What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5

[Markgway]

Patriot Games **½

Slick, but simple-minded thriller.

[grim_tales]

Metropolis (1927): 4/5

I'm not that used to silent films so found some of this a bit heavy going but the story is good and not as hard to understand as I thought, and the music score used in the BD version is amazing. I liked the way that, for example, the intertitles would scroll upwards when talking about the rich people who lived "above" or went downwards when talking about the city where the poor workers lived.
It looks impressive (considering its over 80 years old) but theres also heavily beat up footage added which was thought lost for 80 years.
The robot kinda looks like C3PO in Star Wars (or Dr. Who's Cybermen).

[gasteropod]

Final Destination 3: 1/5

[Markgway]

Adventureland **½

Amiable coming-of-age comedy-drama.

[bradavon]

Metropolis (1927): 4/5

New extended cut I presume? Boy it looks long. I've yet to see the previous cut.

[gasteropod]

Transporter 3: 2/5

[gasteropod]

The Human Centipede: First Sequence: 2.5/5

[Keung]

The Karate Kid (2010) 1/5
Horrible. It gets a 1 for having Jackie.

Defiance 4/5
Excellent.

The Truman Show 3.5/5
Weird, but good.

[grim_tales]

Metropolis (1927): 4/5

New extended cut I presume? Boy it looks long. I've yet to see the previous cut.

Yeah, new cut with footage that was previously thought lost. I'm not used to silent films so maybe found it a bit long but it's very good. Some may think silents would be twee and quaint and Metropolis is none of these things

[gasteropod]

Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon: 1/5

Here's a great review that I totally empathise with: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/ ... e_moo.html

P.S. Not having the choice to watch films in 2D fucking sucks.

[saltysam]

Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon: 1/5

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Wow is it that bad...i thought after the mess of the 2nd film this would at least be an improvement...

[gasteropod]

There may be a smidgeon more plot this time, but it's the same mind-numbing action and totally unnecessary scenes of 'comedy' in-between. Michael Bay blamed the awfulness of the second film on the writers' strike, what's his excuse this time?

[saltysam]

i imagine it'll be duking it out with Sucker Punch to be Romero's film of the year

[gasteropod]

I have no doubt

[Markgway]

[gasteropod]

Session 9: 2.5/5

[Markgway]

The Hole **½

Compact Joe Dante horror for older kids; not too bad.

[saltysam]

Season Of The Witch 2/5 Entertainingly daft Nicolas Cage medieval horror/actioner let down by some poor cg effects.

[gasteropod]

The Ward: 2/5

Clichéd and John Carpenter has lost his style.

[gasteropod]

The Orphanage: 4/5

[luckystars]

Haven't seen Transformers 3 yet, but if you've heard Mark Kermodes review (rant) yet, you'll know he's a fucking cock and personally, I'll never again consider him a valid source of opinion on film.

[gasteropod]

Haven't seen Transformers 3 yet, but if you've heard Mark Kermodes review (rant) yet, you'll know he's a fucking cock and personally, I'll never again consider him a valid source of opinion on film.

Thinking Transformers 3 is awful seems a pretty valid opinion to me.

[luckystars]

Haven't seen Transformers 3 yet, but if you've heard Mark Kermodes review (rant) yet, you'll know he's a fucking cock and personally, I'll never again consider him a valid source of opinion on film.

Thinking Transformers 3 is awful seems a pretty valid opinion to me.

Nah it goes beyond what he said he thinks about the film, dudes eyes were bleeding during the rant. Likened it a to a porno, called it racist..all kinds of weird stuff.

[HungFist]

called it racist

That's how it is these days (well, been for a good time already). Everyone's so obsessed with anti-racism that they analyze films to the bone until they come up with a racial accusition that fits the mentioned film. Filmmakers have to be very careful not to be racist by accident.

Wait a moment, who's the one obsessed with racial thinking there?

[luckystars]

I really thought he might explode towards the end of the 'review'.

Some examples:


Bay casts a pretty girl, he's a sexist who should be making tittie films.

Bay makes Robots have accents, its racism (like this never happens in cartoons and Pixar type movies..)

Bay casts credible actors, they should make Art films to purge the evils of taking part.

Bay makes Robot 'almost swear' (inside joke for adults watching the film...like you get in tonnes of kids films, the Simpsons etc.)....with an ambiguous meaning..so he could of been really,...really rude or not!

This one was great,

In the film they say the Chernobyl disaster was actually a Transformers incident, and how does he expect that to go down with a Ukrainian audience. How insensitive!

Is Kermode the new Mary Whitehouse?

Or is he just a attention whore? hmmmmmmm