Films

[Ed209]

british reviews don't seem to be sucking its dick quite as much as the american ones. Main criticism is its way too long

[LondonTom]

Apparently so...

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[t8yman]

british reviews don't seem to be sucking its dick quite as much as the american ones. Main criticism is its way too long

[rexclark]

£99 just to see a film? A film that you could probably see a day or two later for about £10? Utter madness.

[jump]

Just watched Paranormal Activity 3, decent enough and a good watch but I'm getting so bored of these films now.

Pixar has announced Finding Nemo 2. What has happened to them that they have started churning sequel after sequel?

Edited July 18, 2012 by jump

[The Nal]

Booked The Dark Knight Rises. 5pm Saturday.

[pink_triangle]

british reviews don't seem to be sucking its dick quite as much as the american ones. Main criticism is its way too long

[The Nal]

british reviews don't seem to be sucking its dick quite as much as the american ones. Main criticism is its way too long

[jump]

The length doesn't bother me, I just hope it doesn't have the usual Nolan problems of having no character investment and the score being 2 hours of loud banging but I doubt it.

[philipsteak]

I think most big films released now are too long, give me a 100 minute film anyday. There are very few 2 hours + films I have seen which would have been ruined by cutting them down a little.

[rexclark]

I get quite uncomrortable if I'm sitting in the cinema. I think The Dark Knight could easily have shaved a bit off without losing anything.

[sifi]

It's not going to be as good as the last one. Ledger's performance made it. It'll be good as in the first one was good. But not great like the second one was.

[The Nal]

I get quite uncomrortable if I'm sitting in the cinema. I think The Dark Knight could easily have shaved a bit off without losing anything.

[AcademicPistol]

I'm glad to Hardy getting some proper acknowledgement i've been a fan of him since Layer Cake.

[G-Stud]

Re-watched Begins & Dark Knight in prep for tomorrow, forgot how much I enjoy those films

[Purple Monkey]

I suspect I will find Dark Knight Rises amazing at the cinema. Absolutely stunning. Just like I did with his other films: Inception, Prestige and the other Batman movies.

Then I'll get it on Blu-ray and find them rather great films.

Then after a while I'll realise they were really good, with excellent moments, but not without a few flaws.

All Nolan movies are best viewed on a massive screen. I reckon I'll come out of the cinema feeling like I've just been on the best roller-coaster while not having my intelligence insulted. That's what Nolan does best I think. Since I'm easily swept up by the cinema experience my judgement kind of goes out of the window a bit until I'm able to view it objectively at home.

Dark Knight has a few moments where I wish they just had the balls to cut. The scene with the boats actually annoys me now, it's just a typical load of Hollywood bunk where the "people" rally together to gang up on the villain. Every Spider-Man movie including the new one has a moment like this and it's vomit-inducing every time and rips me right out of the movie. It doesn't have to be realistic but shit like this is incongruous bullshit that shatters the fiction. Bale's voice is ridiculous in Dark Knight too and some of his wisecracks make me want to curl up and die ("I'm not wearring Hockey Pads"). His final speech to the Joker about people being good and not as crooked as him is supposed to sound pained and laboured but he just sounds like Napoleon Dynamite with chronic asthma. The bit where Batman does a flip on the bike is a total "What the fuck?" moment. He would be dead, I know he's Batman, but again that stunt is stupid and fiction-breaking. Comparatively the first movie has fewer of these which is why despite Ledgers inspired performance I prefer Batman & Biggins, even with the hokey microwave cartoon villain plot. When I first saw The Dark Knight I thought it was the best thing ever. Saying that I still enjoy it, and the great bits are really fucking great.

I hope to God this movie gets to the end without the "people" helping Batman out in some stupid manner.

Edited July 20, 2012 by Purple Monkey

[AcademicPistol]

So what's everyones favourite Takshi Miike film?

[jump]

I'm glad to Hardy getting some proper acknowledgement i've been a fan of him since Layer Cake.

[The Nal]

Don't, he's a fucking c**t in real life.

[G-Stud]

14 dead at a Dark Knight Rises midnight showing in the states after a gunman opened fire...

[The Nal]

14 dead at a Dark Knight Rises midnight showing in the states after a gunman opened fire...

[G-Stud]

Yeah, 14 dead and up to 50 injured. FFS.

[Purple Monkey]

Yeah, 14 dead and up to 50 injured. FFS.

[G-Stud]

Oh absolutely. They'll say Bane and his revolutionary role in the movie is a figure for people to rally behind.

[jump]

^or maybe they will say someone in the crowd started spoiling the movie, like saying what's Bane is up to in it.