*** 'THE OFFICIAL MOVIE THREAD' ***

[the sicilian]

God knows why you'd need spoiler alerts for Taken 2 unless you haven't seen Taken?

I haven't seen it yet but I'd guess along the lines of.......

Wife, daughter and/or wifes rich husband somehow get in to a ridic kidnapping situation. Hope it's not the daughter because nobody's that unlucky

Neeson kills lots of people using skills even Jack Bauer still has to learn.

Neeson, mum and daughter end up happy. Bad guys end up dead.

Am I close?

Bink !

[TightEnd]

Dean

I think we have just about the most opposite tastes you can imagine!

I read every post of yours and get about 45 "No, no, no" thoughts into every one.

lol, loved Les Mis. You'll cry if you go and huge brownie points too

[Chompy]

The Miserables was another flounce-out for me. Wolverine kept singing his lines.

Musicals are shite on the whole but managed to sit through Moulin Rouge and Chicago. Couldn't do it this time though.

[TightEnd]

The Miserables was another flounce-out for me. Wolverine kept singing his lines.

It's a musical!! The theatre production is all sung too, what do you expect?

[Claw75]

Loved Les Mis. Being a huge fan of the stage show and having been to see it more times than I can remember I was worried the film version wouldn't live up to it - it did imo - and some. As others have said, jackman and hathaway gave simply stunning petformances. First time I can recall being in a cinema where the audience gave a round of applause as the film ended. For balance, Hannah thought itwas 'boring'

[mondatoo]

Drive

Had put off watching this as a few here I think said it was really good...  In essence a basic tale of a stunt driver who supplements his income with a bit of getaway driving. He moves into a new apartment where the local totty catches his eye whose old man is in jail.. They strike an unlikely friendship unti the said husband returns from jail. Our hero decides to help the femme fatal by proxy when he agrees to drive for the husband in a robbery to get him out of a hole with the local bad guys he owes...
The robbery goes wrong husband gets killed and so unravels a tale of your basic betrayal and greed.

Drive is beautifully shot against a backdrop of an often moodily lit LA.... But as we go along the whole thing begins to feel self indulgent as though the director is making his own visual porn that he can bung on late at night when his all alone, play with himself and congratulate himself on how clever he is with a camera and lighting. We have multiple slow mo scenes that after a while just begin to grate.

Ryan Gosling is cast as our lead... I'm sure he was asked to do mean and moody but he just comes across as a pretty Forest Gump... He spends lots of the film just staring silently looking like his gradulally getting to the answer of 2+2... Despite occasional interjections of extreme violence, the fact of the matter is Mr Gosling is not scary or menacing. he looks like a fresh faced paper boy. God knows what the girl sees in him as his conversation is minimal at best. Believe me mate girls only dig silent moody for so long..at some stage you will have to talk to them .

I know what's trying to be achieved here..sort of art house meets Tarantino beautiful visuals mixed with visceral violence. What we get is slow moving bore with a mix of boring characters and cliched villains.. Even tHe car chases are pretty boring. In an attempt to get away from mainstream action films we have an action film that forgot to put good action in...

All this topped with a ludicrous illogical ending turns a decent premise into a mish mash that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be..

Disappointing. 5/10

Any chance of putting spoiler alerts at the top of your reviews? Its good that they are detailed but you do give away a little too much in them, especially in your Taken2 review.

Thankfully I had already seen both Drive and Taken 2

Sorry for the spoilers bud thought most had seen it s 3 years old I think?   Maybe should stick to brief aments rather than reviews

Well you put the title of the film at the top of your post so anyone not wanting spoilers surely stops reading at that point ? I don't even look in the tv thread when I haven't seen that weeks eps of x,y,z. Pretty hard for you to write that much about a film without giving anything away.

[the sicilian]

Dean

I think we have just about the most opposite tastes you can imagine!

I read every post of yours and get about 45 "No, no, no" thoughts into every one.

lol, loved Les Mis. You'll cry if you go and huge brownie points too

LOL Tighty.. im just a crash bang wallop donk with no taste... like most youngsters i found the very word musical distasteful with the Blues Brothers just about being bearable... but after formative years i found i liked a good west end show..but i like the more modern than the traditional..Wicked,hairspray,lord of the rings,jersey boys all sensational....

I will prob watch Les Mis under duress, i know a few of the show stopper songs and will enjoy the performances but i just hate singing dialogue..just reminds me of kids in a playground..pretty unnecessary IMO.. its a musical fine..just keep to the poignant songs..

Tighty top 3 films please roughly and we will see how polar we are?

[the sicilian]

Drive

Had put off watching this as a few here I think said it was really good...  In essence a basic tale of a stunt driver who supplements his income with a bit of getaway driving. He moves into a new apartment where the local totty catches his eye whose old man is in jail.. They strike an unlikely friendship unti the said husband returns from jail. Our hero decides to help the femme fatal by proxy when he agrees to drive for the husband in a robbery to get him out of a hole with the local bad guys he owes...
The robbery goes wrong husband gets killed and so unravels a tale of your basic betrayal and greed.

Drive is beautifully shot against a backdrop of an often moodily lit LA.... But as we go along the whole thing begins to feel self indulgent as though the director is making his own visual porn that he can bung on late at night when his all alone, play with himself and congratulate himself on how clever he is with a camera and lighting. We have multiple slow mo scenes that after a while just begin to grate.

Ryan Gosling is cast as our lead... I'm sure he was asked to do mean and moody but he just comes across as a pretty Forest Gump... He spends lots of the film just staring silently looking like his gradulally getting to the answer of 2+2... Despite occasional interjections of extreme violence, the fact of the matter is Mr Gosling is not scary or menacing. he looks like a fresh faced paper boy. God knows what the girl sees in him as his conversation is minimal at best. Believe me mate girls only dig silent moody for so long..at some stage you will have to talk to them .

I know what's trying to be achieved here..sort of art house meets Tarantino beautiful visuals mixed with visceral violence. What we get is slow moving bore with a mix of boring characters and cliched villains.. Even tHe car chases are pretty boring. In an attempt to get away from mainstream action films we have an action film that forgot to put good action in...

All this topped with a ludicrous illogical ending turns a decent premise into a mish mash that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be..

Disappointing. 5/10

Any chance of putting spoiler alerts at the top of your reviews? Its good that they are detailed but you do give away a little too much in them, especially in your Taken2 review.

Thankfully I had already seen both Drive and Taken 2

Sorry for the spoilers bud thought most had seen it s 3 years old I think?   Maybe should stick to brief aments rather than reviews

Well you put the title of the film at the top of your post so anyone not wanting spoilers surely stops reading at that point ? I don't even look in the tv thread when I haven't seen that weeks eps of x,y,z. Pretty hard for you to write that much about a film without giving anything away.

So what do we prefer...more indepth review or i saw this it was shyte/amazeballs and a score??

[TightEnd]

Tighty top 3 films please roughly and we will see how polar we are?

impossible to say. Apocalypse now/DeerHunter/Private Ryan in one category for example  LA Confidential/American Beauty in another

I tend to know what won't float my boat, so avoid accordingly

eg Transformers, most Gerard Butler pap, rom coms etc

[I KNOW IT]

Drive

Had put off watching this as a few here I think said it was really good...  In essence a basic tale of a stunt driver who supplements his income with a bit of getaway driving. He moves into a new apartment where the local totty catches his eye whose old man is in jail.. They strike an unlikely friendship unti the said husband returns from jail. Our hero decides to help the femme fatal by proxy when he agrees to drive for the husband in a robbery to get him out of a hole with the local bad guys he owes...
The robbery goes wrong husband gets killed and so unravels a tale of your basic betrayal and greed.

Drive is beautifully shot against a backdrop of an often moodily lit LA.... But as we go along the whole thing begins to feel self indulgent as though the director is making his own visual porn that he can bung on late at night when his all alone, play with himself and congratulate himself on how clever he is with a camera and lighting. We have multiple slow mo scenes that after a while just begin to grate.

Ryan Gosling is cast as our lead... I'm sure he was asked to do mean and moody but he just comes across as a pretty Forest Gump... He spends lots of the film just staring silently looking like his gradulally getting to the answer of 2+2... Despite occasional interjections of extreme violence, the fact of the matter is Mr Gosling is not scary or menacing. he looks like a fresh faced paper boy. God knows what the girl sees in him as his conversation is minimal at best. Believe me mate girls only dig silent moody for so long..at some stage you will have to talk to them .

I know what's trying to be achieved here..sort of art house meets Tarantino beautiful visuals mixed with visceral violence. What we get is slow moving bore with a mix of boring characters and cliched villains.. Even tHe car chases are pretty boring. In an attempt to get away from mainstream action films we have an action film that forgot to put good action in...

All this topped with a ludicrous illogical ending turns a decent premise into a mish mash that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be..

Disappointing. 5/10

Any chance of putting spoiler alerts at the top of your reviews? Its good that they are detailed but you do give away a little too much in them, especially in your Taken2 review.

Thankfully I had already seen both Drive and Taken 2

Sorry for the spoilers bud thought most had seen it s 3 years old I think?   Maybe should stick to brief aments rather than reviews

Well you put the title of the film at the top of your post so anyone not wanting spoilers surely stops reading at that point ? I don't even look in the tv thread when I haven't seen that weeks eps of x,y,z. Pretty hard for you to write that much about a film without giving anything away.

So what do we prefer...more indepth review or i saw this it was shyte/amazeballs and a score??

Don't get me wrong, your reviews are very good. I just thought you may just leave out a couple of key things that happen in the movie.
Anyways as suggested, I can always skip the review when I see the title of the film if I havent already seen it , but rather defeats the purpose don't you think?

Like I said though , your reviews are v good  

[the sicilian]

hmm i dunno if we are that far apart..your taste is prob vintage red mine screw top frascati !

Godfather
Private Ryan
Aliens

[Tal]

As Tighty is trying the old "I can't pick just three" game here are mine:

Kill Bill (Vol.1 if I have to be specific)
Singin' in the Rain
Hotshots!

Also loved Interview With A Vampire, The Matrix, La Haine and American History X.

Hands up if you'd never have guessed this list...

Never really been one to watch a film to be challenged.

[Marky147]

Good Fellas
Shawshank Redemption
Casino

Goonies
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore

[corkeye]

The usual suspects

Donnie darko

Full metal jacket

[Marky147]

The usual suspects

Donnie darko

Full metal jacket

Usual Suspects, another great movie.