What films you watched recently?

shutter island...........7/10

ending was terrible, and the twist was average

normally in those kinda films the twist makes your jaw drop open

Neil wrote:

Kick Ass 7/10 I liked this but maybe Im getting a bit bored with comic films now. There was nothing new here to be honest. Kind of like Mystery Men meets Wanted meets Superbad. I loved Hit Girl though and I think her antics made the film.

PS where was the electocution torture scene from the comic....??????

Where was alot of the darker stuff, it was very hollywood polished toward a happy ending which is the opposite of the comic mostly the "romantic aspect of the story but without these amendments i doubt it would ever have been made

Yeah I think they wimped out to bring it in at a cert 15.

Yeah, just watched Shutter Island too. It was pretty average.

Shutter Island is a good book and the film remains faithful to the story. I'm a fan of film noir so I really enjoyed this. To be honest this film is not about the twist that comes at the end.

the mist - 7.5/10.....defo worth watching

Stef wrote:

the mist - 7.5/10.....defo worth watching

Yeah I love that film. Great ending!

Law Abiding Citizen, with Jamie Foxx & Gerald Butler.
Well worth a watch 7/10

New Moon - Oh my God how boring and drawn out is this piece of shit. 2/10
Zombieland - 7/10

yeah i didnt expect to like the mist, i hate those kinda horrors as they are always lame

but this one had alot of other stuff going on and i did enjoy the ending too

Neil wrote:

Shutter Island is a good book and the film remains faithful to the story. I'm a fan of film noir so I really enjoyed this. To be honest this film is not about the twist that comes at the end.

I did like the style of the film - it actually reminded me of those 40's and 50's thrillers I used to watch as a kid - a bit like a Hitchcock thriller. I thought that was quite cleverly reproduced. But in the end the film showed itself to me as more of a tragedy than a thriller - fragility of the human mind etc.......

i gonna watch shutter island again, maybe there was something i missed

but overall i score it pretty high......7.5 cause the script is brilliant (some awesome quotes), some great performances too

Its a good second watch because you see it from the doctors angle. Thats why the twist isnt that important. The final quote from Di Caprio made me really think!

A bit late on this one but -
Kick Ass - 9/10

Also, forgot to say that the soundtrack for Kick Ass was awesome, loved it all the way through.

Watched saving private Ryan last night, amazing film with a stunning intro. Slightly put off by matt damons mega white teeth though. Acht/zehn

Finally got round to watching X MEn last stand. How bloody disappointing.

5/10 for Hugh Jackman's muscles seeing as he was 38 when hemade it. And personally, i don't think he's that bad an actor. Saw all of Origin's Wolverine too the other night, was ok, nothing to write home about though.

Hot Tub Time Machine 6/10 Had some funny moments but just missed out on being really good. I did laugh out loud a couple of times which is quite rare for me!

full metal jacket- really enjoyed the film, especially the way its split into 2 'acts' counterbalancing each other, some stunning cinematography in there, hard to believe the ruined cityscapes were 80s London - 9/10 (loses 1 because the music annoyed me in places)

Hot tub time machine 7/10
clash of the titans (remake) 7/10


someone else watch mega piranha please

The first 10 minutes of batman and robin 2/10. I'm suprised I watched it for that long to be honest

Shaving Ryans Privates has to be the best first 30 minutes of any film - really takes the glory out of the war film, showing soldiers as simply pieces of meat (which is really what they are) being butchered indiscriminately. And a good story follows too.

Full Metal Jacket is classic. I never could quite make my mind up about Gunnery Sgt Hartman - was he just a sadistic bully or was he really just giving them their best chance of surviving? Either way, it leaves you with the worrying question: What are we left with when it's all over? A whole generation of trained killers with fucked up heads?

Welcome to America.

I watched Knowing yesterday 5/10 the worst ending to any film ever, except maybe the Indiana Jones Crystal Skull one.

DanWal wrote:

I watched Knowing yesterday 5/10 the worst ending to any film ever, except maybe the Indiana Jones Crystal Skull one.

i enjoyed it uptil the end

uptil the end it was like 7/10

but the ending was soo terrible

Kind of enjoyed it. But the ending does suck. It's a kind of 'fuck it - can't be bothered to come up with a proper ending so we'll just put any old crap in there' kind of ending.

Question for me is where the fuck are social services in all this? All those kids being left on their own on some far off planet is pretty irresponsible parenting if you ask me. I think another Serious Case Review is needed to see if there are any lessons we can learn from this experience.