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That was one of the most cheesiest scenes I that movie as bad as the movie was

masofdas wrote:

Anyone seen or plan to see American Hustle

Yeah,I saw it the other day. It's pretty good, made me laugh quite a few times and had great performances. Plus, y'know, Jennifer Lawrence...

Cool.

Batman Vs Superman or whatever it ends up being called has been delayed to may 2016 and will come out along side a marvel phase 3 movie.

I watched Frozen last night. It was great.

Elsa is a brilliant character and I will laugh at anyone who says otherwise.

Yesterday I saw Gravity with my girlfriend. It's awesome - not one I'd buy, but certainly glad to have seen it. It fails to displace Monsters University as my film of last year, but it does nestle neatly in second.

Seeing as Zero's raised the subject, these are my favourite films of last year, in order-

http://letterboxd.com/squidgygoat/list/the-2013-top-25/

Not even heard of some of those, but I have heard Blue is the Warmest Colour is suppose to be good did think it was a shoe-in to win foreign Oscar but hasn't even made the shortlist. Also Wreck It Ralph was from 2012.

I've only seen these that came out in 2013
Oz the Great and Powerful
Iron Man 3
Star Trek Into Darkness
Man of Steel
Elysium
Kick-Ass 2
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

My rankings of the films I saw that were released in 2013 (in the UK)

1. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
2. Wreck-It Ralph
3. Star Trek Into Darkness
4. Thor: The Dark World
5. Frozen
6. Man of Steel
7. Europa Report*
8. Iron Man 3
9. Monsters University
10. The World's End
11. Despicable Me 2
12. Pacific Rim

*Actually, this hasn't been released in the UK yet - there seems to be no plans for it, either.

Just watched the start wars trilogy with a few of the lads. One finger for every utterance of the word "force" or the word "Jedi", a full can for the phrase "May the force be with you" and a shot of Jack Daniels for the phrase "I've got a bad feeling about this". They're quite good, aren't they? I haven't trillied in years and you need to keep it up or the dark side wins.

I saw I, Frankenstein 3D. It was okay I knew going into it it would just be a film about demons and gargoyles fighting & not much more, that it did fairly decent. The major downside was the length of about 1hour 20mins.

I'd feel utterly ripped off with a film that length if I was seeing it in the cinema. For £7/8/however much it is for a cinema ticket, I'd be expecting a couple of hours of my time.

I thought that film looked utter guff so I didn't even plan on watching it before I knew how short it was. Now I'm sure.
Also, did they call the monster Frankenstein? Because that's a deal breaker fo sho.

It was more then that as it was 3D, and had luxury seats. I didn't know how long it was when I went to see it, I did feel ripped off like you said. It was the only film the GF me could agree on, I wanted to see American Hustle or Wolf of Wall Street.


The Monster is called Frankenstein's monster but is given the name of Adam but goes on about how we carry the names of our fathers during the film.

I wouldn't say it's guff, it's a poor Underworld clone really. Would I watch again maybe if it's on Sky Movies and not much else on as it's not to bad. It's like a high 6/10, it's just a fun film.

Yeah, it looks fun, so I might give it a watch when it's on e4 in a couple of years.

Empire gave it one star, they really panned it.

Don't they use the rubbish 5 star rating system which has to be worst rating system there is.

I rarely trust film critics. They're so out of touch with what audiences actually enjoy, and apart from really bad films, there's a lot less that can be objectively "good" or "bad" about a film than there is with videogames. It is very easy for a videogame to have design or control problems which ruin the experience, but in terms of whether one enjoys the humour, the characters, the action, the plot of a film... that depends a lot on taste.

On another subject; new Robocop soon. Robocop is one of my all-time favourite movies, and part of me is excited to see them making more Robocop, but there's another part of me that just thinks that the new film absolutely fails to capture what made the original such a masterpiece. I could be wrong, and it does at least appear to be attempting to address modern issues, but I really don't know whether I want to spend my money on a ticket and encourage studios to keep making this sort of bollocks.

As someone who hasn't seen the original I thought the new Robocop looked excellent! It was the highlight of my trip to see the naff American Hustle.

Totally agree with you Buska on everything you said.

Andy go watch robocop, also American Hustle naff really it looks excellent but I did like the fighter & silver linings playbook which our from the same director.

It felt like it didn't know what it wanted to be. It kind of felt like it was an odd attempt at comedy at times and then jumped to drama the next. I also felt the film had next to no real sense of direction or had any characters that were either likeable or relatable to.

I enjoyed American Hustle; it was genuinely funny in places and, obviously, anything Jennifer Lawrence is in gets a big gold star in my book. That being said, it definitely lacked direction and it did that very annoying, very American thing of having the obviously criminal leads get off Scott free.

Re: Robocop; the original is very eighties, very iconic and, critically, very violent. It is the very definition of an 18-rated film and used that to comment on modern values and culture. The new one, on the other hand, looks generic and quintessentially inoffensive 12A nothingness. It looks alright, site, and elements of the trailer reminded me of MGS4 which is no bad thing, but the original is such a masterpiece that "okay" is not enough.
Andyman: get it watched. You'll be grateful.

Some of you may know already that I have moved to Australia for a while (for no real reason other than I could) so the past couple of films I've seen have been in THE BIGGEST IMAX IN THE WORLD in Sydney. I saw Catching Fire, which I thought was really good (despite the dearth of hot boys) and Gravity IN 3D IN THE BIGGEST IMAX IN THE WORLD, which was also really good. The whole "visually stunning" thing really shines through when you see it IN 3D IN THE BIGGEST IMAX IN THE WORLD.

Buskalilly wrote:

Re: Robocop; the original is very eighties, very iconic and, critically, very violent. It is the very definition of an 18-rated film and used that to comment on modern values and culture. The new one, on the other hand, looks generic and quintessentially inoffensive 12A nothingness. It looks alright, site, and elements of the trailer reminded me of MGS4 which is no bad thing, but the original is such a masterpiece that "okay" is not enough.

M'colleague was impressed by it- the trailer really doesn't sell it, he says, but it really is its own film, concentrating on satirizing the modern surveillance state more than the consumerism of the 80's.

I'm going to see RoboCop with the GF on Wednesday.

I saw Scott Pilgrim for about the 7th time I lesbians it. Also watched The Sessions on Sky Select which was very good.