The Movie topic

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Sun Aug 23, 2009 22:47

Rom Coms? Hmm. I seem to be getting stuck thinking about screwball comedies from the 30s and 40s.

I suppose Something's Got To Give and As Good As It Gets were both very good stand outs from the last decade. I also think very highly of About A Boy, but I'm not sure it's strictly a romcom.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
LA Story
Rushmore
High Fidelity

sdg · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:11

Eternal Sunshine is brilliant.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:33

Four Weddings and a Funeral
Notting Hill

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:33

Top Gun.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:55

Moving away from romcoms for a bit, I saw the following movies at the weekend.

Smokey and the Bandit and Back to the Future 2 - Excellent Saturday afternoon double bill from ITV.

Wild Child - Awful American girl goes to British boarding school, learns valuable life lessons. Surprised me by not being nearly as dire as I expected. Surprisingly sweary. Very odd little cameo from Nick Frost, too.

Death Race - Jason Statham and Ian MacShane in a Paul W.S. Anderson movie about convicts killing each other in cars. I liked it an awful lot.

Big Stan - Saw half of this, which was way too much, but kept thinking "They can't base a whole comedy purely on jokes about rape can they?" The answer seems to be yes. I think it must have been a bet.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:00

Death Race is a remake of Death Race 2000 which is hilarious and has Sly Stallone in it. catch it if you can.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:01

I watched Catch Me If You Can last night, and quite enjoyed it.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:01

myp wrote:

I watched Catch Me If You Can last night, and quite enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it when I saw it.

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:02

MaliA wrote:

Death Race is a remake of Death Race 2000 which is hilarious and has Sly Stallone in it. catch it if you can.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38504

Sister Act is 18 years old. And about signing nuns. It stars Whoopi Goldberg.

Despite all of the above, I still love it.

Rodafowa · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:22

The Rev Owen wrote:

Death Race - Jason Statham and Ian MacShane in a Paul W.S. Anderson movie about convicts killing each other in cars. I liked it an awful lot.

I can only assume you're recovering after a severe head injury.

Attention threadgoers! DO NOT LISTEN TO OWEN! Death Race isn't even any good on its own terms, as a mindless action movie. It's dull, repetitive and almost goes out of its way to avoid engaging you in any way whatsoever. Watch the original, at least that's funny.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:31

The Rev Owen wrote:

Wild Child - Awful American girl goes to British boarding school, learns valuable life lessons. Surprised me by not being nearly as dire as I expected. Surprisingly sweary. Very odd little cameo from Nick Frost, too.

I watched that last night, begrudgingly, with Miss Malabar. It wasn't as awful as I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't very good. It also made me feel quite depressed when I looked it up on IMDB to find that the lead girls are all 18 now, but they were born in 1991. Christ.

Very weird cameo from Nick Frost, aye.

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:33

Malabar Front wrote:

The Rev Owen wrote:

Wild Child - Awful American girl goes to British boarding school, learns valuable life lessons. Surprised me by not being nearly as dire as I expected. Surprisingly sweary. Very odd little cameo from Nick Frost, too.

I watched that last night, begrudgingly, with Miss Malabar. It wasn't as awful as I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't very good. It also made me feel quite depressed when I looked it up on IMDB to find that the lead girls are all 18 now, but they were born in 1991. Christ.

Yes, I watched it because the wife wanted to. American in Britland films appeal to her. I did remark when watching it that the lead girl had been born the year I went to university. I'm so old.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:36

Avatar looks pretty but tame. The 360 game trailer looks ugly and tame.

Morte · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:56

To be honest the CGI looks...well...old.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Morte - in regular little internet video player format yes, it does - I thought it looked incredibly crap, actually.

Then I watched it in HD, and it looks very, very good indeed. I think it's because the CGI-ified things are fantastical and almost cartoonish, so without the resolution it really does just look ... well, cartoonish. It needs the HD level of detail for you to see that it's supposed to be something "real" rather than an animation.

Still, looks like it'll be a wank film.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:22

Mr Chris wrote:

... looks like it'll be a wank film.

Your peccadilloes are your own, sir.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:02

The Rev Owen wrote:

Malabar Front wrote:

The Rev Owen wrote:

Wild Child - Awful American girl goes to British boarding school, learns valuable life lessons. Surprised me by not being nearly as dire as I expected. Surprisingly sweary. Very odd little cameo from Nick Frost, too.

I watched that last night, begrudgingly, with Miss Malabar. It wasn't as awful as I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't very good. It also made me feel quite depressed when I looked it up on IMDB to find that the lead girls are all 18 now, but they were born in 1991. Christ.

Yes, I watched it because the wife wanted to. American in Britland films appeal to her. I did remark when watching it that the lead girl had been born the year I went to university. I'm so old.

Hahaha! I ended up watching most of this with the missus too!

The Nick Frost cameo was funny, and odd.

Not something I'd ever choose to watch myself, but entertaining enough if you like that sort of thing.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38504