[Gravastar]

(Original post by morgangills)
Yeah the one Paul Haggis directed, not the Cronenberg one...

Yeah I thought it was excellent, one of the best films I saw at the cinema last year.

Mmm - what was your favourite scene? I loved the last confrontation between the Persian store owner and the locksmith, it really made me wince, even though I THOUGHT i knew how it was going to end, and then it surprised me.

Also - I'm sure this wasn't his aim when making it, but it's a really strong case for banning firearms! I mean, just imagine how most of the scenes would have played out without the guns.

[Gravastar]

(Original post by p00p)
The Cronenberg one is frickin weird. Car crash victim fetishes, what the hell.

I thought the new one was overly pretentious and seemed to shove the racism issue down my throat. It wasn't subtle enough.

Hated, hated, HATED the Cronenberg one. It was so ridiculously repetitive.

*Car Crashes
*They have sex
*Car Crashes
*They have some more sex
*More crashes
*More sex
*Crashes while having sex

I can see how you'd feel that the Haggis one is pretentious, but i think its issue is sound, and ultimately well presented. And it's quite hard to approach the race issue from anything other than a nihilistic stance without appearing pretentious. I liked American History X and all, but this one made me think more about the issue.

[yo-less]

(Original post by LPK)
Saw 2 is brilliant.



I never really liked Underworld. Had a strange story to it.

Did you see Saw1?


Har de har har, see-saw

[LPK]

(Original post by Gravastar)
Hey! I don't JUST watch art house films. I liked Saw, I thought it was a good idea. And Underworld was quite snazzy in its visual style. And Final Destination was...well - I can't think of any redeeming features there. I just thought that none of those films have much scope for any kind of insightful criticism - i mean it's just "hey, did you see when that girl got impaled by the pole!", which everyone blatently DID see, unless they went for popcorn at that particular moment.

We're not here to say 'Did you see this part and that part?'

Just here to give opinions on films and whether you think they are worth seeing. It will give people a better idea of what is worth seeing

[Scipio]

(Original post by LPK)
We're not here to say 'Did you see this part and that part?'

Just here to give opinions on films and whether you think they are worth seeing. It will give people a better idea of what is worth seeing

So basically the whole purpose of this sub forum in one thread? .

[thorondor]

(Original post by p00p)
The Cronenberg one is frickin weird. Car crash victim fetishes, what the hell.

I thought the new one was overly pretentious and seemed to shove the racism issue down my throat. It wasn't subtle enough.

Why is it assumed that unless it's subtle it's somehow bad? The whole point was racism, it was a story built around racism, not just any old story with a bit of racism mixed in. When the point of the film is to explore racism in LA i'd have expected it to be obvious. Racism isn't often a very subtle subject.

[LPK]

(Original post by Pav27)
So basically the whole purpose of this sub forum in one thread? .

Yes.

[Lecter]

yeah im a member.....goes off to watch a DVD

[La Trampa]

Memoirs of a Geisha is reall good. it's not a chick flick!!!
it's a nice visual movie (courtesy of bf) but i think it's more than that...it's really good is all i can say...and how they got everyone from crouching tiger,hidden dragon today to make it was good familiar faces and all....


can i just say, bride and prejudice was a mock attempt at a bollywood movie and failed! it shouldn't even be considered bollywood, it's an english movie...although the first dance scene was nice with the bride and groom party....

[Jack Twist]

(Original post by Shylock)
Memoirs of a Geisha is reall good. it's not a chick flick!!!
it's a nice visual movie (courtesy of bf) but i think it's more than that...it's really good is all i can say...and how they got everyone from crouching tiger,hidden dragon today to make it was good familiar faces and all....


can i just say, bride and prejudice was a mock attempt at a bollywood movie and failed! it shouldn't even be considered bollywood, it's an english movie...although the first dance scene was nice with the bride and groom party....

ditto to memoirs of a geisha, but go see BBM, Shylock!

[La Trampa]

(Original post by Jack Twist)
ditto to memoirs of a geisha, but go see BBM, Shylock!

only after it's out on dvd ....the thought of two all-american men together...grrr *shivers*

[beecher]

Has anyone seen The Weather Man yet? Any opinions?

[La Trampa]

(Original post by p00p)
Has anyone seen The Weather Man yet? Any opinions?

which one is that?

[Jack Twist]

(Original post by Shylock)
only after it's out on dvd ....the thought of two all-american men together...grrr *shivers*

^o) whats wrong with two american men?^o)

[beecher]

(Original post by Shylock)
which one is that?

http://imdb.com/title/tt0384680/

[Cunning Linguist]

i watched the German film "Sophie Scholl" (nominated for oscars as foreign film of the year!) it was really good. definitely worth watching. very thought-provoking.
let me know if anyone wants to know more about it. no point writing a whole 'review' if no-one's interested! lol

[La Trampa]

(Original post by linguist786)
i watched the German film "Sophie Scholl" (nominated for oscars as foreign film of the year!) it was really good. definitely worth watching. very thought-provoking.
let me know if anyone wants to know more about it. no point writing a whole 'review' if no-one's interested! lol

what's it about??

[Scipio]

(Original post by Shylock)
what's it about??

http://imdb.com/title/tt0426578/

Seriously, bookmark imdb.

[LPK]

IMDB is great.

[vin]

hmm the last film i saw was king kong a few weeks ago