What Film have you just watched?

[Replicant]

i always find that watching a film on a plane automatically = crap even if its a good film!

[matt]

yeah I'm gutted I watched hurtlocker on the plane, really enjoyed it but was a bit of a pants experience compared to the 50" bluray set up at home

[sayed]

Edge of Darkness with Mel Gibson - story was wishy-washy but lots of nice explosions curtsy of the director or producer of casino royal.

[scarbunny]

Watched Sherlock Holmes on Saturday. While it had touches of Guy Richie in the early parts of the film his personality seemed to take a back seat to the story and character for a change.

Although I almost thought it would have worked a little better if it wasn't Holmes, in the same way Star Trek would have been better as a new franchise. It seemed to be lacking in deduction and detective work, but all in all very enjoyable.

[jurassicjim]

FINALLY got round to watching Schindler's List last night. Was amazing, truly amazing. Glad I waited in a way, appreciated the big screenedness and nearly HD quality. 3 hours has never gone so quick.

j

[Advocate]

Watched apocalypto again, this time on BBC iplayer - I actually really like it as a film.

[Replicant]

went to watch The Wolfman last week and did enjoy it but the story was rather weak. can certainly see the similarity in the style of make up with the original Lon Chaney version.

overall probably a 6/10

[matt]

finally got around to watching inglorious. Really, really enjoyed it! Wonderfully silly film.

[Replicant]

its great isnt it - enjoyed it just as much on blu ray at home

[Southwestwall]

Saw Daybreakers last weekend, refreshingly different take on the vampire genre.

[Replicant]

while i liked the concept i thought Daybreakers was a pretty weak film verging on dire.

[Johnmcl7]

FINALLY got round to watching Schindler's List last night. Was amazing, truly amazing. Glad I waited in a way, appreciated the big screenedness and nearly HD quality. 3 hours has never gone so quick.

j

I saw it way back in secondary school and always meant to watch it properly at home although I've not caught it on Sky or similar - may end up just buying it as I do remember it being good.

Not quite a film but tonight I was watching Halo Legends which is pretty much Halo's Animatrix, it's eight cartoons set in the Halo universe looking at some different aspects. I really enjoyed Animatrix from the stunning CG in the opening Flight of the Osiris to the entire backstory of the Matrix along with some other genuinely interesting takes on the Matrix universe. Despite being a Halo fan though I wasn't immediately attracted to Legends as I wasn't keen on the over the top style in the graphic novel, unfortunately Hal Legends just doesn't work at all mainly because it's trying to take a very American franchise and making it very Japanese. Some of it is just comically bad with Elites wearing Samurai armour and gets worse with Spartan mk II's removing their helmets to reveal themselves as having long blond hair and massive eyes. In the Matrix universe where there are no rules it meant they Animatrix segments could go as far as they want while still fitting in with the Matrix whereas within the tightly defined rules of the Halo universe many of the cartoon segments just look daft. Unbelievably there's even a comedy which I assume came from the studio responsible for Dragonball Z featuring the spartan 117 which was just painful to watch. The last episode which is a CG one has some pretty decent sections in it mixed with daft ones although the style of CG is odd, it's sort of a half cel-shaded type which is mostly reminiscent of some older CG programs, it's certainly not up to the standard of the Halo trailers nor what CG can offer these days.

John

[robbo]

Watched Watchmen last night. Not sure if it was because I was half asleep but only thought it was an alright movie. Enjoyed the soundtrack though. Have borrowed the comic book off a mate so will hopefully get round to reading that soon.

Schindler's List is on my to film's to watch list.

[scarbunny]

Avatar, it's very much "meh"

Special effects/graphics are reasonably impressive, although not really 10 years impressive, voice acting is average, casting pretty weak, story is generic (the misses calls it FernGully on acid), pacing seems off, 2 hours of not much a rushed montage of uniting the clans under the outsider then a 30 minute actioned packed ending, and Unobtanium (and "Home Tree' the tree they all live in to a lesser extent)? Seriously is that the best he could come up with in 10 years?

Pretty glad I didn't pay to see it.

[Replicant]

Went to see The Crazies on Friday and really enjoyed it. Would give it a 7/10.

Just watched The Hurt Locker which is pretty good and a damn sight more deserving of awards than Avatar.