What movie are you going to see next?

FoxyMop

He's just not that into you when it comes out!

Heineken Helen

I've got four christmases downloaded and ready to play

Kilgore_Trout

Heineken Helen wrote:

I've got four christmases downloaded and ready to play

be sure to let us know how horrible it was when youre done

Heineken Helen

sgossard3 wrote:

Heineken Helen wrote:

I've got four christmases downloaded and ready to play

be sure to let us know how horrible it was when youre done

hahaha will do... it's not on my 'list' but it's one of the few i THINK i can watch,

g under p

I just saw WAR INC. with John Cusack and his sister. It was pretty good.

Peace

Heineken Helen

sgossard3 wrote:

Heineken Helen wrote:

I've got four christmases downloaded and ready to play

be sure to let us know how horrible it was when youre done

VERY horrible... was a bit likeable at start but went rapidly downhill

Heineken Helen

g under p wrote:

I just saw WAR INC. with John Cusack and his sister. It was pretty good.

Peace

his sister joan? i like her but hate him and thoughr rhat film was very very bad... hillary duff????????

Kilgore_Trout

Heineken Helen wrote:

g under p wrote:

I just saw WAR INC. with John Cusack and his sister. It was pretty good.

Peace

his sister joan? i like her but hate him and thoughr rhat film was very very bad... hillary duff????????

WHA WHA WHAAAAT?!? its ALWAYS the other way around! what has joan EVER done thats worthwhile?!? john cusack on the other hand would play me in my biography... if he were my age... and if ed norton wasnt available

Heineken Helen

sgossard3 wrote:

Heineken Helen wrote:

g under p wrote:

I just saw WAR INC. with John Cusack and his sister. It was pretty good.

Peace

his sister joan? i like her but hate him and thoughr rhat film was very very bad... hillary duff????????

WHA WHA WHAAAAT?!? its ALWAYS the other way around! what has joan EVER done thats worthwhile?!? john cusack on the other hand would play me in my biography... if he were my age... and if ed norton wasnt available

think is john is definitely a MANS actor... all men love john cusack... women dont tend to like him but all men see themselves in him...i myself htink he's ok but his films are crap cept pushing tin. I like joan in everything but never remember them... she's always enjoyable.

analogueaddict72

Eden Lake (2008)

The Director of My Little Eye and the producers of The Descent could be accused of scare moungering and fueling the fire of the average Daily Mail reader as they take a contemporary issue ripped straight from British headlines and amp them up a few notches. Where you sit on this is down to interpretation although there is no denying director James Watkins has crafted a truly terrifying and realistic horror for our times. Although inhabiting a similar feel to Neil Marshall's excellent The Decent aided by David Julyan's similar but no less effective score, Eden Lake requires a lot less suspension of disbelief, as the terror on display is all too real.

When City Couple Jenny and Steve played by Kelly Reilly, recently seen leading alongside Ciaran Hinds in Lynda La Plante's new veichle Above Suspicion as D.C Anna Travis and Michael Fassbender who recently excelled in Steve Mcqueen's Hunger as hunger strike victim Bobby Sands, decide to have a romantic weekend in the picturesque Eden Lake they find the expected secluded spot with a plan for a romantic weekend is not so deserted as they expected. A group of local delinquents led by Brett of UK TV Skin's fame Jack O'Connell, start what is just a simple case of harrassment and intimidation and escalates into a terrifying experience for the couple resulting in devastaing consequences.

This is not Camp Crystal Lake and Jenny and Steve aren't some selfish couple you can't wait to see terrorised, both Reilly and Fassbender invest their characters with enough humanity, (Steve intends to propose to Jenny during their idylic weekend) that when the events turn nasty after the couples car is stolen by the gang and results in the death of Brett's pet rotweiller when Steve defends himself in a attempt to retrive their car and escape, your empathy for the couple makes the ensuing events including an unsure This Is England's Thomas Turgoose egged on by the sadistic Brett to take a stanley knife to a trussed up and already badly bleeding from numerous wounds inflicted by others in the gang Steve's toungue, witnessed by a hidden terrified Jenny that all more convincing, the time taken to flesh out the couple with some small details gives the actions that sense of real empathy to the viewer otherwise absent in the genre the majority of the time. Jenny is forced to take actions and efforts never contemplated before result in a tragic but violent act that will have consequences as this propels to it's shocking and unexpected climax. The closing frames are paticularly chilling.

Watkin's has created a horror movie which puts the 99% of Hollywood horror output to shame, employing the minimum amount of cliches within his script to recall not only The Decent but John Boorman's Deliverance and all within an extremley well used 87 minutes. The gore is effectively used but not extensively and only where necessary. The cast is superb, Fassbender is his usual reliable self but it is Reilly and O'Connell who impress the most. Reilly performance convinces you of her terror and determination, her transformation from city girl to terrified but determined survivor no stretch of the imagination and O'Connell is utterly terrifying and real as the monstrous Brett. Witness him as he orders only female member of the gang Paige (Finn Atkins) to film the torture on his mobile phone recording the sick detail of his deeds. He gives Brett a horrifying sense of the real, yes this person could well exist in the real World all too easily. Although the others of the gang go along with his actions it seems more out of being lost under spell of his overpowering presence, almost suggesting the others are nearly as much victims as the couple of his actions. Paige's intimidation earlier in the film towards Jenny seems nothing in reflection and Brett's actions have got out of control something the rest of the gang is aware but rarely too terrified to challenge.

Turgoose's Cooper's innocence etched on his face and British TV regular Shaun Dooley makes a brief but extremeley convincing appearance as Brett's Father making the personality of Brett so depressingly likely, who's off screen actions leave us in a very uncomfortable place and make for a horrific and sobering conclusion.

Watkin's may give the impression this might veer off into Jenny going all First Blood on the gang and in the hopefully not to be commissioned American remake would most likely be too much of a temptation, (witness the U.S ending of The Decent allowing a sequel to be in the making, ironically scripted by Watkins himself) although he is in full control of his goal and thankfuly imbues the film with tragedy and realness which very rarely ends up being approached in such a film.

Both Julyan's score and Christopher Ross's cinematography and Jon Harris's editing complement each other so effectively in conveying a sense of unease at the beginning of the film and proceed to rachet the tension up more and more as it goes on.

Once again like The Descent the Brits show how it is done, considering the output of Hollywood, being it torture pørn like The Saw series or Eli Roth's awful Hostel films or their propensity to remake Asian horror films. Watkins and his team have proved what can be achieved with a dose of intelligence and all too real horror.

* * * * *

jamie uk

Last one was Bram Stoker's Dracula, the mid 90's film with Gary Oldman etc. Excellent cast, decent film, forgotten how good it was...and some nice boobies occassionally :twisted:

Tomorrow I'm gonna watch Mask, the Cher movie rather than Jim Carrey's....don't know why, but something here tonight made me think of it.

Steve Dunne

went to see valkerie w/tom cruise. basically tom cruise playing a nazi trying to kill hitler. he does a fine job and there are some good scenes, but i wouldn't recommend it for a theatre...wait until dvd or hbo. a movie like that, sad to say, needed to be longer for more character development.

intodeep

I saw the wrestler, revolutionary road, and defiance this weekend. All were good.
I'm not sure what is next on my list now i've seen a lot of the ones i wanted to see :?

gregkitefan

The Wrestler
Milk
Frost/Nixon

I hope to see one of these over next weekend.

Heineken Helen

about to watch milk

dunkman

jamie uk wrote:

Last one was Bram Stoker's Dracula, the mid 90's film with Gary Oldman etc. Excellent cast, decent film, forgotten how good it was...and some nice boobies occassionally :twisted:

Tomorrow I'm gonna watch Mask, the Cher movie rather than Jim Carrey's....don't know why, but something here tonight made me think of it.

i'm going to write a movie in which the lead role is played by a ginger guy in his 20's, who is going bald, and he thinks he's mister lover lover but in actuality he wanks into bags of microwaved liver every 4 hours... i'm gonna call it Ron Howard's Fantasia!

i'll probably end up watching Trainspotting instead. :roll:

petrocs

Watchmen...I dont really have much interest in anything up to that. I've seen all the oscar movies and Taken already

Terryible

i'm seeing Frost/Nixon tonight, looking forward to it, even better because its free

decides2dream

saw revolutionary road - excellent!
next up, i think.....doubt.



there are sooo many good films out at the moment, and seeing previews, looks like some good films to come!
i really wat to see duplicity, i think it comes out in the spring. julia roberts, clive owen....from the writer or director, can't remember now - for michael clayton....preview looks awesome. last chance harvey with dustin hoffman and emma thompson looks so good too. really, a bunch of flicks on the horizion look so tempting!

Heineken Helen

milk is really really good, well worth a watch. i don;t think it's oscar worthy but ive a feeling it will win a few anyway