EDF Cinema

[mockney piers]

Totally second that Keef.

Missus mockney and I had more laugh out loud moments than in any film for a long old while. Razor sharp wit, great swearing and as you saying, depressingly believable.

[bigbadwolf]

I saw Valkyrie last night. It was good but not excellent. Bill Nighy was awesome though!

[bigbadwolf]

I saw 'Doubt' starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Streep was excellent but I think she carried her performance from The devil wears Prada. Hoffman played a convincing Nonce. I wasn't expecting it to end like it did though.

Saw Death defying acts with Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones and it was gash.

[SeanMacGabhann]

This last week

The Wrestler - 8.5/10

Ghost Dog - 8.5/10

[bigbadwolf]

I told you you'd like the wrestler Sean. Ghost dog way of the Samurai is one of Forrest Whittaker's finest performances.

[citizenED]

Sean, can you clarify; this week or last week?

Not seen either of those but could go down on the Lovefilm list in the CitED household.

I had the misfortune of seeing "No Country for Old Men" at the weekend. Well made, brilliantly acted, some fabulous photography and as morose as buggary - but oh how unrealistically distressing. There were more murdered people than living ones. Left me with a distinctly unpleasant taste in my mouth.

[Jeremy]

Over the last few days...

Delicatessen

Ip Man

Hackers (makes War Games look like a documentary)

Milk

[Jeremy]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> Ghost dog way of the Samurai is one of Forrest Whittaker's

> finest performances.

Yes... it is good. Maybe not quite as good as Last King Of Scotland IMO... but very good.

[Moos]

Saw LKOS a couple of weeks ago courtesy of LoveFilm. Brilliant, but rather shocking.

[Keef]

Never really say what the hype was about with Ghost Dog. It was raved about so much to me, I guess it was only ever going to be a let down.

[Keef]

Watched a British film the other night called Heartlands (2003). Genuinely loved it, a real heartwarming road movie. And to make it even better, my dad can be seen in it, and gets a special thanks in the credits!

[bigbadwolf]

Right I know they're not films but I have to give these two BBC series a bump.

1) Edge of darkness

A master piece from Troy Kennedy Martin, creator of the Italian job. This political thriller delves deep into murky areas the establishment/government would prefer to be left alone. It's set in the mid 80's and follows a Yorkshire police officer Ronald Craven (Bob Peck) who is hunting the killer of his daughter (Joanne Whalley) and along the path of his investigation gets involved in Nuclear politics and various other agencies out to get him.

Bob Peck's grieving performance blew me away. When I was younger my father tried to get me to watch this as I was doing my A-level history coursework but I wasn't interested in it. I wish I had. It came up in conversation a while back and I agreed to watch the box set and I was transfixed and watched the whole 6 hour series back to back. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone interested in the cold war or thrillers in general.

Apparently there's an American remake scheduled for realease next year and I'm not happy about this. Ray Winstone has treacherously accepted a role and should be knifed like a fish!

2) Bleak House

This Dickens adaptation was on a few years back and includes an all star cast. Gillian Anderson and Charles Dance stole the show and Johnny Vegas was a surprising compliment to the series. Gillian Anderson's Lady Deadlock was a sublime piece of acting that carried poise and surpressed guilt that was a stark contrast to Carles Dance's Mr Tulkinghorn who was 100% ice cold manipulator of peoples secrets.

I have the entire DVD box set of Bleak House and will lend it to anyone who can make me a reasonable offer, Spliff or a six pack will do.

[Moos]

Yes please, BBW.

[HAL9000]

Saw Terminator Salvation on Saturday. I'm a great fan of the first three movies in this franchise along with the made-for-TV spin-off The Sarah Conner Chronicles. Sadly, this film is not in the same league. It was a big disappointment given the potential inherent in the back-story.

The plot was weak and muddled with virtually no humanity or humour. Nor any acting dynamic between John Conner (Christian Bale) and Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington as the cyborg): they hardly ever appeared together on screen and when they did, they mostly just screamed at each other. The special effects were contemporary-standard CGI.

I read that Bale had hijacked the original screenplay requiring an on the fly rewrite during filming that raised his supporting role to rival that of the lead character - the cyborg. A friend described it as 'Dumb action with lots of explosions [and] disappointingly little nudity'. In my view, it was a clusterfcuk.

[paragon]

The Bucket List. Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. Very sh1te. Sentimental crapolla. Probs good if you have a terminal illness.

Can't believe it has an higher IMDB rating that Starship Troopers, which is an awesome film. Apparently it is supposed to be satirising American Imperialism but the just thought it KICKED ASS MAN.

Anyone else love Starship Troopers?

[mockney piers]

Starship Troopers is indeed a classic. At somehow raised above daft nonsense by having tongue firmly in cheek. Could never understand why they'd send huge starships across the universe to battle bugs with ancient popguns. Why didn't they just start battles with big explodey things? But some films just rise above holes in plots!!

[bigbadwolf]

I saw The Reader with Kate Winslet and she certainly deserved her Oscar for it. Oh and just in case you were wondering lads...yes...she 'gets em out' but sadly they're not as firm as they were in Titanic.

[woofmarkthedog]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> I saw The Reader with Kate Winslet and she

> certainly deserved her Oscar for it. Oh and just

> in case you were wondering lads...yes...she 'gets

> em out' but sadly they're not as firm as they were

> in Titanic.

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Which is nice........

[HAL9000]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> she 'gets em out' but sadly they're not as firm as they were

> in Titanic.

The screenings were in feel-arama, presumably?

[bigbadwolf]

I saw Milk with Sean Penn and Josh Brolin last night. Apart from all the bumfoolery which you sort of get used to after a while it was an amazing portrayal of the touchy subject of Gay rights in San Fransisco. Penn made an epic performance.

[JetSetWilly]

watched the cottage last night, low budget,brit horror/comedy. its actually quite amusing and gruesome with some pretty inventive ways of dispatching various characters.

[bigbadwolf]

I saw Mel Gibson's Apocalypto last night after a smoke and had heinous nightmares. A very graphic portrayal of life in Meso American history. Zero Wolf was the original jungle gang banger!!! The Jaguar attack was horrific!

[karter]

Anybody seen Transformers 2 yet?:)

[Keef]

Watched The Proposition the other night. Was very good, in a very bleak way. Visually stunning, it's an Australian Western basically.

Good performances all round.

[SeanMacGabhann]

very good show The Proposition - same guy is doing The Road, due out soon (based on the mega-bleak and tantastic Cormac McCarthy book)