darrenm Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 (edited) Watched There Will Be Blood last night due to recommendations on here. Really wasn't impressed at all. Warning, big spoilers ahead. It starts well. A bit of scene setting and a seeming pre-cursor to something big that never happens. But there's no back story or extra information on Daniel Plainview, so it's impossible to see why he turns like he does, or the reasons for any of his decisions. The title makes it sound like there will be some kind of crescendo to the film. The pitting of Eli and Plainview against each other seems to back this up and you're there for quite some time waiting for their battle to come to a head, which it never actually does. Then there was the confusion of Paul and Eli Sunday. For a long time I was wondering why Paul Sunday was pretending to be called Eli with Plainview keeping up the pretence. I thought it was a nuanced part of their deal that would become apparently as the story progressed. It was only really at the end credits where Paul Dano was credited as both Paul / Eli Sunday that I was sure. Why get the same actor to play both brothers and make them look exactly the same? I think that the main problem was there was no real story. Not a lot really happened. A guy builds a few oil wells, his adopted kid is involved in an accident, then he kills some religious nutter who actually was fairly harmless. DDL's performance was his typical intense Bill Cutting style crazy person, Ciaran Hinds was solid as usual, Paul Dano was just like he was in Little Miss Sunshine. Can't find many positives with this one I'm afraid. And I normally love dynastic films. Edited September 15, 2013 by darrenm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Just saw a trailer for 42, looks like a good film if you're interested in Baseball. Has anyone seen it? It's been out in America for months already. I've seen it and believe I mentioned it in this thread a few pages back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 (edited) Sod it I'll do mine but ill include movies from the 10's as well as the 00's: 20) drive / district 9 (cant choose) 19) vanilla sky 18) gladiator 17) zodiac 16) training day 15) headhunter 14) memories of murder 13) amores perros 12) lost in translation 11) elite squad 1 & 2 10) old boy 9) spirited away 8) pans labrinyth 7) no country for old men 6) the prestige 5) lord of the rings trilogy 4) road to perdition 3) the intouchables 2) there will be blood 1) city of god you appear to have 24 films in your top 20 ! Not to mention a film that has never been made Edit : don't I feel silly , seems there is a film called "the intouchables" just assumed it was a typo D'oh Edited September 15, 2013 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted September 15, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 15, 2013 Rush was brilliant. Any F1 fan would love it and the sound of the cars is brilliant in the cinema. Very good how you start off thinking that Lauda is a bit of arrogant "arsehole" but then actually feel sorry for him in the end. Both actors played Lauda & Hunt superbly getting their voices and mannerisms down to a tee. 9/10 for me. Still trying to work out what I thought of Rush. Saw it last night, I loved seeing the old cars in action and the noise was fantastic. If you want to see it, it'll be so much better in a theatre than at home, just for the sound alone. Don't think I really enjoyed the characters though. They both came across as "ash-oles" and, while I'm sure they were fairly accurate portrayals, I couldn't really root for either of them. There was also an awful lot of exposition in the dialogue which was somewhat distracting. The racing was amazing and I'd recommend it on that basis alone but I still think it missed something somewhere along the line. Just can't work out what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 would like to thank whoever recommended "Sightseers" - just finished watching it Very well done I thought! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic_bouma Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 Tonight I'm finally going to find out what Richard did that one summer and what the deal is there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 would like to thank whoever recommended "Sightseers" - just finished watching it Very well done I thought! I mentioned it a few months ago along with a few others. Great film. Especially the bit when she pushed the bloke off the cliff in his bike pod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 I'm going to get slammed for this but I surprisingly really enjoyed Pitch Perfect the other night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 I'm going to get slammed for this but I surprisingly really enjoyed Pitch Perfect the other night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 would like to thank whoever recommended "Sightseers" - just finished watching it Very well done I thought! I mentioned it a few months ago along with a few others. Great film. Especially the bit when she pushed the bloke off the cliff in his bike pod Haha yes that was great and the ending was perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 I'm going to get slammed for this but I surprisingly really enjoyed Pitch Perfect the other night. i didn't like it. it kind of jumped too quickly from them being rubbish to suddenly being great. and didn't develop the main girl's character, the bit about her wanting to do radio/DJ'ing never really got explored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted September 16, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 16, 2013 Excellent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 16, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 16, 2013 you appear to have 24 films in your top 20 !And one that is not from the noughties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 taken 2 - shit fast and the furious 6 - even worsetaken 2 - shit fast and the furious 6 - even worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 16, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 16, 2013 I'm going to get slammed for this but I surprisingly really enjoyed Pitch Perfect the other night. i didn't like it. it kind of jumped too quickly from them being rubbish to suddenly being great. and didn't develop the main girl's character, the bit about her wanting to do radio/DJ'ing never really got explored.I genuinely don't know whether you're being serious or whether you've just won the internet with the best dead-pan sarcasm evarrr. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Agree The Prestige is Nolans best movie I'd say. That and memento. Saw a couple of movies in the weekend Safety Not Guaranteed is good flick worth a look. Drinking Buddies is ok. A little too boring tbh but some good themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) A decent but not great film, but I enjoyed it: Cusack as a bad guy made it interesting and more watchable. Edited September 16, 2013 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaguy Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 After watching Eastern promises, good film and all, but after actually living in the communist countries this is very inaccurate. The ladies know exactly what kind of lifestyle to expect, free media and the internet is available in East Europe you know. These girls know the score, they weigh up the cost benefits as anyone else would. We are told how to live a perfect life, yet we cloud over the truth. The western world is made to believe that Roman Abromovich and his fellow Asians made their money fairly and they should be accepted into Western culture as Oligarchs. Living in Eastern Europe this is Bollocks, they make their money from intimidation, murder and dodgey deals. It's a totally different world there. I was in Bulgaria for Petrovs testimonial, the number of people with AMG Mercedes was astounding, more than western Europe. I studied economics at university, tell me how this is possible unless they are purely big time criminals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Finally watched Frost v Nixon last night Thought the film was rather sympathetic towards Nixon and made him far more human than he really wasHistorical inaccuracies apart I found it very entertaining ... Something like an 8 / 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 I'm going to get slammed for this but I surprisingly really enjoyed Pitch Perfect the other night. i didn't like it. it kind of jumped too quickly from them being rubbish to suddenly being great. and didn't develop the main girl's character, the bit about her wanting to do radio/DJ'ing never really got explored. I genuinely don't know whether you're being serious or whether you've just won the internet with the best dead-pan sarcasm evarrr. its a good question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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