What movie did you watch last night? (31 Viewers)

[David Kronenbourg]

I love that movie. Romain Duris should be massive.

yeah he's very good in it. reminded me of de niro in mean streets - kind of instinctive acting, great presence, very intense. i've not really seen him in anything else though

 

[jonah]

I saw him in Heartbreaker which was terrible, but he was charming and fupping gorgeous.

 

[Cormcolash]

I thought Heartbreaker was a good laugh. Is that film The Beat That My Heart Skipped on in any cinemas or anything? I love a good oul crime thing.

 

[Anarcho Munk]

It's from a few years back cormo. I first saw it on RTE at silly o' clock in the morning.... tis well worth a watch.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Exhibit A: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inception/

Because we all care so much what a bunch of anonymous critics think.

Exhibit B:

www.thumped.com\bbs

Is that 6 against and 1 for now?

 

[pete]

i liked it

must watch it again to see if i still do

 

[washingcattle]

I liked it too. It washed over me nicely.

 

[Andy_aurel]

Because we all care so much what a bunch of anonymous critics think.

Exhibit B:

www.thumped.com\bbs

Is that 6 against and 1 for now?

You seem to have missed the 93% rating derived from nearly 350,000 users(non-critics). Anyway, same as yourself I don't actually give a shite just offering up the idea that your thumped based sample of 7 people may not be conclusive. I thought the film kinda squandered an interesting premise and that fucking Bond film Jetski homage scene is massively egregious.

 

[Lili Marlene]

You seem to have missed the 93% rating derived from nearly 350,000 users(non-critics). Anyway, same as yourself I don't actually give a shite just offering up the idea that your thumped based sample of 7 people may not be conclusive. I thought the film kinda squandered an interesting premise and that fucking Bond film Jetski homage scene is massively egregious.

my thumped based sample is a qualitative study of the biggest pricks in Ireland. The quantative nonsense found on rottentomatoes does not apply here.

God, shut up me.

 

[Andy_aurel]

Well, I certainly can't deny that Thumped is the fountainhead of massive prick data in Ireland.

 

[ann post]

Canadian blogger/journo Ofelia Legaspi is working her way through The Best DVDs You’ve Never Seen, Just Missed or Almost Forgotten, a book compiled by New York Times film critics. There are 500(ish) films in the book. That's a lot of sitting on your butt. Today Ofelia's tackling Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and contrasting it with Inception.

Kaufman’s characters fight, not in million-dollar action sequences, but inside intimate homes. The only place more intimate and alive than the reality of Clementine and Joel’s lives is when they go back deep in Joel’s repressed memories, through some low-tech brain damage procedure that takes place in a small clinic and in the depressive patient’s own dingy home.

Nolan’s, on the other hand, is a construct that detaches itself from poignant and well-developed emotions the way its inception scenes have the Earth detach from its core. These scenes invoke awe but they seem to serve no purpose other than to showcase the capabilities of a “dream architect” whose mind maze creation is actually more decorative than plot-driven.

Lucklily the internet has already summed up inception for me. the million 'this is epic' comments that you'll find on the ost youtubes affirm it.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Hold on

Kaufman’s characters fight, not in million-dollar action sequences, but inside intimate homes. The only place more intimate and alive than the reality of Clementine and Joel’s lives is when they go back deep in Joel’s repressed memories, through some low-tech brain damage procedure that takes place in a small clinic and in the depressive patient’s own dingy home.

jonah;

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[ratmonkey]

HEIST. A David Mamet heist film. Pretty much what you'd expect.

 

[jonah]

Hold on




jonah;

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Yes John? ...YES?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Oh a certain film was mentioned. I don't really know what ann post was getting at. I don't know what any of his posts are about today. Something about 16 year olds in 2011 being 9 in 2005 therefore i'm implying something.

 

[jonah]

I'd be lying if I said I understood. That Ann Post.

 

[Cormcolash]

HEIST. A David Mamet heist film. Pretty much what you'd expect.

Delroy Lindo and Danny DeVito are twin brothers trapped in the Vietnam jungle whilst searching for and finding their mother, and waiting to be picked up by a plane piloted by Gene Hackman in a race against time?

 

[jonah]

Just really...meh.

 

[Cormcolash]

Anyway, I saw X-Men first class today.

Parts of it are really cool. Mainly the bits that Magneto is in.
More parts of it are pretty shite.
Some of the 'mutants' are incredibly fucking lame. If I ever turn into a mutant, remind me not to end up flying, because that seems to automatically mean I'll be fucking shit.

Overall, starts really well actually, then just loses the plot about halfway through - fairly typical X-Man film in other words.

P.S Hi jonah

 

[jonah]

Hi Cormo! I was supposed to see x-men today too but even my unholy love of michael fassbender couldn't get me to leave the house. I think I'll just wait to download it... Blitz now, Blitz I may have left the house for.