Search

Search only in certain items:

Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
1992 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

"I usually have Reservoir Dogs and Rocky Horror Picture Show on my list, because I just love them so much. I did Kids, and the first film I really can remember watching specifically to look at acting after that was Reservoir Dogs. My dad had given me the VHS tape of it to watch over and over and over again. Well, he didn’t intend for me, I think, to watch it over and over and over again, but I watched it over and over again; I think I watched it like five or six times that week. I would come home from school and I would just watch it again, and memorize the whole thing, and I was just so blown away by the acting in it. It seemed like it must have had all this money, because you remember it being bloody, you remember the shock, all that kinda stuff. And then you watch it and you’re like, “Actually, [Quentin Tarantino] cut around all of that.” The dude with red stuff on his chest, you know what I mean? It’s all acting. And it’s such an interesting way of telling the story, going back and inside of itself. My dad, I’ll never forget, he was like, “Watch this for the acting,” and I was just blown away. So I feel like that’s a piece of work that I love looking at as sort of a modern way of getting into those huge monologues, telling stories in an epic way, and the sort of more modern kind of small stories."

Source
  
    StepsApp Pedometer

    StepsApp Pedometer

    Health & Fitness and Lifestyle

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    StepsApp turns your iPhone into a simple and beautiful step counter. Just put your phone in your...

Guards! Guards! Discworld Novel 8
Guards! Guards! Discworld Novel 8
Tony Robinson, Terry Pratchett, Ben Aaronovitch | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry
9
8.4 (10 Ratings)
Book Rating
A great introduction to the City Watch
You've got to hand it to Terry Pratchett, he knows how to write a good fantasy novel.

Guards! Guards! is yet another great Discworld novel, and the first to introduce Captain Vimes and the City Watch. Vimes himself is a loveable anti-hero who develops greatly over the course of the novel and the same too can be said for the other members of the Watch. Carrot the 'dwarf' provides a real introduction to the Watch and also a lot of the humour from his exploits, and I loved seeing a lot more of the Librarian.


The plot itself on the face of it is a fantasy fairy tale filled story of dragons, maidens and heroes. But with every Pratchett novel, beneath it lies dark wit and humour, and a slightly sad social commentary on human greed and corruption. There are a lot of references in this to other media, like The Hobbit, which really poke fun at the myths and lore used in the fantasy genre.


A great read with some very engaging characters. A little rambling at times, but fortunately the rest of the book makes up for it! Discworld books are the only books that can really make me laugh out loud.
  
40x40

Sarah (7798 KP) rated Flight (2012) in Movies

Oct 13, 2018  
Flight (2012)
Flight (2012)
2012 | Drama, Mystery
Watchable but very lacking
For a film by Robert Zemeckis, I was expecting something with a lot more heart and a little less predictable.

The problem with this film is that the main character Whip isn’t particularly likeable. Whilst Denzel Washington does his best and does bring some odd moments of likeability, it’s very difficult to connect with this film when Whip is not a very good person. Of course everything turns out the way you’d expect from the outset but this just makes for a bit of a dull watch. Kelly Reilly is sorely underused and her character just seems to have been thrown in a little haphazardly, making little of her and her journey. The visual effects of the crash itself are very good and the soundtrack is great, although it does throw back a little too much to Forrest Gump. The whole film drags and does get a little talky and dull. It also seems to be putting out a strange message about the effects of alcoholism, and yet how a pilot saved a flight whilst he was drunk and high.... very odd.

It’s the type of film you’d watch once and it’s bearable enough to watch to the end, but not one you’d go out of your way to watch again.
  
Bad Santa (2003)
Bad Santa (2003)
2003 | Comedy
Comedy (0 more)
Easy watch
Contains spoilers, click to show
This is a film that I would say is okay. I've seen it advertised so many times and as I'm not a Christmas fan it wouldn't have been at the top of my "to watch" list anyway. However, for some reason the front cover just irritates me. Anyway, my boyfriend put it on the tele so I thought I might as well give it a go. It had some good comedic points in it but I wouldn't really say it's anything special. Willy has been playing Santa in shopping malls for years and on Christmas Eve, he helps to rob the mall by breaking into the safe. He is drunk and probably the worst Santa ever. Not anyone you would want near your children that's for sure. One kid in particular seems to touch a nerve with him and eventually he discovers that this kid is not being looked after once he decides to stay with him. The kid is being bullied and is the most kind-hearted child. The film takes you on a journey of bad Santa turning into okay santa. I would say that it is a watch for it's comedic value but other than that, I don't think I'd watch it again!
  
    Nonolive - Live streaming

    Nonolive - Live streaming

    Social Networking and Entertainment

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    The fastest, most interesting broadcasting app of live streaming. Check out and discover thousands...

    SKY GO NZ

    SKY GO NZ

    Entertainment and Reference

    (0 Ratings) Rate It

    App

    Live stream select SKY channels wherever you are in New Zealand with the free SKY GO app for SKY...

Every year, Hollywood producers seek out the most incredible storylines (after their interns do script coverage) to develop, film and distribute all across the world for film fans to watch.

And it seems war movies are high on the list next year:

With all the movies that are greenlit every year by the studios, only a select few are military related. 2018 does have some upcoming titles worth a look.


Ruin (2018)

Ruin (2018)

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Movie

The film follows a nameless ex-Nazi captain who navigates the ruins of post-WWII Germany determined...


thriller war
Tough As They Come (2018)

Tough As They Come (2018)

6.8 (4 Ratings) Rate It

Movie

Travis Mills, a soldier in Afghanistan loses his four limbs four days before his 25th birthday, and...


Action Biography Drama
12 Strong (2018)

12 Strong (2018)

7.4 (21 Ratings) Rate It

Movie Watch

In the wake of Sept. 11, Capt. Mitch Nelson leads a U.S. Special Forces team into Afghanistan for an...


Action Drama History
The Last Full Measure  (2020)

The Last Full Measure (2020)

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Movie Watch

Thirty-four years after his death, Airman William H. Pitsenbarger, Jr. ("Pits") is awarded the...


war drama biography
     
     
Alien (1979)
Alien (1979)
1979 | Horror, Sci-Fi
acting,story etc (0 more)
EPIC
A movie that still scares me even at 39 years old. It's one of the most suspensful thrillers of all time and still ranks high of movies that I can always watch even though it frightens me to death.
  
Gladiator (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
2000 | Action, Classics, Drama
Acting and story (0 more)
Almost and Epic watch
Movie is phenomenal. Crowes best performance in a movie in my opinion ever. A man stricken of his title build up the men he is captive with to prove who he truly is. Suspenseful and dramatic.