Watched Mad Max: Fury Road last night.

 

An explosively fantastic action film. Absolutely wild, made even better that 90% of the special effects were practical effects. Might be a little too "out there" for some, but I thoroughly enjoyed it

 

GO WATCH!!! But not you, Renton. No emotional teenage vampires I'm afraid

 

The Guardian went for 80% real effects, but I'm not going to take issue with that as it would be rather pedantic, although I do enjoy a bit of pedantry now and again. 

 

Interestingly I just had a chat today with the girl in my coffee shop and she loved it. As you say ^ it's a wild rollercoaster ride of almost constant action (I saw Kermode reviewing it in the week). She was shattered by the end of it though.

 

Personally I have never been a Mad Max fan, I've never really enjoyed the post apocalyptic world, but to fully judge it I must at some point see it for myself. I suspect it's a film that works well in the cinema on a big screen with a weapons grade sound system!

 

*goes away to look up pedantic* 

pedantic

 (pɪˈdæntɪk)

 

Here you go Moonie.

 

 

Ta muchly EC

I have a five shelf rack of DVD's I'm gonna try and watch....

 

I've just watched Black Swan......

 

I enjoyed that much more than I was expecting to. TBH it was Miss/Mrs Portman that drew me to it initially.

 

It was quite some time ago that I saw it and so to give you my deeper thoughts would need a re-watch.

 

What did you think to it Sprout?

 

 

 

I enjoyed that much more than I was expecting to. TBH it was Miss/Mrs Portman that drew me to it initially.

 

It was quite some time ago that I saw it and so to give you my deeper thoughts would need a re-watch.

 

What did you think to it Sprout?

 

 

I liked it EC, but not being a prolific film watcher I can't test it against any others. I need to get them watched and take them to an exchange place, I dunno  

I'm just going with the shorter films at the minute and next on my list is either Bucket List or Boy In The striped Pyjamas 

Watched Chappie last night, it was brilliant

Saw it at the cinema, but haven't had the chance to see it on DVD yet.

I believe there's a lot of interesting detail in there to be revealed when you use freeze-frame, e.g. during the nightclub scene...

Oh! I didn't do that 

Yes - great film.

There does seem to be something in the water at the moment, as there have been quite a few android/AI movies recently: "Chappie", "Ex Machina", and even a re-release of "Blade Runner".

And there's that new TV series "Humans" coming soon, too...

Yes, I've seen ex machina too, was good, the creator guy was annoying but I guess that's how he was written.. The ending was slightly unexpected IMO I enjoyed it

With Chappie I just kept seeing the droid as a teenage human, impressionable etc really enjoyed that film.

Sprout! Boy in striped pjs... Have a tissue handy

That's next up on my list Jen. I don't cry at films,although I know it's based on real life 

Will you give over !!!  

 

I love The Talented Mr Ripley - not a vampire in sight 

Don't worry Saint I Like teen vamp stuff too... But I am a girl

US mathematician John Nash, whose life story was turned into the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash, local media has reported.

Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia were both killed when their taxi crashed in New Jersey, the reports said.

The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.

His breakthroughs in maths - and his struggles with schizophrenia - were the focus of the film.

Russell Crowe, who played him in the film, tweeted: "Stunned... My heart goes out to John & Alicia & family. An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts."

just watched 'big game' really good if youre after an action type movie

off the point a bit-i watched 1st couple of episodes of izombie (tv)...really enjoyed that, not sure if its on in UK yet

worth a watch if it is

In Time, just starting on Ch5 i liked it

We went to see the remake of Poltergeist, it wasn't bad. But oddly after we had left I discovered the number 48 written on my arm in black marker. 

Watched shutter island on C4 last night.

Leonardo Di Caprio plays a good part. It's a long film but it has a good ending.

i watched stutter island...went on for ages

Its quite clever but once you see the reveal it's all but over and not worth watching again

Is the Mark Wahlberg version of The Gambler worth watching?

 

I tuned in to the film In Time, with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. I liked the setup to the film and the opening half hour or so, unfortunately I fell asleep about that point (just after the scene with his mother in the street). Now I am quite excited to know if the film (no spoilers) continues to be worth the watch (assuming you liked it in the first place!).

 

Over to you. 

 

 

No, he's an a-hole

it kinda never lives up to the good start

but go on, go on, go on

Aww that's a bit disappointing. I will still need to finish it though.

 

Just watched (on iPlayer in HD ) the film Buried. I half expected the film to be about one character in a box and that is what it pretty much turned out to be. The way the narrative progressed was through the use of his mobile phone, the people he speaks to and how he tries everything he can think of to help people find his position and ultimately rescue him. You get small insights into the company he works for and the people in his life both family and work colleagues.

 

The ending while not a shocker was a little surprising and references a discussion that took place earlier in the film. Not a bad film and not too long. If you are going to watch it on iPlayer, then you only have until tonight.

 

 

kajaki is out tomorrow

thats a good 'un

sort of the same idea, set mainly in one place

we watched it earlier, really really good...

heres a bit of the review from the telegraph

 

 

The extraction of the wounded sniper becomes a deadly case of frying pan into fire when his comrades realise to their horror that the entire riverbed is a minefield. A chopper rides in at one point, but communications falter, and it whips up so much unhelpful dust and rubble that another mine explodes. There go more legs.......

 

The film makes you flinch, recoil, hide behind your hands, and even care: a very sturdy set of achievements, and less pretentious about What We Were Even Doing There And Why than almost any Hollywood equivalent you could name

Ah, "Buried" - as usual, I saw it a while back in the cinema, and it was responsible for one of my stranger cinema experiences. I actually saw it in a very respectable "art-house" cinema, and there weren't that many other people in the audience, but at the end some of them were screaming and shouting abuse at the screen!

 

Without going into spoiler territory: I think the problem was not so much the ending itself but rather the way it was structured, which left some feeling cheated...

 

I would not say I was pleased with the ending as pleased feels the wrong word in respect of this character's outcome, but I preferred the way it ended rather than what tends to happen which is "character gets out of situation with battle scars, is reunited with family and everyone lives happily ever after".

 

I am intrigued that the audience felt cheated. Did you feel cheated Eugene? if so, why.

 

One thing you may be able to clear up for me is why he cut off his finger, for some reason I must have drifted slightly at that point.

 

In a massive contrast, I'm just watching Bridesmaids. 

 

 

 

*** Spoiler Warning for anyone who's not seen "Buried" yet. ***

 

I personally wouldn't say I felt "cheated", but I was very annoyed with the way I felt they (mis-)handled the ending as up to that point I'd found the film very gripping, and I felt they dropped the ball and thus turned a potentially great film into a "gimmick" movie.

 

When I tried to discuss the ending on IMDb a lot of people thought I was complaining about it not having a happy ending, but in fact I was pleased they didn't go that way. My problem was with the "false" ending. As soon as the viewer realises he's imagined the "happy ending", you just know he's doomed, and all the intended tension over the last couple of minutes evaporates. I think that was what caused the shouting at the screen: after what had been a very clever film up to that point, the director ruined it with a ridiculous piece of melodrama. Not that a false ending can't work, of course: see the original cinematic release of "The Descent" for a textbook lesson on how to do it properly...

 

Sorry, but I can't remember about the finger: wasn't he forced to cut it off by his captors?

 

Now "Bridesmaids": that was a hoot!

*** Spoiler Alert ***

 

Thanks for your thoughts Eugene 

 

I actually did not think about that as I watched the film, on reflection it's an often used device by filmmakers and I think you're right that part of the film could have been left out altogether. The final twist is enough and a pretty decent twist it is IMO which ends the film.

 

I believe it was the captors who forced the finger to be cut off, but I just can't remember what led up to that moment and why he had to do it. Maybe do like you and pay a visit to IMDB and ask the question.

 

I was enjoying Bridesmaids up to the point where I fell asleep

The bit where they were sick was a bit too soon after I had my food poisoning on Monday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Years ago, Viz used to do a feature on pedants correcting each other

 

"It's not pedantics, it's pedants"

"It's not pedentricness, it's pendentry"

"you are not being a pedantric you are being a pedant"

"It's not "pedant's corner" it's 'pedants' corner' and so forth...

 

If you want aggressive pedantry cranked up to the absolute max, try visiting a forum on open source software.