Xela Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Kingpin (1996) Did not enjoy this at all to be honest Kingpin is fantastic! Bill Murray is wonderful in it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 I know, I actually kind of agree with you, loved both films but thought Departed was the better of the two and a classic. It's just that every now and then I hear or read about someone complaining about The Departed because it was a remake, which pisses me off because it's such a great film. the departed is a great film its easily the best remake of an Asian film ive ever seen, but for me its not better than infernal affairs, think i prefer lau and leung They are both great films but I do prefer the Scorsese version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 47 Ronin. Liked it a lot. The missus blubbed. Do not watch if you like happy endings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 47 Ronin. Liked it a lot. The missus blubbed. Do not watch if you like happy endings I love a happy ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 12 Years a Slave is excellent. Best film I've seen for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Is that Ed Sheeran? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Kingpin (1996) Did not enjoy this at all to be honest Get out of here It's got Bill Murray how can it not be great !!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Has anybody seen the film "cold fish". The japanese have a way of doing horror and gore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Watched Desolation of Smaug yesterday at the red carpet cinema in Barton, cracking cinema btw, shame about the service. Really enjoyed it and so far enjoying this series more than LOTR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Kingpin (1996) Did not enjoy this at all to be honest Get out of here It's got Bill Murray how can it not be great !!! And that Vanessa watserface with the nice legs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Watched Desolation of Smaug yesterday at the red carpet cinema in Barton, cracking cinema btw, shame about the service. Really enjoyed it and so far enjoying this series more than LOTR. Really? I likes it enough. Saw it in IMAX 3D on Boxing Day. It's better than the first film but it's still a little baggy. The set pieces are absolutely fantastic but some of the set up for those often fizzles on way too long, it feels less like an adventure in those moments and more like a coma. LOTR did a much better job of holding the tension right the way through. It is worth seeing absolutely. As a film it's a solid 7/10 and certainly fit for big screen viewing. I'd try and avoid 3D though, Jackson likes his camera to move, quickly, and it becomes a bit of a chore on the eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCDAN Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 I think I prefer the hobbit so far to lord of the rings as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 the hobbit needs to trim some of the fat to be better than LOTR, but that said i need to watch the extended editions of the LOTR to really enjoy them, the bog standard return of the king especially is rubbish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 (edited) The Hobbit is good fun but nothing compared to LOTR. I re-watched LOTR (as per tradition) recently and I was working out why The Hobbit suffers, and really it comes to craft and characters. LOTR is a lot more crafted, the orcs are all real blokes in make up, in The Hobbit they are all CGI. In LOTR, locations are built and laboured over, in The Hobbit they are all CGI. Character wise, there is no character development in The Hobbit, and there are no central relationships to keep you interested. You need to be emotionally invested in characters for a film to have any lasting impact. I couldn't give a shit about anyone but Bilbo in The Hobbit, and he's all alone and hardly in the film, too readily sidelined for Aragorn-lite or some irritating sub-plot. In LOTR you have Frodo & Sam, Merry & Pippin, Aragorn & Arwen to invest in, and even secondary characters like King Theoden are well written and interesting. The Hobbit just isn't as well made, well written or, well, as interesting as LOTR. Edited January 2, 2014 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 The Hobbit is good fun but nothing compared to LOTR. I re-watched LOTR (as per tradition) recently and I was working out why The Hobbit suffers, and really it comes to craft and characters. LOTR is a lot more crafted, the orcs are all real blokes in make up, in The Hobbit they are all CGI. In LOTR, locations are built and laboured over, in The Hobbit they are all CGI. Character wise, there is no character development in The Hobbit, and there are no central relationships to keep you interested. You need to be emotionally invested in characters for a film to have any lasting impact. I couldn't give a shit about anyone but Bilbo in The Hobbit, and he's all alone and hardly in the film, too readily sidelined for Aragorn-lite or some irritating sub-plot. In LOTR you have Frodo & Sam, Merry & Pippin, Aragorn & Arwen to invest in, and even secondary characters like King Theoden are well written and interesting. The Hobbit just isn't as well made, well written or, well, as interesting as LOTR. Pretty much agree with that. I've really enjoyed the Hobbit (and am quite happy with how things have been adapted from the book so far), but it's not as good as LOTR. Perhaps the only area where it could compare would be in the set pieces. But, barring Bilbo, there's not much depth to the characters so you don't get as attached. Another area where it suffers is that the stakes aren't as high as LOTR, and the threat to the characters/world doesn't seem as great. I will say that, while they do do a lot of green-screen work for environments, if you've seen the video blogs, you can see that the physical sets they have built are brilliant and just as detailed as the first series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 2, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 2, 2014 I've only seen the first of the Hobbit trilogy. The 2nd and 3rd films are going to have to be utterly spectacular to beat LOTR, because An Unexpected Journey was pretty average Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Watched The Conjuring on NYE. It was alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted January 2, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted January 2, 2014 Has anybody seen the film "cold fish". The japanese have a way of doing horror and gore... Yep, I've mentioned it quite a few times in this very thread. It's the second part of Sion Sono's 'Hate' trilogy and is absolutely sublime imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 2, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 2, 2014 47 Ronin. Liked it a lot. The missus blubbed. Do not watch if you like happy endings So I'll know we're not getting a happy ending then. Gotcha. #spoiler 12 Years a Slave is excellent. Best film I've seen for a long time.I'm looking forward to this. It does look very good. There's a few coming out soon actually. I might make January a cinema month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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