Last movie watched...

[Kerrin]

Dredd, at Crawley Cineworld. Thought it was spot on for the nearer future look they've gone with from the comic version. Screen we were in was pretty well full.

[Karl Stephan]

Dredd, of course!

[Mardroid]

Ditto!

That's 'ditto, I saw Dredd too." Not a film called 'Ditto'. Although I suppose that might not be a bad name for a film involving a copycat killer or doppelgänger, um, thing.

[vzzbux]

Nuff said




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[Durendal]

Some obscure British film called Dredd

[Professor Bear]

Dredd, which was alright.  I did think it funny when Anderson takes her clothes off (because of course she does) and it looks identical to how Leslie Nielson does it in The Naked Gun.

We'll probably be taking the piss out of it in a year's time, mind.  "Hotshot" indeed...

[Tiplodocus]

CENTURION
Michael Fassbender and his wang dress as Romans and are chased across Scotland by a Bond girl who is dressed as a pict after the massacre of the 9th Legion.

I'm not entirely sure this was historically accurate*.

It felt like I'd seen everything that happened before in other better films (even the recent THE EAGLE which covers similar ground). 

Seeing as there are only about a dozen picts chasing the Roman survivors, I really don't understand why the trained veteran Roman soldiers didn't just stand and fight.

I even got bored of the scenery as there are countless shots of people standing moodily on top of hills. (How did they get up there and why?).

However, it is mercifully short (90 odd minutes) and Imogen Poots (is that really a name?) makes an impossibly attractive witch.


* (to be fair, I don't think they ever set out with that intent). 

[Keef Monkey]

Final Destination 5. A load of rubbish, but watched in the right company with the right attitude a really good laugh (like all the previous instalments actually).

[M.I.K.]

and Imogen Poots (is that really a name?) makes an impossibly attractive witch.

Her full name is Imogen Gay Poots.

Not sure whether to pity her or be in awe.

[DeFuzzed]

The Tournament, 2009.

Assasins compete in London, using the city as a hunting ground. Violent stuff. Exploding people, lots of chunks and red stuff. Interesting in that it had Robert Carlyle of Hamish/Monty fame, Ving Rhames and that parkour guy from Casino Royale. And that oriental baddie woman who played that mutant in X-Men with the adamantium fingernails. And Ian whatisname with the spooky blue eyes who was in Lost and now in Vampire Diaries, playing a deranged killer in a bad suit and truly, truly bad facial scruff.

Throw in some personal vendettas and angst and puerile manipulation - and a priest - and there you have it, The Tournament.

Mindless action/gore film that does exactly what it says on the tin. Wished it had been more mindless because I did want to slap the priest silly a couple times, but the scene in the service station with the cashier more than made up for any annoyance he caused. Has to be said though, I usually like Carlyle and made myself watch Stargate Universe for him, but the priest has to be his worst role yet.

[Keef Monkey]

Remember seeing that trailer before a few films in the run-up to its release and thinking it looked worth a pop, but then it went straight to dvd (or seemed to at least). Must rent it.

[PsychoGoatee]

God Bless America, that recent Bobcat Goldthwait directed comedy involving a killing spree. Freakin' awesome.

[DeFuzzed]

I don't remember it at all, so it came as a complete surprise to me when I saw all the famous faces. I can understand it going straight to dvd if that's what happened, because the look of it has that cheaper feel, but that aside, still entertaining fare for a pizza night in.

Some things had me flinching back in shock, like with Dredd, so be suitably warned.

[bluemeanie]

God Bless America, that recent Bobcat Goldthwait directed comedy involving a killing spree. Freakin' awesome.

Agree, absolutely brilliant film that felt worryingly close to my constant inner monologue

Last film I saw? The Queen.
Me and the wife both poorly the last few days so wanted something quiet to go with cups of tea on the sofa. Enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting and the cast were all amazing.

Do now want to see a Death Wish style movie with James Cromwell as Prince Phillip TAKING IT TO THE STREETS WITH A SHOTGUN!!

[I, Cosh]

Tom Hardy is mesmerising in Bronson, the story of Britain's self-styled hardest criminal. Hardy is almost never off the screen in this dizzying, impressionistic biopic that piles artifice upon artifice in a whirl of style and energy. What relationship this portrayal bears to the real Bronson is probably not worth asking but the character created on screen is a fascinating arsehole. Mildly interestingly, this plays out with another authentic sounding 80s electro pastiche.

The great Jim Kelly is fairly ropey in Black Samurai. The jive talkin' ju-jitsu generalissimo plays some sort of secret agent, complete with flamethrowing lighter and a sports car with concealed guns. Add in the villain's black magic background and you end up with a resolutely uninspiring blaxploitation Live and Let Die.

Kelly manages one or two decent takedowns but the fight choreography, by the man himself, is mostly pretty rum. He does get to fly a jet pack at one point, so that's pretty cool. Probably the highlight of the film is the scene where our man gets himself into a party at the villain's hacienda. In a proper Bond film this would be a decadent stew of beautiful women and elaborate décor. Here it's a dozen bored looking people milling around, an overlong number from the enormous mariachi band and frequent cuts to an enormous vulture pacing along the upstairs banister. A vulture which Kelly later punches out.

Clutching at straws here. Not one for, well, anybody really.