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I watched Red Eye, it was ok. If I had to be stuck on the flight from hell being held capitive by Cillian Murphy, honestly it wouldn't be that bad. He may have more to fear from me, than I from him :)
 
I saw The Exorcism Of Emily Rose on Sunday, I thought it was great :eek: I really wasn't bothered about watching it at first, but it surprised me and it turns out I loved it :rolleyes:

Last night I watched Thirteen - Great film!
 
The Magician - Fake Docu following an Australian hitman, it was filmed on camcorder as he was followed around in the course of his job. It is such a genius idea when you consider how cheap it cost to make and everything worked perfectly. It never really delved into the dark aspect you'd imagine involved in this line of work which annoyed me. It was hilarious throughout mainly because of the mundane conversation between hitman and victim.
 
Mission Impossible 3 - I really wanted to like this but I just couldn’t find it in me. The opening scene was fantastic and a change to the usual set up which raised my expectations. They soon spiralled downwards as the bland plot came to the fore, missions early in the movie just felt like they were killing screen time. The movie was without a hint of effective suspense until the last thirty minutes and even then I found it hard to care. I did enjoy certain action scenes (bridge scene was impressive) but really everyone involved were average. I had expected more from Hoffman :(
 
Midnight Cowboy was on telly again last night.

I watched it for about the tenth time. It's still one of favourites. It stands the test of tIME FOR ME ( I SPILT COFFEE ON THE CAPS LOCK YESTERDAY :( :) )

THE BOOK IS MUCH DARKER THAN THE FILM> ANYONE ELSE LOVE IT?
 
The Secret Life of Words. What a wonderful film! I was expecting to like it but I loved it.

SYNOPSIS

An isolated spot in the middle of the sea. An oil rig, where all the workers are men, on which there has been an accident. A solitary, mysterious woman who is trying to forget her past (Sarah Polley) is brought to the rig to look after a man (Tim Robbins) who has been temporarily blinded. A strange intimacy develops between them, a link full of secrets, truths, lies, humour and pain, from which neither of them will emerge unscathed and which will change their lives forever. A film about the weight of the past. About the sudden silence that is produced before a storm. About twenty-five million waves, a Spanish cook (Javier Cámara) and a goose. And, above all else, about the power of love even in the most terrible circumstances.

--© Official Site
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Some Notes by Isabel Coixet (director)

THE SECRET LIFE
Someone said that from the moment you have an inner life, you are already leading a double life.

Words –like shoals of fish- team around in our heads and crowd against our vocal chords, fighting to get out and be listened to by others. And sometimes they get lost on the journey from head to throat. This film is about those lost words that wander for a long time in a limbo of silence (and misunderstandings and errors and past and pain) and then one day come pouring out, and once they start nothing can stop them.


THE SILENCE OF WORDS
Hanna (Sarah Polley) lives in the silence that her deafness imposes on her, although very often it seems that silence is the only weapon she has to defend herself from the world. Josef (Tim Robbins) talks as if it is only through words –and irony and jokes and humour- that he can avoid going completely mad.
The encounter between them, the inevitable physical link that is established between a nurse and the patient she is caring for, will show them the other face of the reality in which both are immersed. The empathy, that mysterious ability to feel the other person’s dilemmas, whatever they may be, as your own, that they manage to develop will break down all the walls –of silence, of cynicism- that there are between them.
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Silent Hill. For the main part I enjoyed it, although in the back of my mind I feel a little dissapointed. After watching the trailer i was convinced and decided to see it ASAP Not only did the film look scary and exciting, but it seemed faithful to the game, unlike the shamefully bad Resident Evil's :mad:

Annyyway I watched it and have came to the conclusion that although it was faithul, it just didnt have enough excitement to it, and the only reason i enjoyed it was because of me reminiscing over the enemies, surrounding etc. I think that if i hadnt played the games religiously it may have been altogether too confusing and is simply just another forgettable horror film.

But i admit to nearly wetting myself when i saw Pyramid Head and his knife. :D
 
The last film I saw was The Pianist, I thought it was amazing! As awful as the situation was his survival was uplifting and remarkable, has anyone else seen this?
 
Bought some cheap DVDs and watched "Battle Royale" and "Battle Royale II" back to back. The first movie is almost a modern masterpiece, a 21st century "Lord Of The Flies" that manages to be both poignant and extremely violent. C'mon, Japanese teenagers slaughtering each other to classical music, what's going to be wrong with that?

The answer to that question is "Battle Royale II". Starts out as a shot-for-shot copy of the first one, then turns in a VERY lengthy sermon on the ethics of terrorism, and finally spends 30 minutes on one of the dullest battle scenes I've ever seen. Worth watching only for the violence and for the worst overacting in the history of cinema (the guy who plays the teacher). I tell you, Ed Wood would have told this guy to tone it down.

Now I kinda want to read the novel, too. Anyone read it?
 
theoptimist said:
The last film I saw was The Pianist, I thought it was amazing! As awful as the situation was his survival was uplifting and remarkable, has anyone else seen this?
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I agree. The Pianist was well done and Adrian Brody was excellent.
 
May 29, 2006

Monday: Saw X-Men: The Last Stand... I was content with the end. There was enough closure for me. 7.5 out 10 compared to the 9.2 I give X2 & the 9 I give the first.
 
I saw X-men yesterday and thought it was great. I'm sad to find out that this is going to be the last one :( because they are great action/fantasy films.

Famke Janssen is wonderful, tall and beautiful as ever. Hugh Jackman is yummy because the producers make him put on a few pounds for the film (he's normally tall and lanky). Ian McKellen is always a pleasure to watch (my gaydar was definitely down when I first saw him) and I could tell it was Kelsey Grammar under all that make up.
 
In theaters: The Da Vinci Code. I commented on it in another thread, but I preferred the book... and I'm not a Dan Brown fanatic by any means.

On DVD. Wow, I rented a lot of movies this weekend:

Domino
BloodRayne
Rumor Has It
Transamerica
Wolf Creek
A Home At the End of the World

Didn't watch A Home At the End of the World yet, but I enjoyed all the other ones. BloodRayne was corny, to say the least, but it wasn't mind-numbingly awful.
 
This week I've watched 'Terminal' and 'Cold Mountain' neither of them were that great, but I did enjoy 'Terminal' I think Tom Hanks was really good in it.
 
The Celestine Prophecy. At the first evening of my borough's first annual Independent Film Festival. The writers, director and producers were there for a Q&A after the film. I truly enjoyed it.
 
I watched A Home At the End of the World. You would think that since Michael Cunningham adapted his own work for the screen, the movie would be at least pretty good. It wasn't even mediocre ;).
 
Last movie that I saw was Crash and I saw that at home. Thought it was a good movie, but I have to re-watch it in order to give an honest review of the movie.
 
Upon watching the remake of "The Fog", I've come to two conclusions:

1: Hollywood now thinks "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is a hallmark in horror that all new horror movies should try to live up to. Except with less gore, since hey, you don't want to get an R rating.

2: It's high time for all half-decent horror directors/actors/effects specialists to rise from the depth of the ocean and wreak bloody revenge on these limp-brained MTV-fed idiots who believe all you need to make a horror movie is attractive TV stars, lame CGI and a college rock soundtrack.

Awful. Awful. Awful.
 
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