Nickyboy

Mind she doesn't notice your telescope.

daneel

I know my telescope is too small to be noticed, I'm taking Prozac cause of it.

robitusson

Saw it last night at Lido. I thought it was really well done. Great story, great characters, great acting, great script. All the things Hollywood left behind years ago. It deals with the Nazis treatment of the Jews in a non-sensationalist and unpatronising way. It was very nice to go to the cinema and be treated like an intelligent human-being for once.

4/5

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MikeS

Die Hard 4.0 - Bruce Willis.
Just like going to McDonalds, you know exactly what you're going to get before you watch a Die Hard movie. This one follows the formula precisely with lots of violence and explosions and so on, while Bruce McLane mumbles his way ever-onwards, like some unstoppable bulldozer. The Asian girl was hot though.
5/10

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Slim Chance

I watched the 'Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'.

Beautifully shot (the movie, and Jesse come to think of it!), great soundtrack, and a good story. I really liked it, despite being quite long (2h40m). Good perormances put in by Brad Pitt and others.

From IMDB review - "Casey Affleck, arguably the better actor of the Affleck clan gives the most pathetic, annoying and cowardly performance in the last ten years" and this is true, you really want to smack him one.

9/10

Michael Clayton - OK corporate mystery, but a bit far-fetched.
7.5/10

Charlie Wilson's War - Interesting story and Philip Seymour Hoffman steals the show. Some of the characters seemed a bit over the top (eg. Julia Roberts - but maybe thats what rich southern women were like in the 80s), but definitely worth a look.
7.5/10

American Gangster - fairly standard gangster movie - cop battles corruption and criminals to uphold justice etc etc. Nevertheless entertaining.
7.5/10

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Flawless - Demi Moore and Michael Caine

Moore, a frustrated executive at the world's largest diamond company, and Caine, a cleaner with a grievance, decide to steal the firm's diamonds during the nightly lockup. However, Moore doesn't know about Caine's grievance, so is surprised when he steals more than she had expected.
Moore does her spinster imitation and Caine is a rascal. Plot has a neat twist at the end. OK but not great.
6/10

Silk
A French soldier marries and starts a new job as a silk seed smuggler from Japan to France, which makes his town and him wildly rich. However, he becomes obsessed with the beautiful concubine of his Japanese warlord contact, which causes him problems both in Japan and back home.
Very slow, sensitive, soft-focus movie. The love scenes are both revealing and tasteful. In the end, you want to grab the bloke by the collar and thump him for being an idiot. If you hated Die Hard, you might like this.
6/10

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Be sure to take it with plenty of water...and limit alcohol intake.

I watched Opium, Diary of a Madwoman and Liar Liar.

The first one was about a morphine-addicted doctor who was treating an ill woman in an institution. They ended up making love while he was on an opium high, she wanted to marry him, and he denied her. I won't say what happens at the end case anyone wants to see it. It's a Bulgarian film with English subtitles.

The second one was the usual Carrey humor. Laughed over dinner with this one. Knew the storyline already but made me choke just the same.

Good one. I'd give it about the same rate. The depiction of real bipolar illness was not done satisfactorily.

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I don't drink alcohol mate, that's why I am on Prozac in the first place.

Cyrille

Saw 'Iron Man' today and enjoyed it. Good fun.

It's very well played - Robert Downey Jr, Jeff Bridges and even Gwynneth Paltrow are all excellent.

It has a good enough script to not get boring, and unlike other comic book movies it doesn't just descend into cgi silliness in the last half hour.

7/10

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Nickyboy

Indy 4

I had no problem with the idea of the old fella donning his hat again, as long as the story was good. Weelllll, Ford is initially in pretty good form.
It's formulaic stuff, but it's a pretty good formula. The nuclear blast scene is cool, and seeing him back in the classroom is a nice little sentimental trip for the audience to go on. Jim Broadbent puts in a good performance as well.

Four problems though:

1) Very silly plot that only gets sillier.

2) The baddie played by Cate Blanchett is not sinister enough.

3) Karen Allen can't act anymore. The scenes with her and Ford are really awkward.

4) Ray Winstone's performance was also rubbish. Shit character as well.

So rather unsurprisingly, it's the acting and story that lets it down. The visual effects and camerawork are great.

The next one (you know there'll be a next one) needs to be darker, with less attempts at humour, a male bad guy and no Karen Allen or Ray Winstone.

3/5

Robin Friday

Why do you think there'll be another?

Nickyboy

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Robin Friday

I'm not sure that that's enough of a motivation in this case. Lucas and Spielberg are wealthy enough already and independent of major studio pressure. I personally think this return to Indy was as much about self indulgence as dollars and cents. The chance to collaborate with each other as well as the actors. It's pretty telling that there were cameos from a host of characters from the previous films in this instalment and I doubt Harrison Ford will be bothered running about like this again. A spin off for Shia Le.....however it's spelt, like the Chelsea defender, possibly but we'll see no more straight up Indiana flicks in my opinion.