Film Fanatics - Chat Thread II

Midnight in Paris is a quality film. Makes me look forward to the new Woody Allen set in Rome.

Just re-watched Rashomon. Absolutely one of my favourite films. Just so accomplished at so many aspects of film-making, and works on a number of different levels.

I find it hard to watch films that old, dunno why.

I find it hard to watch films that old, dunno why.

I'm the same unless it is amazing classics like Jason and the Argonauts

Nice little round-up.

1. Wreck-It-Ralph - had not heard about this, looks like great fun.

2. Argo - I really liked Affleck's previous directorial efforts and liked the look of the trailer for this one as well, so looking forward to this. The reviews coming out of Toronto have only been lukewarm, though.

3. Ruby Sparks - Huh, interesting. Sounds a bit like Stranger Than Fiction; hopefully it will be better executed than that.

4. Cloud Atlas - from the descriptions and stuff, I'm not so sure about this one. I haven't read the book or anything, though, so I don't really know.

5. Django Unchained - Looks like fun, but (from the trailer) unspectacular. After Inglourious Basterds, I'll be tempering myself for this one.

6. Dredd - Only heard about it very recently. Looks like fun, but I'm not sure it's the kind of film I'll be able to appreciate much. We'll see.

7. To Rome With Love - After the trailer, I'm not expecting much. Still need to watch Midnight in Paris as well, though, so not the most educated opinion.

8. Skyfall - Thought the teaser looked fantastic, and the actual trailer a little less so. The names involved (particularly Mendes and Bardem) will still have me looking out for this, though.

9. The Hobbit - Nervous anticipation. Both annoyed and intrigued by the plans for a trilogy.

10. Looper - When I first heard about this, I wasn't too excited: it seemed to me to be the kind of films that would fail miserably to capture the scope of the concept it wanted to explore in favour of action/effects, like The Butterfly Effect or In Time (this opinion might have largely been a reaction to Willis' inclusion ). But it's getting very good initial reviews from Toronto (or is it Venice?), so my interest is being kindled.

11. Lincoln - Had me at Daniel Day-Lewis. Hopefully brilliant and not a massive flop (that's an either/or thing for this movie in my eyes!).

12. The Master - Film I've been most anticipating this year. Early reviews suggest it's yet another masterpiece.

Is there going to be a Movie Madness this year?

Cloud Atlas comes out in October in the US and, wait for it, March in the UK. That pretty much kills off most of my hype. Midnight in Paris is excellent, watch it (!) but the reviews for To Rome With Love are very mixed so I don't think it will be up to par. Looper is another with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after 21 reviews - 2012 has been a very strange years in terms of what films you were expecting would perform well critically. The Hobbit and Skyfall should be excellent - at least I hope so after the slew of less than satisfactory releases this year. And I reckon Lincoln and The Master will be the main films that duke it out at the Oscars.



Keen to see plebians push The Shawshank Redemption to yet another win?

Cloud Atlas comes out in October in the US and, wait for it, March in the UK. That pretty much kills off most of my hype. Midnight in Paris is excellent, watch it (!) but the reviews for To Rome With Love are very mixed so I don't think it will be up to par. Looper is another with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after 21 reviews - 2012 has been a very strange years in terms of what films you were expecting would perform well critically. The Hobbit and Skyfall should be excellent - at least I hope so after the slew of less than satisfactory releases this year. And I reckon Lincoln and The Master will be the main films that duke it out at the Oscars.

I'm the same unless it is amazing classics like Jason and the Argonauts

By virtue of them being old? I suppose it's understandable that some people don't take too well to old film quality, editing, etc.

Is there going to be a Movie Madness this year?

Not forgetting Les Mis for me.

I really hate the term gamer. I find it insulting to define me by one interest and lazy advertising to market to me as such. Could you imagine how immature it would sound to market The Great Gatsby as "this is for all you book lovers out there!". This is why I am not looking forward to Wreck-it-Ralph - something does not become as good as something else simply by referencing it, and any film which obnoxiously uses it's references as the main selling point of the film doesn't understand that. It's the whole issue of Scream vs Scary Movie. Also, there are at least two fantastic video game movies.