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Newish films worth a watching ....

alien8r33dalien8r33d
edited June 2010 in Chit chat
Here's a few films, I've seen recently, which are hereby certified as worth a look. I'll skip the Barry Norman analysis, just list them (in no particular order) as follows:-

Brooklyn's Finest
District 9 (Who would want to screw a blow-fly (even an extra big one with massive tits -rubberkeys- if you're still about))
Harry Brown (Michael Caine at his best)
Pandorum (Excellent Sci-Fi story)
Running Scared (2006)
Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll (Ian Dury story)
Shutter Island
The Mist (I like an unhappy ending)
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  • milemile
    edited June 2010
    that new film with the curly city looks good.
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited June 2010
    Pig Hunt was jokes, in a so-bad-its-good kind of way
  • grey keygrey key
    edited June 2010
    What about the remake of The Wizard of Oz, with Johnny Depp as the scarecrow and Helena Bonham Carter as the Wicked witch. Sounds promising..........................
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • milemile
    edited June 2010
    grey key wrote: »
    What about the remake of The Wizard of Oz, with Johnny Depp as the scarecrow and Helena Bonham Carter as the Wicked witch. Sounds promising..........................

    who is directing that? i couldn't possibly begin to guess the director. :p
  • grey keygrey key
    edited June 2010
    Jim Gonefora Burton, or something like that.....................
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • alien8r33dalien8r33d
    edited June 2010
    grey key wrote: »
    What about the remake of The Wizard of Oz, with Johnny Depp as the scarecrow and Helena Bonham Carter as the Wicked witch. Sounds promising..........................

    Run that one by PK, I'm sure he can quote you chapter and verse on it!:grin:
  • zx1zx1
    edited June 2010
    I seen Harry Brown a while back and enjoyed it.
    I've just watched 'Law Abiding Citizien' with Gerald Butler, not a bad film but the plot is totally unbelievable.
    The trouble with tribbles is.......
  • milemile
    edited June 2010
    zx1 wrote: »
    I seen Harry Brown a while back and enjoyed it.
    I've just watched 'Law Abiding Citizien' with Gerald Butler, not a bad film but the plot is totally unbelievable.

    yeah you really don't know who you are meant to be routing for in the end. awful.

    some good set pieces though.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited June 2010
    'The Mist' was great. Even Stephen King admitted he couldn't think of an ending for the story, so used leaving the journal in a truck-stop along the way as an excuse to just cut the story off. So Frank Darabont did a lovely job.

    I really liked District 9, too. There's a pointless thing on the DVD release where it has trailers for a few films from the same director or producer that are just crime dramas set in Johannesberg. Why on earth would they think someone who's watching a novel take on Sci-Fi storytelling be even remotely interested?
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited June 2010
    Zombieland
    Sherlock Holmes
    How to Train Your Dragon

    ...All way better than I'd thought they'd be.....
    The Black Cauldron (PC)
  • Jumping StackJumping Stack
    edited June 2010
    grey key wrote: »
    What about the remake of The Wizard of Oz, with Johnny Depp as the scarecrow and Helena Bonham Carter as the Wicked witch. Sounds promising..........................

    I think I read about that somewhere. Is that the version with Woody Allen misguidedly cast as the Wizard?
  • ZX BeccyZX Beccy
    edited June 2010
    Mist is awesome.

    I would also reccomend ' 9 ' and ' Planet 51 ' - Both CGI but well worth checking out.
  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited June 2010
    I enjoyed Daybreakers.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2010
    mile wrote: »
    that new film with the curly city looks good.

    You mean the one with all the dream sequences, where the city curls upward and all the houses fold in on themselves? The TV-ad for that looked interesting but I don't remember its name nor the main actor, and I've been searching IMDB for it for naught.
  • CUCHULAINNCUCHULAINN
    edited June 2010
    alien8r33d wrote: »
    The Mist (I like an unhappy ending)

    When opening this thread, this would have been the movie I suggested. One of the best movies with a twist that I've seen. And yes, the ending is classic.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2010
    Inception

  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2010
    None of them are worth watching, all new movies are remakes of old ones!

    Go hire the originals instead :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited June 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    None of them are worth watching, all new movies are remakes of old ones!

    Go hire the originals instead :D

    What's Inception based on?

    VanillaSkyDarkCityErr...
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited June 2010
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    What's Inception based on?

    VanillaSkyDarkCityErr...

    Bloody Pedant! :p

    Yes you're being repressed ;)
    Every night is curry night!
  • milemile
    edited June 2010
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Inception


    thats it, looks great, probably shit.

    theres the new batman film to look forward too.

    i think we're looking at the riddler. they have confirmed that there will be no penguin and defo no mr freeze. :p
  • DarenDaren
    edited June 2010
    Just seen the new Shrek film. Awful. Shrek does nothing for 90 minutes, then has a go at the audience for booing!
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited June 2010
    Daren wrote: »
    Just seen the new Shrek film. Awful. Shrek does nothing for 90 minutes, then has a go at the audience for booing!

    :lol:

    Uhm...I think you might be getting that confused with something else...
    The Black Cauldron (PC)
  • thehivethehive
    edited June 2010
    Try Kick-Ass - so wrong in so many ways, but so good. IMDB top 250 (154) too, which say a lot.
  • milemile
    edited June 2010
    deadpan666 wrote: »
    :lol:

    Uhm...I think you might be getting that confused with something else...

    ah i get it now. :p
  • 1980-20..1980-20..
    edited June 2010
    mile wrote: »
    ah i get it now. :p

    Football!. Is it something to do with football. Engchester united maybe in the uefa world tournament. Am i right.
  • festershinetopfestershinetop
    edited June 2010
    I was quite surprised at Rampage seeming as Uwe Boll wrote and directed it. Its a pretty good film although its subject matter may be a bit much for some people due to what happened in Cumbria recently. There was even some nutter on a torrent site demanding it be taken down not because it was breach of copyright but so it didnt offend people in Cumbria.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1337057/
  • milemile
    edited June 2010
    just watched 'the road'

    really great film.

    if it reminded me of anything it reminded me of fallout 3.

    its not at all action orientated, but is very shocking in parts.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited June 2010
    festershinetop wrote: »
    I was quite surprised at Rampage seeming as Uwe Boll wrote and directed it.
    Who did he get to play Ralph, George and Lizzie? :D
    Joefish
    - IONIAN-GAMES.com -
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited June 2010
    mile wrote: »
    just watched 'the road'

    Yeah i really enjoyed that, like those post-apocalyptic type films. You'll like Book of Eli as well
  • milemile
    edited June 2010
    psj3809 wrote: »
    Yeah i really enjoyed that, like those post-apocalyptic type films. You'll like Book of Eli as well

    yeah that looks like the more action orientated of the two.
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