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Village Of The Damned - John Carpenter

Meh. Time hasn't aged this film well - although I suspect it wasn't good at the time of release tbh. I expected the kids to be scarier and the film to move on at a pace but sadly it dragged. Not one of Carpenters better films.
 

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You're Next (2011).
I liked it. 9/10

The Equalizer (2014).
I didn't like it. 4/10
 

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Waterloo (1970).

Starts off slow but when the battle starts it's an epic film. 8/10.
 

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ah see I even love the start but it is one of my fave films.

but that big rant by Napoleon at the start I WILL NOT....I WILL NOT NOT NOT!! then my fave musical piece of any film when he lands back in France and faces Ney and they just join together with that French Anthem music mix.

I just find it a beautifully done film, so much so I partially hope the French win :dk:
 

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Was it you gilly who mentioned about the BBC drama one when I did my review on that film on TFF??

I was just wondering how it compared to that drama as I've not seen that.
 

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American Sniper.

Really enjoyed it, one of the most enjoyable films i've watched in ages - 8/10.
 

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Was it you gilly who mentioned about the BBC drama one when I did my review on that film on TFF??

I was just wondering how it compared to that drama as I've not seen that.

It may have been, I didn't realise Benedict Cumberbatched was in the BBC drama. I think I'll watch it again and report back.
 

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ah see I even love the start but it is one of my fave films.

but that big rant by Napoleon at the start I WILL NOT....I WILL NOT NOT NOT!! then my fave musical piece of any film when he lands back in France and faces Ney and they just join together with that French Anthem music mix.

I just find it a beautifully done film, so much so I partially hope the French win :dk:

The slow motion charge by The Scots Greys is my favourite part of the film, oh and the chicken! :D
 

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ah see I even love the start but it is one of my fave films.

but that big rant by Napoleon at the start I WILL NOT....I WILL NOT NOT NOT!! then my fave musical piece of any film when he lands back in France and faces Ney and they just join together with that French Anthem music mix.

I just find it a beautifully done film, so much so I partially hope the French win :dk:

Seen Waterloo a few times, its absolutely brilliant to watch, the sheer logistics of getting all these men (I think they were Ukrainian soldiers playing the allies and the French) into positions must've took months to get right. Steiger was a hell of an actor though, he absolutely dominated the screen in a way Napoleon must have done to yield such devotion.

I actually wanted the French to win as well funnily enough - before you first watch it you think you'll be happy to see a supposed Emperor get defeated so completely, but the way it's filmed, its like a tragedy unfolding, and you do end up rooting for him especially when you see how Wellington is so detrimental about the ordinary soldiers he has under his command, though it is moving when he uses his famous quote stating 'Next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won.'

I urge anyone who's interested in this era, war films or as a tragedy about a great man falling, to seek this out, you won't be sorry.

Was it you gilly who mentioned about the BBC drama one when I did my review on that film on TFF??

I was just wondering how it compared to that drama as I've not seen that.

I mentioned on TFF definitely about comparing it to the BBC drama; as that was well rounded, showing Hawking's physical deterioration, with his theoretical struggles and triumphs, against this film, which dials down unfortunately on the physics (well it is Yank funded after all) and concentrates on his plights and his marriage. I've seen the Cumberbatch one twice, but don't really have an interest in watching this or following Hawking's story once more.
 
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It's an adaptation of his ex-wife's memoirs. It's got nothing to do with Americans, for fucks sake.
 

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It's an adaptation of his ex-wife's memoirs. It's got nothing to do with Americans, for fucks sake.
With the countless rewrites and producers influence to make it more US-friendly, I beg to differ.
 
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Beg whatever you want. It was produced by two Kiwis, one Brit & one American. It was directed by a Brit and written by one of the aforementioned Kiwis. The production company is British based and largely autonomous at this budget point. There weren't countless re-writes - production was smooth and hassle free.

It may very well be tediously worthy award season fodder (I haven't seen it) but the fact that it's My Life With Stephen: The Movie rather than A Brief History of Time: The Movie (and/or plain crap) has got shit all to do with fuckin-thick-septics-amirite.

"This British apple is not an orange and it's all AMERIKA's fault!" is logic a product of the Mississippi public school system could unpick.
 

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It will be a softened down version of her book there is no doubt about that to appeal to Yank audiences. They will have deliberately cut out some of the more unsavoury aspects of their marriage together and it won't be a warts-and-all story which her book will contain. It will be too safe a production, made entirely for sentimentality and without controversy, and there was rewrites undoubtedly to make this a sure banker.
 

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Gone Girl
It's quite good. The narrating annoyed me because it sounds like Desperate Housewives. I'm a bit worried now because people say my girlfriend looks a bit like Rosamund Pike so now I'm going to be a bit weary. 7/10.
 

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Wild.

It was alright. I found the hiking a lot more interesting than the background story. It also played on the fact that every male she met there was a risk of rape and deliberately built the tension to make you think that. A bit obvious really and got a bit annoying as the film went on.

Reese is still beautiful though.

A 7/10 I think. I wouldn't bother going to the cinema to watch it like I did.
 

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As Above, So Below

A silly final 15 somewhat spoiled an otherwise above average horror. Not one for the claustrophobic!

6/10
 

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What the flying hell is up with people going overboard with this film? It was crap! Nothing happens in it! I don't find the actors that good and they are very good ones. Don't have a clue what's so fucking good about it!
 

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The Untouchables (1987)

Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) and his hand-picked unit (Sean Connery, Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith) take on Al Capone (Robert De Niro) in prohibition era Chicago.

8/10
 

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The Godfather trilogy is currently on Film 4 again so Im watching these

ratings well I think everyone knows how brilliant the first to films are.
 

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Day Of The Dead - George A Romero

The overground is filled with the undead - not the Wombles - whilst a small bunch of scientists and military folk try to survive in an underground bunker. Not a bad film at all but not a patch on his two zombie films before this. It's got some cracking 80's music though. And some great 80's swearing.
 

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Grown Ups 2 (2013).
The first one was shit and this wasn't any better. 3/10

Alien Abduction (2014).
Found footage Aliens and rednecks. 6/10

RoboCop (2014).
I don't know why I watched this. RoboCop being one of my favourites I was never going to really warm to the remake, but my god I think I'm justified in calling this out as a massive bag of wank. As with the remake of Verhoeven's other late 80's/early 90's classic this is also a tame and boring adaptation, although you could at least argue a case for the latter simply being a re-imagining of the source material. I fully expect a Basic Instinct with Scarlett Johansson not even flashing any nipple to be made in the next couple of years. 1/10
 

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What the flying hell is up with people going overboard with this film? It was crap! Nothing happens in it! I don't find the actors that good and they are very good ones. Don't have a clue what's so fucking good about it!

Great film, will have nothing bad said about it! ;)

The Untouchables (1987)

Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) and his hand-picked unit (Sean Connery, Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith) take on Al Capone (Robert De Niro) in prohibition era Chicago.

8/10

Superb film also, well paced, dramatic, and full of tension (with scenes like Connery's death scene and the tribute to Battleship Potemkin in the train station), acted well with De Niro in full mad bastard mode and Connery with his no-nonsense approach (even though he is supposed to be Irish, he still keeps the Scottish accent - good lad!); and a fantastic soundtrack from the great Ennio Morricone which I have. Well worth a watch.
 

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The Sacrament - Ti West

The only "films" of Ti West I've seen is his section in The ABC's Of Death and V/H/S so I wasn't too sure what to expect. It's another "found footage" film - I'm fed up to the back teeth with these, they need to leave them alone for a while - that follows a news team into a cult style closure to find a sister of one of the said team. Everyone seems pretty happy....or do they?! It's a pretty standard horror, I guess. Nothing spectacular, nothing really terrible. I do have The Innkeepers on the Sky box...not sure if to bother watching it.
 

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I'm quite a fan of Ti West's films, maybe not so much because they're great horror films but more due to him being a young director who at least for now seems committed to the horror genre. I enjoyed The Innkeepers but like House of the Devil the pacing is a little slow at times.

When The Lights Went Out (2012).
Haunted house chiller set in Ponty. 5/10
 

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Still my favourite of the series. 10/10.
Thats a hard one I can't pick between that and T2. Its a bit like Alien and Aliens, both are fantastic, part of the same series, yet completely different in direction.
 

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What the flying hell is up with people going overboard with this film? It was crap! Nothing happens in it! I don't find the actors that good and they are very good ones. Don't have a clue what's so fucking good about it!
I agree, didn't do anything for me either.
 

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