]

Fifty Dead Men Walking.
Terrible. For the first hour I could forgive its flaws but the climax is just so retarded I couldn't keep a straight face. Decent in places but once yer wan from Charmed comes into the picture it gets laughable. A hardened IRA bomber using the phrase "parking lot" put me off as well.

50 Dead Men Walking is amazing. The only bad thing about the whole film is Rose "I would definitely have been in the IRA" McGowan.
It's based on a true story, what is retarded about the climax?

I liked the shoot-out in the Front Page, shithole that it is, I just wish someone would go in there and shoot the fuck out of it.

 

[xrockridgex]

50 Dead Men Walking is amazing. The only bad thing about the whole film is Rose "I would definitely have been in the IRA" McGowan.
It's based on a true story, what is retarded about the climax?

Well I have read the book so perhaps I was coming at it from a certain perspective. They change a whole load of stuff to shoehorn it into two well worn hollywood plot devices. Sure McGartland himself tried to stop them from showing it.

Spoiler

The whole thing about Fergus going rogue and the meeting between the other special branch guy and the IRA interrogator is fabricated. There may be certain instances where that is true, and lower operatives were sometimes sacrficied to protect people like Stakeknife, but as a dramatic device I just felt it was faintly ridiclous. I should add I thought it was a serviceable enough thriller in parts though and I am probably too much a Troubles buff to just relax and enjoy it

 

[GO]

Watched this last night.Was ok,not as good as the original BBC one(which I'm gonna watch tonight).

 

[snakybus]

It was my first time watching it since then also.Was a bit worried it would'nt live up to the memory but man how it did!Peachy creamy!

Hey GW, where did you get this, I thought it's not available on DVD in Europe?

 

[GO]

Hey GW, where did you get this, I thought it's not available on DVD in Europe?

Got it on the down low dude.

 

[pete]

Was pretty good for that type of thing.6/10

though this was pretty great

 

[dunderhead]

"your a real sexy lady flo"

Bad Boy Bubby.

first time seeing it. great, great movie.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY B!!!!! TOTALLY AMAZING!!!

At the very start, when he is after falling from the helicopter from the end of the first film, and he bounces off the car and hits the ground, I was thinking "jesus that's fucking stupid, they'd have to shovel him off the ground after a fall like that".

Next thing on of the chinamen gets out of the van with a big shovel.

 

[Cormcolash]

Well I have read the book so perhaps I was coming at it from a certain perspective. They change a whole load of stuff to shoehorn it into two well worn hollywood plot devices. Sure McGartland himself tried to stop them from showing it.

Spoiler

The whole thing about Fergus going rogue and the meeting between the other special branch guy and the IRA interrogator is fabricated. There may be certain instances where that is true, and lower operatives were sometimes sacrficied to protect people like Stakeknife, but as a dramatic device I just felt it was faintly ridiclous. I should add I thought it was a serviceable enough thriller in parts though and I am probably too much a Troubles buff to just relax and enjoy it

Yeah I was aware of that, and McGartland is definitely right to take issue with aspects of the film like that.

Spoiler

Also, the meeting between the other two guys could have happened for all we know, as I recall it recently came out that the British did have another informer who was high up in the IRA chain of command. It takes liberties sure but I doubt the real truth of what happened with those kind of things will ever actually come out.

But aside from those things, which as far as the film goes are pretty much minor plot details, I thought it was brilliant, and very realistic about how things were around that time.

 

[dudley]

Monsters Vs Aliens 3D

that was crackin'! first go i've have of 3d since the late late show did that special, 25 years ago? was bleedin' deadly. great voice cast too

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Either
A: One of the worst pieces of shit I've ever seen
or
B: One of the best; most over the top; deliberately, unasahamadely and exuberantly crass and puerile things I have ever seen. Brilliant.

Yup. Don't forget surreal.

They really just went out and decided to have fun with it, didn't they?

There was 8 people in the theatre yesterday and I still gave it a clap at the end.
Good stuff.

 

[Cormcolash]

That's cause it's fucking amazing

 

[Kermit McDermott]

On BBC2. Not the worst. Nice 70's brit horror atmosphere going on. Adds to the collection.

 

[xsteox]

Really good this.

 

[Umfufu]

Good laugh.
It helped that the audience in the cinema obviously knew what they were in for & were laughing loads.

Had some very Partidge/Gervais moments at times.

Heard a review on the radio during the week & part of the clip they played (with Steve Coogan) wasn't in the film which was a bit disappointing.
Must've been a press release before the final edit or something.

 

[pissypants]

Yup. Don't forget surreal.

They really just went out and decided to have fun with it, didn't they?

There was 8 people in the theatre yesterday and I still gave it a clap at the end.
Good stuff.

nowhere near as out-there (or good) as the first one though.
You pair of sausage Nigels.

 

[MuzzleMusic]

monsters v aliens 3d

fantastic 3d - 3d I love it! greatest thing to come out of the 90s!

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

diving bell and the butterfly

this film couldn't have been more perfect.

 

[Cormcolash]

diving bell and the butterfly

this film couldn't have been more perfect.

It could have had Jason Statham in it

 

[xsteox]

Bar some truly appalling dialog, and slightly dodgy special effects, this still rules.