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Ground breaking film,and very enjoyable viewing

4-1 with Ladbrokes to Win this months Golden Globe best picture looks a bet to make
 
I was going to watch the Departed last night, but ended up watching Beyond The Clouds and Run Lola Run. I should have watched the Departed!

I'm going to go and see Sherlock Holmes tonight with only low-to-middling expectations. I saw a trailer with some pretty dodgy looking CGI, let's hope it was just some early material.

There is so much on at the Cinema over the next month that I want to see: An Education is still playing, The White Ribbon is out soon and A Prophet is the film that I have been most looking forward to since Mesrine.
 
As a dissenting voice, i think The Deaparted is one of Scorceses worst :(

Ending well overblown and unbelievable. Characters not well formed.

Casino is his best
 
i watched district 9 last night..watching departed this afternoon

district 9- different..very good

watched deja vu the other day..good film

damned united is a good watch as well..peter taylor comes out of it in a very good light..cloughie..not so
 
Sherlock Holmes only lived up to expectations. I didn't like the fighting and as I expected, the CGI spoiled it. The script was snappy enough, if a little predictable. Downey Jnr and Law were excellent though.
 
anyone seen Bruno

I've got it downloaded on hard drive..had about 5 random dip ins..each time he is buggering his dwarf boyfriend..champagne bottle was funny

is it worth watching the lot?
 
Katharine said:
I've never really been one for Clint Eastwood films but I watched Thunderbolt and Lightfoot last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Jeff Bridges stole the show for me. He was superb.
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crikey..there are some classics you have missed..including

Dirty Harry
Outlaw Josey Wales
Fistfull of Dollars
Good Bad & Ugly


he might have made a couple of duffs..but generally..they are all good..a true living legend imo
 
I'm not a fan of the spaghetti westerns but I did like A Fistful of Dollars.

I also liked Dirty Harry and the follow-up.

Believe it or not, I also liked The Bridges of Madison County, while Million Dollar Baby was very god until the last half-hour or so.

In The Line of Fire is also watchable.
 
I raided HMV yesterday and used up vouchers that had been gathering dust for a while.

My haul included a Humphrey Bogart collection, Cast Away, All The President's Men (been looking for that one for ages), Goodbye Mr Chips (the original), Presumed Innocent, and a few others.
 
We also watched Dead Meat - an Irish mad cow zombie film - last night. €100,000 budget and not a cent wasted on the wardrobe! Great fun!
 
Has anybody seen Caligula? Was recommended to me as the ultimate 'political epic' and derided by another mate as 'soft porn.'

Worth bearing in mind that whatever is said about it, I will be watching it... :D
 
I've also seen it derided as a 'political epic' and recommended as 'soft porn' :D There's an uncut version out there that might test the definition of 'soft'... it wasn't financed by Bob Guccione for nothing.
 
Just watched "A History Of Violence"

I'm years behind with films I am afraid as you can see..enjoyed this..some bonecrunching scenes and plenty of building tension points
 
I watched The Brothers Bloom the other night. I had big hopes after for Rian Johnson after Brick...
 
Thinks: I think he means cute bits...

I'm trying to recall if I watched it, or some of it. Didn't it star Malcolm McDowell in a blonde curly wig, chewing the scenery so hard he should've been served with mustard on rye?

I had to give in and search: yes, it was, with Helen Mirren, O'Toole, Gielgud, all hamming away for large wedges of wonga, by the sound of it. The reviews left on 'Rotten Tomatoes' (a site which is great fun) are hilarious.
 
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I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes the other day - really enjoyed it. (Robert Downey Jnr does it for me every time!) but that aside it was an enjoyable film and good chemistry between him & Jude Law. Lots of action scenes and a bit of totty for the guys.
 
I'm very much a 'Basil Rathbone is Sherlock Holmes' person so I won't be going to see the film. I don't think I could view it with an open mind. Certainly the little clip I saw on telly lately would be enough to put me off. Those CGI scenes look awful - worse than the surfing scene at the end of one of the later (P Brosnan) Bond films.

The irony (in my opinion) is that RD Jr is probably older now that Rathbone was when he was making his classic versions of the films.
 
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