What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[iluvdvds@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

A Marvel Zombie's cinematic adaptaion?.......Only if they addapt Army of Darkness vs. Marvel Zombies into the plot.

C'mon Hollywood...

[pedromonkey]

rewatched INCEPTION last night, prefered it the second time around even though i did enjoy it the first. Had the sound cranked on my speaker system and it sounded awesome, only gripe with the Blu-ray is the lack of any sort of Making of documentary, i would have loved to find out how they filmed certain scenes, instead there's a documentary about dreams.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Drive

An excellent film which i held off watching as i disliked director Winding-Refn's Valhalla Rising so much.

It wasn't quite as the blurb on the box suggested it being an action packed car chase type film, but hugely enjoyable and worthy of the hype. Well acted by Gosling, Mulligan, Perlman etc with some gorgeous night time driving scenes around LA, and suitably gory violence in places.

Hanna

Another terrific piece of cinema that at no time could i predict what was going to happen next. Some fine action set pieces and again very good performances with some fine comedic moments thrown in courtesy of the British family Hanna meets up with.

Both films highly recommended for someone who wants their action films to be a little different.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Drive is really good: have you seen Refn's Pusher films, Dem? Highly recommended, if you haven't

I haven't seen Hanna yet, but it is in my rental queue.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Drive is really good: have you seen Refn's Pusher films, Dem? Highly recommended, if you haven't

I've got the Pusher trilogy still to watch. Anyone seen the "Pusher" remake set in the British Asian community? I could be wrong but I believe there is another remake of it on the way.

@Dem, what was it about "Valhalla Rising" that you didn't like?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Drive is really good: have you seen Refn's Pusher films, Dem? Highly recommended, if you haven't

I haven't seen Hanna yet, but it is in my rental queue.

The Pusher Trilogy sounds interesting but maybe a bit heavy going without much lightness.

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by pedromonkey

rewatched INCEPTION last night, prefered it the second time around even though i did enjoy it the first. Had the sound cranked on my speaker system and it sounded awesome, only gripe with the Blu-ray is the lack of any sort of Making of documentary, i would have loved to find out how they filmed certain scenes, instead there's a documentary about dreams.

There is a making-of, of sorts. It's the "Extraction Mode" which you can enter during the relevant scenes in the film to view their making of, or you can watch all the segments seperately.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

@Dem, what was it about "Valhalla Rising" that you didn't like?

I did this mini review back in January.-

I gave a rewatch to Valhalla Rising last night.

What a pretentious arty bit of celluloid nonsense it is.

It can easily be summed up as a bunch of hairy blokes sat about staring meaningfully at the horizon for ninety minutes. Things pick up as they set off in a boat, however normality is soon resumed and we then have twenty five minutes of hairy blokes sat in a boat gazing meaningfully out to sea. When the boat arrives in the New World our hardy souls obviously decide the best thing to do is stare meaningfully at the mountains which look pretty simillar to the ones they just left, except in this place you can clearly notice a tarmaced road, they fail to spot this as they are gazing in the other direction.

Mads Mikkelson who you may remember as one of the worst Bond villains ever in Casino Royale plays the hero of the piece, cunningly named One Eye as he has, yes, one eye, this obviously makes him cooler than the other hairy blokes as he only stares at the horizon with one eye.

Fortunately for the viewer the film is broken up into segments.

Act one - mildly interested due to sporadic acts of violence

Act two - mind starts to wander

Act three - off to make a brew

Act four - begin channel surfing / reading teletext

Act five - zzzzzzzzzz

Unfortunately for the viewer director Nicholas Winding Refn throws in occasional shouty acts of violence which prevents you falling into a deep slumber, whilst the bulk of the film is largely dialogue free.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Demdike

I did this mini review back in January.-

I gave a rewatch to Valhalla Rising last night.

What a pretentious arty bit of celluloid nonsense it is.

It can easily be summed up as a bunch of hairy blokes sat about staring meaningfully at the horizon for ninety minutes. Things pick up as they set off in a boat, however normality is soon resumed and we then have twenty five minutes of hairy blokes sat in a boat gazing meaningfully out to sea. When the boat arrives in the New World our hardy souls obviously decide the best thing to do is stare meaningfully at the mountains which look pretty simillar to the ones they just left, except in this place you can clearly notice a tarmaced road, they fail to spot this as they are gazing in the other direction.

Mads Mikkelson who you may remember as one of the worst Bond villains ever in Casino Royale plays the hero of the piece, cunningly named One Eye as he has, yes, one eye, this obviously makes him cooler than the other hairy blokes as he only stares at the horizon with one eye.

Fortunately for the viewer the film is broken up into segments.

Act one - mildly interested due to sporadic acts of violence

Act two - mind starts to wander

Act three - off to make a brew

Act four - begin channel surfing / reading teletext

Act five - zzzzzzzzzz

Unfortunately for the viewer director Nicholas Winding Refn throws in occasional shouty acts of violence which prevents you falling into a deep slumber, whilst the bulk of the film is largely dialogue free.

Ha! Ha! Have you tried it with the commentary? It's actually a sci-fi film set in outer space disguised as a Viking flick according to the director.

[Nordicdusk]

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A great great film.