Who has even dabbled in writing for the fandom...

The movies have fucking sucked in general.

3 was the only genuinely good movie, with 7 p1 being at least watchable. 

WOW! Perfect. 

but pretty enjoyable and great action. 

glad to see i'm not the only one in thinking 3 was the the best. i haven't minded the others, and have kind of enjoyed parts of them, but there has always been something stopping them from being fully enjoyable which i can't really put my finger on (coming from someone who hasn't read the books)

7 part 1 was ok.. more of the same really. i liked the scene when harry & hermione had that dance to the tune on the radio; that was probably the only point i actually had any feeling for the characters and was a nice break from the story. showed it had a bit of heart. 

fair game (2010) - this was almost in danger of feeling more like a documentary than a film but great performances from penn & watts ensured it didn't. pretty hard hitting, although i wasn't that familiar with the original story

hereafter (2010) - ok, if a little sappy, but i thought the french woman's story could have intertwined a little bit better with the other two. either that or taken out completely; it didn't really add much and i didn't buy how she just ended up with damon's character at the end. not one of eastwood's best

limitless (2011) - let down by the plot. loved everything else about it but it didn't really have a strong story pushing it all on, which seemed a shame. still very entertaining and worth the watch

london boulevard (2010) - pretty average cockney gangster flick that doesn't really go anywhere for half an hour, then gets really good and then ends really badly. i couldn't get used to farrell with that accent; ray winstone is brilliant though

little miss sunshine (2006) - loved this. such a feel-good factor, with great characters & hilarious ending, thanks to whoever recommended it a while back

being john malkovich (1999) - missed it when it was first out & avoided for a while because i wasn't really a fan of kaufman's more recent stuff (eternal sunshine, synecdoche) but this was superb - much funnier and less high-brow than i was expecting but still brilliantly made, can't pick any holes in it. the scene with JM inside his own head almost had me in tears! definitely up there with my favourite comedies 

although I love almost everything Kaufman (havent seen Synecdoche yet but Eternal Sunshine is probably my film of the last decade and love Adaptation too).

On the other hand, I didnt like Little Miss Sunshine much at all, felt way too try hard indie and unconvincing to me.

Want to see Fair Game (Naomi Watts is my favorite working actress) and London Boulevard. 

But Synecdoche is too much 

"felt way too try hard indie"

Yep that's exactly the problem with that film. I didn't see what all the fuss was about, it was boring.

Watched Predators and quite liked it. Many flaws and terrible cast but the homage to the original was good and it was nice to hear the original score again. Better than the Aliens vs Predator movies. I like Adrien Brody, but there's no comparison between him and Arnie. 

Liked the book quite a bit, this was okay, but definitely falls into the 'not as good as the book' camp - The movie didn't really conform to the text as well as it could have, I guess - an instance where things are overly condensed, simplifying characters and relationships between characters from the books to levels much more flat or whatever than in the source material. Despite the seemingly deliberate, carefully paced tone, this movie felt rushed, in a way.
Still pretty good though - some nice little microcosms and vignettes and generally pretty decent. A good exploration of 'othering'.
Also, was oddly distracted by the trio of actors playing the main roles, but that might just be me. 

 

i agree 

Into the Wild.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/

Thoroughly enjoyable film. Good characters and analogies for life/a better life. Suffers slightly from being a romanticisation of someone who was basically a bloody idiot, I thought the first 75% was amazing story (the more fictionalised bit), but the ending is somewhat undermined by their attempts to make an act of incredible stupidity seem noble. Still definitely worth watching and there is a nice element of melancholy to cap off the entire thing. Just think it would have made a better film if they had him walk off into the snowy 'sunset'... 

the deifying of (what at least came across to be) an idiot.

Although I know at least metl had a different take on the character. 

Can't remember what I wrote exactly, but I think i agree with you guys about the character, but I disagree that the movie glorified him. I don't think it glorified him much. Seems to me that the movie painted him as being a troubled, misguided character whose self-righteousness was unjustified. Though it obviously sympathized with him as well, and celebrated his adventures for as long as they lasted. 

The book is interesting, especially if you have an interest in the outdoors. I should watch the movie... 

Hitchcock; innocuous family vacation turns into international political intrigue; rest of movie involves parents running around London trying to find their kidnapped child.

Not his best work imo, but it did bring the suspense in a couple key areas, and the very end was classy, but I just felt most of the movie was fairly drab and boring, and the political intrigue wasn't all that hot either.

I mean I'm not complaining, but compared to Hitch's best and most memorable works, this one comes off as fairly average. But that doesn't mean bad! I just want to make that clear. Just not :O kind of good. 

enjoyable but not his best.

I also like the earlier 1934 version which is a bit nuttier but also a bit more creakier in execution. 

very good film but you can tell the source must be something special.

Would have benefited from an extra 1/2 hour IMHO and a different actress than Keira Knightley playing Ruth (who at least in the movie is not a particularly likeable character).

Still, Carey Mulligan knocks it out of the park (as does Andrew Garfield in the second half) and it has enough superb moments to work nevertheless. 

9 - Superb animation and concept art, plotting and characterisation are much weaker though.

Play it on a home theater system though and its pretty enjoyable and quite a spectacle, and its short length papers over most of the cracks.

6.5-7/10 

book is awesome 

perfectly decent but... enh 

The Sniper (1952)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045161/
Dark, calm and very nice film about a women murderer. Great acting, good story. I thoroughly enjoyed it apart from gur ratvar juvpu jnf gbb noehcg sbe zr. Highly recommended if you think this might be something you could enjoy. 

Yep, really good. A little better than when I was a kid because I got a lot more out of it than my first time through.

Spoiler
Although I'm not sure why Thorwald just kept his eyes open while Jimmy Stewart kept blasting him with bulbs. Or why he would stop to rub his eyes. Seems a little like a video game boss in that respect I suppose, but I admit it added the tension Hitchcock was going for. 

spirit,

I've been meaning to get that for ages along with Nightfall and The Lineup. Thanks for the reminder :)

Btw, a noir I saw recently that was enjoyable was Crime Wave, worth checking out.


Zwiffle,

Rear Window is awesome. Have you seen Notorious? Probably the second best Grant-Hitch collaboration behind North by Northwest. 

...What?

My brain, it fell out