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

[Graham C]

Bad Santa? That's a classic too

[Tonji]

Dont watch a lot of films, mainly because of a hatred of sitting in Cinemas with others. But I finally managed to get around to watching 'The Big Lebowski'. I have to say it was a  most enjoyable film. Any recommendations for more slightly left field films like this?

Have you watched any of the other Coen brothers films? Fargo, Raising Arizona & O Brother...

O brother I've seen but not the other two. Sounds like a recommendation for them?

Yep, a must imo

[Kev B]

Read Life of PI and loved it. Off to see the film in 3D this afternoon. I have a 3D TV but never seen a 3D at the flicks so looking forward to it.

[Mohican]

Dont watch a lot of films, mainly because of a hatred of sitting in Cinemas with others. But I finally managed to get around to watching 'The Big Lebowski'. I have to say it was a  most enjoyable film. Any recommendations for more slightly left field films like this?

Have you watched any of the other Coen brothers films? Fargo, Raising Arizona & O Brother...

O brother I've seen but not the other two. Sounds like a recommendation for them?

Yep, a must imo

I now haz both of these. Will let you know what I think.

[pokerfan]

Dont watch a lot of films, mainly because of a hatred of sitting in Cinemas with others. But I finally managed to get around to watching 'The Big Lebowski'. I have to say it was a  most enjoyable film. Any recommendations for more slightly left field films like this?

Have you watched any of the other Coen brothers films? Fargo, Raising Arizona & O Brother...

O brother I've seen but not the other two. Sounds like a recommendation for them?

Yep, a must imo

I now haz both of these. Will let you know what I think.

Raising Arizona very good.

[kukushkin88]

Dont watch a lot of films, mainly because of a hatred of sitting in Cinemas with others. But I finally managed to get around to watching 'The Big Lebowski'. I have to say it was a  most enjoyable film. Any recommendations for more slightly left field films like this?

Maybe the David Lynch films? Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are both excellent.

[Tonji]

Dont watch a lot of films, mainly because of a hatred of sitting in Cinemas with others. But I finally managed to get around to watching 'The Big Lebowski'. I have to say it was a  most enjoyable film. Any recommendations for more slightly left field films like this?

Maybe the David Lynch films? Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive are both excellent.

Disturbing, weird & brilliant!

[Jon MW]

Charlie Kaufman writes very good and slightly offbeat films
 "Being John Malkovich", "Adaptation", and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
are all well worth it

[Woodsey]

The new total recall film, not bad if you fancy a bit of an action film 7/10

The hunger games, lol its a total rip off of a Japanese B movie I randomly watched on netflix the other week, just a better version of it 6.5/10

[Waz1892]

1st Jan 2013 - movie thread updated from original post I did on the 1st July 2012.  (Page 136 of thread)  Now all in 1 post for use to view?!

Reminder of the notes i made at the time -

So to follow is EVERY rating that was in the format of X/10 for any film that was mentioned in the 153 (updated) pages previous to this post.

I'll start with the "odd" ratings, then 1/10 2/10 etc.  

Some notes -

If a film was rated more than once I took the highest rating, and in brackets are any other rating that film recieved.
(Looked at avg but too complicated)

If a film was rated 7.8/10, I have put it in the "7/10 category and rated 7.8/10 higher than 7.3/10 which is higher than 7/10


ODD / 10

Now is Good -2/10
Zack and Miri make a porno movie 11/10
Noel Clarke 0.1/10
44inch chest 0/10
The Informant 0/10
Carnage 0/10
Terminator Terrible/10

1/10

1.5/10 The box
While  she was out
Men who stare at goats
Return
London Boulevard
Quantum Apocalpyse

2/10

No Country
Pineapple Express
Esacapist (2/10)
The Wrestler
Due Date
Cowboyd vs Alien vs Predator
Burn

3/10

Wolfman (0.5/10)
This Means War
Crank 2
The Spirit
The fourth Kind
From Paris with love
Revolver
History of violence
Silver Linings Playbook
Texas Killing Fields

4/10

4.5 The Sweeney
Hulk
9
Pandorum
Slumdog millionaire
Unstoppable
The Rite
Human Centipede
I Spit on your grave
The Thing
Day Breakers
Eclispe
The Pact
Women in Black


5/10

5.5 Felon
5.5 Hall pass
Chopper
7 pounds
Antichrist
zombieland
Salt
Fokkers
Tropic thunder
Iam No.4
Yogi Bear
Final Destintation
The Ugly truth
Drag me to Hell
KIck Ass
Descendants
The Thing (New)
Savages
Taken 2
Killing them softly
Breaking Dawn (part 2)

6/10

6.7/10 Lincoln Lawyer (6.5/10) (2/10)
6.5 Memento
6.5 The Man from nowhere
6.5 American Pie-Reunion
6.5 Harry Brown (5/10)
6.5 Narnia
6.5 Pirates of Carribbean 4
6.5 Hot Tub Time Machine
6.5 The Other Guys
6.5 Limitless
6.5 Hugo
6.5 Terri
6.5 Battleship
6.5 Killer Elite
Casino Royale (3/10)
Wanted
Deception
The Terminator
The Strangers
Dark Shadows
Observe and Report
500 Days of Summer
Predator (6/10)
Karate kid
Columbiana
Red State
Priest
Clubber
Toy Story 3
30minutes later
Wall Street 2
Midnight in Paris
Pirates
Abduction
Cleanskin
Moonrise Kingdom
Hostage
Reacher (4/10)

7/10

7.9 Eden Lake
7.7 Law Abiding Citizen (5/10)
7.5 Harold and Kumer
7.5 Garden State
7.5 Body of Lies
7.5 In the Electric Mist
7.5 3 burials of Melquiades Estate
7.5 Pelham123
7.5 Fritt vitt
7.5 The Thing
7.5 killing Boro
7.5 FAQ time Travelling Crow (** Not overly sure if this is even a film?..eyes started to fail me!)
7.5 Percy Jackson
7.5 Black Swan
7.5 Margin call
7.5 Killer Elite
7.5 Warhorse (2/10)
7.2 Perfect Getaway (4/10)
The Dictator
State of Play
Vallley of Ehad
The International
Fighting
Hancock
Rock n Rolla
Fritt vitt 2
The Children
Romanzo Crimanale
New moon
We own the night
A Team
Sin nimba
Shooter
Le donk Scornay Zee
Marley & Me
Buried (7/10)
Paranormal Activity 2
Clash of titans (5/10)
Never let me go (7/10)
I love you Phillip morris
Adjustment Buraeu (7/10)
The Devil Rejects
Isidious
Hanna
Unknown (6/10)
Morgan Spurlock Documentary
Brothers
Takers (6/10)
One Day (6/10)
In Time (7/10)
Bronson
Immortals
The Artist
Snowtown
Haywire (3/10)
Girl with dragon tattoo
Prometheus
Get the Gringo
The kiiler inside me
Killer Joe
Total Recall 2012 (4/10)
Seven Pschopaths

8/10

8.5 Gran Torino
8.5 Knowing (7/10) (2/10)
8.5 Zombieland
8.5 Mystic River
8.5 The Fighter (5/10)
8.5 The Source Code (8/10) (7/5/10) (7/10)
8.5 Tyranasarous
8.5 Shame
8.5 Kill the Irishman
8.5 Life of Pi
8.5 Skyfall (8/10) (8/10) (8/10)
8.5 The Amazing Spiderman
Show of hands
Lost in Translation
Shooter (7.8/10)
He'd just not into you
Trick R Treat
Moon
Fish Tank
August Rush
The Road
The Book of Eli (7/10) (7/10)
Hurt Locker
Inception (6/10)
Tin Tin
Cabin in the woods (7.5/10)
Hunger Games (6.5/10) (6/10)
Tangled
TT documentary
True Grit
Planet of the Apes
detachment
Super
Ides of March
21 Jump Street (7.7/10) (7.5/10) (5.5/10)
50/50
Take Shelter
Cell 11
Mission Impossible 4
Horrible Bosses
The Champ
Red
Muppets (6/10)

9/10

9.5 Looking for Eric
9.5 Scent of a women
Watchman (9/10)
Eagle Eye (3/10)
Get the Gringo (7/10)
District 9 (8/5/10) (8/10) (3/10)
Up
This Is It
Jenifer Body
2012 (5/10)
Burn After Reading
127 Hours
True Grit
X-man (9/10)
Harry Potter 4
Gone baby gone
Avater (8/8/10) (7/10)
Sherlock Holmes (8/10) (6.5/10)
Inglorious Bestards
Avenge assmeble (8.5/10)
Warrior (7/10)
Hope Spring
Fracture
Argo (8/10) (8/10) (5/10)
End of Watch (8/10) (8/10) (8/10)
Gambit

10/10

The Hangover (10/10) (10/10) (9/10) (7/10)
Paranormal Activity (10/10) (9/10) (7/10) (6.5/10) (4/10) (3/10)
The Blind side (7.5/10) (6.5/10)
No Distance left to run
Eddie Izzard documentry
Kings speech
The Town (8.5/10)
A Few Good Men (8/10) (7/10)
Hangover 2 (8/10) (7/10)
Senna
Moneyball
Raid (7.5/10) (7/10)
Dark Knight (7/10)

[rfgqqabc]

Well 2 hrs 46 minutes of film to reach the end of Chapter 6 of the book

To quote one reviewer "Peter Jackson didn't want to direct it and I didn't want to watch it, its like we were locked together in a cinematic suicide pact"

Of course its visually stunning, and the CGI is wonderful and nothing beats Andy Serkis as Gollum (still the ebst thing in any of these Middle Earth films) but

the editing!! it could be an hour shorter. It plods and it meanders. Of course some of that is the more whimsical tone of the book

the interminable 13 dwarves walking across a landscape sequences...

the feeling that no one is ever too far away from a sound stage....

I mean there's two films to come!

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I saw it tonight and have bits and bobs to add. Honestly what the fuck were the fucking stone giants about tilts me to even think about. I don't give a shit if they were in the appendix or even the main book (99% they aren't) but it just came across as ridiculous and mega tilting. If you really need Thorin to save Bilbo just have him slip instead of that ridiculousness.

I hated how it was set out at the beginning, I really wanted the reader to meander along with some unknown, instead of being given the general idea of everything already. Seeing the dragon at the end is also mega tilting. Can we not enjoy some sort of suspense. Also, the eagles really tilt me in general. Gandalf and his powers get semi ridiculous in the mine too, I mean all of a sudden he can teleport and blast 83275348975 goblins away, but just chills most of the time hitting stuff with his sword. Radagast was kind of cool, not sure I like his actual character, would have rather had a noble young wizard who lives in the woods instead of a drugged up hippy but he was entertaining and its just a different interpretation. Didn't think the beginning was quite as slow as people said.

[Mohican]

Enjoyed 'Raising Arizona'. Deffo my kind of film. Fargo is next on the list.

[chelseaboy]

Well 2 hrs 46 minutes of film to reach the end of Chapter 6 of the book

To quote one reviewer "Peter Jackson didn't want to direct it and I didn't want to watch it, its like we were locked together in a cinematic suicide pact"

Of course its visually stunning, and the CGI is wonderful and nothing beats Andy Serkis as Gollum (still the ebst thing in any of these Middle Earth films) but

the editing!! it could be an hour shorter. It plods and it meanders. Of course some of that is the more whimsical tone of the book

the interminable 13 dwarves walking across a landscape sequences...

the feeling that no one is ever too far away from a sound stage....

I mean there's two films to come!

******************************** MAY CONTAIN  SPOILERS ***********************************************************************










I saw it tonight and have bits and bobs to add. Honestly what the fuck were the fucking stone giants about tilts me to even think about. I don't give a shit if they were in the appendix or even the main book (99% they aren't) but it just came across as ridiculous and mega tilting. If you really need Thorin to save Bilbo just have him slip instead of that ridiculousness.

I hated how it was set out at the beginning, I really wanted the reader to meander along with some unknown, instead of being given the general idea of everything already. Seeing the dragon at the end is also mega tilting. Can we not enjoy some sort of suspense. Also, the eagles really tilt me in general. Gandalf and his powers get semi ridiculous in the mine too, I mean all of a sudden he can teleport and blast 83275348975 goblins away, but just chills most of the time hitting stuff with his sword. Radagast was kind of cool, not sure I like his actual character, would have rather had a noble young wizard who lives in the woods instead of a drugged up hippy but he was entertaining and its just a different interpretation. Didn't think the beginning was quite as slow as people said.

I couldnt agree more, I went to see it tonight and I was extremely disappointed. Stone Giants, Gandalf quivering on a tree but has the powers to destroy x amount of goblins, it was long and dragged out for as much as it could. A complete waste of 3 hours that I will never get back.

[redarmi]

That must have taken ages Waz but it is interesting so thanks a lot.  Kind of thing that makes Blonde such a cracking forum.  Couple of stunners in there.  No Country for Old Men 2/10???  really?  I hated it but i would have given it more than that for cinematography alone.  Similarly Slumdog 3/10!!!

Anyway I have watched a few over last few days so might prob worth rating them.

4321 - I like urban flicks more than the average guy but this was absolute garbage.  2/10

In Bruges - I really enjoyed this.  It was LOL funny in parts but there was more to it too with good characters that you felt invested in and a really beautiful city as a backdrop.  Made me want to visit Bruge too.  9/10

1 Day - not to be confused with the adaptation of the David Nicholls book which is alright if nothing like as good as the book.  This is the Birmingham based hip-hopera and yeah it is as bad as it sounds.  Not really sure why I watched it.  I had just watched One day and I noticed it on my drive and wanted to be sure it wasnt the same movie and once i started watching I couldn't stop but in the way you have to look at accidents on the motorway when you pass them even though you know you might see something really horrible.  Definitely close to the worst film I have ever seen.  0.01/10

[Tal]

1 Day really didn't work although it wasn't really for a mainstream audience; more an introspective.

Still better than the Hangover. The gap between those two films includes any number of diseases, granted.

And the Hangover was better than Superbad.