list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

Finally got around to watching Total Recall with Farrell and Beckinsale. Good action and look to the film, lousy plot.

Run Fatboy Run (2007) directed by that talentless c*nt in Friends David Schwimmer

Far be it from me to prejudice you towards this movie but not even the abilities of the routinely excellent Dylan Moran and Simon Pegg can rescue this 'off the shelf' heart-string tugger. Sentimental, cliched and with a 'feel good factor' that is a war crime against British comedic sensibility. Moran and Pegg should be embarrassed by this and the only credible reason I can think of that they failed to ask Schwimmer to go take a well earned f*ck to himself was the huge fat cheque on offer. Imagine an Ealing comedy directed by someone whose never been there, never seen one and whose target audience believe that cruelty and sadness can be banished forever by more hugging. There are some funny moments but these are because of Moran and Pegg in spite of Schwimmer. Erm.. the soundtrack's good.

Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors

Dayvenkirq wrote: ^ What do you know - Michael Ian Black took over the story- and script-writing duties. No wonder it sucks. I heard his stand-up. His jokes are stupid and juvenile.

Ah...I didn't pick up on that so thanks, guess that might explain the sugar coated pacifier of a plot

Creature from the Black Lagoon

This stunner from 1954 still draws us in with its gorgeous photography, costumes, sets and stunts, and some of the most effective suspense moments in film history.   With a sympathetic attitude toward the creature that echoes the Frankenstein story, the impact Creature from the Black Lagoon had on everything from Jaws to Alien is clear.

^ what is??  title please !

oh love DP, one of the best American noirs ever--  that whole first scene in the car where we are Bogey is fantastic, very innovative at that time

Apollo 13

Though diabetically mawkish, Ron Howard's painstaking recreation of the third manned moonshot in 1970 is among the best syntheses of science and dramatic filmmaking and gave everyone a crash-course in spaceflight and physics.   Claustrophobic, well-documented, probably Howard's best movie.





Edited by Atavachron - July 14 2014 at 03:59

I at first read it as "diabolically mawkish". I haven't seen Apollo 13 but I imagine it would make an interesting compare-and-contrast with The Right Stuff. ("diabolically mawkish" certainly seems like a phrase Tom Wolfe could use)

Atavachron wrote: Creature from the Black Lagoon This stunner from 1954 still draws us in with its gorgeous photography, costumes, sets and stunts, and some of the most effective suspense moments in film history.   With a sympathetic attitude toward the creature that echoes the Frankenstein story, the impact Creature from the Black Lagoon had on everything from Jaws to Alien is clear.

Having grown up watching those on black and white tv as a kid I always liked them but that one was always one of my least favorites of the old Hollywood classic horror films (Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man, The Mummy, etc..) . The underwater scenes bored  me for some reason and The Creature didn't really scare me. In the 50's I preferred the sci-fi horror like Them, It came From Outer Space, The Thing, etc.