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Under the Skin is a film about looking at a naked/semi naked Scarlet Johansen, and then watching her pick up unsuspecting Scottish blokes to "Come back to my place".

It's boring as hell. I stopped watching half way through.

You have terrible taste

fail at life

The fuck?

Nothing about this film sounds bad.

In other news, I took Zioette to see Maleficent today and we both really enjoyed it. If anything, I was even more into it than she was. Angelina Jolie is incredible in the role, but it's also quite a cool little twist on the plot of the original Sleeping Beauty. You can see the twist at the end coming a mile off, but it's not any less enjoyable as a result. Very impressed, definitely a future Blu Ray purchase (for when Zioette visits, obviously! )

I saw How to Train your Dragon 2 at the weekend with Shorts.

Whilst it looks good and has some better huge monster fights in it than Pacific Rim the funny bits are massively laboured and Cate Blanchett's Scottish accent is actually worse than Simon Pegg's.

If your kids nag you to see it I would just try and find another showing of the Lego Movie if I were you.

Thanks for the tip

It's quite a shame, as it could have been brilliant. And there could have been a sequel of illusioning upa dinosaur to rob a zoo or something.

Rock and Rolla - If you set your expectations low you'll like this. It's amusing and wry enough, but has shades of the LongGood Friday about it. I say 'shades' I mean, it's pretty much "The Long Good Friday". Mr Madonna took the Lock, Stock characters, stuck them in suits and did gangster film.

Finger on the pulse there, Mali

Oh. god.

The LEGO Movie.

I wanted to watch it again within five minutes of the opening.

Just... amazing. Something happening every second.

Avent fucking garde, me.

One of the best movies I've ever seen, despite me never really playing with LEGO when I was a kid.

Surprisingly deep too.

How's that?

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

I mean that not in a philosophical sense (although it does have a fair bit of that in it), but more the little details that will go unnoticed by most viewers (not just kids either, some adults ) Some obvious, some not so obvious.

e.g. despite it being entirely CGI, lots of the bricks in the movie have fingerprints or scratches on them to make it look like they're well used.

And the bricks in Cloud Cuckoo Land being the ones that the kid's Dad had put aside to let him play with, which is why it was seen as a safe haven with none of the oppression of Lord Business's side.

I didn't catch half of it when I watched it, it was only reading through a thread on SomethingAwful's film forum where lots of the dots started to get joined up.

I've so far only seen the first half of the Lego Movie - I got it to watch with Zioette on Friday but we both fell asleep (not through boredom - I was just that tired). I really should watch it in full soon. In a worrying glimpse into my future, Zioette looked at me like I was some crazy old man when I told her I'd not already seen it. She's five.

There's also the fact that it was basically an hour and a half advert for Lego, but at the same time managed to be a critique of their business model being over-reliant on licensed sets.

Um... Seems The Expendables 3 has leaked online weeks before it's due to arrive at cinemas anywhere.

It's a high quality dvd-screener with no watermarks, no "property of" messages etc. (apparently !)

Think the last time this happened was with the Wolverine movie back in 2009 (difference being that the Wolverine movie was a "work-print" with missing special FX, but this is the complete finished film).

The distributors ain't gonna be happy !

Well, neither are the people that actually watch the fucking thing so it evens out.

Nearing the end of The Expendables 2. It is amazing.

Watching Crystal Fairy, mostly because it's got Michael Cera in...

Malc

I watched All Cheerleaders Die.

If you like to see beautiful girls kissing other beautiful girls then this is for you! Well, the first half hour, you can turn it off after that.

Michael Cera is a dick, Gaby Hoffmann is well hot!

Malc

planet of the apes 8 was really really good

I agree.

Watched it. Quality was good. The film was garbage. Arnie says "Get to the chopper." The CGI is trash. I don't know who some of the people are.

First Mad Max trailer...



Certainly looks Mad Max-y

There's even a "The Cars that ate Paris" VW Bug in there.

Could be it's not finished yet in that copy, maybe? I watched some leaked release of [some film I can't forget] and sometimes the special effects were just flat, one-colour shapes.

Yep, it isn't the finished version, only a few FX missing but still...

Seeing as the first 2 were trash I am not expecting anything better with this one.

Apparently it's set after 1 and before 2. And it looks AWESOME.

Can't find any info anywhere to suggest this is not the finished version.
Pretty certain it is.

That said, having watched it, it looks to me like it was originally intended to be a 15 certificate & they've now edited it down to be PG-13. Lots of quick cutaways (is that a word ?) during action bits where you'd expect the camera to linger a bit longer and show a bit of gore etc.

Anyway, found it mildly entertaining in a switch-your-brain-off sort of way (and Snipes & Banderas were quite amusing in parts...)

Was the other film you talk about "Wolverine" ? That was leaked about 6 months before cinema release and was missing loads of FX.

Spiderman, wasn't it?

The CGI was pretty awful, if this is the final release, then they obviously spent all their budget on the fees of the actors!

It was ok, the first hour was terrible, but the last fight was pretty good and Banderas was reasonably funny.

I watched Grown Ups 2 at the weekend. There was literally no plot, they didn't even try to establish any and just jumped straight into the ludicrous situations... and it was funny! Much funnier than I expected

I saw the Lego Movie - it was AWESOME> I bought teh tshirt and everything and have ordered another Lego Movie Tshirt which is arriving tomorrow, whoop whoop!

Watched 'Short Term 12' on Netflix this evening.

It's been on my list since it got a load of very positive reviews and awards last year and it didn't disappoint.

Highly recommended and a solid 9/10. I sprung a leak on more than one occasion so possibly not a good first date film unless you're trying to show off your tender side.

Rotten Tomatoes page here (99% fresh from 146 reviews) - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/short_term_12_2013/

Wiki here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Term_12

Trailer here -

Just got back from the cinema, Guardians of the Galaxy was acebest imo. A excellent 80's soundtrack with lots of retro jokes, very unusual (but then the comic was also) almost to the point it doesn't feel like it fits with the other Avenger films but hey any film that brings me Groot and Rocket Raccoon is pure awesome.

Went to see it in 2D, but a few scenes were obviously wedged into the film to justify 3D.

Zero on the Craster Scale but will happily give it an 8 out of 10.

Also WTF with the clip at the end after the credits.....won't say anymore but it is a very odd clip.

New Spongebob movie...excellent.

Emma Stone is blonde and in Spider-Man 2. I wubs her. Can someone make Zombieland 2 with her in it again? Thanks.

Christ, she was wearing knee high stocking-sock things!?

Wow, Spider-Man 2 is probably the most unnecessary film ever. It does nothing that wasn't done in the last set of Spider-Man films. Plus I hate Peter Parkers stupid hair.

1/10. 1 for Emma Stone,

So surely 8/10.

I'd give her 1. MWAH HA HA HA HA.

*cough*

I loved The LEGO Movie. Everything was awesome. Except the bit at the end, that was a bit shit.

I seem to be about the only person who rather liked the bit at the end.

What a surprise

I watched Ladyhawke last night for the first time in about 25 years (or more) and while it possibly wasn't as good as I remember it's still certainly got its nice moments. Rutger Hauer is always a pleasure to watch. Matthew Broderick is a bit irritating in it though.

It allowed for the Duplo gag, and for that I liked it.

Guardians of the Galaxies was amazing. Genuinely hilarious, totally in the same tone as James Gunn's lower budget stuff, and great cast of characters.

Probably the best Marvel movie to date.