Anyone seen any good movies recently?

'The curious case of Benjamin Button' was a decent enough flick. 'The day the Earth stood still' was pretty rubbish.

I haven't seen 'Australia' yet, but I gather it was a complete flop.

Just watched a couple of them Terence Hill and Bud Spencer team flicks. Those were a pretty awesome line of movies......

Hmmm, Me feels like catching up with the original Herby 53 in the original Lovebug as well...........

Just watched Valkyrie - story of Claus von Stauffenberg.

Not bad at all, considering I can't stand Tom Cruise and most of the Nazis are cast as Brits!

Heath Ledger just won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.

JGK wrote:Heath Ledger just won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.

Acceptance speech via Ouiji board?

How's Dead Calm?

Henry wrote:I haven't seen 'Australia' yet, but I gather it was a complete flop.

Trev on the horns of a dilemma (or is that just a horn?). Does he go and see Australia so he can genuinely bag it, or does he maintain stereotype and just bag it because it has the word Australia associated with it?

JGK wrote:Heath Ledger just won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.

They used him as a prop?

I just saw Slumdog Millionaire. It's a very good film. It focuses mainly on India's dark underbelly rather than the booming, rapidly growing economy that it has become in the 21st century.

Some Indians will cry foul, but i'm led to believe that the kidnapping and disfiguring of children in order to earn sympathy money does actually happen.

Henry wrote:I just saw Slumdog Millionaire. It's a very good film. It focuses mainly on India's dark underbelly rather than the booming, rapidly growing economy that it has become in the 21st century.

Some Indians will cry foul, but i'm led to believe that the kidnapping and disfiguring of children in order to earn sympathy money does actually happen.

Only nationalistic fools I should imagine.

Dickens was writing about Londons slums at the height of the Empire for example.

It's dark, cold, pouring with rain and there's a gale blowing outside. There's no cricket on so I'm sitting watching The Ghost and Mrs Muir on Film 4. Good stuff!

Tarantino's attempt at spaghetti western - Django Unchained. The cinematography was great, some of the scenes were terrific. But overall, the movie seemed to lack something......still, an entertaining one.

So Tony is actually the pieman?

What?

Anthony_Gonzales wrote:Tarantino's attempt at spaghetti western - Django Unchained. The cinematography was great, some of the scenes were terrific. But overall, the movie seemed to lack something......still, an entertaining one.

Weight? Soul?

PeterCS wrote:

Anthony_Gonzales wrote:Tarantino's attempt at spaghetti western - Django Unchained. The cinematography was great, some of the scenes were terrific. But overall, the movie seemed to lack something......still, an entertaining one.

Weight? Soul?

Yes, you've got it. It seemed to lack depth of characters and an overall compelling narrative. Bit like a lot of scenes put together.

The last really good western I saw was True Grit. Jeff Bridges I thought was superb and his character very interesting.

I'd rather watch something about the other Django ...

Watched Argo yesterday.
Good stuff.

I've seen 'Hitchcock' and 'The Impossible'; both ok but nothing to write home about.

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Yeah, that'd be a good film

I saw 'The Impossible' today. It's well acted, but 2 hours of people despairing, crying, and screaming gets a bit much. There's some very graphic depictions of injuries, as well. It was also too focussed on the tragedies of Westerners and almost completely ignored the plight of the thousands of Thais that were killed.

Three stars.

Henry wrote:I saw 'The Impossible' today. It's well acted, but 2 hours of people despairing, crying, and screaming gets a bit much.

Three stars.

Sounds like the Aussie federal politics thread.

Watched Loopers on DVD yesterday. Very average. Can't understand why it got so much critical acclaim.

This cricket movie has'nt been released yet but looks like it could be a bit of a larf: