Movies - what you seen and was it any good? - Page 51 - Ajarn Forum

robitusson · 20th October 2007, 23:03

Les Témoins

If you're gay, check this out. An unpatronising portrayal of a young homosexual man who affects the lives of everyone he comes across during the 80s at the outset of the AIDS scare. It's not very good. That's the only problem. The acting is fine, most of the characters are fairly good. It just wasn't particularly engaging. Very French and very gay.

2/5

esoteric1 · 21st October 2007, 05:52

We went to see 30 Days of Night today, because my wife likes Josh Hartnett. Piece of shite IMO, don't waste your time.

Umbuku · 21st October 2007, 09:31

Letters from Iwo Jima - Excellent film directed by Clint Eastwood recounting the desperate defense of the island by the Japanese army against the invading Americans. A reading film unless you can speak Japanese but a very adult war movie.

blackjack · 21st October 2007, 14:14

A week or two ago while in a semi-dormant state in front of a flickering television I managed to catch a funny little film that looked like a documentary about Werner Herzog making a documentary about the Loch Ness Monster, but then turned into something else and then something else again.

It challenged and played with your perceptions as the audience and kind of got you actively involved, and you could read it both as entertainment and a comment on all sorts of things (including the film making process).

Brilliant stuff really, and appropriate that the seemingly reclusive Herzog should be involved in a project like this.

Unfortunately I can't remember its name...

Hamster · 21st October 2007, 17:23

Incident at Loch Ness

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374639/

blackjack · 21st October 2007, 20:22

Cheers Hamster.

On a side note to this thread, a movie that I haven't seen recently (or ever) is Brick.

You see I recently bought a copy of it from Silom but hadn't gotten around to watching it, and now it's started appearing regularly on one of the UBC channels. For some reason this development seems to have annoyed me and each time it pops up on telly I steadfastly refuse to watch it, being an owner of the DVD (if nothing else I'm a proud man).

Unfortunately though my record of getting round to watching my DVDs isn't the best, and so the upshot of this little stand-off between me and, um, me is that I'll probably never get to watch the thing.

Plan B · 22nd October 2007, 09:29

Seen a couple of movies just now.

1. The Big Red One, with Lee Marvin and Mark Hamil. A couple of silly moments in the film. but very good for it's time. Made me think. Who would be the modern equivalent of Lee Marvin? George Clooney maybe, but he's too much of a sex symbol. Bruce Willis prolly the closest. But Lee Marvin just looks cool and doesn't need the one-liners.

2. Hot Fuzz. Very much like Shawn of the Dead. I think they must of had the same writers or directors or sumthin'. The gunfights near the end were just a little bit long but can't fault the rest of it. Very entertaining.

Slim Chance · 22nd October 2007, 10:00

I have recently watched -

Children of Men - worth a watch.
Notes of a scandal - very english and understated. The end was a bit crap but a good film.
Babel - I really liked this film. One of a number of 'weightier' movies coming out of Hollywood recently. See it.

kenkannif · 22nd October 2007, 11:47

Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl....not a film really...but sort of is....very good indeed!!!

You Kill Me....John Dahl....not bad.....enjoyed it!!!

Marlow · 25th October 2007, 04:20

Blackjack -
I really have to recommend that you watch Brick. It was one of my favourites from last year. Cracking noir dialogue set in a suburban high school. Definitely worth a watch.

Umbuku · 25th October 2007, 09:56

Arthur and the Minimoys - Directed by Luc Besson

Mixed feelings on this one. It seems to me that Mr Besson couldn't make up his mind whether to make a kids film or a satirical adults film that looks like a kids film. Generic plot devices and snappy one liners are rife throughout the production. An all star cast stars or provides the voices for the Minimoys, David Bowie, Madonna, Robert De Niro, Snoop Dogg. Harvey Keitel, Emilio Estevez and Mia Farrow plays Arthurs grandmother.

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.ya...na/arthur1.jpg

Quote:

The film was budgeted at US$86 million. By Boxing Day, Arthur earned over US$20 million in France alone. While in general, it was well received by the international public and critic, it failed in the US.
In the United States, the movie's Los Angeles run garnered 20% positive reviews at the critics-aggregate site RottenTomatoes.com.[4] Los Angeles Times reviewer Alex Chun wrote that, "Director Luc Besson admits he knew nothing about animation before he started this project, and it shows".[5] Variety's Robert Koehler called it "alienating and dislikable" and specifically noted that, "Having African-American thesps Snoop Dogg and Anthony Anderson voice creatures that are basically humanoid monkeys shows poor taste". Many found it derivative of sources ranging from King Arthur's sword-in-the-stone to the films The Dark Crystal and The Ant Bully, which itself was based on a children's book written three years before Besson's. "It all simply looks as if [conceptual artist Patrice] Garcia and Besson couldn't decide on any one thing to copy", said Frank Lovece of Film Journal International, "so they copied them all". Lovece also noted that, "the whole thing gets seriously creepy when [the animated versions of] the grown-up, pinup-beauty princess and the 10-year-old boy fall for each other. Mary Kay Letourneau comes uncomfortably to mind".
Besson, in a May 2007 interview, blamed American distributor The Weinstein Company for the film's poor critical reception in the U.S., saying "Why the critics didn't like Arthur was because [Weinstein] changed so much of the film and tried to pretend the film was American. ... This was the only country where the film was changed. The rest of the world has the same film as France".

Arthur and the Minimoys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Watched it once, don't want to watch it again.

It's a lavish production and spectacular but ultimately pointless.

kenkannif · 25th October 2007, 10:01

^ Got that for my nipper but not watched it.

I watched:

The Wrong Box....wicked filum...Pete Cooke, Dudley Moore, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Tony Hancock and the lovely Nanette (sp?) Newman (hands that do the dishes!!!)....very funny!

Resi 3....so so.

Pirates 3....so so.

Thr3e.....not too bad...bit cheeZAY!!!

Return to the House on Haunted Hill (or something like that)....was okay!

1480.....fell asleep!!!

zehner · 25th October 2007, 10:07

i watched the Spike Lee documentary about New Orleans, When the Levees Broke.

great stuff...lots of info i never knew and a shocking exposure of the ineptitude of the american federal system

HBO: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Hamster · 25th October 2007, 10:13

American Gangster

Ridley Scott film with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe - very well done

Aquaman · 25th October 2007, 10:22

i am psyched to see that.
ive seen a bunch of movies lately.
Gone baby Gone was good.
In the valley of Elah was really good, and sad.
The kingdom, good and action packed.
310 to yuma, excelent.