Yeah I really enjoyed hobo with a shotgun too. It was just what I expected and didn't let me down, unlike, for example, Machete. Rutger Hauer does a good job of grounding the movie by playing it straight while the rest of the movie goes crazy. 

Thor is ultra crap. Cheap CGI that makes 50s puppets look realistic in comparison. No character development to sṕeak of even though the whole movie is supposed to be about it. Clich� story. Whole movie had no more substance than a 15 second trailer. Avoid! 

Might be fun for fanboys or people who know the comic(s?) or people like ricky. 

I don't know what this is, I don't know what language is being spoken, I don't know what country it's from, but I want to see it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdqTo9svrg&feature=player_embedded 

The Troll Hunter
Very cool, well done in a Troll Witch Project style, comedy funny in places, made all the better by how completely straight and dead pan it's played, especially the main character. Okay there's some plot holes and the trolls could have been scarier, but does exactly what it says on the tin. Oh, I did find the constant rain a bit depressing though, too much like the UK lol. 

Who were they running from? 

 

Hanna
I expected a completely different story and was pleasantly surprised. Stylish exciting action thriller drama (minor) psycho movie with awesome music from the chemical brothers. Will watch again! 

Tony Scott in good movie shocker. Does exactly what I didnt expect it to do, not too long, not too dumb and quite exciting and suspenseful. 

only thing I want to see at the movies at the moment. 

I enjoyed it but it had a really crap super McCrappy ending. IMVSO 

pretty well made till the last 2 min which are really dumb. They had a sensible ending already which would have still been emotionally satisfactory but adding on the last 2 min just undid a lot of good work IMHO.

Still, nicely made and acted for the most part. 

I like Drive, it's great fun. Mark Dacascos makes a good Jackie Chan, and it's got the whole Rush Hour buddy thing going on but I don't find it nearly as annoying somehow.

Good solid action film on a Tiny budget :) 

no this one :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780504/ 

Nitin, my thoughts exactly.

loved how he seemed insane on the train the first few times... "you're the distraction right? every simulation has one!" 

I was thinking whether that was meant to be a character/circumstance trait or a subtle attempt at conveying PTS. 

Saw 127 Hours and The Fighter this weekend. 127 Hours is about what I expected, Boyle made the best of what he had - basically a guy stuck in a hole for an entire movie. Quite exciting but it felt like the cutting off the arm cheapened it a little as a drama. Decent but I probably wouldn't watch it again.

The Fighter was good, great performances from Bale and Wahlberg. I'm glad Aronofsky pulled out of directing it though, the story wasn't really grand enough for his talent. It's not the kind of movie that'll be a classic in 30 years time. By the end I was on the verge of fast-forward just to get to the inevitable result of the fight. I did enjoy it more than 127 Hours, but there's been plenty of good boxing movies (sporting movies in fact) before it, and plenty more to come no doubt.

127 Hours was a much more emotional movie.

Hmmm what else have I seen recently... Doomsday, which i've now lost all faith in Neil Marshall having any skill. And Soon The Darkness - average cliched horror. MicMacs - quite good but I was hoping for something awesome and it didn't really deliver.

Oh and Lynch's The Straight Story (okay for 1 watch, but very slow), and Wild At Heart (rubbish). Certainly not Lynch's better movies. Watched The Lost Highway again, which is brilliant :D 

IMHO.

Wild at Heart I didnt like at all except for a few isolated scenes.

As for The Fighter, I thought the best performance was Melissa Leo, simply because her character portrayal in the movie is not really how she normally is at all. 

great soundtrack IMHO. 

re Source Code - my thoughts EXACTLY. Was pretty unimpressed, over all.

re Drive - Saw it last night, it was good! I'm not the biggest fan of Bronson because it seemed all atmosphere and artsy sheen, with little weight beneath the surface.
Drive is much better, although some of that feeling remained for me.
Some sections of the movie felt a bit forced - like routinized set up, or something.
The violence is something that interests me in this movie. The director bides his time before a drop is spilled, and when it is you really feel it. However, the film goes too far in one or two scenes, and I felt it had the effect of undercutting other instances where the violence made more sense. It had the further effect of making me question the protagonist - making him go from a sort of classic Clint Eastwood, and into more of a Travis Bickle. Perhaps that was the point though...
The issues above are definitely minor criticisms - It's a good movie IMO - one of the better ones I've seen in months, and it has re-motivated me to go and find Valhalla Rising. 

Shelter
Starts nicely, gets more and more chaotic/cheesy towards the end. Sound fucked up?! (very hard to understand because of the quality.) Annoying music, good acting, mixed directing.

Bottom Line: interesting, but not necessarily good.

3/5


Thor

Skip under all circumstances. Dumbed down hollywood action-drama-comedy-comic-romance-fantasy-historical movie. Do I need to say more? Okay directing, nice images, bad CG, underwhelming acting, badly cut action scenes (that probably suck to begin with, but you can't really tell), cheesy story, out-of-place humor... etc.

2/5 because it's not as bad as similar movies.

Predators

Really well made action movie that doesn't try to be anything more than exactly that. Reminds me of action classics. Rodriguez' influence is very noticeable, this is a good thing. End is a bit cheesy, but in style with Predator.

4/5

Attac the Block

Nicely shot humorous action movie about alien invasion. Aliens look out of place, other than that its pleasant to watch. Story ok-ish, setting is nice, both could have been improved upon.

3/5 

Good fun, but completely all over the shop in terms of tone, I just couldn't get over that. 

cool, will definitely see that once it finally hits cinemas in Aus. Wasnt a big fan of Bronson either but really liked Valhalla Rising.

saw Rabbit Hole last night. Very very goold film with top shelf acting and some nice dark humour to offset the otherwise bleak (but well handled) material. 

first anime film I've seen in years.

Very basic story and stock characters but the action scenes are worth it alone. Brilliantly drawn and choreographed and with a nice matching score. 

The Killing (1956)
Randomly picked this when deciding on a movie to watch so I had no idea what to expect. I found it quite bad. Acting was good from some, bad from others. The timeline is presented rather confusingly. The action scenes are awful. Sure, this was 50 years ago but even then they could have at least put some effort in masking the charade. For example when Nick(? the rifle guy) was shot... I don't get what is supposed to be so great about this movie. The overall idea of the story was great but presentation not so.

Airplane! (1980)
Super silly shallow dumb fun. Laughed a lot. Nice!