What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[trebor8273]

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For me one of the greatest sci fi films of all time up there with 2001 a space odyssey. Beautiful and stylishly shot and for me Ridley Scott's best movie. Much prefer the final cut which gets rid of the Raymond chandler type voice over which I thought never really work that well and gets rid of the "happy" ending. 10/10

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People often try to ask which is the better film this or alien but as they are both basically different type of movies I really don't like to compare them both are classic but for different reasons. This is a fantastic pulse pounding roller coaster ride of a movie while alien is a claustrophobic and terrifying horror. Like blade runner I find the cut version of this far superior too the theatrical version. 10/10

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Tonight's viewings

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[Bringer Of Funerals]

Norbit

Not as bad as everyone claims. There is some funny parts in it and I did laugh a few times. Didn't know Eddie Murphy played Mr Wong. I thought the ending was a bit stupid and Cuba Gooding Jr was wasted. Thandie was pretty but it made for an odd couple.

Terry Crews looked good at being menacing and I thought Eddie over played being Fusia but the lines he did have was funny - like I weight 165 pounds bitch and I keep telling you to stop playing with my car seat.

It was an ok time killer but not a film to buy.

[TJ Doc]

Mad Max: Fury Road

I posted this review on another forum already, but it's worth repeating because it's a damn good film that you should all see so we get more like it.

Some spoilers, hence the spoiler tag.

SPOILER:

"So we've been waiting a while for this. I can first recall hearing about a possible Mad Max 4 around 2008/9 when pre-production was just starting to get serious again after its previous cancellation earlier in the decade. Being a fan of George Miller's apocalyptic film series and the self-proclaimed #1 Mel apologist, my expectations were high.

And after six years, Fury Road hasn't just exceeded my expectations - it's smashed through them with the full, head-on collision force of a 16 wheeler.

I mean, sure, I didn't get Mel and that's always a shame. But Tom Hardy owns the role, interesting accent and all. As Furiosa, Charlize Theron provides the narrative with both an emotional core AND a totally badass foil to Hardy's gruff road warrior. Let's stick these two in a Thunderdome and see what happens.

And then there's Immortan Joe - the post-apocalypse's very own Thulsa Doom. This is a villain whose mere appearance is on an iconic level that deserves to sit alongside the likes of Darth Vader and Michael Myers. That returning Toecutter actor Hugh Keays-Byrne plays Joe with such striking ferocity makes him all the more memorable.

Miller directs them all masterfully, and the man's sense of pacing is simply astonishing. I get the feeling this was the fastest two hours I've ever and will ever experience, and while I completely lost track of time, I'm pretty sure the film didn't give us or its characters a chance to breathe until what must have been 40 minutes of dick-stiffening action flew by.

During this time, the violence comes thick and fast with unfortunate people getting smashed, crushed, blown up, impaled and everything in between. But in keeping with series tradition, particularly graphic bloodletting is kept to a minimum, though this only makes Fury Road's gorier moments all the more shocking, culminating with Immortan Joe's holy-shit-I-can't-believe-they-just-did-that demise. Good stuff.

I'm finding the whole MRM feminist conspiracy debacle a little perplexing, and not just because it's making me wish physical harm on my fellow man. Firstly, Max and Furiosa are very much equals throughout their turbulent road trip, to the point where the film evolves into a grimdark buddy flick following a classic third act bonding session. Secondly, this saga is filled with strong female characters, going all the way back to Max's ice cream-toting wife in the 1979 original. Thirdly... there's more misogyny packed into Fury Road's runtime than there is in Shane Black's entire screenwriting career. It's one thing to lace a half-naked porn actress/hooker's drugs with drain cleaner before dropping her from a penthouse balcony - it's something entirely more ****ed up to throw a pregnant Rosie Huntington-Whiteley under the wheels of a monster truck!

Ever since those family friendly 90s megahits like Independence Day did their best to kill off the action genre, this type of adult oriented, old-school big budget event movie has become such a rarity. When was the last one? Lethal Weapon 4 in 1998? And that only happened because bloody Superman Lives fell through!

Well, here's a $150 million production that doesn't exist solely to set up a dozen sequels or panders to a barely teenaged audience, but instead wants to squirt your face with astounding feats of practical filmmaking, unapologetic acts of brutal violence, breathtaking visuals enhanced with cosmetic CGI, and characters who leap off the screen and punch you square in the taint.

And to think they said we didn't need another hero..."

... which for some reason isn't showing up in this post. Long story short... great movie!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by TJ Doc

Mad Max: Fury Road

I posted this review on another forum already, but it's worth repeating because it's a damn good film that you should all see so we get more like it.

Some spoilers, hence the spoiler tag.

SPOILER:

"So we've been waiting a while for this. I can first recall hearing about a possible Mad Max 4 around 2008/9 when pre-production was just starting to get serious again after its previous cancellation earlier in the decade. Being a fan of George Miller's apocalyptic film series and the self-proclaimed #1 Mel apologist, my expectations were high.

And after six years, Fury Road hasn't just exceeded my expectations - it's smashed through them with the full, head-on collision force of a 16 wheeler.

I mean, sure, I didn't get Mel and that's always a shame. But Tom Hardy owns the role, interesting accent and all. As Furiosa, Charlize Theron provides the narrative with both an emotional core AND a totally badass foil to Hardy's gruff road warrior. Let's stick these two in a Thunderdome and see what happens.

And then there's Immortan Joe - the post-apocalypse's very own Thulsa Doom. This is a villain whose mere appearance is on an iconic level that deserves to sit alongside the likes of Darth Vader and Michael Myers. That returning Toecutter actor Hugh Keays-Byrne plays Joe with such striking ferocity makes him all the more memorable.

Miller directs them all masterfully, and the man's sense of pacing is simply astonishing. I get the feeling this was the fastest two hours I've ever and will ever experience, and while I completely lost track of time, I'm pretty sure the film didn't give us or its characters a chance to breathe until what must have been 40 minutes of dick-stiffening action flew by.

During this time, the violence comes thick and fast with unfortunate people getting smashed, crushed, blown up, impaled and everything in between. But in keeping with series tradition, particularly graphic bloodletting is kept to a minimum, though this only makes Fury Road's gorier moments all the more shocking, culminating with Immortan Joe's holy-shit-I-can't-believe-they-just-did-that demise. Good stuff.

I'm finding the whole MRM feminist conspiracy debacle a little perplexing, and not just because it's making me wish physical harm on my fellow man. Firstly, Max and Furiosa are very much equals throughout their turbulent road trip, to the point where the film evolves into a grimdark buddy flick following a classic third act bonding session. Secondly, this saga is filled with strong female characters, going all the way back to Max's ice cream-toting wife in the 1979 original. Thirdly... there's more misogyny packed into Fury Road's runtime than there is in Shane Black's entire screenwriting career. It's one thing to lace a half-naked porn actress/hooker's drugs with drain cleaner before dropping her from a penthouse balcony - it's something entirely more ****ed up to throw a pregnant Rosie Huntington-Whiteley under the wheels of a monster truck!

Ever since those family friendly 90s megahits like Independence Day did their best to kill off the action genre, this type of adult oriented, old-school big budget event movie has become such a rarity. When was the last one? Lethal Weapon 4 in 1998? And that only happened because bloody Superman Lives fell through!

Well, here's a $150 million production that doesn't exist solely to set up a dozen sequels or panders to a barely teenaged audience, but instead wants to squirt your face with astounding feats of practical filmmaking, unapologetic acts of brutal violence, breathtaking visuals enhanced with cosmetic CGI, and characters who leap off the screen and punch you square in the taint.

And to think they said we didn't need another hero..."

... which for some reason isn't showing up in this post. Long story short... great movie!

I've fixed it for you - you had the first "]" bracket after all the text rather than before it.

[TJ Doc]

Ah! Many thanks!

I've only been a member here for five years...

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by TJ Doc

Ah! Many thanks!

I've only been a member here for five years...

No worries! The spoiler tag is a fairly new addition to our reply 'buttons' and to be honest isn't the simplest thing in the world to use.

[SShaw]

Mad Max Road Fury is technically and visually stunning but, despite borrowing heavily from the 2nd and 3rd outings in the original series, fails to deliver a coherent, consistent story. Instead its a demented punk road chase which fails to achieve the highs of Road Warrior. I will look for an extended edition on blurry later in the year, because I am convinced with little more story this could be a godd, if not great, action film.

Disappointing.

[Buboven]

Originally Posted by SShaw

Mad Max Road Fury is technically and visually stunning but, despite borrowing heavily from the 2nd and 3rd outings in the original series, fails to deliver a coherent, consistent story. Instead its a demented punk road chase which fails to achieve the highs of Road Warrior. I will look for an extended edition on blurry later in the year, because I am convinced with little more story this could be a godd, if not great, action film.

Disappointing.

Phew, with all the insanely good reviews this is getting I was starting to wonder if I was the only one who was a bit underwhelmed. As you say, the chase sequences are technically and visually stunning (my fav part is the sandstorm but it got to a point that the emphasise on these acton chase parts felt like overkill and numbed me to their effect), especially in the third act. I also felt there were problems with the story.

This gets a 7/10 for me. I will probably end up re-watching it to try and get a more coherent grasp of the story though.

I watched Comedy of Terror's with Price last night.

That gets a 8/10.

[iank]

Saw The Man Who Haunted Himself for the first time last night. Roger Moore is a strait-laced businessman who suffers a near-fatal accident, only to return home to find strange thing happening - strangers approaching him claiming to know him (even intimately) and friends and acquaintances claiming to have seen him in places he's never been. Is he going round the bend? Or does he really have a doppelganger who seems intent on taking over his life? Uncle Rog gives an intense performance in this creepy 1970 thriller that I really enjoyed (absolutely beautiful picture quality for a 45 year old movie too!). I was also deeply amused to find, three years before he became James Bond, Roger talking about industrial espionage and noting "It's not all James Bond and Her Majesty's Secret Service, you know." Oh, the irony!

[sjconstable]

I was also disappointed with the new Mad Max, I found the story and performances to be lacking, I couldn't get involved with them. Awesome cinematography and quirkiness, but overall didn't work for me as a film.