Thread: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?

^ She was pretty good in Pride and Prejudice.

Originally Posted by William money

'Most Unconvincing Trout Pout'.

I do wish Keira Knightly would have given this up by now, maybe she can't help it?

FRANKENWEENIE

This is a Tim Burton animation, very similar in style to "The Nightmare Before Christmas" with similar Gothic settings and the same wry humour. As such it needed a new storyline and plenty of fresh material.

Burton has excelled himself with another animation featuring a boy and his dog. In "Nightmare" the dog's name, "Zero", told us something about his character, and this time he has named the dog "Sparky" for the same reason. Once again, children will enjoy the visual effects while the film contains sufficient material, especially the classic horror references, to give adults a good laugh.

The story is based around the school in a very conservative town, and mostly features the children, teachers and a few parents in that order. Martin Landau gives us some good laughs as the voice of the science teacher who bears a close resemblance to Vincent Price.

We have a mutant turtle which could easily take the place of Godzilla at one point, and it is well worth reading the headstones in the pet cemetery where you will find one bearing the inscription, "Goodbye Kitty" which, again, is far from Burton's only dig at cats in this film.

If you enjoyed "Nightmare" this will not disappoint.

8/10

you forgot nina warrior (sasuke) - greatest television production since bananaman

Just watched Argo, good film with a god tension building through it. 8/10

Chernobyl Diaries - Slightly predictable but still quite scary. 6/10

Safe House - Denzel Washington - Great action, decent story, good cast (inc. Brendan Gleeson & Liam Cunningham) 8/10

Very good Ben Affleck performance.

Every time I see John Goodman I wonder what is keeping him alive.

Incredible story. There are some incredibly brave people in this world.

8/10 I could watch this again




PS We're going to see Skyfall on Saturday evening and would appreciate any comments beforehand.

Originally Posted by Chang

There are some incredibly brave people in this world.

...please keep in mind that in real life, the potential hostages left Iran smoothly without all the airport drama that the film depicted...the real hero of the story is the Canadian ambassador in Tehran...

Originally Posted by tomcat

all the airport drama

I did figure that to be dramatization, especially the runway car chase which just seemed ridiculous. If that had been true surely a quick phone call could have stopped the plane.