What Films Have You Seen Recently? - Page 4267

Make Them Die Slowly · #**42661** 29th July 2017, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Demoncrat

No no no
The impact of the opening sends you reeling ... jigsaw feeeling

....so you spend the rest of it resusitating your own sense of reality ....
That's what happened the last time I scrutinised this. Look forward to getting my greasless mitts on this blu

90 minutes of Edwige whimpering is too much reality for me.

Make Them Die Slowly · #**42662** 29th July 2017, 10:42 PM

TAKEN 2 and 3

Liam Neeson staggers around like an arthritic cow about to give birth in a couple of bloodless follow ups to the rather good original film.

I enjoyed the first film as Neeson's age added to the character but here it very much detracts as he looks knackered carrying the weight of his own clothing.

Demoncrat · #**42663** 29th July 2017, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by nosferatu42

I saw it a couple of months back for the first time and really enjoyed 'Colours', i was pretty drunk at the time and it didn't make a lot of sense storywise but really enjoyed the atmosphere and images on display.

Exactly.
Miasma and morass are very easily confused

Film.

In the sense of cinematic phantasmagoria that is

Demoncrat · #**42664** 29th July 2017, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

TAKEN 2 and 3

Liam Neeson staggers around like an arthritic cow about to give birth in a couple of bloodless follow ups to the rather good original film.

I enjoyed the first film as Neeson's age added to the character but here it very much detracts as he looks knackered carrying the weight of his own clothing.

Kudos.

Very apt reviews of both.
Carpe Diem and all that

J Harker · #**42665** 29th July 2017, 10:53 PM

Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children. Tim Burton. 2016.

When Florida teen Jacob's supposedly barmy grandfather Abe dies under (highly) mysterious circumstances he leaves behind a series of clues leading Jacob to set off for a remote island off the coast of Wales in search of the orphanage Abe was raised at. Only he arrives to find a derelict bombshell of a building and more mystery.
I wanted to say this is the best film Burton has knocked out in a while but to be fair double checking his filmography he hasn't really done anything i didn't like. Big Eyes was quite weak i thought but was still watchable and prior to that was Dark Shadows which i loved.
I think its more that he just slowed down some.
I've no idea how idea how this film compares to the source novel but i really enjoyed it. Its perfect Tim Burton material,a kind of Burtonised version of X Men with the in no way attractive Eva Green taking on the Professor Xavier role.
The cast of kids is impressive too in that there isn't a single irritating little bugger. I want to praise the level of imagination on show but to be fair for all i know it could be entirely down to Ransom Riggs the author of the novel.
Very dark and somewhat creepy in places Miss Peregrine is well worth a watch and almost essential for Burton fans.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**42666** 29th July 2017, 10:55 PM

Hands up if anyone has any idea what Demoncrat is on about tonight?

Make Them Die Slowly · #**42667** 29th July 2017, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by J Harker

Miss Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children. Tim Burton. 2016.

When Florida teen Jacob's supposedly barmy grandfather Abe dies under (highly) mysterious circumstances he leaves behind a series of clues leading Jacob to set off for a remote island off the coast of Wales in search of the orphanage Abe was raised at. Only he arrives to find a derelict bombshell of a building and more mystery.
I wanted to say this is the best film Burton has knocked out in a while but to be fair double checking his filmography he hasn't really done anything i didn't like. Big Eyes was quite weak i thought but was still watchable and prior to that was Dark Shadows which i loved.
I think its more that he just slowed down some.
I've no idea how idea how this film compares to the source novel but i really enjoyed it. Its perfect Tim Burton material,a kind of Burtonised version of X Men with the in no way attractive Eva Green taking on the Professor Xavier role.
The cast of kids is impressive too in that there isn't a single irritating little bugger. I want to praise the level of imagination on show but to be fair for all i know it could be entirely down to Ransom Riggs the author of the novel.
Very dark and somewhat creepy in places Miss Peregrine is well worth a watch and almost essential for Burton fans.

Haha! I was just about to post that this was bollocks along with everything else I have seen this last week.