Movie Review Thread

**Peasant Phill** · 12-07-2006, 13:19

Originally Posted by Fragony

Anyway, belgium broadcasted The Big Labowski, never saw it before.

absolute genius, consider me your loyal fan Coen brothers. I haven't laughed like this since a Fish called Wanda, which untill now I considered to be the funniest comedy ever made. buhbuhbye. I just love their absurd style, no straight shooters but hilarious situations non-stop, sometimes I don't even understand why I am laughing.

AAA comedy

If you haven't seen it yet, you should definitly see 'Fargo' to. Another Coen masterpiece.

**Lorenzo_H** · 12-07-2006, 14:00

I don't know if anyone here has seen Stormbreaker?

I enjoyed it because the entire thing apart from the london shots were done on the Isle of Man. I just got a kick out of identifying all the places I know. As a matter of fact, the compound Alex goes to when he meets Darius Sayle is actually the island's Incinerator, with a very modern design. Both the exterior and interior were used.

Also, Nadia Vole tells Alex "this is Port Erin" when they are driving through Castletown, both real towns.

The bike chase scene was done on Port Erin beach.

The part at the beginning when Ian Rider is shot was filmed on the TT circuit, in the northern coastal road.

The classroom scenes were filmed at Ballakermeen, a school many of my friends go to.

Alex Rider escapes from a building which is actually my school.

All that and more, so you can imagine why I liked it.

**econ21** · 12-07-2006, 15:28

Originally Posted by Peasant Phill

If you haven't seen it yet, you should definitly see 'Fargo' to. Another Coen masterpiece.

Seconded - absolutely fantastic film. I love Margie: "And all for what? A little bit of money."

**Fragony** · 12-07-2006, 15:38

Ya fantastic, I absolutily love the soundtrack, it's so tragic. They have made many a good movie, 'Blood Simple' and 'Raising Arizona' are great as well, the first is somewhat more grim but with the same lovely weirdness (as well as their usual fetish actors)

**doc_bean** · 12-09-2006, 22:29

X-men 3: The last stand : Argh they ruined a perfectly good saga !!!!

The movie does just about everything wrong what the other Xmen movies did right. There's just no emotional attachment to the characters (who are mere shadows of their selfs from former movies). It's clear fan service, tries to combine two or three stories from the X-men universe (Phoenix, cure for mutations, and Magneto thrown in for good measure, believe me, I'm spoiling nothing here) but alters (and ruins) them all. (I'm not a fanboy here, only read one comic, just watched the cartoon series a lot as a kid, the alterations are all by far inferior)

Clearly Brian Singer must be a very talented director, seeing as how some other director manages to screw up what he had built up so badly.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 12-09-2006, 22:36

I liked it...

Mind you I didn't have any emotional attachment to the characters in the first two.

**doc_bean** · 12-09-2006, 22:46

Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

I liked it...

Mind you I didn't have any emotional attachment to the characters in the first two.

But there is almost no character development in this one ! Don't tell me you cared what happened to Jean, or freeze guy, or the flame guy, or anyone else for that matter. It only works as a special effects extravaganza (especially the ending scene feels like another attempt at 'real' anime), and even as such there are a lot of movies that do it better (I recently saw Matrix Revolution again and realised that no movie that I've seen in recent years even comes close to the Matrix movies when it comes to special effects or action sequences, too bad the plot sucks).

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 12-10-2006, 03:03

Well to be honest I wasn't expecting more than special effects action sequences with cool mutants.

I liked how the "bad mutants" were all dressed like goths. lol.