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by **Number 9** » Tue May 19, 2009 7:50 am

I watched The Hunting Party the other night,not bad but by no means great either.Its about a crew of journos that are hunting for a Bosnian war criminal.
They could have done so much more with it..average!
5/10

by **Festy** » Tue May 19, 2009 11:57 am

Watched Casino (1995) (De Niro, Presci) on DVD again. One of my favorite movies of all time. De Niro at his best. 9/10 :bowdown

by **Number 9** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:17 pm

I have the Changeling for later!

If its shi'te I can still perv at Jolie!

by **laza** » Wed May 20, 2009 7:57 am

Finally got around to seeing the Dark Knight and thought it was fairly ho hum TBH.
Heath Ledger final work didnt exactly have me screaming for him to get an oscar either

by **Keris** » Wed May 27, 2009 9:51 am

Watched Angels & Demons.
I don't f**kin believe it.
Contrary to consensus. I f**kin hate the movie. :angry:

It BUTCHERED the book!!!
Why can't it stayed with the book? Even if they only followed half what was written in the book,
it will still be a better story.
the Book wins hands down, Book 10, movie 3!!!
:angry:

by **Emerald Red** » Sat May 30, 2009 6:09 pm

Terminator Salvation

The stage was set. Ever since we first seen those flashback scenes from the future war in the first film, fans of the film always wanted a film based entirely on that premise and that post-apocalyptic world. Well, now, 25 years on, we finally get to see those wishes realized. They couldn't possibly f*ck up an idea that cool, right? Wrong. Typical of form for Hollywood these days, they've just gone and made a shambes of it. So much potential gone to waste in this film. The plot is an absolute nonsense, and the script likewise. The acting at times just almost puts you to sleep, with only the noise of explosions to keep you from lapsing.

Anyone just hoping that this would be better than the 3rd installment will be shocked to know that it's actually as bad, if not worse. My main gripe with this is the terminators themselves. In the first two films, they are portrayed as being ruthless, hard-as-nails killing machines that sent a tingle up your spin whenever they were seen in their naked robotic skeletal form on the screen. They didn't f*ck around. If one got a hold of you, you were dead. Simple as that. Not in Salvation, though. For some reason there is a distinct lack of them, and when they do make an appearance, you'd expect them to go to town and rip hearts and heads off and all that. But no. They just faff about, merely slapping their victims and generally throwing them around for a bit, for fun I assume. At one point in the film, their two main enemies that the machines want dead are in the same building and at their mercy. You'd think for a cold, ruthless machine, that they'd have them stone dead in two seconds. I know the T-800 from the first film would have, or in other words Arnie would have. Oh, wait a second...

If a second one of these is to be made, just simply have it as we imagined it, and as was seen in the original film, please. I'm not holding my breath. What a waste.

4/10

by **tubby** » Sat May 30, 2009 6:16 pm

Emerald I was really looking forward to that.

Hopefully Transformers 2 will be good.

by **Emerald Red** » Sat May 30, 2009 6:35 pm

bavlondon wrote:Emerald I was really looking forward to that.

Hopefully Transformers 2 will be good.

So was I. If you go and watch it and somehow try to forget that it's linked to the brilliant first two films, then you just might find it passable. However, the trouble with the film is it's director and the direction he took the film in. The premise is just terrible, whereas it should have started with the world as it is today and maybe showing one or two of the main characters in their lives as they were before the bombs dropped. Then showing the devastation of the nuclear war as the bombs rained down; then the rise of the machines as they went about slaughtering people; then the rise of the resistence concentrating on John Conner. That, in a nutshell, should have been the plot leading into a bigger scale war and setting up the other two films.

A major factor on why it was so bad is because it was lacking any of the tension of the first two films. You were never at ease when a terminator was on screen hunting it's victims. That's gone now. For me, that was why the series became as big as it is.

by **tubby** » Sat May 30, 2009 6:44 pm

Dont know why but I thought James Cameron directed this. I guess thats why i was looking forward to it. The last film before this was cack as well, the best bit was watching the nuclear attack and that was right at the end.

Anyway ill probably still end up downloading this at the very least so you saved me a buying some overpriced icecream.

Cheers mate.

by **Emerald Red** » Sat May 30, 2009 7:07 pm

bavlondon wrote:Dont know why but I thought James Cameron directed this. I guess thats why i was looking forward to it. The last film before this was cack as well, the best bit was watching the nuclear attack and that was right at the end.

Anyway ill probably still end up downloading this at the very least so you saved me a buying some overpriced icecream. Cheers mate.

James Cameron? I wish. Someone should have even tempted Ridley Scott to give it a go. Instead we got a no mark eejit called McG. Yes, McG. That's his name. Director of such instant classics like, erm....Charlie's Angels. Whoever gives the green light to let amateurs like this fella even near a legendary film title like Terminator must be smoking crack cocain. Proof that a lot of dlck sucking really does go on in Hollywood for sure.

by **tonyeh** » Sat May 30, 2009 8:14 pm

Emerald Red wrote:Terminator Salvation

The stage was set. Ever since we first seen those flashback scenes from the future war in the first film, fans of the film always wanted a film based entirely on that premise and that post-apocalyptic world. Well, now, 25 years on, we finally get to see those wishes realized. They couldn't possibly f*ck up an idea that cool, right? Wrong. Typical of form for Hollywood these days, they've just gone and made a shambes of it. So much potential gone to waste in this film. The plot is an absolute nonsense, and the script likewise. The acting at times just almost puts you to sleep, with only the noise of explosions to keep you from lapsing.

Anyone just hoping that this would be better than the 3rd installment will be shocked to know that it's actually as bad, if not worse. My main gripe with this is the terminators themselves. In the first two films, they are portrayed as being ruthless, hard-as-nails killing machines that sent a tingle up your spin whenever they were seen in their naked robotic skeletal form on the screen. They didn't f*ck around. If one got a hold of you, you were dead. Simple as that. Not in Salvation, though. For some reason there is a distinct lack of them, and when they do make an appearance, you'd expect them to go to town and rip hearts and heads off and all that. But no. They just faff about, merely slapping their victims and generally throwing them around for a bit, for fun I assume. At one point in the film, their two main enemies that the machines want dead are in the same building and at their mercy. You'd think for a cold, ruthless machine, that they'd have them stone dead in two seconds. I know the T-800 from the first film would have, or in other words Arnie would have. Oh, wait a second...

If a second one of these is to be made, just simply have it as we imagined it, and as was seen in the original film, please. I'm not holding my breath. What a waste.

4/10

There's been one good Terminator film, the first one.

All the rest have been shit and that series was fuckin awful, as are most US TV series.

So, on that measure, I'm not surprised at all that the latest installment in this hugely over-rated franchise is a dud too.

by **tubby** » Sat May 30, 2009 8:58 pm

T2 was brilliant mate.

by **Emerald Red** » Sat May 30, 2009 11:49 pm

tonyeh wrote:
Emerald Red wrote:Terminator Salvation

The stage was set. Ever since we first seen those flashback scenes from the future war in the first film, fans of the film always wanted a film based entirely on that premise and that post-apocalyptic world. Well, now, 25 years on, we finally get to see those wishes realized. They couldn't possibly f*ck up an idea that cool, right? Wrong. Typical of form for Hollywood these days, they've just gone and made a shambes of it. So much potential gone to waste in this film. The plot is an absolute nonsense, and the script likewise. The acting at times just almost puts you to sleep, with only the noise of explosions to keep you from lapsing.

Anyone just hoping that this would be better than the 3rd installment will be shocked to know that it's actually as bad, if not worse. My main gripe with this is the terminators themselves. In the first two films, they are portrayed as being ruthless, hard-as-nails killing machines that sent a tingle up your spin whenever they were seen in their naked robotic skeletal form on the screen. They didn't f*ck around. If one got a hold of you, you were dead. Simple as that. Not in Salvation, though. For some reason there is a distinct lack of them, and when they do make an appearance, you'd expect them to go to town and rip hearts and heads off and all that. But no. They just faff about, merely slapping their victims and generally throwing them around for a bit, for fun I assume. At one point in the film, their two main enemies that the machines want dead are in the same building and at their mercy. You'd think for a cold, ruthless machine, that they'd have them stone dead in two seconds. I know the T-800 from the first film would have, or in other words Arnie would have. Oh, wait a second...

If a second one of these is to be made, just simply have it as we imagined it, and as was seen in the original film, please. I'm not holding my breath. What a waste.

4/10

There's been one good Terminator film, the first one.

All the rest have been shit and that series was fuckin awful, as are most US TV series.

So, on that measure, I'm not surprised at all that the latest installment in this hugely over-rated franchise is a dud too.

The Terminator series is not overrated. The first and second films were sci-fi masterpieces; the 3rd was ropey. The fact that a brilliant post-apocalyptc war action film could have been made in the Terminator premise that was seen in the first film is what's really disappointing. It should have been really amazing, but somehow they managed to f*ck it up as usual.

by **tonyeh** » Sun May 31, 2009 1:57 am

Sorry lads, but Terminator 2 was awful. Mushy crap with a ridiculous bad guy liquid robot. A LIQUID?? robot?...what bollocks.

Utter nonsense.

They took a great bad guy in the first (Arnie) and made him a lap dog. They took a single minded killing machine and tried to make him a wise-cracking all American hero.....

Rubbish.

"H'asta la Vista baby", me arse.

Nice bike though.

by **Emerald Red** » Sun May 31, 2009 5:49 am

tonyeh wrote:Sorry lads, but Terminator 2 was awful. Mushy crap with a ridiculous bad guy liquid robot. A LIQUID?? robot?...what bollocks.

Utter nonsense.

They took a great bad guy in the first (Arnie) and made him a lap dog. They took a single minded killing machine and tried to make him a wise-cracking all American hero.....

Rubbish.

"H'asta la Vista baby", me arse.

Nice bike though.

I think you're the only person I've heard with an opinion like that.

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