nah the 1947 version with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner. The 60's version is ok but the 47 one is a great film.

Point Blank is cool, I agree it's not a great film, but very entertaining. Havent seen Payback so cannot comment on that although I think a few people posted a while back and quite enjoyed it. 

Didn't realise Payback was a remake. I thought it was a great film for your violent crime-action. It's not what you'd consider a classic, but your typical 90s popcorn action for guys in their 20s. In fact it's one of my favourite Mel Gibson movies.

Apparently Sunset Blvd is on my seen list, but I don't think I have seen it so i'll have to give it a watch.

I've seen The Killing (in fact i've seen everything Kubrick) which was good. Great ending. Chinatown owned it though.

I'm not that big on film noir, but probably The Maltese Falcon is my fav of the ones i've seen. 

tyime to watch 'If...' 

Do not miss Key Largo! 

Although i'm one of the guys who loved payback ;-) 

not in the same league as No Country for Old Men, but its still blood good and the dialogue is killer. 

OK, I saw a review of this a while ago, and it basically made out that this sequel was stale and only for hard-core fans of the first film. Personally I found this film quite jarring. It scared the crap out of me. Paranormal Activity 2 is quite disturbing, but in a relatively sophisticated way. I love the way the film has zero music. The silence is just deafening. You can hear where they have purposefully increased the sound of the static to highlight weird noises, but on other occasions there are weird noises which have not had their volume increased. The effect of this is that you are never sure when something might happen which could be frightening. Swear to god this movie gave me chills. I have memories of nightmares I had when I was a small child, and the film has underlying themes which play on that. Haven't been this scared by a film for a long time. Very high marks/10 

based on that review i'm going to download it. if it turns out to be shit then i shall place a gypsy curse on you ricky. you have been warned! 

i don't get it.

so.. it's a prequel. the sister is the woman from the first film.. except she is killed at the end of that so i'm not sure when the ending of this film is supposed to have taken place; during the events of the first film when she is first possessed? if so what happened to the kid and why did the events carry on happening?

and the part where the kid sister shouts something like "she's christy's sister, you can't do that to her"... what is the husband doing? deflecting the demon onto her or something? if so how.. and how does that fit with the supposed motives of whatever it is that's haunting them?

i did kind of like the first film. it was something different, relatively straightforward and pretty creepy. but this one, as i feared would be the case, doesn't really tread new ground and is spoilt by too many characters, hamfisted exposition and a pretty lame climax which would have been more at home in buffy the vampire slayer (monster-faced demons and crosses? seriously?)

the suspense was very good, however. sometimes the scariest moments come when you expect something to happen and are poised to deal with the next 'jump'.. only for nothing to happen. something about the way that was done felt genuinely creepy.

verdict: it's left me bit disappointed but not like i've wasted my time on it. worth watching for the suspense but don't expect a classic 

Glad it made you jump :)
There is a part right at the end of the first movie where the girl isn't seen for quite a while, before she comes up the stairs and sits at the side of the bed. 

Pretty much exactly like the first one. Silyl 'twist'. Pointless sequel as so often. They should have kept the original ending of the first one (where Katie gets shot by the cops). 

Let Me In: another pointless remake as expected. Fuels my stereotypes about the American movie industry and audiences. It's by no means a bad movie, and the actors actually look better than in the Swedish original, the vampire girl anyway, but the remake is 95% the exact same movie/plot etc. They only changed the face-acid scene and cut the crotch shot. Even the visual theme was much alike and not distinctively American.

So, what's the point??? 

before she comes back up the stairs and sits at the side of the bed. Then she sits there for another day before the cops come in ans shoot her. It ties in. 

its in english which means more people will see it, most likely those who didnt see the original version. To them, the sameyness doesnt matter.

I'm actually interested in seeing this despite what I've read about it. 

Seen the original Let The Right One In, but not the remake yet. I think the 2 actors in the Swede version were great. She looked perfect for the role, and the boy looked good as well. Definitely memorable characters, I really doubt the American remake will improve in that area. Still I haven't seen it yet so we'll see.

The pacing of the original is quite slow, this could definitely be improved in the remake.

Cut the crotch shot? WTF? That's an important scene!

The original certainly isn't a movie for the masses. Most popcorn viewers will think it's boring crap. It doesn't seem to have a set target market, unlike ALL the American horrors. So in this respect if they wanted to make any money from it in America, it sort of had to be remade. Still... sounds like it's hardly been changed from the original. Nice one Hollywood on a pointless remake. 

Ricky: No, because in the theatrical ending she comes back up the stairs, throws her husband's body at the camera and then looks at it in a 'boohoo to be continued' kind of way. Her appearance in the second movie is set after these events.

nitin: Absolutely. But why not simply dub it then? I get the point (and probably also that dubbing might not be as 'popular' or wide-spread in the US); however, to me it always has a negative connotation, like a disrespect for the original authors/producers. 

nm all this tot. Atlas Shrugged the movie! Your excuse for being a selfish asshole now in visual form!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W07bFa4TzM

Looks like a low-budget Dan Brown adaption to me :p Also apparently the director was replaced with a week odd to go before shooting. Pretty impressive. 

I like the comment "I wish I was fucking dead" with 16 upvotes :D 

personally I would prefer a remake to dubbing, they just sound awful to me. That's assuming subs arent an option though.

kona, pacing was a key to establishing the mood in this movie though. 

not a total success, but nice to see an ancient period-piece that isn't totally mindless, and also nice to see a film taking an anti-religion, pro-science point of view. the distant shots of the feuding city are great. rachel weisz' performance is good too. this movie had a lot more potential, and they leave too much unresolved (is it about her, about the library, about the city?) but overall worth watching. 

tell you what, it's not a great film, but it sure as hell has something about it that is very memorable.

Flawed? Quite a bit. Brilliant? Quite a bit. 

127 Hours tomorrow, looking forward to that.

Agora I've been meaning to get, Amenabar makes few films and I'm a big fan of The Others. 

The Others is amazing. One of the coolest thrillers I have seen, and the twist is very nicely pulled off. I didn't know anything about the film when I saw it and was completely surprised (yeah I know). 

With Nicole Kidman? R U SRS? That movie was abysmal, the twist was lame, the story was boring, etc etc. Agree to disagree.