What films have you watched recently?

Myranda

randomhandclaps said:

Shit endings?  Are you forgetting the Langoliers? 

 

Does it still count as a shit ending if the beginning and middle were also shit?

JAYJO

Frozen Ground, Nicholas Cage and John Cussack. Not bad based on true events. Too many topless women in it!!!.  @-)

randomhandclaps

Myranda said:

randomhandclaps said:

Shit endings?  Are you forgetting the Langoliers? 

 

Does it still count as a shit ending if the beginning and middle were also shit?

 

I reckon fans would use the term 'in keeping'.

holnrew

CabbageCat said:

The ending in the Watchmen movie was much better than the ending in the book.

But the rest of it was less good. They missed out on the seedy, grimy feel of the world. It doesn't much feel like an alternate timeline, it isn't different enough. And there's no smoking. That makes it seem cleaner somehow.

Excellent casting though, and the beginning was very good. The most annoying thing is how close they got to it being right. The less said about Leonard Cohen, the better.

No idea why people think it was unfilmable though.

Lixarto

Myranda said: The Shining is absolutely bloody amazing and Stephen King moaned that it wasn't the same as his book - nope, but it was brilliant rather than average...

I watched this again the other day, and I have to say as a film it is pretty shit.

The book was a whole lot better. But, to look on the bright side, at least Kubrick isn't around to adapt "Dr Sleep"

(I have a lot of time for King as an author, and I can recognise the one valid piece of criticism in this thread - that his endings can disappoint - I'd cite the ending of the film version of "The Mist" as better than the story. He's worth it just for "Hearts in Atlantis" though)

IanSavage

Lixarto said:

I have a lot of time for King as an author, and I can recognise the one valid piece of criticism in this thread - that his endings can disappoint...

He seriously petered out with the Dark Tower series, that really disappointed me. 

Lixarto

Really? I liked the self-referential stuff; it made sense within the fiction. Mordred being a spider (again) was perhaps obvious, but there were valid reasons for that (as in "It").

Most of all, I liked "The Dark Tower" for Oy. He was great.

ddlooping

Myranda said:

It's why my favourite adaptation of one of his books is Needful Things...

The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Misery?

Myranda

ddlooping said:

Myranda said:

It's why my favourite adaptation of one of his books is Needful Things...

The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Misery?

I'd forgotten those... but I find Needful Things to have a certain charm... Max Von Sydow is brilliant fun as the baddie

Col_Decker

Tried to watch Mr.Magoo (sp?) yesterday with the kids. Utter crap

ThePrettyDamned

randomhandclaps said:

If you want a good horror film nowadays you are most probably going to have to put up with subtitles - or wait until there's a dire remake that misses the point.  The Orphanage is a great one if you've not seen it.

IanSavage said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Seeing Saw today.  Looking forward to it. Really getting into my horror, so if anyone can recommend good, stupidly creepy films (a la The Ring), I'm game.

 

If you can put up with subtitles, there's a Spanish fillum called '[Rec]' which is pretty damned creepy.

Subtitles are fine - my all time favourite film is Oldboy.  

Sadly, this beautiful tragedy is being remade, and they've already added in the standard American 'one liner before I kill you' thing.  Hopefully, they will at least capture the spirit of the film (IE confusion and tension until the last half hour with very few hints as to the actual ending).  I'll watch it, but I feel guilty to be part of the reason remakes will forever exist - the typical 'fan going to see how good or bad they made it'.  I don't know why it NEEDS remaking - would you remake The Godfather? Or The Evil Dead?

Oh, wait... ¬_¬

ThePrettyDamned

Lixarto said:

Really? I liked the self-referential stuff; it made sense within the fiction. Mordred being a spider (again) was perhaps obvious, but there were valid reasons for that (as in "It").

Most of all, I liked "The Dark Tower" for Oy. He was great.

GAH! I love Oy.  I'm not a huge SK fan (though Misery and The Shining are wonderful) but it's testament to him how he could convey so much personality to an animal that only makes one noise... 

ICBM

ThePrettyDamned said:

Subtitles are fine - my all time favourite film is Oldboy.  

Sadly, this beautiful tragedy is being remade, and they've already added in the standard American 'one liner before I kill you' thing.  Hopefully, they will at least capture the spirit of the film (IE confusion and tension until the last half hour with very few hints as to the actual ending).  I'll watch it, but I feel guilty to be part of the reason remakes will forever exist - the typical 'fan going to see how good or bad they made it'.  I don't know why it NEEDS remaking - would you remake The Godfather? Or The Evil Dead?

Nah… just boycott it. There is no reason they need to be remade. I'm not familiar with Oldboy, but a couple of my favourite films have been remade, and it would take being forced at gunpoint to make me watch them, even for free.

randomhandclaps

The need to remake Let The Right On In still angers me.  If you are going to remake a foreign language film, fuck it about and miss the point then just make a different film based on the same concept.

I hate the way it makes you sound like a bit of a pretentious prick when you endlessly say "It's not as good as the original!", but unfortunately remakes are almost always crap.

IanSavage

ThePrettyDamned said:

Subtitles are fine - my all time favourite film is Oldboy.  

Sadly, this beautiful tragedy is being remade, and they've already added in the standard American 'one liner before I kill you' thing.  Hopefully, they will at least capture the spirit of the film (IE confusion and tension until the last half hour with very few hints as to the actual ending).  I'll watch it, but I feel guilty to be part of the reason remakes will forever exist - the typical 'fan going to see how good or bad they made it'.  I don't know why it NEEDS remaking - would you remake The Godfather? Or The Evil Dead?

Oh, wait... ¬_¬

Oh, they re-made [Rec] ages ago - it's called 'Quarantine', don't touch it with a ten-foot pole. 

EricTheWeary

The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Very different beast to the book. Enjoyable romp.

not_the_dj

Accidently watched Armageddon last night (just happened to be starting on BBC3 as I sat down) so I thought I'd give it a go.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha....

I may be slightly behind the curve here, but WFT....my 5 year old could have picked holes in that film.

frankus

randomhandclaps said:

The need to remake Let The Right On In still angers me.  If you are going to remake a foreign language film, fuck it about and miss the point then just make a different film based on the same concept.

I hate the way it makes you sound like a bit of a pretentious prick when you endlessly say "It's not as good as the original!", but unfortunately remakes are almost always crap.

Hammer bought the rights to make an English language version of the film before it was apparent the original film would be such a massive hit. They might even have begun the process of recording it - I can't remember.

randomhandclaps

Makes sense that as it was a rather speedy 'remake'.

frankus

I watched Date Movie the other night - shockingly crap as it was it was still a better remake