Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey. Pretty decent war film set entirely inside a tank.
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Sucker punch. Is not good film.
The Soloist. Robert Downey Jnr. tries to help a mental. Hard work, although the excellent Tom Hollander pops up at one point as a creepy Jesus-freak.
Watched the Senna documentary last night at local flicks. Brilliant I reckon. Amazing race footage and some real heavy moments.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ June 20 2011, 12:34 AM BSTSucker punch. Is not good film.
It looked terrible like an intro sequence from a bad PS3 game.
I picked up Catch-22 on the way home. I watched it about a decade ago and enjoyed it, so will approach it excitedly later tonight.
Baz Luhrmann's Australia. Risible yet strangely entertaining romantic epic. I dread to think what Luhrmann's 3D Great Gatsby will be like.
Just watched Catch-22. It was ok, but a bit disjointed. I thought Alan Arkin was very good in it though. He was very handsome as well.
I haaated Australia. It was too long imho.
Quote: chipolata @ June 25 2011, 12:33 PM BSTBaz Luhrmann's Australia. Risible yet strangely entertaining romantic epic. I dread to think what Luhrmann's 3D Great Gatsby will be like.
It' engagingly sweet and awful like a kind of clumsy fairytale for stupid children
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 25 2011, 8:06 PM BSTI haaated Australia. It was too long imho.
I don't know. The cattle stampede toward the cliffs was as thrilling as anything you'll see in modern cinema.
The Town, Ben Affleck's follow up as writer-director to Gone Baby Gone. It's not quite as good as that one, but a very solid, enjoyable cops and robbers flick.
Crumb, the documentary about American 'underground' comic artist Robert Crumb (although I'm not a fan of his work, preferring Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe). An excellent film, especially the interviews with his two social misfit (or mentally ill/eccentric) brothers: the suicidal Charles (who looks and sounds like Terry Gilliam) and the epileptic Max. Crumb was sexually attracted to Bugs Bunny, among other things. How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure.
The King's Speech. Very good, although it is essentially just a royal Rocky.
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