Chindie Posted December 27, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2014 Heat is incredible. For me, is only flaws are Michael Mann's tin ear which means all his films sound slightly off, and the length of it being a little over indulgent. If you're being particularly harsh Pacino's performance has to much of his post Scarface shoutiness, but that's very minor. Otherwise, looks incredible, still, peak of Mann's 'two sides of the same coin' take on the crime genre, great set pieces, great plot... It's fantastic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Watched The Equaliser last night. Plain old good fun. Denzel being a bad ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 For me, Mann peaked with Heat and The Insider, everything since has been pretty mediocre. But Heat and The Insider are both in my top 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Need some recommendations for a newish movie that is good and family friendly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted December 27, 2014 Share Posted December 27, 2014 Obvious shout for guardians of the galaxy? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted December 28, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2014 Lego Movie. Watched it with the family tonight, to universal approval. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 (edited) Ended up watching the Zodiac. Wow what a long film but strangely I didn't want it to end when it did. Very good though. Edited December 28, 2014 by omariqy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I was gonna suggest Zodiac when you said family friendly 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Watched a few yesterday. Transcendence never seemed to really get going, didn't really seem to have a solid story. The idea didn't particularly appeal to me, but I liked the cast, but was disappointed. Annabelle was really poor. Don't think it has a single scare moment and seemed to be over before it got started. Nonstop I'd seen before. Pretty generic Liam Neeson film, but enjoyable for what it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 28, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2014 Annual Christmas viewing of Fanny and Alexander yesterday. For a change we watched the three hour cinema version instead of the five hour TV one. Still good, but loses too much in the edit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier - as superhero movies go, I actually really enjoyed this one. Definitely the best Marvel movie I have seen so far and so much more better than the first Captain America movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 No Good Deed 0/10 The most braindead moronic movie i have ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Just watched Ill Manors. Pretty decent actually. Much better than I was expecting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 just watched the second of the Hobbit movies I presume it was made when 3D and computer game sales were the two big drivers of what it should look like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted December 28, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2014 (edited) just watched the second of the Hobbit movies I presume it was made when 3D and computer game sales were the two big drivers of what it should look like?What does that actually mean? Now, I'm far from a fanboy of the Hobbit films, I think all in all the films have missed their mark and have been disappointing, especially when viewed alongside the Lord of the Rings films. I could point to flaw upon flaw in each, from difficulties with the adaptation, to pacing issues and so on. I don't believe they're bad films despite all this however. But what does 'made when 3D and computer game sales were the two big drivers of what it should look like?' critique the film for? It was shot in 3d, a lot of films are or are adapted to be shown in that format, and have shots that emphasise the artificial depth. That doesn't mean the film is flawed, however. And about the only resemblance to a computer game is they both use computer graphics. It just comes off as lazy cultural snobbery. Edited December 28, 2014 by Chindie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Just watched Ill Manors. Pretty decent actually. Much better than I was expecting. I'm currently living in Wanstead and do sometimes take the bus to Manor Park to get the overground to Liverpool St. Manor Park is as bleak as it is pictured in that film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Just watched Ill Manors. Pretty decent actually. Much better than I was expecting. I'm currently living in Wanstead and do sometimes take the bus to Manor Park to get the overground to Liverpool St. Manor Park is as bleak as it is pictured in that film. Yeah I imagine it's well grim. Makes Kingstanding look nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Er, sorry if I've upset you in some way Chindie? It wasn't meant as a fully considered critique. It was more of a, well, a question really. I don't watch many films like that, it's not my thing. I usually stick to gritty cop car chase movies - French Connection is my fave. The question was genuine. If I needed to expand on it, all well and good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 (edited) I went and watched The Hobbit in 3D yesterday. Liked it (after I'd got used to some of the blurry stuff early on). Not a brilliant film but a very decent cinema experience (i.e., definition: I want to go and enjoy what I watched and feel that I haven't been raped for the entry fee + drink). I thought the 3D worked quite well on some of the panoramic stuff (save for those shots with vivid colours). Edited December 28, 2014 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 (edited) tbf I understand the computer game bit with the 2nd film. It did just feel as one critic put it which I couldn't unsee after reading really, was that it felt like each scene was a different "level" in a platformer game and the visual style was just really really odd - higher frame rate or whatever that newfangled style was - it didn't work for me it created an unnecessary extra barrier to engaging with the film, although I did think the 2nd one was still much better than the first hobbit one. Edited December 28, 2014 by Rodders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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