Last Film You Watched


BigBlueBalls said:
You had a point, up to mentioning 'Scarface'.
Brando is fantastic as the tortured Don on the cusp of a new era.
'Goodfellas' is a fine shout.

So where do you stand on 'citizen cane', 'casablanca', 'raging bull', 'godfather II' ?
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I've not seen either of them four but will be watching Godfather II shortly.

I didn't see anything beyond ok in Brando's performance, just seemed to be all portrayed in the exact same style. Sure he done it well but it wasn't up to my expectations.
 
JOHN CARTER

A film that has been 80 years in the making, John Carter is an Sci-Fi Fantasy adventure all shot in fan-dangled 3 Dimensions. We start the film not knowing too much about anything. Unless you read the books, I went to see it with my missus because she was flipping out having been in the house all day. So it was off to tuck into a bit of Nando's Portuguese Chicken and catch the latest Hollywood blockbuster. The Movie guy on the radio had said is was pretty good, and the Director was a founder of Pixar, so that can't be half bad.

And it wasn't. It was alright. It wasn't fantastic, but it was pretty good. $250 million good? Maybe not. Flaws? There was a couple, namely the lack of a big name actor in the Shoes of John Carter, but the equally as unknown actress alongside him was rather Foxy. And My missus had dressed her on Wolverine so she was happy to divulge that she's seen her in her Birthday Suit. I may have saluted briefly to this news.

SPOILERS
Its 1870 something. John Carter, the uber wealthy man about town has died, bequeathing his entire estate to his nephew and now grown up ginger minger from the Spy Kids movies. We go back to Johns younger days, and how he searches for the Cave of Gold, some legendary Cave of Gold which is a cave, and may or may not have Gold in it. Cue pretty funny scene, where the Cavalry catch Carter, and he keeps escaping. The Cavalry general is played deliciously by Brian Cranston, the Dad from Malcolm and the Teacher from Breaking Bad. Anyway, some sort of chase/melee ensues and Carter and Cranston end up in the aforementioned Cave of Gold. But something else happens, and Carter is suddenly on Mars. Because of the gravity or the fact this was written when they thought Mars would be a cool place to live, Carter ends up becoming a super hero of sorts. He can jump like a flea, punch like Duncan Ferguson and all wearing some kind of leather straps. He saves the Martian Hottie, fights the injustices and puts up with having to make the whole film infont of a green screen.

Its a good, CGI, popcorn flick that the whole family can enjoy, but maybe not afford because 3D movies are pretty bloody expensive. And take your glasses from before and save yourself a dollar.

4 martians out of 5 from me.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

I won't go into the story too much here. There's not a great deal of things happening during this film, but for me watching it was like watching Cahill trying to score this last year. You know what needs to be done, you just can't understand why it's not. But never the less, its the story of Kevin's Mum, Tilda Swinton. She skulks around town, smashing the booze and the barbiturates like no tomorrow. She's trying to get a job, but there is something very, very unnerving about her and why the Towns people regard her with complete disdain, or abject sympathy. The film then diverges into two stories, the Past and the now. You meet Tilda's husband, the affable but ultimately criminally miscast John C Reilly. Her daughter, a sweet 8 year old who dotes on her older sibling, Kevin. The character for whom so the film is named plays his part fantastically well.

Kevin is weird. He's not just weird, there is something wrong with him. Something very wrong with him. What evolves from here is a detailed and unsettling account of people bringing up people with no true idea of what is simmering below the surface. Maybe what they were born with.

4 Festivals of Blood out of 5.
 

McBain said:
JOHN CARTER

A film that has been 80 years in the making, John Carter is an Sci-Fi Fantasy adventure all shot in fan-dangled 3 Dimensions. We start the film not knowing too much about anything. Unless you read the books, I went to see it with my missus because she was flipping out having been in the house all day. So it was off to tuck into a bit of Nando's Portuguese Chicken and catch the latest Hollywood blockbuster. The Movie guy on the radio had said is was pretty good, and the Director was a founder of Pixar, so that can't be half bad.

And it wasn't. It was alright. It wasn't fantastic, but it was pretty good. $250 million good? Maybe not. Flaws? There was a couple, namely the lack of a big name actor in the Shoes of John Carter, but the equally as unknown actress alongside him was rather Foxy. And My missus had dressed her on Wolverine so she was happy to divulge that she's seen her in her Birthday Suit. I may have saluted briefly to this news.

SPOILERS
Its 1870 something. John Carter, the uber wealthy man about town has died, bequeathing his entire estate to his nephew and now grown up ginger minger from the Spy Kids movies. We go back to Johns younger days, and how he searches for the Cave of Gold, some legendary Cave of Gold which is a cave, and may or may not have Gold in it. Cue pretty funny scene, where the Cavalry catch Carter, and he keeps escaping. The Cavalry general is played deliciously by Brian Cranston, the Dad from Malcolm and the Teacher from Breaking Bad. Anyway, some sort of chase/melee ensues and Carter and Cranston end up in the aforementioned Cave of Gold. But something else happens, and Carter is suddenly on Mars. Because of the gravity or the fact this was written when they thought Mars would be a cool place to live, Carter ends up becoming a super hero of sorts. He can jump like a flea, punch like Duncan Ferguson and all wearing some kind of leather straps. He saves the Martian Hottie, fights the injustices and puts up with having to make the whole film infont of a green screen.

Its a good, CGI, popcorn flick that the whole family can enjoy, but maybe not afford because 3D movies are pretty bloody expensive. And take your glasses from before and save yourself a dollar.

4 martians out of 5 from me.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

I won't go into the story too much here. There's not a great deal of things happening during this film, but for me watching it was like watching Cahill trying to score this last year. You know what needs to be done, you just can't understand why it's not. But never the less, its the story of Kevin's Mum, Tilda Swinton. She skulks around town, smashing the booze and the barbiturates like no tomorrow. She's trying to get a job, but there is something very, very unnerving about her and why the Towns people regard her with complete disdain, or abject sympathy. The film then diverges into two stories, the Past and the now. You meet Tilda's husband, the affable but ultimately criminally miscast John C Reilly. Her daughter, a sweet 8 year old who dotes on her older sibling, Kevin. The character for whom so the film is named plays his part fantastically well.

Kevin is weird. He's not just weird, there is something wrong with him. Something very wrong with him. What evolves from here is a detailed and unsettling account of people bringing up people with no true idea of what is simmering below the surface. Maybe what they were born with.

4 Festivals of Blood out of 5.
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