Last Film You Watched

[Rebecka Fan]

Truth or Dare (with Alex and Tove). Good watch.

[Ian]

Jammy sod.

[Ian]

Went to the cinema to see Shutter Island today. Unfortunately.

Oh dearie me. Talk about crushingly predictable to a truly depressing extent. No joke, I had the ending to this movie pegged from the moment I saw the trailer a couple of months ago. I went hoping I'd be wrong.

I wasn't.

Unbelievable. I would like to know if there is anyone on the planet who didn't see that ending coming, and if they exist, whether they have ever seen any other movies in their entire life, because I find it hard to believe, personally. It was THAT obvious.

[fish]

Don't hold back there Ian.
Please tell us what you really think of it.

[triddy]

Went to the cinema to see Shutter Island today. Unfortunately.

Oh good, I was thinking of watching it as well, but now I won't waste my money

It's kind of boring how many of those movies that are supposed to be unpredictable often turn out to be the opposite. I remember watching "Flight Plan" and getting really dissapointed because of the ending. I mean, why can't they ever think of something new? Does it always have to be something supernatural or likewise? It kinda takes the edge off it...

[Ian]

LOL

Y'know, I only saw about 4 movies at the cinema last year. I was concerned maybe I was just turning into a boring old fart (no comments there at the back ) but having seen two in a month, I am once more reminded - no. My cinema attendance has fallen drastically in recent years because so little even SOUNDS interesting, and half the time when you do force yourself to go, you come away thinking "Well, that's two hours of my life I'll never get back."

Even more headslammingly, when there's something you ARE really interested in (like LTROI), it'll only be played at the arthouse cinema all the way in the city at stupid times, so you end up getting it on DVD instead anyway (I strongly suspect the same fate will befall Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well).

I just have to face it. I'm completely out of step with the rest of the world .

[fish]

....I'm completely out of step with the rest of the world .

You might be the only one in step.
Ever think of it that way?

Watched the 1995 British adaptation of Joanna Trollope's "A Village Affair" with the lovely Sophie Ward in the lead role of wife and mother Alice, and Kerry Fox as Clodagh, daughter of the village "gentry".

Good performances from the whole cast, special mention to the nosy, gossiping, homophobic villagers. (I nearly said village people. ) The way they carried on at the scent of a bit of scandal made me glad I don't live there. I mean Adelaide is small enough with around a million people but in the village of Pitcombe everybody, but everybody, knew everyone else's business in the most minute detail. Very cringeworthy.

Don't know if small English villages were like that in the 90's, maybe a few decades earlier perhaps. Then again maybe they're still like it.

All in all an enjoyable film I'll be watching again.

DVD cover

Alice's family

The actress playing Alice's daughter Natasha, on the right has been in a few films since then.

Alice and Clodagh on the farm, inspecting the crops.

[Ian]

Good Lord, that's Keira Knightley!?!?!?

Mmm... was that before or after Ms Ward came out in real life, I wonder?

[fish]

This was before she came out, but she did say that making this film gave her courage when the time came.


and yes, Keira age 9.

[Ian]

Sophie Ward will always be Elizabeth from Young Sherlock Holmes to me.

[Ian]

Rented both Whip It and Drag Me To Hell last night. Whip It was average at best, turned off the latter and ended up watching Babylon 5 and Blackadder instead.

[fish]

You could have watched Twilight instead like I did.

Caught it on one of the pay-tv channels so I decided to watch it.

Am I the only one who's seen it and was completely underwhelmed? What an ordinary film. Nothing scary, no devious plot twists, just a bit of formulaic bloodletting here and there and an excess of computer generated effects. Fairly boring storyline too, there just didn't seem to be any surprises.

I thought there was no chemistry between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as the lead characters. Despite all the protestations of never ending love there was just no spark, just a couple of bland kids reciting their lines. How she's going to play Lisbeth Salander is beyond me, she'll certainly need to lift her game.

Probably not a bad film, just not very good in my opinion.

[Ian]

Sounds like big film success for both of us yesterday!

[Ian]

Jason X. Utter crap, but it knows it, and has fun with it, and is actually rather fun. The sexy female android totally PWNING Jason Vorhees is worth the price of rental alone.

[fish]

Last night on one of the movie channels they had Silence of the Lambs. Hadn't seen it in years so I watched it again.

What a great film, I loved evey minute of it, I flinched and cringed and all that just like the first time I saw it. Pity more films of this quality don't get made.

And Jodie Foster is gorgeous.

Well, can't stop chatting, I'm having an old friend round for dinner.