I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be a Thread for telling people what you thought of a Film you've seen.
So here's the chance for you to tell us all what you thought of a Film you've just seen and give us your Review/Opinion. Obviously don't tell us the punchline or spoil the Ending or anything like that.

I just saw Monster's Ball and this is my Review:

At first I thought it was going to be just another Film about the evil of Capital Punishment, with maybe a guy who was wrongly accused and the Courtroom Drama thing. I couldn't have been more wrong and was very pleasantly surprised, the story is more about the effects on everyone else than it is about the guy on Death Row.

I found this to be a deeply emotional and refreshing Film. The tragedy in it is painful but it is ultimately Healing and Liberating.

Dream

Good idea dream. I've pinned this thread. We can all add to it from time to time.

Shaun of the Dead it was funny-ish.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. a disappointment. nowt like the tv series and even though it had loads of cash chucked at it, still a disappointment.

I know....I bought the DVD when it came out.........the only good thing about it was the free mug that came with it

Oh My GOdDOGSVILLE - Nicole Kidman, If you like stage play and intense psychological matter, I would highly recommend this film.

Dace harlequin this film could keep you going in philosophical discussion and arguement for eons and eons.

didn't expect the ending, almost fell off my chair.

hhhmmm I understand that comment. Normally I try to avoid kidman films but she actually gives a stunning performance in this one. Quite a few fine actors in it. I dont think you would want to miss a minute of it. It's an astounding look at an especially human phenomenon. It's a bit intellectual but worth a look

Silly film. It was all to obvious what was going to happen. Give it a miss.

Sin City

Not everyone's cup of tea, but one of the most visually stunning films I've ever seen! (And I don't just mean special effects, but the way it's shot and the use of black and white with some slight colour use)

I've heard about a lot of films taking a 'comic book' approach, but this has it in spades. From the bizzare plot lines and pulp dialogue, this film is mezmerising. The acting is a bit ropey in places (Clive Owen's yank acccent is pittyful), but this has an unbelivable cast, and even small scenes are done with big name actors. Violent, but not gratutitosly so, and really funny in places.

If you like youre films a bit different, they don't come more 'out there' than this!!!

My son said this was really good. He's going to borrow it off his friend so I can give it a watch!

Wow! All these Posts and I only just got back here. One of my best Friends Loved Dogsville, even though it had Kidman in it. Maybe it's one of those Films that you either Love or Hate, with no in between.

Yeah, Sin City! I read the Book and saw the Film. It's great. But, um, Dace "Violent, but not gratutitosly so"??? Well if you don't mind Cannibals eating Women and mounting their Heads on the Wall and so on, I guess so

Anyone seen Romero's Land of the Dead yet? I was just watching Dawn of the Dead, the old Computer games (including Boot Hill) they play in the Shopping Mall cracked me up. What made me Laugh even more was when the Zombies are walking around in the Mall, I thought <Apart from the speed of their progress how is this different from the usual brain dead Consumers one finds there> *Hee hee*

Er, okay Sin City might be a little bit violent. But it's done with style, so that makes it okay

Land of the Dead has had some really rough reviews. My brothers seen it and he rekons it's pretty good, and he's a fan of the originals like me. I'm hoping to see it this week.

While we're on the subject of dead people, what did you all think of the remake of Dawn of the Dead? I honestly thought they'd mess it up and tone it down, but I was well impressed with it.

Was that the one where the Zombies ran at you instead of shuffling? Oh yeah I Liked it as much as the original

Let me know what you think of Land of the Dead. I won't have any cash to go and see it, and anyway I won't pay to see a Cinema Film that is less than 100 minutes in length

I didn't like the fact that the zombies could run, it made them look less dead and less zombie like. Its not a bad or great movie. But Sin City is awesome.

I am also hoping to see Land of the dead, I've heard it's very gory.


And Dream you could go on Wednesday as it's two tickets for the price of one if you have an orange phone.

*Titter* well if you know someone who has an Orange 'phone and would give me the Free Ticket, then I could afford to go

Do tell what you thought of it after you've been though F-person

Last two films I watched....

Batman Begins

Ah Batman All is forgiven....

Tim Burton didn't have what it takes for the first two (Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson gave excellent performances in the first one, but it was still sh*te). Val Kilmer gave a poor effort (Again hampered by a crap script) and don't bother mentioning Clooney's camp outing.

I liked this film. Actually, I really liked it. I'm glad they decided to completely ignore the previous outings and started from scratch, as if to say to the world "Now then, this is how you do it.

Christian Bale is perfectly cast as the dark night. Michael Caine is the ultimate Alfred Pennyworth. Morgan Freeman gives a top performance (but then again, he always does). The story is excellent, the effects are spot on and the action rocks.

Wickedly awesome film.

War of the Worlds

You can't fault Spielberg, the man is a genius in movie making. War of the Worlds is a really good film. Okay, so it takes liberties with the book - so what's new? That Hollywood through and through for ya. I've always hated Tom Cruise, but in recent years the man has shown that he can act! Okay, so he may not be an Oscar favourite, but he's not a plank.

There are one or two moments that really get on your nerves (A couple of scenes with Cruise's son spring to mind, I won't spoil it for you) but the over all feeling of panic in the film is superbly done.

Some of the best effects I've seen in a film.

Well worth a watch

Seen a few films over Xmas and New year. I don't like to go into too much plot detail so I'll just stick to what I though of them.

King Kong
Peter Jackson's crafted another masterpiece with this movie. Some of the most impressive visual effects I've ever seen (spiced in with some that aren't so great, you'll know what I mean if you see it). Although the film is a little on the long side, there's never any completely dull moments, just a slightly slow start and then nearly 2 hours of incredible action.

All of the main characters give some really good performances (Jack Black and Naomi Watts are fantastic) and the big gorilla himself is an awesome sight to behold. Forget films like Jurassic Park and Godzilla - this is what a monster movie is all about. People can whinge and moan all they like about this just being a remake - who the hell wants to watch a black and white movie with shaky animation? Once again, Peter Jackson shows the world how to make a film.

Land of the Dead
I'm a big fan of Romero's Dead films so I was looking forward to this one. Not an amazing film, but it's not shite either. In no way would I put it in the same league as the other three films, but it's still worth a watch. As you all know the zombies have inherited the earth and there are small pockets of humanity dotted around the place. In this case they live in a barricaded section of a city that's divided into the slums and a luxurious skyscraper where the rich and powerful reside, still placing importance on the value of money. Rich and poor people taste the same to zombies

The only new development for this part of the series is a sort of Zombie intelligence. But don't let that put you off, we're still only talking about slight intelligence here: The zombies are still the shuffling, moaning flesh eating corpses that we all know and love. Worth a watch, but try not to compare to previous work.

Wedding Crashers
I usually despise romantic comedies and everything they represent (except when Drew Barrymore is in them for some reason), but this had me laughing nearly all the way through. Vince Vaughn is at his fast talking manic best and Owen Wilson is on his usual stoned hippy thing, but you can't help but laugh at their antics. There's some awesomely funny set ups and gags and the romance side isn't too sickly and syrupy. Good light hearted fun

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

an excellent film. from the opening scene to the end credits it had everything to keep me watching. some of the comedy moments were lol moments, especially the peeing on the corpse scene. cant wait to watch it again.

I just saw "MUNICH" The latest offering from Steven Spielberg...It's long, drawn out and in parts beyond understanding. Yes it's well produced, yes it's well acted and the subject a good one, but somehow it all fails somewhere along the way. It is perhaps too deep for its own good. The main characters are completely un-memorable too.
The only message this film got across is that things haven't changed much, and the cold war is alive and well.

Give it a miss 5/10.

Nice one HQ, I was agitating to get my Friend to go with me to see that one. I can stop bothering now

Went to see Good Night and Good Luck last week - Clooney's film about the reporte Ed Murrow during the time of McCarthyism in 1950s America. Worth seeing, because of the situation today. Although not a great film, it's very well done and worth seeing it.

Here's an odd one. Star Wreck

Some students from Sweden (?) have done a spoof on the whole Star Trek vs Babylon 5 thing. You can download the film for free and legally from here http://www.starwreck.com/ It's subtitled in english by someone who I frankly suspect can't really speak the language, but hey! who cares.

Now before we go any further, these guys are real amateurs... I mean real amateurs! The acting is dire and the script even worse, but I suspect that most of the humour is of a Swedish nature and doesn't come across that well, though there are one or two genuinely funny moments. Having said that, they've come up with something that's so bad it's great. The Saving grace is that they have gone to town with the special effects and done a really good job of that. Watching different versions of the Enterprise get blasted by Babylon 5 Spaceships and vice versa is really good fun. It's a frag fest of biblical proportions. With a nice twist at the end.

This is going to become a cult film for sure.

For some reason, I was expecting a review of V for Vendetta

I think Starwreck will gain cult status, it is soooo bad its funny, and the really good special effects just mahe the whole thing surreal

I've seen the trailer for that film and yes, I'm now seriously interested in it. It's top of the "What Harlequin wants to see next" list.

Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor)

It's a Vampire film. It's in Russian. But it's still pretty damn cool. Made on a budget that wouldn't do a Hollywood actors make-up, this is a brilliant looking and very stylish film. It's about the 'Others', a species living among us humans who have special powers such as shape-changing, sorcerers, witches and such like. There are two kinds, the Light Others who help protect mankind, and Dark Others who feed of it. The light ones have set up a police force called the Night Watch who keep tabs on the Dark Ones to make sure they don't get out of hand, an license them to feed off people.

It's got a plot thread in there about a chosen one and a Prophecy, but it's really not as Matrixy as that. On DVD you can either watch it dubbed in English (which is pretty well done, or you can see it with some of the best subtitles ever created for a film yet. Worth a watch if you fancy something a little different.

Well...I went to see The Da Vinci Code last night. Me, My partner, my daughter and her boyfreind. Of the four of us only my daughters boyfreind hadn't read the book...which produced an interesting result.

My opinion of the film.

Tom Hanks was mis-cast, I've suspected so since I heard he was playing the part of R Langdon, and I'm sorry but he completely failed to light up the screen in any way, the other actors played their parts well and seemed to be who they were supposed to be, but the leading man and main character just didn't cut it.
As regards the films message, it mostly got itself across, but much of the impact of the book was lost. Where the book draws you into the world of the Code and conspiracy, the film......was just a film. I suspect that somewhere along the line someone chickened out of saying what the book had to say and made the film a vehicle for Tom Hanks.
It's a watchable film and in no way dull or boring, and I'm not saying don't go and see it, It's a good film...but it should have been a jaw dropping romp into a dark and devious world of consiracies...it wasn't.

Oh! and remember my daughters boyfreind who hadn't read the book?...he hadn't got a clue what was going on and left the cinema puzzled as all hell...So maybe if you're going to see this film you really really need to have read the book first.

I give the film 7/10.

Been pondering about seeing the Da Vinci Code.....heard a lot of really bad press about it. One review said that Tom Hanks had all the charisma of a potato with a wig on it....

Might go see it anyway

That's the line I'm taking - going with my girlfriend tomorrow night; I'm only going because there are worse ways to spend an evening than watch Audrey Tautou prance about on the screen

By the way, I've not read the book, either - but I have read (years ago) Holy Blood and Holy Grail, which was allegedly plagarised by Dan Brown, but which the courts decided wasn't.

The reviews from Dace and Ooloncha will be worth reading. I am genuinely waiting for them.

I caught an early evening showing of The Da Vinci code.

As I've said before, I'd not read the book, and I went with no expectations, other than a slight concern that it was going to be utter rubbish, going by what I'd heard critics say of it.

The plot: well, the squabble at the heart of the plot - for me - could have been about any king and his lineage - although the timescale (2,000 years) is a bit larger. It was only now and again hinted that this could be far more serious than whether someone had had a wife and a child or not. But leaving aside taking the plot anything like a serious possibility, on the whole, I didn't think it was that bad at all: a good popcorn outing or an enjoyable 'yarn', with one or two moments of excusable silliness and oddities (would any police officer walk through a crowded book signing to show the author a picture of a murder victim? Etc.) - excusable, though, because it comes with the territory of standard Hollywood thrillers.

Hanks? Well, you could no sense that Langdon had any sense of religiosity at all throughout the film, so the final scene was laughable; you got no sense that this bloke was an academic, except for one scene with McKellen's character when he gives brief outburst over Church history - but again, as it appears almost out of character, it's laughable, almost as if Hanks is hamming playing the part of an academic. But the problem is with the writing, of course; and perhaps one of condensing the book onto screen (giving the writers something of the benefit of the doubt, having never read the book myself). And wasn't it lucky the Langdon just so happened to be in Paris when all this happened?

3/5.

I saw X-Men 3 last night...A great 'popcorn outing' with bags of special effects. I knew the Dark Phoenix story from the magazines so I have to admit I was a little disapointed with that plotline, but on the whole a great romp. Halle Berry looks sexy as all hell and all the actors put some real effort into making their characters believable. Don't know why they bothered with "Angel" though, unless it was for the die-hard purist.

Suspend your credibility circuits for the night and see this one. 8/10

United 93

Well i was expecting to see a film, that basically covered the events that happend on the doomed flight, but what it turns out to be is a properganda film. Dont bother watching it as there have been a lot better documentarys on telly covering the topic. The only good point was that hollywood didnt do its usual trick of "rewriting history". I was expectiong to see the "american heros" storm the cockpit, save the plane, and stop 9/11 from ever happening, afterall hollywood does like an american hero.

The DaVinci Code

Okay, so after a lot of fuss, speculation and hesitation I finally went to see this with a friend of mine last night (it being Orange Wednesday and I let her come for free).

Initial thoughts after seeing it....... What the hell is Tom Hanks doing???? He put no effort into his part and he looked as rough as ten bears. What happened to the Oscar worthy Hanks of years gone by??? A really sad sight to see.

Anyways, onto the film. It wasn't a complete pile of s**t, therewere some good bits. And a few stinkers. The Leonardo painting of the last supper scene was robbed of it's true meaning because the dialogue treated it as though it was an actual photograph of the Last Supper and not a representation!!! Shouldn't there have been a little more about DaVinci's involvement with the Priory of Sion and about how he was leaving clues in his work??? Was this just a holywood ploy to inject more drama into the scene?

On the acting front, Ian Mkellen and Paul Bettany deserve a mention for at least showing some acting skill and gutso in their roles. Alfred Molina is wasted in a more minor role. Jean Reno and the french girl were okay as well.

5/10 for the film (3/10 if you take Tom Hank's acting into concideration).

Go see X-men 3 instead!!!

Poseidon

Disaster movie or movie disaster?

I think it's the latter with this one. I couldn't help thinking when I left the cinema that it was a bit....pointless. The plot is pretty daft: People on ship, ship sinks. And that is as technical as it gets. There is no build up, no back-story about the ship, no decent character introduction, and no storyline.

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting a master piece story from an action film, but if you look at the effort that went into Peter Jackson's King Kong with regards to scripting and characterisation you'll see what I mean. In Poseidon you never worry too much about who lives or dies and that robs it of any suspense there might have been. The special effects are pretty decent in some places, but then again it's not anywhere near as dramatic as Titanic, which is almost 10 years old; and also a much better sinking ship film which again has better characterisation and scripting.

4/10 Poor effort

Walt Disneys' ....CARS

Absolutely hilarious, Not the best plot, but the characters make up for it.

More adults in the theatre without kids, than with kids.

If you love cars then it's a must for any age group.

Two hours long though.

I went to see this a few weeks back and nicked my review off another site i go on cos i cant be bothered typing it in again.


Absolutely fecking brilliant

I had some misgivings about Tom Hanks playing Robert Langdon, but he was right for the part, everyone else was spot on, but the only let down was Silas, he weren't as menacing on screen as he came across in the book.

The film was fantastic from start to finish and at the end when he goes back to the Pyramid thingy and actually figures it out, i got up and clapped, i felt a sense of being completley overwhelmed with it all, Hubby gave me a funny look so i stopped, but someone else gave a little clap in the aisle next to me, i think people wanted to show their 'appreciation' but they were scared to.

It deserved a standing Ovation.

Hubby hadn't read the book, and i was a bit worried he wasn't going to follow it , but he managed it OK, and understood it, he was completley underwhelmed, but then he always is . I read the book and just took it for what it was, a bloody good story and nothing else, but when i came out i was questioning the whole meaning of it all,i.e. did Jesus marry and are here descendants blah de blah blah

Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest

I was a massive fan of the first film and I think Captain Jack Sparrow is one of the greatest characters ever created for film. I must admit I was a bit iffy about this sequel because I thought that Hollywood cash in sequel syndrome was about to kick in.


I needn't have worried though, this film is bigger and better than the first in so many ways you have to see it to believe it. With many of the original cast returning for this (not just the main ones, but people like Elizabeth's father and Captain Sparrows crew for the Black Pearl) the transition back into the Pirate world is seamless. I don;t like giving away any plot details but you can expect plenty of action, snappy dialogue and all sorts of Piratey skullduggery, but done bolder and better than the first.

Oh yeah, it raises the bar for special effects past almost all films I've seen to date.

10/10

think i'll go see it at the weekend then

went to see pirtates of the caribbean 2 last night, im not sure if i enjoyed it as much as the first, the special effects were brilliant, and jonny was as sexy as ever, but it seemed a lot more complicated this time, anyway enjoyed it

had a family day out to see it. Have to agree with rozza, the effect were fantastic, davey jones and his crew looked so good, not enough swashbucling for me though and the ending, after two and a half hours for that ending, I left the cinema feeling cheated.

lol i know what you mean.....pirates of the caribbean 3 comin right up
by the way...do you know who the guy was who came in at the end? is that davey jones or someone else? i know he was in the first film but im totally confused as to who he is

i belive he was the captain who replaced jack i am sure i will be corrected if i am wrong

yup. the black pearl captain that lost the fight scene at the end of the first one.

i was right

Ok, no need to go overboard, it wont happen again.

Pierrepoint

Saw this last night and was interested because I like films about true stories, and more so about people being put to death.
Timothy Spall is great, as always as the lead role, who hung 600 people around the time of WW2 including Ruth Ellis, lots of German soldiers and his own friend.

It shows the hangings themselves in a very clean way. Theres no gore and you dont see the faces of the dead after being hung. And also shows the life of a very simple man, and what he had to go through after people found out what he did for a living.

I liked it