What Films Have You Seen Recently? - Page 1429

Hawkmonger · #**14281** 14th June 2012, 06:32 PM

The Shawshank Redemption- This is a queer experience. Watching arguably the most populare film of all time for the first time and wondering what all the fuss is about. Lavish with excelent performances from Freeman and co. but it just didn't live up to the tidle wave of hype. A very heart warming movie yes but certainly no more so than others. A solid A as it was very good.

pedromonkey · #**14282** 14th June 2012, 08:12 PM

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The Shawshank Redemption- This is a queer experience. Watching arguably the most populare film of all time for the first time and wondering what all the fuss is about. Lavish with excelent performances from Freeman and co. but it just didn't live up to the tidle wave of hype. A very heart warming movie yes but certainly no more so than others. A solid A as it was very good.

Shawshank is the kind of film that grows on people, the more you watch it the more you'll find. It failed upon release but is now a modern classic because of it's rewatchablity.

Gojirosan · #**14283** 14th June 2012, 09:13 PM

Mother's Day - 2010 US d: Darren Lynn Bousman

Nearly, but no. Though not a remake (good move) this new Mother's Day isn't anything new either. It's just another home invasion flick full of home invasion clichés and stock home invasion characters. Pretty much, the whole production is "efficient" - efficiently shot, efficiently acted, efficiently managed all around. There is just no spark. It's just a dreary Hollywood attempt to cover ground handled so much better by many other films. This is not Funny Games, this is not Ils, this is not Cold Eyes Of Fear, The Desperate Hours, Death Weekend, In Cold Blood, Fight For Your Life or Lady In A Cage. Hell, I don't even think this is The Strangers or The House On The Edge Of The Park!

It's derivative, a bit tedious and a slog to get through. I can't recommend it, but I don't think I can fully dismiss it either. If nothing else, it features the astoundingly beautiful Deborah Ann Woll!

PaulD · #**14284** 14th June 2012, 11:41 PM

Watched The Return of the Living Dead bluray this afternoon. I don't' get the masses of love bestowed upon this film. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike it, I just find it hard to get really excited about and suspect everyone else gets a lot more out of it than I do(I think I find horror-comedy a bit hard to swallow as a genre). Nice-looking bluray though and still looking forward to the extras

Frankie Teardrop · #**14285** 15th June 2012, 02:06 AM

THE DIVIDE - From the director of 'Frontiers'. Citizens hole up in a cellar following a nuclear strike on NY... their group dynamic disintegrates and lets in savagery. Pretty good and never boring despite its constrained environs. I thought the more obvious moments were eclipsed by some real intensity, particularly in its latter half. Even so, I was pissed off by the apparent ease of some of the character's respective descents into degenration, in particular Rosanna Arquette, who I felt should've been doing something less passive. But yeah, overall, good.
THE EXTERMINATOR - NY grimfest sees vigilante off some bad guys. Despite the cardboard set up, has interestingly ambiguous politics (waves the reactionary vigilante flag, but shows eveyone undone by The Man in the end). Pretty hard hitting though, and bleaker and nastier than I remembered it. Not really up there at the very pinnacle of New York exploitation - it's no Ms 45 - but packs an early eighties punch and leaves a harsh aftertaste. Entertains in that somehow smeared kind of way.

Demoncrat · #**14286** 15th June 2012, 09:27 AM

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Shawshank is the kind of film that grows on people, the more you watch it the more you'll find. It failed upon release but is now a modern classic because of it's rewatchablity.

Not everyone loves this film....i've always thought that people who don't watch a lot of films think it's the greatest film ever because theyve never seen Nostalgia or Stalker or Lemora

PaulD · #**14287** 15th June 2012, 11:05 AM

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Not everyone loves this film....i've always thought that people who don't watch a lot of films think it's the greatest film ever because theyve never seen Nostalgia or Stalker or Lemora

True. I think it's just okay. I don't wish to be picky but the fact that it's big twist/ending isn't fully thought out properly and doesn't make sense really does spoil it for me