Watched "No Country For Old Men" on Blu-ray on Sunday. It really captured the intensity of the first time I saw it back in '07 in the cinema.
Watched "No Country For Old Men" on Blu-ray on Sunday. It really captured the intensity of the first time I saw it back in '07 in the cinema.
Actually both names are right, I think. It was called Edge of Tomorrow in the U.S but it was then renamed Live. Die. Repeat for theatrical releases in some territories and then when it was released on DVD both names were used. The spine on my copy actually says "Live. Die. Repeat./Edge of Tomorrow" just in case I forget what it's called... Which is probably a good thing because the first time I tried to buy it I ended up going home with Oblivion instead! Shame really, all things considered because I rather enjoyed it and I'm predisposed to hate almost anything involving Tom Cruise.
shaithis (25-03-2015)
Watched something on Netflix called chopsy about some myth about kids going missing and it turns out it was actually a old mental patient. A documovie that was rather interesting for me but I like morbid stuff like that.
Need for Speed (2014)
... Don't. Just... Spare yourselves.
2/10
Watched the Drop again on Saturday, this time on Blu-Ray. It stands up to a second viewing...
Saw Spike Jonze's 'Her' a couple of nights back. Reasonable but a relook at a concept well explored by sci-fi writers over the years. Also a few plot holes (e.g. if you can have an AI complex and adept enough to inflect its language to emotionally connect with a human why couldn't it assess all data on that human and construct an attractive on-screen face to talk to the human with).
Otherwise some fairly boring representations of near future life.
Latest film I watched was: End of Watch (a few years old now) 9/10. I love the "beat" cop films over the detective, gang unit stuff and this suits me perfectly. If anyone has seen SouthLAnd, this is sort of like the "movie" version of it!
Taken 3 - 6/10 - Predictable romp.
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Little Shop of Horrors has just been on the TV, loved it. Gonna go with 8/10
71 (Not a great title, but the film about Northern Ireland with Jack O'Connell) Pretty good film, 7.5/10. Half action, half suspence thriller. Well worth a watch.
Intersteller, now. This is going to be a Marmite film. Some will love it, some will hate it. For me, it's defenatly a hate. The film starts off well enough, and seemed like it was building to be a good film. But just before the end, somthing that is a spoiler so i won't say. Made the film fall completly flat and left me feeling like the whole film was a complete waiste of time. From the people i know who've watched it, it's been about a 50/50 split to love and hate. My score, 2/10
This week saw David Cronenburg's 'Map to the Stars'. A visceral but somewhat two dimensional satirical look at Hollywood and mental health. Fabulous performance from Julian Moore supported by capable Mia Wasikowska and John Cusack. Thoroughly adult material, despite a 13 year old protagonist played by Evan Bird. Worth a re-watch.
Real Steel - 7/10 - Not what I was expecting but was quite good for a robot boxing film!
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The Grand Budapest Hotel. Nice watch, very interesting cinematography and is a pleasure to watch. Smiled all the way through. 7.5/10
Pride. About a Gay and Lesbian group who decided to collect funds for the striking miners. Not bad, quite funny in places, good performances from Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Paddy Considine et al. 7/10
Casino with Robert De Niro a complete classic, I love gangster/mob films. Just typing this is making me want to watch Godfather
Kill the Messenger came across it entirely by chance and it sounded good enough.
Good, but even if you don't know nothing about the source story you will still guess what you are into fairly early and where it is going.
Reminded me of Nightcrawler in that sense, would still recommend though
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