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I, as some of you may know, am a big movie fan. I don't know if anyone else is a big movie fan but everyone enjoys a good movie. I know not everyone shares the same interest in movies so I thought I'd start a thread where people give there opinions/mini-reviews on current or classic movies. Good Idea or no? Anyways I'll start:

Wanted

Starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy

The trailers for the movie looked like it could be a decent movie. I asked friends who had seen the movie what they thought and I got mixed opinions. Either it was really good, or... It was awful as sin. Thanks to netflix, It didn't seem like much of a loss if I rented it. Received it and put it in expecting it to be an awful movie...I was not disappointed with this assumption. The plot line is stupid, the acting, decent I guess and the stunts, special effects, and scenery of the movie was good. For those who don't know, the plot of the movie is a group that has been around for generations; they are...assassins, elite assassins. A magical loom tells them who their next victim is going to be. They pick the people judged by the mistakes in the weaving in combination with a secret code.

That's basically the movie plot. Now for the acting... There are a couple big stars in this movie Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, etc. Both professional actors with a good reputation, they're acting was fine, the acting in this movie is not what made it bad so... I'll give it one star for that.

Scenery, Stunts and special effects were very cool deserve a star and a half for that. Very cool special effects very cool setting design and stunts.

What made the movie awful, to me at least was: Curve the bullet and the group of assassins special powers. Curve the bullet my @ss. Seriously!?
Basically the father of one of the world's greatest assassins was killed. So they brought his son in expecting him to have some of his father's talent. After a few days of training, he can curve a bullet around a person, and has super skills.

This movie had a lot of potential to be good and a fun movie, if you're gonna watch it, be prepared to say "BS" throughout the movie. Suspend your belief in reality and just enjoy what you can out of the movie... I rate it 2 1/2 stars. It's a fun, cool movie but it didn't deliver what I thought it would.

Anyone else to share their opinions on a movie?

Hope this thread was a good idea.

I personally thought it was awesome to hear morgan freeman say f***.

TWICE.

No it was an okay movie but you really had to allow yourself to enjoy it because it is so out there

I really liked the film myself. I only watched it again today, ironically, and I still enjoy it. So what if he can curve a bullet...Neo can dodge and stop them in the matrix

Overall, I would personally recomend the film...but only if you dont want it to be realistic......

but then again, what films are realistic? The Matrix? Iron Man? I dunno

I liked the film, overall

I had a fun time watching it but nothing more than that. If you expect to see a fast paced, over exaggerated action movie (that you will probably forget soon) you will have a nice time,if you expect to see something more you will be disappointed. I would rate it 2/5.

I'm not going to bother to see wanted, when I herd the line 'You have to bend the path of the bullet', I thought 'I'm out'. Not my kind of film I didn't even enjoy the matrix.

Some films I recommend.

I've decided to go, not particularity with my favorite films, but rather films that never got that big, the films you may well pass by, but should take a look at.

True Romance

Plot
Two young people fall in love, get married and after accidentally coming into possession of a suitcase full of cocaine, embark on a mission to sell it in Hollywood, of course the gangsters they got it from aren't to pleased about that.

What I say.
This is one of Quentin Tarantino's earliest films, It has wonderfully hart warming scenes of love both between husband and wife and father and son, punctuated nicely with sex, drugs and violent shooting.
Everybody in this film had their moment, It may not have been long, but every part is fleshed out and given life, even if its one scene, the writers, actors and directors made sure it counted.
This is what a romantic comedy should be, It shouldn't be light or simple, It should have true romance (see what I did there?) and violent, swearing, drug fueled shootouts.

Also a small bonus, see Samuel L. Jackson get killed off like a punk, early on in the film. I saw it, it was all like 'Oh awesome! Samuel... oh, dead.'

Also try to spot the three appearances of Elvis.


Lars and the real girl

Plot
A man goes a bit funny in the head, falls in love with a life size sex doll and moves in with his brother while waiting to get married.

What I say
Honestly, if my dad hadn't recommended it so strongly I would have passed this movie up. It looks horrible, It looks like either 'Wacky, zany, comedy' or one of those comedy's where everything goes wrong. In fact everything goes right, this is hardly the best comedy in the world, but it does what so few are able to do, be funny without being horrible.
Now I love Southpark, I love Kevin Smith. I like comedy where someone suffers, or someones ridiculed, but movies like 'Lars and the real girl' just refresh me, it reminds me that being sweet isn't the same as being inane and that good writing can sell anything.

I'm sure I have more movies to recommend, but I've got work shortly and I haven't even got up, so I'm leaving it there.

no offense to anyone who did like Wanted, but...

for me, it was like they woke a 13 year old up from a 3 year coma - and asked him to describe the perfect film to a group of film producers...

then they went off and made it...

you're missing out a loom that fortells the future too...

Lars and the Real Girl - i'd describe it more than a little differently than it has been, but i will say that i found the film funny, sad and more than a little touching in lots of ways...a wonderful film...

Iain Says

no offense to anyone who did like Wanted, but...

for me, it was like they woke a 13 year old up from a 3 year coma - and asked him to describe the perfect film to a group of film producers...

then they went off and made it...

you're missing out a loom that fortells the future too...

I stopped watching the movie after they introduced the loom...

You guys know its based(loosely) off of a graphic novel right

flaw07 wrote:You guys know its based(loosely) off of a graphic novel right

yeah - that doesnt make a difference though....wierdly, when you consider how much flowing narrative can be squeezed into a marvel comic - i'd assume the wanted graphic novel must have been written on the back of a piece of used bog-roll...

IAIN wrote:
Lars and the Real Girl - i'd describe it more than a little differently than it has been, but i will say that i found the film funny, sad and more than a little touching in lots of ways...a wonderful film...

And if I wasn't so insecure and feel a need to exert a macho image all the time, that's how I'd describe it too.

I don't know why, but the subject matter and general delivery reminded me of the film Lucky Number Slevin - which doesn't quite make sense, because Lucky Number Slevin is in my opinion a very good film, as far as action films go.

I think it's because they both feature Morgan Freeman, and both involve a sort of underdog character.

The Wicker Man (2006)

This is the remake with Nicolas Cage. I highly recommend this film. It is one of the funniest films I have ever seen. Everything about it is absolutely hilarious and brought tears of laughter to my eyes; the "acting", the dialogue, Cage's hairstyle, the slapstick comedy. This has to be seen to be believed. It is a classic, but for all the wrong reasons. Watch it and weep. Literally.

10 out of 10

Goblin 2

No such thing as goblin one. This is the funniest movie I've ever seen. It's unintentionally funny and it's awesome. It's supposed to be a horror movie and it's just ... If any of you have seen a middle or high school play, take the acting down several notches and that's what you get. If, like the Wicker Man remake you need a laugh... this one's for you!

Would be interesting to hear Lawrence's take on this film (as I know he's a NightWatch fan too!).

I enjoyed Wanted a lot.
Not just because it has Angelina Jolie in it (although that didn't hurt matters!) but because it was so ridiculously twisted and off the wall that it didn't run like a typical Hollywood film.
They had an idea (elite assassins kill people in fiendlishly impossible ways) and stuck to it without going off on airy fairy tangents about this that and the other - even Fox's story which she told to that guy eventually became really important.

This was actually one of my favourite movies of 2008 - but you can take that any way you like.
Anyone who knows me knows how particular I am with films and I still say a big thumbs up to Timur Bekmambetov from me!

The appearance of the NightWatch mage Anton Gorodetsky made me grin a lot though and made me think that the 3rd instalment in the NightWatch trilogy may be worth giving a go because at least the actors can speak English properly.

Ian the Mental-Ian wrote:Goblin 2

No such thing as goblin one. This is the funniest movie I've ever seen. It's unintentionally funny and it's awesome. It's supposed to be a horror movie and it's just ... If any of you have seen a middle or high school play, take the acting down several notches and that's what you get. If, like the Wicker Man remake you need a laugh... this one's for you!

It's weird (well, it's not really, it's just inter-person variety!), I've never liked watching films that are "so bad they're good", "unintentionally funny" and all that sort of thing.

I had a friend who was really into samurai movies, usually because of the ridiculous stunts and "crazy" effects. We'd go round supposedly to watch a film, and it would end up being some piece of trash, narrated by him going "oh, wait, this bit's just stupid... ha ha ha... look at that... it's so cheesy..."

It's like: OK, I get it, it's a cr@p film. Can we watch a good film now?