What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)

[publicist 4,643]

It has its perks (and i bet the Pythons didn't miss it then):

[Quintus 5,399]

That's the thing really - I'd rather just watch Life of Brian.

I love musicals normally.

[crocodile 8,033]

He clearly posted in the wrong forum.

Incorrect.

Karol

[Wojo 2,453]

I love the songs. It's the only Webber I really like. Phantom just gets dumb after Music of the Night.

[publicist 4,643]

HAMLET 2

Steve Coogan doing a wilful hybrid of his goofy british style within the confines of US comedies with broader audience aspirations. A rather retarded acting teacher leads his class over the requisite obstacles to glory and honour, writing an inane sequel to Hamlet that actually is about Jesus Christ (at least that's what we can see of the play). It is sketchy but when it is funny (and it's more often than it has the right to be) it delivers.

HOT FUZZ

It's rather slight but the recipe works - overeager civil servants tend to be funny and the pacing is excellent, so are the actors. Pegg lives in 'Spencer Hill', which may or may not be a reference to the merry old Spenver/Hill movies of yesteryear (they were huge in Germany).

THE WORLD'S END

GHOSTBUSTERS (or SHAWN OF THE DEAD, for that matter) it ain't. The first half starts promising (the nostalgic prologue that actually is a confession in an AA meeting), but as soon as the aliens twist sets in, the whole thing is one anemic stunt after another and never recovers.

[Quintus 5,399]

I love the songs. It's the only Webber I really like. Phantom just gets dumb after Music of the Night.

My arse it does! Every song is brilliant.

[A24 4,357]

I love the songs.

Then sing with me, Wojo!!!

Look at all my trials and tribulations

Sinking in a gentle pool of wine

Don't disturb me now I can see the answers

Till this evening is this morning life is fine

Always hoped that I'd be an apostle

Knew that I would make it if I tried

Then when we retire we can write the gospels

So they'll still talk about us when we've died

[Quintus 5,399]

It's hardly Take That though is it.

[crocodile 8,033]

Now that I've slept on it I can say what's my final verdict on the Peter Jackson's latest. It's ultimately more fun to watch than the first one, but that's thanks to new characters, locations and a bit more lively part of this story - things that create the illusion everything it is all fresh. Nevertheless, poor storytelling inconsequential editing/pacing and over-everything - all these things together drag it down. King Kong is a masterpiece of restraint in comparison. Great filmmaking, or even adequate, it ain't. HFR didn't bother me nearly as much, but still looks unimpressive.

My sympathies go to Ian McKellen who spent most of this film alone in front of greenscreen. Must have been quite a torture for him.

Karol - who'd rather watch a brand new original story set in this universe

[Bespin 8,492]

Now that I've slept on it I can say what's my final verdict on the Peter Jackson's latest. It's ultimately more fun to watch than the first one, but that's thanks to new characters, locations and a bit more lively part of this story - things that create the illusion everything it is all fresh. Nevertheless, poor storytelling inconsequential editing/pacing and over-everything - all these things together drag it down. King Kong is a masterpiece of restraint in comparison. Great filmmaking, or even adequate, it ain't. HFR didn't bother me nearly as much, but still looks unimpressive.

Karol - who'd rather watch a brand new original story set in this universe

Ok, I will wait for the 6 hours 37 minutes Blu-Ray extended version.

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

Metropolis - Fritz Lang

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Peter Jackson

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I love Strangelove

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Well, I guess you are French after all.

[Quintus 5,399]

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

I give up.

Sorry to hear that BloodBoal. Does that mean you're to relinquish your messenger duties over the coming months in regards to the final part?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Oh no, this will mean hundreds of disgruntled posts about how the film sucks, PJ's lost his mind etc etc....

Alvar is delighted that the film sucked.

[Matt C 456]

The Little Mermaid

Its placement on ABC Family's "25 Days of Christmas" is puzzling, but I'm not complaining -- it was great seeing this movie in full-blown HD. The colors and animation really popped, and it felt like I was watching the movie again as a kid. The slapstick and one-liners are still very funny (especially the whole "Les Poissons" sequence), and Howard Ashman's songs are still insanely catchy. Just an entertainingly good time.

[Glóin the Dark 1,229]

Arbitrage

I liked it.

[Bespin 8,492]

Hook, a movie with many defaults, but still moving.

Maybe one day, they will add some Special Effects to "expand" the sets and completey redo Tinker Bell scenes...

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Nope. Never.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Hook, a movie with many defaults, but still moving.

Maybe one day, they will add some Special Effects to "expand" the sets and completey redo Tinker Bell scenes...

Hook, a movie with many defaults, but still moving.

Maybe one day, they will add some Special Effects to "expand" the sets and completey redo Tinker Bell scenes...

Good Lord NO. There are starving people in the world.

[Wojo 2,453]

If Star Trek V wasn't allowed to get updated special effects, I don't think Hook should. But it might be time to update Star Wars again.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Hook doesnt have the fanbase big enough to warrent such a treatment. Also i doubt Spielberg is interested.

[Quintus 5,399]

Hook surprisingly does have a little bit of a cult following though. Some kids (now in their twenties) absolutely adore it.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Like Jason?

[publicist 4,643]

HOOK's problems are not bad special effects. Remaking the story while staying far away from the leaden all-star bullshit of Spielberg's version would be the only solution. HOOK is unsalvageable.

[mrbellamy 6,330]

Hook doesnt have the fanbase big enough to warrent such a treatment. Also i doubt Spielberg is interested.

He explicitly said in an interview a couple years ago that he's changed his mind about updating any of his movies, and all future re-releases will be the original versions, so I doubt it too.

Of course, he could always re-change his mind

[Mr. Breathmask 555]

Can we please get the cobra reflection back in Raiders of the Lost Ark then?

[Jay 37,441]

Why?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Because really anal people think Lucas and Spielberg raped their childhood memories by removing it!

[crocodile 8,033]

Can we please get the cobra reflection back in Raiders of the Lost Ark then?

I had no idea it was removed.

Karol

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

It has been removed since the trilogy was released on DVD in 2003.

[Mr. Breathmask 555]

Because.

Also, because I still think it's stupid they expressly mention it in the Raiders doc on the DVD and then don't have the actual shot in the movie.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Marc, get with the times. DVD is an obsolete format now. The world is HD!

[Mr. Breathmask 555]

The cobra is still missing on the Blu-Ray. I don't recall if the DVD doc is on there though, which is why I still have the DVD set lying around somewhere.

[Quintus 5,399]

There are certain, permissible, airbrush applications. The Raiders snake is one if them. At the opposite end of the extreme is Han stepping on Jabba's tail like Super Mario collecting a mushroom.

[nightscape94 965]

Something like that is pretty tame, but when you start replacing guns with hand radios then we're going to have problems.

[Quintus 5,399]

Yes. That change actually lessened the power and danger of the scene.

Watched Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa last night. If you have no experience of Steve Coogan's majestic comedy invention then his titular character's first movie (after being on the tv scene for over twenty years) is a great place to start.

The Irish dude from Star Trek and Con Air lays seige to Alan's radio station armed with a shotgun, and a hostage crisis ensues which sees appointed negotiater Alan take the cowardly initiative and try to use the situation as an opportunity to steal the media circus limelight and get his waning celebrity career back on track in ways which only Partridge would have the shameless gall.

The film is a surprisingly very well done crossover with a "classic Partridge" script which pretty much hits every single mark bang on target throughout the breezy and chuckley 90mins runtime. I'll probably have to watch this a few times to spot all the best Partridgeisms and begin memorising the lines. Quintessential cult British comedy delivers, 4/5

[BloodBoal 7,538]

At the opposite end of the extreme is Han stepping on Jabba's tail like Super Mario collecting a mushroom.

Now, all that is missing is the sound to go with it, and the scene would be perfect.

[Quintus 5,399]

Tonight we watched The Avengers (instead of Desolation of Smaug).

Hey, this was much more hefty and enjoyable second time around. What felt like chaotic lip service in parts first time was much more successful at paying due care to almost every hero in the mix this time. That they managed to reign in and satisfyingly portray so much of the ensemble at once is a real achievement and not something to be taken for granted. I doubt the sequel wil manage the same high level of cohesive organisation and central binding plot which does a great job of creating a sense of attachment for these characters in a shared ridiculous universe. This is a really bloody good summer blockbuster and a much rarer success than its possibly given credit for. 4/5

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

I find it works for me on a similar level as ID4 does. And the abundance of super heroes keeps it from becoming stale.

[crocodile 8,033]

Tonight we watched The Avengers (instead of Desolation of Smaug).

Hey, this was much more hefty and enjoyable second time around. What felt like chaotic lip service in parts first time was much more successful at paying due care to almost every hero in the mix this time. That they managed to reign in and satisfyingly portray so much of the ensemble at once is a real achievement and not something to be taken for granted. I doubt the sequel wil manage the same high level of cohesive organisation and central narrative. This is a really bloody good summer blockbuster and a much rarer success than its possibly given credit for. 4/5

Yeah, there is exactly nothing special about it. Except for the sheer fun of watching it. I always say, that for a film that was mostly designed as a marketing stunt, that it works so well is a sort of a miracle.

Karol

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

Nah, the sequel will be fine. Joss' magic touch.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Josh has no magic touch. He's a modestly talented filmmaker but he is not great.

Mary Poppins, no need for a spoon full of sugar to watch this delight.

Mary Poppins would fit nicely at Hogwarts.

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

Josh has no magic touch.

Good to see the integrity of your judgement and taste is as consistent as that of your typing skills.

Huh that's far more rude than I've yet been on here. What is this place doing to me?

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Only Lee does that!

[Quintus 5,399]

I've never called anyone a "tasteless" c**t. And we don't say "asshole" in England.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

A tasteless c*nt would be quite boring right?

[BloodBoal 7,538]