Review the last film you watched

[britmaveric]

^
I enjoyed that too.
28 weeks later is about 20 minutes away from completion in my download box.
anyone seen it yet?

Pretty dark/bleak - sort of follows the line that chaos brings on more chaos. I liked it.

[NickA]

^^Ooooh, I've got that one danbo, I will have to watch it soon....I downloaded it thinking it was going to be a Braveheart type of film

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Pirates of the Carribean vol 3 - At Worlds End.

Impressive SFX, lots of British extras milking their 4 seconds of fame, one sexy as fuck African voodo woman and Kieth Richards out of the Rolling Stones.

After 3 hours though the film was starting to drag.

[ChiangMai noon]

The Last King of Scotland

Agreed.
absolutely outstanding.
definitely one of the best movies of the last couple of years.
Whitaker is terrifying.

[Marmite the Dog]

Apocalypto

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

I watched this last night. One of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It made a nice change for Mel Gibson not to chose a historical subject and pervert it (ie. Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, The Patriot, the Passion of the Christ, Chicken Run etc.,).

Highly recommended.

[man with no head]

The Prestige.

"Some magicians will die just to have the best act in town."

Good movie. Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackson, and one of my favorites, Christian Bale. This is one I had to see again.

[Scampy]

He's good is Christian Bale.

[NickA]

The Prestige.

I think it's on here a couple of pages back. I gave it a 7/10 or something like that.

[man with no head]

Well, it was the last movie I watched. Now I'm chewing on Blood Diamond and The Good Shepherd.

[man with no head]

Oh, and I liked The Prestige better than The Illusionist

[NickA]

^Difficult to judge...just thought the ending in The Prestige was a bit of a letdown.... it got caught somewhere between magic and sci-fi.

[ChiangMai noon]

Oh, and I liked The Prestige better than The Illusionist

me too.
much more in fact.
I thought the illusionist was very cheesy indeed.
really hammy performance by whatsisname out of American History X

[NickA]

^I thought his name was Surasak

[man with no head]

Everytime I see Ed Norton now I think of "I am Jack's colostomy bag about to rupture from eating bad street food."

[NickA]

The Last King of Scotland - This is more than worth seeing for Forest Whitaker's portrayal of Idi Amin - A truly great performance. As for the film itself, it's based on a novel which I guess would be called faction, i.e. fiction based on fact. The story revolves around the relationship between a fictional Scottish doctor and the very real Amin. It was a great film, but I didn't buy into the fictional part - it didn't ring true in any sense and I don't think that it added anything to the story of Idi Amin which needs no embellishment. I remember Amin from growing up in the 70's - initially he was portrayed as a loveable buffoon, but soon the stories were of executions by hammer and cannibalism. 8.5/10....for the film that is, not Amin.

I watched this last night. I've got to say the whole film was ruined by having a totally implausible and idotic main character for no reason at all. I only watched it to the end because you had all given it a good review... I wanted to switch it off after Amin had made some long-haired gap year medical student his private doctor after he'd only been in the country for 3 days It just didn't make any sense and the film had no sense of time.... was it over the period of a week, a month, a year ????? Why did Amin trust him more than people he had known for many years?

On the plus side, Whitaker was good as was a lot of the African cast and the film got better once Amin turned against the Scottish prick. Of course the Scot was the White hero who all the native women wanted to fek and shit like that, while the English were a bunch of pricks...

Like danbo, I just don't understand why this Scots character had to be there at all, other than they were too scared to put a film out full of blicks.

Worse film I have seen for a long time and I had to sit through two Barbie films with my daughter recently

3/10

[friscofrankie]

^ I liked the movie. Reminiscent of Forest Gump. You've got this supposedly Scottish Doctor idiot trampling through the middle of history. Was waiting for him to offer that wife of Idi Amin a box of chocolates.
Good to see Forrest Whittaker get a part with teeth. I have always liked him as an actor.

[NickA]

Reminiscent of Forest Gump

If it was intended to be that way then I may have been a bit harsh on it

[NickA]

The character of Garrigan is a composite of 3 real men in Amin's life: an older Scottish doctor, a British diplomat/advisor, and a Uganda doctor. On this board couple folks said that Garrigan is also based on a fourth real person, the minister of health that lived to tell the tale.

The British diplomat/advisor is Bob Astles who has lived in Africa since the 1940s and had been imprisoned before and after Amin's rule. He was called Amin's "white rat" and now lives quietly in the U.K.

from IMDB

[ChiangMai noon]

Worse film I have seen for a long time and I had to sit through two Barbie films with my daughter recently

Oh yee of little taste.

[slimboyfat]

Pirates of the Carribean vol 3 - At Worlds End.

Impressive SFX, lots of British extras milking their 4 seconds of fame, one sexy as fuck African voodo woman and Kieth Richards out of the Rolling Stones.

After 3 hours though the film was starting to drag.

I went to see it with my kids over the weeked. My son seemed to enjoy it a lot - my daughter less so.

Personally I found the film too long and the plot twists and turns were a bit hard to follow. Good visual effects and action sequences though.

[ChiangMai noon]

I have just downloaded number 2.
Will probably watch it this evening.

[NickA]

^ I hope you didn't get the same download that I did, the sound was all out of sink(?) with the picture....kids still liked it, but I couldn't be bothered to watch it.

I watched Paris, Texas the other night which i enjoyed, but it's probably too old a film to bother giving a proper review, but I'll give it an 8/10.

I hit a new low by watching the Black Dahlia, a Brian de Palma film based on the James Elroy novel. Actually I didn't watch it all, I fell asleep 3/4 of the way through, but I couldn't really follow what was going on and didn't really want to. It had the bird from The Prestige in it. Was rubbish 2/10.

[britmaveric]

Bug - a lad thinks he's infested with bugs and convinces a bird he just meets into believing the same thing. The couple never leave a hotel room, so its quite boring. Can't say I enjoyed it - only bright moment Ashley Judd does a nude scene.

[NickA]

I watched Pride & Prejudice and it was good....errr that's about it....7/10

[bustak]

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Worse film I have seen for a long time and I had to sit through two Barbie films with my daughter recently

where are the reviews for the 2 Barbie films?