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I just watched 2001 (8/10) and 2010 (6/10)

Both very good but no where near as good as the books.

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Did anyone watch Timeline on telly last night? Starring a whole cast of B listers? Interesting plot but the acting on the whole was iffy!...nice costumes and dramatics! What bugged me was how the guy with the missing ear was laid to rest with Anna Friel, playing some French lady, when the history was that she was hanged in front of her kindred which then motivated them to defeat the English?

...I know the timeline changes and understand how the film ended which allowed him/her to be buried together...but he himself discovered the tomb before he even went back in time, and at that point the history was that she was hung! (On a side note, how weird is it finding your own grave! .Born 1973, Died 1382 ....lol!)

Rate: 5/10..... I rate the Matrix as a 8/10...so it faired ok!

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It is in my sky planner :) - hope it's good.

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Please take notes!...and answer my question after you watch it! :)

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I will boss.

But I've also got

Freddy V Jason
Roswell
Apollo13

To copy to disc to watch at work as well.....

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p.s. apologies if I've wrecked a little bit of the plot in asking you the question! :LOL: ...tbh, it was an obvious plot twist :)

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I won't be seeing it anyway :( see your sky+ box thread.

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Blimey dilli, you didn't half watch some rubbish last week :shocked:

Mind you, 28 Days Later lets you off a big slap :D

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The book of 2001 came from the film ;)

Have you read the whole series? (Probably a stupid question, I know... ;) )
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You diss Dune at your peril.... :p:

Mind 2001 is the most boring SF film I've ever watched..frankly by the finish I coudn't care less who does what and why...as long as it finished.

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I have indeed read all the books :)

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Batman Begins.Hmmm!not sure.It was OK but not fantastic.7/10. :erm:

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Mr & Mrs Smith - great film, Angelina & Brad are superb, what more can I say than SEE IT ;) 9/10.

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Saw it again last night. Still just as good the 2nd time.

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Have to agree, excellent light entertainment.

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Batman (the 1989 Tim Burton one)


Not seen it in ages. Very good, although flawed & not as good as Batman Begins.

8/10

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War Of The Worlds

9 out of 10

Just because it didn't explain everything at the end! :)

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Pale Rider. Classic Eastwood.

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I watched 'Shaun of the dead' today...
Thought it was real cool and funny too..
Gets a 9/10 https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2005/10/16.gif https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/10/9.gif

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monty python life of brian 12 out of 10:nworthy: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :nworthy:

i could watch it over and over again

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He's not the messiah.....he's a very naughty boy! :rofl:

We have just seen the War of the worlds...............not bad at all 8/10 :tu: :)

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ive seen some of it and i found horribly funny, especially when the LP's start flying across the sky slicing the 'zombies' :D

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Oh no the best bit is the syncronised pub landlord zombie beating to Queen.

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/10/9.gif Yeah that made me laugh, even funnier was that they were deciding which LP'S to throw at them and which ones to keep https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/10/3.gif
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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2005/08/17.gif That was funny ..actually too many funny bits to mention https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/10/3.gif ..best film I seen in ages https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2005/10/9.gif

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the girl in the garden bit was funny "look shes drunk" :erm: :D :p:

oh yes hilarious :p:

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I say again: What have the romans ever done for us?

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nothing apart from the roads

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Brave, very strange, concept film, 8.5 out of 10. Then children of the damned 7/10 it was okay

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War of the Worlds....
7/10 (because I'm feeling generous)

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SW Episode VI - Return of the Jedi


The weakest of the original trilogy, but still great.


Not keen on some of the alterations made for the DVD though (& the SE VHS version before it).

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Films I watched at work this week.....

Alien Nation : Dark Horizon 7/10
Alien Nation : Body and Soul 5/10
Alien Nation : Millenium 5/10
Alien Nation : The Enemy Within 6/10
Alien Nation : The Udara Legacy 4/10

Thunderbirds 3/10

Die Hard With a Vengence 7/10

Alien vs Predator 4/10

The War of the Worlds (1953) 8/10
War of the Worlds (2005) 6/10 (this is a 2nd viewing score - in peace and quiet while I was watching it this time)

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Romancing the Stone - 8/10 "that's what I call a bonfire" :D

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....Thanks to Amanda (the cute American neighbour) for picking up the following form america for me :)

The Langoliers - 7/10
The Tommyknockers - 7/10 (it is just me or is this MUCH better than the book?)

p.s. She's getting me the pendragon DVD of war of the worlds :)

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BMX Bandits. It is an old film I liked as a kid, that they released on DVD. Its funny, it has a teen Nicole Kidman in it :) Still pretty good, considering its a kids film, and at times, really funny. 8/10

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War of the worlds 2/10.

Abrupt ending or what?

There were several things in it which I thought was bad, but I just let it go as I was enjoying it until the ending. I know it's not filmed this way, but it was like they were filming away merrily and only with 5 minutes to go before the end, thought about how to end it.

The ending made me hate the film entirely. :afire: I just hope that the DVD is a director's cut with things padded out.

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War of the worlds 11 out of 10:D

waiting to caompare to the other 3 new versions

Pendragon, Asylum, Jeff Wayne

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It was lucky to get 2/10 from me :D
Disappointed is an understatement...

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Have you read the book?

What did you think of the '53 version?

edit - I preferred the '53 one myself. And the 'sequel' which was of course the pilot for the TV series (which dilli now has on DVD :))

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I've not read the book and I was a kid when I saw the film.

So it's not like I was comparing it to the book/older films and was disappointed.

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I was dissapointed with it compared to the book and old film. But for different reasons.

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couldn't agree more... i liked most of the film, bar the ending.... :( such a waste of good movie... i thought the ending of "The day after tomorrow" was bad untill i saw this...

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Saw War of the Worlds, Mr and Mrs Smith, and Millions over the last couple of weeks. Millions was the only one I really enjoyed I have to say.

Am I getting old or do films at the moment all seem much the same, and verging on, dare I say, boring !!

Saying that I did see The Chorus the other week, and enjoyed that.

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See, you've made the point that i was going to. Don't like hollywood blockbusters? Speak to the guy in your local video shop. Chances are he's working there not because of the wages (because they're crap) but because he loves films.

Ask him his opinion on stuff. Tell him what you like or what he recommends.

The Chorus is an example of something you wouldn't necessarily pick up due to having seen trailers.

Millions is again not a hollywood crapfest.

Rent dead man's shoes next. ;)

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At work today :)

Seven - 8/10 - Just for a change a film I actually thought was quite good :)

Resavoir Dogs - 6/10 - MMMmmm yeah.....

(I've got a stack of a fair few dvd's to get through this week so expect loads more scores :))

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What?!?! You deserve a slap for that mate :)

Incidently, are they hiring where you work ;)

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I'll let you know when ;):)

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Well, I would rate Reservior dogs about 8, and Seven less than 4..

Didn't like Seven because I guessed the "surprise" ending half way through the film.

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Fantastic 4, not bad for a bit of escapism, good speacial effects though they were sometimes a bit scarce :( over-all 6/10

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Madagascar, very funny film. 9/10
Kids love it, I found lots of little 'adult' humour bits added in as well.

The song 'I like to move it' by Sacha Baron Cohen is doing my head in.
(from the soundtrack album by the way)

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Yeah, watched it the other night ;) very funny, and the 'bits' of humour, subtle but funny .. lol

Hi ya mate :tu:

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I'm with Swoop and Bopdude on Madagascar - had me in tears of laughter in places. The penguins were my fave.
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More is the pity. :(

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Equilibrium

8/10. Very good SF action film starring Christian "Batman" Bale, with some brilliant fight scenes. Better IMO than the Matrix sequels.


Enemy of the State

8/10. Great conspiracy thriller from Tony Scott, starring Will Smith & the ever excellent Gene Hackman.


Crimson Tide

7.5/10. Another Tony Scott thriller, with Hackman again plus Denzel Washington. Good sub movie.


Goodfellas

9/10. Scorsese's mafia masterpiece. One of the best gangster movies ever, with a top notch cast, including De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, & more.

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The Butterfly Effect

Interesting movie, lots of flashbacks and changes that go on in this movie all about a guy who can change his understanding of life events after having blackouts. Chilling, thriller, paranormal, and full of action.

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The Descent 3/10: The first 50 minutes are an absolute waste of time, so set your alarm and catch up on some sleep. Once the killing starts it gets slightly better but not by much. It basically turns into a big slasher movie and one of the lasses is one mean bad-ass motherf... I expected it to be more chilling than just plain killing. Reason it got as much as 3 was because of the gore :)

War Of The Worlds (The Original) 7/10: A 53 year old film that is a lot more enjoyable then the new version.
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Herbie, brilliant, good fun for all ............. 8/10 :tu:
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I watched Clerks last night for the first time in years.

Great film, very funny, a lot of good life advice (if you look beneath the course language :) ). filmed on a very low budget though :)

Best line?

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Past couple of weeks i've seen...

War of the worlds, The Descent, and Wedding crashers... respectively.

Wedding crashers come out number 1 by a mile. 10/10 tbh, it's hilarious, and can't say i've laughed as much as I did in a cinema for ages, keeps you on the ball all the way through and I could probably go to watch it again.

Descent was pretty good, not as scary as I would of liked it to of been tbh, - the scariest bit imo was when she actually got stuck crawling through a tight tunnel... claustraphobic ;)

War of the worlds. Throughogly enjoyed - probably only 7/10 though. Effects were cool, but never have seen the original so can't really compare :(

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Watched "Face/Off", "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", & "Red Dragon" last weekend.

Seen them all before, but they're all great & easily films you can watch again.

Face/Off... John Woo's best Holywood movie. Awesome.

Pirates of the Caribbean... Excellent. [And, to anyone who liked PotC: go hunt down "Savage Islands" (aka "Nate & Hayes"). Excellent, yet overlooked, piratey swashbuckling action adventure from 1983, starring Tommy Lee Jones].

Red Dragon... Hopkins is excellent as Lector, again. Not as good as "Silence of the Lambs", but still a very good thriller.


Tonight I watched...

"The Incredibles".

First time I've seen it. Loved it! Great fun, really funny...a brilliant Pixar film.

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that film is so funny we got the pc game for the *cough* kids :D

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I watched that again last week. Funny film :)

Best line
Plus my sig...

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I get all in a muddle trying to control the characters. My 6 year old manages no prob.

Incredibles. Brilliant film for all the family!:tu::tu::tu:

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Finding Nemo - Excellent. Didn't enjoy it quite as much as The Incredibles, but still very good.

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Great stuff! Another top Tim Burton movie.

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Stealth :erm: A pretty poor run of the mill film if you ask me and rather corny as well. 4/10 :td:

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka :) A pretty good blaxploitation spoof film of the 80s. Plenty more laughs in it than the so-called comedies that they release nowadays. 7/10 :tu:

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just watched alien v predator

the story was fine but the movie itself was a bit of a letdown 6/10:p:

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I agree that the movie was lame and could've been so much better. When the alien first appeared and killed the predator it promised so much but that was the only highlight of the entire film.

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if they had put that bit more into it rather than dwelling on the 10 min piramid change and that it would have bin exellent:D

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Batman begins: Good cast, excellent film. It's a bit slow in the beginning, however and I still prefer Micheal Keaton as Batman. Not that Christian Bale isn't' good..

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.10/10 :tu:

Jonny Depp IS Willy Wonka and Burton has pulled it off again.The child actors are all excellent as are the adults cast.

I actually left the cinema with a smile on my face..something I've not done for a VERY long time. :D

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just watched I robot again its strange but good 8/10 :)

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agreed,Very different second half of the film than original but its closer to the book by all accounts,I missed the floaty lemonade :D

Tim burtons new film also has Depp and Helena Bonham Carter,looks really funny ,Its a puppet show film like Nightmare Before Christmas and its called Corpse Bride

http://corpsebridemovie.warnerbros.com/

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Girl Next Door - a bad rip off of Risky Business, even down to the background orchestral arrangement. Great for 16 year old boys, some amusing twists, but the lead geek and pron star, lets face it the two of them was a non-starter from the outset.

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The Hunted

I thought that it was a strange film. I thought that the fight scenes were okayish, but it didn't really explain what made him kill the park rangers and the hunters. He said that those deer hunters were after him, but we never found out why?
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Was I the only one who found Jack Black annoying in it?

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Yes - 10/10 from me - and I WANT an Ooompa Looompa!! :D
Mind you, they had a trailer for Wallace and Gromit and the Were-Rabbit - now that looks like a good film! :D

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Definately agree on everything there but I want Willy Wonka as well, not being greedy, just like a lot ;)

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"Once Upon a Time in America"

Classic gangster movie by Sergio Leone, following the fortunes of a group of "Kosher Nostra" Jewish mobsters in New York.

Top notch cast, including Robert DeNiro & James Woods.

Only downside is that it was nearly 4 hours long...

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Oceans 12--Pants :td:

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Donnie Darko.

Went and watched it at the open air cinema in hyde park - it's a great film, was just ruined by seeing it there - glad I had seen it before, else I wouldn't have made sense of the film

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... Excellent Cast, Excellent Film, Great music..

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i watched it and thought it was dragging on alot in places, i know its about a AI plane, but the bits in the air dragged on a fair bit, i think it tried to live in the reputation of special affects and a goodish looking plane.

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I didnt know what to think about this film but people have been saying its really good so I think I'l definately have to check it out after all.

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"The Untouchables"


Classic mob-movie, by Brian DePalma, about Elliot Ness & his "Untouchables", & their battle to take down Al Capone.


Excellent stuff :tu:

Great cast (De Niro, Connery, Costner, Andy Garcia, etc.), great action, great everything.


And some brilliant scenes...including the superb station-steps shoot-out.

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Family Guy movie. (Yeah, I know, I didn't know they made it either).

Excellent though 9/10.

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:tu:

I wouldn't give it such a high mark but a solid 6 from me as it was a bit hit & miss. The lacklustre video part made me chuckle :D

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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (TMN) - 3.5/5:cool:
28 Days Later (DVD) - 4.5/5:dmonk:
Return Of The King (Theatre) - 4.5/5:beer:

I'd give 5/5 for the first two parts of LOTR, but this one was choppier... you can tell that alot was cut out from this one where it wasn't so obvious with the other two.:clap:

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Herbie fully loaded :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

10/10 nearly wet myself :tu:

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The Island

Not bad seen as it was directed by Michael Bay. It could have been worse...

A good piece of popcorn entertainment.

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Dukes of Hazzard ............... toal pap IMO, not even remotely like the original, all the character casting was wrong wrong wrong, I mean, Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg for one, come on, thin plot and, well nough said.

2/10 and thats just for Jessica's Daisy Duke :drool: but again, Daisy was dark haired and Jessy is fair, oh well ....whats next ???

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Stealth: Actually a lot better than I was expecting (which wasn't much to be honest), Very similar to Top Gun in style (and storyline). The Storyline isn't great, the acting is OK rather than good, but the battle scenes are brilliantly done.

Also Jessica Biel looks nice..


5/10 (probably would be 8/10 if I were drunk as it's the sort of film I love when drunk).

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So, having got Sky+ and all the regular movie channels I've just been recording and watching a bunch of stuff off Sky Movies, so none of these are up to date, but WTH...!

Shaun of the Dead - In American Zombie films heroes with guns go out and make the world safe for Truth, Justice and the American Way again. In this British film, they go down the pub! :D

This film is a "must see" as far as I'm concerned, it's funny, not overly sentimental, occasionally thought provoking and a damn good laugh!

Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl - Another that is definitely on the "don't miss" list. It's great fun, with lots of great dialogue, smart action sequences some impressive effects and Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow is something that simply cannot be described but has to be seen to be believed!

2 Fast, 2 Furious. Hmm, put this one on the "whiles away a couple of hours if you've nothing better to do" list. Lots of fast cars, plenty of testosterone, but not much in the way of characterisation, plot, dialogue or, well anything much. Did I mention the fast cars...?

Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins. Oh dear, once again Hollywood thinks that anything worth doing is worth overdoing. Town in Nevada, yada yada, people start disappearing, yada yada, big monsters, yada yada, monsters die. Ho hum. Oh and Michael Gross (the Survivalist from the other films) turns up as his own ancestor with a dodgy pseudo-British sort of accent :rolleyes:

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Sean Connery plays Sean Connery again, this time under the name of Alan Quatermaine, we also have Captain Nemo, Tom Sawyer, the Invisible Man (well, *an* invisible man), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde...

Plenty of stunning sets and set pieces, lots of thud and blunder, some occasionally witty dialogue, not much of a plot or characterisations. Still, it's enjoyable enough and less than two hours long.

Kill Bill Vol 1 - Quentin Tarantino says there's no such thing as "Tarantino-esque", well sorry, QT, but this is a Tarantino-esque film! Presented in chapters which are out of sequence, lots of violence and blood, characters with odd motivations or personal traits, looks great, achieves not very much.

X2 - The X Men are back in a flashy, action packed, piece of fluff. Again, barely an attempt at developing any sort of character and what there is gets wasted by a stupid ending where someone dies because various characters suddenly seem to forget that they have super powers!

The Matrix - Reloaded / Revolutions. Well the second part is actually quite good, plenty of stunning effects sequences and some real character development (which was sadly lacking from the first film), unfortunately, apart from Morpheus' big speech, the dialogue really lets this one down and, like everyone else, I was listening to the exposition at the end going :wtf:

I watched the second and third parts back to back and I'm not sure if I was "Matrixed out", but by the end of Revolutions, I was almost going "well get it over with for gods' sake!" It was rather a case of "more of the same" and I think you can have too much of a good thing. Still, it's set a benchmark for effects that will be there for some time to come.

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28 days later 5/10

white noise 7/10

Darkness 6/10

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War of the Worlds - 8/10

Fantastic 4 - 7/10

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Just got back from Charlie and the chocolate factory, and i thought it would be quite cruddy, but i quite liked it, it was different, but good :)
Also a little fact my friend told me, dont know if its already been mentioned, but the little guy that played the oompa loopmas plays frodo in lord of the rings :)
I'd say 8/10 much better than expected!

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no he does not http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746989/ Deep Roy from said film

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000704/ Elijah Wood aka frodo

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lol zingle thanks for the helpful reply, however i actually meant that the mini-frodo was the little guy in the chocolate factory (at least, that's what i was told). any idiot can tell that brazilian guy isn't elijah wood :dozey:

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If you look at Deep Roys profile on imdb there is no mention of LOTR .If he was a double or even a bit part it would I imagine be mentioned there as all his other roles even un named ones are there :)
He is also Kenyan ;)

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Mr & Mrs Smith..................It wasn't so much a turkey as the turkeys steaming droppings.............

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OOppps Is that one I did you ??? sowwy dude if it was ;)

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I saw "The Interpreter" with Nicole Kidman, last night and thought it was very good. It kept you interested and was intelligent enough not to feed you every bit of information.

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lol.......it's not your fault that hollywood makes turkeys :D