Films

[sifi]

I quite enjoyed cowboys and aliens. Ford was great in it. Can't help but think that it would have been better as just cowboys however.

[rexclark]

Seriously? We watched scream 4 for a laugh. It's shit!!

[jump]

Can anyone recommend some good rockabilly/50's movies that doesn't include Grease? I got a fancy dress party coming up and I want to come up with something better than a T-bird.

[Ed209]

Can anyone recommend some good rockabilly/50's movies that doesn't include Grease? I got a fancy dress party coming up and I want to come up with something better than a T-bird.

Edited August 23, 2011 by Ed209

[jump]

Add some mexican spice and go for La Bamba

[G-Stud]

Can anyone recommend some good rockabilly/50's movies that doesn't include Grease? I got a fancy dress party coming up and I want to come up with something better than a T-bird.

[Purple Monkey]

New Superman looks pretty good - no underpants this time.

Edited August 25, 2011 by Purple Monkey

[G-Stud]

Yeah, looks like the suit is based on the new 52 coming from DC.

[jump]

New Superman looks pretty good - no underpants this time.

[sifi]

Watch Cry Baby with Johnny Depp

Edited August 25, 2011 by sifi

[G-Stud]

Is the one in black meant to be Ursula?

[G-Stud]

Oh, tried to watch Eden Lake last night. Made it about 20 minutes in and turned it off. The girl in is just a terrible actress and it was so horribly cliched in that first 20 minutes that I canned it.

[worm]

Oh, tried to watch Eden Lake last night. Made it about 20 minutes in and turned it off. The girl in is just a terrible actress and it was so horribly cliched in that first 20 minutes that I canned it.

[The Nal]

Very interesting and fascinating essay here from a screenwriter on Conan the Barbarian 3D on it flopping at the box office.

[jump]

Very interesting and fascinating essay here from a screenwriter on Conan the Barbarian 3D on it flopping at the box office.

[Purple Monkey]

Is the one in black meant to be Ursula?

[Purple Monkey]

Yeah, looks like the suit is based on the new 52 coming from DC.

Edited August 25, 2011 by Purple Monkey

[ampersand]

could they not try, you know, doing an different super hero?

how many spiderman and supermans do we need?

[Purple Monkey]

could they not try, you know, doing an different super hero?

how many spiderman and supermans do we need?

Edited August 25, 2011 by Purple Monkey

[The Nal]

could they not try, you know, doing an different super hero?

how many spiderman and supermans do we need?

[Katster]

I remember enjoying it. May have been because it was pretty. I'll try again. f**k Superman and action hero movies. Too much.

[worm]

I'm not sure anyone would describe Eden lake as pretty?!

[worm]

What's even more annoying is that every single superhero movie is a retread in some way of the Richard Donner Superman movie in some fashion. Studios seem to be petrified of moving away from that template. The more risk averse they get the more this happens.

Examples:

Spider-Man the movie features a Peter Parker that has more in common with Reeves Clark Kent, and Spider-Man behaves more like Superman than the wise cracking freak in the comics. There's even a scene where Peter runs down the street ripping his shirt at the chest to reveal his costume underneath to heroic music. That's Supermans thing.

Movie Wolverine is played by Hugh Jackman, because he looks like f**king Superman, not because he looks like Wolverine.

The X-Men films were hamstrung immediately by the fact they are a team - a leading guy was required - enter Hugh Jackman as the mr invincible/superman archetype.

Daredevil behaved nothing like he did in the comics. In the comics Daredevil wears the costume as a last resort but in the movie he goes around like a generic superhero doing generic superhero shit.

Green Lantern featured a plot far more suited to Superman - alien threatens Earthlings, Green Lantern saves them and becomes the new messiah. Yawn. Green Lantern is an intergalactic superhero why is he rubbing Supermans rhubarb?

Then there's the fact all of these superhero movies need to have some sort of Lois Lane style love interest. Tim Burton couldn't even get Batman made without shoe horning in Kim Basinger.

Batman Begins was greenlit because it was pitched as doing for Batman what the Donner movie did for Superman - get an all star cast together to tell the origin story.

Hollywood can't get over Superman even to this day. That's why they all feel so samey - they keep harking back to this ancient f**king formula. The books they are based on are nowhere near as derivative.

Edited August 26, 2011 by worm

[sifi]

I watched the Crow the other day. It hasn't aged well, sadly. I recall watching it at the cinema when it came out and being knocked out by how it looked, and how it sounded, but there are quite a few bits in there now that seem incredibly cringeworthy.

I quite liked Constatine, even though it has Keanu Canoe Kenau Reeves in it.

[t8yman]

I've just bought "The Chaser" having never heard anything about the movie. but it sounds amazing, and was less than £3 on play.com

anyone seen it? no spoilers please!