Films

[Halcyon]

I'm literally giddy with excitement at the prospect of Friday's Mark Kermode film review on 5Live. Reviews of:

Source Code - from the director of my favourite ever film Moon, Duncan 'Don't call me Zowie Bowie' Jones, and

Sucker Punch - a film reportedly so bad it makes Sex & The City 2 look like Citizen Kane.

A couple of Sucker Punch Reviews:

http://cavecitysink.tumblr.com/post/4167367840/this-movie-made-me-feel-bad-to-be-alive-a-review-of

A Short Outline of What Went Wrong: Sucker Punch suffers from two distinct problems.

The first is its complete failure to create any sort of meaningful narrative. To be blunt: This movie is dumb and doesn’t make sense and appears to have been written by sleeping frogs.

The second is that it is nothing but the violent sexual exploitation of young women created solely for the profit of the makers and the entrainment of the idle audience and therefore is morally bankrupt beyond understanding. To be blunt: It must have been written by some very terrible and troubled frogs.

Putting these flaws together we are left with not just utter garbage, but utter garbage that is difficult to follow and impossible to care about.

Edited March 30, 2011 by Halcyon

[G-Stud]

I had such high hopes for Sucker Punch... think I'll just give it a miss.

[ampersand]

I had such high hopes for Sucker Punch... think I'll just give it a miss.

[metallimuse]

Let Me In was f**king rubbish.

[t8yman]

watch the original fella. its almost flawless.

[worm]

watch the original fella. its almost flawless.

[worm]

I thought the kids put in some amazing performances and I really liked the cast as a whole.

[ralph250]

Once you reveal, you run the risk of comedy and flacidity.

[rexclark]

Watched Once Upon A Time In The Midlands last night, not bad but definately my least favourite Shane Meadow's film. It had some funny bits but not really that entertaining really.

[wee_insomniac]

Watched Unknown the other night, it was pretty good

[Katster]

I watched murder in the first last night. It's an older film I have never seen. Quite a sad film but enjoyable all the same, though you always knew how it was going to end. Poor Henry.

[Jackmypie]

Watched Blue Velvet, awesome movie 9/10

[The Nal]

If anyones at a loose end stick on Film 4. Original 60s Batman movie. On e of the funniest movies ever made.

[Kowalski]

Watched Unthinkable tonight.

Some straight-to-DVD thriller that I got from Love Film. I actually thought it was pretty good albeit it a little far fetched. It's about interrogation of a terrorist (Michael Sheen - who is brilliant in it).

[worm]

I thought it was toss.

[amy246]

Ended up watching Rocky Horror for the upteenth time tonight upon realisation that my sister's boyfriend has never seen it. He reaction afterwards; "well the was . . . different"

[minute5072]

Watched moon. Thought it was excellent

Hopefully seeing source code this week

[When Jokers Attack]

Watched moon. Thought it was excellent

Hopefully seeing source code this week

[rexclark]

last night I watched The Social Network(well most of it) and Jackass 3.

The Social Network was pretty decent, I wasn't looking forward to it too much but I quite enjoyed it.

Jackass 3 was fantastic, some absolutely hillarious stunts and some absolutely disgusting ones but it really was one of the funniest things I've ever watched.

[ampersand]

oh, i started watching let me in on friday. turned it off after half an hour. could not be arsed in the slightest.

[The Nal]

last night I watched The Social Network(well most of it) and Jackass 3.

The Social Network was pretty decent, I wasn't looking forward to it too much but I quite enjoyed it.

Jackass 3 was fantastic, some absolutely hillarious stunts and some absolutely disgusting ones but it really was one of the funniest things I've ever watched.

[worm]

Social Network is the most overrated film I've ever seen.

[The Nal]

But the best thing about it was its pacey aesthetics, which is the mark of Fincher.

[worm]

That was the only thing I liked about it. The rest of the film was just quick dialogue and editing to pander to its target audience (ie people with zero attention span), pointless subject matter, average acting for the most part, the arse clenchingly bad scene with Timberlake in the nightclub etc. They also made Zuckerberg look like a bitter fool and at times a borderline social retard, which is totally inaccurate. Not that I give a shit.

[The Nal]

Not a fan then.

I thought it was good. It reminded me of a Brett Easton Ellis novel, in that there was tonnes of substance packed into quick dialogue emphasising the point that it was fiction rather than a historical narrative.