What Did You Watch Today?

[TKz]

Well at least Singer had the decency to make his films look a bit different.

At this point I'm not sure I could tell Dark Shadows apart from Sleepy Hollow. And I kind of like Sleepy Hollow...

[GA!]

In the most shocking news ever: Gravity is film of the year. Just unbelievably jaw-dropping in every regard. I even adored aspects such as the characterisation that a few critics are starting to moan about.

[Jimmy]

I think the characterisation let it down for me on Bullock's part. I don't really know what it was - I mean I thought it was a great experience and all, but I don't feel like I ever connected to her character, just the situation she was in. I thought Clooney came across better in some aspects.

Also,

The part about her daughter did kind of feel shoe-hored in.

Good stuff, I just think the hype worked against it in my case.

[GA!]

Jimmy:

I don't think it was shoehorned in. By having the dead daughter aspect, they are showing Sandra Bullock's loneliness extending beyond her current situation. I thought her increasing ability to cope with this, going from "just driving" to being able to crash land on the remotest part of Earth and walk again made her very endearing and engaging.

[Benjamin]

Man, Sandra Bullock was amazing in Gravity. People are just impossible to satisfy.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Machete Kills, well if you watch it with your mind completely shut off, it's amazingly over the top but fun if you watch it with a lot beers and friends.

[GA!]

So today I took a 120 mile round trip, and spent £30 (including train fare and cinema ticket), to see Gravity again - this time in IMAX. I think I like Gravity, you guys.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Finally saw Anchorman. Now I get Eminem at the Ema's.

I love movies.

[GA!]

While I wouldn't call Escape Plan the surprisingly emphatic return to Sly/Arnie's 80s films like others have, it's still a fun action film. Which is good because I won't have to throw out my promotional Escape Plan shirt and cap now out of disgust.

I'm not kidding by the way. I won all sorts of Red State merchandise I promptly threw out after I actually saw the film.

[Maxx]

Watched American Graffiti last night, such a wonderful movie.

[zero]

Man of Steel was not as bad as people said, nor as good as other people said.

I thought the totally backwards way of doing an origin story was creative and interesting, but the movie was way too dreary, way too Nolan-ized and just not fun.

[Colly]

Watched Life of Pi last night, was alright. It looked very pretty, and the actual 'on a boat with a tiger' stuff was interesting, but I found the rest of it quite dull and the ending inconclusive and anticlimactic. There barely seemed to be any point of Rafe Spalls character given his lines were pretty much 'carry on with your story', and 'ooh, that's a good story'.

[Jimmy]

Mike Leigh is bloody wonderful. Calendar Girls was better than I expected, and Topsy-Turvy was just great. He's quickly becoming one of my favourite directors.

[Thrilla]

I watched a Dutch zombie comedy film last night called Zombibi. It was alright, would have probably enjoyed it more if I spoke Dutch and knew who all the random Dutch celebrities that popped up during it were.

I also watched the non-Romero version of Day of the Dead - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489018/

which was actually pretty good, although the zombies were too fast paced for my liking.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Dead in Tombstone, even a movie with Mickey Rourke and Danny Trejo can be dull.

[Damian WayLNKe]

Frankie Goes Boom. I can't tell if I enjoyed it only because of the cast, but I guess the main thing is that I did enjoy it.

[Monkey D. Lars]

The Bridge a very tough watch but very interesting. I did hate that they set up cameras for the whole year just to film people who jump.

[Jimmy]

So, I didn't think I was going to like the new Hunger Games on account of not liking the first one, but man, am I surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It's better in everyone way; character development, action, depth. Plus Phillip Seymour Hoffman's it, so that's always good. Even for people who didn't dig the first, I'd say go see this one.

[Monkey D. Lars]

The Way Way Back :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

[Summers]

Catching Fire was amazingggg.