Movie Review Thread

[Fragony]

Owwww hilarity.

Dark Habits, spanish comedy. Just too absurd. A whatsitcalled these things with nuns where everything is far from holy. The chief nun is a lesbian heroinaddict, another nun has LSD trips where she meets jezus, a nun is writing erotic novels and they even have a pet tiger you get the idea



Look at that cheeky smile on that nun on the right

[Fragony]

Ok this rocks. The Queen. Helen Mirren has to be one of the best actresses ever and continues to stand firmly on my women that could be my mother list. She really is the queen. The guy that does Blair is just scary, seperated at birth? Awesome movie of a institution that was completily out of touch with the population at the time of Diana's death. Have to add one thing, refusing to meet the queen after playing her so passionatly isn't just rude, it's cruel.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Ok this rocks. The Queen. Helen Mirren has to be one of the best actresses ever and continues to stand firmly on my women that could be my mother list. She really is the queen. The guy that does Blair is just scary, seperated at birth? Awesome movie of a institution that was completily out of touch with the population at the time of Diana's death. Have to add one thing, refusing to meet the queen after playing her so passionatly isn't just rude, it's cruel.

I get scared sometimes, Fragony, that our tastes in film and books coincide so closely. I agree, this is an excellent film (if one is interested in the subject) and extremely well acted - most impressively, understanding of Her Majesty's perspective in the hysteria, whilst not glossing over the colossal faultline in the monarchy that the Diana foolishness exposed.

I can't agree however, that Helen Mirren should be on the mother list. Apart from her stuff in "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and "Caligula" (the latter only worth watching for La Mirren) I saw her on stage as Lady MacBeth, and believe me, the desires she provoked were in no way maternal.

[InsaneApache]

She was a proper hottie in The Long Good Friday. A bit older than me but hey what the hell, Mrs. Apache is a bit older than me as well.

Anyone heard about the remake of The Dambusters?

What I want to know is, what are they going to call Guy Gibsons dog?

[Fragony]

I get scared sometimes, Fragony, that our tastes in film and books coincide so closely.

I may be a barbarian but I am a cultured one

[Duke John]

I just had to go to Transformers and I quite liked it. Although you should better accept a "few" flaws in the plot. It didn't bother me that much as all I wanted to get out of the movie where a some good views of big bots fighting it out and the longs shots during the battles definitely made it worth it! The fights between the robots were sometimes a bit messy and the shaking camera is a bit cheap.
And there are quite a few good laughs too, which I didn't really expect. My girlfriend hesitated to go see it, but afterwards she found it quite a good movie.

[sapi]

Oceans Thirteen is alright. Don't go in expecting a great film, and you won't be overly disappointed.

Not sure about transformers, to be honest, even with Duke John's recommendation - it just seems a bit clichéd Still, I'll probably end up seeing it, and will just have to suspend disbelief over the fact that we didn't just nuke the bloody things

[seireikhaan]

Well, the whole 'reason' why we didn't nuke 'em all is because the big fight scene where they all were gathered together took place in NYC. I guess they didn't want to annihialate NYC as well. Personally, I thought it was rather good, with a few exceptions, such as Anthony Anderson as a computer whiz. He fit the rest of the role nicely, basically acting like he usually does, but the computer part I just didn't buy from him. And as Duke John said, there were actually quite a few good laughs, which I, as with he, didn't expect. But again, a lot of the latter part of the movie is just a lot of rock 'em sock 'em robot action, with some jet fighters thrown in the mix as well. Lastly, I disliked how they end up defeating Megatron, I thought they were kinda cheap with that.