V is for Vendetta

[jjandellis]

Thanks to all those that recommended it on this board!!!

After a rough few weeks of dodgy films from Mymoviestream I got this one.

Cracking movie!!!

If you liked it try Children of Men. An even darker portrait of England in the future. Probably the best Bexhill has ever looked!!!

Oh and just watched Rounders for firt time since I started getting interested in Poker. How I didn't appreciate this film the first time around!!!

[fearisthekey]

Thought Rounders was pretty good. Hard work making a poker film appeal to everyone. Malcovich stole the show.
V for Vendetta I didn't like at all, to be honest, maybe I'd expected so much from it. Sounded like a camp Rowan Atkinson in a strange mask blowing things up for no good reason with some bits stolen from 1984 thrown in. Actually I can't even understand what people found appealing in this film?
My favs this month: The Prestige. Everything a film should be. Just amazing.
Apocalypto. Very bloody, very different, amazing chase scene.
The Departed (Thu Depayted). Lived up to all the hype, great performances, Scorsese found the 'plot button' at last.
And the Machinist...still my fav film of the last year.

Blockbuster sent me 'The Holiday' with Kate Winslet, some mistake, surely. Is this maybe.....the worst film I have ever seen?

[TheChipPrince]

Different tastes eh, I thought 'V for Vendetta' & 'Children of Men' were 2 of the worst films ive seen...

[Rookie (Rodney)]

children of men is poo poo

[RioRodent]

So I guess Jonathan Ross doesn't have to worry about Lee taking his job anytime soon?

[Benny Brox]

I thought V for Vendetta was terrible, the guy kept talking utter mince, the action scenes were very dated for a modern film and more importantly Natalie Portman didn't do a lapdance in a pink wig.

Children of Men is a quality film. Some of the single-camera no-cut scenes were brilliant - the ambush on the car and the attack on the building at the end.

Most of the best films I've watched over the last few years have been foreign - City of God (you must see this film), Oldboy, Run Lola Run, Downfall, Bus 174, Zatoichi & Das Experiment all quality. There's also Irreversible, a French romantic comedy... Only joking - a very very very controversial film. I've got a hard stomach for most things but this film hits you like a ton of bricks. However, for all it's shock-factor it is still a great film.

[TheChipPrince]

Heard a lot about Irreversible, but never seen it, apart from 'that' scene...

[NoflopsHomer]

children of men is poo poo

Is that because Danny Dyer isn't in it?

[Rookie (Rodney)]

children of men is poo poo

Is that because Danny Dyer isn't in it?

no comment

[OatFedGoat]

Most of the best films I've watched over the last few years have been foreign - City of God (you must see this film), Oldboy,

  City Of God is possibly the best film I have ever seen (and I have seen alot - 2 terrabytes on a pc worth!). If you don't mind sub titles as the film was made in Brazil then I can not recomend this enough. It's the story of a ghetto drug dealer and his friends from childhood onwards and the different paths they take. The director used a lot of local gangs as extras and apparently there were a lot of tensions on set as a result of it.

Oldboy is also another good film. Korean I believe and his part of the directors 3 (possibly 4) films all about revenge, this is the best of them but all others are also worth checking out.

I know it's a cliche but if you  enjoy The Departed and again don't mind films with subtitles then the original oriental films it was based on are far superior in my opinion. The"Infernal Affairs" trilogy is worth looking at. Doesn't obviously have a lot of the Scorsese trade mark quality touches like the Departed but on the whole much better imho.

[fearisthekey]

BATTLE ROYALE.
FILM FOUR
TONIGHT
11PM.
Very.....different. Bambi it ain't.