List the films you've seen at the cinema: 2013

[belboid]

'cos the DVD thread is for home viewing , not cinema going, despite what some people seem to think..... And cos I've just come back from

Life of Pi - hadn't wanted to go and see it, but belatedly catching up with some reviews, I was convinced to change my mind. And it did look great, some stunning scenes, but the story....hmmm. 'It will make you believe in God' they said - but only if you're a fucking idiot who doesn't understand the meaning of the word 'allegory.'

 

[maomao]

Half of Skyfall. I walked out cause it was shit and the audience was too noisy.

Edit: Apologies. That was 2012. I have no plans to go to the cinema again until they ban eating.

 

[Sue]

Edit: Apologies. That was 2012. I have no plans to go to the cinema again until they ban eating.

Went to the pictures yesterday (Sunset Boulevard/To Catch a Thief double bill) and I swear half the audience had a packed lunch with them. (Still, not as bad as the time I went to see Hunger and the people in front of me had sandwiches, big bags of crisps and litre cartons of juice and proceded to munch their way through the film. Which seemed a touch...inappropriate...given the subject matter --though maybe they thought it'd make them feel hungry so brought their own provisions...? )

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Jack Reacher

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Life of Pi, typical Ang Lee, looks very nice but is emotionless and flat in terms of story...

 

[Reno]

I caught a screening of The Sessions, based on the real experiences of a profoundly disabled man who in his late 30s decide to loose his virginity to a sex surrogate. This could easily have gone horribly wrong and ended up sentimental, embarrassing or coy, but it's surprisingly funny, touching and matter of fact. Mainly checked it out because of John Hawkes (Deadwood, Winter's Bone, Martha Marcy May Marlene), who is one of my favourite actors. Helen Hunt is very good too and I believe she has snagged an Oscar nomination for this.

 

[blossie33]

The new Great Expectations film and Jiro Dreams of Sushi, documentary about an 85 year old sushi chef who runs a tiny sushi bar in Tokyo which has been awarded 3 Michelin stars.

 

[pennimania]

La Source des Femmes

at our little film club

 

[RubyBlue]

The Impossible and Les Miserables so far but Lincoln next week.

 

[Big Gunz]

The Hobbit, disappointed.

 

[redsquirrel]

Hitchcock - Not terrible but just totally and utterly directed/plotted by the numbers. Hopkins fat suit isn't as annoying as I thought it might be but I still think the correct way to play such as role is just to go for and use your acting abilities rather than make-up (like he did for Nixon). Nice to see Danny Houston turn up even if it was just as the stock sleaze character that he seems to be stuck playing these days.

 

[belboid]

Spy In Black.

The first Powell/Pressburger collaboration,one I've never seen on the big screen before. And,wow, but it was magnificent. The ninety minutes flew by, and I'd forgotten how everything panned out. It is a really clever, Hitchcockian, movie, with Conrad Veidt and Velarie Hobson being just superb. Whether it was entirely internally consistent is debatable, but is a much overlooked gem, should be seen much more than, eg,Dambusters.

 

[mk12]

Django Unchained - 9/10
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D on Saturday
Lincoln in the next few weeks.

2013 is already shaping up to be a better year for film that 2012!

 

[DexterTCN]

I have one of those oscar ripped djangos to watch 'for your consideration' heh. Looking forward to it.

Sadly not relevant to this thread.

 

[Big Gunz]

Les Mis, pretty grim but really well performed, Huge Jackman surely for the Oscar? Bit overlong though. 7/10

 

[Reno]

Les Mis, pretty grim but really well performed, Huge Jackman surely for the Oscar? Bit overlong though. 7/10

I usually like Hugh Jackman but I think all the other nominees in that category are more deserving. Anne Hathaway deserves her nomination though, not least because she gave two stellar supporting performances this year.

 

[framed]

The Hobbit... I took the weans.

Whilst they are technically very impressive, I find these type of CGI-loaded films a bit like watching one of the kids playing a computer game.

 

[Maltin]

I saw Lincoln last night. It was exceptionally good. Very interesting and excellent performances throughout, especially Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens.

 

[pennimania]

Beasts of the Southern Wild.

The Road meets The Colour Purple.

Liked it but could have done without the magic realism.

 

[belboid]

Django Unchained. Excellent film, hilarious, revolting, absurd, and all to real. Obviously, its too long (get a fucking editor, Quentin!) but it is brilliant. More on the DU thread (or there will be, later)

Oh, I must add: what (or, maybe, why) the fuck was that accent all about, Quentin?

 

[Reno]

Django Unchained. Excellent film, hilarious, revolting, absurd, and all to real. Obviously, its too long (get a fucking editor, Quentin!) but it is brilliant. More on the DU thread (or there will be, later)

Oh, I must add: what (or, maybe, why) the fuck was that accent all about, Quentin?

Sally Menke who was Tarantino's editor for all his previous films died before Django Unchained, which may be a reason why this one drags a little more than some of his other films.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Sally Menke who was Tarantino's editor for all his previous films died before Django Unchained, which may be a reason why this one drags a little more than some of his other films.

What was the excuse before.....

 

[belboid]

Sally Menke who was Tarantino's editor for all his previous films died before Django Unchained, which may be a reason why this one drags a little more than some of his other films.

as I say on the other thread, they've been getting progressively worse (in terms of editting) right from the beginnning. This is slightly less bad for it than Inglorious.

 

[Reno]

as I say on the other thread, they've been getting progressively worse (in terms of editting) right from the beginnning. This is slightly less bad for it than Inglorious.

I far prefer Inglorious Basterds to Django and thought it was better paced. I got bored during the last half hour of Django, seriously bored.

 

[belboid]

I far prefer Inglorious Basterds to Django and thought it was better paced. I got bored during the last half hour of Django, seriously bored.

I got bored with the second hour of Inglorious, but that made up for it with the stupendous final part. With this, the bit after the dull bit would, I think, be great, if we weren't too busy going 'wtf is that accent?' for ten minutes of it.

 

[Reno]

...and I like decent female characters, which Django lacked.

 

[belboid]

there is no denying that. I know why he had Brunhilda be so passive, a princess requiring rescuing, but I wish she'd been allowed to play a bigger part.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Zero Dark Thirty - 8.5. Very impressive, maybe a little over-dramatised here and there, but that's only to be expected. The final scenes are excellent and, considering we all know how it ends, are surprisingly tense.

 

[youngian]

If Zero Dark Thirty is an accurate representation of events it shows the hunt for Bin Laden is either a long slow haul which needed a bit of luck or a resource starved low priority run by a bunch of amateurs. They were hardly the Wire's Lestor Freeman and nor were Al-Quaeda's security even as sophisticated as a Balimore drug gang.

Also saw Lincoln which was interesting reather than gripping. I enjoy procedural politics and it wasn't as asorbing as Recount or Game Change, where the stakes were not as high as the subject of this film.

Did like Daniel Day-Lewis's Lincoln and I'm not usually a fan of his scenery chewing big parts. He bought the iconic figure to life without doing JFK in a top hat. Whether it was accurate I wouldn't know but he was credible as a leader you believe men would follow as well as showing what a bore he could be with his endless folksy stories.
A lot of a dialogue in the congressional debates was great rhetoric and even poetic at points. Especially Tommy Lee Jones as the house leader in a terrible wig that made him look like Nigel Lawson.

 

[Reno]

If Zero Dark Thirty is an accurate representation of events it shows the hunt for Bin Laden is either was a long slow haul which needed a bit of luck or a resource starved low priority run by a bunch of amateurs. They were hardly the Wire's Lestor Freeman and nor were Al-Quaeda even as sophisticated as a Balimore drug gang.

At the risk of pointing out the obvious but the drug gangs in The Wire were right under the cops' noses, while finding Bin Laden hiding in one of several possible countries was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Mind, I'm not sure either how I feel about the film. Just like with The Hurt Locker I found it a bit too obvious and superficial, to the point where I questioned myself if I missed something, considering other see so much more in Bigelow's recent war films.