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Old 08 May 2011, 10:49 AM
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Default Best films of 2010 and 2011.

Personally i dont think its been a great 18 months, not if you like thrillers or a good story.

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Old 08 May 2011, 10:56 AM
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Black Swan was very good.
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Fighter for me, brilliant film.
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King's Speech - great film
Old 08 May 2011, 01:43 PM
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Greenberg was really good but more indie fair.

Also Bad Lieutenant 2 was excellent.

Generally speaking though we have had a bit of a drought of really good mainstream films.
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Quite enjoyed the Town.
Old 08 May 2011, 02:05 PM
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The most disgusting film i have watched of late was the human centipede,that movie should of been banned .A twisted sick film and just didn't like it one bit,i still watched it to the end though
Old 08 May 2011, 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Trout
Quite enjoyed the Town.
The Town is a good Movie..
Old 08 May 2011, 02:25 PM
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Inception was quite good.
Old 08 May 2011, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by boxst
Inception was quite good.
I have inception & avatar on Blu ray... not watched them yet though..

Mind you haven't watched any blu ray films yet lol

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Old 08 May 2011, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by boxst
Inception was quite good.
I didn't really get into that.

i did think RED(Bruce Willis) was entertaining..
The Mechanic was ok..
Old 08 May 2011, 03:01 PM
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Inception was very good, and one film I thought was very underrated (for anyone that enjoys a popcorn action movie) is Faster. Stars 'The Rock' and is basically a revenge movie with some good action, and good plot twists.
Old 08 May 2011, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Petem95
Inception was very good, and one film I thought was very underrated (for anyone that enjoys a popcorn action movie) is Faster. Stars 'The Rock' and is basically a revenge movie with some good action, and good plot twists.
Seen it again was ok but not great.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buf4_Crt27c

same for game of death..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWWnoEglrY4
Old 08 May 2011, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by DYK
I didn't really get into that.

i did think RED(Bruce Willis) was entertaining..
The Mechanic was ok..



I liked RED. John Malkovich!
Old 08 May 2011, 04:46 PM
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The Fighter was good.

I spit on your grave (was kind of sick) but was 'interesting'.

The next 3 days.

I have watched loads lately, but I am having a bit of a blank.
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Originally Posted by DYK
I didn't really get into that.

i did think RED(Bruce Willis) was entertaining..
The Mechanic was ok..
I thought it was ok, but with Crank, the Transporter etc Jason is getting a bit type cast as a hit man.

He needs to do something fresh.
Old 08 May 2011, 06:07 PM
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Favorite film of this year is probably Unstoppable.

I like trains so thats probably why I've watched it 3 times.
Old 08 May 2011, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by EddScott
Favorite film of this year is probably Unstoppable.

I like trains so thats probably why I've watched it 3 times.
It was alright, but not as good as "Runaway Train" with John Voight which is was basically a remake of.
Old 08 May 2011, 06:53 PM
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I thought Get Him to the Greek was surprisingly funny. Don't really rate Russell Brand as a comedian, but in this and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, he was pretty decent.

Also, I quite liked The Social Network, but i think that film is a matter of taste
Old 08 May 2011, 08:01 PM
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Love and other drugs was good, based on the events surrounding the pharmaceutical industry, more so hoe Viagra 'appeared'. I say appeared as it wasn't invented. It was used for sexual reasons after a similar drug was used to treat other medical problems, and the erections men got were a 'side effect'.

The film is based on a man and woman, the lady is a very young sufferer of parkinsons, and he is a bit of a jack the lad.
It's by no means a comedy romance, more of a comedy/drama.

Very good film in my opinion.

Also another I watched a few weeks back is called 'Middle Men'. A true story about two entrepreneurs who are the founders for the first pay per view **** site.

It's interesting.
Old 08 May 2011, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by oldsplice
I liked RED. John Malkovich!
Yep RED was good

unstoppable was good also
also thought From Paris with Love was good..
Battle for LA was good a bit cheesy in places though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEwlqSpj4BA
Old 08 May 2011, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Hysteria1983
I thought it was ok, but with Crank, the Transporter etc Jason is getting a bit type cast as a hit man.

He needs to do something fresh.
All crank was just crazy

**** you Chelios
Old 09 May 2011, 02:55 AM
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Originally Posted by DYK
also thought From Paris with Love was good..

you cant be serious? utter trash
Old 09 May 2011, 06:34 AM
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A film that didn't get good reviews, but I found quite good was The Tourist.
Old 09 May 2011, 07:08 AM
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Limitless was good
Old 09 May 2011, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Saint AAI
A film that didn't get good reviews, but I found quite good was The Tourist.
I have to say I found The Tourist extremely slow and I was waiting for something to happen to save the film but it never appeared. Just slow and a bit monotonous.
Old 09 May 2011, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Petem95
It was alright, but not as good as "Runaway Train" with John Voight which is was basically a remake of.
They both have trains in the film but not a remake.

Voight was an escaped convict who ends up on a runaway train with another convict and a girl - the driver dies almost straight away. Voight attempts to redeem himself by helping the girl stop the train.

Unstoppable is based on a real life incident of an unmanned runaway. In the film the train was 777 but in real life it was CSX8888. Although in real life it only got about 5 miles at about 30mph.

Watched these at the weekend.

Let me in - 5/10

Scott Pilgrim - 6/10

Zombieland - 7/10

Tron Legacy 7/10

Worst film of the last 18 months - and for some considerable time - Skyline. I give it 0/10

Would like to watch Battle LA but hear theres quite a bit "Team America - F*ck YEAH!" about it.

The one with the lad on train going back and for in time looks pretty cool.

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Old 09 May 2011, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by EddScott
They both have trains in the film but not a remake.

Voight was an escaped convict who ends up on a runaway train with another convict and a girl - the driver dies almost straight away. Voight attempts to redeem himself by helping the girl stop the train.

Unstoppable is based on a real life incident of an unmanned runaway. In the film the train was 777 but in real life it was CSX8888. Although in real life it only got about 5 miles at about 30mph.

Watched these at the weekend.

Let me in - 5/10

Scott Pilgrim - 6/10

Zombieland - 7/10

Tron Legacy 7/10

Worst film of the last 18 months - and for some considerable time - Skyline. I give it 0/10

Would like to watch Battle LA but hear theres quite a bit "Team America - F*ck YEAH!" about it.

The one with the lad on train going back and for in time looks pretty cool.
I though let me in was good. I would give it a 7/10.

It was good to see a vampire film in a different light.
Old 09 May 2011, 11:35 AM
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The next 3 days
Another year
Kill the Irishman
Social Network
The Fighter
Bronson
The Kings Speech
127 Hours
Old 09 May 2011, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by EddScott

Worst film of the last 18 months - and for some considerable time - Skyline. I give it 0/10
+1

Guy at work recommended it so I bought it and it was utter UTTER crap!


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