HI all,

 

thought I would start a new topic for film in 2006... nice and shiny and short.

 

What have I been watching?

 

well I saw Kong, very good, and the dino wrestling is awesome.

 

Saw constantine, but missed most of it with my mother chattering through it. will watch again soon!

 

anything else of note? well dunno. lets see what next year brings.

Erm... those are 2005 films? :-P

 

Anyhoo, seen many new and many old but stand-outs are:

 

Kingdom of Heaven

Constantine

The Brothers Grimm

Unleashed

Sin City

House of Flying Daggers

Ladder 49

 

And many oldies.. too many to put down

doesn't matter the year... just cool stuff that you've seen. are you trying to cause trouble??? LOL

 

Of the three films I wanted to see this year - Batman Begins, Serenity & Saw II - I only got to see the former. It wasn't bad... I quite enjoyed The Descent, not as good as Dog Soldiers but nicely claustrophobic all the same.

 

This coming year there's not much I've heard about, only the return of Supes - interesting to see what Bryan Singer does with it.

inetrested in x3, by that could be a bag of poo...

 

saw both serenity and saw II. liked em both, although seing serenity just after firefly made it seem more like an extended episode than anything else

Hey! I'm no troublemaker! :-P Only Drive-Thru Posting... heh heh Ohh Dog Soldiers was surprisingly very good. Will wait for Serenity for DVD release. Would rather Firefly be back but from what I hear happens in the movie.. not sure how they would work that.

 

Hadn't seen Saw yet

you should defo see Saw. but that was brought up in another thread, a few times and then some.

Saw Kong and loved it, bit long though...

 

Erm.....saw The Wedding Crashers which was very funny in parts but ultimately a stupid movie, but hey Will Farrel cameo's in it which is always a hoot...

 

Also saw Crash, quite an alright film, if a little basic and it was really just trying to show that every single person in the whole wide world is just a filthy racist no matter what they say or think

Oh yeah and this year definately looking forward to Superman Returns, which bizzarely isn't a remake but a continuation of the Christopher Reeve Movies

Was not a big fan of the Batman movies but i did like Batman Begains.

The best film of the year..Crash.

if you didn't see it, you should.

oh forgot about batman begins, along with sin city probably my 2 favourites of the last year:)

 

as for superman reborn, looking forward to that, and as it's a continuation of reeves films, I'm hoping they don't mention nuclear man.

 

also I forgot about pirates 2 I just saw the first one again the other day, it's still as good as ever - lets hope they don't screw it up!

did no one like million dollar baby, i cried like a baby!superb

Saw the trailer for pirates 2, it looks pretty amazing, there are all sorts of sea monsters and beasts crashing about and even a demony looking Captain Barbossa back from Davey Jone's locker. Oh plus JD doing his drunken shuffle about the deck of the Black Pearl, what more could you want from a film...

Check out the Superman site for the story and the trailer...

 

http://wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/supermanreturns/

Just finished watching The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Different. A court room drama horror story.

I like it,I thought the Emily character was done nicely by the actress.

Ooh, thanks for the reminder sdkdmd, I knew there was another film to add to my list of 'ones to buy'!

Looking forward to "Hostel" and the DVD release of "A History of Violence"...

 

I've got a stack of DVD's two foot thick that I still need to watch for the first time...The Machinist, The Jacket, Raging Bull, Das Boot...

 

One I find a lot of people seem to have looked over is "Memento". Another is "Amecian History X" Both excellent.

The Jacket was good, i enjoyed it

And The Machinist is a great film too.

 

My pile of DVDs to watch got bigger over Xmas rather than smaller (spent too much time on the Playstation rather than watching films)... a huge stack of Japanese and Korean films!

I enjoyed Batman Begins too and am also looking forward to the new Superman film.

 

I didn't know they were making a Pirates 2 but I would like to see it when it comes out, I loved the first one.

Saw a poster for X Men 3 yesterday. Bring it on!

 

Quite a few good DVD releases coming up soon... Devils Rejects, Steamboy, One Night In Mongkok, Nightwatch, Howl's Moving Castle and... series 2 of the fantastic surreal sitcom, The Mighty Boosh.

 

That stack of DVDs to watch ain't getting any smaller!

Finally saw Serenity, 'twas good but it does take out the 'what if' element on if Joss is going to try and bring Firefly out try for another network in the future.

 

Ohh GG... seen some ..erm.. interesting Japanese films, I tell ya if you want to watch some good horror ones & for something that will make me even cringe (and it takes alot let me tell you!) try the last one:

 

Ichi the Killer

Battle Royale (I think there is a sequel too)

Visitor Q... this one got me lol

Ema, way ahead of you there luv! I have all of those! Visitor Q is very strange indeed... I think the only stranger one I've ever seen is Gozu... it shares a certain, ummmmmm, "squirty" quality with Visitor Q, LOL!

 

Battle Royale is quite possibly my favourite film (better than the sequel) and Ichi the Killer is just gross!

 

I'd also recommend Oldboy (which is allegedly being remade by Hollywood, although given the theme of the film, I really can't see how!), Audition (yeah, girl power! not for the squeamish!) and for something more light-hearted, Save The Green Planet (Japanese horror/sci-fi/comedy at it's best!)

 

I also saw a review of a mad Jap film called The Calamari Wrestler, about... well, about a giant pro-wrestling squid, what else! Looks toooooo funny!

LOL! Wrestling Squid that ought to be a gas! I erm.. when Audition was going on I didn't quite pay attention to it very much Will have to watch that one again.

 

And I'll check out those others too. And thank you Hollywood, but I'll catch the Japanese version of Oldboy since you seem to muck up remakes when it comes to Japenese films! Loved the Japanese versions of the Grudge & the Ring much better.. it's like taking a Hitchcock film and making a remake out of it and missing the 'essence' of his ways that he put into them.

 

Heh heh Japanese Horror is so much more! Wish they'd show more foreign films around here, go go Netflicks though for carrying most of them!

I'm kinda lucky as one of my best mates works for a DVD distribution company, and gets lots of advance releases... so this weekend I acquired advance copies of One Night in Mongkok and Vital, a month before they're released, yeah!