Film

[Kunt 4 Life]

I've watched the first two Transformers films with the young lad over the holidays having never bothered seeing them before. Brainless dumb fun up to a point, but fuck me if they don't pull the arse out of them with the 2.5 hrs running time.

All the huh-ha 'look at how cool the US military is' shite is contemptible, but the plot is so preposterous it'd make a toddler shake his head in disbelief.

Michael Bay, but. No point whining I suppose.

That's the biggest problem with it for me is how bloated they are. They really could have done with an editor cutting it down by a good hour.

Its like at school where you have to write an essay and you go back and make it look longer by adding extra words and spinning sentences out

[Carnage]

Stumbled on The Man in the Iron Mask yesterday. Hadn't seen it in years. Nobody does a tale of betrayal and vengeance quite like Dumas.

Which version? Some great moustache twirling in the Richard Chamberlain/Patrick McGoohan version.

[Emphyrio]

No, twas the 90s one. Is the older one worth a watch?

[Carnage]

It is, it pops up on Film 4 regularly. Very corny and melodramatic, scenery chewing aplenty, but great fun. Great cast too: the two I mentioned, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Jenny Agutter...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Jenny Agutter... *swoon*

Richard Chamberlain's King Solomon's Mines is another one I loved as a kid. It may be awful, but seemed great back then and I've been curious to see it again ever since.

[Carnage]

I saw that in the cinema when it came out. A shameless and low rate Indiana Jones rip off, if memory serves. Co-starring a young Sharon Stone, too. Who pales in comparison with The Agutter, obviously.

[leatherface]

'Logan's Run' is where it's at as far as Jenny Agutter films go.

[Carnage]

I'm still ficking raging that the shower scene in An American Werewolf In London is censored in recent releases. There was definitely nipple in the video I bought from the Virgin Megastore in the late '80s, absent from my DVD and any TV version I've seen. Of all the things to cut in that film, even the faux porn in the cinema toward the end is untouched!

[John Kimble]

Having enjoyed the Indiana Jones trilogy, as I do every Christmas, I had the misfortune to watch maybe 40 mins or so of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Note I said trilogy. There really are no redeeming features of that last film whatsoever. It's just really terrible. Anything with Shia laBeouf is doomed from the start, but that's one of many, many issues. Christ though, it's amazing how badly the visual effects compare with it's predecessors, despite the obvious leaps in technology since.

[Caomhaoin]

Even my auld one, who is about as far from a thespian as it's possible to get, summed it up succinctly after watching it in the cinema years ago ;

'Pure shite'.

[Eoin McLove]

Rewatched Manhunter last night. It has dated, but is still very good. The music probably makes it that bit more dated, although it's great too

Jesus, I thought that was shite and Cox was brutal in it. I usually like him but he just lacked any sense of the menace that what's his name (brainfart) brought to the character.

[Necro Red]

Rewatched Manhunter last night. It has dated, but is still very good. The music probably makes it that bit more dated, although it's great too

Jesus, I thought that was shite and Cox was brutal in it. I usually like him but he just lacked any sense of the menace that what's his name (brainfart) brought to the character.

I'd have to disagree there now. Thought Cox was great in it, Hopkins and Mikkelsen have more screen time and could develop the character more. Mikkelsen is the best Hannibal. I've probably made a controversial statement saying that ha ha

[Carnage]

I'd agree with that. Hopkins would have taken it if he'd left it at The Silence Of The Lambs but it all got a bit cartoonish in Hannibal (which I really like, underrated film) and Red Dragon.

[nukeabuse]

Speaking of Mads, watched riders of justice the other day. Best movie I've seen in a while. On paper sounds like a taken/John wick revenge movie through a coen brothers black comedy lense but an original take on the genre. If you don't mind the subtitles well worth a watch. His other Danish movie about them trying to stay to stay hammered is a good watch also.

[Carnage]

Another western of his, The Salvation, is worth a look. 5 or 6 years old, it's a fairly brutal revenge western, goes in and out of formula as it progresses. Recommended.